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
…
“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.
…
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/
…
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.
Mann is a moral midget. It is beyond his code to admit he was wrong. He will go to his grave a bitter and twisted “little” man.
Trump is such a great leader picking up on this detail as he has done. I have not seen any other global leader respond to dropping RCP8.5. In fact most of the press on the topic is about Trump’s comment.
The UNIPCC might be trying to appease the great man so they get some of their funding back. But UNIPCC has a fundamental problem. Its reason for existence disappears if they declare CO2 is not harmful but beneficial.
I am hopeful that Trump’s greatest victory will be a UN focused solely on settling conflicts rather than implementing a socialist world government.
Anyone recognise “Gandalf” in the picture 😉
Thank Charles the Moderator for getting that bit right 🙂
Show us the data supporting your claims or shut up.
For a check on recent US temperatures, I went to:
https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/countries/united-states/average-temoperature-by-year.
The Thi and Tlo data from 1901 to 2024 are displayed in a table. Here is the data for these two dates:
Year——Thi——-Tlo——Tav Temperatures are ° C
2024—–16.8——4.3——10.5
1901——14.9——1.6——-8.2
Change–+1.9——2.7——2.3
Range Thi: 14.7-16.8
Range Tlo: 0.7–4.3
The Tav has exceeded the 2015 Paris Agreement increase limit of 1.5° by 0.8° C. However, I don’t recall any recent report of a climate catastrophe occurring in the US except possibly the mega drought in southwest.
If you go to the above URL, there is sliding selector that allows acquisition of data for the countries in NOAA database.
Return the temperature records to their original numbers.
Warehouse all temperature records of stations which are measuring the heat-island effect.
If we must model climate – models must ignore any so-called greenhouse effect completely.
If we must model climate – solve the laminar flow/turbulent flow enigma – no account of this is taken and yet energy flow by conduction and convection involves both types of fluid flow.
It must be stressful having to counter the present observations of actual scientists with refusal to waiver from your scammy (but profitable) claims of anthropogenic climate doom.
The guy is going to be remembered for his detriment to humanity which paid him a pirate’s bounty, much of which he lost trying to use the law to vindicate his malpractice
He got his hockey stick by grafting thermometer readings onto a line of tree-ring estimates – when those estimates started heading downwards.
Anything he has said and done since then – fertilizer, male bovine type.
I read Mann’s commentary in The Bulletin.
With all the mentions of ‘global heating’, I thought I was reading The Guardian!
Mann : the world could heat up to RCP8.5’s 5 degrees Celsius by 2150, just 50 years later.
One has to wonder whether Mann has any sort of grip on modelling.
I wonder what cancelling the Mikey Mann Clown Show would buy us?
What is Mann to “climate science”?
Reminds me of when I bought my first KJV bible for a short class on understanding the Bible I was about to take.
It was cheap one at the UK bookstore. ($1.75?)
At one point in the class the teacher said that you could quote that Bible to “prove” that the Bible says, “There is no God”.
But the context says, “The fool that said in his heart, There is no God”. Kind of changes the meaning of the text.
My cheap version read, “The fool that said in his heart, There is God”
There were other deliberate (?) typos in that cheap KJV (adding an “un” to “righteousness” to the righteousness of God in Romans!) I got a new one.
Believe the Bible or not, whoever published that cheap thing had an agenda.
Mann has an agenda and has done the same type of thing for years.
His Hockey Stick is broken
RCP 8.5 is dead.
(I think he continues to spew his bs because if he didn’t, he’d be cut from the $green$. He does still have “name recognition” if not respect.)
When has any prediction of climate disaster come about?