Germany and the ‘People’s Republic of California’ are China’s ‘useful idiots’. The two self-appointed climate leaders have made power dear, hobbled their own industries and handed the supply chains to Beijing, says Tilak Doshi.
Climate is such a dirty word now, that even the Headquarters of Globalist Lefty Communication (The New York Times) is telling their team to abandon it, says Jo Nova. “They never change the policy, they just change the language.”
When all else fails, start a war. The rhetoric of imminent war with Russia has become the dominant note of European public life, displacing the language of the climate emergency, says Tilak Doshi.
Malthusian gloom never really goes out of fashion; it merely changes its wardrobe. Where the Club of Rome had mainframe computers and system dynamics diagrams, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) has Earth-system modelling and a “Planetary Health Check” branded website. The underlying choice on offer, then as now, is the same: either humanity abandons industrial civilisation or it faces Armageddon.
Five months after the IPCC ruled that the infamous RCP8.5 doomsday climate scenario was “implausible”, the British Met Office is still whipping up unjustified Net-Zero convenient fear, says Chris Morrison.
Just how much of the climate obsession in the West is driven by China, Jo Nova wonders.
Nepal’s request for a foreign response to the country’s disastrous Himalayan flood would be better made as an appeal to the charitable instincts of people than as a demand for compensation from climate sinners, says Angela Wheeler.
Under Pope Francis and now Leo the Catholic Church has drunk deeply of the climate Kool-Aid, says Professor Roger Watson. It's about time it quit the pseudo-scientific scaremongering and got back to saving souls.
Prince William is behind the curve when it comes to climate change. He is also very misinformed about the history of European and global wildfire occurrences, says Linnea Lueken.
The OECD is risking US wrath by pushing ahead with green finance initiatives despite Washington calling time on Net Zero, says Tilak Doshi. Its new report on climate regulation has Brussels's fingerprints all over it.
