We may recall Al Gore, in his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, focused on climate change. The film included a moving clip of a ‘sad, animated polar bear floating away to its death’ suggesting that global warming would cause the extinction of the polar bear population. But Gore doesn’t talk about polar bears anymore.
Why not? According to climate scientist, Bjorn Lomborg, ‘Because after years of misrepresentation, it finally became impossible for them to ignore a mountain of evidence showing that the global polar bear population has increased substantially from around 12,000 in the 1960s to around 26,000 in the present day.
The same is true for the ‘greatly exaggerated’ demise of the Great Coral Reefs after public media was deluged with reports of the “Great Reef Catastrophe” which predicted global destruction by 2022. However, according to the latest official statistics, a completely different picture emerges. For the past three years, the Great Barrier Reef has had more coral cover than at any point since records began in 1985, with 2024 setting a new record.
President Biden once read from a note card, “extreme heat is the number one weather-related killer in the United States.” However, again according to Lomborg, Biden was ‘wrong by a factor of 25.’ “While extreme heat annually kills nearly 6,000 people, cold kills 152,000 Americans each year, of which 12,000 die from extreme cold …”
I also note a recent Wall Street Journal article entitled “A Climate Study Retraction for the Ages.” WSJ observes that “one scandal of our age is the attempt to sell the public on the narrative of climate catastrophe. It’s been fed by the press and overheated political and scientific claims that sometimes are phony.” (12-10-2025). That’s the case with the retraction by the journal, Nature, of a 2024 climate study. In the study, scientists projected that climate change could cause $38 trillion in economic damage a year by 2049. It also ominously predicted that rising CO2 emissions would cause a 62% reduction in global GDP by 2100 …”
However, problems with the methodology and errors in the data were discovered, prompting Nature to issue corrections. Then, after additional criticisms, Nature retracted the study because the premise had been completely undermined. “In other words, the economic harm from climate change no longer exceeded the costs of the government interventions to do something to arrest warming temperatures.”
WSJ questions “why the study’s glaring errors weren’t caught by peer reviewers before it was published?” One likely answer is “conformity bias” wherein reviewers abandon scientific honesty because they aren’t comfortable advancing information that undermines “the narrative that humanity is killing the planet and the entire world economy must be rearranged to prevent it.”
Climate change is indisputable. Our climate has always changed including long before man was ever on the earth! Earth’s temperature occurs in certain rhythmic cycles and did so long before humans appeared on earth, approximately 200,000 years ago. So, honest science reflects that humans are not the principal cause of climate change, but the Climate Change Religionists stay fanatically focused on it anyway.
“While there is an increase in carbon dioxide, that increase is not being driven largely by human industry. We are contributing to it … but 90% of global warming is occurring in the ocean causing the internal heat of the waters to increase.” So, the oceans are “warming from underneath. The glaciers are melting from underneath.” (Gregg Braden, Geologist, Computer Scientist, expert in Applied Earth Sciences).
Climate Religionists have been advancing doomsday scenarios for decades now. Acid rain would deforest large swaths of the globe; there would be another ice age; the ozone would disappear; global warming would melt the world’s glaciers. Now, the “world is on fire!” but the percentage of the globe that burns each year has been declining since 2001. (B. Lomborg, Wall St. Journal, 8-1-23).
None of it has happened. In fact, in the last 200 years the temperature of the earth has increased, slightly and erratically, by only about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. (Richard Lindzen, MIT Physicist. 04-18-2016)
The reason so many Americans don’t believe the narrative of climate change “apocalypse” is because they simply don’t trust the “science.”
On a personal note—during Shreveport’s recent much-earlier-than-normal cold snap, I was fumbling my cold car keys with cold hands trying to open the car door on a frigid morning. I could not help but think, where the heck is global warming when you need it?
Shreveport attorney, Royal Alexander, worked in D.C. in the U.S. House of Representatives for nearly 8 years for two different Members of Congress from Louisiana.