Editor’s note: As economic reality, technological limits, and shifting geopolitics continue to erode the false narrative of imminent climate catastrophe, even longtime voices within mainstream outlets are beginning to acknowledge what skeptics have pointed out for decades. Newsweek’s recent piece, “The Welcome Demise of Climate Change Catastrophism,” highlights this overdue course correction, while Matt Ridley’s analysis in The Spectator underscores how empirical evidence and real-world energy constraints have outpaced fashionable “green orthodoxy.” Add to this Bill Gates’ earlier climate apostasy admitting that climate change won’t lead to “humanity’s demise” after all, and it becomes clear that the debate is no longer between “deniers” and “experts,” but between data and dogma. As Victor Davis Hanson notes in his latest video, the gap between elite climate rhetoric and elite climate behavior speaks louder than any slogan, and today’s rapidly growing electricity demands—from AI to heavy industry—are forcing a reckoning long overdue.
Guest essay From CFACT via The Daily Signal
Decades of consensus around so-called climate catastrophe are now running into new economic, technological, and geopolitical realities.
Mix in AI and its unprecedented demand for large-scale electricity generation, and we have a global climate conversation that demands to be reckoned with. Victor Davis Hanson breaks down how the foundations of decades of “green orthodoxy” are shifting on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”
“The people who have been the avatars of climate change, never suffer the consequences of their own ideology. Barack Obama said the planet would be inundated pretty soon, if we didn’t address global climate change. Why would he buy a seaside estate at Martha’s Vineyard or one on the beach of Hawaii if he really did believe that the oceans would rise and flood his multimillion-dollar investment?
“The inconsistency of the global warming narrative, the self-interest in the people who promote it, and the logic that they have not presented, empirically, the evidence that would convince us that we have to radically transform our economies on the wishes of a few elites that do not have the evidence, but do have a lot of hypocrisy in the process.”
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So glad ,after years of tolerating the constant narrative of imminent climate doom, the world is beginning to finally here the obvious and inevitable truth!