Ah, climate change, the most successful pagan religion in the world. The faith that proclaims the sky will fall any day now, and it's all your fault for driving cars and eating cows.
Never mind that its clergy who fly in private jets to their yachts, where they then take a helicopter to lunch (Climate Doomer Leonardo DiCaprio actually does this), the only way to fix this problem is for you to give the church of climate change as much power as you can legally allow and let it infect your government, industry, and personal life. You will die if you don't, and besides, you're stealing Greta Thunberg's dreams.
Read: A Non-Believer's View of the Church of Climate Change
Unfortunately for the cult, the pendulum has swung away from them. Like most things that the left hammered us with relentlessly, we got tired of hearing about how awful we are and started ignoring the "experts" who were telling us we were just one day away from The Day After Tomorrow.
And as we turned away from them, other scientists in the room finally found air enough to begin voicing their dissent. As The Heartland Institute wrote for RedState on Tuesday, more level-headed and scientifically driven voices are finally being heard after literal decades of being silenced and censored:
First, the world’s most-watched podcaster, Joe Rogan, hosted two of the most-respected dissenting climate scientists alive, Dr. Richard Lindzen of MIT and Dr. William Happer of Princeton, for a long-form conversation about the actual evidence behind global warming claims. The second event came from inside the climate establishment itself: Ted Nordhaus, founder of the Breakthrough Institute and once a self-described climate activist, published an essay titled “Why I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist.”
Each, in its own way, exposed the gulf between scientific nuance and political narrative — and together they may mark a turning point in public understanding.
Not that they've always been quiet.
Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition, Tom Harris, and the Senior Policy Advisor of the International Climate Science Coalition and Senior Science Analyst at CFACT, the late Jay Lehr, wrote a report so damning to climate doomers that I feel it should be required reading for schools. The carbon catastrophe that Climate Church preachers were saying would doom us all was so overblown as to be laughable. The duo noted that our contribution to the Earth's carbon emissions is infinitesimal compared to what nature releases on her own, especially that from fungi and bacteria.
Hilariously, the Climate Church now seems to be losing its most ardent clergy, or at the very least, they're giving up on trying to scare people into obedience. This includes none other than one of the church's chief doomers, Bill Gates.
According to the New York Post, Gates has now walked back his "we're all gonna die" talk and is now saying that, for the most part, climate change isn't going to kill us:
“Although climate change will have serious consequences — particularly for people in the poorest countries — it will not lead to humanity’s demise,” he wrote. “People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future.”
Gates, who just four years ago authored a book titled “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster” and once said climate change “could be worse” than the COVID-19 pandemic, now argues “we should measure success by our impact on human welfare more than our impact on the global temperature.”
The control-alt-delete reset is a stark departure from his previous assertions that avoiding a climate disaster “will be one of the greatest challenges humans have ever taken on — greater than landing on the moon, greater than eradicating smallpox, even greater than putting a computer on every desk.”
A crazy turnaround from one of the most ardent doomers on the planet. It's almost as if the entire thing wasn't that big of a deal after all.
I'd also venture to guess there isn't as much money in the scam as there used to be. Back in February, Jeff Bezos halted $10 billion in funding to a big climate change organization. Government funding for climate projects has decreased drastically under Trump, including the EPA freezing $7 billion to a non-profit called the Climate United Fund.
The money is definitely not there like it used to be anymore, and if you're not getting anything out of pushing climate catastrophism, then why do it?
Even Thunberg seems to have swapped from being a Climate Change Saint to a pro-Palestine dramatist.
That said, I don't think the church is dead. I think it'll come roaring back at some point, but hopefully, from here on, there will be far more challenges to it to keep the narratives more honest.
