Greg Gutfeld Just Demolished Al Gore and the Climate Scammers With One Question the UN Cannot Answer

Al Gore got rich telling you Miami would be underwater by 2025.

Now the UN's own climate panel just quietly walked back the doomsday models they used to steal your gas stove, your truck, and your burger.

Greg Gutfeld went on national television and asked the one question they're terrified to answer.

The UN Quietly Killed Its Own Doomsday Forecast

The international committee that feeds climate projections into United Nations assessments just published the next generation of climate scenarios – and it officially eliminated the most extreme models that drove climate policy for nearly two decades.

Gone: RCP8.5, the nightmare forecast projecting massive sea level rises, global crop failures, and rapid glacier melt – the model Gutfeld said had people convinced Miami would be underwater by now.

The American Enterprise Institute's Roger Pielke Jr. called it "the most significant development in climate science in decades."

The scenarios were thrown out because the underlying assumptions were implausible – based on coal use projections that exceeded the world's entire recoverable reserves.

Scientists knew for years the model was broken.

They used it anyway.

And while they did, Al Gore turned fear into a $330 million fortune.

Gutfeld Laid Out the Business Model Live on Air

On Wednesday night, Gutfeld didn't mince words.

He told his audience that after decades of extinction warnings, the UN panel had just rescinded its doomsday predictions – and that the scientists who once declared the debate "over" had changed their minds.

Then he connected the dots the legacy media refuses to draw.

Gore left the White House in 2001 with a net worth of roughly $1.7 million.

After An Inconvenient Truth, after launching Generation Investment Management – a green investment firm that grew to manage $36 billion in assets – Gore's fortune ballooned to an estimated $330 million.

The firm reportedly pays him $2 million a month.

The planet wasn't saved.

Gore was.

Gutfeld put it plainly: "Every apocalypse has a business model. They used fear to grab your cash, your gas stove, your truck, your burger."

He's right – and the receipts are everywhere.

Biden's Inflation Reduction Act funneled $369 billion into the same network of NGOs, green energy middlemen, and climate consultants Gutfeld described.

The House Budget Committee confirmed the IRA caused inflation to spike while raiding $307 billion from Medicare to pay for it.

The Department of Energy's Inspector General found the agency's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations had no adequate internal controls over $5.8 billion in IRA-funded programs – putting taxpayer money at direct risk of fraud, waste, and undisclosed conflicts of interest.

A separate IG report found the DOE's $8 billion hydrogen hub program was awarded without a single programmatic risk assessment.

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No Apology. No Refund. No Accountability.

The mainstream media buried the UN scenario story.

The Guardian ran dozens of stories premised on the discredited RCP8.5 projections over fifteen years.

When the model was officially retired, they published nothing.

Neither did Science. Neither did Nature. Neither did Carbon Brief – the outlet that covered the scenario more than any other English-language publication.

Gutfeld nailed why: "Once panic becomes an industry, there's no incentive to calm people down."

The same networks that called you a climate denier for questioning the models now have nothing to say about the models being wrong.

Meanwhile, a massive survey found more than half of young people ages 16 to 25 reported feeling anxiety, helplessness, and guilt over climate change severe enough to affect their daily functioning.

Kids were terrified.

Consultants got paid.

Gutfeld summed up the entire con in one sentence: "The motive wasn't the environment – it was greed."

Trump targeted the broken RCP8.5 scenario by name in a May 2025 executive order on restoring gold standard science, calling it misleading and demanding federal agencies stop using it.

He was right before the UN admitted it.

As always.

Sources:

• Roger Pielke Jr., "RCP8.5 Is Officially Dead," American Enterprise Institute, April 29, 2026.
• Roger Pielke Jr., "Media Coverage (or Not) of RCP8.5 RIP," American Enterprise Institute, May 9, 2026.
• "Greg Gutfeld on UN Climate Panel Walking Back Doomsday Models," TVNewsNow / Fox News Gutfeld!, May 21, 2026.
• "Chairman Arrington on the Two-Year Anniversary of the Democrats' So-Called 'Inflation Reduction Act,'" House Budget Committee, August 15, 2024.
• "Inspector General Report Highlights Lack of Accountability in Green New Scam," U.S. Department of Energy, August 11, 2025.
• Paul Farrell, "How Al Gore Has Made $330m With Climate Alarmism," Daily Mail / Energy News Beat, May 1, 2023.
• "UN Climate Committee Trims Back Alarmist Predictions," The Patriot Post / Washington Stand, May 19, 2026.