We’ve Had Six Years Left to Save the World for the Past 50 Years

To claim that only now do environmentalists feel the need to resort to dramatic language and dire predictions is to ignore the failed doomsaying of the past half century.

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Protestors at the Global Climate Strike of the movement Fridays for Future at Kramgasse Street in Bern, Switzerland, October 22, 2021.

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A new article in a scientific journal claims that we have just six years left to save the planet from global warming, a claim that environmentalists masquerading as scientists have been regurgitating for at least the past 50 years.

“Scientists used to avoid phrases like ‘climate emergency’ and ‘climate crisis.’ No longer,” wrote the Washington Post on X. “Escalating rhetoric comes as a new study shows there’s just six years left to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius at current CO2 emissions rate.” The claim is comical given that such catastrophist language has been common in the environmental movement for decades, and it hasn’t let up.

Andrew Follett

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Andrew Follett

Andrew Follett conducts research analysis for a nonprofit in the Washington, D.C., area. He previously worked as a space and science reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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