Did you wake up alive today? No, that’s not a joke; it’s a serious question. I ask it because exactly five years ago today, St. Greta of Thunberg, the little child who has led the “climate change” movement across the Western world, promised that, as of June 21, 2023, the world would cease to exist.

In the past, doomsday predictions arose when masses of people faced imminent death (e.g., the Black Death, which killed one-third to one-half of Europe’s population in the mid-14th century) or contemplated natural phenomena they could not explain (e.g., Halley’s Comet).

Although one would think that, in the modern era, these predictions would die out, they’ve only become worse. To name but a few, we saw Jim Jones, the Y2K panic, and the Heaven’s Gate cult (governed, not by Halley’s Comet but by Hale-Bopp). None, though, have been as influential as the cult of Climate Change.

The Climate Change cult began in the 1960s when scientists, whom we revered, and the media, which we trusted, began predicting that all life would end due to famine, overpopulation, nuclear war, a new Ice Age, ozone depletion, global warming…

In 2019, Mark J. Perry compiled a list of the left’s many failed climate change predictions. Here are a few of the more apocalyptic ones, but you should go to the link to see the entire list:

1. 1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975

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3. 1970: Ice Age By 2000
4. 1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
5. 1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030

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8. 1974: Another Ice Age?
9. 1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life (data and graph)