Analysis: Blinded by the Light: ‘How the IPCC Ignored the Sun’ – ‘IPCC’s relentless simplification, reducing Earth’s immensely complex climate system to one molecule (CO₂), isn’t just bad science… it’s dangerous’
https://irrationalfear.substack.com/p/blinded-by-the-light Dr. Matthew Wielicki Excerpt: I’ve spent most of my career in earth science, working alongside thoughtful, rigorous, and principled scientists, people I deeply respect. I don’t believe most are dishonest or driven by ideology. Indeed, much of the foundational science in IPCC’s Working Group I, which addresses climate data, physical mechanisms, and processes, appears […]
Former spokeswoman for Extinction Rebellion red-pilled on ‘green groups’ – ‘They have ‘nothing to do with protecting the Earth’ & ‘Often caused more harm than good’ – ‘Is it time to defund these NGOs?’
By Zion Lights – Key excerpts: “These groups have one thing in common: they follow an ideology that has nothing to do with protecting the Earth. Despite their strong branding and marketing, what they truly share is the ability to hoodwink and greenwash. … They get away with all manner of bad behaviour. …
“People are generally becoming increasingly aware that some of these groups – particularly within the environmental sector – have often caused more harm than good to the causes they claim to serve. Several have been implicated in dubious activities, including accepting funding from Russia to lobby against domestic energy production. But still, they remain financially afloat. So why are people still donating money to them? …
They also lack transparency regarding the origins of their funding, so we don’t know the identity of everyone who has contributed, funded and worked with them. This is concerning, since they are so influential, successfully shaping public opinion, lobbying politicians, and crafting environmental discourse.”
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Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups – Targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant
https://newrepublic.com/post/192660/trump-fbi-charge-climate-organizations?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email By Malcolm Ferguson The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration. Citibank revealed in a court filing Wednesday that it was told to freeze the groups’ bank accounts at the FBI’s request. The reason? The FBI alleges that the groups are […]
Roger Pielke on NOAA Staff Cuts: The agency is ‘reaping the whirlwind’ for ‘cutting corners on science’
Roger Pielke on NOAA Staff Cuts By Paul Homewood From the Telegraph: The US government’s weather agency has been dismantled by the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) after it was accused of peddling “misinformation”. Hundreds of weather forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) were fired last week as part of Donald Trump’s plans […]
Climate Misinformation from the UN – A new Swedish Radio investigation reveals – ‘UN has been systematically misrepresenting climate science’
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/climate-misinformation-from-the-united By Roger Pielke Jr. Excerpt: Lapses of scientific integrity in climate science have become normalized. I no longer expect the community to care about obvious and egregious problems in climate science, even when documented in the peer reviewed literature. The community’s willful blindness has had a long time to develop muscle memory — More […]
LOMBORG: UN pushes awful green deal policies while also spreading eco lies – UN ‘trying to control what people can hear, read & think about climate change’
https://nypost.com/2025/03/06/opinion/un-pushes-awful-green-deal-policies-while-also-spreading-eco-lies/ By Bjorn Lomborg The United Nations is at a crossroads. President Trump pulled out of the World Health Organization, cut funding for the UN’s Climate Convention, and more withdrawals are likely in the pipeline. He calls the UN an “underperformer,” suggesting it is a swamp to be drained. At this critical juncture, one could reasonably […]
UN climate science body corrupt to the core ⎯ what will the IPCC peddle next?
https://www.americaoutloud.news/un-climate-science-body-corrupt-to-the-core-%e2%8e%af-what-will-the-ipcc-peddle-next/ By Tom Harris The Trump administration’s stop-work order to all US government scientists participating in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a breath of fresh air. After decades of unscientific doom and gloom forecasts that never come true, climate scientists will have to now find a different vehicle to peddle […]
‘Fake’ Wetland Restorations Killed California’s Delta Smelt Despite billions invested – ‘These supposed efforts were based on fraudulent permits & fabricated reports’
Fake Wetland Restorations Killed California’s Delta Smelt By John Lynn The Delta Smelt, a tiny fish teetering on the edge of extinction, has suffered despite billions invested in wetland restoration projects. Shocking new evidence uncovers that these supposed efforts were based on fraudulent permits and fabricated reports. This deception not only jeopardizes a key species […]
Ethics watchdog flags Senator Sheldon Whitehouse helping wife rake in millions for green nonprofit
BOMBSHELL: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) backed legislation that funneled millions to his wife’s environmental nonprofit, Ocean Conservancy. She’s been paid nearly $2.7M while the group raked in $14.2M+ in federal grants—funded by bills Whitehouse voted for! Now, an ethics… pic.twitter.com/hw7KmNc4Dz — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 25, 2025 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ethics-watchdog-flags-senator-helping-make-millions-wifes-green-nonprofit A watchdog is asking the […]
‘My 40-year journey with climate change…from idealism to realism’: Former UN IPCC scientist Mike Hulme: ‘I uncritically absorbed the notion that climate change represented the pre-eminent challenge facing humanity’ – Now declares climate is ‘perhaps not the most important thing’
Mike Hulme, Professor at Cambridge University & one of the world’s most accomplished climate scientists. Hulme participated in the UN IPCC second and third assessments & was part of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, where he subsequently founded the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA. He has been at Cambridge University since 2017. … Mike’s publication record is expansive.
Prof. Hulme: “For a long period I uncritically absorbed the notion that climate change represented the pre-eminent challenge facing humanity in the twenty-first century. … I was easily convinced that the growing human influence on the world’s climate would be a reality that all nations would increasingly need to confront, a reality to which their interests would necessarily be subservient and that would be decisive for shaping their development pathways. For more than half of these 40 or so years, it seemed to me self-evident that relations between nations would forcibly be re-shaped by the exigencies of a changing climate.
But now, in the mid-2020s, I can see that I got this the wrong way round. … Too often the language, rhetoric, and campaigning around climate change remains wedded to a world that no longer exists. … Rather than geopolitics having to bend to the realities of a changing climate, the opposite has happened. … In short, this optimism was fueled by the rise of globalism; thinking strategically about climate change was caught-up in this zeitgeist. … Climate is not the only thing that is changing through our lifetimes, and perhaps not the most important thing. …
By 2007, the illusion under which I had been working—that geopolitics would bend to the force of concern over climate change—was already ending. The Kyoto Protocol, signed in 1997, ratified in 2004, had yielded next to nothing in terms of emissions reductions. … And the denouement came in December 2009 at COP15, billed as ‘the most important meeting in human history’. During a few days in a wintery Copenhagen, China’s growing political and economic muscle was firmly exercised, the impotence of the EU’s climate diplomacy revealed, and the limits of late twentieth century internationalism exposed.
The curtain finally came down on Sarewitz’s so-called “plan” during the (northern) 2009/10 winter of climate discontent. In November 2009, the western world was blind-sided by the Climategate controversy over leaked emails between corresponding scientists, and in the early months of 2010 its confidence in climate science further undermined by several challenges to the IPCC’s trust and credibility. …
So this has been my 40-year journey with climate change, initially from idealist to pragmatist, and now from pragmatist to realist. It is not a particularly hopeful story-arc, but then why should I, or anyone else, ever think that climate change was going to offer one?…Climate is not the only thing that is changing through our lifetimes, and perhaps not the most important thing. …
I now see the need for a deeper reading of political realism and power, that goes beyond seeing science as a coercive force that trumps geopolitics, beyond appeals to a superficial cosmopolitanism. To use the language of Jason Maloy at Louisiana University, climate change is neither an emergency or a crisis; it is a political epic, “a process of collective human effort that features gradual progression through time, obscure problem origins, and anticlimactic outcomes.”
The best that we can say is that the world will continue slowly to decarbonize its energy system and, at the same time, the Earth will continue slowly to warm. And societies will continue to adapt to evolving climate hazards in new ways, as they have always done, with winners and losers along the way.