The 'climate change' doomsday cult

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Advocates of combating climate change are increasingly invoking doomsday scenarios to pressure President Biden to take unilateral action to lower greenhouse gas emissions, despite a history of such claims falling flat.

The rhetoric is coming not only from progressive activists but also Democrats on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers, in particular, have intensified their doomsday predictions as hopes for a climate change deal have waned within the Senate in recent days.
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Critics note that the doom and gloom is nothing new. They say it's part of a long-running strategy that sees proponents of combating climate change lay out alarming predictions of global catastrophe.

"People have been proclaiming the end of the world since forever. All have been wrong," said Steve Milloy, who advised President Donald Trump on staffing the Environmental Protection Agency after the 2016 election. "They make these End Times predictions for a variety of reasons ranging from ignorance to politics to personal aggrandizement."

Some point to former Vice President Al Gore as the poster boy for the strategy. Gore has made millions and won a Nobel Peace Prize for his climate change activism.

But some of his major predictions have failed to become reality.

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In 2006, Gore told audiences while marketing his documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," that the world would reach a point of no return in ten years if the global economy did not transition away from fossil fuels. Likewise, Gore in 2009 cited evidence suggesting that there was a 75% chance that by 2013, the North Pole would start becoming "ice-free" for a portion of the summer.

Some experts say the reason why such predictions prove faulty, even when backed up by scientific studies, is because it's difficult to gauge the economic and social impact of changes in temperature.

"It's incredibly difficult to translate temperature increases into changing weather effects using predictive models," said Myron Ebell, the director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s center for energy and environment. "Most of the time the data doesn't line up or scientists assume a larger temperature increase will happen than actually does and that skews the entire prediction."
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Doomsday predictions have only increased as climate legislation on Capitol Hill has stalled because of Democratic infighting.
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The current heat wave is no more evidence of doomsday than the Dust Bowl was in the early 20 century when the temperatures were actually hotter than they currently are.  The poles are still not ice-free and coastal cities are still not underwater.

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