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https://slaynews.com/news/renowned-mit-professor-net-zero-hoax/

Dr. Richard Lindzen, a world-renowned atmospheric physicist and MIT professor emeritus, is sounding the alarm about the globalist push to enforce so-called “Net Zero” policies.

Lindzen is warning the public about the global campaign to comply with “Net Zero” by 2050.

In his view, the plan is not only astronomically expensive but virtually useless. ...

“If you reach Net Zero by 2050, if you do it worldwide, you avoid about a third of a degree of warming,” says Lindzen in a new interview.

“If it’s just Europe and the Anglosphere, it’s closer to a tenth of a degree.

“So you have avoided a tenth of a degree of warming at a cost of probably tens of trillions of dollars.

“Doesn’t seem like a bargain to me,” he adds.

“How far will the population go in saying, we will sacrifice ourselves for a symbolic gesture?” ...

“When somebody says the change of a tenth of a degree, or when [UN Secretary-General António] Guterres says, if it changes a half-degree, we’re finished as a species, this is an existential threat – people have to ask, what the hell are they talking about?”

He dismisses climate doomsday predictions as political theatrics.

“2030 will pass. 2050 will pass,” he states.

“Fifty years will pass.

“There will be no climate catastrophe.”

43 years ago, Florida was going to be a quarter underwater

The above CBS clip with Dan Rather looks and sounds fake.

https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/psyop-climate-change-never-forget

In 1959, the first publication of the Rockefeller Institute Press included a section on “Changes in the Carbon Dioxide Content of the Atmosphere and Sea due to Fossil Fuel Combustion”.

Laurance Rockefeller was purposed with the spiritual arm of the operation. Starting in the late 40’s. Laurance founded fifty environmental organizations including the World Wildlife Federation, the World Resource Foundation, the IUCN, and UNESCO. Laurence is behind Esalen and Lindesfarne Association, and is responsible for coining the term “New Age”. He founded and funded the Fund for the Advancement of the Human Spirit, the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, the Conservation Foundation. He was a board member of the National Resources Defense Council, the National Geographic Society, Woods Hole Geographic Society, Resources for the Future, and the Sloan foundation. He was a board member of the Environmental Defence Fund and the WWF. He co-founded the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and served as its chairman from 1958-1979. Laurance Rockefeller founded Cybernetics as a discipline by funding its study. ...

Evil has a human face, but despite the billions thrown at the people of the earth, fewer and fewer of us are falling for it. This latest Facebook-hysteria-the-sky-is-falling post from NASA’s Climate Change Center, received 5,600 reactions. 5,300, including mine were laughing emojis.

https://www.frontnieuws.com/wereldwijde-vergroening-stijgt-met-38-maar-stilzwijgen-in-de-media-versterkt-het-narratief-van-de-klimaatcrisis/

A groundbreaking global study published by Spanish researchers Gutierrez-Hernandez and García has revealed a 38% increase in land vegetation growth over the past four decades – but this environmental success story has disappeared from the mainstream media. Using advanced statistical methods, the team’s ‘True Significant Trends’ (TST) analysis confirmed that rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations are a major driver of reforestation, greener deserts and bumper crop yields. But rather than celebrate these findings, media outlets such as The Guardian and BBC have chosen to remain silent and cling to alarmist climate stories, despite hard data that undermines claims of ecological collapse.

The study, published in Climate Dynamics, found that nearly three-quarters of observed trends show greening, while browning is limited to dry regions struggling with natural cycles – not human activity . Meanwhile, US climate scientists have noted a 1% annual increase in wheat yields due to rising CO? since 1850, while UNESCO data shows that wildfires in North America are 25% of levels between 1600 and 1900. Yet campaigners continue to dub CO2 a “climate pollutant,” even as evidence mounts that Earth’s ecosystems are thriving in an age enriched with the “gas of life,” reports Naturalnews.

Some scientists are finally opening their eyes. It is about time !

The earth's climate is the result of so many variables, that prediction is extremely difficult.
I would liken "climate scientist" to "roulette wheel results scientist."

Either way, herewith some factoids.
1. The sun's energy output is not a constant.
2. The sun's output of cosmic rays varies greatly.
3. Scientists at CERN created tiny clouds using cosmic rays.
4. Clouds impact our climate significantly; if you've been to the beach and suddenly clouds pass overhead you understand.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/climate-website-shut-down-noaa

A major US government website supporting public education on climate science looks likely to be shuttered after almost all of its staff were fired, the Guardian has learned.

Climate.gov, the gateway website for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa)’s Climate Program Office, will imminently no longer publish new content, according to multiple former staff responsible for the site’s content whose contracts were recently terminated.

Patrick says

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/climate-website-shut-down-noaa

A major US government website supporting public education on climate science looks likely to be shuttered after almost all of its staff were fired, the Guardian has learned.

Climate.gov, the gateway website for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa)’s Climate Program Office, will imminently no longer publish new content, according to multiple former staff responsible for the site’s content whose contracts were recently terminated.

I HATE “GREEN TAX CREDITS” IN THE GREAT, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL. They are largely a giant SCAM. I would much prefer that this money be used somewhere else, including reductions. “Anywhere” would be preferable! Windmills, and the rest of this “JUNK,” are the most expensive and inefficient energy in the world, is destroying the beauty of the environment, and is 10 times more costly than any other energy. None of it works without massive government subsidy (energy should NOT NEED SUBSIDY!). Also, it is almost exclusively made in China!!! It is time to break away, finally, from this craziness!!!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114722976310902061

https://www.eugyppius.com/p/the-weather-is-nice-so-we-have-to

Humans have a lot of trouble with chaotic and random things. They want to believe that stuff happens for a reason and that they themselves have something to do with that reason. In premodernity, a surprising amount of religious energy went into embedding weather events in broader narratives about the relationship between divine powers and their human minions. It was commonplace to read untimely frosts and droughts as the wages of impiety. We now live in a secular world, but we still have a deeply religious approach to many things, including the weather.

Climatism is one of a whole array of stunted, faintly malicious parareligions that our secular era has spawned. Its dogmas demand that every adverse weather event, from snowstorms to droughts, from heatwaves to floods, from hurricanes to earthquakes, be ascribed to the original sin of carbon emissions. The truth is that we have never been so secure against natural disasters and weather-related mortality as we are right now, and we owe our security to the highly concentrated energy that fossil fuels have provided us.

Maybe posted this one before.

AmericanKulakMaximumTrumper says

Also, it is almost exclusively made in China!!!

China has also infected the chips for sabotage.

https://slaynews.com/news/greta-thunberg-insider-blows-whistle-climate-change-is-a-scam/

A former green agenda activist who was part of Greta Thunberg’s inner circle has blown the whistle to expose the entire “climate change” movement as a “scam.”

A decade ago, Lucy Biggers was a rising star in the “climate crisis” movement. ...

Today, she’s calling it what she believes it really is: a scam built on fear, guilt, and anti-human ideology.

In a striking reversal, Biggers is now publicly dismantling the very movement she once championed.

She is warning that the “global warming” narrative is weaponized not to protect the planet, but to control people, demonize Western prosperity, and undermine national sovereignty, all under the banner of “saving the Earth.”

“I had so much guilt and shame for being a modern human,” Biggers told Just the News, describing how the climate movement distorted her worldview.

“I didn’t want to pass that guilt and shame on to my son.”

However, Biggers’ transformation didn’t happen overnight.

In her twenties, she fully embraced the climate orthodoxy, producing viral videos for NowThis that praised “sustainable” lifestyles, condemned fossil fuels, and elevated far-left voices like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Greta Thunberg. ...

It was during the Covid lockdowns, when the global economy was forcibly shut down, that Biggers began asking dangerous questions.

Despite the world grinding to a halt, “carbon emissions” barely budged.

The green utopia she had envisioned looked less like progress and more like a dystopia.

“If we have to shut down the entire world and emissions go down only a little, what does the climate movement want us to do?” she asked. ...

The birth of her son was a turning point.

She realized she didn’t want to raise a child under a worldview that taught him to be ashamed of modern life, technology, prosperity, or the very energy that makes civilization possible.

In 2024, she published a piece in The Free Press titled “Losing My Religion,” outlining how the climate movement had become a secular cult, complete with its own rituals of guilt, shame, and submission.

“Huge: A powerful climate alliance of the World Economic Forum, major companies, the UN, and banks is “at an end“.

“Bill Gates is giving up on climate change…Breakthrough Energy, a joint venture between Bill Gates and a handful of other billionaires… is slashing much of its policy staff.”

NASA GISS funding “terminated”?: “New NASA Chief Will Wind Down Climate Alarm Shop“.

Delicious straight talk from U.S. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin: “we are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion“.

Wonderful straight talk from U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “𝑁𝑒𝑡 𝑧𝑒𝑟𝑜 𝑏𝑦 2050 𝑖𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒“; he suggests climate change alarmism is “a quasi-cult religion”.

The Tories have ditched Net Zero by 2050.

Remarkably, Just Stop Oil just announced “the end of soup on Van Goghs, cornstarch on Stonehenge and slow marching in the streets“.

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“.

One of the longest running climate cases, Juliana v. United States, just ended in rejection at the Supreme Court.

A climate startup that boasted a roster of celebrity backers and arranged carbon credits for Meta, Microsoft and other large companies just filed bankruptcy.

Blackrock chief Larry Fink mentioned “climate” a total of 29 times in his 2020 letter to CEOs, then ZERO times in his 2025 letter!

Michael Mann is now losing in court to Mark Steyn.

SEC Votes to End Defense of Climate Disclosure Rules.

New Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard failed to even mention “climate change” as a national security threat.

The warmist International Energy Agency just remembered that we need hydrocarbon fuels.

Greenpeace was just hit with a $667 million judgement.

Britain’s banks are quietly distancing themselves from Net Zero commitments.

Warmist Sabine Hossenfelder laments that “Everyone is Giving Up On Climate Goals…global businesses are done pretending they care about carbon neutrality.”

New Jersey’s massive lawsuit accusing the oil industry of causing climate change was dismissed with prejudice.

Google Is No Longer Claiming to Be Carbon Neutral.

The left “went from wanting EV mandates to now burning those same EV’s in the blink of a cultural eye”.

Indonesia casts doubt on Paris climate accord after Donald Trump’s exit.

Australian pension funds are backing away from climate pledges too.

Davos speaker specifically lists climate first as a cause that is “simply being gradually kind of marginalised“!

EU exploring weaker 2040 climate goal.

Bloomberg: “Years of Climate Action Demolished in Days“.

After lots of episodes guffawing at climate realists, The Climate Denier’s Playbook podcast went dark without explanation in Oct. 2024.

Facing increasing pushback, many warmist scientists have fled from X. NASA’s Gavin Schmidt is one example.

In recent months, lots of companies have been abandoning climate goals. Air New Zealand is one example.

Greta Thunberg’s last X “school strike” post was in Oct. 2024. This Fridays for Future social media feed hasn’t been updated for almost three years.

Last year Climate Nexus, a warmist organization which pushed climate hysteria for over a decade and had tens of employees, suddenly threw in the towel.

Just over a year ago, The Daily Kos ClimateDenierRoundup page, which spewed climate scam propaganda incessantly (2,200 posts!) for many years, abruptly stopped posting.

Joe Rogan, with his huge audience, was a full-on warmist in 2018 but now routinely scoffs at the climate scam.

“The Trump administration is canceling funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program...potentially fatal blow to the National Climate Assessment.”

We have come a long way since Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich sat down to endorse Al Gore’s climate scam in 2008!
https://tomn.substack.com/p/over-30-items-here-evidence-that

PanicanDemoralizer says

One of the longest running climate cases, Juliana v. United States, just ended in rejection at the Supreme Court.

WTF? 'Just ended'? That was 5 years ago

MolotovCocktail says

PanicanDemoralizer says
One of the longest running climate cases, Juliana v. United States, just ended in rejection at the Supreme Court.

WTF? 'Just ended'? That was 5 years ago

Appeals to keep it alive. SCOTUS finally ruled on it. More like 5 months ago that it's officially dead. https://climatecasechart.com/case/juliana-v-united-states/

Patrick says

Amazing the owner hasn't been arrested.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/re-heated-thursday-july-17-2025-c

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere

“Unprecedented” is accurate. But that word doesn’t do justice to the scale of this environmental catastrophe. NASA’s climate experts (it’s anybody’s guess why a space agency dabbles in the weather) described Hunga Tonga as one of the most dramatic events in modern history. It generated a trans-oceanic tsunami that reached all ocean basins, every continent’s shorelines, and over 40 countries thousands of miles away.

It caused the most intense atmospheric explosion ever recorded by modern instruments.

One of the most important side effects was that Hunga’s eruption broke all records for injection of water vapor —the most powerful greenhouse gas— into the atmosphere. ...

But even those record-shattering calculations were only early estimates. Over the next year, data showed NASA badly underestimated the full amount of water Hunga Tonga had vaporized into the atmosphere. Current estimates are three times higher than initially thought: scientists now believe it was closer to 150,000 metric tons, or approximately 40 trillion gallons of superheated water instantly injected into the atmosphere.

Talk about a greenhouse. Just ask Floridians about humidity. Water vapor — humidity — is a much more effective greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. ...

Despite all these shattered records —too many to list— we never heard anything about Hunga Tonga. (Thanks, media.) Hopefully, you’re starting to think that maybe the hot summer weather this year (2023) might have something to do with this historic volcanic eruption and all the oppressive new water vapor injected into the air just last year. ...

Corporate media isn’t ignoring the story because it lacks dramatic graphs and charts. Here’s one showing how atmospheric water vapor increased recently, compared to the prior twenty years. The atmosphere’s water concentration is off the chart:

Hahahaha!

https://patrick.net/post/1385079/2025-07-17-why-trump-halted-clean-energy

https://slaynews.com/news/study-most-global-warming-caused-reduction-pollution/

According to researchers from the University of Exeter, the biggest factor driving global warming since 2001 isn’t the rise in carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, but rather a reduction in sulfur dioxide (SO2) pollution.

The revelation has major implications for the “global warming” debate and for the “environmental” policies that push for costly regulations and collectivist government control.

The researchers found that the decline in SO2 emissions, which have been linked to industrial and maritime pollution, has resulted in darker clouds, causing less solar radiation to be reflected into space.

This means that the Earth is absorbing more heat, leading to “global warming.”

The study, presented at the UK’s Exeter Climate Conference, raises questions about the narrative that CO2 is the primary driver of “climate change” and suggests that a reduction in pollution, rather than an increase in CO2, is behind the warming trend.

I suppose it could have an effect.

Patrick says

I suppose it could have an effect.

Not at all. Does everyone forget how large the planet and atmosphere are?

Reduction in sulphur dioxide levels due to 3rd world pollution reduction, which decreases global albedo, combined with the Tonga undersea eruption that injected gigatons of water vapor (the most potent greenhouse gas) into the atmosphere, and you get global warming that HAS NOTHING THE FUCK TO DO WITH ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING WHATSOEVER , unless you consider pollution reduction an unmitigated evil.

stereotomy says

Reduction in sulphur dioxide levels due to 3rd world pollution reduction

Actually, it was First World reductions from a treaty because of acid rain. Third world emissions - especially coal fired plants - still are prevalent somewhat.

https://timlynch.substack.com/p/the-climate-alarmism-grift-is-dying

In a shocking display of academic integrity, two eminent professors published a masterfully complex paper that undermines the foundation of climate alarmism. MIT’s Richard Lindzen, Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Emeritus, and Princeton’s William Happer, Professor of Physics, Emeritus, published a paper titled PHYSICS DEMONSTRATES THAT INCREASING GREENHOUSE GASES CANNOT CAUSE DANGEROUS WARMING, EXTREME WEATHER OR ANY HARM. ...

Lindzen and Happer use physics to demonstrate that CO2’s warming effect is limited by its logarithmic absorption of infrared radiation. The warming effect of each molecule of CO2 decreases as its concentration increases. They estimate low climate sensitivity (~0.5–1.5°C per CO2 doubling), which is far below the IPCC’s range of 2.5–4°C.

They contend that Hurricanes, droughts, and floods exhibit no apparent increase in frequency driven by CO2, with natural variability dominating (e.g., NOAA’s stable hurricane frequency since 1980). They demonstrate that higher CO2 levels enhance photosynthesis, resulting in a 14% global greening trend (NASA, 1982–2015) and a 20% increase in crop yields (FAO, 2000–2020).

They then emphasize that phasing out fossil fuels, which supply 80% of global energy (IEA, 2023), will raise costs and harm developing nations, with minimal climate benefit. Their physics-based approach challenges high-sensitivity climate models, which have overestimated warming in periods such as 1998–2014. They also align with skepticism of alarmist policies, like EPA regulations, which they’ve called a “hoax” in prior work.

The premise of man-made climate change hinges on three key facts: CO2 traps heat, humans have increased CO2 levels (~420 ppm today vs. 280 ppm pre-industrial), and this drives global warming. Lindzen and Happer don’t dispute the first two but argue that the warming is minimal and benign.

They contend CO2 is not destroying the planet; it’s enhancing life on it. Across the globe, elevated CO2 levels are supercharging plant growth and delivering bountiful crop harvests at unprecedented rates.

Patrick says

Lindzen and Happer use physics to demonstrate that CO2’s warming effect is limited by its logarithmic absorption of infrared radiation. The warming effect of each molecule of CO2 decreases as its concentration increases

This is old news. I used to throw this at iwog and he would deny it constantly.

https://www.energy.gov/topics/climate

Hooorah! What a difference a new team makes.

MolotovCocktail says

https://www.energy.gov/topics/climate

Hooorah! What a difference a new team makes.

MolotovCocktail says

https://www.energy.gov/topics/climate

Hooorah! What a difference a new team makes.

I'll be updating more from this report on this thread: https://patrick.net/post/1328883/2019-12-03-let-s-get-a-globull-warming-update