Climate Cult’s Dissolution
Jack Dini ——Bio and Archives--January 27, 2026
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The climate agenda’s fall from grace this past year has been stunning, in speed, scale and scope. (1)
The house of cards built on computer and manipulated emotions is collapsing under the weight of a stubborn, inconvenient reality. The ‘climate emergency’ exists only in the frantic press releases of a movement that knows its time is up. (2)
Driving the news: President Trump announced that he’s withdrawing from the world’s flagship climate treaty that’s been in place for more than 30 years, making the US the only country not to be part of it.
The last year has seen an epic reversal that spread quickly from governments to boardrooms to pop culture. (1)
For decades, activists have anchored their case in dramatic warnings about species extinction, melting ice caps and the end of polar life, failing ecosystems and vanishing biodiversity. (2)
Yet, some of the world’s largest nations have actually expended their forest area significantly, even as alarmists predicted ecological disaster. Between 2015 and 2025, China added approximately 4 million acres of forest. In the same period, Russia gained more than 2 million acres and India gained nearly a half million. The list goes on. Turkey added almost 300,000 acres. Australia, France, South Africa, and Canada all posted significant increases.
Perhaps the starkest example of failing predictions is the so-called extinction of species. For 20 years, images of healthy polar bears on melting summer ice were used to manipulate emotions. Yet, reports from 2025 show that bear populations are stable and even booming compared to the 1950s. Bears have not declined in numbers over the past 10 to 15 years, and populations demonstrate resilience even as summer sea ice oscillates. (2)
A 2025 landmark study of data from nearly 2 million species found that........
