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Climate Change Denial

2019

2019-11-25 Fox commentator Tomi Lahren dismissed environmental protests as “tantrums,” saying, “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 Project 2025 (pp. 674–675) labels several NOAA-related agencies as climate alarmists and calls for dismantling or restructuring 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 Princeton lost federal funding for climate research because the Trump administration accused them of promoting “exaggerated and implausible climate threats.”

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025/04/princeton-news-adpol-research-funding-climate-change-trump

2025-04-28 Following Project 2025 recommendations (page 59), all authors working on the National Climate Assessment were fired.

https://www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-5380816/climate-assessment-authors-released

2025 June

2025-06-10 National parks were instructed to post QR codes so visitors could report exhibits with content about slavery, Native American history, pollution or climate change.

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-5429773/national-park-service-signs

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/trump-executive-order-national-park-signs-sanitize-history-backlash/

https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/06/national-park-visitors-asked-report-signs-depict-history-negatively

https://www.npca.org/articles/9287-make-them-hear-you

2025-06-26 Peter Thiel suggested in a New York Times interview that climate activists, including Greta Thunberg, could serve as “legionnaires of the Antichrist.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist#:~:text=Or%20Christian%20democracy%2C%20which%20is,disclaimer%20that%20I%20just%20gave.

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 administration erased climate-change reports and the website 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

2025-07-23 Trump forced Muir Woods National Monument to remove displays about Native American history, women, and climate change.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/signs-of-the-times-removing-stories-of-americas-past-from-our-national-parks/

https://www.kalw.org/2026-01-23/national-park-service-removes-climate-change-sign-at-muir-woods-per-trump-directive

https://www.kqed.org/news/12049405/muir-woods-national-monument-exhibit-removal-trump-executive-order-national-parks-history-under-construction-sticky-notes

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 rebuttal to a Department of Energy climate report, citing errors, misrepresentations, and selective use of data.

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

https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/DOE_Critical_Review_of_Impacts_of_GHG_Emissions_on_the_US_Climate_July_2025.pdf

https://ktvz.com/cnn-other/2025/09/02/scientists-submit-coordinated-response-to-trump-admin-report-casting-doubt-on-climate-change-it-makes-a-mockery-of-science/

2025-09-23 At the U.N., Trump mocked climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” and questioned the purpose of the United Nations. This was the time he told the UN, “What is the purpose of the United Nations?” and, 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 reported on “Atlas,” an alleged ExxonMobil-backed climate-change denial campaign.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/03/exxon-funded-thinktanks-to-spread-climate-denial-in-latin-america-documents-reveal

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/14/exxonmobil-documents-wall-street-journal-climate-science

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/18/the-forgotten-oil-ads-that-told-us-climate-change-was-nothing

2025-11-12 During the 4th Annual Northeast Indiana Defense Summit Pete Hegseth criticized DEI initiatives, political correctness, and what he called “climate change worship”.

https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/secretary-of-war-pete-hegseth-addresses-the-4th-annual-northeast-indiana-defense-summit/

https://www.banks.senate.gov/news/press-releases/secretary-of-war-pete-hegseth-addresses-the-4th-annual-northeast-indiana-defense-summit/

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/14/hegseth-says-us-must-defend-freedom-christians-worship/

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 administration proposed dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research, an agency that Russ Vought accused of being “a source of climate alarmism”.

https://x.com/russvought/status/2001099488774033692?s=20

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-administration-moves-break-leading-u-s-climate-and-weather-center

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/19/nx-s1-5648270/trump-weather-climate-national-center-atmospheric-research-ncar

2026 March

2026-03-01 NOAA reported that March 2026 was the hottest March recorded in 132 years of recordkeeping.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202603

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/march-smashed-heat-records-in-the-u-s-just-wait-for-el-nino-this-summer

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/climate-change-kicking-butts-march-smashes-heat-records-continental-us-rcna267422

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5822980-el-nino-rising-temperatures/

2026 April

2026-04-02 The Artemis crew took a photo of earth and posted a side-by-side comparison to 1972, showing a now less-vibrant one.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/04/04/artemis-ii-photo-earth-space-blue-marble/89465526007/

2026 June

2026-06-06 As outlined in Project 2025 by the Heritage Foundation, Trump dismantled the Ocean Observatories Initiative designed to help with weather reporting and climate change studies.

https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/trump-administration-dismantles-critical-ocean-floor-observation-network/

https://www.surfertoday.com/environment/why-the-ocean-observatories-initiative-is-being-dismantled

https://www.bgr.com/2186782/us-government-dismantle-ocean-observatories-initiative/

https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-admin-is-terminating-a-vast-network-of-ocean-monitors/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTpETcRkwqI&list=WL&index=3