{"id":406917,"date":"2025-10-07T11:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=406917"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:29:12","slug":"the-race-is-on-to-be-a-climate-skeptic-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=406917","title":{"rendered":"The race is on to be a climate skeptic now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"723\" data-attachment-id=\"406921\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=406921\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AQN9eX2H9tTiyTsG-y-lu63mhoKIA_vYbA6o45Wmi4zKU3vdGk7wOAMAr4YEyB4W3edJhgLtbF06J9It2OayUiZWqkv2VLBSHZ__PQpPDPl2rVAoiKmwI3vX2vJcoU8dzaUineDyOKskw8VoH1dIikCCEnqkJQ.jpeg?fit=1280%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,1280\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2025\/10\/05\/te-race-is-on-to-be-a-climate-skeptic-now\/\">CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/author\/cap-joanne-nova\/\">Joanne Nova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"406919\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=406919\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-147.png?fit=2507%2C1673&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2507,1673\" 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\/10\/image-147.png?fit=723%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-147.png?resize=723%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A close-up of a bronze sculpture of a man deep in thought, resting his chin on one hand, against a bright blue sky with clouds.\" class=\"wp-image-406919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-147.png?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-147.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-147.png?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-147.png?resize=1536%2C1025&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-147.png?resize=2048%2C1367&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-147.png?resize=1200%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-147.png?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-147.png?w=2169&amp;ssl=1 2169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2025-10-02\/brazil-cop30-climate-deniers-are-increasingly-hiding-in-plain-sight\"><strong>So many political leaders are backtracking on green policies, Bloomberg laments that the climate \u201cdeniers\u201d are hiding in plain sight.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sir Keir Starmer was a star at the last COP meeting in Azerbaijan, but this year he doesn\u2019t even want to go to the next COP meeting in Brazil. Apparently, his aides \u201care worried\u00a0about being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/sep\/26\/keir-starmer-faces-call-to-attend-cop30-summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criticized by the Reform UK Party<\/a>.\u201d Only two years ago, Starmer was criticizing Rishi Sunak for missing COP27, now he\u2019s too scared to go himself, lest he look crazy-green.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everywhere countries are saying they care about climate change but are doing the opposite. The EU nations are fighting over their 2035 and 2040 emissions targets; Mexico is borrowing up to keep its oil company afloat; Canada scrapped its carbon tax and is being \u201ccoy\u201d about their 2030 target. Governor Gavin Newsom just boosted oil drilling in California&nbsp;<em>\u201ca year after he described the industry as the \u2018polluted heart&nbsp;of this climate crisis.\u2019<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Tories in the UK, is promising to dump The Climate Change Act if she gets elected. Suddenly, the race is on to be skeptical. She\u2019s in an existential fight for relevance against the storming Reform party, which<a href=\"https:\/\/yougov.co.uk\/topics\/politics\/trackers\/voting-intention\">&nbsp;are polling as high as 29% now<\/a>, compared to the Labour government at 21% and the Tories at just 16%. All those skeptical voters were there all along, enough to break the two party system in Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Climate Voodoo Doll is coming undone<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ponder how fast it all is. Only one year ago, UK voters had a choice of Net Zero by 2050 from both sides of politics. &nbsp;Labour was offering to be recklessly green, and the Tories were aiming to be 95% as reckless, while calling themselves \u201cpragmatic\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cp335p7x315o\">The BBC lays out how similar the two main parties were in 2024<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp; Labour wanted to decarbonize the whole grid by 2030, while the Tories were aiming for \u201conly\u201d 95% of the grid to be&nbsp;<em>low carbon<\/em>&nbsp;by 2030.&nbsp; Labour hoped to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, but Rishi Sunak pushed that back all the way to\u2026 2035.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then Trump won, and Nigel Farage stood up and said it is \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelondoneconomic.com\/politics\/nigel-farage-says-it-is-absolutely-nuts-to-call-carbon-dioxide-a-pollutant-389940\/\">absolutely nuts\u2019 to call CO2 a pollutant<\/a>, and the crowd roared.&nbsp; Somehow, improbably, Farage is now&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/uk\/politics\/article\/farage-nearly-as-trusted-on-climate-change-as-labour-poll-shows-pzfmc27cg\">\u201cnearly as trusted\u201d as Labour on climate change<\/a>, which only shows how many skeptical voters there are. They trust him to get rid of climate parasites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/oct\/02\/kemi-badenoch-vows-to-repeal-climate-change-act\">Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tory leader says she would replace it with \u2018cheap energy\u2019 strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fiona Harvey and Helena Horton,<em>&nbsp;The Guardian,<\/em>&nbsp;Thursday, 2 Oct. 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kemi Badenoch has vowed to repeal the Climate Change Act if the Conservatives win the next election, doing away with controls on greenhouse gas emissions and dismantling what has been the cornerstone of green and energy policy for successive governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Conservative Party leader was already committed to scrapping the UK\u2019s net-zero target, but repeal of the Climate Change Act would go much further. It would remove the need to meet \u201ccarbon budgets\u201d \u2013 ceilings, set for five-year periods, on the amount of greenhouse gas that can be emitted \u2013 and disband the Climate Change Committee, the watchdog that advises on how policies affect the UK\u2019s carbon footprint\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Badenoch\u2019s announcement, before the start of the Conservative Party conference this weekend, brings the destruction of the three-decade-long consensus on the climate among the UK\u2019s major political parties, under which all have campaigned on strengthening climate action rather than weakening it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Playing a game of \u201cslightly less crazy\u201d was a hopeless trap for the Conservatives. The people trying to be a small target are the weaklings of climate battles. They have nothing to campaign on. They can hardly point out all the flaws in climate policy when they want to make most of the same mistakes. Instead the crazy people look like they have conviction (at least), and the less crazy people just look weak. (I\u2019m looking at you Sussan Ley).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When prime ministers are promising to control the weather with power stations, the only response is mockery and derision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it happens, even after busting the 17-year Uniparty consensus,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/czrp2k3m3deo\">&nbsp;Badenoch is still not much of a skeptic:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Badenoch says:&nbsp;<em>\u201cClimate change is real. But Labour\u2019s laws tied us in red tape, loaded us with costs, and did nothing to cut global emissions. Previous Conservative governments tried to make Labour\u2019s climate laws work \u2013 they don\u2019t.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She says, \u201cclimate change is real,\u201d so the crocodiles won\u2019t eat her first, but it doesn\u2019t work. Donald Trump didn\u2019t pander or pussy-foot and look where it got him \u2014 elected twice (and probably three times)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once a leader breaks the sacred climate vow in any way, they are an Apostate \u2014 there\u2019s no point being half an Apostate, because The Blob will throw just as many bricks. But there is something inspiring about a leader who takes the bullies on directly instead.&nbsp;<em>Being fearless is inspiring.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Everything is a catastrophe<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former British PM Theresa May, speaking on behalf of The Blob, called Badenoch\u2019s move&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/politics\/tory-war-words-erupts-theresa-36004808?int_source=nba\">a \u201ccatastrophic mistake\u201d<\/a>. It wasn\u2019t that thousands would drown, instead, a catastrophe was something that broke \u201cthe consensus\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding to Ms Badenoch\u2019s plans, the Tory peer said: \u201cI am deeply disappointed by this retrograde step which upends 17 years of consensus between our main political parties and the scientific community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As if there was something wonderful about both political parties and the scientific community all saying the same thing at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Dave in the States says:<em>&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s catastrophe for grifters, and the subsidy and grant harvesters.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And isn\u2019t this just the perfect quote?:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo row back now would be a catastrophic mistake for<strong>&nbsp;while that consensus is being tested, the science remains the same.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The science is always the same; anything else is not permitted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This article originally appeared at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.joannenova.com.au\/2025\/10\/deniers-are-everywhere-the-race-is-on-to-be-a-skeptic-kemi-badenoch-vows-to-repeal-climate-change-act\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNPiANleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHiMMDMv2rZn30H9v3WtRlsUr4T_-yq2pi1zi99-AvzOIAMtCrsyqwPAysYVB_aem_LNOW3xDrW6-kySUM8UVlOg\">JoNova<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Keir Starmer was a star at the last COP meeting in Azerbaijan, but this year he doesn\u2019t even want to go to the next COP meeting in Brazil. 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