Ackshually, climate change is still technically a thing. It’s just not the “thing” that its beneficiaries used to know.
Axios offers us what amounts to an early anniversary gift to Donald Trump exactly one week before the one-year mark of his presidency. The report details the “collapse” of the global-warming grift and credits it entirely to Trump, which the White House will no doubt embrace and Trump voters will celebrate.
However much Trump would like it, though, he doesn’t deserve full credit for a murder that truly amounts mainly to a suicide:
The climate agenda’s fall from grace over the past year has been stunning — in speed, scale and scope.
Why it matters: Whether this collapse in climate-change ambition proves permanent or temporary will shape the planet — which is still warming in unprecedented ways — and trillions of dollars in global energy investment.
Driving the news: President Trump last week announced that he’s withdrawing from the world’s flagship climate treaty that’s been in place for more than 30 years, making the U.S. the only country not to be part of it.
- “There’s no hand-waving about how ‘We want to cooperate on climate,’ ” oil historian and S&P Global vice chairman Dan Yergin said in an interview. “It’s, ‘We’re slamming the door on that issue.’ “
That much is true. Last week, Trump formally withdrew the US from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as well as 65 multilateral organizations tasked with implementing it. Trump withdrew over issues of national sovereignty and international interference, but also because he perceives the global-warming establishment as both a backdoor effort to impose socialism and also a massive grift for the Left and bureaucrats. The sheer number of organizations tied to the UNFCCC aptly demonstrates the latter claim, at least.
However, the real culprit in the death of Global Warming Inc is … Global Warming Inc. For the thirty-four years of the UNFCCC, we have heard nothing but how the world only has twelve years to save itself! We have been warned that we’d see cities swallowed up by rising oceans, a theme that gave us at least one cheesy cinematic guilty pleasure (Waterworld) and another film so bad that it’s unwatchable (The Day After Tomorrow). Every human conflict has been tied to global warming, as though wars only started with the internal-combustion engine and that religious and territorial disputes only went back to the launching of Standard Oil. Every hurricane and tornado is treated as evidence that the sky is falling, while the actual decline in the numbers of both are treated as, well … just weather.
All of that didn’t deliver the killing blow. Greta Thunberg’s high-school-dropout lectures didn’t do it, either. Neither did the spectacle of watching the world’s elite travel on private aircraft to five-star resorts in order to publicly demand that the rest of us accept a lower standard of living without reliable energy. What really killed it was COP30, and the decision by Global Warming Inc to destroy old-growth rainforest in Brazil in order to shave a few minutes off the drive for these progressive elites between the airport and the COP30 conference in Belém. And no, I am not kidding, like at all:
A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.
It aims to ease traffic to the city, which will host more than 50,000 people – including world leaders – at the conference in November.
The state government touts the highway’s “sustainable” credentials, but some locals and conservationists are outraged at the environmental impact.
As I noted at the time, Belém already had highways connecting the city to the airport:
And here’s another question: why would Belém need a road through the Amazon at all? Belém isn’t some obscure town in Brazil; the capital of Pará has a population of 1.3 million people, and has highways already built that connect it to other parts of the country. It also has rail service as well as an international airport and a military air base. The civilian airport has been around for 50 years and serves over 3 million passengers a year, many of whom presumably can find their way back and forth from Belém already without clear-cutting a rainforest to find it.
Oh, but world leaders can’t be inconvenienced by [checks notes] using a workaround to save the rainforest. And Greta’s scowl might bring plagues!
The whole obscene circus only served to expose the grift for what it is, or what it was: a way for progressive elites to spend Other People’s Money to virtue signal on a manufactured crisis, while using it as an excuse to grab more power for themselves. Their Ben Tre spin on the COP30 destruction of rainforest made their grift so obvious that even the BBC felt forced to report on it. Even Thunberg has a new grift these days.
Donald Trump didn’t kill Global Warming Inc. He just put it out of its misery.
Addendum: The Protection Racket Media won’t let it go that easily. ABC News has a new story out about rising carbon emissions in the US today, natch:
In a reversal from previous years’ pollution reductions, the United States spewed 2.4% more heat-trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels in 2025 than in the year before, researchers calculated in a study released Tuesday.
The increase in greenhouse gas emissions is attributable to a combination of a cool winter, the explosive growth of data centers and cryptocurrency mining and higher natural gas prices, according to the Rhodium Group, an independent research firm. Environmental policy rollbacks by President Donald Trump’s administration were not significant factors in the increase because they were only put in place this year, the study authors said. Heat-trapping gases from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas are the major cause of worsening global warming, scientists say.
We only have 12 years to avoid disaster! We’ll never see snow again! Steven Spielberg will make a sequel to AI Artificial Intelligence! Greta will be unpleased! Lather, rinse, repeat. Preferably in a rain forest, dining on endangered species, while the peasants park your private jets.
Climate change is real. It’s called “weather.” Macro-climate change is also real, and happened long before we invented uses for Texas Tea. The only real “new” issue is socialism, a plague which came along about the same time as the internal-combustion engine but which has killed an exponentially larger number of humans since its birth. Let’s focus on the real danger to mankind at scale, as well as its conspirators and the dupes they organize to advance it.
Editor’s Note: The Democrat Party has never been less popular as voters reject its globalist agenda.
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