UN Climate Change Forecast Update

Now this, the United Nations has withdrawn their

worst case

conclusion on climate. Now, they had been thinking

that temperatures would go

up by eight degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century, and that the

polar ice caps would melt completely.

Daniel Turner is with us this morning.

I thought that UN declaration, that they've abandoned that,

that forecast,

I thought that was a very big deal for climate science.

It really was. But, but I think there needs to be a reckoning

because this wasn't

just a, a, a mistake in, in climate calculations or in science.

There are whole countries that destroyed their economies.

The UK shut down the, the, the North Sea, uh, oil and gas, right?

We have entire nations that have crippled themselves

and made themselves energy

poor because of climate change. And not only that, generationally,

how many young

children have grown up with real climate anxiety that are convinced they're gonna

die? They did ... These scientists, for political reasons, did great,

great damage to the world, and it's not enough for them to say,

"Oops, we made a

mistake." There needs to be a reckoning for this.

Well, what, what would be a reckoning? What would it be?

They lose all of their funding. They are, they are discredited.

They have to offer formal statements.

They should be forced to go around to schools and tell young people, "You don't

have to be worried about climate change anymore."

You know that's not gonna happen.

Of course not. But, but it's not enough to just say, "Hey,

we made a mistake." And

they did these, they did this for political calculations,

and that's what's wrong

here.