“Yet the very same people who said we'll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming, a name since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling, not warming, and nobody was dead.”

The planet has continued to warm: the past 11 years were the 11 warmest on record and 2023-2025 the three warmest. No expert report said everyone would be dead in 12 years; a 2018 IPCC pathway called for cutting emissions within 12 years to limit warming to 1.5C.