Posted on 04/28/2025 5:17:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
On April 14 I recorded a podcast with Tom Nelson. He has since posted a slightly edited version on his YouTube site. Go to this link if you would like to watch it — about an hour long. The main subject is the sordid history of EPA’s Endangerment Finding and efforts of people including myself to get it rescinded.
The good news on the Endangerment Finding front is that EPA under new Administrator Lee Zeldin is very much on the job of eliminating the EF. Of course, once it has been rescinded it will face a blizzard of legal challenges. I hope and expect that Zeldin and his team are up to the job of carrying out a rescission that will stick. I offered my suggestions for how to do a rescission that will stand up to challenge in this post from January 26.
Separately, Nelson has made a thing out of compiling a growing list of “Signs That The Climate Scam Is Collapsing.” That list is now up to some 33 items and counting. The current version can be found here. Readers of this blog are likely already familiar with many of the items on Tom’s list. However, today I would like to feature a couple of items from Tom’s list that are important but may be less well known.
Item 3 on Tom’s list is that the funding of something called “NASA GISS” is likely to be terminated as part of the DOGE cost-cutting efforts. GISS is the Goddard Institute for Space Studies. For some unknown reason, GISS is part of NASA, and is located, of all place, in Manhattan, in an office building on upper Broadway near Columbia University. GISS is mainly known for producing a world temperature time series known as GISTEMP, which is systematically massaged and altered in ways to enhance the narrative of climate alarm. For more details than you will ever want to know about the data tampering, go to my 30+ part series “The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time.”
Tom calls NASA GISS a “climate alarm shop,” which is accurate. For many years it was headed by crazed alarmist James Hansen, until his retirement in 2013. Since then the head has been Gavin Schmidt, who has proved to be Hansen’s equal in spreading alarm. GISS is best known for its regular press releases proclaiming the most recent month or year to be the “warmest ever.” Indeed, GISS’s most recent press release, from January 10, has the headline “2024 Was the Warmest Year on Record.” Since January 20 GISS has not issued any further press releases, which hopefully represents some message control getting exerted by the Trump administration.
Following Nelson’s links, it is not clear to me that the information about the impending defunding of GISS is completely definitive. One link goes to this Wall Street Journal piece from March 29, with the following quote:
It is at NASA, though, where Musk is making the biggest shift in an agency’s priorities to align them with his own—both financially and personally. He is working to recast its programs, reallocate federal spending and install loyalists to aid his decadeslong goal of sending people to Mars.
If true, that would certainly be bad news for GISS; but the WSJ does not mention GISS specifically,. Then there is this piece by Larry Bell at Newsmax today, which uses the WSJ piece to reach the conclusion that GISS is necessarily on the chopping block. From Newsmax:
[As] to NASA GISS, it’s difficult to imagine that any of the three dedicated space exploration action figures [Trump, Musk and new NASA Administrator Jared Isaacson] will wish to continue to divert any more of the agency’s annual $25 billion budget to support climate alarmism by an ugly poster child for DOGE waste spending reform.
So on this item Nelson may be getting a little ahead of himself, but there is certainly a good basis to hope.
Item 9 on Nelson’s list is the final demise of one of the longest-running climate litigations, the one known as Juliana v. United States. This is the case that I have sometimes referred to as the “stupidest litigation in the country.” I have had many posts on it over the years, most recently on April 9, 2024.
The Juliana case was brought way back in 2012 in the federal District of Oregon. The plaintiffs asserted a “constitutional right” to a clean and healthy environment, and sought as a remedy that the court impose a plan to “phase out” all use of fossil fuels. My April 9, 2024 piece included a fairly lengthy summary of the proceedings to that time, which had included three visits to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. After the Ninth Circuit had found a lack of standing for the plaintiffs in a 2020 decision, it had remanded the case back to the District Court with instructions to dismiss; but the District Court instead had given the plaintiffs another chance to amend the complaint to get around the problems. And then the District Court was starting to get the case ready for trial. So after four more years of getting jerked around in the District Court, the government was back in the Ninth Circuit with a mandamus petition when I wrote that post a year ago.
The latest news is that the Ninth Circuit granted the mandamus petition, and now, finally, the Supreme Court has denied a petition for certiorari from the plaintiffs. From Reuters, March 24, 2025:
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by 21 young people to revive a novel lawsuit claiming the U.S. government's energy policies violate their rights to be protected from climate change. The justices denied a request by the youth activists to hear their appeal of a decision by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals directing a federal judge in Oregon to dismiss the case after holding they lacked legal standing to sue.
So this one case is definitively over. The bad news is that there are many other similar and/or copycat cases out there kicking around in the courts. It will be a long time before they are all killed off, but at least this one is a start.
Check out Tom’s list for plenty more examples of the continuing, if painfully slow, demise of the climate scam.
The climate scam can’t die fast enough.
Manhattan Contrarian ping
It’s the political climate that is changing and it’s not it their favor!
Excellent! I have followed the work of Manhattan Contrarian on other subjects, it did not realize the work on climate Change was so extensive. I plan to drill into it…:)
NASA should never be involved in Climate!
But, the lefties ordered Climate to the main NASA objective!
Instead investigating space, as they were founded for, they turned them in Earth atmosphere research agency.
The data massaging at GISS were notorious.
By now, I do not know if there are any climate data one can trust!
I have once researched the topic and found on article justifying the massage.
The main states reason was that the people who collect the data are somehow getting lazier (a little bit every year) and do not collect data at proper time. Totally ridiculous, as the monitoring devices monitor continuously, remember all data and the data can be picked up any time for any measurement.
Drill, baby, DRILL!
AMEN!
Undoing the Climate change brainwashing may be impossible because those who promulgated it will never admit it's a lie, and those who believe it only listen to the ones that pushed it.
what is the end goal?
tyranny
a climate emergency will be declared
never to be lifted
We have a couple generations at least, who believe climate change is real and they’re terrified. In addition, many have been successfully programmed to believe homosexuality is normal, abortion is acceptable, living together is OK. Next level is hurt feelings are violence, “gender” can be chosen, child mutilation affirms their true selves, men are women and can have babies. Truth is relative. The ones driving it all hate God and want to be our god.
Without statutory changes, the scam will quickly come back to life when the Presidency changes to Democrat or RINO.
Absolutely stupid to introduce wolves that we got rid of more tan 100 years ago. They are NOT needed to balance predators.
Once Trump leaves office all the money will come back to Climate change unless there is real change in science, education and socially engineered fear based psychology.
It will come back in another form. Remember “GREENHOUSE EFFECT!” of the 1960s, “COMING ICE AGE” of the 1970s-1985 and then “Global Warming!” of the 1985 and 90s, now “CLIMATE CHANGE!”
As the money vanishes, so will the “believers”. Time will take care of the rest. If they won’t unlearn the lie, the return to dust will take care of the lapse in judgement.
This video isn’t aging well. I normally like her, but this was comical. Especially her list at the one minute mark. It’s an utterly debunked bullsh*t list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1KGnCj_cfM
Sadly there are still Climate Change Cultists pushing this claptrap. On Earth Day, one Minneapolis TV weather forecaster gave an idiotic “lecture” showing annual temperatures in Minneapolis from 1895 with blue bars for cooler than “average” years and ominous red bars for years above “average” temperatures. Of course the red bars predominated the last few years and he claimed this was “proof” of man caused climate change and that we should quickly abandon using fossil fuels. Anyone with the least understanding of scientific method and analysis would see this as total sophistry. How his “average” temperature was derived was not shared and temperature data for little more than a century from a single observation point hardly proves man caused global climate change or that quickly ending the use of fossil fuels would stop this climate apocalypse. Unfortunately there are idiots who would believe this crap.
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