Politically Unstable: The left's climate agenda is politically based

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Wednesday, October 1, 2025

OPINION:

Lawyer, scientist, and publisher of JunkScience.com Steve Milloy joins Washington Times Commentary Editor Kelly Sadler on Politically Unstable to discuss how the left’s obsession with climate change is rooted in politics and what the Trump Administration is doing to change some of these economically disastrous policies.

[SADLER] The president yesterday, in his speech at the U.N,. basically assailed the Green New Deal and called renewable energies a joke, saying that fossil fuels are our future, nuclear is our future, but solar wind that only works when the sun shines or the wind blows is only benefiting China. It is not at all lowering emissions, because China keeps violating climate change agreement after climate change agreement, keeps opening their coal-fired plants and doesn’t rely on wind or solar much at all, if just to sell it to European countries and the United States, where it’s in vogue.

[MILLOY] Yesterday, President Trump told the United Nations what he’s been telling the rest of the world for the past 10, 15 years: that global warming is a hoax, climate change is a hoax, especially to the extent it’s emissions-driven. And he also attacked the Green New Scam, and he told countries that, “Look, if you embrace this, you’re going to fail,” and that’s true because the Green New Scam has no purpose. It’s not going to renewable energy, wind, solar, not going to change the weather, not going to change the climate, doesn’t make the environment better, it just makes electricity more expensive. And more expensive electricity is bad for the economy, bad for development, bad for people’s health.

And, you know, President Trump made this quite clear yesterday. Our agenda now under the Trump administration is more nuclear power. And we’ve got lots of nuclear projects going on. We’re bringing back fossil fuel, because President Trump wants to reindustrialize our country, and also we have the growing energy needs for artificial intelligence and the data centers. And all this is going to take a lot of electricity that wind and solar just can’t do at an affordable and reliable manner.

So yesterday was a great day and I look forward to the next three years with President Trump on this.

[SADLER] You know, there are a lot of climate skeptics And there are a lot of younger Republicans and conservatives who are concerned about the climate and climate change. They’ve been indoctrinated their entire youth at school, both in the public education system as well as the universities, that this really is the existential threat of our time. Now, President Trump, in his speech yesterday, said, you know, in 1982, the executive director of the U.N. Environmental Program predicted that by the year 2000, climate change would cause a global catastrophe. Then he said, “Here we are, and there’s no climate catastrophe.” Can you speak to me about the science? Because that’s what the left always goes to. They cite the science of it all with trying to calculate emissions and the global warming. It was global cooling before it was global warming. Can you describe why all of that is junk science?

[MILLOY] The hallmark of science is being able to predict the future. If you understand something scientifically, you can predict the future. No environmental alarmist, climate alarmist, global warming alarmist prediction has ever come true. And this goes back to Al Gore. You know, Al Gore famously when he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, for example, said that the Arctic was gonna be ice-free by 2014. Of course, in 2025, the Arctic at its lowest seasonal amount had like four million square kilometers of ice. So clearly not true. None of these predictions have come true over the past 50, 60 years. This is really not surprising. In fact, as was reported on the front page of the Washington Post last year, the Earth has been cooling for 485 million years. We are coming out of the coldest period of that 485 million years starting 20,000 years ago.

The environmentalists, I call them climate hoaxers, cannot demonstrate how emissions are related to anything going on in the weather or climate. There’s no sort of extreme weather event that correlates with emissions or warming. The warming we’re experiencing now seems to have started about 40 years ago with a series of El Niños we’re in. It’s completely natural. Also, as we’ve cleaned our air, we have allowed more sunlight in. And that sunlight is warming. So, you know, there’s lots of things to talk about. But the bottom line is that no one can show that emissions are having any effect whatsoever on weather or climate.

[SADLER] Why do you think climate has become such a religion to many on the left? It’s almost cultish, right? They believe that man has the power to change the Earth for the worse or for the better. And if they implement policies like emission standards, if we go to green energies like solar and wind, if we go to EV cars that don’t guzzle gasoline, we’ll all be better off. Is there any validity with any of that?