One could pin the birth of the modern environmental movement to the early 20th century when Theodore Roosevelt’s love of nature led to the creation of America’s beautiful national parks, the preservation of land for future generations, and the beginning of a genuine effort to clean our land, water, and air. That agenda, which enjoyed broad support, has since given way to a professional “climate movement” that is obsessed with carbon dioxide emissions and addicted to gloom and doom messaging with little grounding in science.
On The Heartland Institute’s Episode #125 of The Climate Realism Show, we bring back guest Matthew Wielicki, an “earth science professor-in-exile” to talk about how and why a conservationist movement morphed into endless and ever-louder climate hysteria. Heartland’s Jim Lakely, Anthony Watts, and Linnea Lueken will also review the “Crazy Climate News of the Week,” including a new video game where you shoot “climate deniers,” a leftist publication wondering if it is time for the climate movement and media to end its obsession with stopping “climate misinformation” from being spoken, and how your refrigerator is really just a luxury that you should give up to save the planet.
Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET on Friday, Aug. 30 and participate in the chat. We’ll try to answer as many questions as we can with Dr. Wielicki.
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Ingenious application of the Mann-Schmidt conjecture of climate science: ‘physics has nothing to do with it’.
“That agenda, which enjoyed broad support, has since given way to a professional “climate movement….”
Actually, it split- there are really several branches of the environment movement.
YouTube demonetized your channel? That’s insane. I don’t imagine it earned much $$$ for you, but it’s the principle.
Most influential climate web site in the world? Maybe. How do you measure something like that? Or is it just a claim? If it’s measured by number of hits on the site- a lot of those are just due to all the comments- and people replying to the comments, so they go back several times. Just wondering. I keep trying to get others to check out WUWT but none do, that I know of. Then again, this is Wokeachusetts.
“That agenda, which enjoyed broad support, has since given way to a professional “climate movement” that is obsessed with carbon dioxide emissions and addicted to gloom and doom messaging with little grounding in science.”
That started in the 1960s when the Sierra Club decided to accept lots of money from Atlantic-Richfield and become an antinuclear organization where, for conservation reasons, they previously supported it. The principle is very simple: the ENGOs are whores, and most people just haven’t met their price of hire.
In pursuit of this, they long ago purged out any attempt to actually follow science. They support a radically left-of-centre political movement. The ENGOs long ago abandoned any pretense of being interested in conservation.