When it comes to the whole "OMG CLIMATE CHANGE" issue, there's some good news. We are winning. Reason is winning. Science is winning. The data and the facts are on our side. The more this issue is analyzed, the more people are realizing that, while the climate always has and always will change, while human activities do have some impact on the climate, none of it merits panic. None of it merits dramatically changing our modern lifestyle. None of it merits giving up our gasoline-powered cars, our air-conditioning, our gas stoves.
None of it merits forcing some of us out of our rural homes and into some rabbit warren of a 15-minute city.
In reflection of this, the crowds at the usual climate change protests are shrinking, even in - perhaps especially in - Europe. Where a few short years ago Greta "Doom Pixie" Thunberg could turn out tens of thousands at a climate-panic rally, she has moved on to shuttling supplies to Hamas, and the climate crowds have shrunk dramatically.
President Trump, we should note, at his recent UN speech, really brought the thunder to European leaders on how their bending the knee to the climate scolds was hurting them. The president said:
Energy is another area where the United States is now thriving like never before.
We’re getting rid of the falsely named renewables. By the way, they’re a joke. They don’t work. They’re too expensive. They’re not strong enough to fire up the plants that you need to make your country great. The wind doesn’t blow. Those big windmills are so pathetic and so bad, so expensive to operate, and they have to be rebuilt all the time and they start to rust and rot. Most expensive energy ever conceived. … You’re supposed to make money with energy, not lose money. You lose money, the governments have to subsidise. You can’t put them out without massive subsidies. And most of them are built in China, and I give China a lot of credit. They build them, but they’re very few wind farms. So why is it that they build them and they send them all over the world, but they barely use them? You know what? They use coal, they use gas, they use almost anything, but they don’t like wind, but they sure as hell like selling the windmills.
Remember the crowd sizes? Here's an example, just from Germany.
Four days after Trump’s speech, the German climatoids of Fridays for Future held a nationwide ‘climate strike’ of the kind they once conducted every Friday afternoon in 2019. These events used to bring hundreds of thousands of naïve university women, befuddled bureaucratic Gutmenschen and school children to the streets. Now the protests are only nominally a strike; they had to move their big event to a Saturday, because nobody wants to waste working hours on this s**t anymore.
At Apollo News, Marius Marx writes of ‘The Quiet Downfall of the Climate Movement‘:
The images from the weekend speak volumes: In Berlin, even according to the organisers’ own figures, only 4,300 people turned up, while the police counted just 3,000.
In Hamburg, there were around 2,500 demonstrators, in Munich around 1,500. And in Potsdam, where celebrities Luisa Neubauer and climate researcher Stefan Rahmstorf were present, there were only a few hundred. Nationwide, fewer than 50,000 people took part. … By way of comparison, in 2019, when the demonstrations initiated by Greta Thunberg took place every Friday, hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Berlin alone.
Facts are stubborn things, and it seems people in Europe are waking up to the scam. Maybe in part because of President Trump's firing-on-all-cylinders approach, maybe because of their rising bills for heating and electricity, but waking up they are.
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There are signs of this here in the United States, as well. One major climate-panic/environmental group, Greenpeace, is facing bankruptcy after a serious lawsuit and cratering donations.
One of the leading global environmental networks has been drained of hundreds of millions over the years as a result of several lawsuits filed against their involvement in anti-oil protests.
Greenpeace, an international environmentalist group, has been at the center of several highly controversial environmental cases over the years and has been accused of hiring protesters and rioters to advance their cause.
Most recently, Greenpeace was found liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages resulting from a pipeline protest. The group recently said that such a ruling could "shut down Greenpeace USA."
Again, this is Greenpeace, an environmental group made up of and supported by many people who have only a nodding acquaintance with the actual environment, and who don't care much for those of us who actually live out in it.
Facts are stubborn things.
Look, yes, the climate is changing. It always has and it always will. Through the vast, vast majority of this planet's 4.6 billion-year history, it's been warmer than it is now, sometimes much warmer. We're actually in an interglacial period right now; the last major glaciation, the Wisconsinan, has receded, but for a couple of million years, mile-thick glaciers have gone up and down the northern hemisphere, in the geological time scale, like window blinds. They will continue to do so no matter what we do.
The Earth does not have a thermostat we can adjust to suit us, and it is the height of hubris to assume we know what the planet's "correct" temperature is.
It's looking like people are starting to figure that out. That's good. That means the efforts of all of us who are on the side of reason are winning.
