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Mid-Day Digest · February 12, 2026

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“[A] wise and frugal government … shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.” —Thomas Jefferson (1801)

IN TODAY’S DIGEST

EXECUTIVE NEWS SUMMARY

The Editors

  • Canadian trans shooter: The tragic school attack in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on Tuesday claimed eight lives, not counting the deceased assailant. The 18-year-old attacker killed six at the school after killing his mother, who expressed support for trans rights, and his stepbrother at home. Early reports suggested that the “female gunperson” was actually a man who identified as a woman, which the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has now confirmed. The RCMP insists on honoring the murderer’s preferred pronouns while PBS News refers to him only as “the suspect.” The reason is obvious: The Canadian government and Leftmedia cannot admit that trans identification is a sign either of severe mental health issues or of severe parental and medical abuse — in most cases, both.
  • Drug cartel drones: The Federal Aviation Administration temporarily closed the airspace around the El Paso airport on Wednesday, citing “special security reasons.” The FAA initially said the closure would last 10 days, but it quickly reversed course, and the airspace has since been reopened. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth explained, “The FAA and DOW acted swiftly to address a cartel drone incursion. The threat has been neutralized, and there is no danger to commercial travel in the region.” El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson expressed frustration over the sudden airspace closure “without coordinating with the city, the airport, the hospitals, the community leadership.” Patriot Post Publisher Mark Alexander says, “Reading between the lines, I believe there was likely a credible threat from a drone against commercial aircraft at El Paso, but when Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy issued his statement, that was deemed too threatening to travelers and may have spilled something classified.”
  • Border czar announces end of immigration crackdown in Minnesota: Operation Metro Surge, which saw thousands of immigration enforcement agents stationed in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, is coming to an end. Border Czar Tom Homan proposed ending the six-week operation, and the president concurred. Homan reports that cooperation with local officials has improved, and many arrests can now take place in the safety of jails where criminal illegals are being held. Operation Metro Surge saw more than 4,000 arrests. Despite Homan’s meetings with Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, it does not appear that Frey has backed down from his stance that Minneapolis police will not honor federal immigration law. Time will tell if this action will prove to be a win for riotous and insurrectionist protesters or the Rule of Law and mass deportation efforts.
  • House passes the SAVE Act; Senate unlikely to follow: The House passed the SAVE Act on Wednesday in a 218-213 vote along partisan lines. The SAVE Act should be unapologetically supported by every red-blooded American. In fact, a Pew Research survey shows that required voter ID enjoys massive bipartisan support — except in Congress. Unlike 71% of Democrat voters, congressional Democrats strongly oppose election integrity laws requiring photo ID. The reason is simple: This would prevent noncitizens from voting and make ballot fraud much harder, though Democrats argue that some people just can’t figure out how to get IDs and would be kept from voting. This bill is unfortunately likely to die in the Senate, as a similar bill did last year, because current filibuster rules would require it to clear a 60-vote threshold.
  • House passes Dems’ legislation against Trump’s tariffs: The House on Wednesday passed the Democrat-led resolution to terminate Donald Trump’s use of the National Emergencies Act to impose tariffs. The resolution passed thanks to six Republican lawmakers joining the Democrats. It’s largely symbolic because even if the Senate were to take it up and pass it, Trump would veto it, and there are not enough votes to override a veto. One of the Republicans who voted in favor, Rep. Don Bacon, argued, “Article I of the Constitution places authority over taxes and tariffs with Congress for a reason. … It’s time for Congress to reclaim that responsibility.” Meanwhile, his Republican colleague, Rep. Brian Mast, who voted against the bill, observed, “Even Canada acknowledges that they have this as a national emergency. This is Democrats trying to ignore that there is a fentanyl crisis.”
  • Omar yearns for “pedophile” Trump’s execution: Minnesota (read: Somalia) Rep. Ilhan Omar took to X to call President Trump the leader of the “Pedophile Protection Party” after his administration released the Epstein files, something the Biden administration steadfastly refused to do. The practicing Muslim added, “At least in Somalia they execute pedophiles, not elect them.” Omar’s religion was founded by Muhammad, a bigamist and pedophile who married a six-year-old girl — although some Islamic apologists insist he waited until she was a “mature” nine-year-old before consummating the marriage. Somalia has one of the highest child marriage rates worldwide, with nearly 15% marrying before the age of 15, and legislation in that country has been proposed that would allow marriage at the age of 10. And what would Omar do about people marrying their siblings?
  • Bad Bunny lost nearly 10M viewers: Viewership numbers are in for the Super Bowl this past Sunday, which generated nearly 125 million viewers across all of NBC’s platforms. That total puts it just behind last year’s record-breaking Super Bowl viewership of 128 million. However, unlike last year, when the Halftime Show featuring Bad Bunny began, overall viewership dropped by nearly 10 million. This is the opposite of what happened during last year’s Super Bowl, which saw an increase in viewership at halftime. Meanwhile, Turning Point USA’s competing “All-American Halftime Show” featuring Kid Rock was streamed on YouTube and several other platforms, drawing nearly 28 million viewers. Given that success, TPUSA may do it again next year, especially if the NFL elects to ignore Americans in favor of catering to a world audience.
  • California’s rent relief for illegals scam: LA County supervisor Lindsey Horvath announced a $30 million rent relief program for wildfire survivors — which would be nice except it also applies to “people impacted by ICE raids.” It is California, but at least Palisades fire survivors who are still renting since their homes burned down last year will get some help, right? Wrong. As it turns out, the applications will be sorted, and priority will be given to those in “COVID vulnerability zones.” It is unclear what COVID vulnerability has to do with wildfires or ICE raids, but it is clear that these priority zones will mean that illegals will get their funds and likely bleed the program dry long before anyone in the area of the Palisades fire.
  • Former Miss CA USA booted from WH Religious Liberty Commission: Former Miss California USA Prejean Boller was kicked off the White House Religious Liberty Commission this week. Boller’s expulsion came after she got into a heated back-and-forth with witnesses during a hearing on Israel’s war in Gaza. Boller, who showed up for the event wearing a Palestinian flag pin, took umbrage with a witness who refused to condemn Israel for what it did to Gaza. She also took offense over podcaster Candace Owens being labeled antisemitic, stating, “I listen to her daily. … She’s not an antisemite. She just doesn’t support Zionism.” Commission Chairman Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick explained his decision to boot Boller, stating, “No member of the Commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda on any issue.”
  • Olympics bans Ukrainian athlete over his helmet featuring friends killed in the war: Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych has been disqualified from competing in the Winter Games in Italy due to his helmet that honors his Ukrainian friends and fellow athletes who were killed in the Russia-Ukraine war with a simple display of their images. He refused the IOC’s request to wear a different helmet, stating in response, “This is [the] price of our dignity.” The IOC cited an Olympic rule against political messages on the field of play as the reason for the violation. In 2022 at the Beijing Olympics, Heraskevych displayed a “No war in Ukraine” sign after his final run, and the IOC did not view merely calling for peace as a violation of the same rule. Heraskevych was a medal contender in the sport and said he would appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Headlines

  • Campus antisemitism driven by faculty at University of California campuses (Washington Times)
  • HRC’s corporate influence collapses, as Fortune 500 companies flee the LGBT cause (Washington Stand)
  • Disney lost $170 million on its “Snow White” remake (Not the Bee)

The Executive News Summary is compiled daily by Jordan Candler, Thomas Gallatin, Sterling Henry, and Sophie Starkova. For the archive, click here.

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EPA Upends the Endangerment Finding

Nate Jackson

In what EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called “the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States,” the Environmental Protection Agency is repealing the “endangerment finding” made by Barack Obama’s EPA in 2009. That legal determination based on The Science™ says greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, methane, and four others, are pollutants, which then requires the federal government to regulate emissions of those gases under the 1963 Clean Air Act. Repealing that finding is certainly a huge and welcome rollback of climate policy.

Naturally, the climate alarmists — whom we often call ecofascists for their use of fear tactics to justify massive government intrusion in everyday life — are fit to be tied.

I’ll sum it up this way: Alarmists blame emissions for climate change, which they claim causes a seemingly never-ending parade of horribles from asthma to wildfires and from droughts to floods. Therefore, they reason, we must reduce emissions by every means necessary — preferably through heavy-handed government regulations. The pipe dream of “net zero” emissions is their goal because, to the climate cultists, this is existential.

That’s why Obama launched this overreach to classify gases we breathe alongside actual pollutants that cause harm. It’s why Joe Biden took it as far as essentially mandating electric vehicles. Donald Trump and his administration argue that repealing the finding will lead to deregulation savings of $1.3 trillion on everything from cars to energy.

“More energy drives human flourishing,” said Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. “Energy abundance is the thing that we have to focus on, not regulating certain forms of energy out.”

Energy Secretary Chris Wright added, “Our goal is to drive down the price of energy for Americans.”

Alarmists always counter that it’ll be vastly more expensive if we don’t submit to their prescribed regulations. We know how much regulations cost, but it takes an awful lot of faith in often disingenuous people to believe that Big Government rules generate any savings.

The Supreme Court has already ruled on this. Last July, when the Zeldin-led EPA announced its intention on this finding, our Thomas Gallatin wrote:

In the [George W. Bush-era] 2007 case Massachusetts v. EPA, the Supreme Court considered the issue of whether the Environmental Protection Agency could regulate GHGs under the Clean Air Act. The Court ruled 5-4 that “greenhouse gases fit well within the Act’s capacious definition of ‘air pollutant,’” meaning the “EPA has statutory authority to regulate emission of such gases.” Tellingly, the Court noted that “policy judgments have nothing to do with whether greenhouse gas emissions contribute to climate change and do not amount to a reasoned justification for declining to form a scientific judgment.” Instead, the Court said that the EPA had the authority to determine whether GHGs “cause or contribute to air pollution which may be reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare, or whether the science is too uncertain to make a reasoned decision.”

That ruling means ecofascist groups already have lawsuit paperwork prepared to immediately challenge the Trump administration in court.

Team Trump wants them to bring it on. Part of the rationale for repealing the endangerment finding is to provoke a challenge that could get the Supreme Court, with its current 6-3 conservative majority, to overturn Massachusetts or at least allow this policy to move forward. Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Clarence Thomas all dissented in the 2007 case, and several subsequent cases have undermined the legal framework of that ruling.

The Trump administration knows that a Democrat administration could reverse course without the Supreme Court’s help, though there could be another way.

The New York Times stumbled onto a novel concept that, under our constitutional system of three coequal branches, might just work: “A more definitive way to address the issue would be for Congress to weigh in. Democrats could pass legislation that defined greenhouse gases as air pollutants under the Clean Air Act, giving the E.P.A. the explicit authority to regulate them. Conversely, Republicans could enact legislation that said the opposite.”

Big if true.

Sarcasm aside, that’s exactly Team Trump’s strategy — to take back executive and legislative authority instead of ceding it to judges and left-wing activists.

The alarmists act as if Republicans want smoggy air and dirty water, as well as to suffocate kids and torment puppies. The only way to save the planet, they insist, is with the heavy hand of government. That’s slanderous fearmongering from a group of Chicken Littles whose cataclysmic prophecies have failed to materialize time after time.

Even The Washington Post’s editorial gets it, writing, “Free-market-driven innovation has done more to combat climate change than regulatory power grabs like the ‘endangerment finding’ ever did.”

There’s a bigger truth, though, as argued by columnist David Harsanyi: “The notion that man-made greenhouse gases pose an existential threat to humankind has been little more than a backdoor way to institute unpopular environmentalist policies and temper economic growth. It’s about time we end the scam.”

The Trump administration is moving that ball forward.

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“The person who carried out a school massacre is an 18-year-old woman with mental health issues, but she did not give a motive for one of the worst mass shootings in Canada’s history.” —Australia’s ABC News (“The shooter is a biological male who allegedly self-identifies as a transgender woman.” —Community Note on X)

Pot Calling the Kettle Black

“The leader of the Pedophile Protection Party is trying to deflect attention from his name being all over the Epstein files. At least in Somalia they execute pedophiles not elect them.” —Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), a practicing follower of the known pedophile Muhammed, regarding Donald Trump

Braying Jenny

“Will you turn to [the Epstein survivors] now and apologize for what your Department of Justice has put them through with the absolutely unacceptable release of the Epstein files and their information?” —Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) complaining that the DOJ released the Epstein files pursuant to a law passed by Congress

Friendly Fire

“What is the political usefulness of the Clintons these days? We all just got behind Epstein transparency because it made Trump uncomfortable. What are we going to say now? Everyone must answer for this but the Clintons?” —an anonymous Democrat adviser

Non Sequitur

“Just voted NO on the Charlie Kirk Day of Remembrance Bill in the Florida Legislature. It’s a slap in the face to Black Women that this bill was even brought forth in our committee. This body has consistently shown that it is ok to be anti-Black Women in this state. Disrespectful!” —Florida State Rep. Angie Nixon (D)

Village Idiot

“They hate to see … woke b****es winning. If ‘Woke’ means people who use their platforms to advocate for marginalized communities in the country that they are actively representing …… Then yeah sure?” —Olympian Amber Glenn

Reality Check

“Democrats are never going to negotiate in good faith when it comes to immigration. They allowed tens of millions of people to come here illegally and now want to protect them from deportation so they can vote in our elections. It’s that simple. When you begin your negotiation by demanding that America surrender its sovereignty, it shows you don’t have the best interests of the country at heart.” —composer and Nevada congressional candidate Marty O’Donnell (R)

For the Record

“Americans want to help people in need, but when government does that, about 500 billion taxpayer dollars get stolen. It’s how the system is designed.” —John Stossel

Upright

“Under this administration, Americans have come first. Gone are the days of ideologically motivated projects, the use of FEMA funds to house illegal aliens in luxury hotels, and initiatives that do not save lives or protect property. FEMA is now focused on serving American taxpayers after disasters strike. In their hour of greatest need, FEMA is there.” —FEMA Associate Administrator Gregg Phillips

And Last…

“The entertainment news site TMZ asked its social media fans, ‘Who had the better Super Bowl halftime show — Bad Bunny or Kid Rock?’ After 393,590 votes, there was a clear winner: Kid Rock with 64.5% to Bad Bunny’s 35.5%.” —Gary Bauer

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Climate Alarmists Are Often Wrong But Never in Doubt | ZeroHedge

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Authored by Gary Abernathy via The Empowerment Alliance,

One of the most annoying things about climate doomsayers is the certainty with which they make their dire predictions, while simultaneously making excuses for all their past prognostications that failed to materialize. Let’s revisit a few.

In the early to mid-1970s, several magazine articles and a number of scientists predicted that cooling trends could usher in a new “mini-ice age” beginning within a few short years. Didn’t happen. In fact, new crystal balls went from cold to hot.

A June 1989 Associated Press story quoted “a senior U.N. environmental official” who claimed that “entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”

Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, insisted that “governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.” Without action “ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations.”

At last report, the Maldives continue to thrive – thanks largely to growing tourism! According to CBS News, in 2009 former Vice President Al Gore (always good for a chuckle) “told a U.N. climate conference that new data suggests the Arctic polar ice cap may disappear in the summertime as soon as five to seven years from now,” meaning 2016 at the latest. Didn’t happen.

In 2000, the UK Independent ran an article quoting a scientist who suggested that within a decade, thanks to global warming, British children “won’t know what snow is.” Don’t tell that to the British youngsters and others who experienced the severe winters of 2010, 2013, 2018, etc.

Enough? Let’s do a couple more.

There were numerous predictions in the early 2000s that all glaciers in Glacier National Park would disappear by 2020 or, if we were lucky, by 2030.

“Later predictions delayed the glaciers’ inevitable demise to 2050,” according to a December 2025 article in the Daily Inter Lake. “Now, researchers say there is reason to believe some of the park’s perennial ice formations will persist into the 2100s.” Glaciers are famously stubborn. Several news stories over the years have quoted scientists and climate alarmists predicting that New York City would disappear under water thanks to flooding due to climate change.

For instance, in 2011, on the heels of Hurricane Irene, The Guardian produced the headline, “Major storms could submerge New York City in next decade,” and a subhead, “Sea-level rise due to climate change could cripple the city in Irene-like storm scenarios, new climate report claims.”

Instead, the only tsunami facing New York City is the flood of debt coming under socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Despite a track record that should discourage even the most ardent true believer, the predictions keep flying, fast and furious, most centered these days around slightly rising temperatures that will allegedly increase rainfall, create more wicked storms, and lead to drought, flood (they always cover both possibilities) or other catastrophes.

“Climate change is real, it’s happening and unless we do something about it soon, the consequences will be severe,” according to Martin Krause, director of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Climate Change Division. Second verse, same as the first.

While most believers in manmade climate change are part of the “Let’s Come Up With the Worst Case Scenario and Hope it Scares Everyone Into Action” school of alarmism, it’s refreshing to occasionally come across someone with a more reasonable approach.

Fitting that bill might be Noah Kaufman, former senior economist at the Council of Economic Advisers during the Biden administration, currently a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and a co-director of the Resilient Energy Economies Initiative.

In a “let’s all calm down a minute” article appearing earlier this month in The Atlantic, Kaufman – while making it clear that he personally is firmly aboard the manmade climate change bandwagon – laments the specific time-and-date panic predictions that have helped lose respect and credibility for his cause.

“Few economists embrace these all-or-nothing views on climate policy,” Kaufman writes. Kaufman points out that “quantitative estimates of aggregated global damages over centuries lie far beyond our analytical capabilities. Small changes in assumptions … can yield results that appear tojustify virtually any policy response.”

At the end of the day, “these models can display a pessimistic worldview in which climate damages accelerate to catastrophic levels, or a more optimistic one in which human progress keeps damages relatively modest. They offer little help in determining which of these futures is coming.”

Kaufman concludes by acknowledging that “the full effects of climate change are unknowable, and a more constructive public discussion about climate policy will require getting more comfortable with that.”

I recommend Kaufman’s article. Even though I will likely remain among those who agree that the climate routinely changes but remain skeptical about the extent of mankind’s impact, I don’t mind discussing it and listening to different viewpoints. Such conversation is much more palatable with someone who is not exhibiting a holier-than-thou attitude or demeaning the intelligence of anyone who disagrees.

More manmade climate change believers who take a respectful, calmer and non-accusatoryapproach to the naysayers could go a long way in lowering the temperature – and don’t we all agree on that objective?

Gary Abernathy is a longtime newspaper editor, reporter and columnist. He was a contributing
columnist for the Washington Post from 2017-2023 and a frequent guest analyst across numerous media platforms. He is a contributing columnist for The Empowerment Alliance, which advocates for realistic approaches to energy consumption and environmental conservation.

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Utilities want $31 billion more from customers, and your electric bill is about to feel it | Businesses Insider

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  • Electric and gas utilities sought to raise customer bills by 31% in 2025.
  • Rate hike requests last year more than doubled from 2024.
  • Utilities are on track to spend $1.1 trillion expanding the power grid by 2029.

The average American’s skyrocketing electric bill has caught the attention of everyone from President Donald Trump to Microsoft executives — just don’t expect lower rates in 2026.

Electric and gas utilities asked state regulators to approve $31 billion in rate increases last year, more than double the $15 billion they sought in 2024, a new study from PowerLines, a nonprofit that advocates for utility customers, found.

The surge in requests from utilities to tack on additional charges to customer bills comes as Big Tech companies continue their sweeping buildout of power-hungry AI data centers across the country. Many utilities have attributed rate increases to unprecedented demand from data centers.

While some of those requests are still pending approval, many — including the majority of a $9 billion increase for customers of one Florida power company — have been pushed through and will start showing up on customer bills this year.

“Gas and electricity are the two fastest drivers of inflation, and not by a little bit more. It’s significantly more than what we’re used to seeing,” said Charles Hua, founder and executive director of PowerLines.

To track rate hikes, PowerLines used publicly available data from investor-owned utilities in the US.

Customers in southern states were hit hardest by rate-hike requests last year, PowerLines found. Utilities in the region sought approval for more than $14 billion in rate increases. Much of that came from Florida Power and Light’s $9 billion rate hike request — nearly all of which regulators approved.

FPL cited population growth and extreme weather events as key factors in its decision to raise rates by such a significant amount.

In Virginia, residential customers of Dominion Energy, which also delivers power to the world’s largest data center hub, will see their bills increase by an average of $13.60 by 2027.

Investor-owned utilities in the US are on track to spend $1.1 trillion on a massive expansion of the power grid between 2025 and 2029, according to the Edison Electric Institute, a powerful industry lobbying group. It has cited data centers and AI as key drivers of utility spending.

The majority of residential ratepayers in the US are customers of investor-owned utilities like NextEra Energy, Duke Energy, and Southern Company. These large, publicly traded companies turn a profit for shareholders by recovering the costs of constructing new power plants and lines, plus interest, from their customer bases.

Big Tech’s power usage faces growing backlash

Big Tech and its enormous appetite for power are facing growing public backlash.

Earlier this month, Microsoft said it would be a “good neighbor” and “pay its own way” for the electricity it uses as it scales its AI data center fleet.

In a Truth Social post preceding Microsoft’s announcement, Trump said his administration will work with tech companies to ensure their data center electricity consumption won’t drive up bills for everyone else.

“I never want Americans to pay higher electricity bills because of data centers,” Trump said in the post.

Power demand forecasts

Some power grid researchers are skeptical of the forecast demand. They have warned that utilities risk overbuilding new power plants and transmission lines that will have to be paid for but ultimately won’t be needed.

Hua is pushing regulators to take a closer look at forecast power demand from utilities, which stand to profit from building new infrastructure that could lead to rate hikes. Steering utilities to first consider the latest electric grid-enhancing technologies before building new power plants to serve data centers could also help lower customer electric bills, Hua said.

“Utilities don’t profit on making the grid more efficient. They are constantly trying to build new infrastructure. That’s their job,” said Hua. “This moment is the perfect justification.”

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Climate Groups Falter, Bill Gates Recalibrates, But Al Gore Soldiers On | ZeroHedge

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Authored by Gary Abernathy of The Empowerment Alliance,

It’s been an interesting few weeks on the climate hysteria front. Organizations associated with climate alarmism have recently found themselves engulfed in turmoil. Bill Gates has recanted earlier predictions of gloom and doom. But the Father of Climate Panic, former Vice President Al Gore, remains steadfast, if increasingly marginalized.

Let’s start with probably the best-known environmental organization in the world, the Sierra Club. According to a recent New York Times report, the club thrived when it seemed laser-focused on the environment. But then, during Donald Trump’s first term, “its leaders sought to expand far beyond environmentalism, embracing other progressive causes. Those included racial justice, labor rights, gay rights, immigrant rights and more.”

As a result of the effort to morph into a catch-all for a myriad of social justice causes, the Times noted that by 2022 the Sierra Club “had exhausted its finances and splintered its coalition.” By August, according to the Times, the number of Sierra Club “champions” – “a group that included dues-paying members as well as supporters who had donated, signed petitions or participated in events” – was “down about 60 percent from its high in 2019.”

Despite the upheaval, few lessons seem learned. The Times noted that “in recent weeks, supporters who clicked on the group’s website for ‘current campaigns’ were presented with 131 petitions, some out of date, like calls to support clean-energy funding that Mr. Trump has already gutted, or to support a voting-rights bill that died in 2023.”

Asked whether he had any regrets, the club’s current board president, Patrick Murphy, summoned the spirit of Kamala “not a thing comes to mind” Harris and replied, “I have a hard time pinpointing how I believe we should have made different choices.” Alrighty then.

Also falling on hard times is 350.org, which first gained notoriety for its successful efforts to block the Keystone XL oil pipeline during the Obama administration. As Politico reported this month, the group “will ‘temporarily suspend programming’ in the U.S. and other countries amid funding woes.”

Executive Director Anne Jellema said 350.org “had suffered a 25 percent drop in income for its 2025 and 2026 fiscal years, compelling it to halt operations,” and would subsequently reduce its global staff by about 30 percent.

“The group had endured economic hardship over the years, including problems of financial management and several rounds of layoffs that eroded its influence,” Politico reported. Jellema said the organization was facing its challenges “with our ambition intact.” But apparently not much else.

An implosion of a different kind is from the world of “green banking.” NBA star Kawhi Leonard’s endorsement contract with the pro-environment group Aspiration is alleged to have been a vehicle for Leonard and the Los Angelas Clippers to skirt NBA salary cap rules.

As reported by ESPN, Aspiration Partners was a company founded in 2013 to provide “socially-conscious and sustainable banking services and investment products.” Their slogan was, “Do Well. Do Good.” Catchy. Operating like an environmentally conscious digital bank, Aspiration promised to “never fund fossil fuel projects like pipelines, oil rigs and coalmines.” The company’s products included “an option to plant a tree with every purchase roundup.”

According to ESPN, Clippers owner Steve Ballmer invested $50 million in Aspiration. The subsequent allegation is that Leonard signed a $28 million endorsement deal with Aspiration “as a way to circumvent the league’s salary cap.” Ballmer has denied any knowledge of the deal, according to the report. Leonard has also denied any wrongdoing.

ESPN reported that Aspiration filed for bankruptcy in March, and co-founder Joe Sanberg pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud after “federal prosecutors said Sanberg defrauded investors and lenders out of $248 million by fraudulently obtaining loans, falsifying bank and brokerage statements and concealing that he was the source of some revenue booked by the company.”

The NBA is investigating. How many trees Aspiration planted is unknown.

To add insult to injury comes what appears to be an about-face from no less a dedicated environmentalist than Bill Gates. For decades, Gates has been a leader in the movement to reduce carbon emissions. But last month he caused a stir when he declared that climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise.”

It’s heartening when others finally catch on. Earlier this year, the climate group funded by Gates, Breakthrough Energy, laid off dozens of employees in the U.S. and Europe “as it pulls back from public policy advocacy work that was a cornerstone of its mission,” as the industry site Energy Connects reported.

Sadly, such admirable retrospection will likely never occur to Al Gore, arguably history’s leading figure in propagating climate hysteria and someone who has reportedly made a fortune from his climate alarmism. Gore’s reaction to Gates’ newfound enlightenment was a predictable temper tantrum during which he speculated that Gates had succumbed to “bullying” by President Trump.

Takes one to know one – Gore has often been accused of bullying those not on board with his climate crusade.

In an increasingly splintered movement that once marched in lockstep, it may be that someday only Al Gore will remain – the last true believer of a story he largely authored, perched atop his high horse at his solar-powered compound.

Source: Climate Groups Falter, Bill Gates Recalibrates, But Al Gore Soldiers On

A Newsom Nihilist Nomination? | The Log College by Victor Davis Hanson; American Greatness

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A Newsom Nihilist Nomination?

 December 4, 2025  by Victor Davis Hanson; American Greatness

As California Governor Gavin Newsom gears up to run for president, what in the world will he run on?

Californians know that Newsom will not boast, “I will do for America what I have done to California!”

Why not?

Count the reasons.

California’s astronomical gas prices and taxes remain the highest in the continental U.S.

Ditto the state’s trifecta of the highest electricity rates, the costliest home prices, and the fourth-highest home insurance costs.

California has the largest unfunded liability debt in the nation, approaching $270 billion.

The budget deficit each year usually ranges from $15 to $70 billion.

Such profligate spending and deficits explain why the state also has the highest income taxes and state sales tax rates in the nation.

Just 1% of California households pay 50% of the state income tax. And the fleeced are leaving in droves.

Newsom recently boasted that he extended Medi-Cal health insurance to thousands more illegal aliens.

So, no wonder Newsom next begged for a nearly $3 billion Medi-Cal federal bailout.

Half of the state’s 41 million residents are now on Medi-Cal. Some 50 percent of all births are Medi-Cal-provided—and growing.

California has a lot of other firsts among the 50 states:

The largest population of illegal aliens.

The largest number of homeless people.

The largest number of people fleeing a state.

The largest number (11 million) and percentage (27%) of foreign-born residents.

The largest number of people living in poverty.

The highest food prices in the continental U.S.

The state’s infrastructure is usually rated near the bottom.

California ranks among the five worst states in per capita violent crime.

Here are a few other observations about the current disaster that is Newsom’s California.

One, California is a naturally wealthy state. It is the third largest by area. It ranks seventh in the nation in oil reserves. No nation has more agricultural production or forested land acreage. So it’s hard to bankrupt California, but Newsom has managed.

Two, under prior governors Pat Brown, Ronald Reagan, George Deukmejian, and Pete Wilson, California used to be the best-run state in the country.

California once produced more oil than any other state except Texas.

Its now-moribund timber industry once used to be the third largest in the nation.

And its currently ossified mining and mineral industries were once among the top ten producers in the country.

Three, no state politician over the last three decades has been more responsible for California’s decline than Gavin Newsom: six years as governor, eight years as lieutenant governor, seven years as mayor of San Francisco, and seven years on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Four, California chose decline. In the last thirty years, it drove out somewhere between 18 and 20 million affluent and middle-class state residents, the largest state exodus in U.S. history.

Its open border welcomed in an influx of over 10 million illegal aliens.

Meanwhile, Silicon Valley’s $11 trillion in market capitalization created the wealthiest and the most left-wing out-of-touch elite in the United States.

The result was a medieval state of a few million elites, a mass of poor people, and a vanishing middle class.

Five, such influxes and exoduses, along with gerrymandering, have ensured a one-party state. There are no Republican statewide officeholders.

Democrats control all branches of government. Only 17% of its congressional delegation is Republican. So the Left proudly owns what California has become.

What, then, will Newsom run on?

Certainly not high-speed rail—17 years, $15 billion, and not a foot of track laid.

Certainly not a $500-million exploding solar battery plant.

Certainly not illegally issuing 17,000 commercial truck driver’s licenses to non-resident illegal aliens with little or no English competency.

Certainly not the horrific but preventable Pacific Palisades fire.

And certainly not a now-closed $2-billion desert solar plant boondoggle.

Instead, Newsom will continue his he-man threats to Trump, like, “We’re going to punch this bully in the mouth.”

But will such bluster lower the state’s gas and power prices or reduce its sky-high taxes?

On social media and in podcasts, Newsom will continue his adolescent threats to federal officials like Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem while serving up his adolescent potty-mouth smears (e.g., “son of a b***h,” “god-d**n,” “f**k,” etc.).

But that profanity will not lower crime or house prices.

In other words, in the Democrat primaries, Newsom will try to out-crazy the violence, profanity, and extremism of the now-crazy Democrat socialists.

Newsom will rant nonstop about the evil Trump, but neither offer a word nor do a thing about his own responsibility for the collapse of a once great state.

Newsom will lecture on “affordability” without mentioning that he has created the most unaffordable state in the nation.

Will all this gobbledygook work?

It did in New York.

So, who knows?

UN Conference Proves Climate Agenda Is All About Money And Woke Cultism | ZeroHedge

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In the past five years the institutional discussions surrounding climate change have shifted noticeably from “net zero” goals (zero net carbon emissions from target countries) to a more mercenary debate over carbon taxation.  The question on everyone’s mind is this:  Who gets the most access to those delicious climate funds?

Who gets access to the cash is less important than who gets to manage the cash, but we’ll get to that issue in a moment.

The recent COP30 event held last week in Brazil was largely focused on wealth redistribution with a lesser emphasis on carbon reductions.  Climate “financing” is the name of the game, and COP30 was largely a squabble over which countries will get the most access to the various carbon taxes and donations collected by global intermediaries.  In fact, the conference was largely considered a failure.  From The Guardian:

“The sticking point was fossil fuels. As science has told us for well over a century, the carbon dioxide that burning them produces is heating up the planet, now to dangerous levels.  But in more than 30 years of annual climate meetings, the need for that to halt has been mentioned only once…”

“…Meanwhile, developing countries desperately wanted to move forward on securing the money that would help them cope with the already disastrous impacts of extreme weather.  By the early hours of Saturday, some delegates were ready to walk out and force a collapse. “It was on the edge for us,” said Ed Miliband, the UK energy minister. “I was prepared to walk away.””

The meaninglessness of the climate apparatus becomes evident at these kinds of events; flush with thousands of bureaucrats who serve no purpose, clamoring for money that is essentially stolen in the name of a crisis that doesn’t exist.

At COP30, developing countries secured a tripling to $120bn of annual finance to help them adapt to the impacts of extreme weather, but that sum will not be delivered in full until 2035.

Developing nations have already garnered billions in climate financing.  India, for example, receives around $30 billion annually in climate funding which is meant to help third-world countries reduce their reliance on oil and coal while developing “green tech.”  The dramatic inefficiency of green energy aside, it’s unlikely that much of this financing is actually going into improving carbon emissions in India or anywhere else.

The biggest beneficiaries are NGOs and Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) working closely with the World Bank.  These organizations collect the carbon funds and then redistribute that money according to their own guidelines.  Carbon taxes also represent a fresh revenues source for various governments in the first-world, with some of this money being transferred to intermediaries in the name of “Climate Reparations.”

The woke vernacular of the climate agenda is no coincidence.  Calls for reparation, equity and “climate justice” reveal the globalist/socialist roots of the global warming scam.  Environmental groups were quick to promote wealth redistribution in the name of imaginary climate crimes and “colonialism”.  COP30 partially adopted this language by supporting the Belém Package – An agreement to integrate “equity” into climate financing decisions.

 

“There can be no true climate justice without reparatory justice,” say climate activist groups in a letter sent to COP30.

“The climate crisis did not arise recently — it is a continuation of centuries of greenhouse emissions, extraction, dispossession, and racial violence,” the letter said, urging COP30 to address historical injustices and the need for reparations as part of any negotiation on climate.

The melding of woke activism and climate hysteria is part of a larger progressive cultism that, until recently, has been infecting global politics like a plague.  There are obviously millions of true believers when it comes to global warming doom, just as there were millions of people that embraced the pandemic hysteria of covid.  However, the main thrust of climate governance is still mostly about cold hard cash.

There is, of course, no science that supports the claim of a causation relationship between man-made carbon emissions and global warming.  As we have noted many times in the past, climate scientists rely on a tiny 140 year window of temperature data to defend their claims.  If we look at a much larger window of hundreds of millions of years, the temperatures today are actually some of the coldest ever recorded.

Furthermore, when comparing atmospheric carbon content data over the same timeline, it is undeniable that carbon emissions have no relation to planetary temps.  They simply do not match up.

Climate scientists dishonestly ignore this data in preference of a 140 year model; a meaningless timeline which offers no insight into why the Earth warms or cools and when it might do so in the future.  They insist on the assumption that carbon “pollution” created by human industry is the cause of current warming and then adjust their models to support this assumption.  It’s not science, it’s the opposite, but there’s a lot of money to be made by perpetuating the lie.

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Is Climate Change or Climate Science the Real Threat? | Around the World with Ken Ham

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We’re told over and over again by the media that climate change is the biggest, most imminent threat to the future health, stability, and happiness of mankind and everything else that lives on earth. But is it really climate change or is it climate science that’s the real threat to our future?

Well, the science of climate change is very much a science involving a lot of interpretation. Many of the conclusions presented as facts to the public are nothing more than the results of computer models—and models are only as good as the data they receive and how that data is interpreted! And it’s humans—fallible humans who don’t know everything and are biased—who decide which data points to include and how to weight those data points. The result is models that are very worldview dependent. And that’s why the predictions—the so-called facts—are wrong over and over again.

And bear in mind that scientists who disagree with the perceived threat that climate change represents or who give alternative interpretations will likely not receive funding, be published in mainstream journals, or have their scientific careers advanced. There’s a lot of gatekeeping that goes into ensuring the climate hysteria narrative is the only narrative that anyone hears (just as one example, an editor of one journal was fired for publishing an article skeptical of man-made climate change—in a special issue all about various views on the climate!).

What the public, the government, activists, and watchdog groups hear as “scientific fact” or “consensus” matters because those views shape policy—and that policy impacts people.

Climate science isn’t just some theoretical idea with little impact on our day-to-day lives either. What the public, the government, activists, and watchdog groups hear as “scientific fact” or “consensus” matters because those views shape policy—and that policy impacts people.

Consider how the myth of overpopulation and the belief that humans are destroying this planet’s climate and future have resulted in the spread of abortifacient birth control and abortions in developing countries to try to halt population growth.

Or that lack of access to efficient and cheap energy negatively impacts the poorest among us.

Or that fear-mongering causes anxiety and depression in the younger generations, making them believe they have no future—so much so that many are choosing not to have children because the future is so “bleak”!

Yes, climate “science” has real implications that impact real people, and that’s why we care about this issue. You can learn more in this episode of Answers News, our weekly show posted to our YouTube channel every Friday, featuring special guest and wildlife ecologist Jessica DeFord:

Watch the video on YouTube.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.

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(VIDEO) “It’s a Conspiracy. We Have to Investigate Them Immediately.” – Trump DESTROYS Climate Change Hoaxers and Slams Countries “Losing Their Ass” and Going Bankrupt for Green Energy | The Gateway Pundit

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(VIDEO) “It’s a Conspiracy. We Have to Investigate Them Immediately.” – Trump DESTROYS Climate Change Hoaxers and Slams Countries “Losing Their Ass” and Going Bankrupt for Green Energy

President Trump on Wednesday trolled the climate hoaxers, calling for an investigation into their corruption and lies about the climate, while speaking at a US-Saudi Investment Forum. 

“It’s a little conspiracy out there. We have to investigate them immediately. They probably are being investigated,” Trump appeared to joke during his speech at the Kennedy Center.

The United Nations and the Democratic Party have been pushing climate alarmism and signaling the imminent end of the world for decades to implement green energy policies and get rich off back-room deals.

In December 2008, former Vice President Al Gore predicted the North Polar Ice Cap would be completely ice-free in five years.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed in 2019 that life on the planet would end in 12 years unless the US addressed the threat of global warming.

In August 2022, Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, which dedicated $369 billion to environmental programs and so-called clean energy. And 96% of the climate data used to justify this climate push is flawed. It was a scam.

As Democrats in US Senate Unilaterally Pass $369 Billion Climate Blowout – Study Finds 96% of the Data Used to Support Democrat Bill Is Flawed

Remember how Biden’s disastrous electric vehicle mandate and electric vehicle charging station program received $7.5 billion and built less than 10 electric vehicle chargers? Remember the federally funded electric school bus program, touted by Kamala Harris as a solution to the”climate crisis,” which turned out to be incredibly faulty and unusable by schools?

It’s all a scam which uses fear, intimidation, and even racism to push the agenda. Maybe you’ve heard of “climate equity,” a made-up term used by the left to claim that black people are disproportionately affected by climate change.

Leftists around the world even suffer from a made-up disorder called “climate anxiety” or “eco-anxiety,” which is defined by Harvard as “anxiety rooted in uncertainty about the future and alerting us to the dangers of a changing climate.”

“According to a survey by the American Psychological Association, more than two-thirds of Americans experience some climate anxiety,” Harvard claims.

But Trump destroyed the myth with some comical relief for those suffering, highlighting the ever-changing nomenclature of the climate hoax.

“It used to be global warming. It’s global warming! Well, that didn’t work because it started coming down,” Trump said. “They did the global cooling thing, then they just said, ‘We can’t keep up with this. It’s too much. So, we’ll go, perfect words: climate change!'”

“They’re covered. If it rains, if it snows, if it’s warm, it’s climate change is destroying the world!” Trump continued.

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Trump: Everything was a new scam. Green, green, green. Look, I’m all for the environmental everything. I’m all for climate change. You know, they have a new word, climate change. It used to be global warming. It’s global warming! Well, that didn’t work because it started coming down. They did the global cooling thing, then they just said, “We can’t keep up with this. It’s too much. So, we’ll go, perfect words: climate change!”

They’re covered. If it rains, if it snows, if it’s warm, it’s climate change is destroying the world! Remember? The world was supposed to have been gone two years ago. They gave us 12 years, Howard, to live, right? 12 years, but that was 14 years ago. The world was going to burn up. But it got actually much cooler.

These people. It’s a little conspiracy out there. We have to investigate them immediately. They probably are being investigated.

Later in his speech, Trump slammed countries that are still building windmills, “losing their ass” and going bankrupt. He also revealed the requisite for talking about coal in the White House, saying, “you’re not allowed to mention the word coal unless you precede it by saying ‘clean, beautiful’”

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Trump: I just hope that some of these countries that are losing their ass— we have countries that are going bankrupt because they’re putting windmills all over the place. You’re supposed to make money with energy, not lose money with energy. And we talk about oil, and we talk even Clean, Beautiful Coal.

I said, you’re not allowed to mention the word coal unless you precede it by saying “clean, beautiful” so I have my people in the office, they’re talking about coal, right? And they go, sir, a Clean, Beautiful Coal is doing very well, sir. And then two minutes later, “Clean, Beautiful Coal.” Then he mentions the third time, “sir, coal.” No! it’s clean and beautiful!

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Ten Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Climatism Is Crumbling | The Gateway Pundit

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Ten Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Climatism Is Crumbling

This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire

By Steve Goreham

COP30, the UN climate conference, is underway in Belem, Brazil. Thousands of representatives from all over the world have journeyed to discuss how to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to try to fight human-caused climate change. But ten years after the Paris Climate Agreement, the global consensus on climate change is crumbling.

COP30 is the thirtieth “conference of the parties.” The first took place in Berlin in 1995. At COP21 in Paris in 2015, more than 190 countries signed the Paris Climate Agreement, pledging to cut emissions and to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

About 50,000 people are attending COP30 from more than 190 nations. But key world leaders are not attending, including President Xi Jinping of China, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, and President Donald Trump of the U.S. Climatism, the ideology pushing for a global transition to Net Zero energy, faces a rising tide of opposition across the world.

Two weeks before COP30, billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates posted a memo to COP30 on his website titled “Three Tough Truths About Climate.” In it he states that “Climate change is a serious problem, but it will not be the end of civilization,” and also that “Unfortunately, the doomsday outlook is causing much of the climate community to focus too much on near-term emissions goals … ” He also said that “Our chief goal should be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world’s poorest countries.”

This is a remarkable change of position for Mr. Gates, who has spent billions in the fight against climate change over the last two decades. In 2021, he wrote a best-selling book titled How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. His shift of emphasis away from stopping emissions to solving real world problems is a move away from climate alarmism and toward common-sense policy.

President Trump called climate change “the greatest scam ever perpetrated on the world” in his address to the UN General Assembly in September. During the last 10 months, the Trump Administration has shut down permits for offshore wind, slashed subsidies for wind, solar, and electric vehicles, cut climate funding, and banned climate change rhetoric in government documents. The U.S. is not sending delegates to COP30.

But in addition to the U.S., opposition to Net Zero and Climatism is rising in other nations. Reform UK, the opposition party led by Nigel Farage in the UK, is now using the phrase “Net Stupid Zero.” Reform UK is now leading in some political polls.

Alternative für Deutschland, the number two political party in Germany, wants to tear down all wind turbines, calling them “windmills of shame.” Germany has more than 20,000 wind turbines installed, one of the highest densities in the world. Last month the Nationals party in Australia voted to abandon support for Net Zero. Nationals leader David Littleproud said, “We believe in reducing emissions, but not at any cost.” Australia, Germany, the UK, and other nations are struggling with escalating energy costs and no apparent benefit from Net Zero policies.

What have thirty UN climate conferences accomplished since 1995? The answer is “no measurable climate benefit.” Since 2000, the world has spent about $10 trillion on renewable energy, but hydrocarbons─coal, natural gas, and oil─still provided 87% of world energy in 2024 according to the Energy Institute.

Since 1965, global energy consumption has quadrupled and has accelerated since 2000.  Every year the world adds about an additional UK worth of energy consumption. Except for the recession year of 2012 and the COVID-19 year of 2020, wind, solar, and other renewables failed to generate enough new energy to provide for the global increase in consumption, let alone replace hydrocarbons.

Last year, former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said, “There shouldn’t be any more coal-fired power plants permitted anywhere in the world.” But global coal consumption continues to rise. Today, more than 6,500 coal-fired power plants operate across the world and another 1,000 are in planning or under construction. In 2024, coal provided 34% of the world’s electricity, the largest source of power.

Global energy consumption will continue to rise. The U.S. has about 80 vehicles for every 100 people, but vehicle usage in Africa and India remains below 10 vehicles for every 100 people. Today, developed nations use up to 20 times as much plastic as poor nations on a per-person basis. Developing nations will continue to use more hydrocarbon fuels to enable their economies to grow.

As Mr. Gates has observed, poverty still characterizes many of the world’s people. Almost 700 million people do not have access to electricity and another two billion have blackouts or brownouts every other day. Over two billion people do not have access to clean water. Millions die each year from malaria, typhoid, and other diseases. World leaders should concentrate on these real problems, instead of unfounded concerns about carbon dioxide emissions.

From the political scene to the continued growth of hydrocarbon energy, the global climate consensus and the push for Net Zero is crumbling. It’s time for nations to return to sensible energy policy.

Steve Goreham is a speaker on energy, the environment, and public policy and author of the bestselling book Green Breakdown: The Coming Renewable Energy Failure. 

This article was originally published by RealClearEnergy and made available via RealClearWire.

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United Nations Reveals Global Climate Agenda at COP30 | IFA

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From November 10 through 21, the global elites will gather in Brazil for the United Nations (UN) annual climate conference, known as COP30.

Who is praying on the wall?

 

World leaders, heads of state, diplomats, scientists, activists, non-profits, journalists, royalty, movie stars, and the rest, will make their way – many in private jets — to discuss the urgency of preparing for the worst impacts of climate change.

Climate change, according to the UN, causes “disasters” such as prolonged droughts, flooding, excessive high tides, rising sea levels, raging forest fires, stronger hurricanes, extreme blizzards, and global warming.

In other words, human activity is causing rapid changes to the global climate. Climate “experts” warn that we are running out of time to avoid a climate catastrophe.

Global warming appears to be the UN’s greatest concern. The best way to fight against rising temperatures, they say, is to reduce fossil fuel emissions to zero and invest in new technology to capture and process renewable energy.

All countries are vulnerable to climate change, the UN states, but it’s the developing countries who must provide financial support for action on climate change.

What is COP?

COP stands for Conference of the Parties, and it’s the main decision-making body for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which was adopted by the UN in 1992.

COP30 is a gathering of the 197 countries that signed on to the 1992 UNFCC. This is the 30th year of this summit – hence COP. It’s a call to bring together governments and the private sector to create solutions for the climate “crisis”.

The goal of UNFCC is to “prevent ‘dangerous’ human interference with the climate system.” UNFCC declares they must “act in the interests of human safety even in the face of scientific uncertainty.”

COP30 Theme is the COP of Implementation

COP30 attendees are expected to work on the future of climate action and, according to the World Economic Forum, “deliver the transformational change that climate science demands.” The goals of COP 30 are:

  1. Turn talk into action

Countries have been promising for years to reduce their carbon emissions, the chief villain of global warming. But many countries have been dragging their feet to actually put their talk into action. But at COP30, countries will be asked to put forward specific plans to reduce pollution and carbon emissions.

  1. Closing the money gap

Rich countries need to step up with more funding for developing countries to implement clean-energy projects. Discussions will take place to develop a road map to mobilize $300 billion a year for climate finance. USAID was once a major donor to COP’s climate spending, but is no longer under Trump’s State Department.

  1. Preserve tropical rainforests

Since COP30 is taking place in Belem, Brazil, a city known as ‘the gateway to the Amazon’, there will be added emphasis on protecting rainforests. The attendees will debate Brazil’s Tropical Forest Forever Facility, an initiative to raise $125 billion to help countries maintain their tropical forests. In an ironic twist, Brazil has cut through tens of thousands of acres in the Amazon rainforest to build a four-lane highway for the 50,000 attendees to get to the COP30 climate summit.

  1. Social policies

Reducing poverty, creating jobs, and including women, indigenous peoples, and youth to ensure climate justice are on the COP30 agenda as well.

COP30 also hopes to continue accelerating the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables, make progress towards a net-zero world, help countries adapt to climate change, and protect nature.

Climate Change Disagreements

Climate change activists and scientists declare with the utmost authority that the science proving climate change is “undeniable”, as well as “human-induced.”

But is it?

Many scientists and politicians disagree on the causes of climate change and the severity of its impact. Many question the reliability of predictor models to forecast future climate changes, as well as doubt the reliability of the weather and climate data being collected.

For instance, dissenting scientists claim that warming trends are overestimated, and long-term trends show very little temperature change.

Others say warming and cooling periods are part of the Earth’s natural climate cycles, and there is not enough data to prove it’s man-made.

Other scientists believe climate change may be real, but it is not an existential threat. They question the urgency to act. Some say warming may be beneficial, and it’s better to adapt to climate change than try to eliminate carbon emissions.

Dissenting scientists are often punished by the climate establishment of scientists, activists, politicians, and the media. They are dismissed, called climate deniers, and are often censored or silenced. Many are fired from their jobs or sanctioned by scientific organizations.

Are Climate Change Policies Losing Support?

President Trump, on his first day in office, removed the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, calling it “an unfair, one-sided Paris climate accord rip-off.”

The agreement was for countries to limit global warming to 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit to reduce extreme weather caused by climate change. COP30 is looking for actionable carbon-cutting plans from member countries to stop the rise in global temperature.

In his speech at the UN in September, the president called climate change the “greatest con job ever perpetuated on the world”, a “green scam” based on “predictions made by stupid people.”

In March, Lee Zeldin, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, announced a historic rollback of Biden-era climate change regulations. “We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion to drive down cost of living for American families, unleash American energy, bring auto jobs back to the U.S. and more,” Mr. Zeldin said.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio led the efforts to stop the International Maritime Organization (IMO) from adopting a carbon tax for global shipping.

The European Union is swiftly rolling back environmental policies in its Green Deal. The Guardian is reporting that political support for environmental rules has dried up in several wealthy economies. The UK is facing growing political resistance to the government’s COP pledge for net-zero emissions by 2050.

President Trump has also announced the U.S. will not be sending any “high-level” administration officials to COP30. Instead, the president says he is directly engaging with world leaders on energy partnerships. However, more than 100 state and local leaders announced they will attend COP30.

Polling on climate change reveals a divided America. For instance, one-third of Americans say climate change policies help the economy, one-third say they hurt, and one-third say they make no difference. Half the country says climate policies help the environment, while the other half says they harm or make no difference to the environment.

Bill Gates Pivots Away from Doomsday Climate Warnings

Recently, billionaire Bill Gates, an ardent supporter of climate change, now says climate change won’t be the “end of civilization” as many of the COP30 attendees believe. While COP30 argues for urgent action now to reduce carbon emissions, Mr. Gates says it’s time to “pivot” away from curbing emissions and work to prevent suffering in the world’s poorest countries.

If given the choice between ending malaria and a tenth-degree increase in global temperatures, Mr. Gates said, he’d choose getting rid of malaria. He urged world leaders gathering at COP30 to ask themselves if the money spent on climate change is the right thing to do.

His pivot has sent shockwaves through the climate activist community. Many are calling him just plain wrong. Mr. Gates is advocating for the world to adapt to climate change and is spending money on other energy technologies, such as nuclear power.

God is Sovereign Over the Earth

COP30 is convinced that an extreme and devastating climate crisis is imminent, but is it? They’ll gather in their private jets to earnestly discuss what urgent actions must be taken immediately to save the planet from imminent climate disaster… without any diverse voices or viewpoints.

Climate change may or may not be real or caused by humans using fossil fuels. But as Christians, what we do know is that God is good and He is sovereign. We worship the Creator, not the creation. Earth is our home for as long as God wants it to be, and we shall not fear. Therefore, we will not fear, even though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though its waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with its swelling. (Psalm 46:2-4)

Let’s pray for COP30 and the attendees that they will know this, too.

God said, It is I who made the earth and created mankind on it. (Isaiah 45:12) May Cop30 and the decisions made there reflect the glory of the Lord over all the earth.

Let’s Pray for COP30

Dear Heavenly Father, You are the Great Creator of Heaven and Earth. The world was formed at Your command. Nothing in nature would exist if not for You. You have authority over the whole earth, the winds, the seas, and the skies. You rule them, and they instantly obey You. You cover the sky with clouds. You supply the earth with rain and make grass grow on the hills. You send Your command to the earth. Your word runs swiftly. You spread the snow like wool and scatter the frost like ashes. You hurl down hail like pebbles. Who can withstand Your icy blast? You send Your word and melt them. You stir up Your breezes, and the waters flow. (Psalm 147: 8, 15-18)

Lord, may the attendees gathering look to You and acknowledge that You are sovereign. Give them wisdom to make decisions that honor You and your creation. May COP30 attendees view climate change honestly and not through any personal agenda. May they seek Your will. You set the earth on its foundations so it can never be moved. You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. But at your rebuke the waters fled, at the sound of your thunder they took to flight; they flowed over the mountains, they went down into the valleys, to the place you assigned for them. You set a boundary they cannot cross; never again will they cover the earth. You springs pour water into the ravines; it flows between the mountains. (Psalm 104:5-10 NIV)

Lord, we pray that we would all care for your creation, seeking Your guidance. Remind us, Lord, that this world is not our home, but one day You will replace this earth with a new, incorruptible earth, so amazing and wonderful we cannot even imagine. The present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. (2 Peter 3:7 NIV)

In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it (Psalm 24:1).

How are you praying for COP30? Share with us in the comments below.

Belinda Brewster analyzes cultural, political, and world events from a biblical worldview. Belinda’s passion is to equip, support, and encourage parents and grandparents who are courageously battling against the spiritual and cultural forces impacting children and grandchildren. Photo Credit: IVAN PISARENKO/AFP via Getty Images.

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(VIDEO) Climate Hoaxers Cut Down 100,000 Amazon Rainforest Trees to Build Highway to UN Climate Summit – Trump Responds! | The Gateway Pundit

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(VIDEO) Climate Hoaxers Cut Down 100,000 Amazon Rainforest Trees to Build Highway to UN Climate Summit – Trump Responds!
100,000 Amazon trees felled for highway construction ahead of the U.N. Climate Summit, highlighting environmental concerns and deforestation issues.

Remember all of the outrage from liberals and climate hoaxers over the Amazon Rainforest burning?

The same people telling you that you need to take shorter showers, drive less, consume less meat, scrap your gas stoves and appliances, and drive electric cars– all to ensure “climate equity” and save minorities– flocked to Brazil in their private jets and limousines for the 2025 UN Climate Change Conference this week.

And solely for their expedience and access to the summit, Brazil reportedly chopped down tens of thousands of acres of trees, harming local Brazillians, to make way for a new four-lane highway through the Amazon rainforest.

Claudio Verequete, an Acai berry farmer in the area, told BBC, “our harvest has already been cut down. We no longer have that income to support our family.”

Additionally, animal habitats have been destroyed, and conservation efforts will be impacted. Yet, this is exactly what those at the UN’s COP30 summit will likely preach against.

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Remember this when your liberal cousin complains about Trump at Thanksgiving dinner in a couple weeks!

The executive editor of Climate Depot, a site dedicated to correcting hoaxes pushed by climate change-alarmists, Mark Morano, told Fox’s Charlie Hurt that the whole situation is “turning into a disaster” for the UN and trolled the leaders. He further called on Trump to pull out of the U.N. Framework on Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) treaty.

“If we can get out of that, it makes it harder for a future president, AOC or Gavin Newsom, to get us back into this UN climate mess,” Morano said. “Mr. President, tear up that treaty from 1992. That’s what we’re imploring the Trump administration to do.”

Trump shared the following clip from Fox on Truth Social:

Morano: The Brazilian environmental minister actually bragged, the reason they had to clear cut tens of thousands of acres for this four-lane highway for this UN Climate Summit was so they could cram as many people here as possible to showcase how Brazil has been saving the rain forest. So, this has been an amazing thing, because this highway went through the rainforest that they’ve been trying decades— “We’ve got to save the rainforest! We need climate trees!” And here they just cut it down, so you could have all the limousines, and SUVs, and all the private jets come in, and people can move freely at this summit, which is turning into a disaster here for them.

Hurt: You said that this is the first time since this started back in 1992 that the United States is not invited, that you’re actually our US envoy to, which I’m very grateful to, by the way, for that, but that even a lot of European countries are pulling back from all of this.

Morano: Yeah, I call it the Trump effect. Since George HW Bush signed the Rio Earth Summit treaty, United Nations Framework Convention in 1992 to appear green to try to beat Bill Clinton— It didn’t work— we’ve been in this mess, and this is the first time there’s been no US delegation. God bless the Trump administration. So, I’ve self declared myself the US delegation here at the UN conference. I don’t think that comes with any perks. We’ll see. But this whole summit has had, as you mentioned, over 100 nations fail to even submit their targets. There’s no interest in this. Canada’s zeroing out their carbon tax. Throughout Europe, they’re walking away from net zero because reality hits! And our message here, by the way, to the Trump administration is simple: Get us out of this 1992 Treaty, which was ratified by the Senate. If we can get out of that, it makes it harder for a future president, AOC or Gavin Newsom, to get us back into this UN climate mess. Mr. President, tear up that treaty from 1992. That’s what we’re imploring the Trump administration to do.

President Trump seemingly took note of Morano’s suggestion, commenting on the “big scandal” this morning.

They ripped the hell out of the Rainforest of Brazil to build a four lane highway for Environmentalists to travel. It’s become a big scandal!

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Predictably, Marxists at Climate Hoax Summit Attack President Trump Obsessively | Discern Report

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World leaders gathered in Belém, Brazil, for the COP30 conference this week, turning the event into a platform for bashing President Donald Trump over his refusal to buy into their climate agenda. Trump skipped the summit entirely and sent no top officials, drawing sharp rebukes from several socialist figures who dominate the proceedings.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro led the charge. “Mr. Trump is against humanity. His absence here demonstrates that,” he declared.

Chilean President Gabriel Boric piled on, saying, “The president of the United States at the latest United Nations General Assembly said the climate crisis does not exist. That is a lie.”

Trump lambasted them at the UN in September, labeling the whole climate push “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” He went further: “Climate change, no matter what happens, you’re involved in that. No more global warming, no more global cooling. All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their country’s fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success.”

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer avoided naming Trump but griped that the “unity” and “consensus” on climate matters had vanished. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva echoed the sentiment, blasting “extremist forces that fabricate fake news and are condemning future generations to life on a planet altered forever by global warming.” Lula also claimed Trump confided in him: “President Trump told me he doesn’t believe in green energy. He will believe in it, because he’ll realize that we don’t have much of an alternative.”

The summit reeks of double standards. While these elites preach sacrifice, they jetted in on fuel-guzzling planes, racking up massive carbon emissions. Organizers even cleared swaths of rainforest to pave a highway for their convoys, leaving local acai farmers in the dust. When pressed on why they didn’t just video conference—like everyone else has since the COVID days—they shrugged it off with excuses about spotty internet.

Adding to the farce, China and India, the planet’s top polluters, didn’t even show up. Yet the blame falls squarely on Trump for shattering the so-called consensus. These Global South heavyweights have made it plain they won’t hobble their economies for pie-in-the-sky green targets, exposing the whole affair as a power grab by bureaucrats eager to dictate energy policies worldwide.

Trump’s team isn’t taking it lying down. Energy Secretary Chris Wright slammed the conference from Athens, where he’s negotiating more U.S. natural gas exports to Europe and Ukraine.

“It’s essentially a hoax. It’s not an honest organization looking to better human lives,” Wright said. “Gatherings of global leaders and businesses should be about humans… not on the desire to scare children and grow government power. They’ve lost the plot.”

White House Assistant Press Secretary Taylor Rogers reinforced the point: “President Trump will not jeopardize our country’s economic and national security to pursue vague climate goals that are killing other countries.”

This obsession with Trump reveals the real game—using climate fear to expand control, sideline American interests, and prop up failing regimes. As the U.S. focuses on real energy independence, the summit’s theatrics only confirm what many suspect: it’s less about the environment and more about reshaping the world order under a green facade.

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NO MORE CLIMATE HOAX: Trump Ramps Up Pressure on the EU Against Its ‘Corporation Greenhouse Gas Pollution’ Regulation | The Gateway Pundit

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NO MORE CLIMATE HOAX: Trump Ramps Up Pressure on the EU Against Its ‘Corporation Greenhouse Gas Pollution’ Regulation
Donald J. Trump and EU Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen.

The ‘church of Global warming’ is starting to crumble under Trump’s pressure.

After tackling the ‘climate fee’ on shipping, US president Donald J. Trump is again ramping up the pressure on the European Union.

This time, Trump wants them to repeal or overhaul a regulation on corporations’ greenhouse gas pollution.

The US leader is taking a very strong stance against the Globalist ‘climate hoax’, as he is also doing on immigration and ‘gender madness’.

Politico reported:

“It comes less than a week after the U.S. scored a surprising victory over a proposed United Nations climate fee on shipping, in what one Trump Cabinet member described Wednesday as an ‘all hands on deck’ lobbying blitz.”

Embattled Ursula von der Leyen now has to deal with the US pressure to do away with climate delusions.

The US Energy Department and Qatar wrote the EU regarding its Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.

“’It is our genuine belief, as allies and friends of the EU, that the CSDDD will cause considerable harm to the EU and its citizens, as it will lead to higher energy and other commodity prices, and have a chilling effect on investment and trade’, the department and the Qataris said in an open letter Wednesday to European heads of state and EU members.”

Trump and his team have been fighting the suicidal policies of ‘climate regulations’ both at home and abroad.

“On Friday, U.S. pressure succeeded in thwarting a proposal by U.N.’s International Maritime Organization to impose the first worldwide tax on climate pollution from shipping. The maritime body had been widely expected to adopt the shipping fee at a meeting in London, but instead it postponed the initiative for at least a year.”

Trump is fighting the ‘climate hoax’ policies that hurt economic groweth.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright:

“’We’re going to come back to realistic views on energy’, Wright said at an event hosted by America First Policy Institute. ‘That’s a win not just for America, that’s a win for the world’.”

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The Evil of Green Politics

written by Toby Kurth | October 15, 2025; AMERICAN REFORMER

Tyranny Through Energy Utopianism

In 2022, as Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, European nations confronted a bitter truth: their utopian energy policies had funded Putin’s war machine. This moment revealed what careful observers have long suspected. Modern environmentalism, divorced from theological anthropology and concern for true human flourishing, has become a destructive force wreaking havoc across the globe.

The green movement’s policies, however well-intentioned their advocates claim them to be, have produced a catalog of human suffering that demands moral reckoning. From child slaves in Congolese mines to refugees fleeing resource wars, from impoverished families choosing between heat and food to entire nations held hostage by energy dependence, the fruits of environmental ideology reveal its fundamental rejection of human dignity.

Europe’s green energy transition handed Vladimir Putin the economic weapon he needed to wage war. By 2021, the EU imported 45% of its natural gas from Russia, with Germany exceeding 55% dependency. This arrangement funneled approximately $100 billion annually into Moscow’s coffers, blood money that funded the invasion of Ukraine and the slaughter of thousands.

Germany’s particular zealotry represents moral confusion of the highest order. The nation closed perfectly functional nuclear plants while burning Russian gas. Even after Russian bombs began falling on Ukrainian cities, Germany shuttered its last three nuclear plants in 2023. France, which maintained its nuclear fleet despite green pressure, stood far more capable of resisting energy blackmail. The lesson is unmistakable. Environmental ideology that ignores fallen human nature and geopolitical reality becomes an accessory to tyranny.

Child Slavery and Resource Wars

The electric vehicle revolution runs on the broken bodies of Congolese children. According to UNICEF, approximately 40,000 children labor in DRC’s cobalt mines, some as young as six years old. These children, earning $1-2 per day, breathe toxic cobalt dust that destroys their lungs while extracting minerals for electric vehicle batteries and smartphone components.

Amnesty International has traced cobalt from mines using child labor directly to major Western brands. Yet demand only intensifies. Global cobalt consumption nearly doubled from 100,000 tons in 2016 to 190,000 tons in 2023. Every subsidized EV purchase in Berkeley or Boulder connects directly to a child’s suffering in parts of the world no one seems to care about.

The “Responsible Cobalt Initiative” and similar corporate fig leaves have achieved little beyond providing public relations cover. The green movement, which claims to protect future generations, literally enslaves present ones. This represents not merely policy failure but profound moral blindness. Impoverished children are treated as acceptable casualties in the march toward net zero.

Eastern Congo burns for Western batteries. The M23 rebel group and other armed factions, financed by illegal mining of “transition minerals,” have displaced over 1.7 million people since 2021. The UN documents 6.9 million internally displaced persons across the DRC, many fleeing violence directly linked to mineral extraction for green technologies. Refugee camps around Goma overflow with families devastated by this resource scramble. Cholera spreads through overcrowded settlements. Sexual violence runs rampant. Nearly 3 million children face severe malnutrition. Armed groups funded by coltan and cobalt smuggling perpetuate cycles of violence that make normal life impossible.

Global Witness reports detail how the intensified demand for these minerals perpetuates conflict financing despite international regulations. The green transition’s appetite for resources has transformed entire regions into sacrifice zones, where human life holds less value than the minerals beneath their feet.

The Hypocrisy of Environmental Elites

Nothing exposes green politics’ moral bankruptcy quite like its brazen hypocrisy. California Governor Gavin Newsom lectures the nation about climate emergency yet gutted his state’s rooftop solar industry in 2022 to protect utility company revenues. The California Public Utilities Commission’s “solar tax” destroyed 17,000 jobs and slashed installations by 80%, all while Newsom preached about renewable energy leadership.

This pattern repeats everywhere. Norway expands oil production while lecturing Africa about emissions. John Kerry flies private jets to climate conferences. The EU implements carbon border taxes that cost African nations $25 billion annually while subsidizing its own industries. Wealthy nations demand that Mozambique leave transformative natural gas reserves untapped while they continue their own extraction.

The message is clear. Environmental sacrifice is for the poor. Rich nations and their leaders exempt themselves from the suffering they impose on others, revealing that their true god is not the environment but power itself. None of this is okay, and all of it goes unexamined by mainstream media.

Green policies consistently punish those least able to bear the cost. The biofuel mandate’s diversion of 40% of U.S. corn to ethanol contributed to food price spikes that pushed 100 million people globally into poverty, according to the World Bank. Texas’s 2021 blackouts, partly caused by overreliance on weather-dependent renewables, likely resulted in the death of 246 people. The victims were predominantly poor and elderly residents who could not escape the cold. These are not unfortunate side effects but predictable consequences of policies that prioritize abstract environmental goals over human needs. When ideology trumps compassion, the vulnerable always suffer most.

Theological Anthropology and True Environmental Stewardship

The root error of green politics lies in its fundamentally flawed anthropology. By viewing humans primarily as polluters or an invasive species rather than rulers of creation, who image God, and are charged with enjoying, cultivating, and commanding creation (Gen. 1:28), environmental ideology justifies seemingly unlimited harm in the service of “saving the planet” from humans themselves. Predictably, this disordered philosophy produces destructive results. Our nation needs better and more intelligent solutions.

Authentic environmental stewardship needs to flow from a proper theological anthropology. We must understand humans as both fallen and dignified, both stewards and beneficiaries of creation. This perspective recognizes that human flourishing and environmental health are not opposing goals but complementary aspects of God’s created order.

Responsible and effective environmental policy must:

  • Acknowledge human dignity as non-negotiable, rejecting any calculus that treats people as expendable or inferior to natural resources.
  • Recognize human sinfulness, including the corruption that pervades environmental movements themselves.
  • Prioritize the poor and vulnerable, who bear the heaviest burdens of both environmental degradation and environmental policy.
  • Embrace technological progress guided by wisdom rather than ideology.
  • Respect national sovereignty and the right to pursue development in the underdeveloped world.
  • Demand consistency from leaders who claim environmental urgency.
  • Value proven solutions like nuclear power over utopian experiments.

The Path Forward

Environmental challenges require a serious response, but not through policies that spread destruction while enriching elites. We need environmental realism grounded in theological truth about human nature and destiny. This means rejecting the false choice between economic development and environmental protection. It means holding environmental leaders accountable for the human cost of their policies. It means prioritizing human flourishing as the measure of policy success, not arbitrary emission targets or virtue signals.

Most importantly, it means recognizing that policies that destroy human lives and dignity cannot be called “green” or “sustainable” regardless of their environmental promises. The trail of suffering left by environmental ideology testifies to its moral bankruptcy. From Ukrainian graves to Congolese mines to California unemployment lines, the evidence condemns these policies.

The time has come to reject environmental policies that treat human beings as the problem rather than as bearers of the divine image tasked with wise stewardship. Only by grounding environmental action in proper theological anthropology can we pursue genuine sustainability that serves both creation and humanity.

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Foreign Billionaire Pours Millions Into U.S. Politics to Push Radical Green Agenda | The Gateway Pundit

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For more than a decade, British billionaire hedge-fund manager Christopher Hohn has quietly funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into American politics. 

Federal law strictly prohibits foreign nationals from directly or indirectly influencing U.S. elections, yet Hohn has become one of the most aggressive violators of that rule.

Through his London-based nonprofit, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), Hohn poured more than $553 million into U.S. organizations between 2014 and 2023. 

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These dollars didn’t go toward charity; instead, they went toward advancing radical left-wing policy campaigns: climate protests, anti-fossil-fuel litigation, and efforts to ban natural gas stoves. 

Much of this money flowed through the Arabella Advisors dark-money network, which bankrolls progressive activism nationwide.

CIFF’s ties raise even deeper concerns. The group has close connections to Communist China. 

Its CEO sits on the International Green Development Coalition, a program tied to China’s Belt and Road initiative. 

The coalition’s work is overseen by top officials in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). 

In fact, Hohn’s foundation has even honored CCP figures with “Friendship Awards,” further signaling its alignment with Beijing’s agenda.

While Democrats in Washington turn a blind eye, a foreign billionaire with ties to the CCP has been allowed to bankroll groups that shape America’s energy policy. 

By funding climate litigation and pressure campaigns, Hohn’s foundation has worked to dismantle U.S. energy independence, leaving America weaker and more reliant on foreign adversaries.

Democrats rail against supposed “foreign interference” in U.S. elections, but they have no problem cashing checks from foreign billionaires who bankroll their policy goals. 

From California to Washington, D.C., progressive nonprofits fueled by CIFF money have radicalized debates on climate and social justice, all while operating under the radar with little oversight or regulation.

The Trump administration is fighting to restore U.S. energy dominance by ending the war on fossil fuels, cutting burdensome regulations, and ensuring that American workers—not foreign billionaires—set our policy priorities. 

President Trump understands that energy independence was national security. 

Today, Democrats are undoing that progress, often with help from foreign money like Hohn’s.

Congress must act to shut down this pipeline of cash. Reforms are needed to close loopholes that allow foreign donors to launder their influence through U.S. nonprofits. 

Without strong oversight, American sovereignty will continue to be undermined by billionaires with agendas that serve Beijing, not Washington.

Americans deserve leaders who put their country first. 

President Trump has made it clear that under his leadership, foreign billionaires won’t dictate our future. 

That future will be decided by the American people—not Christopher Hohn, not Arabella Advisors, and certainly not the Chinese Communist Party.

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Globalist Leaders Pushing Economic Restructuring, The Green Agenda, and Great Reset | The Gateway Pundit

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King Charles is arguably the highest-placed globalist on Earth. While it is debatable who the world’s biggest globalists are, six of the most prominent, King Charles, Bill Gates, Tony Blair, António Guterres, Ursula von der Leyen, and Klaus Schwab, are working together to promote policies that expand global governance through climate-based economic controls and large-scale financial restructuring that would fundamentally transform free-market capitalism.

King Charles has long been a central figure in the World Economic Forum’s global agenda. In June 2020, he and the WEF co-launched The Great Reset, calling it “a golden opportunity to seize something good from this crisis.” The initiative sought to “rebuild, redesign, reinvigorate, and rebalance our world,” aligning the global economy with climate and sustainability goals.

Through his Sustainable Markets Initiative, Charles called for a complete redesign of economic systems to make them “greener, more inclusive, and sustainable.” His ten “green recovery” actions included creating global carbon markets, directing investment into sustainable infrastructure, and embedding nature-based solutions in corporate strategies.

In 2021, Charles introduced the Terra Carta, a charter placing “nature and the planet at the center of global value creation,” supported by more than 500 CEOs and organizations. He even urged lifestyle restrictions such as going meat- and fish-free two days a week and dairy-free one day a week to reduce carbon footprints.

For these policies to work, they would require heavy government intervention and constant monitoring, backed by fines or punishments to enforce compliance. Since this framework puts “nature and the planet” at the core of “value creation,” free-market capitalism could not survive. A central authority would have to decide what goods could be produced, in what quantities, and at what price, in other words, communism.

Gates has also been outspoken on environmental and food policy, advocating for behavioral and regulatory shifts to reduce emissions. He has argued that “all rich countries should move to 100 percent synthetic beef,” adding that “eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the behavior of people or use regulation to totally shift the demand.”

This represents a fundamental restructuring of food systems, where government regulation would override consumer choice and market forces to impose dietary changes on entire populations in the name of climate goals.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has been a driving force behind global frameworks for digital governance. He played a central role in the Global Digital Compact, adopted in September 2024, which established international standards for digital cooperation, artificial intelligence regulation, and the management of emerging technologies.

Guterres has also called for an Independent International Scientific Panel on AI to enforce ethical oversight and has pushed for the integration of digital systems in developing nations to promote economic growth and administrative efficiency, in short, to implant digital governance and control mechanisms across the developing world.

His push for technological integration aligns closely with the World Economic Forum’s global governance agenda. Guterres participated in the launch of the WEF’s Great Reset initiative in 2020 alongside then–Prince Charles and IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva.

The program sought to “reset and reshape” the world economy in line with the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, emphasizing labor market restructuring and adaptation to the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution.

By linking UN initiatives such as the Global Digital Compact with WEF programs, Guterres has positioned the United Nations at the center of a global campaign for digitization, sustainability, and centralized data governance, all promoted under the banner of international cooperation.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has championed the European Green Deal, launched in 2019, which seeks to make the EU climate neutral by 2050, with interim goals of cutting emissions by 50 to 55 percent by 2030. Critics argue that the Green Deal has evolved into political dogma and an economic straitjacket, driving up energy costs, burying industries in red tape, and pushing manufacturers toward more business-friendly regions.

Her Migration and Asylum Pact has drawn similar criticism from conservatives, who view it as a coercive policy forcing member states to either accept migrant quotas or pay financial penalties, further eroding national sovereignty.

These initiatives represent the erosion of national sovereignty within the European Union, which already operates under an unelected executive, a shared currency, and restricted national sovereignty in fiscal and regulatory matters.

In 2020, Schwab partnered with then–Prince Charles to launch The Great Reset, a WEF initiative to “reset and reshape” global systems in line with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. He declared that “all aspects of our societies and economies” must be “revamped,” insisting that “every country must participate, and every industry must be transformed.” He summarized the plan bluntly: “In short, we need a Great Reset of capitalism.”

The WEF’s messaging reinforces this agenda, promoting alternative food systems such as insect farming, described as an “environmentally friendly solution to the impending food crisis.” Schwab’s now-famous line, “You will own nothing and you will be happy,” became a symbol of The Great Reset’s vision to reimagine ownership, consumption, and production in the name of sustainability.

Together, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and The Great Reset form a unified blueprint for global transformation—one in which technology governs not only economies but also personal identity, access, and behavior, consolidating control under the guise of progress and environmental responsibility.

These globalist leaders are working in concert to fundamentally restructure the world economy. Through climate policies that require constant government intervention, international agreements that supersede national sovereignty, and economic frameworks that would end free-market capitalism, they are building a system where unelected global institutions dictate how people live, what they eat, what they can buy, and how much energy they can use. The Great Reset is not a conspiracy theory, it is an openly stated agenda promoted by the world’s most powerful figures.

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Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum TORCHES Gavin Newsom — Says California Fires Released More CO2 Than All Their So-Called Climate Controls! | The Gateway Pundit

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Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum TORCHES Gavin Newsom — Says California Fires Released More CO2 Than All Their So-Called Climate Controls!
Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum delivers sharp criticism of Gavin Newsom’s climate policies during a recent podcast appearance (Screenshot: Pod Force One)

Trump’s Interior Secretary Doug Burgum just delivered a brutal takedown of California Governor Gavin Newsom and the Left’s radical climate agenda.

Speaking on Pod Force One, Burgum dismantled decades of failed environmental policies that have turned California’s forests into powder kegs, arguing that wildfires have undone every ounce of so-called “progress” Democrats claim to have made on climate control.

The California wildfires, which have destroyed thousands of homes and forced tens of thousands to evacuate, were exacerbated by strong winds, increased population density, and Governor Gavin Newsom’s failures in managing forests and conducting controlled burns.

Claims about failing to fill reservoirs for hydrants are substantiated and result from two sources: infrastructure and demand issues, as well as mismanagement of water resources.

While there is no evidence that DEI initiatives hindered the response, Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley has emphasized DEI as a priority and implied a focus on increasing diversity in hiring rather than hiring the best candidates.

Mismanagement of forests has been one of the greatest contributors to the devastating effects of the fires, exacerbated by the limited implementation of controlled burns.

Controlled burns, or prescribed fires, are a vital forest management practice that involves intentionally igniting specific forest areas under controlled conditions to reduce excess vegetation, which serves as fuel for wildfires.

Despite their importance, California has struggled to use this preventive measure effectively. In 2024, the U.S. Forest Service temporarily halted prescribed burns, citing the need to allocate resources for active wildfire suppression.

Earlier this year, comedian Adam Carolla went viral in a video where he talked about how horrible the rebuild process would be for the victims of the California fires because of progressive policies in the state. Carolla said:

So here’s what’s going to happen. All these people who are deep blue Democrats are now going to have to pull a permit to rebuild, and they’re going to get the 28 year old bitch from the Coastal Commission telling them to go fuck off and then they’re going to vote for Trump or whoever’s Trumpian next.

When they start getting the regulation, they’re going to go nuts. And when they start running into the bureaucracy and the red tape, they’re going to start going nuts and they’re going to vote for Rick Caruso next time.

California Governor Gavin Newsom tried to get out in front of this and said that the red tape would be cut and building permits would flow freely in order for these people to rebuild their lives and their homes.

And yet… Gavin Newsom appeared on CNN and explained that people ‘can’t rebuild the same.’ Newsom suggests that there is a new reality due to the ‘science’ and climate change, and that all of that has to be taken into account as people rebuild.

In other words, Adam Carolla was right. Newsom and other authorities in California may be handing out building permits, but it’s pretty clear that there will still be red tape and new rules for rebuilding.

During a recent appearance on Pod Force One, Burgum pointed out the shocking hypocrisy of California Democrats who preach about “climate change” while their own policies fuel the infernos that devastate the state year after year.

Doug Burgum:
“The fuel load buildup that’s occurred in American forests can actually go back to the Clinton era. There was a famous effort at the beginning of the environmental extremist movement that said, “Oh, the spotted owl! We can’t cut any more trees because of the spotted owl.” This was part of the weaponization of the Endangered Species Act.

By shutting down our forests, we destroyed our position in the timber milling industry. We killed rural communities that were dependent on timber. But the private sector was willing to step in—because when we did a timber lease, they wrote a check to the government. With oil and gas leases, they pay us for the opportunity, and then they pay a royalty on top of it. These are ongoing, sustainable revenues.

In forestry, they would clear roads, do the thinning, and take care of all the work needed to manage the forest. So when a fire did happen, it wouldn’t burn at the super-mega heat levels we see today.

…It’s not environmental. A forest that’s clean can survive a fire because the healthy trees survive, and that can be positive. Controlled burns have a positive role. But these out-of-control, super-hot mega-fires do kill forests.

Now we are burning more timber every year in America than we harvest—and we’re importing timber. Accidentally, right? So uncontrolled fires consume more of our asset base. We then spend money trying to stop those fires, as opposed to being paid money by the private sector.

We—the citizens, the public owners—should be receiving revenue, not expending expenses fighting fires. The amount of timber we’ve stopped harvesting equals about the same amount we now import. So we’re also paying for imported timber.

And if people do care about CO₂ releases—when a forest burns, these are massive CO₂ releases. That’s how you release CO₂ from a tree—you burn it. When you have a campfire, you’re releasing that carbon. The fires in California have released more CO₂ than all of their so-called efforts to “control” CO₂.”

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It Literally Never Stops: The Earth Is Being Absolutely Pummeled By Disaster After Disaster | End Of The American Dream

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So many disasters are happening so frequently that it is almost impossible to keep up with them all.  Somehow, 2025 has become “the year of the flood” and “the year of the fire” simultaneously.  2025 is also the year of the largest earthquake that we have witnessed this decade.  The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that recently shook the Pacific Ring of Fire was quickly followed by hundreds of other very large earthquakes.  Overall, there were 494 earthquakes of at least magnitude 5.0 within a recent 30 day period.  Many were hoping that things would settle down during the month of August, but over the past few days there have been many new disasters making headlines all over the globe.

For example, unprecedented rainfall caused enormous flash floods to rip through the Wisconsin state fair…

Flash flooding slammed parts of Wisconsin on Saturday evening, forcing revelers at the state fair to flee and left residents trapped inside their homes.

Torrential rainfall battered the Badger State, with the National Weather Service (NWS) issuing a flash flooding warning for Milwaukee, West Allis and Wauwatosa.

Images emerged of flood waters rising over cars in the state, in one clip a man is seen stranded sitting on the hood of a car as fast flowing water passes him.

When I say “unprecedented rainfall”, I am not kidding.

Some parts of Milwaukee have actually had over 14 inches of rain so far, and more rain is coming…

Milwaukee was hit with 5.74 inches of rain on Saturday, setting a new daily record for the area. The rain has only continued since, with some areas of Milwaukee seeing more than 14 inches of total rainfall as of Sunday morning, according to the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage District.

The Central Plains and Midwest regions are set to see even more rain and flash floods, according to the National Weather Service. Severe thunderstorms, hail and isolated tornadoes could threaten the region through Sunday night.

This sort of thing is happening over and over again in 2025.

Why is that?

In the old days, “1,000 year storms” used to be quite rare.

But now they are occurring all the time.

Just look at what happened in Chicago in late July.  More than 5 inches of rain fell in just two hours…

The torrential rainfall that pounded parts of Chicago on July 25 was so extreme, it typically occurs only once every 1,000 years, according to the National Weather Service.

Midday July 25, a corridor of extreme rainfall developed along a stalled atmospheric boundary on the south side of Chicago. As much as 5.61 inches of rain fell in Garfield Ridge in just two hours.

Extreme rain was also observed in Bedford Park near the border with Clearing, where an unofficial gauge measured 5.98 inches in three hours.

Conditions have been even worse on the other side of the planet.

The amount of rainfall that Yuzhong County, China has been getting has been absolutely insane.

At least 10 people have died after that county received “up to half of the county’s average annual rainfall” on August 7th and 8th…

Flash floods in Yuzhong County, Gansu Province, China, killed at least 10 people and left 33 missing after up to half of the county’s average annual rainfall fell between August 7 and 8, 2025. Chinese President Xi Jinping urged local authorities to carry out full-scale rescue operations.

Meanwhile, “the year of the fire” just continues to roll on.

On Friday, a brand new wildfire suddenly erupted in the Los Angeles area…

A fierce wildfire north-west of Los Angeles prompted evacuation orders for thousands of residents on Friday, as extreme heat and dry conditions fuelled its rapid spread.

The blaze, named the Canyon Fire, ignited on Thursday afternoon along the border of Ventura and Los Angeles counties. By Friday evening, it had expanded from 30 acres to nearly 5,400.

Authorities believe that they are getting the Canyon Fire under control, but the Gifford Fire has now grown to 114,000 acres…

Evacuation orders remain in effect in parts of Central California as the massive Gifford Fire crosses the 110,000 acre threshold.

The fire is the largest of the year in California with more than 114,000 acres scorched, according to fire officials. Nearly 3,000 firefighting personnel are attacking the blaze that’s burning primarily in rural areas of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. The fire is 21% contained as of Sunday morning.

Now that the Gifford Fire has surpassed 100,000 acres, it is considered to be a “megafire”.

Another “megafire” over in Arizona that has literally been raging since July 4th has been so intense that it is literally spawning pyrocumulus clouds…

The massive wildfire burning near the Grand Canyon has been so intense at times that it created its own weather.

The Dragon Bravo Fire — which has scorched more than 130,000 acres in Arizona north of the Grand Canyon — has become so hot that it spurred pyrocumulus clouds, or “fire clouds” at points. The fire-driven clouds can form when the heat and smoke from a very large wildfire is released into the atmosphere, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Needless to say, the extremely hot and dry conditions in Arizona right now are perfect for this fire.

If you can believe it, the high temperature in Phoenix reached 118 degrees on August 7th.  That was the hottest August day “in over 120 years of record-keeping”…

Another day, another heat record in Phoenix, as America’s hottest city sweltered through its warmest August day in over 120 years of record-keeping.

The temperature soared to 118 degrees at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport at 3:40 p.m. on Aug. 7. The previous record for the hottest August day was 117 degrees, reached most recently in 2023.

The daily record high of 112 degrees was broken before lunchtime as the heat continued to build through the afternoon.

At the same time, our planet just continues to get monkey-hammered by large earthquakes in diverse places.

On Sunday, a magnitude 6.1 earthquake caused buildings to collapse in a heavily populated area of Turkey…

Turkey has been rocked by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake tonight (Sunday) as rescuers and locals searching collapsed buildings for survivors. Images posted on social media show damaged buildings and scenes of destruction with people scouring the rubble for signs of anyone trapped.

The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), according to German Research Centre for Geosciences(GFZ)

Turkey’s disaster management agency AFAD said the quake occurred at around 7:53pm local time in the Balikesir province, near the country’s biggest city Istanbul.

The day before, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook the Kuril Islands…

A magnitude 6 earthquake struck the east of the Kuril Islands region of Russia on Saturday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre said.

The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), EMSC said.

And let us not forget the magnitude 5.9 earthquake that just rattled the coastline of Guatemala…

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Guatemala on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported.

There were no initial damage or injury reports immediately available.

The quake hit about 62 miles from Champerico, Guatemala, according to the USGS map. It was the latest earthquake to strike along the Motagua fault, which has seen a dozen similar seismic events over the last year.

Earthquakes of magnitude 6.0 or greater used to get a lot of attention.

But now they just keep happening one after another.

On top of everything else, space rocks are entering our atmosphere at an alarming rate.

In fact, a giant fireball “lit up the skies over Australia” on Sunday…

A BLAZING fireball lit up the skies over Australia before a deafening bang rattled homes and sent social media into meltdown.

The suspected meteor was spotted just before 8pm on Sunday by Victoria residents who thought they saw a blinding flash followed by a ground-shaking boom.

One shocked witness wrote on social media: “Just saw something fall from the sky near Daylesford and a huge bang. Never felt anything like it.”

Another claimed: “Hubby saw a red light falling, followed by a loud bang! The house was shaking.”

Space rocks are becoming a growing problem in the U.S. too.

At the end of June, a meteorite actually “slammed into a home” in Georgia…

Shocking footage captured the moment a four-billion-year-old meteorite streaked across the skies of Georgia before it slammed into a home.

The meteorite punched a hole in a homeowner’s roof on June 26 as it hurtled toward the ground faster than the speed of sound, with newly released video showing the rock blazing through the atmosphere.

Scientists found that the rock had been burning through space for eons and was older than the Earth itself, dating back 4.56 billion years ago. That is roughly 20 million years older than the Earth.

But despite all of the disasters and all of the warning signs, most people still don’t seem to understand that we really have entered an extremely apocalyptic chapter in human history.

The storms, the floods, the fires and the earthquakes are all going to get worse.

If you are still waiting for everything to “go back to normal”, you can stop, because it simply is not going to happen.

Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written nine other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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Devastating US Report Lays Bare The Abuses Of ‘Settled’ Climate Science And Its Role In Net Zero | ZeroHedge

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Authored by Chris Morrison via DailyScheptic.org,

Net Zero is dead in the United States and the last rites have been administered in the devastating official report from the Department of Energy. Released earlier this week, the report cancels the decades-long censorship imposed by so-called ‘settled’ climate science. It is compiled by five eminent scientists and is a systematic take-down of the claims, methodologies and motivations driving activist scientists, politicians and opinion formers promoting the hard-Left Net Zero fantasy. Despite its ground-breaking importance, to date it has been largely ignored by mainstream media including the BBC and Guardian.

Computer models are said to offer “little guidance” on how much of the climate responds to higher levels of carbon dioxide, most extreme weather events are not increasing, sea levels in North America show no increasing trend while weather attribution claims are challenged by natural climate variation along with an admission that they were originally designed with ‘lawfare’ in mind. For Anthony Watts, who has spent decades challenging the ‘settled’ politicised science, the most important consideration is that the report, “directly confronts the exaggerated and politicised rhetoric that has dominated headlines for decades”.

Watts, who runs the Watts Up With That? (WUWT?) site that was responsible for publicising the infamous Climategate scandal, argues that the new report is unique in that it has both official status and author independence. It is not a think tank paper or an article in a ‘dissenting’ journal.

“It’s rare to see scientists of this calibre (with backgrounds at NASA, IPCC and major universities) allowed to directly challenge prevailing policy narratives with government resources behind them”, he notes.

The work is a “comprehensive critique” quoting extensively from peer-reviewed literature with clear explanations of scientific uncertainties and climate model error. 

For regular readers of WUWT? and other inquiring publications such as the Daily Sceptic, many of the issues discussed in the report will be familiar. In the last four years, your correspondent has written nearly 500 articles on climate science and Net Zero in an attempt to fill in the significant reporting gaps left by the narrative-driven mainstream media. Many of the papers quoted are familiar, not least in the section that deals with the sensational ‘greening’ of the planet caused by higher levels of CO2.

The report quotes from recent work that shows extensive plant and crop growth due to the atmospheric fertilisation that has enhanced photosynthesis and improved water use efficiency. Over the past 60+ years, the authors observe that there have been thousands of studies on the response of plants to rising CO2 levels, and the overwhelming theme is that they benefit from the extra gas. In 2016, Zhu et al detected greening over 25%–50% of the planet. But there is a near official news blackout on the subject. A few mentions can be found in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports but overall, observe the authors, “the Policymakers Summaries, Technical Summaries and [IPCC] Synthesis reports of AR5 and ASR6 do not discuss the topic”.

Needless to say there are few kind words for the climate projections based on the notorious IPCC emission scenario known as RCP8.5. Most academic climate impact studies in recent years are based on this extreme scenario, “that is now considered implausible”. Why is this castigation important – because RCP8.5 litters the scientific clickbait literature and has a key role in promoting the Net Zero plan. Most stories in mainstream media debunked in recent years by the Daily Sceptic and others – from the future collapsing Gulf Stream to the disappearing coral – are based on this trash “business-as-usual” computer model pathway.

Climate models are noted to be the primary tool used to project future climate changes in response to higher levels of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. It might be added that their outputs are the basis of 40 years of fear mongering designed to drive Net Zero and the destruction of the hydrocarbon industrial economy.

“Of great concern”, continue the authors, “is the fact that after several decades of the climate modelling enterprise involving approximately three dozen models operated by research centres around the world, the range of future warming they produce in response to a hypothetical doubling of CO2 extends over a factor of three”.

This range of disagreement among models has not decreased for decades, they add.

Those inclined to use less charitable language might comment that climate models are useless for the purpose of providing genuine science upon which reasonable public policy can be determined – and always have been.

Much of the recent climate fear mongering surrounds ‘extreme’ weather events and the suggestion that something Nature has always thrown at life on Earth can now be directly attributed to the actions of humans. The most prominent in this field is the Green Blob-funded World Weather Attribution (WWA) run out of Imperial College in London and headed by BBC favourite, Dr Friederike Otto. “WWA’s extensive promotion of non-peer-reviewed findings, its open admission to shaping analyses to serve litigation, and its methodological challenges have sparked controversy”, it is noted.

The biggest problem (apart from using computer models) is the lack of past data on extreme weather events. A few years of data allied to an unproven conviction that all current warming is caused by humans, cannot provide guidance for events that crop up as outliers.

If paleoclimate reconstruction are considered, “it becomes very difficult for an event to pass thresholds of what is expected from natural variability”, it is concluded. 

Source: Devastating US Report Lays Bare The Abuses Of ‘Settled’ Climate Science And Its Role In Net Zero

“The Year Of The Flood” Gets Even Worse: Monster Storms Cause Catastrophic Flooding in Hong Kong, India, South Korea, Taiwan And China | The Economic Collapse

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We have never seen a year quite like this.  I wrote about “the year of the flood” on July 15th and July 27th, and now I am writing about it again.  If I haven’t convinced you by now that something really weird is going on, I don’t know what to tell you.  Record-breaking storms and record-breaking floods just keep hitting us again and again all over the world.  During this past week, it is Asia that has been really taking a beating.  Sometimes when I write articles about what is taking place on the other side of the world, a certain percentage of my readers tune out, but please don’t do that because what I have to share today is very important.

Let me begin with what is happening in Hong Kong.

According to the New York Times, torrential rain that has been going on for days is turning roads into rivers and is picking up cars and sweeping them away…

Days of relentless rain in Hong Kong set off major floods on Tuesday that swept cars away, inundated a hospital emergency ward and left buses stranded. Roads winding down the city’s steep hills turned into rivers.

Even for Hong Kong, a city accustomed to seasonal typhoons, the record-breaking deluge has pushed it to its limits, straining city services and testing the patience and wits of its residents.

Hong Kong has never experienced anything like this before.

In fact, Hong Kong just had “its highest daily rainfall in August since records began in 1884”…

Parts of Hong Kong were brought to a standstill by flooding caused by heavy rains on Tuesday, after the highest-tier rainstorm warning was issued for the fourth time in eight days.

The city logged its highest daily rainfall in August since records began in 1884, at just over 355 millimetres recorded at the Hong Kong weather observatory’s headquarters at 2:00 pm (0600 GMT).

In India, flash flooding just sent a “wall of water, mud and debris” slamming into the Himalayan village of Dharali…

A surge of flood water tore through a mountainous village in northern India Tuesday, leaving at least four people dead and dozens missing, officials said.

Dramatic video from the Himalayan village of Dharali, Uttarakhand state, shows the wall of water, mud and debris tearing down the mountainside and through the village, destroying the homes and businesses in its path. The flooding occurred around 1:45 p.m. local time, according to District Magistrate Prashant Arya in the city of Uttarkashi.

At least four people were confirmed killed, Arya said. “There are a lot of guest houses, restaurants and hotels there, because of which we immediately requested the army to aid rescue operations,” he said.

Apparently dozens of local residents had just gathered at a temple for some sort of a religious festival when the wall of water struck.

It is being reported that about 100 people have been reported missing and “scores remained unaccounted for”…

Dozens in the village had been gathered in a temple for a festival as the wave of dark water and debris struck at high velocity.

The Indian defence minister, Sanjay Seth, confirmed that four people had been killed in the disaster but officials feared the number could rise. Approximately 100 people were reported missing on Tuesday and scores remained unaccounted for and feared trapped in the mud, including about eight soldiers who were reported missing from a camp in the area.

In South Korea, 11 inches of rain in a 24 hour period caused “severe flooding across the southern regions of the country”…

An extreme rainfall event struck South Korea between August 3 and 4, 2025, triggering severe flooding across the southern regions of the country. Over 280 mm (11 inches) of rainfall was recorded in Muan in just 24 hours, with the hourly rainfall rates reaching over extreme 140 mm (6 inches) on August 4.

But that is nothing compared to what just happened in Taiwan.

In one district in southern Taiwan, more than nine feet of rain has fallen since July 28th…

Storms dumped more than two metres of rain in parts of Taiwan over the past week, killing five people and triggering floods and landslides in central and southern areas, authorities said Monday.

Torrential rain has lashed swathes of the island since July 28, forcing several thousand people to seek shelter, damaging roads, and shuttering offices.

Maolin, a mountainous district in southern Taiwan, recorded more than 2.8 metres (nine feet) of rain since July 28, the Central Weather Administration (CWA).

That’s more than Taiwan’s annual rainfall of 2.1 metres last year, according to the agency’s data.

I can’t even imagine that much rain.

Needless to say, all of that water caused horrific flooding and severe landslides over a very wide area.

Of course I don’t want to leave the recent flooding in China out of this article.

Last week, Beijing was getting absolutely pummeled by torrential rain, and at least 30 people died as a result…

Days of torrential rain have killed at least 30 people in the northern outskirts of Beijing, state media reported Tuesday, as China grapples with yet another deadly rainy season marked by extreme downpours, devastating floods and landslides.

In recent days, intense rainstorms have battered much of northern China – a densely populated part of the country home to massive metropolises as well as agricultural heartlands.

As vast quantities of water rapidly rushed through the Miyun District in northern Beijing, it took vehicles and electricity poles with it…

Footage circulating on social media shows brown floodwater sweeping through residential communities, washing away cars, knocking down electricity poles and turning streets into rivers in Miyun.

Dozens of roads have been damaged, potentially complicating rescue efforts, and in more than 100 smaller, more rural villages, the downpours have also cut off electricity.

Can anyone point to a time when we have seen so much catastrophic flooding all over the world in a single year?

As I keep reminding my readers, we really are living in apocalyptic times.

I wish that I could tell you that all of this is temporary and that conditions will soon return to normal.

But I can’t.

I fully expect “the year of the flood” to continue, and I also expect quite a few other “surprises” in the months ahead as well.

Michael’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com.

About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “10 Prophetic Events That Are Coming Next” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.  He has also written nine other books that are available on Amazon.com including “Chaos”, “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today.

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