Essay by Eric Worrall
But we still need to act immediately.
Sorry, climate change is still dangerous, no matter what nonsense Trump emits
By Genevieve Guenther, Michael E. Mann | Opinion | May 22, 2026
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“After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that ‘Climate Change’ is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!” Trump wrote, quite incorrectly, on Truth Social. “Unlike the Dumocrats, who use Climate Alarmism nonsense to push their Green New Scam, my Administration will always be based on TRUTH, SCIENCE, and FACT!”
Even in light of the Trump administration’s gutting of American science and the president’s well-documented reckless disregard for the truth, this post stands out as patently, particularly absurd. But Trump’s new climate-denial talking point is a weaponized version of new developments in climate science. Trump’s typically bombastic disinformation—if casually combined with a real debate within the climate community about one climate projection—will muddy the public understanding of science enough that Americans on both sides of the aisle might be left with an incorrect and dangerous belief that they no longer need to worry about the climate crisis.
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The new high-emissions scenario hypothesizes a backsliding of progress, where current climate policies are rolled back, clean-energy development slows, and fossil-fuel use expands. This scenario leads most likely to a temperature rise of about 3.5 degrees Celsius by 2100, but the range of possible heating by that date spans from 2.5 degrees to 4.3 degrees Celsius. The scenario also projects more heating after 2100, since global emissions fail to shrink to net zero. Indeed, the new high-emissions scenario projects that the world could heat up to RCP8.5’s 5 degrees Celsius by 2150, just 50 years later.
Read more: https://thebulletin.org/2026/05/sorry-climate-change-is-still-dangerous-no-matter-what-nonsense-trump-emits/
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Sooo – its still an urgent emergency we have to deal with right now, even though thermageddon has been deferred by at least 50 years?
For a long time I’ve been relishing the prospect of Michael Mann having to publicly downgrade his climate claims, but now that moment has arrived, I don’t feel the satisfaction I thought I would feel. The damage done to the global economy by these clowns – decades of stunted economic growth – is too great to feel happiness at a grudging admission their predictions were too extreme.
Even sadder that Mann has chosen to cling to the tattered remnants of his mantle of alarmism, instead of coming clean and properly admitting he was completely wrong. To paraphrase Gandalf in Lord of the Rings during the confrontation with the defeated wizard Saruman, even now Mann could have done some good, by following climate alarmist James Lovelock’s footsteps and admitting climate alarmism was a mistake. Such an admission might have helped to reduce the suffering in backwards outposts of climate ignorance like the European Union, by accelerating their awakening from their Net Zero nightmare.
But Michael Mann, as always, in my opinion has placed his personal vanity ahead of attempting any kind of restitution for all the harm his “hide the decline” hockey stick climate alarmism has caused over the years.
