Early last week we told you that a 2018 tweet from Greta Thunberg — a warning about what would happen unless everybody stopped using fossil fuels within five years — had disappeared:
Greta Thunberg deleted this tweet because it exposes her for being a fraud. Make sure the entire world sees it. pic.twitter.com/kEvuMiBS8D
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) March 11, 2023
Greta Thunberg deletes 2018 tweet saying world will end in 2023 after world does not end https://t.co/8WVrNI3ktj
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) March 13, 2023
But predictably the “fact-checkers” have been busy trying to save Thunberg any embarrassment over that one:
OMW. I searched for "Greta Thunberg deletes tweet" to verify what it said, and boy, did media pull together to cover for her. Whew lad. pic.twitter.com/DC6AK7uyYB
— Pam D (@soirchick) March 20, 2023
The Associated Press pretty much mirrored what other fact-checkers were saying about Thunberg’s deleted tweet:
CLAIM: Greta Thunberg recently deleted a tweet she posted in 2018 in which she said that the world will end in 2023.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: Missing context. While Thunberg did delete a 2018 tweet about the urgency of addressing climate change, she did not say the world would end in 2023. Her tweet included a quote from an article that said an influential scientist warned climate change “will wipe out all humanity” unless fossil fuel use was ended “over the next five years.” Further complicating the issue, that article incorrectly summarized the scientist’s speech. He never made such comments.
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But Thunberg never said the world was set to end in 2023. The young activist was quoting an article that was paraphrasing a speech by a Harvard University professor of atmospheric chemistry. The scientist said the world had limited time to act to reverse the disappearance of floating ice volume in the Arctic or there would be drastic consequences, not that the world would end in five years.
In other words, no, Thunberg didn’t say the world would end five years after she published that tweet if people were still using fossil fuels. Also the tweet contained a quote saying that if humans were still using fossil fuels five years after 2018 that it would be too late and humanity would eventually be doomed.
The @AP mops up the mess on Aisle Greta the Putin Climate Puppet after she deleted her embarrassing tweet about the world ending in 2023.
Missing is a disclosure that the AP is paid millions by left-wing groups to propagandize for climate idiocy.https://t.co/6flJwoC8Hw
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) March 17, 2023
If a conservative tweeted something like that under all the same circumstances the “fact-checker” conclusion would have been “of course that’s what she tweeted and later deleted, there’s a screenshot of it right here!” Only the Left gets the “full context” treatment. The spin if this kind of thing came from a right-winger would have been “this person tweeted out something that wasn’t true and deleted it in embarrassment!”
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