It’s Always Spooky Season for Climate Doomsdayers
October 20, 2025
It’s Spooky Season again—the time of year for goblins and ghouls and jump scares. While the costumes, candy and horror movie marathons are all in good fun, there are real-life scare tactics in the form of climate alarmism that have had Americans on the edges of their seats for years.
The green-at-any-cost crowd has been predicting climate-related doomsday scenarios for literal decades. And, guess what, none of them have come to pass. But, that hasn’t stopped them. Unfortunately, the media often unquestioningly reports these “predictions” as news. And, that alarmism has wormed its way into many American’s heads as fact—even affecting the mental health of adults and children alike.
Just this month, a new study with the terrifying title “Global Tipping Points Report” was released saying that the Earth has passed a point of no return based on declining coral ecosystems. Report author Dr. Mike Barrett said, “This grim situation must be a wake-up call that unless we act decisively now, we will also lose the Amazon rainforest, the ice sheets and vital ocean currents. In that scenario, we would be looking at a truly catastrophic outcome for all humanity.”
Now, at TEA we believe firmly in protecting our Earth and its environment. That’s why “clean” is one of the basic tenets of our call for Affordable, Reliable and Clean Energy Security. But, these scare tactics have done nothing to further that goal. They simply drive the climate propaganda machine that keeps our citizens scared and hopeless for the future. And, this nightmare PR machine has been churning out misinformation for far too long.
The End is Nigh…or Not
It would be impossible to track all the times that climate activists have predicted a disastrous world-ending catastrophe that is only a few short years away. But, TEA has collected a timeline of just a few to illustrate how long this misinformation has been crushing the American people.
Here’s the rundown:
1987: Then-U.S. Senator Joe Biden said in a speech on the floor of the United States Senate, “Global warming, should it occur in accord with the direst predictions, would be a catastrophe of biblical proportions for the entire world.” Biden went on to say, “The human activities that could bring it about … are occurring right now. And unless these activities are changed in the next few years…a disastrous and irreversible warming could become inevitable.” Let us do that math for you real quick—this was 38 years ago.
1989: A United Nations study predicted that by 2000 entire nations would be wiped off the face of the earth from global warming. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of “eco-refugees,” threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, then-director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program. They said the government had a 10-year window before the greenhouse effect went beyond human control and that entire nations would be wiped from the map and millions of people displaced.
1995: United Nations study predicted that rising sea levels would cause most of the beaches on the East Coast of the United States to disappear by 2020.
Good Harbor Beach, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 2025.
2000: British climate scientists predicted that within a few years they would no longer experience snow. According to Dr. David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event.” “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said. David Parker, at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Berkshire, says ultimately, British children could have only virtual experience of snow. Via the internet, they might wonder at polar scenes – or eventually “feel” virtual cold.
London, United Kingdom, 2024.
2009: At a Copenhagen climate change summit, Al Gore claimed new research showed the Arctic could be ice-free within five years. In his speech, Mr. Gore told the conference: “These figures are fresh. Some of the models suggest to Dr. [Wieslav] Maslowski that there is a 75 per cent chance that the entire north polar ice cap, during the summer months, could be completely ice-free within five to seven years.” This time, even the scientist that Gore cited called him out for distorting his research to makes this dire prediction.
2014: In a joint appearance with then-Secretary of State John Kerry, the French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said, “We have 500 days to avoid climate chaos.”
2019: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez predicted “the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.” And, that same year, in her book No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, Greta Thunberg claims, “Around 2030 we will be in a position to set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control that will lead to the end of our civilization as we know it.”
2020: And, just to bookend things with former President Joe Biden, 31 long years after he predicted on the U.S Senate Floor that global warming would create a disaster of “biblical proportions,” he was campaigning for President calling for “complete total elimination of fossil fuels by the year 2050.” Of course, this was all for the kids, “Not just for all of us today, but for our children and grandchildren, so their tomorrow is healthier, safer, and more just.”
We can do both
While these scare tactics have taken their toll—68% of U.S. adults have reported having at least some anxiety about climate change. A 10-nation survey found that 84% of people ages 16 to 25 were at least moderately worried about climate change, and 45% said their feelings about climate change negatively affected their daily lives.
The truth of the matter is, we—especially in the United States—have been moving in the right direction for decades. The U.S. is a world leader in lowering emissions. Since 2005, the natural gas we us for power generation has cut nearly double the emissions that renewable sources like wind and solar have. And, U.S. environmental standards protect our air, land and water better than any other nation with comparable size and economy. We can and will do both—protecting our environment and powering our nation—through initiatives like Affordable, Reliable and Clean Energy Security (ARC ES) legislation both at the federal and state levels.