Trump Declares ‘GOOD RIDDANCE!’ As Scientists Drop Climate Doom Scenario

Donald Trump seized on a major revision to global climate modelling this weekend, triumphantly declaring “GOOD RIDDANCE!” after scientists behind a long-feared worst-case warming scenario admitted it is now considered increasingly implausible.

The row centres on the notorious “RCP8.5” climate pathway — an extreme emissions projection that for years fuelled apocalyptic headlines about civilisation-threatening warming, mass crop collapse, rising seas and even potential extinction-level risks.

Now, researchers working within the framework of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change say the scenario no longer reflects the world’s most likely trajectory.

Instead of catastrophic warming exceeding 4.5°C by 2100, revised modelling now points closer to roughly 3.5°C under high-emissions assumptions.

Trump wasted no time turning the scientific revision into a political weapon.

‘WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!’

In a fiery post on Truth Social, Trump mocked climate campaigners and Democrats for years of what he called “Climate Alarmism nonsense.”

“GOOD RIDDANCE!” he wrote. “After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that ‘Climate Change’ is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!”

Trump accused Democrats of using extreme climate projections to justify what he called the “GREEN NEW SCAM,” while defending his own aggressive fossil fuel agenda.

The president has repeatedly championed his “Drill, Baby, Drill” energy policy, rolled back environmental regulations and again withdrew the US from the Paris Climate Agreement after returning to office.

What Actually Changed?

The revision does not mean climate change has disappeared or that scientists suddenly believe warming is harmless.

Rather, researchers concluded the most extreme emissions pathway has become less likely because:

• Renewable energy became cheaper faster than expected

• Many countries adopted climate policies

• Global emissions trends slowed compared with earlier projections

The study’s authors stressed the scenario is not impossible — only less plausible under current trends.

They warned that political upheaval, abandonment of climate policies or major reversals in clean-energy development could still push the world back toward more dangerous outcomes.

Lead author Detlef van Vuuren cautioned that “the risks of climate change have not disappeared,” adding that the world is still heading toward “significant climate impacts” even without the old worst-case projection.

Climate Wars Go Political Again

The change is likely to intensify the already vicious political battle over climate policy.

Conservatives and climate sceptics argue RCP8.5 became a fear-driven tool used to justify expensive green policies, sweeping regulations and massive public spending.

Climate activists counter that the revised scenario still points toward severe warming, extreme weather disruption and major long-term economic risks if emissions remain high.

For Trump, however, the scientific recalibration offered something politically invaluable: validation for a years-long argument that climate elites exaggerated the threat while attacking fossil fuels and industrial economies.

His allies are already framing the revision as proof that the climate debate was distorted by worst-case fearmongering.

Critics reply that even 3.5°C of warming would still represent a profound global crisis.

The politics of climate change may have shifted — but the war over how serious it really is has only grown hotter.

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