Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Trump administration's handling of energy policy and the claims of the climate scolds. This must have Al Gore, John Kerry, and Greta "Doom Pixie" Thunberg gritting their teeth in rage, and that alone would be a good enough reason to ignore the climate scolds' claims. But the Trump administration isn't doing all this just to upset libs; they're doing it to make American energy plentiful, reliable, and affordable. Our entire way of life depends on this.

One media organization is particularly perturbed by the Trump administration's moves. That organization would be the British BBC, and the great "Climate Realism" website's Charles Rotter has that story.

Six weeks ago, the BBC’s climate soothsayers were gazing into 2025 with their trademark blend of gloom and green idealism. Their January 7 piece, “From Trump to a ‘Game-Changing’ Lawsuit: Seven Big Climate and Nature Moments Coming in 2025,” sketched a year of UN lawsuits, lofty CO2 targets, and global summits—all set to “shift the dial” on warming. They gave Trump’s return a nervous glance, hinting his Paris exit might “hinder climate action,” but banked on technocrats and NGOs to keep the faith. Then the Trump juggernaut roared in, flattening their predictions in under two months. Now, with NGOs in the crosshairs, the rubble’s still smoking. What a difference six weeks make.

There are six steps described by Mr. Rotter in this tale, but it's worth looking in particular at the first two.

Step one: the BBC’s pre-election bubble. In early January, they listed seven “big moments” for 2025—Trump’s term as a minor snag, followed by a UN climate court case, G20 greenwashing rules, UK CO2 cuts, Brazil’s COP 30, Arctic talks, and some tech fluff. They hedged on Trump, clinging to China’s renewable hype and Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) as lifelines. NGOs, those tireless peddlers of climate dogma, lurked in the background, funded by agencies like USAID to amplify the narrative. The BBC figured the machine would chug along, Trump or not.

Ah, yes, the NGOs — those non-governmental organizations that carry out so much of Washington's bidding, at least when there's a leftist president installed. But there's a catch — there's always a catch. In this case, the catch is President Donald Trump. He's defunding propaganda outlets like a man possessed, and all I can say about that is "It's about time."

Step two: Trump swings the axe. By January 20, 2025, Inauguration Day ink still wet, Trump unleashed chaos. He re-ditched the Paris Agreement, declared an “energy emergency” to greenlight oil and gas, paused offshore wind, and froze IRA funds. But the real kicker? He’s targeting the NGO pipeline. Word’s out that Trump’s team is slashing climate propaganda budgets, especially to those previously depended on the now defunct USAID, which had funneled millions to groups preaching doom and pushing renewables. The BBC’s mild worry about “hindered action” didn’t foresee this bulldozer tearing up the roots.

Tearing up the roots — that's a good metaphor. American taxpayers have been footing the bill for so much, for so long, in the name of climate panic and a host of other leftist agenda items, and if President Trump's reelection has shown us nothing else, it has shown us that the American public is damn sick and tired of it. The Department of Government Efficiency, the DOGE, is the hound that President Trump has unleashed at the federal bureaucracy's wasteful ways and yelled, "Sic 'em!" NGOs and other climate-panic propaganda arms are being defunded left and right, and it seems the BBC, along with plenty of others, just didn't see it coming. Too bad, eh?

It sure seems like a lot of people have come to grief underestimating our new, returned president. Maybe that's because they became accustomed to the senile, feckless, rudderless, incompetent, and corrupt Joe Biden, who, as a chief executive, made Andrew Johnson and Jimmy Carter look like paragons.

The climate will be fine. As I'm regularly pointing out, through most of Earth's history, it's been warmer than it is now. The planet doesn't have a thermostat, much less one that we can fiddle with and pin down to a certain temperature range that we determine to be ideal. The climate will do what it will, and there's no reason for us to impoverish ourselves and destroy our modern technological lifestyle to try to indulge human hubris in thinking we know what the planet's "correct" temperature is.

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Charles Rotter concludes:

This is a front-row seat to a rout. Six weeks ago, the BBC thought 2025 was set for climate crusaders—lawsuits flexing muscle, summits preaching unity, NGOs amplifying the panic. They didn’t see Trump’s juggernaut coming, least of all his aim at the NGO cash cow. From Paris to AR7, from USAID to COP 30, he’s not just slowing the train—he’s dynamiting the tracks and torching the wreckage. The BBC’s crystal ball? Smashed. The view of the debris? Priceless.

Priceless, indeed. When you add it to the crushing of illegal immigration, of once more having control of our borders, to the beginnings of rebuilding our armed forces, and to the United States once more having a robust, muscular foreign policy — well, we're not tired of winning yet, nor will we be. We're going to have cheaper energy again, too; no more pondering a second mortgage before filling up your car's gas tank. The climate will be fine — it will change, sure, over geological periods, just as it always has, and we will, as we always have, adapt to those changes. Energy, cheap, reliable, abundant energy makes that easier, not harder.

What a difference a month makes.