written 14 December, 2025
published 21 December, 2025
In the last few months, articles from pundits, nationally known to local, have announced the end of the climate crisis, declaring it was just a bankrupt liberal fad that fell out of fashion.
However, scientific consensus is the climate crisis results from combustion of fossil fuels, which changed atmospheric chemistry, inexorably heating the planet to levels never before experienced by humans, let alone human technological civilizations. Effectively addressing this problem requires radically reducing further combustion, and aggressively removing what has already been added to the atmosphere, returning to atmospheric conditions we know can support humanity. This threatens fossil fuel industry profits.
The president states the climate crisis is fake news (along with the affordability crisis, the Epstein files, and the rule of law). Despite his declining mental capacity, he is still a bully with immense power. Any governmental agency related to climate has been closed, gutted, or staffed with climate deniers. Responding to economic and legal pressures, businesses have backed away from effective climate mitigation, and corporate media reporting on climate matters has diminished. Climate concern wasn't a fad that faded, but was deliberately destroyed by oppressive political policy.
Because we are in late-stage capitalism, where concentration has distorted the economy, making profit more important than product, or even life, the fossil fuel industry responded with well-funded denial. Inspired by the lethal tobacco companies, this involves attacking individual climate scientists, climate research, and science in general. Massive disinformation, death threats, lawsuits, pressure on the university employers, and defunding further research, are all on the rise. The result is less information by design, combined with such chaos from our distractor-in-chief, that attention has been diverted. If you can't even afford food, electricity, housing, or health care today, who cares if the entire life support structure of the plant is slowly dying. Future concerns are swept away by immediate problems. This is not an accident, but by design.
The deniers say there is no evidence of a climate crisis. It still gets cold in the winter. There is still winter ice at the poles. What is the problem? But anyone who looks deeper is concerned, because the evidence is there to be seen.
A recent UDJ article about a coastal abalone poacher, mentioning the season had been closed for the last 8 years, due to a lack of abalone. The abalone died because 95 percent of the kelp it feeds on has died, eaten by an explosion of purple urchins, the result of a massive die off of the sea stars which eat urchins, due to a pandemic of sea star wasting disease, the consequence of unusually warm ocean waters, that resulted from the global heating of the atmosphere due to the changed chemistry.
Greenland has been in the news this year, as the president wants to either buy, or steal it, for America. One of two non-demented reasons is access to rare minerals as the warming planet thins the Greenland ice sheet. The second reason is control of the increasing Russian and Chinese shipping through the Arctic Ocean. What was once totally impassable is now open to container ships for a growing part of the year, because the ocean is warming.
Record breaking oceanic warming fuels stronger hurricanes, which intensify rapidly, going from tropical storms to category 5 hurricanes in a single day, leaving residents little time to prepare, increasing damages and insurance rates.
Climate denial makes money for a few, but we all pay the price. Our present energy policy pours hundreds of billions into nuclear (the most expensive) and natural gas (the most climate damaging), while killing the renewable industry which is the cheapest power to install and addresses the climate concerns. While it takes a decade or more to build a gigawatt scale nuclear reactor, the rest of the world installs a gigawatt of cheap solar every day, because not everyone in the world is beholding to the fossil fuel industry,
The future of a sustainable technological civilization is renewables. China is already a leader in production of solar panels, battery storage, and EV vehicles. But US leadership is retarded on this, working for the benefit of the billionaire class.
So, the next time you read, or hear, the climate crisis is an obsolete fad, recognize they are either short sighted and ignorant, spouting something they were told, or they are lying to you, because they are making money off the existing system.
