Philosopher Schopenhauer: Climate Science Certainty Stems From Stupidity, Ignorance

By on 16. January 2026

German philosopher Schopenhauer: Stupidity creates certainty while intelligence creates doubt…Why climate alarmists are, well, idiots.

German philosopher Authur Schopenhauer

The video, Why ‘Idiots’ Think They’re Intelligent — Schopenhauer, reminds us a lot of all the idiots out there who are convinced of the AGW crisis and why they believe the absurdity, and lots of other nonsense.

Intelligence sees complexity

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) argued: Intelligence requires the ability to perceive complexity.

Conversely, if a person is too ignorant to see that complexity, everything appears simple and convincing, leading to a state of blissful confidence. Here we quiickly realize how this applies so perfectly to Climate Science, and many other fields.

Some examples of stupid, simplified claims:

  1. Climate Science: Climate is regulated by a single control knob, CO2! The higher the atmospheric CO2 level, the more violent our weather and climate become!
  2. COVID immunization: If you get vaccinated, you won’t get sick and spread the disease. (80% believed it and got the jab!)
  3. Public Health: Wear a mask, and the mask will catch your virus-carrying droplets and prevent others from getting infected!
  4. Biology: A fetus is just a clump of cells, the center of which is pulsing for some unimportant reason.
  5. Economics: Just print a lot of money and everyone will have enough!
  6. Nutrition: All calories are the same. And, dietary fat is bad for you because it clogs your blood vessels.
  7. Neurology and Consciousness: Your brain produces your consiousness. When your body dies, you end!
  8. Economics: Permanent trade tariffs protect jobs and industries.
  9. Astronomy: The earth is flat and it’s the center of the universe.

All the above are examples of extremely complex issues that get (got) grotesquely simplified to a level where the masses of idiots, media and much of academia think it’s settled. For idiots, once you ignore all the complexity, it beomes simple, certain and unchallengeable.

Idiots can only comprehend simple things

And because these not-very-bright dimwits manage intellectually to finally grasp the absurd simplifications, they become convinced they know it. Just take a look at the audience of dummies watching Al Gore and his Inconvenient Truth presentation in his Oscar-winning propaganda movie. In the end, they all believed it was as simple as CO2 regulating the atmosphere.

Why are the skeptics intelligent?

Schopenhauer noted that stupidity creates certainty while intelligence creates doubt. Really iuntelligent people will always have doubt. Ask yourselves, who claims to be certain about climate science, and who sees that it’s far more complex and uncertain?

If people admitted they didn’t know everything about a topic, they would never have to fear admitting they were wrong later. When it comes to issues of great complexity, certainty always comes from ignorance.





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New Study: Species Extinction Rates Declining Since 1980 – ‘Climate Change Is Not An Important Threat’

By on 15. January 2026

“Remarkably, we found here that species-level extinctions related to climate change have not significantly increased over the last approximately 200 years.”  – Saban and Wiens, 2025

According to many recent studies intended to alarm the public about the consequences of tenths-of-a-degree warmer surface air temperatures, “20-30% of all plant and animal species may be lost to climate change in future decades” (Saban and Wiens, 2025).

A landmark 2004 study published in Nature (which has now been cited over 10,000 times) predicted one million species will be driven to extinction by 2050 due to climate change.

But now a 2025 study published in The Royal Society finds (a) “climate change is not an important threat to biodiversity,” (b) species-level extinction rates “peaked many decades ago,” and (c) there has been no significant increase in climate-related extinctions in the last 200 years.

Ongoing habitat loss and the introduction of invasive species (primarily in the 18th and 19th centuries) on islands remain the two most predominant extinction threats in recent centuries. The authors express surprise that the threat from climate change (surface air temperature warming) has remained insignificant throughout the modern era.

“Extinctions from invasive species and (surprisingly) climate change did not change significantly over time.”

“[P]ast extinctions strongly suggest that climate change is not an important threat to biodiversity.”

“[T]hese past extinctions do not show biodiversity loss as rapidly accelerating, but instead show extinction rates that generally peaked many decades ago, and that declined in some important groups (arthropods, plants).”

“Most groups showed declining extinction rates after peaking in the 1980s.”

Image Source: Saban and Wiens, 2025

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Denmark Places Climate Protection Above Animal Welfare, Poisoning And Culling Cows

By on 13. January 2026

Doping cows…””In some cows, the rumen no longer functions.”

The Germany-based European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) presents its latest climate video, Number 243, and discussed the use of the feed additive Bovaer (3-nitrooxypropanol / 3-NOP), which is designed to reduce methane emissions from cattle.

Symbol image by P. Gosselin

To meet climate targets, methane emissions from livestock must be reduced. In Denmark, dairy farmers above a certain herd size have been mandated to implement methane-reducing measures, such as feeding the Bovaer additive. The chemical substance inhibits the activity of specific bacteria (archaea) in the cow’s rumen that are responsible for methane production.

However, since the mandatory introduction in Denmark, farmers have complained about health issues in their animals. Reports indicate that in some cows, the rumen has ceased to function properly. “In some cows, the rumen no longer functions, and in rare cases, cows had to be culled,” according to the Danish Dairy Farmers Association.

While authorities like the EFSA have generally classified the substance as safe, they admitted that its “genotoxicity” has not been fully clarified and that long-term studies are often lacking.

The EIKE video criticizes that climate protection is being prioritized over animal welfare (“chemical magic bullet against climate catastrophe”), as animals may fall ill or, in extreme cases, have to be euthanized.

The EIKE speaker summarizes: “Once again, climate protection is placed above other values, such as animal welfare.”





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New Study: Greenland Was 3-7°C Warmer And Far Less Glaciated Than Today 6000-8000 Years Ago

By on 12. January 2026

A large portion of the Greenland ice sheet that is today over 500 m thick did not exist during the Early to Mid Holocene.

Prudhoe Dome (PD), a 2500 km² section of northwestern Greenland’s ice sheet (GIS), is today 500 to 600 m thick (Walcott-George et al., 2026).

Approximately 6000-8000 years ago, or when atmospheric CO2 was alleged to be ~260 ppm, PD had deglaciated completely, exposing the soil to sunlight.

The primary mechanism for the PD deglaciation was the estimated 3-7°C warmer-than-present regional temperatures. This warming and the consequent ice cap minima was said to be  “Arctic-wide”.

Starting ~4000 years ago the GIS gradually began thickening until it recently reached its modern glaciated state, with glaciation peaking in the 1800s.

Image Source: Walcott-George et al., 2026

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German Media Report That Current Frigid Weather Can Be Explained By Arctic Warming!

By on 11. January 2026

Frigid tempertures have gripped Central Europe and the population is struggling to stay warm. Media say it’s all part of warming!

Frigid weather grips Germany. Symbol photo by P. Gosselin 

Nine days ago I warned that such junk science would soon be reported. We can’t have people questioning the warming dogma when it’s frigid outside, now can we? 

Germany’s online Frankfurter Rundschau (FR) just published an article titled: “Why the cold winter is no evidence against warming.”

The article explains why severe winters in Germany do not contradict global warming. The core argument lies in the distinction between weather (short-term events) and climate (long-term trends). That of course gets ignored by the media when there’s a hot summer day.

Experts, the FR reports, emphasize that a single cold winter is merely a statistical fluctuation, while the global trend points upward. “Weather is what you see outside; climate is the statistics over a long period of time,” the FR reports. “A cold winter does nothing to change the long-term warming trend.”

A warm Arctic produces cold Europe temperatures?

Moreover,  the Frankfurter Rundschau reports that there are meteorological explanations for extreme cold phases despite global warming: a weakening polar vortex, fueled by Arctic warming, that can cause icy polar air to surge further south. “The Arctic is warming about four times as fast as the rest of the world,” writes the FR “This disrupts the jet stream and allows cold air masses from the north to penetrate our regions more easily.”





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Berlin Blackout Shows Germany’s $5 Trillion Green Scheme Is “Left-Green Ideological Pipe Dream”

By on 8. January 2026

A Fundamental Lesson from the Terrorist Attack on Berlin’s Power Grid

By Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (Newsletter)

The shutdown of the power supply in southern Berlin has brought the fragility of the “Energiewende” (transition to green energies) policy clearly to our attention.

The goal of the transition to renewable energy is not only to switch the power supply to wind and solar energy but also to transition the other two pillars of energy supply—namely, heating and the transport sector— over to electricity. “Everything to electricity” means abandoning gas and oil in the heating sector and oil (gasoline/diesel) in the motor vehicle sector.

This narrowing of the energy supply down to a single energy carrier was called “sector coupling.” This sector coupling was propagated and celebrated by the “Green high priests” as a sustainable model for the future. Originally, it was an attempt to correct the weakness of renewable energies, which lead to unusable surpluses during periods of high wind and solar production. These useless surpluses were intended to be pushed into the heating and vehicle sectors after storage. It has been described here often enough that this sector coupling leads to exorbitant cost increases. Frontier Economics estimates the total cost of the energy transition until 2045 at an unaffordable 4,800 to 5,400 billion euros.

But now, the attack in Berlin demonstrates to us that such an energy system, based solely on electricity, is highly vulnerable. We are learning that when the power fails, the heat supply also fails—at least when it is supposed to be generated by heat pumps. And to make matters worse, we are learning that in freezing temperatures, heat pumps face total loss due to bursting pipes. This particular “warning label” was certainly not included in the “Habeck heating law,” which the CDU-SPD federal government intends to continue seamlessly. The content of the law will remain the same, but to ensure citizens don’t quite realize it, the name of the law is to be changed.

We are also learning that during a large-scale power outage, electric vehicles can only help if they happened to be charged before the “bang.” Otherwise, this utility also fails.

Until now, there was great resilience associated with being able to rely on two storable systems for 75% of the energy supply: namely, gas for heating and liquid fuel for mobility. Since the events in Berlin, the fact that the third pillar—the power supply, which currently provides 25% of energy consumption—is also now being made weather-dependent while being expected to serve all three pillars, is revealing itself even more clearly as a Left-Green ideological pipe dream that will not survive the reality test.

The text of the first letter claiming responsibility utilizes the reasoning context of Green and Leftist ideologies of climate anxiety:

“In the greed for energy, the earth is drained, sucked dry, burned, maltreated, scorched, raped, destroyed. Entire regions are rendered uninhabitable by the heat. They simply burn. Or habitats disappear under floods or due to rising sea levels. Shutting down fossil fuel power plants is manual labor.”

Except for the last sentence, one could read similar formulations in the party conference resolutions of the German Greens, the Left, and the SPD social democrats. The sentence “Entire regions are rendered uninhabitable by the heat” even comes from a UN report from 2022. The ideological justification for the energy transition stems from the same context of climate alarmism that the “Vulkangruppe” (Volcano Group) uses to justify its criminal actions.





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Modeling Error In Estimating How Clouds Affect Climate Is 8700% Larger Than Alleged CO2 Forcing

By on 7. January 2026

CO2’s role in climate change is too small to detect in error-ridden attribution measurements.

Downward longwave radiation (DWLWR) at the ocean surface “is among the most important components of the heat flux across the ocean-atmosphere interface, which, in turn, shapes the climate state of both the atmosphere and the ocean” (Peng et al., 2025).

According to canonical anthropogenic global warming (AGW) “science,” in an imaginary-world atmosphere where no clouds exist it takes 10 years, or a 22 ppm increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration, to enhance DWLWR by just 0.2 W/m² (Feldman et al., 2015). The annual clear-sky forcing change from CO2 is, of course, ten times smaller than this, or 0.02 W/m².

To put these values in perspective, DWLWR from changes in cloud radiative forcing can reach 200 W/m² within a span of hours (Wielicki et al., 2002, Wong and Minnett, 2018). Thus, day-to-day changes in cloud in the real-world, all-sky atmosphere can enhance or decrease DWLWR 1000 times more than CO2 does over the course of a full year.

This negligible or unmentionable CO2 impact may be why, in a new study, scientists do not even consider CO2’s bit role in shaping DWLWR. Clouds, water vapor, air and sea surface temperature, and surface solar radiation are documented contributors (see Table 2). CO2 is not.

In attempts to model the variations and trends in all-sky DWLWR attributed to its contributing factors, scientists find that primarily due to inability to accurately estimate or observe cloud radiative effects, model error (RMSE, root mean square error) in calculating all-sky DWLWR ranges from 15.6-19.1 W/m².

A RMSE of about 17.4 W/m² means a decadal-scale DWLWR CO2 “signal” (0.2 W/m²) is ~87 times smaller than DWLWR measurement error. This precludes detection of CO2’s role in DWLWR, and thus CO2’s role in climate.

The AGW narrative insists CO2 is the “control knob” of global temperature. Anyone who disagrees or even questions this is often labeled a “climate denier.” The narrative consequently requires its adherents to abandon any consideration of uncertainty and error in attribution (“control knob”) detection.

Image Source: Peng et al., 2025

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Berlin’s Terror-Blackout Enters 4th Day As Tens Of Thousands Suffer In Cold Without Heat!

By on 6. January 2026

A humanitarian catastrophe unfolds in Berlin after leftwing fanatics sabotage power grid…

It’s as if the green movement can’t destroy Germany’s energy supply quickly enough. Now fanatics are resorting to sabotage attacks on lifeline power grids.

Epicenter of Berlin’s January 3rd terror attack blackout. 

For the second time in less than four months, lunatic fanatics have sabotaged Berlin’s power supply through a deliberate arson attack on a cable bridge over the Teltow Canal. The fire severely damaged high-voltage cables connected to the nearby Lichterfelde heat and power station. The blackout began in the early hours of Saturday, January 3, 2026, with emergency services first alerted to the cause around 5:45 AM.

45,000 households, 2,200 businesses go cold and dark

The primary areas affected include Zehlendorf, Steglitz, Wannsee, Nikolassee and Lichterfelde. Initially, the outage impacted approximately 45,000 to 50,000 households and over 2,200 businesses. While some residents were reconnected over the weekend, roughly 25,000 to 30,000 households remained without power as of today.

Terrorist attack on fossil fuels, AI centers

A far-left extremist group known as the “Vulkangruppe” (Volcano Group) has claimed responsibility — again — stating they targeted the infrastructure to protest “the fossil fuel economy” and the rising energy demands of AI data centers.

The attack appears to have been timed to cause as much pain and suffering as possible, coinciding with a mid-winter cold snap with temperatures hovering well below freezing. The situation is quickly escalating into a humanitarian disaster as city, state and federal authorities incompentently bungle and dither about.

Services, communications, heat pumps cease

Most homes in the area rely on electric pumps or grid-connected systems for heat; some residents reported indoor temperatures dropping to 13°C (55°F). Mobile phone networks, landlines, and internet services have been disrupted. Elevators are out of order (trapping elderly residents in high-rises), traffic lights are dark, and local trains (S-Bahn) have faced significant delays.

There have already been reports of looting as residents have been forced to leave their homes, making them open targets for thieves.

Numerous schools and shops remain closed. Hospitals initially relied on emergency generators, though most have now been reconnected to the grid.

More days needed to restore power

The grid operator, Stromnetz Berlin, estimates that power will be fully restored by the afternoon of Thursday, January 8, 2026. The delay is due to the complexity of replacing heavy high-voltage cables and the fact that the ground is currently frozen, making repair work more difficult.

In the meantime, the city has opened emergency shelters (such as the Cole Sports Centre and Zehlendorf Town Hall) and the German Armed Forces are providing hot meals to residents.

Harsh criticism: incompetent authorities

Bungling authorities have faced sharp criticism, primarily centered on the city’s lack of disaster preparedness.

There has been significant public outcry over the “chaotic” distribution of information. Outlets like Blackout News and local social media feeds have described the relief efforts as “photos with politicians instead of leadership,” highlighting cases where elderly residents (some in their late 90s) were left in cold emergency shelters on simple cots.

The UVB (Lobby Group for Berlin-Brandenburg Businesses) has criticized the lack of security for critical infrastructure. They pointed out that a single bridge fire could cause millions of euros in damage and shutter over 2,000 businesses, calling for a radical rethink of how the city protects its energy “lifelines.”

2nd major attack in less than 4 months

Mmeanwhile, members of the opposition in the Berlin House of Representatives have questioned why, after a similar attack in September 2025 and the Tesla factory attack in 2024, the Senate and Stromnetz Berlin had not implemented better physical security or “redundancy” (backup) systems for these vulnerable cable bridges.

Speculation spreads over state-sponsored sabotage

Some critics point out that that carrying out an attack of this quality requires a “high level of technical sophistication”, thus leading to speculation on the Internet that insider knowledge or state-sponsored sabotage may have been involved.

Security analysts and grid experts have noted that the attack was not a random act of vandalism. The perpetrators precisely targeted a cable bridge—a known “soft spot” where multiple high-voltage lines are concentrated and exposed.

The Vulkan group’s 2,500-word letter claiming responsibility for the attack contained specific technical details about the incendiary devices and the specific cables targeted, leading the Germany’s State Security Service to classify it as highly credible. 





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Expect Soon Another PIK Paper Claiming Warming Leads To Cold Snaps Over Europe

By on 2. January 2026

Winter across Europe has been on the mild side so far – just as predicted by global warming alarmists. But now the weather is about to turn cold.

A cold winter spell is beginning to settle over Europe and there’s a risk the public here might start having doubts about the global warming narrative – especially as heating bills skyrocket and gas reserves run out. Thus, let’s not be surprised if climate-alarm suspects soon rush out another dubious paper claiming that extreme  winter cold, too, is a telltale sign of warming.

Just-so story science

This was the case earlier. For example in 2010, in the middle of a bitter cold winter, PIK scientists Petoukhov et al published a paper, “A link between reduced Barents-Kara sea ice and cold winter extremes over northern continents” that found that sea ice loss in the Barents-Kara Seas could triple the probability of cold winter extremes in Europe.

In 2019, Kornhuber et al published a paper, Extreme weather events in early summer 2018 connected by a recurrent hemispheric wave-7 pattern that focused on summer heatwaves, This research tracks the “resonant amplification” of planetary waves that allegedly causes cold air to spill south and stay there for weeks.

PIK researchers, particularly Vladimir Petoukhov, suggest to have identified a specific non-linear relationship, and claim the atmosphere reacts most violently when sea ice concentration is around 40–80% in certain Arctic regions. When the ice disappears, the ocean releases a massive “bubble” of heat into the cold winter air, thus creating a local high-pressure system (an anti-cyclone) over the Arctic. This high-pressure system acts like a physical wall that pushes the Jet Stream south and forces cold, continental winds from Siberia to blow westward into Europe.

Stefan Rahmstorf and his team have also championed the theory, arguing that Arctic warming makes the “waves” in the Jet Stream grow much larger and to move much slower. So, you see warming also leads to unusual cold and harsh winter events across Europe”

As of January 2026, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the broader scientific community have been tracking a highly unusual set of Arctic signals they believe align with the “less ice = harsher winters” mechanism (AMOC slowing, Tipping Points Report in October 2025, and the Arctic Report Card 2025 released just weeks ago.)

According to the PIK, we are no longer looking at “future risks” but rather the live observation of a destabilized system where low ice is creating a “heat dome” over the pole and is forcing the Jet Stream into a “stuck” position, leading to the current cold snaps.

Just-so science: Giraffes have long necks to reach high leaves. Image generated by Grok AI. 

While the climate scientitsts insist this is well-grounded climate science, skeptics see it  for what it really is: a “just-so story” filled with pseudo-profound bullshit and science sophistry. It sounds perfectly logical and satisfying (e.g., giraffes have long necks to reach high leaves), but it lacks empirical evidence to prove it’s actually how things happen.

Happy New Year everyone!





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New Study: Human CO2 Emissions Responsible For 1.57% Of Global Temperature Change Since 1750

By on 2. January 2026

“The remaining 98.43% of climate forcing arises from sources other than anthropogenic CO2.” – Davis, 2025

When it comes to climate forcing, “atmospheric CO2 plays a minor and diminishing role in forcing contemporary global warming.”

Key quotes from Davis, 2025

“As a result of today’s higher concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere, the radiative forcing power of CO2 has dropped to less than one-third of the forcing power in 1750.”

“The forcing attributable to atmospheric CO2 is so small relative to the Earth’s energy budget that 80% of heat captured by CO2 is reflected back into space by aerosols.”

“If the concentration of CO2 in Earth’s atmosphere continues to increase exponentially as it has since contemporary measurements began 67 years ago (see below), then the incremental contribution of CO2 forcing to global warming will continue to decline exponentially because the forcing power of CO2 wanes with higher CO2 concentrations owing to the aforementioned diminishing returns in marginal forcing.”

“These contributions of CO2 to temperature forcing must be evaluated against the above demonstration that 6.27% of RFCO2 [radiative forcing from CO2] between 1750 and 2020 is attributable to anthropogenic CO2 (Figure 1) while the remaining 93.73% is natural in origin. It follows that even if contemporary global warming were 100% attributable to increases in the atmospheric concentration of CO2 instead of the estimated 25%, 6.27% of this forcing would be attributable to human-sourced emissions of CO2. Using the more refined empirical estimates of CO2 contributions developed above, where approximately one-fourth of total forcing is attributable to atmospheric CO2, the maximum contribution of human-sourced CO2 to contemporary global warming is estimated quantitatively from empirical data as 6.27% (the computed contribution of anthropogenic CO2 forcing from 1750 to 2020, above) of 25% (the approximate mean empirical estimate of CO2 forcing of temperature, above), or 1.57% of total temperature forcing.”

Other conclusions from the study:

The full concentration of CO2 (420 ppm) currently provides only 0.0058% of the Earth’s surface energy, which is imperceptible.

There is a negative correlation (r = -0.19) between CO2 and temperature (i.e., CO2 rises as temperature falls, or temperature rises as CO2 falls) over the last 425 million years.

Image Source: Davis, 202

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Welcome To 2026: Europe Laying Groundwork For Climate Science Censorship!

By on 31. December 2025

As EU narratives collapse, desparate leaders are planning more tyrannical measures to keep it all from sinking. 

Censorship of scientific debate…

Currently, EU leaders are fuming that US officials would be so audacious as to accuse them of practicing censorship. Yet, when it comes to suppressing open discussions and differing viewpoints on major issues, things are in fact worse than  most people think. And, it’s about to get even worse.

Image created by Grok

A recent (indirectly EU-funded) report released earlier this year shows how the EU is planning to broaden censorship to include the topics of climate and energy science.

In the “Harmful Environmental Agendas and Tactics” (HEAT) report, published by EU DisinfoLab and Logically, its authors investigate how climate-related misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (MDM) are strategically used to undermine climate policy in Europe, specifically in Germany, France, and the Netherlands.

Climate science skeptics threaten democracy

The report argues that climate disinformation has moved beyond simple science denial and has become a tool for broader political and social polarization.

Outright denial of climate change, the authors claim, is being replaced by narratives focused on “climate delay.” These often acknowledge climate change but attack the feasibility, cost, and fairness of solutions, e.g., they claim green policies will bankrupt households or destroy industries.

The enemies

The report identifies four main pillars driving these agendas:

  1. The Conspiracy Milieu: Distrust of elites and “deep state” narratives (e.g., the “Great Reset”).
  2. Culture War/Partisan Discourse: Framing climate action as an authoritarian or elitist project.
  3. Hostile State Actors (HSAs): Significant involvement of Russian-linked networks (e.g., Portal Kombat) that use localized domains like Pravda DE to amplify divisive climate content.
  4. Big Oil Alignment: Narratives that align with fossil fuel interests, even if direct corporate attribution is often obscured.

In Germany, for example, there are attacks on the Energiewende (energy transition) and the Building Heating Act.

In France, there are links between climate policy and the “Yellow Vest” movement or anti-elitist sentiments.

Meanwhile, the “nitrogen crisis” has been reframed as “government land theft” in the Netherlands. 

European leaders are convinced that their policies have nothing to do with all the failure going on. In their eyes, it’s all the fault of unruly citizens and their disinfoarmtion campaigns.

The report’s key recommendations

The authors call for decisive institutional and platform-level action to treat climate disinformation as a structural threat and a danger to democracy. This all needs to stop!

Platforms must act!

The primary recommendation is for the EU to explicitly recognize climate disinformation as a systemic risk under the Digital Services Act (a.k.a. by critics the Digital Censorship Act). This would force so-called Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) to take proactive measures and conduct risk assessments.

The authors also call for mandating algorithm audits and public reporting on content moderation, specifically for climate content. It’s time to crack down on skeptics, they say. 

“Independent” auditors

Moreover “independent researchers” are to be provided with access to disaggregated platform data to track how these narratives spread.

Another recommendation is calling for the labelling and limiting the reach of “ideological or sponsored” climate disinformation.

“Trusted flaggers”

The authors also are calling for greater monitoring of Russian-aligned and other hostile state operations that exploit climate debates to weaken EU democratic resilience.

Another step suggested to counter “climate disinformation” is the establishment of reporting channels for civil society organizations (so-called “trusted flaggers”) to flag coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) and harmful narratives to regulators.

“Prebunking”

Also “prebunking” campaigns aimed at proactively educating the public on disinformation tactics before they are exposed to them—especially in lower-educated rural and working-class areas that are frequently targeted.

Happy New Year!

And thanks to the donors out there for your support!





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New Study Finds A Higher Rate Of Global Warming From 1899-1940 Than From 1983-2024

By on 30. December 2025

Global warming was significantly more pronounced in the early 20th century and prior to 1940, or back when CO2 emissions rates were 8.6 times lower than they were from 1983-2024.

A new study using 60 million daily maximum/minimum temperatures from 1600 global weather stations across 29 countries indicates the globe warmed at a rate of 0.022°C/yr from 1899-1940, a 42-year period when cumulative CO2 emissions only amounted to 139.6 GtC.

Then, over the next 42 years (1941-1982), global temperatures cooled at a rate of -0.011°C/yr even though cumulative CO2 emissions rose to 460.0 GtC. In other words, CO2 emission rates more than tripled from the 1940s to 1980s as global temperatures declined.

Global warming returned by the 1980s. However, over the next 42 years (1983-2024) the warming rate, 0.017°C/yr, was not as strong as it was in the early 20th century. This slower rate of warming is significant because cumulative CO2 emissions were 1,209.8 GtC during this most recent period, an amount 8.6 times higher than they were from 1899-1940.

So over the last 125 years of “global warming,” at no time has there been a decadal period of warming (or cooling) that could be shown to have closely aligned with the varying rates of anthropogenic CO2 emissions.

“These findings challenge the conventional assumption that human-induced CO2 is the primary driver of global warming.”

Image Source: Bhatta, 2025

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