Trump rips into Democrats after UN climate committee downgrades big projections
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President Donald Trump on Saturday criticized Democratic climate policies after scientists moved away from one of the most extreme global warming scenarios previously used in United Nations-backed climate simulations.
“GREAT RIDDANCE! After 15 years of Dumocrats promising that ‘Climate Change’ will destroy the Planet, the United Nations High Climate Committee just admitted that their projections (RCP8.5) are WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Trump has accused Democrats of using climate fear to justify energy policies and government spending.
“Climate Activism has long been used by Dumocrats to scare the American people, push the dreaded Energy Police, and fund BILLIONS in their bogus research programs,” he continued. “Unlike the Dumocrats, who are using the nonsense of Climate Alarmism to push their GREEN NEW SCAM, My Administration​​​​will always be based on TRUTH, SCIENCE, and TRUTH!”
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President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on April 16, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Trump’s comments come after climate scientists have moved away from using the worst-case scenario for emissions developed under the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The IPCC’s worst-case scenarios, which include global warming and sea-level rise, include global crop failure and possible extinction events on the scale of the dinosaurs.
The scenario, known as RCP8.5 and later SSP5-8.5, predicted severe effects of global warming under very high emissions projections.
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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin speaks with President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Feb. 12, 2026, announcing the rollback of the 2009 Risk Assessment on climate emissions. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
According to GB News, this trend is being eliminated after researchers concluded that it no longer shows a reasonable trajectory based on renewable energy growth, emissions trends and climate policies.
The researchers, writing in the journal Geoscientific Model Development, say that future climate patterns should continue to combine multiple effects, from a warmer climate to a future with lower emissions.
“In the 21st century, this range will be smaller than previously assessed: at the end of the range, high emission levels (measured by SSP5-8.5) have become impossible, based on the cost of renewal costs, the evolution of climate policy and recent emission trends.”
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Trump’s post follows remarks he made last September at the UN General Assembly in New York, where he called climate change “a hoax.”
“It’s the biggest fraud ever committed in the world, in my opinion,” Trump said at the time. “All these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong.”
“They are made of stupid people who have lost their country’s wealth and those countries were not given the chance to succeed,” he continued.
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President Donald Trump speaks during the United Nations in New York on September 23, 2025. Environmental and energy groups have called on the Trump administration to boycott the United Nations Climate Change Conference in November, according to a letter obtained by Fox Digital. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg)
Trump’s comments were criticized by Democrats, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who called the speech “total disinformation.”
“You know yesterday at the UN, President Trump said, ‘Climate change is a hoax,’ because it’s a total lie,” Clinton said during the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. “It’s a false statement, but it’s being circulated.”
EPA Director Lee Zeldin later defended Trump’s climate comments in an interview with Fox News.
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President Donald Trump speaks during the 80th session of the United Nations at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on September 23, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“The president is absolutely right and we have seen it in the name of climate change, these policies of the left wing are determined to cause great economic pain to people who can at least afford it,” he said.
Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report.
