Climate Change Denial
2019
2019-11-25 During an episode of Fox News, news anchor Tomi Lahren called environmental protests “tantrums” and said, quote, “I’m sick and tired of the crybabies”.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/tomi-lahren-climate-protesters-harvard-yale-football
2025 January
2025-01-20 Pages 674 and 675 of Project 2025 label organizations like The National Weather Service as climate-change alarmists and call for action to dismantle them, The National Ocean Service, The Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, The National Environmental Satellite, Data and information Service, The national Marine Fisheries Service, and the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations and NOAA Corps.
https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
2025 April
2025-04-09 The Trump administration cut funding to Princeton, claiming the cuts were over antisemitism concerns, but also citing the motive that Princeton climate research promoted “exaggerated and implausible climate threats”.
2025-04-28 As outlined on page 59 of Project 2025, all authors working on the National Climate Assessment report were dismissed.
https://www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-5380816/climate-assessment-authors-released
2025 June
2025-06-26 During an interview with the New York Times, Peter Thiel made a bizarre comment suggesting that the antichrist will work through climate activists like child activist Greta Thunberg as “legionnaires of the Antichrist”.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/16/peter-thiel-antichrist-san-francisco/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/peter-thiel-antichrist-ross-douthat.html
2025 July
2025-07-01 The Trump administration purged climate-change reports and globalchange.gov.
https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/ NO LONGER WORKING
https://www.globalchange.gov/ NO LONGER WORKING
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/01/climate-change-reports-removed-trump
2025 August
2025-08-12 The Union of Concerned Scientists filed a lawsuit against Trump, alleging that Energy Secretary Chris Wright “quietly arranged for five hand-picked skeptics of the effects of climate change” to compile the government’s climate report and violated the law by creating the report with “only one point of view”.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/02/nx-s1-5521384/energy-report-scientists-climate-change
https://library.edf.org/AssetLink/0kdlw6oq5v8hsvj152eqx01b0qn74uuq.pdf
2025 September
2025-09-02 Eighty-five veteran scientists issued a joint rebuttal to the U.S. Department of Energy report about climate change, finding it full of errors, misinterpretations of climate science, and cherry picking of data to roll back regulations. The group of researchers also cited the energy department calling climate change “potentially beneficial”.
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/02/nx-s1-5521384/energy-report-scientists-climate-change
https://www.energy.gov/topics/climate
https://library.edf.org/AssetLink/0kdlw6oq5v8hsvj152eqx01b0qn74uuq.pdf
https://sites.google.com/tamu.edu/doeresponse/home
2025-09-23 During an address to the U.N., Trump stated, “What is the purpose of the United Nations?”, dismissed climate change calling it “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world…”, offered his crackdown on immigration as a case study for what he believes other world leaders should do, and told everybody “I’m really good at this stuff - your countries are going to hell”.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-address-un-he-distances-us-global-cooperation-2025-09-23/
2025 November
2025-11-07 The Guardian uncovered a climate change denial campaign by ExxonMobil called “Atlas”.
2025-11-12 (context) Pete Hegseth gave a speech at the 4th Annual Northeast Indiana Defense Summit. In that speech, he compared the current moment in history as a “1939 type moment or hopefully a 1981 moment” (context: 1939 is the year Adolf Hitler began his reign of terror). He talked about readiness, stating that means, “no more social justice, no more political correctness, no more toxic ideological garbage that infected the department”. He further stated, “No more identity months, no more DEI offices, no more dudes in dresses”. He went on to say “no more climate change worship, no more division, no more delusions, gender delusions or quotas, no more distraction. As the chairman of the joint chiefs puts it: Pete you’re clearing out the debris.
2025-11-26 The Trump administration reduced air pollution reduction requirements.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/26/trump-epa-deadly-soot-pollution-rule
2025 December
2025-12-19 The Trump administration expressed plans to completely dismantle the climate and weather center NCAR, with Trump’s budget director Russ Vought posting that the National Center for Atmospheric Research was a “source of climate alarmism”.