Green Meltdown: Trump’s Second Term Breaks the Back of Climate Activism
President Trump called climate change the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” at the UN.
When President Trump took office for his second term, it was clear from the moment he started signing executive orders in the Oval Office that he had every intention of implementing his plans to reverse the Obama-Biden climate crisis agenda. Ending U.S. Participation in the Paris Climate Accord was a clear signal that he would double down on his agenda.
Trump then selected Chris Wright, the head of a fracking company, to head the Department of Energy (DOE). His team continued with the defunding of the Biden “Green New Deal” and the attempt to claw back funds that were distributed to eco-activists like “gold bars thrown from the Titanic“. The administration continued to halt wind farm projects, moved to rescind the destructive “endangerment finding” that essentially classified life-essential carbon dioxide as a pollutant, and prepared a far more reasonable national climate assessment that included more rational risk assessments and economic impact considerations.
In other words, Trump and his team have proceeded to make significant progress on the strategic destruction of the economically disastrous climate crisis agenda.
Green activist groups are now experiencing deep frustration, a sense of failure, and internal turmoil as their funding and agendas have been targeted by the executive branch…just as Trump promised during his campaign.
The movement is struggling with lower fundraising, membership challenges, staff layoffs, and internal divisions, differing from the first Trump term that saw surges of resistance-driven support.
Some groups, such as 350.org and Greenpeace USA, openly acknowledge that their previous strategies are failing, signaling a need for tactical reinvention as traditional methods of mass protest and lobbying have not yielded results in the current hostile political climate.
Unlike during Trump’s first term, when groups like the Sierra Club saw their membership and donations swell in resistance to the president, the green movement has struggled this year to generate a cohesive message. Some also face additional problems of their own: The 3.8-million-member Sierra Club, for example, fired its former executive director in August after years of internal feuding and multiple layoffs.
“A lot of climate groups weren’t up for round two of doing the same thing” they did during Trump’s first term, such as focusing on large, Washington-centric demonstrations, said Jamie Henn, founder and leader of the climate activist group Fossil Free Media. “I think it’s taken a while to figure out. People, admittedly, were in shock about what’s happening.”
“Now I think people realize we’ve got to buckle down and get ready for the long haul,” he added.
I would argue that part of the problem is that the COVID pandemic made people aware of how many scientific “experts” were simply narrative pushers. Climate change science is not more than pseudoscience, but on a much longer timescale than COVID. Americans are now unafraid of the hysteria the green activists and their media minions are trying to promote.
The response to Politico’s X-post grieving about this development underscores the fact that most people are done with the climate antics.
— 🇺🇸Greg assault pistol Sandberg🇺🇸 (@GregSandberg7) September 22, 2025
However, it is not just the U.S. that is moving away from global climate politics. Anthony Watts of the Watts Up With That blog reviews a very fascinating piece recently published in The New York Times, which concludes the age of the Paris Climate Accord is over.
…America is not the only player abandoning climate pieties. Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney—once the high priest of climate finance—made his first act in office the repeal of Canada’s carbon tax, and he was rewarded with a landslide victory. Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist by training, now boasts about her nation’s booming oil and gas industry while enjoying one of the highest approval ratings of any world leader. Europe, once the vanguard of green virtue, is retreating as well. Laws once touted as proof of planetary salvation are being weakened, watered down, or repealed under pressure from populist coalitions and economic reality.
The mood has shifted so dramatically that Jason Bordoff, a former Obama energy adviser and now head of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, admits: “You can’t walk more than two feet at any global conference today without ‘pragmatism’ and ‘realism’ being thrown around as the order of the day. … But it’s not clear to me that anyone knows what those words mean other than this whole climate thing is just too hard”.
To cap off this day of climate victories, I would like to conclude with Trump’s assessment of the entirety of the climate crisis agenda.
President Donald Trump dismissed climate change as “the greatest con job” in the world during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, doubling down on his skepticism of global environmental initiatives and multilateral institutions.
Inject this into my veins. https://t.co/eUTlGx4rtK
— Leslie Eastman ☥ (@Mutnodjmet) September 23, 2025
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No data, no models. That’s been true from the beginning decades ago.
There actually are “data” and “models”.
It’s just that the data is crap –
prime example being the temp measurements from automatic meteorological weather stations which were in undeveloped land when installed but today in more urban settings.
Daily temp readings from a field of grass and the same equipment same site once paved over are not valid comparisons.
And that the models are crap –
There are TWO basic ways in Real Life ™ to check of a model is valid enuf to be useful.
First, does it accurately predict future events?
Second, can you run it backwards – that is – does it result in NOW if you use past data.
Every The-Sky-Is-Falling climate model fail both checks.
It’s more principled.
1. You can’t solve the Navier Stokes equations, which govern fluid flow and thus the atmosphere. In 2D, flows go to larger and larger scales and so there’s no problem. In 3D, vortices can and do kink, which shortens the scales indefinitely, and you can no longer follow the flow with any computer model. But the large scale flows depend on these small scale flows via “effective viscosity,” namely transfer of x momentum in the y direction etc, really a tensor rather than the scalar that appears in the equations, and you’re no longer doing physics at all. Why are weather forecasts good for about 3 days? That’s how long it takes large scale atmospheric vortices to kink and make the prediction useless. If you can’t follow the atmosphere, you can’t model for example clouds and so can’t model warming.
2. You can’t distinguish long term trends from long cycles with data that’s short compared to the cycles to be excluded. That’s just a mathematical fact. What happens is that the eigenvalues of the linear system you have to solve go to 10^30 in value and any noise in the measurement dominates the answer. So any warming might be part of a long cycle – which can’t be human-caused – and so not what they’re warning against.
Michael Mann’s famous “hockey stick” relied on proportional linkage of tree rings (I think in three tree) with the past climate. But going forward there was no proportional linkage of tree rings to the climate. The computer climate models have been modified to take into account new data… but only conforms what has happened in the past and not totally predictive going forward.
Every climate research outfit creates its own climate model. This tells me that, collectively, none of them have any faith in the accuracy of their models.
They also have a fudge factor of the climate’s sensitivity to CO2. Critics within climate research have argued for a long time that most modelers turn up the sensitivity far beyond anything reasonable. But they really don’t know the sensitivity level.
I have a climate model that’s sensitive to the number of houses that are painted yellow. Unsurprisingly, when I increase the number of houses that are painted yellow, the climate changes drastically in response.
So basically they don’t understand the problem well enough and therefore they can’t program a computer to do it. Their models are crap
When they admitted that the models didn’t work with historical data, I knew it was all a load of manure.
I have to say that I was really impressed the first time I read that CO2 was a pollutant. It was such a genius move! Pollution from factories and cars etc. HAD definitely been a huge problem and danger, but by the 1980’s the real problems had been or were well on the way to being controlled (in the first world anyway). The professors and activists needed a new enemy in order keep the cash rolling in. So, after some reflection they decided on CO2. The perfect choice as it can NEVER be defeated; you, citizen generate more every time you exhale! And, amazingly despite being such a tiny portion of the atmosphere it apparently had some catalytic characteristic with a “tipping point” and know what boys and girls? We are JUST BELOW that point right now! If you send us money we can save you, but you must act now before its too late!
Seriously I was impressed. I never imagined though that they could ride this pony for as long as they have.
Bets on what’s next? I keep putting money on “Threat of alien invasion” but it hasn’t paid off, so it must be something else.
“… so it must be something else”
They’re working on making it “The Jews”. See Greta Thunberg, for example.
“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.” — Lilly Tomlin
There’s data.
That is ‘corrected’ and ‘adjusted’ and ‘massaged’, and then the public is only given access to the ‘adjusted’ data.
Literally no other scientific premise would accept ONLY the ‘adjusted’ data. Publish the raw data and your reasoning for the adjustments, and your plan to correct it so you don’t need to ‘adjust’ it anymore.
Instead, they do the exact opposite, they absolutely REFUSE any actual attempt to collect accurate data. That gives the con away right there.
Even worse, they don’t just adjust current data. They’ve gone back as far as the century to correct that data and they obviously can’t take a new reading for something that happened a hundred years ago. They deleted somebody over. And the Roman War period because their crappy ass models can’t seem to replicate that. Obviously because they don’t understand the problem well enough or because it’s not actually a problem at all
World citizens have come to realize that they are expected to live in mud huts while the Kings, Princes, and Priests of the “Climate Change con” get to travel the world in private jets, live in the lap of luxury, and ignore the smelly WalMart people.
“No Kings!”
Especially people like ALGORE, the greatest conman to ever walk the world.
ALGORE has lots of company:-)
The climate change agenda is why the cost of food, housing and automobiles is through the roof. This is politically tough to address as there are a lot of people who depend on a paycheck stemming from these industries. And these industries need the boot of government compliance for a customer base.
When you buy a new house, the premium for the insulation and energy efficient windows and doors do not pay back in electricity savings. Not only that, the price of electricity “necessarily skyrockets” because of climate agenda.
When you buy a new car, the savings in gasoline in no way pays for the premium of the computer and emissions systems — especially the repairs — that squeeze out those few extra mpg’s..
In order to truly rid us of this climate agenda menace, federal laws and regulations need to be rescinded on a scale the same as deporting illegal aliens.
Well said! I think the younger generation may be noticing that they can’t afford a car, a house, or a marriage.
The Green grifters will leave their useful idiots standing with their mouths open and simply move on to their next grift. Wagers as to what the top 3 candidates for such looting will be?
Climate change is cultural Marxism regardless of what you choose to call it in the same way that humans with XY chromosomes are men regardless of how much makeup they wear.
The left is nothing but lies.
And here I thought the greatest con was the fundamental transformation of America under the banner of a biracial grifter with a resume made up and protected by the intelligence community.
I thought it was simultaneously convincing every leader in Western Civilization that importing s*loads of Muslims was the best idea ever.
green is the shift in frequency from red, and will quickly turn red again given the chance.
It is a chameleon.
Off topic, but Trump:
This 25-second video does look authentic — and official!
Trump is definitely going for World’s Greatest Troller!
It is real. President Autopen, the 46th President of the United States.
One early X comment was that they could do something similar to Trump when a Democrat next gets into the Presidency. What would they put? Probably they would put a swastika since they think he is a Nazi.
He’s also using his mug shot for the 47 POTUS photo. So this isn’t some mean swipe at Biden, it’s his sense of humor.
Meh .they would have done it eventually anyway.
They’re just sore because a Republican got there first for a change.
Yep, he said he would do that and he damn well did it
I’m not sure I can fully agree with Trump on this.
There are just too many frauds being perpetrated that are vying for the top spot as Greatest Con.
Climate Activism is definitely in the running, though.
Leftism at its core is a hoax. Leftism hosts a hierarchy of hoaxes. It’s hoaxes all the way down.
Envision the world’s largest file directory of hoaxes. That is leftism, each and every entry in this directory is a hoax.
Leave it to the contemptible and stupid acolyte/minion/lackey of narcissist-incompetent-dunce, Obama — who ended up in a cushy sinecure running an institute at the utterly vile, corrupt and rotten Columbia U., naturally — to opine:
““You can’t walk more than two feet at any global conference today without ‘pragmatism’ and ‘realism’ being thrown around as the order of the day. … But it’s not clear to me that anyone knows what those words mean other than this whole climate thing is just too hard”.
This idiot knows exactly what “pragmatism” and “realism” as a rational response to leftists’ and Dhimmi-crats’ irrational, destructive, impoverishing and corrosive “climate thing” hustle/totalitarianism/grift, mean; he just doesn’t want to concede it or admit it.
Interesting. USAID gets cut and suddenly hotearther cult orgs are short of money.
Coincidence?
the UN has blacklisted hundreds of companies who do business with israel
stop the UN the same way to stop the publicly funded uneducation systems
stop giving them our money
they are turning chinese anways
And, how about the Macron con? Candace Owens is a wackadoodle, but all she did was cut and paste a French investigative journalist’s book into her podcast, adding her own outlandish musings. The bottom line is there is something VERY fishy about Brigitte. The thing that points to the truth of the accusation is Macron’s lawyer assertion that he will provide photographic and “scientific” proof on gender. What weasel words! Why not just say Brigitte will take a simple chain-of-custody, chromosomal blood test? Because she is a dude, man. The lawyer either expects the case to be settled or provide more weak, ambiguous fluff. What’s more she(it) looks more like an 80 year old with tons of plastic surgery than a 72 year old.
And, don’t tell me about her children etc. until you’ve read the book.
she groomed him…no matter that him being 15 was the age of consent in france
she physically attacked him as we all saw months back
perfect example of a sexist double standard against males
Why not present her 4 children?
Read last line in my post. This is a very sick story.
And, they ARE his children.
Sierra Club was pro-natural gas until someone gave them a truckload on money in the early 2000s to be against it.
Now is a good time for someone to swoop in a buy a lobbying group like Sierra Club and make them over.
Patrick Moore, an early and prominent member of Greenpeace, quit the organization when it entertained a proposal to ban chlorine, an element. He tried to tell them it’s impossible to ban an element and received pushback. He says that’s when he realized they were insane.
Greenies don’t need to buckle down to their agenda they need to stop lying to our kids and AWFLs – you know, (the wealthy Karens who have nothing else to do). Without CO2, there is not plant life, period.
Seems Greenies want all animals to starve to death – those animals include humans.
Most plants evolved during a period of higher CO2 levels, and, for those plants, CO2 was at a near-strangulation level before CO2 levels recently began to rise.
red states play into the lefty green game and we get stuck with even more red tape
I was more than a bit amused at the perplexity expressed by Jason Bordoff.
“Jason Bordoff, a former Obama energy adviser and now head of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, admits: “You can’t walk more than two feet at any global conference today without ‘pragmatism’ and ‘realism’ being thrown around as the order of the day. … But it’s not clear to me that anyone knows what those words mean other than this whole climate thing is just too hard”.”
Where was Mr. Bordoff when prominent politicians such as Joe Biden frequently proclaimed “Climate change” as an “existential crisis”? In fact Mr. Bordoff’s boss, Barack Obama stated, “… climate change isn’t just some little problem — it’s a major, civilization-ending threat,” Now when the US was indeed faced with an existential crisis after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, FDR – the following day – addressed Congress and the American people to explain the situation and the need to execute his plan. In stark contrast, Neither Barack Obama nor Joe Biden explained why climate change – as evidenced by facts or even never validated models – was a civilization ending, existential crisis. Instead, the public came to realize that there was a lot of grift involved with these fine sounding words. I appreciate Mr. Bordoff’s lament and welcome his new found appreciation for precision in language. Perhaps his center will lead the way in providing realistic characterization of climate change based on facts (not models) and pragmatic advice on public policy.
My rule #3 post covid is “You can’t lie your way out of reality.” “And all the science, I don’t understand It’s just my job five days a week” The human experience turns to shit without energy. The world is full of “deservers” and telling them they aren’t getting the good stuff is how you quickly lose your power. The reality is we need a lot more energy.
Wake me when insurance levels for ocean front properties goes up due to the expected rise in sea levels.
I love his no holds barred
He knows he has limited time to fight the good fight
Go Trump
Those of us who remember the ’70s also remember “the coming ice age” that they tried scaring us with back then. Twenty years later they were still bitching about pollution, but they flip-flopped and made “global warming” the great boogeyman this time. That should have been sufficient to indicate it was all a con from the get-go.
And the big famine from the “population explosion.”
About the only disasters they didn’t predict were a global pandemic, and massive invasions of s*hole third-worlders, and those are the ones that happened. And they weren’t the fault of the bulk of humanity, they were both the fault of our insane leaders.
We were also told by experts that we would run out of oil by 1995.
Yes, I voted for this!
The biggest thing about entire Green Energy agenda was that it raised power prices not only throughout the grid, but throughout the planet. It priced energy to unaffordable levels that require subsidies. Along the way, before it was determined to be viable, many blue states destroyed their nat gas powered energy plants. Now, they are destroying their solar plants that lasted only ten years like Tonopah in Nevada. But it did make the Pelosis and Harry Reid rich along the way.
A Sunday afternoon ride around areas west of Birmingham where the old US Steel plants were shows the buildings gone and polluted soil removed, but the power supply infrastructure was abandoned in place. The idea was fielded recently to turn the sites into small nuclear power plants, turning them from electricity consumers to generating plants. The infrastructure would need a lot of work to bring it up to modern standards since there are still pieces that date from the late nineteenth century but it’s still better than building everything from scratch. Nobody lives on the old steel mill sites. Major interstate highways (I-59/20, I-459) are close by and two large rivers (Tombigbee, Black Warrior) serve the area.
I’m waiting for Southern Company Services to announce they’re looking at the idea. A proposed data center would be built in western Jefferson County. Some locals are screaming “NIMBY!” but building it would yield jobs and recognition. I’d think there are places in the midwest similar to this.
Aren’t we into recycling?
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Although Anthony Watts is very well versed on our ongoing climate change, he has this part (politics) wrong.
Contrary to Anthony’s claim, we must not be too quick to include Mark Carney as a destroyer of the hated “carbon tax”.
First, he didn’t eliminate the carbon tax but rather “temporarily” reduced it to zero. Carney later brought the tax back at higher levels, only this time labeled as “The Clean Fuel Standard Tax” and this time there are no rebates to the general public, just massive inflation.
Secondly, Mark Carney definitely did not win a “landslide victory”. Rather he was “installed” (like Joe Biden) and even after the destruction of many unfavorable ballots, received only a small victory in the federal election.
Dictatory Carney is pushing on stronger than ever using horrendous policies to alienate the U.S. and reduce Canada to a hated third world country.
To paraphrase Twain, “The report of earth’s death was an exaggeration”. -hnw
SCOTUS allowing CO2 to be declared a pollutant was easily one of the most startingly idiotic law decisions since it declared tomatoes a vegetable and a small wheat farm in the midwest was engaged in something to be known as indirect interstate commerce. Because that farmer did not engage interstate commerce, he engaged in interstate commerce by not buying the produce of someone who did.
Of course there is Gorsuch aligning with the liberals and claiming States no longer have the right to determine marriage perameters even though the precipice of crazed sexual perversion and mental disease being legitimized as a civil right was immediately before the eyes of the court.
And here we are today. With a thousand incompetent, power mad liberal magistrates and District Court judges assuming the role of emperors of America.