former climate activist. now at @theFP Email: [email protected]

Manhattan, NY
Joined April 2009
This Greenpeace UK clip is pure propaganda. A crying scientist, dramatic music, and flood footage are all combined to make you feel and think a certain way: "The planet is melting because of climate change!" But even the IPCC has “low confidence” that human-caused climate change has changed global flood trends. What has changed? Well, deaths from weather disasters are down 97.5% since 1920 thanks to prosperity. Cheap, abundant, and reliable energy has made people safer than ever. This system needs to be protected in order to save lives.
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Has Greta Thunberg “solved” climate change yet? I guess she has because she has moved onto other virtue signaling activities. Either the climate is healed or there was never a crisis to begin with.
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Capitalism doesn’t cause brain damage. The woman in this clip assumes life before capitalism was a utopia, but humanity has always worked, and we used to have to work a lot harder. Work hours have fallen by 40-60% since 1870, and the amount of children who have to work is at record lows. Women like this creator set up a utopian (and false) vision of the past and then say today’s system has failed because it doesn’t measure up to their vision. This then gets packaged as some brave, hot take when really it’s very silly and ultimately damaging thinking.
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Calling climate change “the most violent tragedy of humanity” is a privileged take. If you have time to worry about the weather, you have a full stomach, electricity, and an education. By almost every measure the world is better than it’s ever been. Extreme poverty has fallen from 43% to 10% since 1990, and infant mortality has more than halved. It’s a great time to be alive and climate doomers can’t see it because frankly they’ve been brainwashed into believing every extreme weather event is proof of climate apocalypse.
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Doomers love predicting collapse and are always proven wrong.
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Do we really want “degrowth”? This guy argues endless growth on a finite planet is naive. I’d say degrowth is idealistic, pseudo-religious thinking that could lead to serious government overreach and infringe on our civil liberties.
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Currently, batteries can power the US for less than 18 minutes To avoid blackouts, solar and wind need months of storage, costing trillions Fossil fuels don't need storage because they are their own storage xitter.cf/BjornLomborg/status/21…
Currently, batteries can power the US for less than 18 minutes To avoid blackouts, solar and wind need months of storage, costing trillions Fossil fuels don't need storage because they are their own storage Sources: Solar or wind alone needs nearly 3 months of storage (22.4% of the annual energy consumption for solar and 24.9% for wind) frontiersin.org/journals/env… eia.gov/electricity/data/eia…, eia.gov/electricity/monthly/…, ir.eia.gov/ngs/ngs.html, eia.gov/petroleum/supply/wee…, eia.gov/electricity/annual/t…, eia.gov/totalenergy/data/mon…, eia.gov/totalenergy/data/mon…, eia.gov/totalenergy/data/mon…, eia.gov/totalenergy/data/mon…, eia.gov/totalenergy/data/mon…, eia.gov/energyexplained/elec…, docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy23osti/…, doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1…, construction-physics.com/p/e…
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Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Nothing “green” about ripping up peatland and felling trees to build wind turbines while releasing 4.9 million tons of CO2.
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Climate “scientists” have been telling this same exact scare story for over 40 years. Give it up already.
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Researcher @curryja was once a “rock star” in the climate change movement. Then she discovered that some scientists conspire to hide data. “A lot of really ugly things,” she tells me. She reveals the “manufactured consensus” about climate change:
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“Blue no matter who” voters are killing Blue States.
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This chart can't be shown enough. The entire Net Zero project should have been strangled in the crib just based on China's emissions. But some Euro governments seem to simply enjoy inflicting economic suffering on their populations.
Thank you Germany 🇩🇪 and UK 🇬🇧 for heroically sacrificing your economy to save the planet 💪 _
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“Comfort democracies” are creating a global problem. Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore explains why in a live conversation with Bari Weiss on the opening night of his U.S. book tour for "The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East." Watch the full conversation now: youtube.com/watch?v=f4xFBEKz…
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Las Vegas gets 1.08 inches of rain and suddenly it's unprecedented? 1957: 2.58 inches in ONE DAY. 1941: 10.72 inches in one year. Deserts have always experienced intense downpours and flash floods. Yesterday's rain is well within historical variability.
Record-breaking rain from the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel triggered flash flooding across Las Vegas yesterday. Harry Reid Int'l Airport recorded 1.08" of rain, shattering the 2012 record for 11 October. Streets near the Strip turned into rivers with cars stranded.
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In other words, it’s happened before and it isn’t unprecedented.
“The entire street is a river!” Floodwaters swamped Las Vegas streets as Tropical Storm Rachel brought record rainfall to the city. Sunday's 1.08 inches of rain tied the all-time daily rainfall record for October, set in 1947.
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She’s so good.
Stabbed. Robbed. Pushed onto the tracks. The subways have become a mess. Let’s stop the violence at the gates.
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What’s terrifying about this clip isn’t their ideals…these sweet gals’ hearts are certainly in the right place. What’s terrifying is they have the civic, political, and economic literacy of a 9 year old. When a charlatan like Abdul comes along with the Jr High class president schtick of “no more homework and the vending machines are all free!”, they fall for it. I don’t know how you get to that age with ZERO understanding of supply chains, manufacturing, labor costs…but a lot of folks think that medicine and MRIs and hospitals just materialize out of thin air like unicorn farts. They’ve never built anything in their lives, so they have no concept of how things function…things are just…there. They think milk comes from the store. They think rich people don’t pay taxes, even though the top 1% fund 40% of government with their taxes already, and yet 40% of all Americans contribute ZERO federal income tax at all. These people don’t understand that you could tax the wealthy at 100% and it would only fund the government for 120 days. Then you’re screwed. Too many Americans simply have zero understanding of how anything works, and even though they’re living in the easiest times in human history, they think things are “terrible out there”. These commie scammers roll through and promise them things that sound great, but aren’t possible in reality, and have devastating consequences if tried…but because they don’t know anything, they fall for it. Sadly, so many of our politicians and their advisors are such atrocious communicators, there’s like zero countervailing narrative to push back on the commie gobbledygook, so we are gonna have to learn the hard way. Guys…we just had a sample of socialism: Covid. We all got universal basic income, and it ended up tripling our costs and they’ll never go down. Ever. That one brief little experiment in command and control government will haunt us the rest of our lives. Bleak stuff, man.
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Isaias is the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season. It is also the latest first Atlantic hurricane formation on record since 1851 (excluding 1907 and 1914, which, as far as we know, had none). It’s an ordinary category three. Nothing is unprecedented about the size or intensity of the storm. But NPR blames it on “climate change” anyways. Why? Because their so-called “journalists” are both intellectually and morally bankrupt charlatans who don’t bother to do any actual research.
According to NPR, there have never been category three hurricanes before.
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Mayor Mamdani is emboldening all the wrong people with his rhetoric. Rising political influencer @Sweeenie joins @LLBiggers to talk about it. Listen to the full conversation here: youtube.com/watch?v=fxPag3KO…
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