The Climate Empire Strikes Back – The Climate Realism Show #154

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The Heartland Institute

While the climate realism movement might feel it has the wind at its back these days, the global climate empire is not going away quietly, or quickly. A new report by the Media Research Center and Bongino Report details just how far and deep the reach of the radical Soros-backed network reaches. The report finds that no fewer than 345 well-funded eco-activist groups push radical environmentalism worldwide. George Soros and his more-radical son Alex have spent more than $600 billion (with a “b”) to exploit fears about climate change to push for more government control over the lives of ordinary people. We will go over this important report.

We will also cover the “Crazy Climate News of the Week” just after Earth Day, including how activists are using AI tools to identify and censor climate realists, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pledging that we must act now to avoid “climate hell,” how the UK government wants to blot out the sun, and how Trump’s State Department has axed the office of “Climate Envoy to the World.”

Join us LIVE at 1 p.m. ET on Friday as Heartland’s Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely welcome special guest Tom Nelson — co-founder of Gorilla Science, podcaster, and producer of “Climate: The Movie.”

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observa
April 25, 2025 9:54 am

We’re all just the last gasp of the patriarchy-
Tim Flannery: ‘What we’re seeing is the last gasp of the patriarchy’
which is dripping in irony given the harbingers of doom although given the times it’s possible we’ve been hoodwinked by a bunch of identifiers and their pronouns.

hdhoese
April 25, 2025 10:52 am

As many have commented here this is much larger than climate. Somehow the scientific community has been bought, tolerant, forced into this situation. The common continued use of ‘consensus of scientists’ shows this failure to understand science since the only consensus there is a sort of silently agreed lack of clarifying and questioning. This in my field is a prime example with 19 authors and 113 references, most since this started. One example (J. Sapp, What Is Natural? Coral Reef Crisis (Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1999)). Ironically, the first section is “Importance of Historical Data” and there is a certain amount of truth in it. I haven’t studied it adequately because it would take too long to do justice, but enough to realize the lack and some misunderstanding of homework which has been steadily getting more difficult at the same time that research has ‘sped up’ with massive amounts of materials. Somehow negativity with similar questioning has become prominent obscuring the real problems which are large enough for serious concern.

Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems.2001. Science. 293(5530):629-637. DOI: 10.1126/science.105919

jack rodwell
April 25, 2025 10:53 am

It won’t go away until the claim of dangerous man made climate change is demonstrated to have failed until then it will hide in the long grass awaiting rescue by friendly politicos.

Irritatingly it’s such an easy victory given no definitive cause and effect evidence for the claim exists. A few sane scientists explaining the situation on tv would see a collective murmur of “Oh! that makes sense” from the general public giving them meat on the bone of their natural skepticism.

Uncanny how it hasn’t already happened almost like skeptics and alarmists want the game to continue.

Say it ain’t so.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  jack rodwell
April 25, 2025 11:45 am

It won’t go away until we have nothing and we will be happy.
Economic slavery in other words.

I use economic slavery as I perceive it to have an emotional, alarmist effect. To counter the alarmists, the pragmatists and realists and skeptics have to take off the gloves and use the same methods.

Abbas Syed
Reply to  jack rodwell
April 25, 2025 11:53 pm

That could never happen in the current climate

It’s never about facts. If it were, this would have been resolved a long time ago

The propenents of this theory appeal to emotion, they gaslight, manipulate data, lie, couch crazy inferences in technical gibberish

The public has no chance of discerning the truth when bombarded from a young age with this nonsense

You see, the movement has infiltrated all major institutions and the media

It’s a mass cult and people are emotionally invested, so arguing with facts is ineffective

The mob is very adept at making sane people look crazy, it’s pure mob rule might is right

These things run their course, but are not defeated by sane, rational arguments

Those come posthumously.

Even if given the opportunity to appear in the mainstream media to air their views, few scientists would take it

Most have families and mortgages, they don’t want to end their careers. It’s not reputational, it’s existential

Reply to  Abbas Syed
April 26, 2025 5:24 am

Excellent comments!

April 25, 2025 11:36 am

There’s too much money invested in the climate scam for it to go away easily. The money men want a return on their investment. It’s much easier to lobby and pressure a handful of politicians and bureaucrats instead of persuading 100s of millions of voters.

The climate change fear mongering scheme also gives too much power to those same politicians and bureaucrats for them to give up easily.

Bruce Cobb
April 25, 2025 1:16 pm

The heady days of Scamalot are drawing to a close. They had a good run. Made lots of dough at other’s expense, almost destroyed science, etc. One for the history books for sure.

Reply to  Bruce Cobb
April 25, 2025 1:55 pm

Peak Scamlot?

Reply to  More Soylent Green!
April 26, 2025 5:27 am

That’s a takeoff on “The Days of Camelot” which was one description given to the Democrat administration of President John F. Kennedy.

The Corrupt Democrats of today were living in “The Days of Scamalot”, where they scam the public out of their money over fears of CO2, among other things.

Bruce is saying those days are over.

mleskovarsocalrrcom
April 25, 2025 2:41 pm

The whole scam ate itself. Too many failed projections (polar bears?), too much money wasted on failed schemes, land blighted by noisy windmills and solar panels, manufacturing crippled by energy costs (the plan!), blackouts and brown outs became normal, but the real kicker is household electricity costs skyrocketed instead of going down as advertised. You can feed the people all the propaganda you want but the eyes don’t lie.

Reply to  mleskovarsocalrrcom
April 26, 2025 5:38 am

“but the real kicker is household electricity costs skyrocketed instead of going down as advertised”

That’s what is going to turn the public against Net Zero. That, and the loss of all their jobs as their manufacturing base moves to other nations more favorable to economic development.

Abbas Syed
April 25, 2025 11:35 pm

These desparate attempts are not for the public or politicians, which have largely tuned out

They are to keep the activist class motivated, in the hope that the cycle will repeat some time in the future

It ain’t going to happen. This is Armageddon for the climate movement. No coming back from this, done and dusted, kaput

There is also of course some money still to be had and investments yet to make a return, so it will not simply disappear overnight

Get your popcorn ready

April 28, 2025 11:08 am

I always watch this Friday show on YouTube, and there has never been any warning that I can or have seen ! I never watch it live !