President Donald Trump sharply criticized Democratic climate policies after scientists reportedly backed away from one of the most severe global warming projections long used in United Nations-backed climate models.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump celebrated reports that researchers are no longer treating one of the most extreme emissions scenarios as the most likely future outcome.

“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!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Trump accused Democrats of using climate concerns to advance costly energy initiatives and increase government spending.

“For far too long Climate Activism has been used by Dumocrats to scare Americans, push horrible Energy Polices, and fund BILLIONS into their bogus research programs,” he continued. “Unlike the Dumocrats, who use Climate Alarmism nonsense to push their GREEN NEW SCAM, my Administration will always be based on TRUTH, SCIENCE, and FACT!”

Trump’s remarks came after climate researchers moved away from relying on the most severe emissions scenario developed through the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

That scenario — first known as RCP8.5 and later SSP5-8.5 — projected dramatic rises in global temperatures and sea levels under assumptions of extremely high emissions. The forecasts also included warnings of widespread crop failures and catastrophic environmental outcomes.

According to reports, scientists are now phasing out the scenario after concluding it no longer reflects the most realistic trajectory given the expansion of renewable energy, shifts in emissions patterns, and climate-related policies already in place.

Researchers writing in the journal Geoscientific Model Development said future climate modeling should still account for a broad range of possibilities, while acknowledging that the most extreme projections are becoming increasingly unlikely.

“For the 21st century, this range will be smaller than assessed before: on the high-end of the range, the high emission levels (quantified by SSP5-8.5) have become implausible, based on trends in the costs of renewables, the emergence of climate policy and recent emission trends.”

Trump’s latest comments echoed criticism he voiced last September during remarks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where he dismissed climate change fears as exaggerated.

“It’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion,” Trump said at the time. “All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong.”

“They were made by stupid people that have cost their country’s fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success,” he continued.

Trump’s statements drew sharp criticism from Democrats and climate activists, including Hillary Clinton, who accused him of spreading false information.

“You know yesterday at the U.N., President Trump said, ‘Climate change is a hoax,’ because it’s just total disinformation,” Clinton said during the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. “It’s a statement that is just not true, and yet being propagated.”

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin later defended Trump’s position during an appearance on Fox News, arguing that aggressive climate policies have harmed working Americans economically.

“The president is absolutely right and we’ve seen it in the name of climate change, these left wing policies willing to cause extreme economic pain for people who can at least afford it,” he said.

{Matzav.com}