Letter to the Editor: Enough of ‘climate doom’

Every once in awhile, a letter like this makes what I do all worth it – Anthony

From the Chico Enterprise-Record:

Stop wasting our time with climate alarmist letters. Just stop.

The condescension and smug self-righteousness from self-professed experts over the past few decades have gone on long enough. You were short on science and unapologetically long on hysteria.

You know who says so? The very same people you’ve quoted for the past 30 years: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Future projections come from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) — a project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), co-sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization, the International Science Council, and UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission.

That’s a whole lot of non-MAGA people who have now scientifically concluded that their multi-decade high-emissions scenarios are officially “implausible.” Their word, not mine. That’s quite a step down from the hectoring about fossil fuels, backyard barbecues, air conditioning, and ultimate doom unless we transfer more tax dollars to Sacramento and Washington and adopt a spartan “sustainable” lifestyle.

You can console yourselves that you made Al Gore rich and turned Greta into a household name — though even she has moved on from climate activism to anti-Israel causes. The quasi-religion of climate doom has run its course.

You may choose to argue with Anthony Watts, and you may choose to be wrong. It’s a free country. He consistently and politely presents a logical, evidence-based perspective on climate topics and offers a free website packed with supporting research. Check it out: https://wattsupwiththat.com

(He and I have never met.)

— Barry Johnson, Chico


But, as I detail here you can be sure that climate alarmism will be back with a vengeance once the political winds of power shift. That’s why it is important that WUWT be there when it happens. Please consider becoming a supporting member, thanks – Anthony

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gyan1
June 30, 2026 10:15 am

Alarmist propaganda outlets will continue to ignore empirical reality. The brainwashed have been wholly captured and must be kept in the flock.

June 30, 2026 10:33 am

That’s a great letter!

But it gets even better, as more and more skeptics of climate alarm can find out for themselves that even the core idea that emissions of CO2 drive “warming” – to any perceptible extent – has been physically implausible from the start!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PDJP3F3rteoP99lR53YKp2fzuaza7Niz?usp=drive_link

Thank you for your patient attention to his matter.

Reply to  David Dibbell
June 30, 2026 11:14 am

Oof. *this* matter.

ResourceGuy
June 30, 2026 10:43 am

One thing is still assured–the unrevealed information layers of money and influence behind the climate crusades is still solid.

June 30, 2026 10:45 am

Lots of careers depend on climate doom. It infests every academic campus and the vast majority of grade schools.

The emerging hope is that the propaganda has been pushed so far into early education that those now reaching voting age actually know they have been lied to for their entire formative years about the impending doom if humans do not stop burning fossil fuels.

In Australia, One Nation has the highest support of any political party from millennials. That is encouraging.

June 30, 2026 11:10 am

Congratulations, AW. You are having an impact even in your old hometown.