Over the course of just a few years, the threat of “global warming” has been eclipsed by “climate change,” and now, according to perennial alarmist Al Gore, an approaching ice age.

The former vice president sounded an array of climate warning bells two decades ago with his release of “An Inconvenient Truth,” but most of the deadlines he put in that work of politically charged fiction have passed without his doomsday scenarios coming to pass.

Now, he’s making the rounds again to harp on the supposed threat of a new global ice age within a few decades.

As Breitbart reported:

In response to this doomsday warning, Whitford sets a more drastic timeline — that if Gore’s energy policies are not enacted, “we’re in an ice age in, like, 10 years.” However, Gore punts the prophecy’s deadline much farther into the future, dodging any chance of accountability.

GORE: That movie that I mentioned, The Day After about the Gulf Stream shutting down, well, this morning in one of the English newspapers is a whole big article summarizing the recent dire warnings of the scientists who found yet more confirmatory information that this is a very real threat within the next 25 years.

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WHITFORD: Right. And for people that don’t remember from the movie, you talked very explicitly about if the Greenland ice shelf melts to a certain point, which seems probable, given what happened in Antarctica-
GORE: And Greenland today, Greenland is losing 30 million tons of ice per hour, night and day.

WHITFORD: And if there is a tipping point here where the gradual threat of climate change becomes immediate, where — if that happens and the Gulf Stream ceases to exist as we know it, we’re in an ice age in, like, 10 years.
GORE: No, no, no. It would take longer — it, I mean, I’m not the expert-

WHITFORD: [Crosstalk] I wear makeup, Al.

GORE: But I’ve spent a lot of time with them. But it would be bad. It would be very bad and would be bad on a scale that is beyond our, anything we can compare it to today.

An Inconvenient Truth made a number of specific predictions that proved false. Gore stated the Arctic Ocean could lose all of its summer ice by 2013 — seven years after the film’s release. He fretted that Mount Kilimanjaro could lose all its snow by 2015. He forecast that global sea levels could rise as much as 20 feet “in the near future,” complete with visualizations of New York City and Miami underwater.

This move is particularly brazen in light of Gore’s previous claim that his “Inconvenient Truth” prophecies actually were correct:

His ice age rhetoric earned significant social media pushback:

Of course, critics have been pointing out the dismal track record of such cataclysmic projections since Gore was still pushing the global warming narrative:

The Washington Times provided additional context:

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Scientific assessments of an AMOC collapse vary widely. Some recent studies have placed the risk of a collapse within this century as significant, while a February 2025 study published in Nature concluded that a collapse is unlikely before 2100.

Most mainstream projections, including those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, consider a collapse within 25 years to be at the aggressive end of current estimates.

The remarks came as “An Inconvenient Truth” faces renewed scrutiny over predictions attributed to Mr. Gore in the years around its release. In a 2009 speech at the Copenhagen Climate Conference, Mr. Gore cited researchers who he said projected a 75% chance the Arctic could be nearly ice-free during some summer months within five to seven years — a forecast that did not materialize. The researcher he cited, Naval Postgraduate School professor Wieslaw Maslowski, said afterward that he did not know how the 75% figure had been arrived at. Arctic sea ice has declined significantly in recent decades but has not disappeared in summer months.

Mr. Gore has maintained that the film’s warnings have held up. In an interview with The Bulwark, he said its predictions “were proven dead right.”

Here’s a full clip of Gore’s remarks:

 

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