This is the New York post and what they printed.
Climate group reverses course on doomsday predictions — and Trump takes victory lap: ‘WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!’
The United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had quietly adjusted its modeling framework of a 4–5°C warming by 2100 last month. That framework had underpinned a myriad of other analyses predicting terrifying consequences for greenhouse gas emissions.
“GOOD RIDDANCE! 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 chided on Truth Social.
AND NOW THE TRUTH: THOSE B*STARDS ARE STRAIGHT OUT LYING.
What’s wrong with the statement?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has not “quietly adjusted” away from 4–5°C warming projections in the way the statement suggests.
Here’s the reality:
The IPCC doesn’t rely on a single fixed prediction like “4–5°C by 2100.”
Instead, it presents multiple scenarios based on how much greenhouse gas humans emit.
Those scenarios range roughly from:
~1.5–2°C (if emissions drop sharply)
to ~4°C+ (if emissions remain very high)
So:
High-end warming (around 4–5°C) is still part of the scientific modeling,
but it’s considered a worst-case / high-emissions scenario, not the default expectation.
The claim that this framework was “quietly adjusted” is misleading because:
Updates to models are normal and transparent
Reports are publicly released and heavily scrutinized
There has been no sudden reversal or hidden downgrade
What the latest science actually says
The most recent major IPCC synthesis report (2023) concludes:
Earth has already warmed about ~1.1°C above preindustrial levels
We are likely to hit 1.5°C in the 2030s without deeper cuts
Current policies put us on track for roughly ~2.5–3°C warming by 2100 (not 4–5°C, but still serious)
Is climate change still a threat?
Yes—very much so. Even at lower warming levels, impacts are significant.
Key risks already happening:
More extreme heatwaves
Wildfires and droughts
Flooding and stronger storms
Sea-level rise
Ecosystem disruption
And importantly:
The difference between 1.5°C vs 2°C vs 3°C is huge in terms of damage
Risks increase nonlinearly (they don’t just scale up—they accelerate)
Bottom line
❌ The statement is misleading: the IPCC has not quietly abandoned 4–5°C modeling
✅ High-end warming scenarios still exist, but they’re conditional—not predictions
⚠️ Climate change remains a major global threat, even under more moderate scenarios