Last week, I attended an event on climate change at the Hampton Inspired Hub. It was advertised as an update on the science of global warming. The first words out of the host’s mouth, however, were: “Thank you for joining us here with Hampton Extinction Rebellion.”
I nearly got up to leave, but it was raining outside and I already had a drink, so I decided to stay.
The COP30 climate conference got under way this week in Brazil under something of a cloud. Boycotted by U.S. President Donald Trump, who has called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,” it’s attracted less than half the attendees of the one two years ago. Whether pressured by Washington, or seizing licence from it, many countries, Canada among them, have backpedalled on their climate policies as politicians who say we can’t afford the luxury of solving climate change gain influence.
‘You talk about the UK, it’s one of the worst in the world. They believe, this nonsense, this fiction.’
President Donald Trump says climate change is a hoax.#GBNewsTrump pic.twitter.com/MrQmiflXDy
— GB News (@GBNEWS) November 15, 2025
One of the huge bonuses to having racked up a significant number of years in life is that one gets an amazing perspective on things. For example, I’ve been through a number of dire apocalyptic warnings. When I was a kid, global cooling and a new ice age were going to bring down the curtain on Mother Earth within 40 years. Before the ice had a chance to show up, fears of overpopulation were being spread. Widespread famine was going to do us in.
Residents of the ‘global north’ want their own nations put in order first
They have lost their enthusiasm for combatting climate change, and they are no longer willing to subsidise the fight against global warming. The president of the UN’s climate talks, Andre Correa do Lago, has complained that the “rich countries” of the “global north” have lost their enthusiasm for the fight to save the planet. The checkbooks are starting to close. But hold on. In reality what is so terrible about that?
As he opened the latest Cop summit, and welcomed the usual circus of virtue-signalling politicians, Correa do Lago struck a wistful tone. There is, he complained, “a reduction in enthusiasm” among the global north for fighting climate change, with the momentum moving to the “global south”.
Breaking – Thousands of Brazilian Protestors (some armed) – Storm COP 30 Climate Change Conference – Furious at all the World Elites & their Champagne Socialism Hypocrisy ‼️ pic.twitter.com/KFJaikxvrh
— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) November 11, 2025
Climate change is not the end of the world, according to Bill Gates. In a blog post yesterday, the Microsoft co-founder — whose foundation has donated billions to philanthropy projects aimed at mitigating a climate disaster — criticised the “doomsday outlook” of the “climate community”.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has spoken about how at age 11, she was so depressed about climate change she stopped talking and eating and lost 10 kilograms in two months.
Here in Canada, a mother of two children in Salmon Arm, B.C., says her anxiety about the climate her kids will experience “becomes so heavy it’s suffocating.” A Calgary student says she started obsessing about food to cope with her anxiety about the state of our planet, and sometimes was “so overwhelmed with what food choices were best for the planet, I hardly ate at all.”
She’s not sick she’s an idiot.
Scientists for years said they had proof that climate change was accelerating sea level rise. But that's not what the evidence shows. They knew the truth and misled the public. And now I have a long email exchange with a top scientist that shows how they did it. Massive scandal. pic.twitter.com/MNIX1025Fe
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) October 24, 2025
h/t Mauser
Hamburg is German’s leading industrial city. Its companies add €20 billion in gross value every year. Much of this economic output is related to Hamburg’s happy location on the Elbe and the fact that the city is home to Europe’s third-largest port. All of this has made Hamburg extremely prosperous, which prosperity has filled it with rafts of clueless virtue-signalling morons who have no idea how anything works, why they find Hamburg attractive in the first place or how their hip urban lifestyles are maintained.
Canada’s former climate minister on making a change, ‘aloof’ Trudeau and sexism
Imagine there was a truck heading directly for your children. What would you do? Surely everything in your power to save them, including jumping in its way? Catherine McKenna, formerly the Canadian minister for environment and climate change, borrows this analogy for the climate crisis from a colleague to argue that we need to use “all the tools at our disposal” to tackle devastating danger that is already with us.
McKenna has recently published Run Like a Girl, which documents her time in government, among other things. Peppered with inspirational quotes, personal photos and campaign memorabilia, Run Like a Girl isn’t a straightforward memoir. She wrote it for “women and young people who want to make change”.
Italy has sent a navy frigate to assist a flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists including Greta Thunberg, the Swedish campaigner, after the vessels were attacked overnight by drones.
The group of more than 50 vessels trying to deliver aid to Gaza was targeted in waters near Crete by drones that dropped explosives, damaging boats, as well as grenades containing irritant gas.
… An Italian MP on board one vessel also said ship radios were jammed and suddenly started playing Abba songs at top volume.
Canada and other major fossil fuel-producing countries are derailing the world’s chance to hit key climate change targets, a new international report suggests, with 2030 production levels expected to be more than double what would be compatible with the Paris agreement.
While some countries have committed to a clean energy transition, others appear to be turning back to “an outdated fossil-fuel dependent playbook,” the report said.
“The continued collective failure of governments to curb fossil fuel production and lower global emissions means that future production will need to decline more steeply to compensate,” states the Production Gap Report, which was produced by three climate research non-profits.
I could care less what a few cranks think.
David Suzuki showed off his hypocrisy once again at a speech in Toronto, where he called for urgent climate action at the Draw the Line protest and criticized wealth accumulation, despite owning multiple high-value properties.
‘Magical fairy dust’: A city report shows strong support for burning Toronto’s trash. Climate advocates are calling for the study to be scrapped
As Toronto’s landfill approaches capacity, there’s “strong support” from residents to consider incinerating the city’s trash, according to a new report that’s already drawing the ire of climate advocates.
A city report released Friday provided the results of public consultations held earlier this year on long-term plans for Toronto’s trash. The city-owned Green Lane Landfill southwest of London, Ont. is the current destination for almost all of Toronto’s garbage, but is expected to reach capacity by 2035.
The city has been exploring options that include either building a new landfill or using an existing one, as well as switching to so-called “energy-from-waste” technology, better known as incineration.
You might have gotten the impression that the Great Barrier Reef—the aquatic wonder off Australia’s coast—is in grave peril. Last month, headlines shouted in unison: Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral decline on record. Environmental journalists paint a picture of immense devastation driven by climate change.
The truth is much less alarming. Australian scientists have meticulously tracked the reef’s coral cover since 1986. For many years, they published an annual average coral cover figure. The data show that the reef was mostly stable until 2000, then began declining, and by 2012 it had shrunk to less than half its original cover.
Climate activists from the underground movement Shut the System (STS) have launched “a period of sustained sabotage” against banks and insurance firms. Security experts believe that STS has the means and experience to carry out this threat, thereby posing the greatest challenge yet to the Labour government’s ability to maintain law and order — not least because of its close links to radical, pro-Palestinian activists.
