{"id":1953189,"date":"2023-06-21T15:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T19:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-been-5-years-since-greta-thunberg-warned-climate-change-would-wipe-out-all-of-humanity-unless-we-stop-using-fossil-fuels-over-the-next-5-years\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T15:21:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T19:21:19","slug":"its-been-5-years-since-greta-thunberg-warned-climate-change-would-wipe-out-all-of-humanity-unless-we-stop-using-fossil-fuels-over-the-next-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-been-5-years-since-greta-thunberg-warned-climate-change-would-wipe-out-all-of-humanity-unless-we-stop-using-fossil-fuels-over-the-next-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"5 years ago, Greta Thunberg cautioned that if we don&#8217;t halt fossil fuel usage within the next 5 years, climate change would devastate humanity."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">48<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-been-5-years-since-greta-thunberg-warned-climate-change-would-wipe-out-all-of-humanity-unless-we-stop-using-fossil-fuels-over-the-next-5-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1953189&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<figure>\n  <\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>What happened<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bloomberg-biden-sets-new-record-taking-dark-money-donations\/\" title=\"Bloomberg: Biden sets new record taking dark money donations\">years ago today<\/a>, child activist Greta Thunberg promoted a so-called scientist&#8217;s warning that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-i-got-a-covid-test-four-times-in-one-day-two-came-back-negative-two-came-back-positive-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Elon Musk: I Got A COVID Test Four Times In One Day. \u2018Two Came Back Negative, Two Came Back Positive.\u2019 | The Daily Wire\">climate change<\/a> will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">fossil fuels<\/a> over the next five years.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>\u2022 For obvious reasons, Thunberg <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/1671476556550602752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deleted<\/a> her Twitter post from June 21, 2018.<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Why it matters<\/h2>\n<p><strong>We haven&#8217;t stopped using fossil fuels in 2023. Humanity has not been (and will not be) wiped out as a result. That&#8217;s a good thing!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Context<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Harvard University professor James Anderson, the &#8220;top scientist&#8221; whose claims Thunberg promoted in 2018, insists his words were distorted by journalists at Grit Post, the site that published the (since deleted) article Thunberg linked to in her tweet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Anderson said he would &#8220;never&#8221; claim that humanity would be wiped out by 2023. He did, however, express support in 2018 for a &#8220;Marshall Plan-style endeavor in which all of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-been-5-years-since-greta-thunberg-warned-climate-change-would-wipe-out-all-of-humanity-unless-we-stop-using-fossil-fuels-over-the-next-5-years\/\" title=\"5 years ago, Greta Thunberg cautioned that if we don't halt fossil fuel usage within the next 5 years, climate change would devastate humanity.\">world takes extreme measures<\/a> to transition off of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-congressman-we-must-stop-drilling-for-oil-completely\/\" title=\"Democrat: Stop Oil Drilling Completely\">fossil fuels completely<\/a> within the next five years,&#8221; according to <em>Forbes<\/em>. (Which is basically just as crazy a thing to say.)<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>\u2022 The scientist also suggested &#8220;there will be no floating ice remaining [in the Arctic Ocean] by 2022&#8221; absent major action on climate change. (The ice is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/article\/arctic-summer-sea-ice-could-be-gone-by-2035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">still there<\/a>, miraculously.)<\/h3>\n<h2>Bottom line<\/h2>\n<p><strong>If climate activists (of any age) want to be taken seriously, they should stop making hysterical predictions that never pan out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, Greta Thunberg endorsed a scientist&#8217;s warning that unless we cease using fossil fuels within five years, climate change will eradicate humanity. Thunberg later deleted her June 21, 2018, Twitter post. The significance lies in our failure to halt fossil fuel consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1953190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12323,24569,5103,4321,22776,4894,13153,6783,10645,10485,5883,10649,14205,4346],"class_list":["post-1953189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ago","tag-cautioned","tag-change","tag-climate","tag-devastate","tag-dont","tag-fossil","tag-fuel","tag-greta","tag-halt","tag-humanity","tag-thunberg","tag-usage","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1953190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}