by Climate Depot admin
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/climate/trump-climate-change-emissions-fuel.html
Excerpt:
In recent days his administration has slammed the door on every possible avenue of global cooperation on the environment. At the same time, it is sending the message that it wants the world to be awash in fossil fuels sold by America, no matter the consequences.
Under President Trump, the United States has become the only nation to renege on a pledge to try to keep warming to 1.5 degrees. Its actions will make the global fight harder, scientists said.
“Emissions will be higher,” warned Justin S. Mankin, an associate professor at Dartmouth College who researches climate variability. “Trump’s greenhouse gas emissions will cause Trump’s heat waves, Trump’s droughts, Trump’s floods, and Trump’s wildfires.”
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“The science is clear that every action matters and every ton of carbon matters,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist and professor at Texas Tech. “There’s a price to pay for every ton of carbon we produce, and that price is being added to our global debt.”
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Have We Advanced since the Middle Ages?
Did you know?
Witch hunts increased during the Little Ice Age
The Aztecs had one advantage over our climate experts—they realized the sun was responsible for global warming
A University of Cincinnati professor blamed the rise of Hitler on global warming
Princeton Professor Emeritus of Physics William Happer in 2017 drew parallels to today’s man-made climate change claims. “I don’t see a whole lot of difference between the consensus on climate change and the consensus on witches. At the witch trials in Salem the judges were educated at Harvard. This was supposedly 100 per cent science. The one or two people who said there were no witches were immediately hung. Not much has changed,” Happer quipped.
[Note: According to The Salem Witch Trial judges: “Five of the nine judges had attended Harvard, though only William Stoughton, Samuel Sewall and Nathaniel Saltonstall had graduated.” — On 27 May 1692, Sir William Phips, the newly appointed royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, appointed nine of the colony’s leading magistrates to serve as judges for the newly created Court of Oyer and Terminer. When Phips sailed into Boston from London on 14 May, there were already 38 people in jail for witchcraft, and the accusations and arrests were growing daily. One of the governor’s first official acts was to create this special court to deal with the growing crisis…Governor Phips carefully chose men he described as “persons of the best prudence.”… All nine were members of the Governor’s Council, and most of them had served as judges for many years. Many had even been on panels that had heard previous witchcraft cases.]
Durn tootin’!
Luckily, the ignorant and gullible who would like to hang me, are completely powerless to do so. They have to content themselves with grinding their teeth, and having tantrums, because I point out that adding CO2 to air doesn’t make thermometers hotter, and that the Earth has actually cooled in spite of four and a half billion years of continuous sunlight.
The ignorance and gullibility of the true believers in the GHE becomes obvious when they are completely unable to provide a consistent and rigorous description of the GHE!
The reason is fairly obvious – there is no GHE! On the subject of witches, who knows?
Well, there some women who claim to be witches, but in a harmless old hippy sort of way. I know a few, being here in Wokeachusetts.
Some trade the W for a B.
On the one hand – I think hangings are bad.
On the other hand – if the penalty had been a smaller thing, they might STILL be penalizing.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of witches?
And with “spectral evidence” as a parallel to GCM computer models
Katherine Hayhoe might be a witch. She doth protest too much.
https://www.katharinehayhoe.com/the-climate-science-witch-hunts/
Well, it rhymes with witch . . .
I wonder if Hayhoe would be a Climate Cooling scientist if she lived back during the Little Ice Age? A Climate Change scientist will always have a job.
The witches were innocent.
And she can’t get over carbon, and emissions of carbon. Yet she has a doctorate and is a professor.
paycheck
It’s astonishing that highly educated and nominally intelligent people can be so blind to reality. People tend to see what they want to see, but why do they prefer to see catastrophe? And blame it on the rest of us?
When have you ever seen a researcher studying a natural system anywhere in the world and say there’s nothing wrong with it?
Oceans – in bad shape
Coral reefs – in bad shape
Glaciers – in bad shape
North pole – in bad shape
South pole – in bad shape
Deserts – in bad shape
Rain forests – in bad shape
Kelp forests – in bad shape
Grasslands – in bad shape
Rivers – in bad shape
Wetlands – in bad shape
Peat bogs – in bad shape
There may be a reason for it. I wonder what it could be…
The once pristine notepad in which I have written my best ideas is now “in bad shape”.
Mental illness. Depressed people who blame their depression on a horrible world and of course, Donald Trump.
There is nothing Donald Trump cannot do. Just look at the news–all day every day he is responsible for whatever is happening.
Exactly as I read this comment the morning news started it’s usually lazy Trump attribution study session.
Except kittens being rescued from trees. Crickets on those stories.
Redge has already supply a reply to your question
Lack of objectivity. To a hammer, everything is a nail. To an envirocultist, everything is bad.
They all know that nobody spends money to study things that are going great.
Your comment – in bad shape
If it bleeds, it leads.
Only in this case the blood is only hypothetical, future blood.
I thought the implication was obvious – continued funding
The one that comes to my mind is the annual report from the society of civil engineers that says _all_ of the US roadways and bridges get a ‘D’.
That’s because politicians don’t budget for, and see to, infrastructure maintenance and repair. They don’t get any political points for that. They let it deteriorate to the point where far more extensive rebuilding or replacement is needed, then throw (much more) money at it, so they can paint themselves as “heroes.”
While WASTING tons of money on worse-than-useless crap like grid connected wind and solar.
Maybe she giggles over her morning coffee, reads these comments and thinks “these dummies are paying my salary and there’s nothing they can do about it unless they become single-issue voters”.
I’ve been a single issue voter for a long time. Always recognized the power grab and I refuse to vote for people who are attacking my basic needs and endlessly picking my pockets.
Education does not increase intelligence, only knowledge.
The current climate discussion confirms this.
Depends on how much money there is in it.
PhD–Piled Higher and Deeper. As for emissions of carbon, hers are certainly laced with copious amounts of nitrogen compounds, AKA fertilizer.
Agree. I was a fan of Sallie Baliunas, who was much more qualified than Kathryn. Unfortunately, Senator Markey drove her out of her position at Harvard.
Hayhoe the merrio.
Hayhoe, let’s go!
Hey, Ho!–Common Rap lyric.
“…Blaming bad weather/hurricanes on Trump and/or ‘global warming’ is a throwback to medieval witchcraft…”
Yeah, but does he float? (Turned me into a newt he did).
. . . but I got better . . .
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
Explain again how sheep’s bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
Witchcraft might be responsible for climate alarmists. Their minds have been possessed rendering them incapable of critical thought.
People can get into rather sillyass diversions, like the Satanic Panic/ Recovered Memory movements of the 1980’s and early 1990’s. Which were analogous to witch hunts, coerced evidence reinforcing the original
panic. Which also leads to a coverup on how malevolent some people in authority were.
I was thinking more along the lines of Jonestown or Heaven’s Gate.
But Recovered Memory was a radical feminist trope, mostly on how evil men were. The methods morphed into recovered “memories” of satanic rituals.
Yes, I recall. My reference was more to the point of how authority uses such mental distortion toward a purpose, as with the climate cult, and how it becomes absurdly self-destructive.
The recovered memory thread shows the movement adjusting to its natural end by looking for “the next thing”. Paul Ehrlich never had to adjust – like bellbottom jeans he went out of style then came back. I don’t think the Hayhoe/Gore/Kerry crowd can do that, there are too many names and faces and too much money involved. So what is the younger version of Hayhoe’s “the next thing”. She’ll probably retire just fine on her own terms, good for her, but what about her grad student proteges?
Sure, but the difference now is this ‘sillyass diversion’ is global, as far as my memory goes those others were NA & even ‘just the US’ (they weren’t a ‘thing’ in Canada).
Probably because the internet only started in the ’80s, remember that’s when Gore ‘invented’ it. Which raises the question, shouldn’t we being referring to the impacts of supposed climate change as ‘Gore heatwaves, Gore droughts, Gore floods and Gore wildfires’? After all if it wasn’t for the internet we wouldn’t be consuming so much energy, especially not from AI and wouldn’t need to burn so much of those dirty, pukey fossil fuel thingies. So the irony is “its all Al Gore’s fault”!
“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” – George Orwell
People who live/work in ivory towers should really get more often.
Can take this a lot of ways – get out more?
…get some more often?
No, it’s mocking trumps way of slappimg his name on everything.
Witch hunts were the result of fear politics. Something that site has more than enough of.
Actually – the only reason why your global warming religion prevailed and exists is fear.
Using all the playbooks of former religions(without paying for the copyright).
The end is near if you don’t believe in X.
We will burn all in hell if you don’t behave a certain way.
Pay indulgencies ( co2- tax) for your sins.
If you don’t believe in it you will get excommunicated from the church and abandoned by yours( this actually goes for all these new transformatory “values” the woke gets from its priest)
If you oppose it your livelyhood ( career) will be ruined.
And talking about Witch hunts – Trump was the 1st big victim of modern witch hunts.
Some modern day Peter Pan no one really criticized in his first 70 years
became the ultimate evil overnight somehow – and this in a country full of corrupt war criminals in congress and the White House who get away with everything, even dementia.
And the only time the witch hunt slows down is when he is going to war.
Then the MSM softens, which is kind of revealing ( of course not for guys like you )
Orange Man is everywhere inside warmenista exploding heads-
Giant ice blocks transform Elbe River in northern Germany
Too bad they can’t charge rent.
“No, it’s mocking trumps way of slappimg his name on everything.”
Lefties hate that!
That’s the reason he does it.
Leftie heads exploded when Trump renamed the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the performing Arts.
Trump justified the name change because Trump’s management of the Center saved it from going bankrupt and disappearing. Trump put it back in good shape and decided to add his name to it. It sounds reasonable to me.
He should rename that big island east of Canada to Trumpland. It would be more honest that those Danes who wanted people to believe it was green. Of course it was more green back then but still mostly ice. I also like his renaming that gulf south of Texas. And renaming the Defense Dept. to Dept. of War. Because that’s what it is!
Trump said today that he started to name the Gulf, the Gulf of Trump, instead of the Gulf of America. I think he was joking. 🙂
Ignorance and fear, the same dynamic climate catastrophism depends upon.
Projecting a bit, aren’t you?
I am for Trump Gulf of America.
A climate alarmists complaining about the politics of fear.
Now that thar is funny.
The more I see pronouncements from academics in Universities the less respect I have for their position.
I’ve seen lengthy papers by academic professors about renewables that prove they do not even understand the basics.
But… but… they use big words and sound sophisticated. No blunt talk like Trump- which is why they hate Trump.
These are the facts:
No Government policy ever implemented in the last 40 years has reduced the atmospheric concentration of CO2.
But it would have increased more. And saying that we have effective methods to decrease it, the political will and the funding to do so for 40 years now is a joke. The effort being blocked by massive amounts of lobbying from organisations like Heartland Institute and their entourage doesn’t help either.
That is what officials said after a Covid wave. That their actions prevented higher numbers. But, countries that did NOT have those measures displayed more or less the same pattern.
So, this whole idea of effectiveness is mostly based on unproven assumptions and assertions.
But you are many and we are few and judging by your media you have prevailed. So what efforts have been blocked by we few, we tiny band of brothers?
“But it would have increased more.”
Prove it.
The sacred models have spoken.
/sarc
Because it’s not necessary and actually incredibly stupid. The ruinable industries have spent many orders of magnitude more than the Heartland Institute to push the policies they want.
There was a grade school joke about someone selling elephant repellent. Which drew the comment that there were no elephants closer than the big city zoo. “See how well it works!”
What do you think of this factoid from the IEA?
“Per capita co2 emissions in China are now 16% higher than in advanced countries as a group” IEA ‘World Energy Outlook 2025’ (Nov. 2025)
Quaking in your boots?
Perspective
“The Heartland Institute’s reported budget shows recent revenue around $3.35 million and expenses near $3.7 million in 2024, though budgets fluctuate yearly, with older reports mentioning figures like $3.8 million received in a prior period, highlighting their financial operations as a prominent climate-skeptic think tank.”
“CBS News operates a worldwide news organization, providing the CBS Television Network and CBS … annual dividends of $274 million, or $.72 per share, for 2018 …Read more
Socialists hate it when reality gets in the way of their fantasies.
Now you are just lying since the CO2 “endangerment” report was accepted by the EPA based on politics and applied for years to the delight of science illiterates like you.
Then you forget the Paris treaty and more useless treaties that bound America to the utter nonsense for a long time and the world warmed up just the same showing these treaties were utter failures.
Yet you forget all that, you have Swiss cheese memory.
Soothsaying has nothing to do with facts. But I’m personally glad that you can predict the future.
Whats the name of the horse that will win the Kentucky Derby this year?
Lobbying from climate troughers is MAGNITUDES more, as is the money spent by climate *ankers.
This guy is only here to derail threads.
So you want it to be cold. Shilling for famine and pestilence, eh?
Well you’re right about one thing.
Saying we have “effective means to decrease it.”..IS a joke.
Because idiotic ideas like wind, solar and batteries don’t *reduce* emissions. They only change the locations of emissions. And in the process make everything much less reliable and much more expensive.
And none of them produce any energy, they are merely poor, low efficiency “collection” and “storage” devices. And THEY DON’T LAST VERY LONG. The serial manufacturing thereby necessary, along with the overbuilding generally advocated as a (nother non) “solution” for the fatal flaw of intermittency, means a massive stream of emissions that will continue.
Basically, all of your preferred non-solutions to the imaginary “problem” are produced with lots of energy and components, all of which come from…COAL, OIL AND GAS.
The stupid ideas you advocate change nothing. They are just a wealth transfer to the wealthy and the politically connected.
Germany once had a bullet proof and low cost electric grid. Now they have an unreliable and extremely expensive electric grid, and their emissions are HIGHER, and that is WITHOUT considering the emissions of the production of their worse-than-useless wind and solar toys. Thanks to the shutdown of nuclear plants and attempting to replace their input with crap that doesn’t work, and ultimately moving to more coal.
Emissions will not be reduced, period. NOT THAT IT MATTERS because atmospheric CO2 DOES NOT “drive the Earth’s temperature.” Nor is a warmer climate COMPARED WITH THE LITTLE ICE AGE a “problem.” It is, in fact 100% GOOD NEWS.
“Climate variability”.
Translation: Weather caused by man.
I guess we’re all witches then. But some witches are worse than others.
Especially the ones who deny they are witches.
From the article: ““The science is clear that every action matters and every ton of carbon matters,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist and professor at Texas Tech”
Nope, the science is not clear. Not even close.
Katharine is an infamous Human-caused Climate Change Propagandist, for those who don’t know. Naturally, she would be a source for the New York Times.
On her own website, Katherine also claims to be a Texan just because she lives in Texas. She is in fact an immigrant from Canada, has not become a U.S. citizen, and has not assimilated with Texas culture.
She is especially known for the blending of her alleged Christian roots with her “science.” However, her religious affiliation is the misnamed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), a “woke” mainline Protestant denomination that has abandoned Biblical authority to gain favor with post-modern secular society (“social justice” in all of its perversions).
Dr. Hayhoe is neither an authority on climate science nor Christian faith. An all-around propagandist.
“it wants the world to be awash in fossil fuels sold by America, no matter the consequences”
The consequences would be beneficial to the world.
“The Salem Witch Trial”
In Wokeachusetts of course- the home base for woke. I may contact the governor and ask to have the state’s name changed. She’ll probably like the idea. It’ll have a new Post Office code: WK.
Of course. Trump is to blame for everything.
A solar event? Trump.
A meteor? Trump.
An earthquake? Trump.
And so it goes.
Anybody else remember when Al Gore blamed GW Bush for Katrina?
August 2005.
“Never go full retard.”
— Kirk Lazarus
NYT failed to heed this wise advice.
This just confirms that the government controls the weather.
As soon as we hear and see the opinions of too many academics being taken too seriously, we know we should dismiss most of them. When it comes to proclamations about the deleterious effects of a warming climate, or emissions, or red meat consumption, or air travel, or almost anything that’s progressive and leads to improved health and well-being of people in general, we know it’s time to change the channel. The problem with most academics is that they’re underemployed to begin with, so they have plenty of time to spin theories that can’t be proven and that few people give any credence to regardless.
Does the NYT read WUWT?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/01/16/a-good-mix-of-sunlight-and-rain-is-now-climate-whiplash/#comment-4155121
“The one or two people who said there were no witches were immediately hung.”
Not true, for example Nathaniel Felton and over thirty other neighbors wrote two petitions to the governor testifying that the Proctors and Nurse were of good Christian character, they were not hung for doing so!