“No amount of wind or solar will meaningfully change Earth’s temperature.” — Bill Gates
By Judd Dunning – Newsmax Insider & Author of 13½ Reasons Why NOT to Be a Liberal
The global warming priesthood has finally met its Galileo moment.
After decades of doomsday sermons, manipulated models, and taxpayer tithing to the Green Church, the mask is off: the climate crusade was never about saving the planet—it was about controlling the people.
The Big Green Elephant Was Always in the Room
In 13½ Reasons Why NOT to Be a Liberal, I called it “The Big Green Elephant”—the movement that began as conservation and mutated into coercion. Real environmentalism honors stewardship; climate activism demands submission.
What started with Rachel Carson’s reverence for nature metastasized into Al Gore’s carbon-credit capitalism—a theology of guilt that turns prosperity into sin and government into savior.
The hard data always betrayed the narrative. As I wrote years ago, global temperatures have oscillated for millennia—Roman Warming, Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age—long before the first Ford Model T ever rolled off the line. Even NASA’s own records show century-scale temperature variation of less than two degrees Celsius. Yet the “consensus” demanded silence, blacklisting credentialed scientists who dared question the catechism.
Trump Was Right: The Climate Communism Curtain Fell
President Trump did what few leaders had the courage to do—he pulled the plug. By exiting the Paris and Kyoto Accords, he ended a global wealth-transfer scheme dressed up as virtue. In one stroke, he freed America from energy servitude and restored economic sovereignty.
While the left screamed apocalypse, emissions kept dropping without their bureaucratic chains. Innovation—not intimidation—did what regulation never could. Energy independence became both environmental and economic policy.
Gregory Wrightstone, author of Inconvenient Facts, documented the same truth: CO₂ is not a pollutant but plant food; more CO₂ has greened the planet by 14% since 1980. Extreme weather deaths have plummeted 98% since the 1920s. Hurricanes, droughts, and fires fluctuate naturally. The models predicting catastrophe failed every test of time. The facts—those stubborn, empirical, non-grant-funded facts—proved the “crisis” was manufactured.
Bill Gates’ Quiet Admission
When even Bill Gates now concedes that “no amount of wind or solar will meaningfully change Earth’s temperature,” the empire of green fear has officially lost its clothes. The same billionaire who once funded every carbon offset now admits the obvious: the planet’s energy balance is far beyond political manipulation.
That quiet reversal is seismic. It means the science is no longer serving the narrative—and the narrative can no longer serve the power.
Weaponized Ecology and the New Cultural Marxism
The green movement became the perfect Trojan horse for collectivism. Under the banner of “climate justice,” it smuggled in global wealth redistribution, anti-industry policy, and guilt-based obedience. As I’ve argued since The Belly of the Beast, the modern left doesn’t fight for the environment—it fights to control the environment of ideas.
It’s Marxism with a recycling bin: trade your SUV for social credit and your freedom for “sustainability.”
By weaponizing nature itself, progressives found their moral bludgeon. You weren’t just wrong; you were destroying the planet. How do you debate someone who thinks dissent equals extinction?
Faith in Innovation, Not Fear
But humanity has always evolved its way out of scarcity. From the steam engine to the smartphone, our species innovates faster than it pollutes. By the time climate bureaucrats finish another 300-page grant proposal, entrepreneurs will already have built cleaner engines, smarter grids, and synthetic fuels that make their mandates irrelevant.
Free markets—not five-year plans—solve problems. Prosperous nations always protect their environment more effectively than poor ones. Energy poverty kills far more people than CO₂ ever will.
Rational Environmentalism Returns
Republicans and rational Democrats alike care deeply about the planet—but we care differently. We believe in clean air, clean water, and clean data. Stewardship, not submission.
Now that the smoke of fear has cleared, the adults are back in the room. Bill Gates blinked. The science bent to the truth. The emperor stands unclothed in a sea of canceled forecasts.
The climate-industrial complex—this trillion-dollar fusion of activism, academia, and anxiety—has finally hit the wall of reality. The gig is up. Mother Nature remains mysterious, humanity remains inventive, and democracy remains the best environmental policy ever written.
Trump was right. The planet didn’t burn. The economy thrived. And for once, the only thing getting hotter is the left’s embarrassment. The cultural marks, this weaponization of climate can now end.
May we now head onward in sharing our great mutual love and respect for Mother Nature and this wondrous planet that God gave us all.
Thank you, Bill Gates, as Trump said, a courageous and bold move.
About the Author
Judd Dunning is a Newsmax Insider columnist, host of Unapologetic with Judd Dunning (KABC AM-790), and co-host of BulletPointNation with Michael Loftus. He is the author of 13½ Reasons Why NOT to Be a Liberal and a principal at DWG Capital Partners. Follow Judd on X/Twitter @JuddDunning and visit JuddDunning.com.
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