I was greatly gratified by this:
Lee Zeldin left a CNN host staring blankly for nearly two minutes on Monday as he took her apart regarding a recent proposal at the EPA. As the interview started, host Kasie Hunt dumped an attempted gotcha question on the EPA administrator, asking him if he accepts the “overwhelming scientific consensus” that greenhouse gas emissions drive “man-made climate change.” That was in the context of a recent announcement that the Trump administration will revoke a 2009 endangerment finding that led to the implementation of stringent regulations.
Zeldin clearly came prepared, because he peppered Hunt with facts, and for once, a CNN host couldn’t come up with a reason to interrupt a Republican.
Here’s the video of the event:
WATCH: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin just completely OBLITERATED CNN's running propaganda. 😂
CNN: "Thank you so much for being here….Do you accept the overwhelming scientific consensus that these greenhouse gas emissions are the biggest drivers of man made climate change?"… pic.twitter.com/S6y8uecwN7
— DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) August 3, 2025
I know I’ve said it before, but just one more time:
Yet that’s what the warmistas, overt or covert, would have you believe. Why?
It’s a simple matter, really. “Global warming / climate change” is a fraud, but it’s a useful fraud: i.e., it’s useful to the Left, which seeks more power over you. As there is absolutely no evidence that human activity is causing global mean temperatures to rise – as there is absolutely no evidence that global mean temperatures are rising! – the fraud must be buttressed with something other than evidence. What remains once evidence is omitted? Consensus! That is, prevalent opinion.
But how is such a “consensus” to be fabricated in the face of the facts? By data manipulation, data selection, sleight-of-hand, and – above all – bribery. Note how frequently the temperature records of past centuries have been “adjusted.” Note how temperature monitoring stations have steadily moved toward “heat islands.” Note how inconvenient data have been excluded from consideration. Note how “models” – the technical term is simulations — are presented as if they constitute sources of evidence. And note how government grants, and the favoritism of prestigious scientific periodicals, are lent to the “global warming / climate change” cause.
When I was in academia, this sort of thing would bring the contempt of other researchers down on the rascals’ heads in a torrent. Clearly, with the preponderance of research funding coming directly from Washington, and the Left having infiltrated of the periodicals so deeply, it’s no longer so.
Francis Collins, whose blog I can no longer find, commented in the abstract on the Left’s pattern in fomenting “crises:”
- Something must be done,
- This is something.
- Therefore, we must do this.
Of course, that first step – persuading the public that there’s a crisis in town and that therefore, “something must be done,” is a doozy. But the Left has many old hands who are adept at whipping up the necessary hysteria over nothing. Consensus, real or imagined, is also useful in engendering widespread fear. After all, if “leading scientists” are telling us that there’s something to fear, maybe we should get to it!
More thoughts on the warmista scam can be found here. As a fillip to jaded tastes, Cold Fury’s Gentle Readers might enjoy this article. (It’s paywalled, so contact me if you want a copy.) Also, Richard Dreyfuss’s wonderful old movie The Big Fix, from a novel by Roger Simon, has an interesting bit to say about the kinship between political agitation and advertising, through Supporting Cast character Howard Eppis.
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As someone that actually studied meteorology and climatology at university back in the early to mid 70’s, we knew the government and the government controlled media were scamming us even back then. The next ice age was coming!
When that went nowhere they decided heat was the trick.
Probably for the first time since Ike was in office, we have a government that is actually following the law, and the science, and with a high regard for middle America.
If you don’t want to do it our way, it means you don’t even care!
I grew up on the southern shore of a great lake. 10,000 years ago, my town was under a mile thick sheet of ice. We live in an interglacial age. The glaciers will return. Is it rude for me to say I prefer the warm earth to the icebox?
Yes, very rude! It’s your fault mother earth is heating up unbearably, and Florida is underwater! Why, if you keep on wishing for more global warming the obama oceanfront compound may be under the ocean!