UN Retreats From Extreme Climate Forecast Sparking Policy Debate

By Dmitri Bolt | Townhall

The United Nations-backed climate panel over the weekend walked back one of its “worst-case scenario” greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, as a new report found that those projections “have become implausible.” The scenario predicted that humanity would double down on fossil fuels and take no action to mitigate climate change, and used it to make predictions about what the future may hold.

Those scenarios included massive sea-level rise, global crop failures, and the rapid melting of polar ice. Democrats used the fearmongering to push Americans to pay billions of dollars to pursue mitigation efforts, while Europe practically castrated its own economy to do the same. And yet the scenario has been walked back, although climate scientists argue that it is due to current mitigation efforts already in place.

🚨 THE CLIMATE CHANGE SCAMMERS ARE PANICKING

Greg Gutfeld: “After decades of screaming the planet is six minutes from extinction, the UN just walked back their doomsday models, as fake as Ilhan Omar’s marriage!” 😂

No more funding the climate myth! pic.twitter.com/DyEOQxXBCd

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 21, 2026

REALITY CHECK: Billions have been wasted on UN’s climate change lies

“In New York City, the toll of RCP 8.5 includes Local Law 97, a high-cost mandate to remove gas- and oil-fired boilers in local apartment buildings, and install electric heat pumps in their place.

The result… pic.twitter.com/sy0bVTG2UZ

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 19, 2026

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