The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has quietly retired its most extreme climate modeling scenario, effectively admitting that the doomsday projections the entire green-energy industrial complex was built on were, and I quote the IPCC's own language, "implausible." That's a funny way of spelling "we made it all up."
Remember when we had 12 years to live? Then 10? Then 8? Turns out the people who spent two decades screaming "FOLLOW THE SCIENCE" were following science fiction. And now they're hoping you don't notice them slowly backing away from the flaming wreckage of their own predictions.
The specific scenario in question is called RCP 8.5 — Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5, for those of you who enjoy alphabet soup with your morning coffee. It was the worst-case climate model, the one that predicted catastrophic warming, rising seas swallowing coastlines, and basically the plot of every bad Roland Emmerich movie. It was also the model that climate alarmists, politicians, and media talking heads cited constantly to justify trillions in green spending. The IPCC has now effectively shelved it.
President Trump, never one to let a good "I told you so" go to waste, took to social media to celebrate. "After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that 'Climate Change' is going to destroy the Planet, the UN's IPCC just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!" he wrote. Three "wrongs" — one for each decade they wasted our money.
As Patriot Post's Thomas Gallatin noted, this is the same crowd that gave us Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" — now over 20 years old and aging about as well as a gas station sushi roll. Gore's 1992 book "Earth in the Balance" kicked off the modern climate panic. Glacier National Park had to remove signs claiming its glaciers would be gone by 2020. Spoiler alert: the glaciers are still there. The signs are not.
And who could forget Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's legendary 2019 proclamation? "The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don't address climate change," she told us with the confidence of someone who has never once been right about anything. By her math, we've got about five years left. Somebody should tell Disney World — they're still selling annual passes.
Here's what makes this so delicious. This isn't some right-wing think tank saying the models were bunk. This is the IPCC — the United Nations' own climate authority, the Vatican of the global warming religion — admitting that the scenario underpinning decades of policy, regulation, and hysteria lacked credibility. They used the word "implausible." In bureaucrat-speak, that's the equivalent of screaming "WE WERE WRONG" from the rooftop of UN headquarters.
But don't expect apologies. Don't expect refunds on the trillions spent chasing these projections. Don't expect Greta Thunberg to hold a press conference saying "my bad." The climate grift doesn't work that way. They'll just quietly shift to the next model, the next crisis, the next 12-year countdown.
We told you. For 15 years, we told you these models were overblown, the predictions were hysterical, and the "science" was more about politics than physics. The IPCC just proved us right. Clip it, save it, and the next time someone lectures you about your carbon footprint, send them this article.
