The Climate-Change Fraudsters.

Hannes Wessels,

Twenty one years ago ‘The Guardian’, that fountain of fake news, published an article based on a Pentagon report which helped drive the ‘Global Warming’ hysteria then sweeping the world a notch higher.

Among the catastrophic predictions, violent storms would soon render large parts of the Netherlands including The Hague uninhabitable, and parts of California would be flooded. Europe would suffer an average temperature drop of 6°F, civil strife would see the deaths of millions in South Africa, Indonesia and India, the American Midwest would be devastated by soil-loss caused by strong winds, 400 M people in sub-tropical regions would face starvation, and Bangladesh would become uninhabitable due to rising sea levels.

Fuel was added to the fire by former US Vice-President Al Gore who helped produce the documentary  film. ‘The Inconvenient Truth’, which caught the world’s attention and explained the world was in the lethal grip of a ‘global-warming pollution’ that had created a ‘heat-trap’ containing the same energy as thousands of atomic bombs. Gore went on to tell his audience the North Polar ice-cap was ‘falling off a cliff’ and would be gone in ‘seven years’ which was ten years ago. That sea-levels would be up 20’ ‘in the near future’. We were also told Polar Bears were heading for extinction, and the Himalayan glaciers would soon vanish. For his prescience Gore, along with Rajendra Pachauri from the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change), was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.

This despite the fact a core-group of IPCC scientists was caught red-handed deleting data and manipulating graphs that did not fit their models. In the investigation that followed it turned out violations of scientific ethics on the panel had become common. Pachauri, incidentally, resigned subsequently, following the levelling of allegations of sexual harassment. Al Gore, profited enormously from his pontificating as the man who was going to save the world from self-destruction.

In 2018 Greta Thunberg relayed the news on ‘X’ that, ‘A top climate scientist is warning climate change will wipe out humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years’.

The list of the rich, famous, and influential who have joined the alarmist clamour in terrifying the world into fearful submission is endless but it includes Bill Gates, George Soros, virtually the entire Hollywood ‘A List’, and almost every Western head of state that has held office in the last 30 years except President Donald Trump.

So it was with much interest I read of the recent United Nations sponsored Climate Change Conference in Belem in Brazil where the venue caught fire and a forest was felled to facilitate access for the thousands of delegates.

Triggered to some extent by Bill Gates’ belated admission that the alleged crisis has been greatly exaggerated, it seems the protagonists of this huge hoax are finally running out of runway. While the organisers have reported a success and further progress in the ‘fight to save humanity’, it seems banks have lost interest, politicians are changing their tune, celebrities are muted, Greta Thunberg has turned her attention to Palestine, electric-car sales are plummeting, and Australia has declined the offer to host the conference next year.

In short the game is up for the fraudsters but the cost to the world of this deception, while gargantuan in financial terms, is incalculable in terms of the price paid by people whose lives have been impacted through increased energy costs, lowered standards of living, and the emotional cost of living in fear of the world ending catastrophically within their lifetimes. 

For me personally, as a white African who cares about the continent I call home, the rage might be greater. Because I am witness to possibly the greatest environmental catastrophe of modern times caused by the deforestation of vast swathes of sub-Saharan Africa, and none of the above-mentioned charlatans have paid it the slightest attention, let alone done anything about it. One asks where has all the hundreds of billions of dollars raised over the last 30 years gone and what have the architects of this movement, and the managers of the multitude of NGO’s and related organisations got to show for what they have done with it?

If the crime of ‘racketeering’ includes the raising of money under false pretences, as I believe it does, then surely there are many people of wealth, influence and power who deserve a day in court.