by Robert Williams • Gatestone Institute • March 11, 2025
At the latest UN Climate Conference, COP29, in November 2024, developing countries apparently demanded payments of $1.3 trillion annually from developed countries. Notably, China retained its status as a “developing country” at the COP29, thereby exposing the enormous extent of the climate hoax. According to the International Energy Agency, “China’s total CO2 emissions exceeded those of the advanced economies combined in 2020, and in 2023 were 15% higher.” In addition, while China continues to build more coal-fired power plants than the rest of the entire world combined, the West continues on the path of deindustrialization in the name of the climate. Pictured: A steel mill with a coal-fired generator in Hebei, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
- Perhaps the climate hoax is actually not about saving the environment? What is it, then?
- Some environmental problems of pollution are clearly caused by man; the effect of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), as in certain hairsprays for instance, on the ozone layer over the Antarctica. CFCs thin, or make a “hole,” in the planet’s ozone layer that protects the people from harmful ultraviolet rays. There is also the very real man-made problem of insoluble trash in the oceans. Generally, however, the problems of pollution are separate from those of climate change. Whatever can reasonably be done to curb man-made pollution should, of course, be advanced, but sometimes climate change and pollution overlap – seen by many, apparently, as an invitation to muddle and conflate them.
- Climate change is largely caused by solar flares. So far, at least, there is not a blessed thing anyone can do about them. Many industries offer grants for papers that support the efficacy of their products that relate to climate change. Solar flares, regrettably, do not offer grants.
- [Former Special Presidential Envoy for Climate] Kerry and his family flew on 48 trips and emitted more than 300 metric tons of carbon dioxide in just the 18 months between January 2021 and July 2022. Private jets “are 10 times more carbon intensive than airliners on average, and 50 times more polluting than trains,” according to a 2021 report. Kerry justified his polluting by declaring, unfortunately without a trace of irony, that private jets were the “only choice for somebody like me.”
- The answer was supplied as early as 2015 by Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change: “This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.”
- That would mean the destruction of capitalism and the world economy, however long that takes.
- When the global elites arrived in Davos, Switzerland, in 2023 to discuss the urgent need to declare climate emergencies, they did so using more than 150 private jets.
- Any journalists or commentators who dare to question or oppose the climate change orthodoxy are immediately shunned as “climate deniers” and met in the legacy media with an instant end to their careers.
- “What is, in my view, even more dangerous, is the quasi-scientific form that their many times refuted forecasts have taken upon themselves.” — Former Czech President Vaclav Klaus, The New American, December 22, 2009.
- Klaus stressed that environmentalism disguises itself as science. Under this disguise, it attempts to force its precepts on humanity. When it comes to global warming or climate change, that process is made easier: the topic is scientifically complex, which makes it hard for most people to refute the climate scammers.
- “For the last 16 years, temperatures have been going down and the carbon dioxide has been going up and the crops have got greener and grow quicker. We’ve done plenty to smash up the planet, but there’s been no global warming caused by man…. I still say it’s poppycock! If you believe it, fine. But I don’t and there’s thousands like me.” — David Bellamy, English botanist and former BBC broadcaster, The Daily Mail, January 22, 2013.
- It is no wonder that the climate change scam won the day. Few people have been willing to risk their livelihoods to fight against the manipulation.
- Meanwhile, at the latest UN Climate Conference, COP29, which took place in Baku, Azerbaijan in November 2024, the agenda to destroy the world’s economy and the West by forcing wealth redistribution made new strides…. [Developing countries] apparently demanded $1.3 trillion annually. In the words of energy expert Alex Epstein: “The basic idea here is what they call ‘climate reparations,’ which is the idea that the US and others have ruined the world with fossil fuels, and so we have to pay a trillion dollars a year to make up for it, which, by the way, if the US paid that, that’s $7,700 per household per year.”
- Notably, China retained its status as a “developing country” at the COP29, thereby exposing the enormous extent of the climate hoax. According to the International Energy Agency, “China’s total CO2 emissions exceeded those of the advanced economies combined in 2020, and in 2023 were 15% higher.” In addition, while China continues to build more coal-fired power plants than the rest of the entire world combined, the West continues on the path of deindustrialization in the name of the climate.
- Thankfully, President Donald Trump, once again, has withdrawn the US from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. As the past has shown, however, such a withdrawal holds no future guarantees. Trump also withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement during his first term, but President Joe Biden then brought the US back the first chance he got. For this reason, it is crucial that the current US administration do all it can to publish the truth about the climate scam and work towards ending it across the board.
At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos this January, Klaus Schwab’s wife, Hilde Schwab, opened the annual meeting with the assertion that Antarctica is melting.
“Antarctica, which holds 91% of the world’s glaciers, faces catastrophic ice loss, contributing to rising sea levels,” she claimed.
That statement is simply not true. According to a recent study, Antarctica gained 661 billion tons of ice during 2009-2019. “The Antarctic continent,” in fact, “has not warmed in the last seven decades.” A December 2024 study, in addition, concluded that “iceberg calving, the detachment of ice blocks from ice sheets and glaciers… a primary process in mass loss from ice shelf systems in Antarctica and a major source of uncertainty in future projections of sea level rise” is not necessarily a consequence of climate change, not even when we’re talking about “extreme calving events”.
Adam
“Much of Robert Williams” statements of fact seem highly plausible and likely to me. Especially when he describes the panicky and exaggerated predictions of “climate “experts” that whole islands and coastal areas would disappear within a few years. ”
Name one climate scientist who has made such a claim
Just one
Adam D, there are a few points that don’t always get the attention they deserve.
You may have heard of Geoengineering. This is the control of weather by influential governments. You can read up on this by a simple search. The point is, governments that would like to affect the weather in order to mess up the plans of another government can now do so rather easily. However, the consequences are not always immediately noticed or intended. Since the global weather is in some kind of equilibrium, affecting it in one region will affect it somewhere else. This is very likely the reason why you get out-of-season tornados in the USA or unexpected storms in the Carolinas or rainy weather in Ukraine when the tanks need solid ground beneath their chains rather than mud. I could suggest some more but connecting the dots here is useful. I have acquaintances in Minneapolis who pray regularly for global warming…
Even many “mainstream” climatologists think that the “short-term” (meaning for many years) impact of “climate change” in some parts of the world, such as the northeastern parts of the the United States and Canada, and most of northern Europe, especially the United Kingdom and Ireland. In these areas, there may be colder weather anda big increase in snowfall, The reason is that the Gulf Stream may be pushed south, thereby depriving these regions of the protection that the GS has geven them for centuries, if not mileenia, from cold and snow. The Brits have seen unusually cold and snowy winters for several years in a row now, especially in Scotland , Wales and the northern shires of England. It has also become more rainy and damaging floods have become more frequend. England has always had a lot of rain, but an increase in the number of damaging floods that have destroyed many homes, especially near rivers, is something new.
Much of Robert Williams” statements of fact seem highly plausible and likely to me. Especially when he describes the panicky and exaggerated predictions of “climate “experts” that whole islands and coastal areas would disappear within a few years. Also, the insistence of high government officials, UN officials, and wealthy businessmen to fly long distances in gas-guzzling private jets, which certainly must be contributing to global warming, despite their claims that they want to stop it. The hypocrisy of these people, the enormous gap between their rhetoric and behavior, is truly shocking.
Fascinating. I don’t know where I stand on this issue. My views have flip-flopped on this question many times.
Many photographs of mountains that used to be covered by ice and snow for centuries, such as Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya (or is it Tanzania?) the ice and snow caps have disappeared, or been greatly reduced of the past 40 years or so. This would tend to support the climate change hypothesis. I am inclined to believe that there has been a warming trend in the Mid-Hudson Valley, where I grew up and lived most of my life. My groundskeeper and repairman, whom I know to be an honest and decent man, told me that when he was young in the 1970s and 1980s, the pond on his families farm froze over every year and you could skate on it But in lster years, between roughly 1990 and 2014, the pond did not freeze over, and he and his brothers could not skate on it.
THat much said, this winter in my present home, in the Delaware Valley, not the Mid-Hudson Valley, this has been one of the coldest years in living memory. Also, one of the driest. Almost no snow. I don’t know what to make of this contradictory evidence within my own lifetime and personal experience.
The subtitle of all of this could be “The Inherent Weakness of Democracy”.
Even this article which calls the hoax a hoax didn’t manage to call out China on its “developing country” status. With the 2nd largest economy in the world, allowing China to have this special “do whatever you want to the climate” status is far beyond the pale. That the Chinese have now joined the WEF has not yet popped up on my screen. I don’t see any other reason for the lack of complaints about the climate damage they are causing. By the way, India is not far behind China as far as economy and pollution are concerned, and these are of the countries that a) lend money to the USA and expect to get it back as reparations.
The predictions about countries disappearing into the ocean (take your pick) have not come true either. Indeed, photos turn up now and then showing the current sea level versus the sea level at the same spot 100 years ago. Of course, if we use high and low tide marks, we can prove anything.
When people like Obama and Gore buy up sea-shore properties for their own personal use, the lie is obvious.