Climate alarmists keep making predictions that are never realized and will not show up to debate their doomsday theories

John Stossel:

"How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood!" insisted teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg at the United Nations. "We are in the beginning of a mass extinction!"

Many people say that we're destroying the Earth.

It all sounds so scary.

But I've been a consumer reporter for years, and I've covered so many scares: plague, famine, overpopulation, SARS, West Nile virus, bird flu, radiation from cellphones, flesh-eating bacteria, killer bees, etc. The list of terrible things that were going to get us is very long.

Yet we live longer than ever.

Now I'm told global warming is different.

The Earth's average temperature is rising. It's risen 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880. The U.N. predicts it will rise another 2 to 5 degrees this century. If that happens, that will create problems.

But does that justify what's being said?

"We have 12 years to act!" says Joe Biden.

"The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change!" adds Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Twelve years? That's the new slogan.

The Heartland Institute invited some climate alarmists to explain the "12 years" and other frightening statements they keep making.

The alarmists didn't even show up. They never do. They make speeches and preach to gullible reporters, but they won't debate anyone who is skeptical.

Over the years, I repeatedly invited Al Gore to come on my TV shows. His staff always said he was "too busy."

At a Heartland Institute event I moderated, climatologist Pat Michaels put the 12-year claim in perspective by saying, "It's warmed up around 1 degree Celsius since 1900, and life expectancy doubled in the industrialized democracies! Yet that temperature ticks up another half a degree and the entire system crashes? That's the most absurd belief!"

Astrophysicist Willie Soon added, "It's all about hand-waving, emotion, sending out kids in protest. It has nothing to do with the science."

Is that true? I wish the alarmists would show up and debate.

Alarmists say, "Miami will soon be underwater!"

Few serious people deny that the Earth has warmed and that sea levels are rising. But Michaels points out that even if the warming increases, humans can adjust.

For example, much of Holland is below sea level. "They said," Michaels recounts, "we're going to adapt to the fact that we're a low-lying country; we're going to build these dikes. Are you telling me that people in Miami are so dumb that they're just going to sit there and drown?"
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The alarmists have been making failed projections of doomsday for decades and have consistently overestimated the potential problem.  The poles were supposed to be ice-free by now and New York City was supposed to be underwater by now.  Neither has happened and people who believed this mess keep getting stuck in the ice and having to be rescued.  Instead this year we have already had record cold weather in the lower 48 states and New Yorkers are still moving to Florida.