{"id":381732,"date":"2025-06-06T09:50:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T07:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=381732"},"modified":"2025-06-06T09:50:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T07:50:51","slug":"trumps-attack-on-harvard-could-be-a-turning-point-in-the-battle-against-the-climate-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=381732","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Attack on Harvard Could be a Turning Point in the Battle Against the Climate Cult"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"381739\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=381739\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ChatGPT-Image-28.-Mai-2025-09_53_37-2.png?fit=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1536,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ChatGPT Image 28. Mai 2025, 09_53_37\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ChatGPT-Image-28.-Mai-2025-09_53_37-2.png?fit=723%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ChatGPT-Image-28.-Mai-2025-09_53_37-2.png?resize=723%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-381739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ChatGPT-Image-28.-Mai-2025-09_53_37-2.png?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ChatGPT-Image-28.-Mai-2025-09_53_37-2.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ChatGPT-Image-28.-Mai-2025-09_53_37-2.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ChatGPT-Image-28.-Mai-2025-09_53_37-2.png?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ChatGPT-Image-28.-Mai-2025-09_53_37-2.png?w=1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ChatGPT-Image-28.-Mai-2025-09_53_37-2.png?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2025\/06\/05\/trumps-attack-on-harvard-could-be-a-turning-point-in-the-battle-against-climate-alarmism\/#comments\">The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/author\/tilak-doshi\/\">Tilak Doshi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"465\" data-attachment-id=\"381733\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=381733\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-95.png?fit=1009%2C649&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1009,649\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-95.png?fit=723%2C465&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-95.png?resize=723%2C465&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-381733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-95.png?w=1009&amp;ssl=1 1009w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-95.png?resize=300%2C193&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-95.png?resize=768%2C494&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Notmyfault99\/status\/1929120068710838705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">parody video<\/a>&nbsp;widely shared on X on June 1st had this to say of Harvard university:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ever wish your child was a full-blown liberal idiot? Desperate to turn them into a Jew hating extremist who\u2019d rather burn a flag than think for themselves? Well Harvard University has the answer. For the low, low price of half a million dollars we will transform your kid into the kind of zealot who sets bags of shit on fire in the street, screaming about whatever CNN\u2019s whining about today. Our elite programme guarantees they\u2019ll swap reason for rage and facts for feelings faster than you can say protest permit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Harvard University Ad<br>\ud83e\udd23\u2764\ufe0f\ud83e\udd23\u2764\ufe0f\ud83e\udd23\u2764\ufe0f\ud83e\udd23\u2764\ufe0f\ud83e\udd23 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zqDeKPsT2k\">pic.twitter.com\/zqDeKPsT2k<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ATX Irish Gal \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\u2764\ufe0f (@Notmyfault99) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Notmyfault99\/status\/1929120068710838705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, beyond the parody, the escalating&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trumps-multi-pronged-attack-harvard-explained-2025-05-30\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confrontation<\/a>&nbsp;between the Trump administration and Harvard University, the bastion of elite academia, has laid bare a deeper culture war over the direction of American higher education. This clash is not only about gender and sex discrimination under the banner of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), allegations of antisemitism and of undue influence exerted by unreported financial \u2018donations\u2019 from China and other countries. It is fundamentally a reckoning with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acton.org\/religion-liberty\/volume-29-number-3\/antonio-gramscis-long-march-through-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gramscian capture of institutions<\/a>&nbsp;like Harvard by a globalist agenda propped up by government funding and a web of NGOs seed-funded by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2024\/02\/17\/opinion-the-billionaire-class-is-fueling-the-war-against-abundant-american-energy-david-blackmon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leftist billionaire foundations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A key plank of the globalist agenda is rooted in Malthusian climate alarmism. This pseudo-scientific hobgoblin has long served as a cudgel to demonise fossil fuels and impose a vision of \u2018Net Zero\u2019 that prioritises ideological certainty over pragmatic trade-offs in energy policy. The Trump administration\u2019s aggressive actions against Harvard\u2019s politicised administration include freezing $3 billion in federal grants, revoking Harvard\u2019s ability to enrol international students and threatening its tax-exempt status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This may, as a welcome collateral effect, disrupt the university\u2019s key role in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thedailyeconomy.org\/article\/inside-the-church-of-climate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Church of Climate<\/a>, forcing it to align instead with the Trumpian vision of American energy dominance and a rejection of the constraints of the Paris Agreement. The Trump-Harvard standoff could mark a turning point in dismantling the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lomborg.com\/news\/lomborgs-op-ed-wsj-climate-industrial-complex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">climate-industrial complex\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;grip on academia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By granting intellectual heft to NGO activism, Harvard acts as the \u2018Jesuit front\u2019 to the Church of Climate. Like the Jesuits who furthered the Catholic Church\u2019s cause in education and missionary work, Harvard\u2019s professoriate leads the \u2018climate crisis\u2019, propagating the faith far and wide in the West and the developing world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be fair, the university boasts many fine minds and scholars of integrity, but the institution \u2013 like most of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12582107\/University-professor-cancelled-students-sets-faculty-common-sense-rival-institution-fight-wokeness.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2018woke\u2019 institutions<\/a>&nbsp;of higher learning in the West \u2013 brooks few sceptics in its ranks, if any. Professors lose funding and influence as soon as they fall out of step with the \u2018scientific consensus\u2019 on climate or on any of the other liberal causes pursued by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.org\/tir\/2022-23-winter\/the-hyperpoliticization-of-higher-ed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leftist higher education establishment<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Harvard\u2019s Climate Alarmist Ecosystem<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harvard\u2019s sprawling network of schools and institutes \u2014 most notably the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/centers\/cid\/publications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Centre for International Development<\/a>&nbsp;(CID), the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/salatainstitute.harvard.edu\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/environment.harvard.edu\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harvard University Centre for the Environment<\/a>&nbsp;(HUCE) \u2014 has positioned itself as a global leader in climate change research and policy formulation. These entities, often in lockstep with environmental NGOs like the Environmental Defence Fund and the World Resources Institute, have churned out studies, policy prescriptions and advocacy that align with the \u2018Net Zero by 2050\u2019 mantra enshrined in the 2015 Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CID\u2019s Climate Policy Accelerator Workshop, co-sponsored with the Radcliffe Institute, funds projects emphasising \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/apr\/18\/climate-change-is-not-just-a-problem-of-physics-but-a-crisis-of-justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">climate justice<\/a>\u2018, a term used to cloak redistributive policies and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/newsreleases\/administrator-zeldin-announces-billions-dollars-worth-gold-bars-have-been-located\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brazen boondoggles<\/a>&nbsp;in moralistic garb. HUCE supports research grants and fellowships that promote narratives of catastrophic climate change. These efforts are amplified through partnerships with NGOs, such as the Planetary Health Alliance, which collaborates with global bodies like the WHO to push&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tilakdoshi\/2023\/12\/29\/climate-change-and-health-the-final-frontier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">climate-health narratives<\/a>&nbsp;using \u2018fear porn\u2019 techniques of the kind that accompanied the Covid hysteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early investigations by DOGE revealed the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2025\/03\/13\/the-dogeing-of-the-environmental-ngos-cant-come-soon-enough\/\">extensive interactions<\/a>&nbsp;between Government funding agencies dominated by USAID, Left-wing billionaire foundations and environmental NGOs in ill-defined and opaque \u2018climate justice projects\u2019 to channel money to favoured clients. In this constellation of mutually supportive interests, academia plays a key legitimising role, lending a veneer of scientific respectability. Harvard, with its intellectual prestige and $50 billion endowment fund, plays a vanguard role in the academia-NGO-foundation nexus at the heart of the \u2018Green Blob\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harvard\u2019s climate research is not just a morality play. It carries real world implications that affect people\u2019s livelihoods. One well known example of this relates to the $7 billion&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/boereport.com\/2021\/06\/10\/a-timeline-of-the-keystone-xl-pipeline-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Keystone XL pipeline<\/a>, which would have transported 800,000 barrels per day of oil from Alberta, Canada, to US Gulf Coast refineries, promising jobs and economic growth. Approved in 2008, it faced delays due to interminable environmental lawsuits and protests, all supported by NGOs and Harvard\u2019s research. President Obama rejected it in 2015, citing climate concerns. Trump revived it in 2017, issuing permits, but legal challenges persisted. Biden cancelled the permit in January 2021, and TC Energy terminated the project in June 2021. Trump, in 2025, pledged to revive it, arguing it supports energy dominance, though progress remains stalled by legal and economic hurdles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic<\/a>&nbsp;at Harvard Law School has a history of collaborating with non-profit organisations, including the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC), on environmental litigation and policy advocacy against US fossil fuel infrastructure projects. The objections mounted against the pipeline were ultimately founded on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/testimony\/keystone-xl-pipeline-examination-scientific-environmental-issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">carbon footprint of the pipeline<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 to \u2018fight climate change\u2019 \u2013 rather than potential, real world local environmental impacts such as groundwater pollution or biodiversity issues, which are all subject to checks by strict environmental reviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Harvard\u2019s Carbon Imperialism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the international front, we get such gems of muddled myopia induced by the climate change hobgoblin as the following from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/seas.harvard.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/switching-renewable-energy-could-save-thousands-lives-africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences<\/a>&nbsp;(\u201cwhere science and engineering converge\u201d):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With renewable energy cheaper and more efficient than ever, countries in Africa have the unique opportunity to harness abundant renewable sources like wind, solar and geothermal to leapfrog the dependence on fossil fuels that has poisoned the air and environment in Europe, the US, India and China. But will they? New research from Harvard University and the University of Leicester finds that if Africa chooses a future powered by fossil fuels, nearly 50,000 people could die prematurely each year from fossil fuel emissions by 2030, mostly in South Africa, Nigeria and Malawi.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Evidently the tropes of \u2018cheap renewable energy\u2019 and \u2018leapfrogging\u2019 energy technologies in developing countries is not restricted to the likes of Greenpeace activists, who are rather light on the verities of physics and economics. The above passage was even published in the journal&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acs.est.9b04958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Environmental Science and Technology<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em>There is no mention of the robust link between per capita fossil fuel use and standards of living as demonstrated by two centuries of the economic growth record of countries around the world. Nor is there even a cursory assessment of the massive health costs of using traditional biomass for indoor cooking when clean fuels such as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearenergy.org\/articles\/2024\/02\/08\/climate_cultists_at_the_guardian_this_time_its_evil_propane_1010629.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">propane<\/a>&nbsp;are lacking. And, in the \u2018fight for climate change\u2019, the activist engineers and scientists of Harvard don\u2019t see the need to acknowledge the prohibitive costs of so-called renewables once the full&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/359305427_A_Primer_on_Global_Electricity_Systems_-_Full_Cost_of_Electricity_Recommendations_for_a_Sustainable_Energy_Policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">system costs<\/a>&nbsp;imposed by intermittency, dilute energy and new transmission lines are factored in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"564\" data-attachment-id=\"381737\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=381737\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-96.png?fit=989%2C771&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"989,771\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-96.png?fit=723%2C564&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-96.png?resize=723%2C564&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-381737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-96.png?w=989&amp;ssl=1 989w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-96.png?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-96.png?resize=768%2C599&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harvard\u2019s collaborations with NGOs \u2013 which parade themselves as \u2018grassroots organisations\u2019 \u2013 often serve as fronts for globalist interests. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/centers\/mrcbg\/programs\/harvard-project-climate-agreements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harvard Project on Climate Agreements<\/a>, for example, hosts forums with NGOs to design climate governance models, while the Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic works with NGOs like the Natural Resources Defence Council to push litigation that restricts fossil fuel development. These partnerships are not merely academic exercises but part of a broader strategy to shape global policy, often at the expense of developing nations reliant on affordable energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harvard, then, is an arch-practitioner of what India\u2019s ex-chief economic advisor Arvind Subramaniam called&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tilakdoshi\/2021\/09\/11\/cop26-and-carbon-imperialism-a-showdown-looming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">carbon imperialism<\/a>. It hypocritically denies developing countries the means to scale the very&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegwpf.org\/content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Paunio-EnergyLadder.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">energy ladder<\/a>&nbsp;that the now-developed West had exploited to attain their industrial prosperity and high standards of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Enter President Trump<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Trump\u2019s withdrawal of the US from the Paris Agreement and his commitment to fossil fuel expansion from the first days of his administration stands in stark contrast to Harvard\u2019s climate orthodoxy. By prioritising oil and gas dominance and by cutting subsidies and mandates to favoured \u2018green\u2019 industries, the Trump administration aims to restore affordable energy to American consumers and support developing nations\u2019 industrialisation \u2014 policies that clash with Harvard\u2019s advocacy of renewables and Net Zero targets. The administration\u2019s funding cuts will help disrupt Harvard\u2019s ability to sustain its activist climate research, which relies heavily on federal grants. This collateral impact is a silver lining for critics of climate alarmism, who see Harvard\u2019s programmes as perpetuating pseudoscientific claims of \u2018climate crisis\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compare the Net Zero policy positions of the tenured climate ideologues ensconced in the ivory towers of Harvard with that of Chris Wright, who previously founded and ran a US energy company until he was picked by President Trump to be Energy Secretary. He&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/nonsense-to-tell-africa-that-coal-is-bad-wright-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a>&nbsp;leaders at an African energy summit that the Trump administration \u201chas no desire to tell you what to do with your energy system. \u2026 We had years of Western countries, including my own (USA) shamelessly saying (to Africa), \u2018don\u2019t develop coal, don\u2019t develop coal, coal is bad\u2019, that\u2019s just nonsense, 100% nonsense\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration has taken a sledgehammer to a university administration which is wedded to the familiar ideological terrain of critical race theory, DEI, ESG and not least, the climate crisis. For proponents of fossil fuels and robust economic growth to support human flourishing, this confrontation is a long-overdue correction. Harvard\u2019s climate agenda, intertwined with NGOs and \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeBenzCyber\/status\/1925743494120755499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deep state<\/a>\u2018 networks, has prioritised ideology over evidence, demonising fossil fuels while ignoring their role in lifting billions out of poverty. President Trump\u2019s policies offer the prospects of further unleashing American energy resources to drive economic growth and to support allies like Azerbaijan (host of COP29 in Baku), whose President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-04-26\/cop29-host-azerbaijan-says-its-fossil-fuel-is-gift-of-the-gods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called<\/a>&nbsp;oil and gas a \u201cgift from God\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump-Harvard standoff is more than a policy dispute; it is a battle against the capture of academia by a climate-industrial complex that serves globalist interests over those of ordinary citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Photo courtesy of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2011\/09\/how-harvard-celebrated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Harvard Archives<\/a>. Harvard\u2019s Centennial celebration in 1936. The painting is by Waldo Pierce, who earned his Harvard degree in 1909.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Dr Tilak K. Doshi is the&nbsp;<\/em>Daily Sceptic<em>\u2018s Energy Editor. He is an economist, a member of the CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;Coalition and a former contributor to Forbes. Follow him on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tilakdoshi.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Substack<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tilakdoshi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">X<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But, beyond the parody, the escalating confrontation between the Trump administration and Harvard University, the bastion of elite academia, has laid bare a deeper culture war over the direction of American higher education. This clash is not only about gender and sex discrimination under the banner of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), allegations of antisemitism and of undue influence exerted by unreported financial \u2018donations\u2019 from China and other countries. It is fundamentally a reckoning with the Gramscian capture of institutions like Harvard by a globalist agenda propped up by government funding and a web of NGOs seed-funded by Leftist billionaire foundations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":381739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691835633,691819134,691818228,691822002,691835634,691818154,691833487],"class_list":{"0":"post-381732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-academia","9":"tag-climate-alarmism","10":"tag-fossil-fuels","11":"tag-green-blob","12":"tag-harvard-university","13":"tag-net-zero","14":"tag-us-president-donald-j-trump","16":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ChatGPT-Image-28.-Mai-2025-09_53_37-2.png?fit=1536%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1BiY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":292875,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=292875","url_meta":{"origin":381732,"position":0},"title":"Whitewash on Display: Gaygate 2023, Climategate 2009","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"28\/12\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Climategate apologist Andrew Dessler\u00a0stated: \u201c\u201cThere is no doubt that these emails are embarrassing and a public-relations disaster for science.\u201d","rel":"","context":"In \"Climategate 2009\"","block_context":{"text":"Climategate 2009","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climategate-2009"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0140919-michaelson-gay-climate-tease_z5a13c.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0140919-michaelson-gay-climate-tease_z5a13c.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0140919-michaelson-gay-climate-tease_z5a13c.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0140919-michaelson-gay-climate-tease_z5a13c.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/0140919-michaelson-gay-climate-tease_z5a13c.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":422427,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=422427","url_meta":{"origin":381732,"position":1},"title":"NYT goes full witchcraft, cites an academic declaring Trump will cause bad weather!","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"21\/01\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"In recent days his administration has slammed the door on every possible avenue of global cooperation on the environment. 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