Greta Thunberg mocked for tweet claiming world will end by 2023
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The Internet is roasting climate activist Greta Thunberg for a five-year-old tweet that humanity would be wiped out in 2023.
Thunberg deleted the June 21, 2018 tweet addressing climate danger, in which she linked to a report that, “A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.”
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Granted, she didn’t actually write the world would end five years to the date of her original tweet — just that we should stop using fossil fuels.
But that didn’t stop skeptics who flamed Thunberg and the tweet on what would have been its fifth anniversary.
“I’m sorry to say — all humanity has been wiped out today according to Greta Weirdo,” the Catturd account tweeted along with a crying-laughing emoji.
“But at least the climate cult keeps their perfect record of ZERO predictions coming true ever.”
One person replied, “Well, it’s been nice knowing you. Not sure how I’m going to spend my last day.”
A second person added: “WOW! Thank you to that ‘top climate scientist’ for the warning. I’m going to need to work on my bucket list.”
A third user gave up, tweeting, “It was fun while it lasted,” while another chimed in, “Maybe it ends today? If that’s possible, I’m leaving work and going to the bar…”
One user pointed to a 2019 article from ThinkProgress that reported “We don’t have 12 years to save the climate. We have 14 months” adding, “I guess we’re all dead.”
It prompted the response: “They keep moving the goal posts, but at least they allow us to live a little longer.”
Another added: “I’m proud to say that in my 50 years of life on this planet I have survived the end of civilization at least 4 times, a true miracle…”
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All that said, the Associated Press reported that Thunberg’s tweet was taken out of context and she had quoted an article that “went on to contextualize remarks made by scientist James Anderson during a January 2018 speech at the University of Chicago.”
Anderson told the AP the focus of his speech was on the floating ice volume and the observed rate of disappearance at that time.
“Thus the statement was clear to those in attendance that the reference was to floating ice volume in the data shown on the slide, not arctic ice in general,” Anderson clarified, adding, “so, the ‘wiping out of humanity by 2022’ is a total distortion of what I said or meant at the University of Chicago colloquium in 2018. I would never make such a statement.”
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