Once in a while, we get indications that a little sanity is returning to the world. Maybe it's only a little, but any creeping increment of sanity is a gift horse we should look anywhere but in the mouth.
Of course, we could look at Democrats and their reactions to anything the Trump administration has done or is doing, and that little optimism might fade. But that's a story for another time. On Thursday, an X poster going by Tom Nelson (@TomANelson) presented us an interesting list of 30 ways in which the climate scold agenda is coming apart at the seams.
— Tom Nelson (@TomANelson) April 9, 2025
I won't present the whole thing, so by all means, read it; but there are a few key items that bear a closer look.
First, Mr. Nelson says:
The climate scam is imploding right now. Of course there are still plenty of remaining pockets of climate cultism, but the whole movement is crumbling.
It's the most massive scientific fraud in human history, and it will take significant time to completely die, but make no mistake: It IS dying.
We have, of course, been doing our best to help it along, and not without some successes. For example:
"Huge: A powerful climate alliance of the World Economic Forum, major companies, the UN, and banks is "at an end."
This is huge. A big part of the initial success and spread of the climate-change fearmongering came from corporate support. That support is now drying up, and that may well be due to some energy-sector feedback; the various renewable energy schemes were making everything more expensive and less reliable, and businesses don't like more expensive and less reliable.
NASA GISS funding "terminated"?: "New NASA Chief Will Wind Down Climate Alarm Shop".
NASA, of course, never had any business in this mess in the first place. Their role is to get us - the United States - into space, and despite their initial successes, they just haven't done a heck of a lot in recent years. Elon Musk, on the other hand...
Then there's the comparison to another bit of panic-mongering: The "population bomb."
Shellenberger/Pielke Jr: “Climate change is going to fade from view like overpopulation did...Lack of protests over Trump’s action on energy shows how little anyone every really cared about global warming".
There's another comparison to the overpopulation crisis: It was based on a false premise from the very start. The earth will not soon be overflowing with people. Most of the developed world is seeing population levels stabilize, soon to start dropping as birth rates decline. Some countries, like Russia, China, and Japan, along with most of Europe, are on the precipice of a demographic collapse; they just aren't having babies.
Then there's the legal losses:
One of the longest running climate cases, Juliana v. United States, just ended in rejection at the Supreme Court.
Michael Mann is now losing in court to Mark Steyn.
Greenpeace was just hit with a $667 million judgement.
New Jersey's massive lawsuit accusing the oil industry of causing climate change was dismissed with prejudice.
Add it all up, and it spells a return to sanity and good sense.
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In the end, the climate alarmism movement is coming apart at the seams because better information is getting out there. The real world frequently has a way of overriding nitwittery, and that's slowly but steadily happening here. As I've written many times, yes, the earth's climate changes, it always has and always will, and yes, human acitivities do have some effect, as does everything, in the vast, incomprehensibly chaotic system that is the global climate.
But here in the human world, life must go on. Humanity, in our modern, technological world, requires inexpensive, reliable energy. Even if we take the climate scolds at face value and admit that the earth's average temperature may increase by a couple of degrees over the next century because of human activity - I don't take that at face value, but just for the sake of argument - that won't justify us scuppering our comfortable modern technological lifestyle. A lifestyle that, by the way, supports a global population of billions, where surrendering that would dramatically reduce the human carrying capacity of our environment. (That's science-speak for a whole lot of people could die.)
We don't know what the earth's "correct" temperature range is. The planet doesn't have a thermostat we can set. But people are coming around to the idea that, no matter what happens, we can deal with it. We solve today's problems with tomorrow's technology, and that technology will require energy. Thankfully, most folks seem to be coming around to that realization - even some former climate scolds.
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