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Democrats and American environmental groups have grown strangely quiet on climate, says Marc Morano in a recent podcast with Tom Nelson. “It’s the complete and total collapse of everything we’ve covered over the last two decades of the climate movement.”
Donald Pols was one of the most recognisable figures in the Dutch environmental movement. In 2021, he achieved a landmark victory when a Dutch court ruled that Shell must accelerate its emissions reductions. Following his highly controversial move to Tata Steel last month, it has now emerged that Pols was chairman of the Afrikaner Student Front (ASF) during his youth—a far-right student organisation that opposed the dismantling of apartheid. Friends of the Earth Netherlands, his former employer, has been aware of this part of his past for at least five years.
India has never seriously embraced the fantasy that wind and solar technologies can sustain an industrial economy. A U.S.-India alliance would strike at the heart of the corrupt climate lobby, says Vijay Jayaraj.
Friends of the Earth Netherlands recently filed an appeal with the Dutch Hoge Raad against Shell and the Mens en Milieu Foundation in a last effort to force the company to implement significant worldwide emissions reductions. Lucas Bergkamp, a physician and attorney in Brussels, assisted Mens en Milieu in the proceeding and reported on the hearing: “Friends of the Earth looked tired and sounded like a spoiled child.”
In a scathing 5,700-word attack on the current Prime Minister, Tony Blair argued for the British government to abandon Net Zero and smooth relations with Donald Trump.
The whole “ocean acidification” thing is no more than an effort to play on the idea that people will find the word “acid” scary, says Francis Menton.
Dropping RCP8.5 is a step in the right direction but the CERES Team fears that it’s only a small step. The IPCC still looks set to be relying on the current climate computer models for their “climate change projections”. Even using a more realistic “business-as-usual” emissions scenario, their models are still going to simulate dramatic “human-caused global warming”.
The climate-health linkage is only the latest iteration of an age-old pattern of authoritarians who claim expert knowledge to order people’s lives onto the road to serfdom, says Tilak Doshi.
Amsterdam just became the world’s first capital to outlaw public ads for both meat and fossil fuels. But advertising bans serve only to boost a feeling of moral superiority among urban elites while achieving nothing and jeopardizing much, says Vijay Jayaraj.
In this article for EIKE – European Institute for Climate and Energy, author Michael Limburg examines the political and media fallout after the IPCC quietly dropped the extreme RCP8.5 climate scenario as a plausible future pathway. The debate in the German Bundestag raises broader questions about how climate risks have been communicated — and whether exaggerated scenarios were used to justify far-reaching policies.
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