叮咚，气候骗局破灭了。
在阿尔·戈尔的末日电影《难以忽视的真相》上映二十年后，特朗普政府终于彻底粉碎了这个谎言。这个谎言曾让一代人相信，如果继续使用化石燃料，地球就会爆炸。
白宫称之为“美国历史上规模最大的放松管制行动”，美国环保署周四废除奥巴马时代的一项公告。该公告强制执行温室气体排放法规长达17年之久。
2009年的“危害认定”一直是美国工业应对气候变化的主要阻碍，也是日益严苛的温室气体排放法规的法律依据。
白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特本周表示，废除该限制将“为美国人民节省1.3万亿美元的繁琐监管费用”。美国环保署预计，每辆车平均可节省2400美元，农用机械也将进一步节省开支，因为它们很快就能摆脱为限制排放而安装的复杂额外电路。
此举还将终止乔·拜登强制推行的到2030年向电动汽车过渡计划。
太好了！
能源政策终于回归理性了。
在最近袭击了35个州、影响2亿美国人的严寒冬季风暴中，维持电力供应的并非风能和太阳能，而是化石燃料。
据佛罗里达州市政电力局称，风暴高峰期，全国90%的电力来自天然气、煤炭、核能或石油。
廉价且丰富的能源曾推动美国的繁荣，但一些江湖骗子利用伪科学，合谋用不断落空的夸张预测将我们拉回黑暗时代。
随着我们不断超越戈尔和格蕾塔·通贝里等气候骗子设定的各种末日期限，公众也逐渐醒悟，看清了这场骗局。
盖洛普民意调查显示，到2024年，只有2%的美国人将气候变化或环境问题列为他们最关心的问题。
值得注意的是，面对特朗普及其内阁过去一年对气候陈词滥调的全面攻击，环保人士却相对保持沉默。
为了彻底激怒环保人士，周三，华盛顿煤炭俱乐部在白宫的宣传下，为特朗普总统加冕首届“煤炭无可争议的拥护者”。这场活动被白宫宣传为对气候变化论者妖魔化的化石燃料——煤炭——的毫不掩饰的庆祝：“清洁、美丽的煤炭……美国最可靠、最经济的能源。”
他开玩笑地宣称：“以后每次提到煤炭——C.O.A.L.——前面都必须加上‘清洁’和‘美丽’这两个词。”
他称赞环保署署长李·泽尔丁及其迅速放松管制的举措，称其为政府对抗“煤炭战争”的“秘密武器”。
特朗普在东厅对一群头戴安全帽、身穿反光背心的煤矿工人说，“拜登和激进左派想要废除煤炭。”
“他们竭尽所能……但本届政府上任第一天，我就结束了对煤炭的战争。我们终止了绿色新政的骗局，并退出了不公平、片面的巴黎气候协定。”
他还吹嘘自己拯救了74座燃煤电厂，使其免于关闭，并宣布田纳西河谷管理局刚刚从关闭名单中移除了两座燃煤电厂。
与此同时，在电价下跌的推动下，美国50年来第一座铝冶炼厂计划在俄克拉荷马州兴建。
欧洲、加拿大和澳大利亚盲目依赖风能和太阳能的净零排放政策已经失败。
再加上支撑人工智能数据处理中心对电力的巨大需求，气候神话已经无法维持。
现在，政策制定者和有影响力的人物希望能够摆脱他们用虚假借口强加给我们的灾难性决定。
亿万富翁、环保人士比尔·盖茨放弃了对气候变化的担忧，他在去年十月悄悄宣称，气候变化“不会导致人类灭亡”，而且“全球气温并不能说明人们的生活质量如何”。
谢谢你，显而易见先生。
或许世界上还有更紧迫的问题，我们更应该用他的钱去解决这些问题。
在华尔街，ESG（环境、社会和政府）股票已经失宠。
随着气候骗局的根基崩塌，公众的幻灭感正在蔓延。
上周，财政部长斯科特·贝森特在国会作证时指出，《自然》杂志那篇臭名昭著的论文《气候变化的经济影响》已被“彻底撤回”。该论文声称，到2049年，全球变暖的成本将高达每年38万亿美元。
《自然》杂志承认，该论文两个月前已被撤回，因为其中的错误“过于严重，无法更正”。
贝森特宣称，对这一颇具影响力的经济模型的否定“彻底揭露了激进左派对气候变化的末日夸张言论……”
“这份错误百出、难以纠正的文件屡屡被滥用，成为世界各地糟糕政策的借口，损害了能源的充足供应和人民生活水平的提高。”
真相虽然刺耳，但总比没有真相要好。
Ding dong, the climate hoax is dead.
Twenty years after Al Gore’s apocalyptic movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” the Trump administration has put the final nail in the coffin of the lie that scared a generation into believing the planet was about to explode in flames if they kept using fossil fuels.
In what the White House calls “the largest deregulatory action in American history,” the EPA on Thursday will repeal an Obama-era proclamation that has mandated greenhouse-gas regulations for 17 years,
The 2009 “endangerment finding” has been the primary climate handbrake on American industry, forming the legal justification for increasingly punitive greenhouse-gas regulations.
Rescinding it would “save the American people $1.3 trillion in crushing regulations,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said this week, with the EPA projecting an average saving of $2,400 per vehicle and further savings on farm machinery, soon to be freed from the complex extra circuitry required to restrict emissions.
It will also end Joe Biden’s enforced transition to electric vehicles by 2030.
Yay!
It’s about time that common sense returned to energy policy.
During the recent bone-chilling winter storm that hit 200 million Americans across more than 35 states, it wasn’t wind and solar that kept the lights on but fossil fuels.
According to the Florida Municipal Power Agency, 90% of power generation in the country at the height of the storm was natural gas, coal, nuclear or oil.
Cheap, abundant energy fueled America’s prosperity, but charlatans citing pseudoscience have conspired to send us back to the dark ages with hyperbolic predictions that keep falling apart.
As we keep sailing past the various doomsday deadlines set by climate shucksters from Gore to Greta Thunberg, the public has been waking up to the hoax.
A Gallup poll found in 2024 only 2 percent of Americans cite climate change or the environment as their main concern.
It’s telling that green activists have been relatively silent in the face of a full-scale assault by Trump and his Cabinet on climate shibboleths the past year.
Just to make sure the greenies completely lose their minds, President Trump was crowned the inaugural “Undisputed Champion of Coal” by the Washington Coal Club Wednesday in an event promoted by the White House as an unabashed celebration of the fossil fuel most demonized by climate alarmists: “clean, beautiful coal . . . America’s most reliable and affordable energy source.”
He jokingly decreed that “any time you mention coal — C.O.A.L. — it has to be preceded by two words, clean and beautiful.”
He lauded EPA administrator Lee Zeldin and his rapid fire deregulation moves as the administration’s “secret weapon” in his war against the “war on coal.”
“Biden and the radical left wanted to abolish coal,” Trump told the assembled group of coal miners in hard hats and hi-vis vests in the East Room.
“They did everything they could . . . but on Day 1 of this administration I ended the war on coal. We terminated the green new scam and we withdrew from the unfair, one-sided Paris climate deal.”
He also boasted that he has saved 74 coal fired power plants from extinction and announced that the Tennessee Valley Authority has just taken two coal plants off the chopping board.
Meanwhile, buoyed by falling electricity prices, the first American aluminum smelter in 50 years is now slated to be built in Oklahoma.
Net-zero policies adopted by in Europe, Canada and Australia, with their blind reliance on wind and solar, have failed.
Add the huge new demand for power by data processing centers underpinning artificial intelligence, and the climate fiction has become impossible to sustain.
Now, policymakers and powerful influencers are hoping they can sidle away from the disastrous decisions they forced on us with false pretenses.
Billionaire activist Bill Gates has renounced climate alarm, declaring quietly last October that climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” and “the global temperature doesn’t tell us anything about the quality of people’s lives.”
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
Maybe there are more pressing problems in the world that we could more usefully spend his money to solve.
On Wall Street, ESG (environment, social and government) stocks have fallen out of favor.
Public disillusionment is happening as the underpinnings of the climate hoax have collapsed.
In congressional testimony last week Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pointed to the “monumental retraction” of Nature magazine’s infamous paper on “The Economic Commitment of Climate Change” which claimed the cost of global warming would be $38 trillion per year by 2049.
It was retracted two months ago because, Nature admitted, the errors were “too substantial for a correction.”
Bessent declared that the repudiation of the influential economic modeling “laid bare the radical left’s apocalyptic hyperbole on climate change . . .
“This fatally fraught paper, with errors far too substantial for correction, has been frequently used and abused to justify bad policymaking around the world, undermining both energy abundance and better living standards.”
The truth hurts, but it’s better than the alternative.