“Trump’s powerful climate change policy deconstructions and the liberation of America.”
By Judd Dunning Author, 13½ Reasons Why NOT to Be a Liberal | Host, Unapologetic with Judd Dunning on KABC AM790 | Newsmax Insider Columnist
Trump’s Climate Reset: Exposing the Great Globalist Fear Machine
The left told us the world was ending in 11 years. They told us our cars, our homes, our very way of life were killing the planet. They told us the “science was settled,” and anyone who dared question the narrative was a “denier.” But just like the COVID panic before it, the climate hysteria is crumbling — and President Donald J. Trump is leading the demolition with speed, clarity, and unapologetic American strength.
The so-called “climate crisis” has become the last great lever of global control. The same elites who failed with mask mandates and vaccine passports turned to carbon taxes and energy rationing. Their goal was never to “save the planet.” It was to limit your freedom. As I wrote in my book 13½ Reasons Why NOT to Be a Liberal: “The greatest crisis of our time isn’t climate change. It’s the exploitation of fear to consolidate control.”
Trump understands this, and in his second term he has wasted no time tearing down the climate-industrial complex. The globalists wanted to scare America into submission. Trump is giving America courage through energy independence, limited government, and bold realism.
Exiting the Climate Shackles
On January 20, 2025, his first day back in office, Trump once again withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. For the second time, America rejected a globalist accord designed to shackle our economy while letting China and India burn coal without consequence. Trump called it what it is — a “rip-off” and “a disaster” for American workers.
There’s even talk of going further: withdrawing from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) itself. That would be the ultimate declaration that America is done letting international bureaucrats dictate our future.
Overturning the Endangerment Finding
Perhaps the most dramatic move came on July 24, 2025, when Trump’s EPA, under Administrator Lee Zeldin, proposed overturning the 2009 endangerment finding. That finding — rooted in the 2007 Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA — declared greenhouse gases like CO₂ and methane “pollutants” under the Clean Air Act. It became the legal foundation for endless regulation of power plants, vehicles, and industry.
Trump is aiming to pull that foundation out from under the climate bureaucracy. Supporters like the Competitive Enterprise Institute argue that the harms of CO₂ are “speculative.” Critics howl that Trump is ignoring “overwhelming scientific evidence.” But as Gregory Wrightstone, author of Inconvenient Facts, reminds us: “The climate crisis is not only exaggerated — it’s nonexistent.”
If Trump succeeds, the EPA will no longer be able to use carbon dioxide as a political weapon.
Dismantling the Green Regime
Trump has rolled out executive orders at breakneck speed: Clean Power Plan — scrapped. Methane fees from Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act — repealed. Vehicle mandates — gone. He froze EV subsidies and halted the federal charging-station program. Pollution rules — weakened. On March 12, 2025, the EPA announced 31 revisions that Democrats claim could save “200,000 lives.” Trump’s view? Bad math, worse policy.
On the same day he returned to office, Trump declared a “national energy emergency,” opening 58 million acres of national forests to oil, gas, and coal development. He lifted the federal moratorium on coal leasing and pushed drilling into new Alaskan frontiers. “Energy dominance” is back, and so is the jobs and security that come with it.
Striking Back at the States
Blue states thought they could defy Trump with local climate laws. On April 8, 2025, Trump signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to challenge state-level policies like California’s cap-and-trade system. No more lawsuits against fossil fuel companies. No more carbon taxes in disguise. No more Sacramento and Albany undermining American energy.
Gutting the Climate Bureaucracy
Trump also understands that the climate scam survives on bloated agencies. So he’s cutting them down: EPA — 400 staffers gone, including scientists tied to the National Climate Assessment. NOAA — weather balloon launches slashed, climate data slowed. NASA — environmental research canceled, budgets redirected. National Weather Service — stripped of military satellite data.
Instead, a new Department of Energy report — crafted by contrarian scientists — defends rolling back the endangerment finding. Harvard’s Naomi Oreskes calls it “pseudoscience.” Trump calls it common sense.
Attacking Biden’s Green Legacy
The Inflation Reduction Act was Biden’s holy grail. Trump is dismantling it line by line: $11 billion in unallocated clean-energy grants? Paused. Methane fee? Repealed. EV and renewable subsidies? On the chopping block. Congress, now Republican-led, is pushing further — rolling back green tax credits to help fund extensions of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.
Symbolism and Satire
And in classic Trump style, there’s symbolism too. He banned paper straws in federal offices, calling them “nonfunctional.” He scrapped Obama-era rules mandating “weak showers and toilets,” saying Americans deserve water pressure. He rejected the U.N.’s proposal for a global carbon tax, calling it a “robbery of the American consumer.”
This isn’t just deregulation. It’s de-mockery — showing that the climate cult isn’t just dangerous, it’s ridiculous.
The Latest (August 2025)
The pace hasn’t slowed. On August 25, Trump ordered federal agencies to ignore climate mandates under the Clean Air Act, freeing coal plants from emissions rules. On August 17, Rolling Stone raged that Trump was “adding more fossil fuels to the fire.” Trump shrugged and doubled down. On August 1, the EPA’s endangerment rollback drew fire from mainstream scientists, but Trump framed the fight as liberty vs. tyranny.
A tally by Just the News counted 145 separate actions in Trump’s first 200 days aimed at undoing Biden’s climate agenda. That’s not just policy — that’s a revolution.
The Critics and the Stakes
Of course, critics howl. The Union of Concerned Scientists, the IPCC, and green activists call it pseudoscience. They point to 2024’s record heat, Hurricane Helene, and California wildfires as proof Trump is ignoring danger. But their selective science has always been the problem.
As Wrightstone reminds us, and as real data shows, the Earth has endured cycles far harsher than today’s warming. Solar patterns, ocean currents, volcanic activity — these forces dwarf man’s influence. And even if CO₂ plays a role, higher levels green the planet, feed crops, and stave off famine.
The question isn’t whether the climate changes. Of course it does. The question is whether America should bankrupt itself in fear of forces we don’t control.
The Real Climate Emergency: The Scam Is Obvious
The data shows there has always been a cycle to CO2 long before man’s industrial age. The earth has warmed, cooled, and warmed again in natural rhythms, unfolding long before factories or cars existed. Yet the government hides this reality. By pretending CO2 levels never shifted before 1950, elites justify taxing the very air we breathe. This is not stewardship but revenue extraction disguised as virtue.
Trump is endangering no one. The core keystone of climate change — carbon — is a mass delusion that has already been debunked. The emperor has no clothes, and the hysteria collapses once the lie is exposed.
As neuroscientist Gregory Berns explains in The Self Delusion (2022), our brains don’t record reality like a camera. They stitch together fragments, fill in gaps, and exaggerate details to create simplified stories we can live inside. This leaves us vulnerable to false narratives. Repeated often enough, even flawed ideas — like the claim that CO2 is the “control knob” of the climate — get absorbed into collective memory as if they were fact. What results is not truth but a collective self-delusion built on imperfect data and political storytelling.
But is Trump reckless? No. His deconstruction rests on exposing that carbon, demonized as pollution, is essential to life. He has torn apart the fragile scaffolding of climate hysteria, showing that regulation is not about saving the skies but about controlling people. The left calls it “science,” but the real science shows something else entirely.
We are told relentlessly that CO2 drives the climate. Yet CO2 makes up only 0.04% of the atmosphere, while oxygen and nitrogen account for nearly 99%. Water vapor, ranging from 1% to 4%, has far more impact on temperature variation. Even more decisive are solar cycles and orbital shifts — forces far greater than any human activity. NASA itself admits solar cycles profoundly influence climate.
America: Abundance, Not Scarcity
The globalists sell scarcity because they need fear to justify control. But the facts point the other way.
We live in a nation so vast that the entire U.S. population could fit inside Texas and still leave room to breathe. The idea that Americans are running out of space is absurd. What the elites want are smart cities — cages of cultural Marxism — where people can be monitored, rationed, and controlled. But that is not the American dream. The American dream is families thriving in abundance, not caged in fear.
Look at the environment itself. Despite decades of scare campaigns, America today enjoys some of the cleanest water and air on earth. Our forests are expanding, our agricultural yields are at record highs, and our energy technology is more efficient than ever. The EPA’s own data show dramatic drops in pollutants like lead, sulfur dioxide, and particulates since the 1970s. That’s not collapse — that’s progress.
And then there are our resources. American fossil fuels — oil, natural gas, coal — remain among the cleanest and most abundant in the world. Natural gas has driven U.S. carbon emissions lower than Europe’s, even without punishing our economy. Pair that with America’s unmatched reserves of timber, farmland, and freshwater, and the truth is obvious: we are a nation of plenty, not a planet in peril.
Gregory Wrightstone captured it in Inconvenient Facts: “Our planet is not spiraling into catastrophe. It is prospering, greening, and sustaining more human life than ever before.”
This is why the left must cloak its agenda in fear. Without it, their cultural Marxism collapses. If Americans see clearly that their land is vast, their air is clean, their water abundant, their trees plentiful, and their energy resources overflowing, then the climate crisis narrative vanishes. What remains is prosperity — and prosperity is freedom.
America’s Climate Realism
Trump’s climate reset is more than deregulation. It’s a reassertion of American realism.
Energy independence means no foreign wars for oil. Industrial growth means jobs, security, and stronger families. Freedom of choice means gas cars for some, Teslas for others — not mandates, not bans.
By pulling America out of the Paris trap, dismantling the EPA’s CO₂ regime, and mocking the petty absurdities of paper-straw politics, Trump has broken the spell of fear.
The left tried to use climate change as their new COVID, their new control mechanism, their new cultural weapon. But America has seen behind the curtain.
And once again, Donald Trump has shown that when you tear down the noise, the truth stands tall.
The climate cult is collapsing. The age of American abundance has just begun.
By Judd Dunning Author, 13½ Reasons Why NOT to Be a Libera | Host, Unapologetic with Judd Dunning on KABC AM790 | Newsmax Insider Columnist
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