Many high-profile conservatives have been quick to taunt the environmentalist over the apparent gaff - something Thunberg has encountered before after run-ins with Andrew Tate and Donald Trump.
Charlie Kirk, the founder of right-wing group Turning Point USA tweeted: 'One of the best headlines of the year so far... 'Greta Thunberg deletes 2018 tweet saying world will end in 2023 after world does not end'.'
Conservative film maker Dinesh D'Souza also tweeted: 'Climate Radical Greta Thunberg Caught Red Handed: Deletes 2018 Tweet That Says World Will End Without Action by 2023.'
However, the article in question did not say humanity will be wiped out in five years, nor quotes Anderson as saying this.
Despite this, other users questioned other aspects of the article's argument.
Harvard's James Anderson was quoted by the gritpost.com article as stating: 'The chance that there will be any permanent ice left in the Arctic after 2022 is essentially zero.'
In 2018, Miss Thunberg had tweeted an article by gritpost.com detailing Harvard University professor James Anderson's warning that humanity would cease to exist if use of fossil fuels was not stopped within five years. Thunberg's now erased post stated: 'A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.'
The article on gritpost.com - whose website no longer exists - quoted Anderson, an atmospheric chemistry expert, who argued there would be 'essentially zero' ice left in the Arctic by 2022.
It is unknown when exactly the tweet was deleted, but it was captured by internet archive Wayback Machine last week on March 7, just before 10pm.
Fordham told listeners: 'Just remember: Greta Thunberg was thumping the desk and bawling her eyes out and telling us all that we should be ashamed of ourselves but now she just hits delete on the tweet.
'One minute it’s the end of the world and the next minute the tweet vanishes – it’s disappeared.'
Fordham shared a sample of Miss Thunberg's infamous 'how dare you' speech to world leaders in 2019, adding: ‘Yes, how dare you Greta.'
The WayBack Machine also captured some of the replies to Thunberg five years on from the tweet. The tweet, dated June 21, 2018, quoted an article that cited Anderson, stating, “A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.”
However, the article from the now-defunct Gritpost.com does not accurately summarize Anderson’s remarks, which he made while speaking at the University of Chicago in 2018.
The 20-year-old Swedish activist’s tweet referred to a grim warning from Harvard University professor of atmospheric chemistry James Anderson, who claimed that pollution as a result of burning fossil fuels is pushing the climate back 33 million years to an era when there were no ice caps at the poles, according to Talk TV.
The Post was not able to independently verify whether Thunberg had in fact deleted the tweet.
Conservative commentators pounced earlier this week on claims that the 20-year-old Swedish activist had pulled back on her claims that the world would come to an end in just five years.
Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, wrote in a tweet Sunday, “One of the best headlines of the year so far… ‘Greta Thunberg deletes 2018 tweet saying world will end in 2023 after world does not end.'”
Conservative commentator Jack Posobiec, who was cited as a source for right-leaning Post Millennial’s story that Thunberg had deleted the tweet, also posted a screengrab of Thunberg’s tweet on Sunday with the comment, “Hi @GretaThunberg! Why did you delete this?”
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