It's good to see the rational side of the climate change debate winning. Because winning we are, and that's good for not only America, but for the world.
I'll repeat my standard disclaimer: Yes, the climate changes. It always has and always will. Through most of the planet's history, it's been warmer than it is now. Through much of that history, the climate and the atmosphere were so different that humans couldn't have survived. Right now, we're in a slow warming cycle, and have been since the last major glaciation; with a few bibbles and bobbles, temperatures in the northern hemisphere have been slowly warming, since long before mankind started burning fossil fuels. Do human activities have an impact? Yes. Is it enough to radically change our way of life? It's not. Do we even completely understand the global climate? We do not. It is too vast, too chaotic, and operates on time scales that are hard for us to understand; some of these cycles run, not in years, not in decades, but in millennia.
So, there's no reason to panic. And, some prominent climate scolds are beginning to admit this. A recent editorial at The Hill by Vijay Jayaraj, research associate at the CO2 Coalition, has some details.
The collapse of the Paris Agreement and the unmasking of the net zero illusion were never hard to predict — not for anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty. It didn’t take a fancy research title or an advanced degree. The writing was carved deep into the stone of energy reality, which no press release, no activist lobby and no billionaire-backed foundation could erase.
Most nations — particularly those early in the process of building their futures — offered only empty nods to their climate targets. Their participation was a transparent quest for political leverage. The climate crusade survived by hijacking the political class, manipulating data through compliant scientists, and converting media empires into megaphones of fear.
Bill Gates stepped away from the front lines of climate alarmism in a recent essay timed for the United Nations’ COP30, an annual gathering of jet-setting moralists. Gates admits — and the recent U.S. Department of Energy report on carbon dioxide supports his view — that the world will not collapse because of climate change.
It's questionable at this point whether there will be another UN climate summit. While we enjoy poking fun at the spectacle of climate scolds flying private jets to this conference, then being piled into limos and whisked down miles of brand-new 4-lane highway freshly carved out of the Amazon rainforest, there's just no reason for this to keep going.
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Bill Gates gets it. It's only a matter of time before the facts overwhelm even some of the most committed climate scolds. Facts, after all, are a harsh mistress; facts don't care about agendas. And it is facts, not agendas, that are proving to be the end of a bunch of "green" energy boondoggles.
In the U.K.’s North Sea and off the U.S. East Coast, massive wind projects are being canceled. “Green steel” is struggling to compete with fossil fuel-based conventional steel. Oil companies, after spending years and billions of dollars on “green” branding and virtue signaling, are quietly backtracking on ambitious climate goals.
In 2025, Argentina shocked global institutions by saying it will reconsider its membership in the Paris Agreement. President Javier Milei declared that his nation would no longer “kneel before climate bureaucrats.” China continues its rapid construction of coal-fired power plants, adding more coal capacity than the rest of the world combined. India’s coal consumption is at an all-time high, and its government is aggressively auctioning new blocks of coal mines.
Developing economies in Asia and South America know that survival requires coal, oil and natural gas. African leaders are also seeking to tap their continent’s reserves of hydrocarbons to power economic development.
There's more to it than that, of course. The developing world is learning, sometimes the hard way, that its continued development is reliant on affordable, reliable energy sources, which the "green" energy schemes cannot promise or deliver. They require coal, oil, and gas, or nuclear power when and if they can have it. Those are the reliable energy sources to take many developing nations into the modern era.
For the undeveloped world, this may be even more important. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, millions live in grinding poverty, and the single most important thing to help life them out of that would be affordable, reliable electricity. This won't be supplied by windmills, nor by solar panels. Even if these schemes were economically viable, these nations lack the infrastructure to install and maintain them. No, the poorer residents of the third world need reliable electricity, and that means fossil-fuel powered generation.
A fraction of a degree temperature change over the next few decades is a small price to pay for lifting millions out of what is essentially an Iron Age lifestyle. This, along with decades of failed predictions, should drive another nail in the coffin of climate panic-mongering.
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The climate scolds are beginning to admit their loss. Bill Gates, once one of the more strident scolds, is facing reality. Greta "Doom Pixie" Thunberg has changed her tune; instead of annoying people with climate panic, she's now annoying people with her pro-"Palestine" activism, selfie yachts, and all. And the United States, thanks to the Trump administration, is ramping up energy exploration and exploitation, with energy prices starting to drop.
And no, we're not tired of winning yet.
