According to ABC News, this Christmas season gave us the “blizzard of the century.”

Nearly 60 people died during a severe winter storm, almost 40 of which were in Western New York.

President Biden has declared a state of emergency, and the National Guard are going door to door in Erie County conducting health and wellness checks. Over 500 troops have been mobilized to provide aid in the area.

While this is serious, it’s hardly new. In my 43 years, I’ve personally lived through several such blizzards. The resulting deaths and hardships are real.

The question is, why the climate alarmism? Sure, “if it bleeds it leads” is still the reality for every media company. We have to sell our news. But is that what’s going on here?

Climate change is big business.

Greta Thunberg, climate change activist, has dedicated her life to telling the world “I want you to panic.”

At the 2019 World Economic Forum, Thunberg said:

Adults keep saying we owe it to the young people, to give them hope, but I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is.

This blatant disregard for scientific research, focus on unreasoning fear, and lack of concern for the actual well-being of the planet has only intensified in 2022.

According to MIT Technology Review, a startup company named Make Sunsets is now engineering balloons which release sulfur particles into the stratosphere.

Shuchi Talati, a scholar at American University who is focused on geoengineering, said on Friday:

It’s hypocritical for Make Sunsets to assert they’re acting on humanitarian grounds, while moving ahead without meaningfully engaging with the public, including with those who could be affected by their actions.

This real-life attempt at the kind of junk science which “chem-trails” conspiracy theorists have discussed for decades is disturbing, to say the least.

Under the banner of a climate change emergency, activists are now releasing potentially toxic substances into the air, apparently without regard for the health or well-being of their corner of the planet or the people and animals who live there.

“We joke/not joke that this is partly a company and partly a cult,” said Luke Isman, CEO of the company pumping sulfur particles into the stratosphere under the guise of the current climate change emergency.

“We joke / not joke that this is partly a company and partly a cult,” Make Sunsets CEO Luke Isman told the MIT Tech Review on Friday.

To top it off, Make Sunsets is now working to monetize their hazardous experiment by selling “cooling credits” to businesses and investors.

This reveals the motivation behind climate change alarmism. It’s big business.

The Climate Change Fact Check 2022 report, published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and several other organizations on December 20th, shows that the Associated Press took more than $8 million in 2022 to push dubious and laughably one-sided climate change reports.

From the report:

Associated Press reporter Seth Borenstein, for example in his recent article “New abnormal: Climate disaster damage ‘down’ to $268 billion,” reported this about the estimated costs of damage due to climate change during 2022:

 

“...Weather disasters, many but not all of them turbocharged by human-caused climate change, are happening so frequently that this year’s onslaught, which 20 years ago would have smashed records by far, now in some financial measures seems a bit of a break from recent years.”

 

But are damages from those disasters really attributable to “climate change” or are climate activists and their media mouthpieces just trying to surf human tragedy to advance their very political cause?

 

Is this money funding actual journalism or just rank political activism?

What does science actually tell us?

CLINTEL is a Netherlands-based research group and independent foundation led by emeritus professor of geophysics Guus Berkhout and science journalist Marcel Crok. They focus on communicating with transparency to the public about climate change and climate policy.

According to their site:

The Foundation wants to function as an international meeting place for scientists with different views on climate change and climate policy.

In a recent “Message to the People” entitled “There is no climate change emergency,” Berkhout writes:

In the past decades the public has been flooded with fear-mongering stories, telling them that global temperatures will rise to catastrophically high levels.

 

Climate activists claim that the cause of all this impending doom is the increasing amount of CO₂ produced by human activities. The proposed solution is the so-called net-zero emission policy, aimed at lowering human net CO₂ emissions to the levels of the pre-industrial era of the late 1700s.

 

Those activists also claim that people should panic, and that time is running out: “Be aware that it is five minutes to midnight, we must act without delay!” Many thousands of scientists disagree; More than 1400 are Clintel signatories.

In August of this year, CLINTEL published the World Climate Declaration (WCD), a statement signed by nearly 1500 scientists and professionals and which both debunks climate change alarmism and advocates for less political influence in environmental research.

Norwegian physics Nobel Prize laureate Professor Ivar Giaever (renowned for work in quantum physics) led the WCD: 
 

Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures.

 

…We should free ourselves from the naïve belief in immature climate models. In future, climate research must give significantly more emphasis to empirical science.

They demonstrate that the Earth’s temperature has varied throughout time, showing there is no statistical evidence that the temperature is contributing to more natural disasters. More empirical research is needed, they say, and less focus on policies which control and regulate without adequate need.

“The gap between the real world and the modeled world tells us that we are far from understanding climate change,” say the authors of the WCD.

Chris Morrison of The Daily Sceptic writes:

Of course, green extremists in academia, politics and journalism will continue to argue for the command-and-control they crave through a Net Zero policy. In the end, their warped view of the scientific process will fade, leaving a trail of ludicrous Armageddon forecasts, and yet more failed experiments in hard-left economic and societal control.

The politics behind climate change alarmism.

Professors Anders Fremstad and Mark Paul (Colorado State University and New College of Florida, respectively) claim that free-market capitalism and “neoliberalism” are to blame for climate change. ¹

“Neoliberalism has frustrated efforts to reduce emissions through ideological arguments,” said Fremstad and Paul.

So-called ”neoliberalism” is in reality a return to the classical liberalism of America’s Founding Fathers. Economists Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, often labeled “neoliberals,” built on the same foundation of individual liberty and free-market economies and contributed to decentralized government, the defunding of public investments, and the deregulation of the economy.

The “solutions” presented by climate change alarmists are both absurd and monotonously focused on one goal: consolidating power in the hands of centralized government and those who run it.

These classical liberals took apart Keynesian economics (the model to which Barack Obama and most Democrats hold fast) and advocated for private investments to grow the economy instead of relying on state control.

According to Fremstad and Paul, the lack of government regulation and public funding is fueling global warming:

Neoliberalism has launched a concentrated attack on the government's ability to regulate the economy. Rather than viewing regulations as useful tools to shape markets, neoliberals dismiss government regulations as “red tape” that increases the cost of doing business and weakens the economy. ¹

This theory falls directly in line with the Biden administration’s efforts to combat climate change. Centralizing the economy and adding more regulation and public funding (read: higher taxes and regulations for you and me, from everything from groceries to guns).

The ends justify the means, according to the Left.

It’s not about preserving Earth’s resources. It’s about redistributing control of those resources.

Political operative Saul Alinsky, lauded and followed by both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, said:

The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. – Rules for Radicals, pg. 24

With the lack of empirical proof that human activity is contributing to climate change, it’s worth considering what political motivations lie under the guise of scientific concern.

The “solutions” presented by climate change alarmists are both absurd and monotonously focused on one goal: consolidating power in the hands of centralized government and those who run it.

It’s not about preserving Earth’s resources. It’s about redistributing control of those resources.

To repeat Alinsky, who was both evil and brilliant: “The end is what you want, the means is how you get it.”

Amy Jo Underwood contributed to this article.

1. Anders Fremstad, Mark Paul. Neoliberalism and climate change: How the free-market myth has prevented climate action. Ecological Economics, Volume 197, 2022.