Spot On, New York Post, Billions Have Been Wasted Based on Fake Climate Science
By
Linnea Lueken
May 22, 2026
A recent New York Post (NYP) article, titled “Billions have been wasted on UN’s climate change lies,” describes how billions, if not trillions, of dollars have been spent worldwide attempting to slow or stop the world from experiencing the extreme climate change as forecast by the flawed, but widely used RCP 8.5 computer model projections. The NYP is absolutely correct. The future climate conditions described by the RCP 8.5 high-end emissions scenario, and subsequently cited in hundreds of papers warning of likely disastrous outcomes, were never going to happen, and all the investment into climate policy has been a total waste.
RCP 8.5 has officially been retired from consideration by official climate researchers at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Opinion writer Jonathan Lesser writes that the IPCC “is responsible for the “climate catastrophe” and “the world is burning scenarios that environmentalists, academics and many politicians have promoted to force high-cost, coercive energy policies on Americans,” which “relied on academics whose careers depended on using RCP 8.5 and several other worst-case scenarios to predict everything from the demise of French wines and the end of pasta to aliens destroying the earth. (No, really.)”
Over the past decade, The Heartland Institute and Climate Realism have published dozens of articles refuting studies slavishly promoted by various media outlets that relied heavily on computer-modeled emissions scenarios like RCP 8.5 and SSP5-8.5. The stories referenced by Lesser here are familiar; the supposed destruction of French wine (or overproduction!), pasta, and aliens of a different kind, all have been covered and much more.
https://climaterealism.com/2026/05/spot-on-new-york-post-billions-have-been-wasted-based-on-fake-climate-science/
