Tag: climategate

Trump moves to shut down NASA missions that measure carbon dioxide and plant health

The Trump administration is moving to shut down two NASA missions that monitor a potent greenhouse gas and plant health, potentially shutting off an important source of data for scientists, policymakers and farmers.

President Donald Trump’s budget request for fiscal year 2026 includes no money for the Orbiting Carbon Observatories, which can precisely show where carbon dioxide is being emitted and absorbed and how well crops are growing.

NASA said in an emailed statement Wednesday that the missions were “beyond their prime mission” and being terminated “to align with the President’s agenda and budget priorities.”

But the missions — a free-flying satellite launched in 2014 and an instrument attached to the International Space Station in 2019 that include technology used in the Hubble Space Telescope — still are more sensitive and accurate than any other systems in the world, operating or planned, and a “national asset” that should be saved, said David Crisp, a retired NASA scientist who led their development.

They helped scientists discover, for example, that the Amazon rain forest emits more carbon dioxide than it absorbs, while boreal forests in Canada, Russia and places where permafrost is melting absorb more than they emit, Crisp said.

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Before The Supposed Climate Change Crisis Could Ruin John Kerry’s Posh Neighborhood – Drug Addicts Did It Instead

Former Secretary of State and climate change alarmist John Kerry’s high-class neighborhood has reportedly been overrun with drug users, who ironically did more damage to the area than his supposed extreme weather events.

Kerry’s been preaching about climate-change consequences for decades. Yet before any of the hypothetical chaos had a chance to affect him, liberal governance brought another plague to his doorstep: Addiction.

Back in 2007, Kerry spoke with the Council on Foreign Relations about how climate change is “a national security issue.”

The former senator was introduced as having spoken out “on the topic of climate change for some 20 years now and has promoted hi-tech green solutions to stabilizing climate change and called attention to the economic risks of failing to address climate change. He’s also [an] advocate for the adoption of innovative and strategic national energy policy.”

Kerry’s 2009 claim in a Huffington Post op-ed that the Arctic would be “ice free by the summer of 2013” was examined by PolitiFact and judged to be “mostly false” at the time.

“Scientists project that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer of 2013. Not in 2050, but four years from now,” Kerry wrote. “Make no mistake: catastrophic climate change represents a threat to human security, global stability, and — yes — even to American national security.”

In 2017, when Kerry paid $11.75 million for property on the water in Martha’s Vineyard, he didn’t seem too concerned about rising sea levels or climate catastrophes.

Fast forward to today, and an actual crisis is playing out in Beacon Hill, where Kerry also owns property, according to Fox News.

Local residents are complaining that city leaders aren’t doing enough to contain open drug use in the streets, creating a chaotic situation.

“Prior to this year, I’ve never seen the Boston Common, Cambridge Street or the Esplanade get this overrun with drug paraphernalia or folks in crisis,” resident Katherine Kennedy said. “As a mother of two small children, this is very scary.”

Boston’s Democratic mayor hasn’t helped the situation, either.

Back in 2022, Mayor Michelle Wu launched a needle exchange program, which also included distributing free pipes for smoking crack or meth.

Wu defended the program, claiming it prevents addicts from contracting diseases that could spread into the general populace, WHDH in Boston reported.

So, using liberal logic, we should spend billions — even trillions — of dollars on climate-change funding with no questions asked, despite its ever-changing benchmark. But when it comes to a drug epidemic, we should feed the fire by giving out free paraphernalia?

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Devastating US Report Lays Bare The Abuses Of ‘Settled’ Climate Science And Its Role In Net Zero

Net Zero is dead in the United States and the last rites have been administered in the devastating official report from the Department of Energy. Released earlier this week, the report cancels the decades-long censorship imposed by so-called ‘settled’ climate science. It is compiled by five eminent scientists and is a systematic take-down of the claims, methodologies and motivations driving activist scientists, politicians and opinion formers promoting the hard-Left Net Zero fantasy. Despite its ground-breaking importance, to date it has been largely ignored by mainstream media including the BBC and Guardian.

Computer models are said to offer “little guidance” on how much of the climate responds to higher levels of carbon dioxide, most extreme weather events are not increasing, sea levels in North America show no increasing trend while weather attribution claims are challenged by natural climate variation along with an admission that they were originally designed with ‘lawfare’ in mind. For Anthony Watts, who has spent decades challenging the ‘settled’ politicised science, the most important consideration is that the report, “directly confronts the exaggerated and politicised rhetoric that has dominated headlines for decades”.

Watts, who runs the Watts Up With That? (WUWT?) site that was responsible for publicising the infamous Climategate scandal, argues that the new report is unique in that it has both official status and author independence. It is not a think tank paper or an article in a ‘dissenting’ journal.

“It’s rare to see scientists of this calibre (with backgrounds at NASA, IPCC and major universities) allowed to directly challenge prevailing policy narratives with government resources behind them”, he notes.

The work is a “comprehensive critique” quoting extensively from peer-reviewed literature with clear explanations of scientific uncertainties and climate model error. 

For regular readers of WUWT? and other inquiring publications such as the Daily Sceptic, many of the issues discussed in the report will be familiar. In the last four years, your correspondent has written nearly 500 articles on climate science and Net Zero in an attempt to fill in the significant reporting gaps left by the narrative-driven mainstream media. Many of the papers quoted are familiar, not least in the section that deals with the sensational ‘greening’ of the planet caused by higher levels of CO2. 

The report quotes from recent work that shows extensive plant and crop growth due to the atmospheric fertilisation that has enhanced photosynthesis and improved water use efficiency. Over the past 60+ years, the authors observe that there have been thousands of studies on the response of plants to rising CO2 levels, and the overwhelming theme is that they benefit from the extra gas. In 2016, Zhu et al detected greening over 25%–50% of the planet. But there is a near official news blackout on the subject. A few mentions can be found in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports but overall, observe the authors, “the Policymakers Summaries, Technical Summaries and [IPCC] Synthesis reports of AR5 and ASR6 do not discuss the topic”.

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Three new studies challenge decades-old climate dogmas on sea level rise

For years, climate reports have relentlessly painted a bleak picture: the ice caps are melting, the oceans are rising, and humanity is on the brink of catastrophic flooding.

The motivation for the recently published opinion by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was justified, among other things, by the dangers to islands and coastal areas. ” Rising temperatures are leading to the melting of ice sheets and glaciers, resulting in a rise in sea levels and threatening coastal communities with unprecedented flooding.” These unprecedented floods, by the way, have been predicted for 40 or more years, each five years in a row. But let’s look at the scientific evidence on this. Personally, I’m going to Venice to see if the islands there have finally sunk under water since their founding in 421.

We have heard it again and again from politicians, activists and the media who want to dramatize every rise in global temperatures as an unprecedented catastrophe.

We know that the Holocene Temperature Maximum, during the ongoing interglacial period, was warmer in Greenland than today, at about 4–8.5°C. Amazingly, despite this warmth, global sea level was lower than today. How is this possible if models predicting catastrophic sea level rise are correct? If the Greenland ice cap survived such warming without flooding the coasts, how does this fit with claims that the current moderate warming will do so?

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Mainstream Naysayers Gather As Hopes Rise For 4th Year Of Record Coral On The Great Barrier Reef

In the next few days, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) will issue its annual report on the state of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). For alarmists promoting the Net Zero fantasy the news has been dire over the last three years, with record coral reported across the largest reef in the world.

Such is the obvious despair even daft excuses suggesting it is the wrong type of coral have been heard.

Faced with inconvenient facts, the usual groomed game plan in mainstream media has been to issue dire warnings of possible imminent collapse and then keep schtum when the sensational figures surface.

Recently the BBC gave us its “’underwater bushfire’ cooking Australia’s reefs”. Alas, the Australian Government’s Reef Authority is less cataclysmic in its reporting, noting indications in June this year that there were “no current heat stresses across the Reef”. Between April 14th and May 31st, 342 impact inspections were carried out which found coral bleaching on just three of the 34 reefs surveyed.

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Climate Alarmists Wrong: Increased Economic Damage Doesn’t Prove Storms Are Getting Worse

One of the indicators that climate alarmists use to push the climate crisis narrative is the increasing cost of storms.

The logic appears straightforward: a storm that did $10 million in damage must be more severe than one that did $1 million in damage, and since storms cost less money in the past, they claim this proves that storms are getting more severe.

They also set dollar thresholds for severe storms, and since more storms exceed this dollar threshold, they claim that severe storms are occurring more frequently.

However, this reasoning fundamentally misunderstands the economic factors driving storm damage costs.

According to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), since 1980, there have been 403 billion-dollar weather disasters in the United States, with tropical cyclones causing over $1.5 trillion in total damage.

In 2024 alone, the U.S. experienced 27 billion-dollar disasters resulting in $182.7 billion in damages. Climate activists point to these numbers as evidence of worsening storms, but this analysis reveals a critical flaw in their methodology.

The $1 billion threshold used to classify “severe” storms is fixed and not adjusted for inflation beyond the basic Consumer Price Index.

According to NOAA’s Climate.gov, this flawed approach has resulted in 57 events since 1980 that were originally below the billion-dollar threshold but are now classified as billion-dollar disasters simply due to inflation.

This artificial inflation of severe storm counts creates the false impression that dangerous storms are becoming more frequent when, in reality, the monetary threshold has simply lost its meaning over time.

Inflation has turned million-dollar storms into billion-dollar ones. The effect is clear in historical comparisons. Hurricane Katrina caused $125 billion in damage in 2005—equivalent to $200 billion today, according to WCNC.

Hurricane Harvey’s $125 billion in 2017 would equal about $159 billion in 2024, a $33 billion jump in just seven years. Most striking is the 1926 Great Miami Hurricane, which cost $105 million at the time but would have caused $236 billion in 2018, per the Washington Post.

These examples show how inflation alone can make storms seem far more “severe” over time.

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EPA Chief Lee Zeldin to Rescind ‘Holy Grail of the Climate Change Religion’ That Led to $1 Trillion in Regulations

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin on Tuesday released the agency’s proposal to rescind what he has described as the “holy grail of the climate change religion,” which has led to over a trillion dollars in regulatory impact.

Zeldin made the announcement to repeal the Obama-era Endangerment Finding at an auto dealer in Indiana alongside U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Gov. Mike Braun (R-IN), Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, and American Trucking Association President and CEO Chris Spear.

The EPA has said the Endangerment Finding has been used to justify over $1 trillion in regulations, including the Biden-Harris administration’s electric vehicle mandate. Scrapping the so-called Endangerment Finding would repeal all of the greenhouse emissions regulations for motor vehicles and engines and give Americans consumer choice.

The Endangerment Finding created the legal basis for the agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, believing that the emissions serve as an alleged threat to public health and welfare.

Zeldin explained in a Breitbart Fight Club Roundtable that the Endangerment Finding never made a “straight-line conclusion” that carbon dioxide from motor vehicle engines caused “endangerment.” He described this finding as the “holy grail of the climate change religion.”

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Glacier Retreat Hijacked: How Funding Bias and Normative Science Fuel the Manufactured ‘Climate Crisis’ Narrative

Glacier retreat is one of the concepts often used to support the climate crisis narrative.

However, while there is clear evidence that glaciers have been retreating over the past 70 years, and according to NOAA, global average temperatures have risen approximately 1.1°C since the late 1800s, this does not, in itself, prove the existence of a climate crisis.

Globally, the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) reports over 30 meters of cumulative ice loss among long-term reference glaciers since 1950, with annual losses exceeding 1 meter water equivalent in recent years.

NOAA data shows glacier loss rates increased from -171 mm per year in the 1980s to -889 mm per year in the 2010s.

The WGMS currently tracks about 60 climate reference glaciers across 19 mountain regions, supported by field data from 500 glaciers and satellite data from approximately 200,000 more.

Although most glaciers have been retreating since the 1950s, glaciers naturally advance and retreat over time. Many glaciers were advancing from the 1950s to 1970s due to cooler conditions, and most reached their maximum extent during the Little Ice Age in the 1800s.

While glacier retreat is well documented, whether it constitutes a “climate crisis” is far less certain.

Glaciers have naturally advanced and retreated for centuries due to climate variability, making it difficult to treat current trends as uniquely alarming. The global average temperature rise of approximately 1.1°C since the 1800s is relatively modest and not unprecedented in paleoclimate records.

Regional impacts of glacier melt also vary, some areas may face reduced water availability, while others may benefit from increased runoff.

Many human and ecological systems have the capacity to adapt, further complicating the crisis narrative.

Ultimately, labeling glacier retreat a crisis depends on subjective judgments about risk, urgency, and acceptable change. Research on normative science supports this view, showing that value-laden conclusions are often framed as empirical findings, what Former EPA scientist Robert Lackey terms “stealth policy advocacy.”

The very term “climate crisis” embeds a normative judgment, implying unproven assumptions about human causation, moral obligation, and the urgency of intervention.

Funding structures that reward alarming portrayals of climate data reinforce these assumptions, turning scientific inquiry into institutional advocacy for predetermined policy goals.

For scientific researchers, there are clear economic incentives to support the climate crisis narrative.

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Trump EPA To Remove “Greenhouse Gases” From List Of Dangerous Pollutants

The Trump administration is acting to overturn a key 2009 Environmental Protection Agency finding used to justify most federal government regulations regarding climate change.

The EPA has crafted a proposal that would undo the government’s “endangerment finding”, a determination that pollutants from burning fossil fuels, such as carbon dioxide and methane, can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. The finding has long served as the foundation for a host of policies and rules to address climate change. The EPA’s proposal to revoke the finding is currently under review by the White House Office of Management and Budget.

In 2007, the Supreme Court found in Massachusetts v. EPA that the agency is required to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Then, in 2009 during the Obama administration, the EPA declared greenhouse gases in the atmosphere were a hazard to people. 

“This long-overdue finding cements 2009’s place in history as the year when the United States Government began seriously addressing the challenge of greenhouse gas pollution and seizing the opportunity of clean-energy reform,” then-EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said in announcing the decision.

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Extremists weaponize COVID, climate issues with conspiracy theories about state & elite control: RAND Europe

The RAND Europe authors are so stuck in their own echo chamber they don’t realize they’re acting like the extremists they claim to warn about: perspective

People who are concerned that the draconian measures implemented by public and private entities during COVID lockdowns might be deployed again in the name of combatting climate change are actually victims of conspiracy theories originating from online extremist groups, according to RAND Europe’s submission to the UK Home Affairs Committee’s Call for Evidence on Combatting New Forms of Extremism.

“Akin to COVID-19 conspiracy theories, climate issues are weaponized and entangled with conspiracy theories and narratives about state and elite control”RAND, Combatting New Forms of Extremism, July 2025

Despite initiatives like the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) great reset, which actively called on governments to take advantage of the shocks inflicted by their lockdowns, mass vaccination mandates, and social distancing measures in order to implement radical changes to society and the global economy with climate change-related policies, the RAND Europe testimonial says that “Akin to COVID-19 conspiracy theories, climate issues are weaponized and entangled with conspiracy theories and narratives about state and elite control.”

“Some leaders and decision-makers who were already at the forefront of the fight against climate change may want to take advantage of the shock inflicted by the pandemic to implement long-lasting and wider environmental changes. They will, in effect, make ‘good use’ of the pandemic by not letting the crisis go to waste”Klaus Schwab & Thierry Malleret, “COVID-19: The Great Reset,” 2020

The RAND Europe testimonial, “Combatting new forms of extremism,” never gives a single example of a conspiracy theory related to climate change and control, but the authors are certain that extremists on both sides of the political spectrum are exploiting the so-called climate crisis for their own gain due to a lack of government action.

According to the testimonial, “Both ends of the political spectrum are emboldened by the lack of governmental action on climate change.

“Eco left-wing extremists are angered by government inaction as they consider it as climate denial.

“For the right-wing extremists, government inaction reinforces their belief that climate change is a hoax.”

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