---
title: "Global temperatures began to decrease after scientists claimed that global warming would kill the world."
claim_id: "r1xxN78n4ZFDz58M2lfG"
validity: 5
model: accounts/fireworks/models/kimi-k2p6
---

# Claim: Global temperatures began to decrease after scientists claimed that global warming would kill the world.

Verdict: 5%
Model: Kimi K2.6
Checked on: 01/07/2026

## Verdict explanation

Based on the evidence, here is my assessment of this claim:

**Reasoning:**

- Global temperatures are not decreasing; they continue to rise. According to Copernicus data, 2025 was the third hottest year on record, only marginally cooler than 2023 and 0.13°C cooler than 2024 – the warmest year on record[^1]. NASA data confirms that 2025, 2024, and 2023 were the three warmest years in its 146-year record[^2].
- The past 11 years have been the 11 warmest on record, demonstrating a clear long-term warming trend rather than a decrease[^1][^3].
- The slight cooling from 2024 to 2025 is attributable to natural climate variability (the development of La Niña conditions), not a reversal of global warming[^4][^3]. This temporary cooling does not reverse the long-term upward trend[^3].
- Scientists have consistently warned about the dangerous impacts of climate change, but the claim that they said global warming would "kill the world" is a mischaracterization of scientific warnings about severe consequences such as extreme weather, sea level rise, and ecosystem collapse[^5][^6].
- The Union of Concerned Scientists and other authoritative sources confirm that global temperatures are increasing, with each decade since the 1950s being warmer than the previous one[^7].

**Overall validity**: 5%

[^1]:
    [Copernicus: 2025 was the third hottest year on record | Copernicus](https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-2025-was-third-hottest-year-record)

[^2]:
    [NASA SVS | Record Temperature Years: 2025, 2024, and 2023](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5607)

[^3]:
    [WMO confirms 2025 was one of warmest years on record](https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-confirms-2025-was-one-of-warmest-years-record)

[^4]:
    [Global Temperature Report for 2025 - Berkeley Earth](https://berkeleyearth.org/global-temperature-report-for-2025)

[^5]:
    [The world is likely to exceed a key global warming target soon. Now what?](https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/world-likely-exceed-key-global-warming-target-soon-now-what)

[^6]:
    [Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate - Yale E360](https://e360.yale.edu/features/1.5-degrees-tipping-points)

[^7]:
    [Ten Signs of Global Warming | Union of Concerned Scientists](https://www.ucs.org/resources/ten-signs-global-warming)

## Sources using this claim (1)

- [Donald Trump calls climate change 'the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.' #DonaldTrump…](/source/tiktok:gbnews:7553303384539860246) — 20% — 51 views