Essay by Eric Worrall
First published JoNova; Are you or have you ever been a climate denier?
Climate Deniers Are Increasingly Hiding in Plain Sight
Donald Trump isn’t the only world leader backtracking on green policies.
October 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM GMT+10
Opinion
Lara Williams, Columnist
- Prime Minister Keir Starmer is reportedly planning to skip the COP30 United Nations climate conference in Brazil, despite previously stating his climate ambitions.
- Starmer’s decision is seen as hypocritical, as he criticized Rishi Sunak for skipping COP27 in 2022, and would make his climate ambitions look insincere or weak.
- Other leaders, including US President Donald Trump and EU members, are also being criticized for not following through on their climate promises, with many countries still fighting over emission-reductions targets and delaying implementation of anti-deforestation rules.
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Other leaders are also still talking the talk while neglecting to walk the walk. After Trump’s ranting UN speech last week, more than 100 countries have either announced new goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or promised to submit updated climate plans, known as NDCs, before the Brazil climate summit. Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, spoke at the UN the day after Trump, reassuring us that “the world can count on the European Union’s continued climate leadership.”
Those soothing words aren’t backed up by recent events. Mere weeks away from COP30, EU members are still fighting over their 2035 and 2040 emission-reductions targets. In just the last week, the bloc has once again delayed the implementation of new anti-deforestation rules for another year — the Commission blamed technical issues — while a forest monitoring law, which would have helped protect the continent from wildfires, was rejected by a right-wing coalition on Wednesday. The ongoing simplification regime, via a series of “Omnibus” packages, essentially waters down a whole host of green regulations.
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Could this be the chilling effect of the US’s war on environmentalism? That seems unlikely to be the only reason. A report published last week by research institute Stockholm Environment Institute found that governments globally plan to produce 120% more fossil fuels in 2030 than what’s required to limit warming to 1.5C. And some 74% of Paris Agreement signatories have failed even the very basic task of submitting new NDCs with targets for 2025.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-10-02/brazil-cop30-climate-deniers-are-increasingly-hiding-in-plain-sight?embedded-checkout=true
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The hilarious part is author Lara Williams fails to identify one leader who lives up to her ideals of what a green champion should be, and appears confused about why her beloved green movement is falling to pieces.
President Trump was pivotal to collapsing the climate movement in the English speaking world. But that movement was already dead in non-English speaking Asian nations, especially China.
If Trump hadn’t won the last election, Asia would have pulled ahead of the English speaking world in the AI race, possibly developing an insurmountable lead, and I would have signed up for a course on how to speak Mandarin.
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While I could be called a “Climate Denier” by certain cretins who desire global dominance through hijacking academia and forcing socialistic brainwashing on youths while simultaneously dominating the socialist media outlets with their preferred ultra biased messaging. I am, more accurately, a Climate Realist knowing the benefits of and natures design for respiration releasing their vilified gas known as CO2 that is required in atmosphere for life to thrive.
Realist and Pragmatist here.
More likely, any researching scientists would read your rant and conclude, “There goes a Denier!”
Most likely , anyone would read your comment and just laugh. !
What is anyone “denying” that you can provide measured scientific evidence for.?
By rotating my metaphors I can see that in a climate of denial the one eyed are unhinged.
Another way not just to rotate this, is to mirror flip it. What the other side accuses us is projection of their own situation. They are the deniers of climate change when they demand that we hang a virtual thermostat in the sky which will keep the climate unchanging from a level they deem to be “ideal.”
Even if I wholeheartedly believe the use of the word “denier” is deliberate hate speech – I proudly wear it as a badge of honor. No hiding it here.
“Denier” is basically a religious term …
My wife’s parents are Ukrainian and survived the Holodomor. They lost friends and neighbors in the Holocaust. That should make clear my opinion of “denier.”
Skeptic has socially devolved.
Asking questions became doubting that became denying due to not accepting on the basis of an appeal to authority. Control the language, control the ideas.
People who negatively classify other people based on their belief system are the same as racists who negatively classify people based on their birth genomes.
It’s all about promoting hate and nothing else.
Good for you. Anyone who denies science should admit to it. Accepting one’s alcoholism is the first step towards a cure
Moron,
What we deny is the irrational claim that a slight improvement in the weather accompanied by a 0.0145% increase in the concentration of the gas of life should be seen as an existential crisis that requires the dismantling of Western civilization.
And we understand that the motivation that you communists have to push this monumental hoax is your desire to control the populace and abolish freedom.
No-one here “denies” actual science.
There is just no real science backing up the anthropogenic climate change fallacy.
Present it if you think there is.
Start with the very basics.. measured scientific evidence of warming by atmospheric CO2.
“Accepting one’s alcoholism is the first step towards a cure”
Have you ??
The ridiculous endangerment finding needs to go. They will have no justification for their oppressive policies without it. Amazing how the brainwashed still think “climate denier” carries any weight.
Climate Denier…How DARE You pre judge me so!!!
And that label is punched out without knowing anything about the person so accused.
It is not a judgement. It is a weapon intended to silence questions.
That label is punched out without knowing anything about climate other than what their media masters tell them to think.. It is a deflection away from the empirical facts so the easily manipulated can preserve cognitive dissonance.
The weak minded fall in line because their fragile egos don’t want to be called names. The same reason they dismiss corruption happening in plain sight with psyops conspiracy wacko shaming.
Again I ask… what do we deny that there is measured scientific proof for?
Can’t be warming by atmospheric CO2… because that proof does NOT exist.
Has there been some highly beneficial warming.. Yes.. out of the coldest period in 10,000 years.
I am not a “climate denier”… I am a climate REALIST.
Those who DENY that the planet is currently cooler than it has been for most of the last 10,000 years..
…. they are the climate deniers.
Those who DENY that enhanced atmospheric CO2 is anything but BENEFICIAL..
… they are the CO2 deniers.
They’re also ACTUAL HISTORY deniers.
I like the term- climate emergency denier.
Moniker APPROVED!
Well, that needs a modern update.
I is now expressed as “climate crisis denier.”
You are both a climate realist and a climate pragmatist.
It’s classic propaganda, accusing the other side of what you are doing. The only climate deniers are those who think climate was stable before we started burning fossil fuels.
I wish Trump was more articulate, saying global warming is a hoax gives fuel to alarmists. The ridiculous climate crisis narrative is the hoax and needs to be isolated from the modest warming which empirical measurements show was mostly from fewer clouds during the modern warm period.
What Trump should say and probably means is that CAGW is a hoax. Climate always changes.
Trump is using “climate change” as defined by the alarmists.. ie human CO2 forced climate change..
There is no scientific evidence backing this up.
It is a hoax, back by mantra and propaganda… not by science.
I was referring to Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming which is how this bull crap started back in 88. CAGW is a hoax. If you leave the C off the front then it is not a hoax. The hoax is that the world as we know it will end. The truth is that the Earth’s climate will continue to change as it always has and there is very little we can or should do about it, except adapt as we always have. 🤷♂️🤔
I have never met a climate denier?
Every sentient being on earth accepts the climate exists.
We climate realists now hold the intellectual high ground. We even understand basic English language construction, unlike climate alarmists.
Most sentient beings on Earth don’t even think about the climate – it is what it is.
Climate alarmists and left wing ideologues don’t understand the basics of how things work in the real world. They have all the markings of a fundamentalist cult where faith in delusions have replaced reason.
The little boy who cried ‘wolf’…
And when no one listens, keeps crying louder and louder and louder.
Something like that…
Wow callback to 1990. They have cable TV!
Climate denier, What’s that, I don’t know a single person who denies earth has a climate.
I see a climate denier every morning when looking in the mirror. I notice he needs a shave. Then, when clean-shaven he starts the day with worrying about real problems, like how to pay the electricity bill.
Increasingly, Climate Liars are wailing in plain desperation. Their precious climate ideology is in tatters. Boo hoo hoo.
Climate Liars, a previously unseen expression that I shall used in lieu of Climate Syndicate.
Galileo and Copernicus were Geocentric Deniers hiding in plain sight. Shame on them.
Denier is just another epithet thrown around by leftists, along with racist, homophobe, transphobe, Islamophobe, misogynist, anti-vaxxer, etcetera, whenever they meet someone with facts that dismantle their mindless fantasies….. so now they are a badge of honour…. call me far right, and I will agree, so far I am right about everything!
Well said, K. O.; delivered a KO leaving me with nothing else to add. Childish elementary-school-yard-class name calling resorted to in place of a rational position.
Bloomberg has always been a climate alarmist that has also been a huge promoter of China. China has invested heavily in the green energy supply chain to help the west pursue its net zero ambitions.
Bloomberg and his billionaire buddies were happy to send US and European manufacturing jobs to Asia to make a green energy transition possible through deindustrialization. But the power demands from AI and the money to be made by investments in the tech has made affordable, reliable and cheap energy a priority that urgently needed expansion. It’s one thing to shed blue collar jobs to save the planet it’s another thing to walk away from the billions to be made from AI.
Perhaps Bloomberg suddenly realized how thin the support is for two favorite causes, climate and China, when profits depend on domestic development of an energy intensive technology.
Globalists have been pursuing one world government for over 100 years. They like the Chinese model of authoritarian control of markets and information. Taking down western nations and especially America who’s traditions of freedom is the biggest threat to their plans for world subjugation was what mandated woke indoctrination was about.
Big Pharma overplaying their hand during COVID woke enough people up to corporate tyranny to get Trump elected. Hopefully he can get European sheep to throw off the chains of authoritarian bureaucrats censoring speech to protect their willful destruction of nation states.
From the article: “Other leaders, including US President Donald Trump and EU members, are also being criticized for not following through on their climate promises”
Oh, I think Trump is definitely following through on his climate promises. He promised to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement, and he promised to “Drill, Baby, Drill !”
Game, set, and match. 🙂
From the article: “Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, spoke at the UN the day after Trump, reassuring us that “the world can count on the European Union’s continued climate leadership.””
Trump calls people who think like this “Stupid People”.
He’s right about that.
Are brainwashed ideologues “stupid?”
Yes, they lack the critical thinking skills to be considered of average intelligence. They allowed tribal conformity to ideologies that can’t survive examination to replace reason. I’m convinced they have learning disabilities due to their egos not being able to admit to mistakes.
It does fit “stupid is as stupid does.”
From the article: “A report published last week by research institute Stockholm Environment Institute found that governments globally plan to produce 120% more fossil fuels in 2030 than what’s required to limit warming to 1.5C. And some 74% of Paris Agreement signatories have failed even the very basic task of submitting new NDCs with targets for 2025.”
It’s time for the Climate Alarmists in the Western world to throw in the towel. Give it up. It’s over.
It’s not over by a long shot.
However it appears we have transition from the end of the beginning to the beginning of the end.
“governments globally plan to produce 120% more fossil fuels in 2030 than what’s required to limit warming to 1.5C”
Does it occur to the author to ask “where did these numbers come from?” or “so what?”
🙂
There is no evidence showing that humans are causing the Earth’s climate or weather to change.
Climate Alarmists say you are a “Denier” if you don’t believe humans are causing the Earth’s climate and weather to change, but how can one believe in this when there is no evidence to support such a proposition?
I don’t care what they call me, I’m not believing in something for which there is no evidence. One is not living in the real world doing such a thing.
Stupid People calling others Deniers. Here’s a secret: Skeptics laugh when they are called Deniers by Climate Alarmists. Most skeptics understand the psychology..
Today, it seems, denier is the modern version of heretic or infidel.
This aligns with your thoughts but extends it a bit into the conclusion that belief in CAGW is a religion.
If you deny that “carbon” is an evil, earth-destroying magic gas, then you too are a “climate denier”.
Exactly what idiots are denying there is a “climate”? Using leftists’ terms and talking points is a major component of the problem we are fighting.
“Exactly what idiots are denying there is a “climate”?”
Alarmists who believe climate was stable before we started burning fossil fuels. The oldest propaganda technique is to accuse others of what you are doing.
There is no such thing as climate.
Climate is real.
Climate is a mathematical/statistical definition.
Groupings of similar environments is often used to define local or micro climates, but again, it is math.
Sorry, I should have used the /sarc tag. I was trying to be a climate denier.
You are forgiven. 🙂
Einstein was a physics denier.
Who or what is a “climate denier”? Someone who disagrees with your leftist mega BS crap and simply wants to be left in peace perhaps?…get lost Bloomberg
In a Court of Law, the evidentiary standard for convicting a person of climate denial would be: “We don’t need evidence and do not listen to him. We say he is a denier and that is sufficient, so just convict him.”
Ha–Idiocracy: “I think my client’s guilty, Your Honour–I mean, p-f-f-f, just look at ‘im”.
Ah. The M.Mann approach to litigation!
Ha!
haha…great movie 👍👍
Sounds more like the spanish inquisition, same deluded individuals thinking and deciding that they are “right”. well burn them all…sarc
If a climate denier is one who doesn’t believe that microscopic changes in a trace gas can affect the world’s climate, then count me as a climate denier.
If a climate denier is one who thinks that climate should not change, then I am not. I know the climate has always changed, and that it always will, IN SPITE OF MAN’S DESIRE TO PREVENT IT!
A 30 year (or whatever time interval) running average of weather changes second by second even if only by the earth rotating.
To deny that the climate has never been stable (i.e. unchanging), is to be a true “climate denier.”
Add to that profound statement, that anyone believing the earth energy systems, the sun, all of it, has ever been equilibrium is a reality denier.