Awake Evidence

Democrats and American environmental groups have grown strangely quiet on climate, says Marc Morano in a recent podcast with Tom Nelson. “It’s the complete and total collapse of everything we’ve covered over the last two decades of the climate movement.” The post Why Aren’t Democrats Fighting Back? Morano on Turning Point in U.S. Climate Politics appeared first on Clintel.

Donald Pols was one of the most recognisable figures in the Dutch environmental movement. In 2021, he achieved a landmark victory when a Dutch court ruled that Shell must accelerate its emissions reductions. Following his highly controversial move to Tata Steel last month, it has now emerged that Pols was chairman of the Afrikaner Student Front (ASF) during his youth—a far-right student organisation that opposed the dismantling of apartheid. Friends of the Earth Netherlands, his former employer, has been aware of this part of his past for at least five years. The post Dutch Climate ‘Hero’ Donald Pols Had Far-Right Past; Friends of the Earth Knew appeared first on Clintel.

India has never seriously embraced the fantasy that wind and solar technologies can sustain an industrial economy. A U.S.-India alliance would strike at the heart of the corrupt climate lobby, says Vijay Jayaraj. The post Can US and India Forge a ‘Big, Beautiful’ Energy Deal? appeared first on Clintel.

Friends of the Earth Netherlands recently filed an appeal with the Dutch Hoge Raad against Shell and the Mens en Milieu Foundation in a last effort to force the company to implement significant worldwide emissions reductions. Lucas Bergkamp, a physician and attorney in Brussels, assisted Mens en Milieu in the proceeding and reported on the hearing: “Friends of the Earth looked tired and sounded like a spoiled child.” The post “Friends of the Earth sounded like a spoiled child in court appeal against Shell” appeared first on Clintel.

In a scathing 5,700-word attack on the current Prime Minister, Tony Blair argued for the British government to abandon Net Zero and smooth relations with Donald Trump. The post Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair: “Abandon Net Zero and Move Closer to Trump” appeared first on Clintel.

The whole “ocean acidification” thing is no more than an effort to play on the idea that people will find the word “acid” scary, says Francis Menton. The post Ocean “Acidification” – Another Fake Scare That Won’t Go Away appeared first on Clintel.

Dropping RCP8.5 is a step in the right direction but the CERES Team fears that it’s only a small step. The IPCC still looks set to be relying on the current climate computer models for their “climate change projections”. Even using a more realistic “business-as-usual” emissions scenario, their models are still going to simulate dramatic “human-caused global warming”. The post RCP8.5 Has Been Dropped: What It Means — and What It Doesn’t appeared first on Clintel.

The climate-health linkage is only the latest iteration of an age-old pattern of authoritarians who claim expert knowledge to order people’s lives onto the road to serfdom, says Tilak Doshi. The post The WHO is at it Again: Climate Change Repackaged as a Health Emergency appeared first on Clintel.

In this article for EIKE – European Institute for Climate and Energy, author Michael Limburg examines the political and media fallout after the IPCC quietly dropped the extreme RCP8.5 climate scenario as a plausible future pathway. The debate in the German Bundestag raises broader questions about how climate risks have been communicated — and whether exaggerated scenarios were used to justify far-reaching policies. The post The climate catastrophe has been called off – the plundering continues. Politicians and the media are complicit. appeared first on Clintel.

In this article for EIKE – European Institute for Climate and Energy, author Michael Limburg examines the political and media fallout after the IPCC quietly dropped the extreme RCP8.5 climate scenario as a plausible future pathway. The debate in the German Bundestag raises broader questions about how climate risks have been communicated — and whether exaggerated scenarios were used to justify far-reaching policies. The post The climate catastrophe has been called off – the plundering continues. Politicians and the media are complicit. appeared first on Clintel.

The first efforts of the Trump Administration to shut down offshore wind projects ran into a wall of judicial opposition. They have now come up with Plan B, says Francis Menton. It appears that the administration is entering into legal settlements with wind farm developers, whereby the government pays the developers substantial sums of money to walk away from the projects. The post Trump Administration Gets Strategic With Offshore Wind appeared first on Clintel.

RCP 8.5 has been given its official death certificate. The generation of children who grew up in its shadow, who were told the world was ending before they’d turn thirty, deserve to know the truth. Let’s make sure the message reaches them, says Anthony Watts. The post A Generation of Kids Thinks They Have No Future. Science Just Admitted Why appeared first on Clintel.