...the short-term? My thesis:
Their short-term predictions aren't coming true, and it's not warming anymore.
So to keep the fear alive, in a manner in which they can't be held accountable, they're making predictions of terrible calamities that, of course, won't happen until after we're all dead and gone - meaning that they won't be around when they're proven wrong again.
Does that sound about right?
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