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https://www.creators.com/read/tim-graham...-collapses

"Global warming has gone cold as an issue. Despite decades of panicked predictions of doom, it's never been a high priority for voters...

...Last November, leftists blasted ABC, CBS and NBC for barely touching the COP30 global climate summit in Brazil...

Not only has Trump dismissed climate panic, but Harder noted Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, "once one of the world's most vocal climate advocates," is now repealing some of his country's climate policies. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair also issued a memo questioning the wisdom of pursuing "net zero" emissions policies.

Then there's billionaire Bill Gates, an unelected global leader. He circulated a memo criticizing the climate movement while shifting much of his money and focus back to public health — just four years after publishing the book "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster," a bestseller that drew gushy reviews from AP, CNN, USA Today and Oprah Daily magazine.

With Trump in office, Ford pulled back sharply from its electric-vehicle plans, shifting focus to more popular and profitable hybrids and gas vehicles due to slowing EV demand. Europe scaled back its plan to ban gasoline-powered cars in the next decade and softened climate disclosure rules, which The New York Times captured with a dejected headline: "Europe Begins to Tiptoe Away From Key Climate Policies."

The Axios analysis claimed even Hollywood is tiptoeing away, "swapping climate angst ... for oil swagger, as seen in the current hit TV show 'Landman.'"...

...In 2008, ABC News showed a picture of New York City vanishing underwater in its prediction of what will happen by 2015. Ooooops...

...After eco-leftists predicted certain climate-change doom by 1995, or by 2000, or by 2015, and now we're still doom-less in 2026, the public should be skeptical that they're the most credible experts on predicting what the future holds.

If the perpetual climate panic machine has collapsed, it's because the facts never lined up to prove any reason to panic. Their authoritarian "solutions" — banning everything from gas-powered cars to gas stoves and grills — needed the fuel of panic to be forced on the public. The bloom is off their poisoned rose.

Yep. Only imminent fearmongering worked for a bit. But you have to predict it immediate enough for people to care. No one cares about 300 years from now. And repeated false predictions have eroded their credibility.

(Jan 19, 2026 07:55 PM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]https://www.creators.com/read/tim-graham...-collapses

[...] The Axios analysis claimed even Hollywood is tiptoeing away, "swapping climate angst ... for oil swagger, as seen in the current hit TV show 'Landman.'"...

That's just Taylor Sheridan, bucking contemporary Hollywood tendencies in general, from the very start with his shows. Even after seven years, few others in the entertainment industry are imitating him much (yet). And when they do (like with a neo-Western), they soften up that 1970s-like recklessness with the usual establishment preaching.

Quote:[...] Europe scaled back its plan to ban gasoline-powered cars in the next decade and softened climate disclosure rules, which The New York Times captured with a dejected headline: "Europe Begins to Tiptoe Away From Key Climate Policies."

Germany really has wrecked its economy by phasing out nuclear reactors, coal, etc. Its alternative energy replacements become unreliable during the winter, causing energy blackouts and time-outs at manufacturing plants. Ironically, it has to import some electricity from nuclear-powered France, so the country is still supporting the evils that climate culture denounces -- just not directly, as before.

In the US, the capitalism of corporations and money-making politicians actually holds the steering wheel of climate culture. So that their virtue posturing is just an apologetic genuflection to left-wing morality and a ritual act for earning forgiveness. Thereby allowing leeway for the Lord Protectors to still continue profiting (as Kamala putatively exemplifies). Whereas in Western Europe, it truly has been guided by more financially challenged and underprivileged leaders of those governments, who before this consequently regarded climate culture as a deity whose commandments must be respected and non-superfluously implemented.

Yazata Wrote:.. in  2008, ABC News showed a picture of New York City vanishing underwater in its prediction of what will happen by 2015.

AI..

Quote:The claim that ABC predicted New York City would be completely underwater by 2015 is a misinterpretation of the program's content:
Source of the Visuals: The 2015 "underwater" clips often cited were actually part of a "crowdsourcing" initiative where non-expert viewers submitted amateur videos imagining worst-case scenarios for various years, including 2015, 2050, and 2100.
Actual Timeline: The documentary's narrative focused on a fictional character named Lucy, born in 2009, and used a decade-by-decade countdown to a potential societal collapse by the year 2100.
Scientific Context: While the program discussed immediate issues like rising gas prices and food shortages for the 2015 segment, scientific experts featured in the special did not project sea levels to submerge New York City by that date. Instead, they predicted such severe flooding could become a critical threat toward the end of the century (e.g., 2075 or 2100).

IOW, baseless fearmongering.

As luck would have it..in 2012..

Quote:Hurricane Sandy hit New York City on October 29, 2012. Over the course of 48 hours, wind, rain, and water destroyed approximately 300 homes, left hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers without power, damaged critical public and private infrastructure, and left many New Yorkers vulnerable with limited access to food,

https://www.nyc.gov/site/cdbgdr/hurrican...0displaced.
In fairness .. it seems New York is sinking ..

No, it's not. It's just you desperately clinging to anything vaguely similar to justify your fearmongering ideology.