Climate Change Fearmongerers Owe Gen Z an Apology
Recent adjustments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have raised questions about previous doomsday predictions. The earlier models predicted severe consequences from climate change, including significant warming and widespread destruction. This has led to a call for accountability from those who propagated these alarming forecasts.
- ▪The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revised its previous climate models.
- ▪Earlier predictions included catastrophic warming and severe environmental impacts.
- ▪These forecasts have caused widespread fear and significant financial costs globally.
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- ▪ Climate change fearmongerers owe Gen Z an apology — The Hill
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Last week, it was widely reported that the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made some very newsworthy adjustments to its modeling. Its doomsday model had breathlessly foretold of 4 to 5 degree warming by the year 2100, causing massive crop failures, rising seas swallowing cities and land, the end of glaciers, the extinction of the polar bear, and unimagined death and destruction. The predictions have truly terrified tens of millions — while costing taxpayers all over the world hundreds of billions of dollars. Read Full Article ⟶
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