For decades, we've been force-fed a single, apocalyptic story: the planet is spiralling into disaster because humans dare to exhale carbon dioxide, drive cars, and keep the lights on. Governments, media outlets, and global institutions chant the same mantra: "Climate change is an existential threat." The solution? Give them more power, pay more taxes, and surrender basic freedoms, all in the name of "saving the Earth."
But let's call this what it is: a crisis manufactured for political gain. And like all artificially inflated bubbles, this one is starting to burst under the weight of its own contradictions.
The False Prophets of the Climate Church
At the centre of the hysteria are climate models, complex computer simulations built on shaky assumptions and fed cherry-picked data. These models have been embarrassingly wrong for decades. In the early 2000s, they predicted dramatic warming by now, up to half a degree Celsius per decade. The actual increase? Somewhere between 0.1 and 0.13°C. That's not a crisis, that's statistical background noise.
Rather than admit their failures, climate alarmists do what any cult does when prophecy fails: move the goalposts. When the seas don't rise, they talk about "extreme weather." When hurricanes don't increase, they focus on droughts. When droughts don't pan out, it's wildfires. Every hot day is proof. Every cold snap is proof. The science, they tell us, is settled, but the definitions are always shifting.
And let's talk about those temperature records. Much of the global warming "evidence" comes from weather stations buried in urban sprawl, parking lots, airports, rooftops, all of which radiate heat. These stations are not measuring global climate. They're measuring asphalt. And even then, agencies like NOAA and NASA have been caught adjusting the data to make the past look colder and the present look warmer. Why? Because the raw numbers don't fit the narrative.
Carbon dioxide, the molecule of life, has been demonised with religious fervour. We're told it's pollution, a poison, the cause of every natural disaster. But here's what they don't tell you: CO₂ is plant food. And thanks to a modest rise in atmospheric CO₂, the planet is greener than it's been in decades. Satellite data shows an 18 million square kilometer increase in plant coverage since the 1980s. Forests are expanding. Deserts are retreating. Crop yields are breaking records.
And this is supposed to be a bad thing?
Meanwhile, elites hop on private jets to lecture you about your carbon footprint. The same people who want you to give up meat and gas stoves are dining on filet mignon under chandeliers powered by diesel generators at "climate summits."
Let's be honest about the so-called green transition. It's a disaster in slow motion. Wind turbines that freeze in the cold. Solar panels that stop working when it's cloudy. Blackouts in California. Energy rationing in Europe. And all of this while fossil fuels, the energy backbone of modern civilisation, are demonised and shut down.
What's the result? Skyrocketing energy prices, unreliable power, and a widening gap between the elite climate preachers and the average citizen just trying to stay warm in winter. It's not about sustainability. It's about submission.
And while the West is busy dismantling its own energy infrastructure, China is building a new coal plant every week. India, too, is expanding its fossil fuel capacity. These are the real polluters, but they get a free pass, because the climate agenda isn't about emissions. It's about control.
The climate industry is a multi-trillion-dollar racket. From carbon credits and ESG scores to wind subsidies and green bonds, it's become the ultimate cash cow for global banks, hedge funds, and opportunistic politicians. And just like Big Pharma milked the Covid panic, the green lobby is cashing in on your fear.
Universities won't fund research unless it supports the crisis narrative. Journalists are told to treat sceptics like heretics. Tech companies censor dissent. This isn't science. It's climate feudalism.
If there's a real crisis, it's not climate, it's credulity. A civilisation that can no longer tolerate debate, that worships models over measurements, and that labels honest questions as heresy, is headed for intellectual and moral collapse.
We're told to trust "experts," even when their predictions fail. But as the great physicist Richard Feynman once said, "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." Real science questions. Real science doubts. Real science checks theory against the real world, not against a UN press release.
This whole climate panic has become a secular religion, complete with its own sins, saints, indulgences, and apocalypse myths. But the veil is slipping. People are waking up. And once the fear fades, so does the control.
The truth is, the planet isn't dying, but freedom is. And the longer we indulge this ideological masquerade, the more we sacrifice our prosperity, our independence, and our future.
The time to call it out is now. Not politely. Not cautiously. But loudly, and with the confidence that common sense still matters, even in a world where the high priests of climatism demand blind obedience.
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Climate dogma and the ignorance of experts
Much of the media's playbook is straightforward: Push repeatedly a predetermined agenda. I was one of perhaps billions of people who fell for this tried-and-true method of mass deception. Even some of the most intelligent people came to fear a climate catastrophe on our beautiful blue planet.
If you have found yourself among the deceived, be not discomfited by your error. Individuals are preoccupied with their lives and lack the time or proficiency to explore the complex nuances of climate science.
Most consumers of news are vulnerable to the work of clever writers quoting seemingly legitimate policymakers and scientists handpicked by the United Nations to convey apocalyptic information. Falling for the classic fallacy of Appeal to Authority is a common result. Statements are taken to be true just because someone in authority said so.
The public, weary of complexity, craves simple villains and saviors. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the perfect evildoer -- a threat that can be taxed, regulated, and rallied against. Meanwhile, policymakers revel in the power that a perpetual emergency bestows on them. The confusion of a crisis and the proclamations, ultimatums, and deadlines that ensue alternately produce paralysis and panicked action.
But science doesn't care whether the declarations come from Newton or Einstein or some 19th-century monk fussing with the genetics of peas. It is only concerned with whether a theory can be proven through observations of the real world and confirmations of conclusions. And that is where the faux climate crisis falls flat on its face.
Climate science is not a monolith of precision. Despite the confident pronouncements of international panels, the mechanisms that govern temperature shifts are riddled with unknowns.
Temperature records have been heavily adjusted by gatekeeping agencies like NOAA. Moreover, these records often originate with thermometers in urbanized locations that are prone to artificial warming, whose precise effects have not been established. Furthermore, the modelers of future temperatures predict what the global temperature will be with an accuracy of one-tenth of a degree 80 years into the future, yet their meteorologist colleagues can't achieve that precision from one day to the next.
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AThere is also a methodological flaw: an overreliance on models that peer into an uncertain future rather than test hypotheses against real-time data. Science thrives on observation and experimentation. Think of Pasteur culturing bacteria or Friar Mendel studying yellow and green peas.
However, popular climatology has inverted this process. Researchers backed by financiers looking for particular results build elaborate simulations based on assumptions about clouds, solar effects, and CO2 and treat the outputs as gospel. When temperature trends stubbornly refuse to match projections, the response is to tweak the models rather than question their foundations.
The United Nations, for example, says that anthropogenic CO2 emissions have caused global temperature to rise about 1.2 degrees Celsius since 1750. But this relies on data that has been adjusted, fabricated, and influenced by human infrastructure.
It was also observed that the climate models used to justify forecasts of warming consistently fail to replicate observed temperature trajectories and patterns of sea ice coverage. Models predicted warming of up to 0.5 degree Celsius per decade, but satellite and ground data show an increase of just 0.1 to 0.13 degrees Celsius. Arctic sea ice, which was expected to shrink sharply, has instead stabilized since 2007.
"These models overplay CO2's role," says former Delaware state climatologist Dr. David Legates. "They don't fit reality."
Clouds remain a "wild card" in climate models because their formation and feedback effects are poorly represented in the computational frameworks that dominate policy discussions. Climatology must return to its empirical roots, prioritizing real-time observations over model prophecies.
Meanwhile, the public should be introduced to a happy truth: In the past few decades, most of Earth has greened. Plant coverage has grown by 18 million square kilometers, and the main cause is the increase in atmospheric CO2. Some villain, that carbon dioxide!
The real crisis lies in conflating political agendas with scientific truth. To those who claim that "the science is settled," recall the words of physicist Richard Feynman: "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."
Only by embracing skepticism and open discussion can we craft resilient policies -- ones that allow the world to flourish without mortgaging the future to a dogmatic march toward energy poverty and a denial of human potential.