Long before climate scold Greta Thunberg (AKA "Doom Pixie") bitterly scowled at the world — "Our house is on fire!", "How dare you!", and "The grown-ups have failed us!" — there was former Vice President Al Gore.
Yep, the same Al Gore who in 2009 infamously misrepresented data to claim "there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years."
Just one problem — which we'll get to in a bit.
Gore, who has amassed an estimated $300 million net worth since leaving the vice presidency in 2001, took to X on Tuesday to once again scaremonger about climate change, this time by blasting the EPA's proposal to rescind Obama-era climate mandates (some of which paved the way for electric vehicle mandates) in classic Gore fashion:
Today’s EPA announcement ignores the blindingly obvious reality of the climate crisis and sidelines the EPA’s own scientists and lawyers in favor of the interests and profits of the fossil fuel industry. Weakening safeguards that reduce greenhouse gas pollution will harm American competitiveness in a global economy that is moving away from oil, gas, and coal and will increase the suffering of communities that are overburdened by the dirty co-pollutants caused by burning fossil fuels.
Gore could have written that same threat 20 years ago, and nary a word would have been different.
Today’s EPA announcement ignores the blindingly obvious reality of the climate crisis and sidelines the EPA’s own scientists and lawyers in favor of the interests and profits of the fossil fuel industry. Weakening safeguards that reduce greenhouse gas pollution will harm American…
— Al Gore (@algore) July 29, 2025
Weakening safeguards that reduce greenhouse gas pollution will harm American competitiveness in a global economy that is moving away from oil, gas, and coal and will increase the suffering of communities that are overburdened by the dirty co-pollutants caused by burning fossil fuels.
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Now, about that "just one problem":
The Arctic ice cap not only hasn't "vanished" at any point over the last decade; according to NASA, the Arctic ice minimum extent, or ice coverage during the warmest month of the year, is declining at 12.6 percent per decade.
While Gore's ridiculous prediction was perhaps his most infamous, it was only one of the countless times he's been wrong in his hyperbolic predictions about "global warming" — which, incidentally, the left conveniently changed to "climate change" for two reasons:
One, the "existential threat to mankind" — "overheating of the planet" — that the climate scaremongers hysterically warned us about ad nauseam wasn't happening.
Two, by switching from "global warming" to "climate change," the Climate Cult™ could conveniently include everything from hot weather to cold weather to hurricanes to floods to droughts to tornadoes to just about anything their climate-obsessed selves could drum up.
Anyway, here are just three of Gore's most-cited climate predictions that proved to be wrong:
Mount Kilimanjaro snows gone "within a decade": In "An Inconvenient Truth" (2006), Gore predicted that "within a decade, there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro."
Yeah, no:
Alluding poorly to the title of the Ernest Hemmingway short story, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," Gore was trying to claim that Africa’s tallest mountain, with a peak that stands higher than 19,000 feet, would no longer have measurable snow cover on or before 2016.
As of November 2022, Snow-forecast.com, a webpage for skiers, reported that an average of 93 combined inches of snowfall (almost 8 feet) hits just the middle altitudes of Kilimanjaro during November and December. And 9 inches of combined snowfall is the average expected for the middle elevations for July and August, the lightest two-month period for snowfall on the middle part of the mountain.
Hurricane frequency and intensity: Gore shamelessly used images of Hurricane Katrina — the devastating Category 5 storm that made landfall on the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005 — to argue that climate change was already causing more frequent/intense hurricanes.
Again, wrong.
For Al Gore, the lack of any increase in hurricanes related to global warming is an inconvenient truth.
One has to be amazed at how little fact-checking the global warming alarmists do. I guess they don’t want the latest storm crisis to go to waste, but they don’t help their cause by mis-stating the obvious.
There’s a pretty sizable scientific literature out there on hurricanes and global warming. From the “modeling” end, probably the most cited paper is a 2004 study by Tom Knutson from the government’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton. Although he’s tweaked it a bit since then, the result remains the same.
There should be a slight increase (8 per cent) in hurricane power by the end of this century. But the inter-annual variability of these storms is so great that this signal will not emerge from the noise until around 2080.
However, while rising ocean temperatures are linked to some increase in hurricane intensity, the overall frequency and the evidence linking global warming to more hurricanes remains mixed. The prediction that frequency and severity would already have notably increased has not consistently appeared in the data.
Sea level rise and climate migration: Gore suggested low-lying Pacific nations like those in the Maldives would face imminent evacuation due to sea level rise.
Nope:
Environmental officials warned 30 years ago [now 37 years ago] the Maldives could be completely covered by water due to global warming-induced sea level rise. That didn’t happen. The Indian Ocean did not swallow the Maldives island chain as predicted by government officials in the 1980s.
The Maldives are among the island nations often held up by United Nations officials as being on the “front-lines” of man-made global warming.
New Zealand researchers published a study [in 2018] based on aerial photos and satellite images of Pacific islands over the last four decades that found most atolls they examined were increasing in size.
The results echoed a 2015 study by the same lead author that also found coral island expansion. Study lead author and scientist Paul Kench told The New Scientist “that the Maldives seems to be showing a similar effect.”
Thing is, in the climate-hustling industry — not dissimilar to the race-hustling industry — the climate scolds don't have to be right to be adored by the climate cult; they need only to parrot the narrative.
— Duck Forsey (@TreeShrugger) July 29, 2025
Unfortunately, those who push or believe the climate-change fairytale — meaning the ridiculous "clear and present danger," "existential threat to mankind" silliness — aren't going to change their minds anytime soon, if ever, despite facts and data to the contrary.
While the climate scolds are amusing, the insanity of massive climate change-related wealth redistribution is anything but.
As for Al Gore, give it rest, dude — Greta's got you covered.
That is, when the Doom Pixie isn't trying to make her way to Gaza to "end the genocide" committed against the peace-loving Palestinians by the evil Israelis.
