"GOOD RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that “Climate Change” is going to destroy the Planet, the United Nations TOP Climate Committee just admitted that its own projections (RCP8.5) were WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!" - This Trump's post came directly after climate scientists publishing in the Geoscientific Model Development journal retired an extreme, worst-case climate projection scenario known as RCP8.5. He states that for far too long Climate Activism has been used by Democrats to scare Americans, push horrible Energy Policies, and fund Bbillions into their bogus research programs. "This was one huge FRAUD", Trump wrote.

Political opponents, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have sharply criticized Trump's statements, calling them "total disinformation". They point out that while the most extreme, implausible doomsday scenario was retired, updated scientific models still show roughly 3 degrees Celsius of warming by 2100, and the consensus remains that human-caused climate change poses a significant threat to global health and infrastructure.

Who is right?

The majority of climate scientists, global scientific academies, and data from organizations like NASA and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) argue that human activity is warming the planet, while a minority of critics attribute these changes entirely to natural cycles or question the accuracy of climate modeling. There are also notable Israeli and Jewish scientists who totally challenge the mainstream scientific consensus that human activity is the primary driver of climate change.

Here's a summary of the main arguments of the three groups:

1) Group 1: Human activities ARE INDEED the primary driver of modern climate change. Burning fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas) releases CO₂, trapping heat in the atmosphere. Atmospheric carbon increasingly shows the specific chemical signature of fossil fuels, proving the rise is human-caused. Global temperatures are rising much faster than at any point in geological history. Destroying forests reduces the Earth's natural capacity to absorb existing carbon dioxide.

2) Group 2: Human activities ARE NOT the primary driver of modern climate change. Historical warming periods happened before industrialization due to changes in the Earth’s orbit and solar activity. The Earth has naturally experienced much warmer periods and higher CO₂ levels millions of years ago. Increased CO₂ boosts global plant growth and agricultural yields through enhanced photosynthesis. Temperature stations near cities suffer from the "urban heat island effect," inflating warming data. Computer simulations cannot perfectly predict cloud behavior or ocean currents, making future projections unreliable.

3) What does the Jewish scientific world claim? The most prominent of these scientists is Dr. Nir Shaviv, an Israeli-American astrophysicist and Chairman of the Physics Department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Other academics, such as Dr. Yonatan Dubi (a chemist at Ben-Gurion University) and Dr. Micha Klein (a geomorphologist at the University of Haifa), also hold similar views. Rather than denying that the Earth is warming, these scientists differ on the cause of that warming. Shaviv’s research argues that variations in the sun's activity and the resulting changes in cosmic rays reaching Earth are the primary drivers of climate change. He contends that when solar activity increases, it deflects cosmic rays, reducing cloud formation and warming the planet. While greenhouse gases do affect temperatures, the climate's sensitivity has been vastly overestimated. They believe natural cycles play a much larger role than anthropogenic (human-caused) factors. Besides, historical data are showing that the Earth's temperature has fluctuated throughout geological history—including periods of warming before the industrial revolution—suggesting that recent changes are driven by the same natural mechanisms.

A "scam with no basis in fact"

Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin argued the policy was a "scam with no basis in fact" that hurt industries like auto manufacturing. Zeldin is the grandson and great-grandson of rabbis and became the first Jewish individual to serve as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Lee Zeldin’s ancestors and prominent family members include Moshe Efraim Zeldin (Great-grandfather), an Orthodox rabbi who immigrated from Russia in the early 1900s and was a key leader of the early Zionist movement in Brooklyn; Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin (Great-uncle), a prominent Reform rabbi who founded the Stephen Wise Temple in Los Angeles; Abraham Jacob Zeldin (Grandfather), an active in the Farmingdale Jewish Center on Long Island, serving as vice president of the synagogue's board; David Zeldin (Father), a private investigator; and Merrill Schwartz (Mother), a notable reference among American Jewish ladies today.

Trump and the supposed "RCP8.5"

On May 16, in the Geoscientific Model Development journal, UN climate scientists retired an extreme, worst-case climate projection scenario known as RCP8.5. They noted that the absolute worst-case "doomsday" scenario—which assumed global coal use would explode and no green policies would ever be enacted—had become highly implausible. Because renewable energy became cheaper faster than expected and many countries implemented emission limits, the baseline shifted.

Donald Trump and his supporters interpreted the retirement of this extreme model as an admission that the United Nations and climate activists had been wrong all along. He used this opportunity to declare victory over what he labeled "15 years of Democratic fear mongering". Besides, the phrase "Green New Scam" is Trump's derogatory play on the Green New Deal, a sweeping climate and economic stimulus resolution introduced by progressive Democrats in 2019.

Trump frequently argued that aggressive transitions to green energy cause catastrophic economic pain, spike electricity prices, and harm domestic manufacturing. His administration has actively used White House policy to cancel billions in federal green energy and electric vehicle initiatives, referring to them directly in official policy documents as the Green New Scam.

By discrediting green energy initiatives, Trump justifies his administration's core policy of promoting traditional fossil fuels, scaling back regulations, and pursuing total American energy independence. Trump wishes to position his administration's approach as pragmatic and grounded in real-world economics, rather than what he terms "climate alarmism". His administration recently terminated the landmark 2009 Obama-era "endangerment finding" which ruled greenhouse gases a threat to public health.