Al Gore Was Wrong About Everything. And Still Made His Millions.
For more than 30 years, Al Gore has built a career on one business model: predict the apocalypse, scare the public, get rich, repeat.
And after decades of failed predictions, the climate movement still treats him like a prophet.
A new Wall Street Journal piece revisits Gore’s long record of climate hysteria and catastrophic predictions that never came true. He warned that most of Florida could become uninhabitable. He claimed Glacier National Park would lose its glaciers. He predicted the Arctic could be ice-free by 2016.
None of it happened.
Florida’s population exploded, the glaciers are still there, and the polar ice caps remain.
As Kyle Smith in Journal bluntly put it:
“When you’ve pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars by selling distortion and hysteria, you might as well chuckle at your successes instead of dwelling on your failures.”
That line perfectly captures what the climate movement has become.
While working Americans were lectured about their carbon footprints, forced to pay higher energy costs, and told to lower their standard of living, Gore and the climate elite got richer, more powerful, and more politically connected.
The movement stopped being about science a long time ago. It became an industry built on fear.
Every failed prediction becomes an excuse for more regulation, more subsidies, more mandates, and more attacks on affordable and reliable American energy. The people pushing it never suffer the consequences. Working families do.
They pay more for electricity, gas, groceries, and cars.
Meanwhile, billionaire climate activists fly private jets to luxury conferences where they demand ordinary Americans “transition” to a more expensive and less reliable way of life.
Americans are finally starting to see through it.
Climate hysteria survives on the idea that catastrophe is always just around the corner and that the only solution is giving elites more control over how Americans live, travel, and power their homes.
Al Gore was wrong then. The climate movement is wrong now. And working Americans are tired of footing the bill for elite fearmongering.
May 20, 2026