Estimated: Greta Thunberg deletes “end of the world” tweet

In 2018, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg issued a very specific warning on Twitter: Climate change will “wipe out all of humanity” if fossil fuels are not phased out by 2023. Now, five years later, according to Thunberg, it would be so far – but no sign of the end of the world. Apparently, Thunberg also noticed that, and has since deleted the tweet in question. It has therefore become a running gag on social media. Fortunately, attentive Internet users had previously made a screenshot of Greta’s statement.

Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas are still essential today. Europe is currently desperately looking for alternatives to Putin’s gas, such as LNG from Qatar. Demand for natural gas is growing around the world, and that’s not likely to change any time soon. But otherwise the world has not changed since 2018 as it should have – according to Greta.

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In the tweet in question, the climate activist made a statement on the website Gritpost.com published article cited. Interestingly, the website no longer exists either. “Time flies when you’re busy with the scam,” commented a Twitter user about the theater. The article that Thunberg used to support her claim was titled “Top Climate Scientist: Humanity will die out if we don’t get climate change under control by 2023.” In it, James Anderson, a professor of atmospheric chemistry at Harvard University, allegedly warned that climate change could push Earth back to the so-called Eocene epoch 33 million years before Christ. A time when there was no ice at either pole.

the up Gritpost.com The article published at the time was in turn based on one forbesReport titled ‘We’ve got five years to save ourselves from climate change, says Harvard scientist’. Anderson is best known for demonstrating that chlorofluorocarbons deplete the ozone layer. Across from forbes the scientist explained at the time: “We have exquisite information about the Eocene epoch because we have a paleo record that goes back millions of years, when the earth had no ice at either pole. There was almost no temperature difference between the equator and the pole.” He added:

“The ocean down to the sea floor was almost ten degrees Celsius warmer than today, and the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere caused violent storms. DBecause water vapor, which is an exponential function of water temperature, is the gasoline that drives the frequency and intensity of storms.”

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Without an immediate industrial shift, a drastic reduction in carbon pollution, and “without renewed efforts to reflect sunlight away from the Earth’s poles, we face another such scenario,” he explained 2022 “permanent ice will remain, equal to zero. Can we lose and recover from 75 to 80 percent of permanent ice? The answer is no,” Anderson said at the time. Interestingly, contrary to what Greta said, Anderson did forbes never claimed that humanity would become extinct as a result. He only emphasized at the time that he had worked intensively for five years to reduce the use of fossil fuels.

It’s unclear when the self-proclaimed “autistic climate justice activist” deleted the tweet. The deletion was first noticed on Saturday by the conservative US television correspondent Jack Posobiec, who immediately wrote to Greta on Twitter: “Hey Greta, why did you delete that?” Thunberg himself, however, did not respond to Posobiec’s question. Instead, a slew of conservative commentators came forward to remind the climate activist that the world does indeed still exist. “Greta Thunberg deleted this tweet because it exposed her as a scammer,” tweeted conservative US activist Brigitte Gabriel:

“Make sure the whole world sees it.“

Other Twitter users have suggested that Greta may have been unhappy at the time, pointing out that humanity could face extinction at some point in the future if we didn’t stop using fossil fuels .

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The “child activist”, who became famous for her propaganda against climate change, is known for her dramatic appearance. The Swedish activist had made similar predictions in the past. For example, in a speech to the United Nations in 2019, she claimed that “irreversible chain reactions beyond human control” would take place if carbon emissions could not be reduced by more than 50 percent by 2030. A year later, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, she declared that humanity had eight years to “completely say goodbye to fossil fuels”.

Your statements can thus be seamlessly integrated into all the false claims of the last hundred years, after which the world would end. For example, at the beginning of the century scientists warned that global cooling would render large parts of North America uninhabitable, while in the 1970s the medical scientist and explorer Paul Ehrlich claimed that rising temperatures would lead to mass starvation in the United Kingdom by the year 2000. In 2006’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” former US Vice President Al Gore stated that the melting of the polar ice caps would make hundreds of millions of people refugees by 2013. When it became apparent that his prediction would not come true, his office simply referred to the date in the book as “approximate.”

It is doubtful that Greta Thunberg will resign because of her recent misjudgment. Only recently she performed again in Davos and once again reminded those present of the supposedly imminent end of the world. Maybe – we can at least hope so – things won’t be so bad in the end.

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