Matt Clark

@GermoneBurner @justwantsearch @BradPowers7 LOL you're probably too young to even know who Al Gore is, but use your fancy Google machine to look him up.

@mattclark4 @justwantsearch @BradPowers7 • You used ChatGPT for this. Use Google, bro. You have access to the entire zeitgeist of global information, yet you choose to access it in the laziest way possible. • Your assertions ignore the helpful effects garnered by climate policy over the last several decades. (1/2)

Aging Well.

This is not exhaustive—hyperbolic claims appear in media and activism—but covers prominent, documented cases: • 1989: Noel Brown, then-director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), warned in an Associated Press interview that “entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels” by the year 2000 if the global warming trend was not reversed. He described a 10-year window to act or face “global disaster, nations wiped off the face of the earth, crop failures.” No nations were wiped out; sea levels rose modestly (~0.19 m over the 20th century total) without that outcome. • Early 2000s–2010s: Various climate-related warnings included short-term collapse risks, such as misinterpreted or hyped IPCC statements (e.g., a 2007 error on Himalayan glaciers vanishing by 2035, later corrected) or claims like UK climate researcher David Viner’s 2000 prediction that “snowfalls are now a thing of the past” in Britain. These were not full “end of civilization” but fed into narratives of imminent doom. Arctic summer ice-free predictions (e.g., some cited ~2013–2014 timelines) also did not materialize on schedule. • 2019: A policy report from Australia’s Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration (a think tank) argued climate change is a “near- to mid-term existential threat to human civilization” and sketched a scenario where, without rapid decarbonization, global temperatures could hit +3°C by 2050, triggering ecosystem collapses (e.g., Amazon dieback), mass displacement (citing up to a billion people), lethal heat for billions, and “the end of human global civilization as we know it” or outright collapse “by 2050” in the worst case. Media coverage amplified this; mainstream climate scientists (including Michael Mann) rebutted it as overly extreme and not aligned with IPCC consensus. • ~2020–2021 (and ongoing): Updates to the 1972 MIT/Club of Rome Limits to Growth study (which modeled resource depletion, pollution—including climate factors—and overshoot leading to societal “collapse” around the mid-21st century) found current data still tracking the “business-as-usual” path toward economic growth halting in the 2020s–2030s and collapse ~2040. Analyst Gaya Herrington’s 2021 update (published in Yale Journal of Industrial Ecology) concluded collapse could occur around 2040 under continued trends. (Note: This is systems modeling, not pure climate science.) • 2020s examples: Professor Bill McGuire (geophysical and climate hazards) has publicly suggested societal collapse “may occur by 2050.” Other voices like Jem Bendell (Deep Adaptation framework) predicted near-term collapse, though not all are core climatologists. Some interpretations of IPCC 1.5°C pathways (e.g., “12 years left” framing around 2018–2019) were presented as windows to avoid irreversible catastrophe by ~2030.

@mattclark4 @justwantsearch @BradPowers7 Find one singular climate scientist predicting doomsday within a decade of publication, please.

@GermoneBurner @justwantsearch @BradPowers7 Climate scientists have said the world is going to end in 5-10 years for about 50 years. They're pretty dumb.

@justwantsearch @BradPowers7 The hubris necessary to personally reject scientific consensus as “bogus” is astounding. You are not as smart as climate scientists, bro.

@FpsDougie @kingsaint_louis @MoreBirths Only for like 80% of them, so it probably isn’t even a big deal.

@kingsaint_louis @MoreBirths You think political views are inheritable traits? Kids share the same views as their parents?

The childbearing gap between liberals and conservatives is absolutely exploding and has now reached 2 to 1 among women 25-35. In 1980, there was hardly any difference. Conservative fertility actually increased over 40 years, showing the power of pronatal culture on one side!

@dawandj79 They should do 10 laps around 465.

Why don’t they have street course in Indy or Cleveland

@SimonMahan @MattZeitlin $CAT is a tech company now.

Seems like someone is borrowing Elon's playbook: Harry Sideris, president and CEO of Duke Energy, “We got Caterpillar reciprocating engines on the back of a flatbed — a tractor trailer — to get somebody online three months earlier because they’re making $10 million a day,”

@Verissimus446 @PhilGarber5 @neontaster @varadmehta Where he’s from they encourage people to off themselves if they get sad. They might as well be a different species.

@PhilGarber5 @neontaster @varadmehta How many human lives do you think a C-130 is worth where you're from?

You can tell Iran is winning the war by the fact that they couldn't get to our downed pilot inside their own country for two days.

@calabroindy500 Butler's in a real tough spot with the new world of college sports. Where could they realistically go that would be better?

@A_S12 @FOXTV @IndyCar @phoenixraceway More Doubles! More Ovals!

.@FoxTV got 1.247 million viewers for Saturday's NTT @IndyCar Series race @PhoenixRaceway.

@champwebdotnet It was a spectacular race to watch from the grandstands.

Well Phoenix is ove….[commercial] Over how was the race? [commercial]

@carlquintanilla @LarrySabato Commie Carl rooting on Iran is the last surprising development so far.

@micyoung75 @HicksCBER LOL this is not Hoosier resistance, this is AI slop.

Indiana’s strength was never built from a national group’s starter kit. It came from band concerts in overheated gyms, school board meetings that run long, and parents who know the custodian by name. Locking in a deal to seed Turning Point USA chapters in every school, with punishment for the ones that say no, flips that on its head. It swaps local judgment for a national brand looking for recruitment turf. That is not Hoosier leadership. It is imported division that treats classrooms like campaign property instead of places where every kid is supposed to belong.

@jerryc15theman @obiopiah @Forbes Definitely Orban’s Turkey. You are very smart.

Colbert Says CBS Refused To Air His Interview With Democrat Candidate Fearing FCC Blowback go.forbes.com/lrZUwN

@ianbremmer How stupid is Canada to think they do have a choice?

no american ally wants to decouple from the united states. but almost every single ally is actively trying to derisk. canada, the united kingdom, most of europe, japan, south korea, australia… mexico (feels they have no choice) and israel (trump enormously popular) are the two significant exceptions.

@HicksCBER @mrduffy3 What does this mean? We have to be counseled to pretend libertarians are conservative?

@mattclark4 @mrduffy3 You guys need to sign up early for the de-programming counseling — spaces are filling up fast.

The results of research by an actual conservative think tank!

@mrduffy3 @HicksCBER Obviously not, and this liar knows that, but he also knows most of his ignorant readers do not.

@HicksCBER CATO is not Conservative.

@TeslaPatriot @Boenau it's significantly faster. I will choose my route to avoid any lights. It isn't hard because there are so few left now.

@Boenau How much did travel times change? The purpose of transportation is to get some where. The bus is safer but takes twice as long. Time has value. If they didn’t calculate it they probably stole it.

Carmel, IN replaced 120 stop lights with roundabouts and this happened: 🚨 90% drop in fatal crashes 🚨 40% drop in total crashes 🚨 $21.6 million saved in long-term maintenance And that $21.6m isn't even counting the enormous financial savings of preventing crashes. 🤯

@PFog02 @WordsMa30048486 @SethMagaziner Did you just fact check a globe?

@WordsMa30048486 @SethMagaziner Get a real source before you talk shit

Important for everyone to know: Liam’s parents didn’t enter the US illegally. They presented at a port of entry, requested asylum and were waiting for their hearing. Many of the families ICE has been snatching off the streets are like this. Immigrants who entered legally!

@MattMackowiak @ddiamond @mviser @washingtonpost It’s even worse than that. They aren’t offended, they’re spooked. We should all be very afraid.

@ddiamond @mviser @washingtonpost Oh no. We can’t offend experts.

New at @washingtonpost: Trump wants to build a 250-ft-tall arch, for America’s 250th anniversary The structure would tower over nearby memorials — changing DC’s skyline and blocking views of the Lincoln Memorial It’s also spooking experts who say it’s just too big

@RichardHinshaw @Chad__15 Hey Dick, can you give those of us without brain damage a summary?

@Chad__15 You might want to read today’s Epstein files release… But they’re counting on you not to read it… And they’re counting on the remaining 2.5 million documents being withheld longer.

The crying on the INDYCAR DC posts 🤣 #INDYCAR