Rigging the Climate Agenda – Liberty Sentinel

BAKU, Azerbaijan — It’s the climate, stupid! The increasingly discredited hypothesis that human emissions of CO₂ are driving dangerous global warming underpins almost every key element of the globalist agenda. With the election of Donald Trump, that agenda now stands at an historic crossroads. 

In the years to come, there are two possible futures. In one, humanity will face global totalitarian controls and a “multipolar” world order in which all roads lead to Beijing — an order that will rise from the ashes of the Western middle class and what used to be known as “Christendom” or the “Free World.” The other alternative: a reckoning of historic proportions as mankind works to untangle one of the most spectacular frauds in human history. 

Gathered at the recent United Nations climate summit (the 29th annual Conference of the Parties, or COP29), governments agreed to a massive agreement including rules for a UN-led global carbon market and trillions of dollars in wealth transfers to Third World kleptocrats (see “The COP29 Deal: Carbon Markets & Trillions in Reparations”). But the whole scam is hanging by a thread. What happens in the next few months may determine which way humanity will go for decades. How that will turn out remains to be seen. But at COP29, there were clues everywhere.  

On one side of the fork in the road stand U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Argentinian President Javier Milei, and most Americans, who in polls reject the increasingly discredited man-made global-warming hypothesis. On the other side of the fork, making ever-more outrageous demands and pronouncements, is a massive coalition with vested interests. This includes the UN, Third World kleptocrats, megabanks, Big Oil, socialists, communists, Islamists, and their legions of tax-funded “useful idiots” who believe taxing and regulating the gas of life will improve Earth’s temperature and lower sea levels. 

Until November 5, 2024, it seemed as if the acceleration and ultimate success of the UN’s climate agenda was practically inevitable. Trillions of dollars were in the pipeline. Governments worldwide largely agreed on the basics. Businesses, very much including Big Oil, were all jumping on the bandwagon. Profiteers, kleptocrats, cronies, AstroTurf groups, and countless others were lining up for a piece of the pie. 

Trump Rains on the Parade

But then, suddenly, much to the dismay of the Deep State and climate alarmists everywhere, voters reelected Trump. To say it threw the COP29 into disarray just days before its formal start would be an understatement. The climate movement alternated between moaning about the inevitable destruction of the planet, and vowing the preservation of the UN’s climate process and resistance to Trump at all costs. 

During his first term, Trump was a wrecking ball for climate alarmism, and for globalism more broadly. For instance, he famously ended U.S. involvement in the controversial UN Paris Agreement. Under the scheme, the U.S. government pledged to decimate its economy while Communist China vowed to keep building coal-fired power plants until at least 2030. His second term is likely to be even more brutal to the climate agenda.

Trump took aim at climate alarmism more than a decade ago, calling it a hoax to benefit the Chinese Communist Party. Since leaving office, though, he has declared that the climate “hoax” will be a top target. “One of the most urgent tasks, not only for our movement, but for our country, is to decisively defeat the climate hysteria hoax,” he argued during a 2022 talk in Florida in which he lambasted green energy and the alarmism surrounding CO₂. 

The president-elect also ridiculed sea-level prognostications. “The ocean is rising. It’s rising. It’s coming. It’s … within 300 years. We’re going to gain one-hundredth of an inch in the ocean and have a little more beachfront property,” Trump said, making fun of wind turbines, solar panels, and other costly and inefficient green energy schemes. “It’s going to be a terrible thing. No, it’s a hoax. The whole thing is a total hoax…. It’s so crazy.”

He hit the fraud hard on the campaign trail, too. “We don’t have a global warming problem; they don’t use that term anymore,” he said. “At certain points it starts to cool a little bit … so they changed it. You know what the term is? Climate change. This way, if it gets warmer … if it gets cooler, if it rains, if snow comes down in the middle of the summer, it’s climate change…. And we’ve spent trillions and trillions of dollars … putting windmills all over these magnificent plains, and fields, and valleys, and oceans…. It’s all a big hoax.”

Many of Trump’s top officials have echoed those concerns. His former climate advisor, Dr. William Happer, a physicist from Princeton, told The New American that efforts to control CO₂ are reminiscent of Soviet-style absurdities. “CO₂ is actually good for the world, and people should be encouraged to make more of it,” he said in an interview last year. 

Energy secretary nominee Chris Wright agrees with Trump. Among other concerns, he has pointed out the dishonesty of alarmists who falsely claim that hurricanes, floods, droughts, and other natural disasters are increasing in frequency. Wright, a businessman in oil and gas, consistently ridicules green energy schemes, too. 

Speaking to this writer shortly before the election, former Trump EPA Chief of Staff Mandy Gunasekara warned that the gloves would be coming off on the climate front in Trump’s second term. “I do think that President Trump will understand and not be burdened by insignificant arguments that, ‘oh, we need a seat at this table,’ or, ‘oh, this is really going to matter in terms of our relationship for other international issues,’” she said. “I think the gloves will absolutely come off.”

Noting that the Paris accord is underpinned by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) — a treaty “ratified” by the U.S. Senate in 1992 under questionable circumstances — Gunasekara said the next administration would think bigger than last time around. “We need to get out,” she said of the UNFCCC. “And Trump has the tools to get out of that treaty, which is going to shut down a lot of the derivative shenanigans.”

Another blow to the COP agenda came when Argentinian President Milei, who has ridiculed the man-made warming theory as a “socialist lie,” summoned his government’s “climate” negotiators home in the first week of the summit. No official reason was given, but it was widely understood that the decision came the day after Milei spoke with Trump. Argentina is now expected to withdraw from the Paris accord, too. 

With a GOP majority in both houses of Congress, climate alarmists are right to be worried. While a handful of “Republicans in Name Only” (RINOs) have jumped on the bandwagon, they represent a fringe view within the party and are likely to be under tremendous pressure from their unbelieving and increasingly impoverished constituents.  

The alarmism has also received multiple blows in recent years from COP leaders themselves. While the UN and its members agreed on paper at COP28 last year in Dubai to “phase out” fossil fuels, oil and gas deals were being made at COP29 by Chinese communists, Arabs, and others. COP29 host Ilham Aliyev, the Islamo-Marxist dictator of Azerbaijan, even called oil and gas a “gift of God” in his opening remarks. 

Resistance, Momentum, and GOP Surrender? 

Despite Trump’s well-known opposition to the alarmism, there were still signs of hope for alarmists. For instance, five GOP congressmen attended COP29 to show support for the Biden administration’s climate agenda. The Republican lawmakers, led by U.S. Representative August Pfluger (R-Texas), publicly expressed support for reducing emissions of CO₂ and even the fraudulently named Inflation Reduction Act, known as the most significant climate legislation in history.  

“As we engage with our international partners here at COP29, it’s crucial to work together to promote solutions that prioritize energy security and environmental responsibility,” he said, constantly touting reductions in CO₂ as if it were pollution. If any policies from the Biden administration and Democratic lawmakers are “not congruent or not in support of lowering energy costs while reducing emissions, you bet this Congress will take a look at that,” he added, promising to preserve parts of the Inflation Reduction Act. 

The GOP lawmakers’ embrace of alarmism suggests Democrats’ predictions last year were eerily prescient. At COP28 in Dubai, this writer asked a delegation of seven U.S. senators how they could make credible climate pledges considering the prospect of Trump returning to power in a year and the fact that in polls most Americans reject the man-made global-warming hypothesis. 

Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), who responded to the question at the urging of Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ben Cardin (D-Md.), touted the “tens of billions of [tax] dollars” flowing to GOP-controlled states and congressional districts under the Inflation Reduction Act.  

“Am I suggesting that, were the former president to be our next president, everything would be fine? No,” responded Coons before touting tax funds going to CO₂-reduction schemes in GOP areas. “But I’m saying that there is a broad enough and deep enough support for continuing investments to combat climate change and for the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure law.… We’ll continue to move forward regardless.”

That’s not all. Unfortunately for climate realists, there are even some key officials in Trump’s incoming administration who have been vocal in support for climate alarmism. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin was one of fewer than two dozen GOP congressmen to join a “climate” caucus in Congress. Department of Government Efficiency Co-Chairman Elon Musk has been a frequent proponent of carbon taxes and carbon markets. And commerce secretary nominee Howard Lutnick’s company Cantor Fitzgerald is a key player in the “industry.” 

That does not even begin to address powerful efforts by activists, UN globalists, business leaders, and Democrats at the local, state, and federal levels vowing to do whatever it takes to keep the climate agenda on track. The UN’s climate czar, Simon Stiell, echoed a common theme heard at the last few climate summits: nothing can stop this now. “The shift to clean-energy and climate-resilience will not be stopped,” he announced at COP29. “Our job is to accelerate this and make sure its huge benefits are shared by all countries and all peoples.” 

That seems to be the tone taken by other climate activists. “There is no denying that another Trump presidency will stall national efforts to tackle the climate crisis and protect the environment, but most U.S. state, local, and private sector leaders are committed to charging ahead,” said World Resources Institute U.S. Director Dan Lashof. 

The last time Trump was president, a significant coalition of alarmist governors, mayors, and business leaders from across the country — almost exclusively left-wing Democrats — formed a coalition called “We Are Still In” to continue playing along with the UN climate process. While it did not totally fill the gap left by the withdrawal of federal money and power, it helped. COP29 attendees involved in the effort told The New American this would continue in Trump’s second term.

Indeed, former EPA boss and Biden climate advisor Gina McCarthy, who serves as co-chair of the “America Is All In” coalition of alarmist state and city governments, vowed that nothing would stop the climate juggernaut. “No matter what Trump may say, the shift to clean energy is unstoppable and our country is not turning back,” she claimed. “Our coalition is bigger, more bipartisan, better organized, and fully prepared to deliver climate solutions, boost local economies and drive climate ambition. We cannot and will not let Trump stand in the way of giving our kids and grandkids the freedom to grow up in safer and healthier communities.”

Architects of the Paris accord also sounded optimistic about the prospect of keeping the alarmism going even without the U.S. government funding it all for the next four years. “The US election result is a setback for global climate action, but the Paris agreement has proven resilient and is stronger than any single country’s policies,” said European Climate Foundation chief Laurence Tubiana.

Claiming recent hurricanes highlight the seriousness of alleged climate change, she said the “transition” would continue with or without Trump. “The context today is very different to 2016,” said Tubiana, who played a key role in creating the Paris scheme. “There is powerful economic momentum behind the global transition, which the U.S. has led and gained from, but now risks forfeiting.” 

Efforts are already underway to keep the United States ensnared in the UN’s climate scheming despite the election, too. Bloomberg News, founded by radical climate alarmist and CO₂-spewing billionaire Michael Bloomberg, noted that “worried stakeholders” are working frantically to mitigate the damage Trump might be able to do following COP29.

“Officials from Maryland and California have met with Chinese officials to discuss continued climate collaboration at the subnational level, allowing state and local governments to pick up any slack,” Bloomberg reported. “Some state representatives were part of meetings in Beijing in September while the chief US climate negotiator, John Podesta, engaged in talks with his Chinese counterpart.”

From COP Negotiation to COP Mandates

In any case, change is coming. Even the most loyal devotees of the UN’s climate process are calling for sweeping reforms of the whole structure. According to a coalition of scientists, activists, and policy bigwigs, the process is “no longer fit for purpose and requires comprehensive overhaul to ensure planetary stability and a liveable future for humanity.”

The group, which issued the statement during COP29, included Executive Chair of Earth4All and Global Ambassador of the Club of Rome Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research boss Johan Rockström, former UN chief Ban Ki-moon, former UN climate czar Christiana Figueres, former Irish President Mary Robinson, and more.

“It is now clear that the COP is no longer fit for purpose,” the coalition said in a letter to the current UN climate czar. “We need a shift from negotiation to implementation.” In other words, enough talk; it is time to start enforcing the climate agenda regardless of what people’s elected representatives think, because the “crisis” is simply too urgent to wait. 

“We need a COP process that offers delivery, not delay. We demand COPs that are platforms for government and stakeholder ambition, not enablers of fossil energy contracts and growing greenhouse gas emissions,” complained Dixson-Declève with the powerful Club of Rome, a key group for globalists and communists using environmental concerns to advance global tyranny. “After 28 COPs, time is up on negotiations that don’t foster action and implementation.”

Among other demands, the climate luminaries called for strengthening the UN’s ability to “hold countries accountable” to “climate targets.” They also demanded a comprehensive tracking system to monitor and document how much money Western governments were looting from their taxpayers to redistribute for climate purposes. 

Rockström, one of the most outspoken climate totalitarians, demanded immediate and drastic changes to every element of life under the direction and guidance of the UN. “There is still a window of opportunity for a safe landing for humanity, but this requires a global climate policy process that can deliver change at exponential speed and scale,” he argued.  

Longer Term: Religion, Education, Censorship, Health

Adding credence to threats by Democrats and even some Republicans that the climate agenda will march on regardless of Trump or American voters, the UN and its allies are clearly planning for the long term. From recruiting religious leaders and integrating alarmism into public-health policies, to supercharging indoctrination programs aimed at children, the climate movement is clearly playing the long game. Their plan is brilliant.

Tyrants have understood for more than a century that indoctrinating children in government schools is one of their most powerful tools. The UN understands that, too. And it is moving quickly to ensure that every child on the planet is indoctrinated to believe not just in climate alarmism, but also that the UN and its efforts are the key to solving this alleged problem.

Meeting during the second week of the UN COP29 summit, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and its partners announced the weaponization of standardized international testing schemes. The goal is simple: ensure “climate change” indoctrination of all children worldwide by putting it on the global assessment known as the “Programme for International Student Assessment” (PISA).

Azerbaijani Education Minister Emin Amrullayev was one of the key players at the COP29 “Greening Education and Climate Resilience” event. And he boasted of what was happening. “This involves incorporating climate literacy into educational standards,” he said. “The PISA platform is already a trusted global benchmark, and the new focus on climate literacy has the potential to spark change around the world.” 

On religion, the UN and its allies are working hard to bring “faith leaders” from all religions into the fold. Speaking to The New American at COP29’s “Faith Pavilion,” former UN Environment Programme chief Erik Solheim boasted about the UN environmental agency’s “Faith for Earth” initiative that he played a key role in launching and that is bringing religious leaders worldwide together on this.   

Solheim, who spent more than $500,000 of tax money on hotels and travel, called on religious leaders everywhere to get their followers involved in “climate action.” Badly mangling the Bible, he made a bizarre “biblical” case that Christians have a duty to join the bandwagon. He also used multiple false assertions to argue that the “transition” is inevitable anyway. 

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