President Trump called climate change the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” at the UN.
Posted by Leslie Eastman
When President Trump took office for his second term, it was clear from the moment he started signing executive orders in the Oval Office that he had every intention of implementing his plans to reverse the Obama-Biden climate crisis agenda. Ending U.S. Participation in the Paris Climate Accord was a clear signal that he would double down on his agenda.
Trump then selected Chris Wright, the head of a fracking company, to head the Department of Energy (DOE). His team continued with the defunding of the Biden “Green New Deal” and the attempt to claw back funds that were distributed to eco-activists like “gold bars thrown from the Titanic“. The administration continued to halt wind farm projects, moved to rescind the destructive “endangerment finding” that essentially classified life-essential carbon dioxide as a pollutant, and prepared a far more reasonable national climate assessment that included more rational risk assessments and economic impact considerations.
In other words, Trump and his team have proceeded to make significant progress on the strategic destruction of the economically disastrous climate crisis agenda.
Green activist groups are now experiencing deep frustration, a sense of failure, and internal turmoil as their funding and agendas have been targeted by the executive branch…just as Trump promised during his campaign.
The movement is struggling with lower fundraising, membership challenges, staff layoffs, and internal divisions, differing from the first Trump term that saw surges of resistance-driven support.
Some groups, such as 350.org and Greenpeace USA, openly acknowledge that their previous strategies are failing, signaling a need for tactical reinvention as traditional methods of mass protest and lobbying have not yielded results in the current hostile political climate.
Unlike during Trump’s first term, when groups like the Sierra Club saw their membership and donations swell in resistance to the president, the green movement has struggled this year to generate a cohesive message. Some also face additional problems of their own: The 3.8-million-member Sierra Club, for example, fired its former executive director in August after years of internal feuding and multiple layoffs.
“A lot of climate groups weren’t up for round two of doing the same thing” they did during Trump’s first term, such as focusing on large, Washington-centric demonstrations, said Jamie Henn, founder and leader of the climate activist group Fossil Free Media. “I think it’s taken a while to figure out. People, admittedly, were in shock about what’s happening.”
“Now I think people realize we’ve got to buckle down and get ready for the long haul,” he added.
I would argue that part of the problem is that the COVID pandemic made people aware of how many scientific “experts” were simply narrative pushers. Climate change science is not more than pseudoscience, but on a much longer timescale than COVID. Americans are now unafraid of the hysteria the green activists and their media minions are trying to promote.
The response to Politico’s X-post grieving about this development underscores the fact that most people are done with the climate antics.
However, it is not just the U.S. that is moving away from global climate politics. Anthony Watts of the Watts Up With That blog reviews a very fascinating piece recently published in The New York Times, which concludes the age of the Paris Climate Accord is over.
…America is not the only player abandoning climate pieties. Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney—once the high priest of climate finance—made his first act in office the repeal of Canada’s carbon tax, and he was rewarded with a landslide victory. Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist by training, now boasts about her nation’s booming oil and gas industry while enjoying one of the highest approval ratings of any world leader. Europe, once the vanguard of green virtue, is retreating as well. Laws once touted as proof of planetary salvation are being weakened, watered down, or repealed under pressure from populist coalitions and economic reality.
The mood has shifted so dramatically that Jason Bordoff, a former Obama energy adviser and now head of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, admits: “You can’t walk more than two feet at any global conference today without ‘pragmatism’ and ‘realism’ being thrown around as the order of the day. … But it’s not clear to me that anyone knows what those words mean other than this whole climate thing is just too hard”.
To cap off this day of climate victories, I would like to conclude with Trump’s assessment of the entirety of the climate crisis agenda.
President Donald Trump dismissed climate change as “the greatest con job” in the world during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, doubling down on his skepticism of global environmental initiatives and multilateral institutions.
Green activist groups are now experiencing deep frustration, a sense of failure, and internal turmoil
Can I suggest they get on down to their local community Climate Cafe, where they will find a welcoming space to…
“process emotions related to climate change, support others who are struggling with it, and foster resilience.”? – WUWT
They have had their moment in the wind and Sun and now their influence is wholly on the wane, nothing is forever and there’s no such thing as a stable climate; it changes constantly.
the COVID pandemic made people aware of how many scientific “experts” were simply narrative pushers.
Covid showed not only that the narrative was supreme above any scientific debate, dissent or fact, it showed just how devious they can be. Nudge units and psyops etc.
A shadowy Army unit secretly spied on British citizens who criticised the Government’s Covid lockdown policies, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Military operatives in the UK’s ‘information warfare’ brigade were part of a sinister operation that targeted politicians and high-profile journalists who raised doubts about the official pandemic response. – Daily Mail
Next up…
Keir Starmer confirms plans for compulsory ‘Brit Card’ ID scheme amid backlash
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/keir-starmer-confirms-plans-compulsory-101612613.html
The Ghost of Blair walks among them to this day… Chinese social credit system here we come.
“the COVID pandemic made people aware of how many scientific “experts” were simply narrative pushers.”
A more concise phrasing would be propagandists, liars.
Public health officials squandered their credibility on a social science experiment intended to determine how many liberties people could be frightened into giving up. The tragic result would be the needless suffering and death if there was ever a pandemic of a truly dangerous pathogen.
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It’s Labour’s conference tomorrow. It should be triumphant etc, but it’s going to be more like a wake.
I know, mate. You alerted me in your comment yesterday.
That’s how bad things are, you start repeating yourself!
Some things are worth repeating
A woke wake?
Me too. When the incoming Reform government scraps this pernicious scam I look forward to cutting my ID card up into little pieces and flushing them down the toilet.
I note that the so-called ‘Brit Card’ would be mandatory for all residents. No doubt US Democrats would champion something similar here as a way to circumvent proof of citizenship at the polls.
You say “residents” not citizens. Would this include US. Military stationed in U.K.? Diplomatic mission? Contract workers?
Being the cynic that I am, I fear this is all temporary. The next time a leftist gets into office, all this will just be reversed. And it will be ramped up bigger, louder, crisisier (yes, that’s now a word), than ever before.
I’d argue what qualifies the success of any attempt at reversal is how much Trump manages to get done in this term. The weather refuses to play ball.
I agree to an extent. But if he’s doing it through executive orders, it will be for naught.
That appears to be the Achilles heel, and explains why he was ready to go with a huge pile of them. Hopefully, there might be some “democratic” consolidation down the line.
One Big Beautiful Bill codified a number.
How much gets done before the new Congress is seated. Elections have consequences – vote as if your future depends upon it.
I would – if I had a vote.
Pretend you are a Democrat and vote early, vote often.
I disagree. Once the big lie about a climate crisis has been exposed and examined and rejected, it cannot then be recapitulated as a real danger. I believe sufficient reputable scientists will now be able to expose the truth about the unimportance of CO2 in relation to global warming, so that this innocent minor gas will be given an honourable redemption and can continue its good work in assisting plants to grow and feed us.
Given there is no real climate crisis, the AGW narrative will wither and die a natural death, as is fitting. I am sure environmental activists will invent further awaiting disasters to keep us on our toes, but this particular climate change crisis is in it’s death throes and good riddance!
We have many other important things to worry about than this anti-scientific nonsense, we have a planet to look after but we can do that with better technology and further economic progress, let’s be about it!
Agreed and have said as much from the get go.
Simply slashing budgets and departments from a political standpoint is easily reversed when opposing politicians get in Trump needed to expose the “science” to drive a stake through the heart of the cult.
Simply saying “where is the definitive cause and effect evidence is for dangerous man made climate change” kills the canard stone dead but Trump doesn’t think things through. The only hope is Republicans win the next election to maintain momentum but that’s far from certain.
The damage has been done already. I mean we shifted all industry over to China and weakened the west to a degree where it gets challenged militarilly by “developing countries”. The EU climate policies have become the symbol of Europe’s decline, especially evident due to the aggression by Russia.
For the green movement it brings a delicate problem. Despite being a “peace movement”, they are more than willing to fight russian empirialism, or rather send others to fight respectively. But that can not be facilitated by green energy, like tanks running on solar panels. Equally there will be few people ready to fight for a multi-cultural territory, rather than a proper nation.
As so many times before, socialism fails due to its inherent contradictions and inconsistencies.
Dear Climate Howlers,
Sorry the whole climate thing hasn’t worked out for you. We get that it can be hard to give up on an ideology. Maybe next time, try doing a little research. Toodles.
Sincerely.
Climate Realists
P.S. Here’s the bill. You alarmists owe $1,872,565 (the current count in the UK’s anti-digital-ID petition) to every man, woman and child in the world. The bailiffs are starting work tomorrow.
The daily hit parade has stalled the climate crusades and their net zero due diligence.
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” Every day more “people” are realizing it’s a scam and I have never heard of someone going from CC skeptic to alarmist.
“…this whole climate thing is just too hard”.
So, truth about science, technology, economics and priorities is just to hard!
To whom….those that took the money or those that are paying for it?
Love the truth.
Here is the thing, the other side is preaching a lie. They are claiming that CO2 can cause catastrophic global warming. It can’t and the other side knows that. The developed countries have spent trillions of dollars addressing the lie and have accomplished exactly zero. It is a fools errand.
Donald J Trump: The Greatest Con Job Ever Perpetrated on the American People
Mr. Beeton: In the wake of the “Joe Biden not daft” con job, your comment shows how daft YOU are!
DJT’s “con job” efforts pale into insignificance when they are compared with “Hope and Change” Obama and / or “Save Democracy” Biden.
Trump has concentrated practical efforts & resources on undoing the rafts of money, time & effort expended (wasted) on Obama & Biden’s overt con jobs on the American people and the world.
Yep a con man for sure. Trumpstein now thinks he is a doctor. It’s the tylenol what done it…… Who would have thunk?
and apparently he’s not the only one Simon –
NBC: Tylenol has been recommended as a safe option for pregnant women for decades
Tylenol: We don’t recommend our products while pregnant and it hasn’t been tested for use during pregnancy
So what? Lots of drug companies don’t recommend their products during pregnancy. And the makers of Tylenol is not going to now with all this nonsense . But that he would stand on the world stage and proclaim that he knows better than the specialists who study this stuff is as crazy and the amateurs who tell the world they know more about climate change that the scientists who work in the field. The world has gone topsy turvy.
Simon, the ‘scientists’ who work on climate change focus predominantly on keeping their earner going.
What product that is useful to ordinary peoples’ lives do these “climate scientists” produce?
Sheesh – local weather forecasts are still a hit & miss effort 4 days out.
Even the UN’s 7-million people worldwide survey reported that people rated climate concern as 16th – i.e LAST – on the list of things to worry about in their lives.
“Simon, the ‘scientists’ who work on climate change focus predominantly on keeping their earner going.”
Spoken like a true capitalist. If you think scientist go into a field like climate to make a lot of money then God help you.
“What product that is useful to ordinary peoples’ lives do these “climate scientists” produce?”
No one says they have to produce a product.
“Sheesh – local weather forecasts are still a hit & miss effort 4 days out.”
You really are utterly clueless aren’t you. Hello…. climate is not weather.
“Even the UN’s 7-million people worldwide survey reported that people rated climate concern as 16th –”
So what?
“Climate” has made more grifters more $$$$s over the past 3 decades than Ponzi made in his whole career.
As Charlie used to say –
“prove me wrong”
What don’t you understand about..
Tylenol: We don’t recommend our products while pregnant and it hasn’t been tested for use during pregnancy.
In other words, the maker of Tylenol agrees with Trump.
So much for Simon’s whines.
RACGP – Experts raise caution over paracetamol in pregnancy warning
Using acetaminophen during pregnancy may increase children’s autism and ADHD risk | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
What specialists who study this stuff. You just got through declaring that companies haven’t studied the use of Tylenol by pregnant women.
Can you name the studies that show it is safe, or do you just assume there must be because that is what you want to believe?
Here ya go soldier… Numerous studies sited here.
https://www.uchealth.org/today/does-taking-tylenol-during-pregnancy-cause-autism-the-evidence-says-no/
That report also includes study showing a causal link.
The science is not settled.
Simon,
Yours is a deceitful and inaccurate take on what really happened.
You will not achieve much by telling fibs. In time, your own conscience will start to nag you. Geoff S
Well be specific? Did Trump not share a stage with Mr Crazy RFK and tell the world Tylenol is the likely cause of autism? I mean the whole thing was a complete laughing stock. He couldn’t even pronounce the active ingredient in Tylenol. And then he prattled for an age saying almost nothing. The man just doesn’t know when to shut up and let others who know more do the talking.
He told people of a study that came to that conclusion.
What is it about you and your desperate need to lie about what was actually said?
Ya but in true “lie his arse off” Trumpstein fashion, he forgot to mention the squillion other studies that say there is no link.
then he went on to say there is no autism in Cuba or amongst the Amish. WTF. Such an easily proven load of BS. The guy couldn’t lie straight in bed.
Wrong again.. his words were….
No mention of Amish or Cuba.
Yes, some Amish and Cudans do take Tylanol, but there are studies that show less Autism.
You need to loo harder. Try Google. Didn’t you say you were once a teacher? Maybe a good thing you left.
“I mean, there’s a rumor, and I don’t know if it’s so or not, that Cuba, they don’t have Tylenol because they don’t have the money for Tylenol. And they have virtually no autism, okay. Tell me about that one.”
Trump said, “And by the way, I think I can say that there are certain groups of people that don’t take vaccines and don’t take any pills, that have no autism.” He cited “the Amish” as an example and added that they “have essentially no autism.”
Simon just got through telling us that the subject hadn’t been studies, and now all of a sudden their are a “suillion other studies”.
1) He can’t even keep his lies straight.
2) Didn’t Simon just have a hissy fit about Trump over stating his case?
OK that doesn’t make sense. Maybe read it again MarkW. And if you are going to quote me, just cut a paste, then at least you will give a true account of what I said.
It doesn’t make sense to you. Not surprising, perhaps if I re-wrote it 1st grade level.
Nope he also said “I think” so he stepped outside the study protection. I can find the quote if you want. Shall I?
Deceitful and inaccurate is Simon’s specialty.
Anyone who reads a study and tells others about it, thinks they are a doctor?
Are you really as stupid as you make yourself sound?
Funny how a scam is making everyone richer, except those who’s lively hood depends on using government to steal other people’s money.
Yet Trump is trying to do EVERYTHING he was ELECTED to do.
No con job….. just HONEST EFFORT, backed rational thought and an understanding of “what needs doing”
These are thing that no Democrat voter would ever recognize. It is beyond their ability.
“Yet Trump is trying to do EVERYTHING he was ELECTED to do.”
Hmmmm not quite. He said he would release the Epstein files. How is that going?
He said he would bring down inflation. How is that going?
And now he is looking to do a tax payer funded bailout for the farmers he screwed over with his sales tax (tariffs.) Don’t remember that being a promise. I thought these tariffs sales taxes) were going to make the country RICH!!!!!!! How very “unrepublican” to use tax payer money to bail out a specific sector. Oh well, as long as the US keeps on winning.
Even before Trump began his second term, there were increasing indications that a variety of governments worldwide and global consumers/voters were backing away from the alarmist tactics dished out by the various environmental organizations. Governments and manufacturers saw more opposition to carbon taxation and green product mandates by a public which felt it was just being ripped off to fight a non-existent problem called climate change .Meanwhile it was becoming increasingly evident that alternate energies like wind and solar weren’t reliable or consistent enough to supplant fossil fuels, hydro and nuclear. In addition, it was also becoming obvious that the developing world had no intention of abandoning its efforts at economic growth by cutting emissions. Then when Trump came in he lowered the boom on what were a variety of scams that were just costing consumers money and having no effect on the climate which was showing no more than its usual fluctuations. So it’s good to see a realist implement measures that make sense rather supporting the pipe dreams of the previous left-leaning administrations, and hopefully more countries will follow suit.
Well said Edward, the climate lie has well and truly been exposed internationally over the past 5 years, as the punishing UN mitigation policies have borne their unpalatable economic fruit and are being rejected by the public globally that are seeing their prosperous lifestyles diminish and their energy security squandered for to realized benefit.
The climate academic alarmists have had their day and should retire or recant their sins before they are kicked out like the NOAA data manipulating crowd under Hansen and Schmidt. They have been a disgrace to science along with Micheal Mann et al.
Trump getting quoted in Oz-
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