{"id":64083,"date":"2026-05-27T11:40:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64083"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:40:55","slug":"exposing-the-obvious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64083","title":{"rendered":"Exposing The Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/2026\/05\/26\/heads-exploded-when-vox-published-this-global-warming-report-n4953245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PJ Media<\/a> posted an article about the recent changes in the climate change narrative.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;Climate change\u2019s worst-case scenario is officially canceled,&#8221; young adult infotainment site Vox finally admitted this weekend, causing progressive heads to explode, from the writing staff to its readership.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8220;You\u2019ve probably never heard of the term &#8216;RCP 8.5&#8217; \u2014 the highest-emission scenario used by climate scientists to project the planet\u2019s future,&#8221; Vox&#8217;s Bryan Walsh reported. &#8220;But if you\u2019ve read about climate change, you\u2019ve seen the numbers and nightmarish outcomes it produced: 4\u00b0C of warming by 2100, sometimes 5\u00b0C, sea level rising multiple feet, parts of the planet too hot for humans.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Scary stuff, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Wrong.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Even though &#8220;those numbers shaped a decade and a half of climate journalism,&#8221; Walsh continued, he &#8220;didn\u2019t always know \u2014 and didn\u2019t always communicate \u2014 that the scenario behind the most apocalyptic, attention-getting findings was largely an attempt to imagine how bad things could get, not a true forecast.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Let&#8217;s pause here a moment to contemplate what Walsh just admitted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/489488\/climate-change-scenario-rcp-8-5-warming-emissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Walsh<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Now says he was ignorant about climate change numbers, despite being an expert for Time magazine.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ignorant, except when he &#8220;didn&#8217;t always communicate&#8221; what he did know.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Which was that climate change &#8220;findings&#8221; were imaginary. Scare tactics, if you will.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Now Walsh says, &#8220;The world that RCP 8.5 assumed will never arrive.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is more to the story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In March 2016, I posted the following (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=27923\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>If they were honest, the climate alarmists would admit that they are not working feverishly to hold down <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Climate\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Climate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">global temperatures<\/a> \u2014 they would acknowledge that they are instead consumed with the goal of holding down capitalism and establishing a global welfare state.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Have doubts? Then listen to the words of former\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2010\/11\/18\/ipcc-official-%E2%80%9Cclimate-policy-is-redistributing-the-worlds-wealth%E2%80%9D\/\">United Nations climate official\u00a0Ottmar Edenhofer<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cOne has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Environmental policy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Environmental_policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">environmental policy<\/a>. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole,\u201d said Edenhofer, who\u00a0co-chaired the U.N.\u2019s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/a> working group on <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Climate change mitigation\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Climate_change_mitigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\">Mitigation of Climate Change<\/a> from 2008 to 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>So what is the goal of environmental policy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cWe redistribute de facto the world\u2019s wealth by climate policy,\u201d said\u00a0Edenhofer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It never was about the climate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, PJ Media posted an article about the recent changes in the climate change narrative. The article reports: &#8220;Climate change\u2019s worst-case scenario is officially canceled,&#8221; young adult infotainment site Vox finally admitted this weekend, causing progressive heads to explode, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64083\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,5277,1452,223,19566,11870],"class_list":["post-64083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-pj-media","tag-redistribution-of-wealth","tag-united-nations","tag-united-nations-climate-official-ottmar-edenhofer","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64084,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64083\/revisions\/64084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}