{"id":408292,"date":"2025-10-15T08:48:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=408292"},"modified":"2025-10-15T08:48:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:48:28","slug":"the-climate-creed-how-fear-replaced-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=408292","title":{"rendered":"The Climate Creed: How Fear Replaced Science"},"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=\"408297\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=408297\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AQMOcCMlvyGjnnqk8Cpf85ua_HGhrA1G_fkC4L6NMQ28yieqqtQBxuafPDL3CxCKzA2NjjwDuxv1iyHavXjxRXfS0VocsE2aMaOx0ndeLirdSUTafpPufTvZgHabzU-3mjxPlK_ut7r9JpyGpUlWi2R5NYqCiA.jpeg?fit=1280%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,1280\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AQMOcCMlvyGjnnqk8Cpf85ua_HGhrA1G_fkC4L6NMQ28yieqqtQBxuafPDL3CxCKzA2NjjwDuxv1iyHavXjxRXfS0VocsE2aMaOx0ndeLirdSUTafpPufTvZgHabzU-3mjxPlK_ut7r9JpyGpUlWi2R5NYqCiA.jpeg?resize=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AQMOcCMlvyGjnnqk8Cpf85ua_HGhrA1G_fkC4L6NMQ28yieqqtQBxuafPDL3CxCKzA2NjjwDuxv1iyHavXjxRXfS0VocsE2aMaOx0ndeLirdSUTafpPufTvZgHabzU-3mjxPlK_ut7r9JpyGpUlWi2R5NYqCiA.jpeg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" 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\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2025\/10\/the_climate_creed_how_fear_replaced_science.html\">American Thinker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/author\/mark_keenan\/\">Mark Keenan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-jetpack-videopress jetpack-videopress-player\" style=\"\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jetpack-videopress-player__wrapper\"> <div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='723' height='482' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/orPdc140?cover=1&amp;autoPlay=1&amp;controls=1&amp;loop=1&amp;muted=0&amp;persistVolume=1&amp;playsinline=1&amp;preloadContent=metadata&amp;useAverageColor=1&amp;hd=0' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1739540970'><\/script><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For decades, politicians and pundits have told us that \u201cthe science is settled.\u201d Those four words have become a shield for power and a sword against dissent. But real science thrives on inquiry and investigation; not the suppression of it. What has emerged instead is not science at all, but a kind of secular faith \u2014 one that demands belief in man-made CO2-induced climate catastrophe and punishes heresy. Yet, many scientists, including scientists that have worked within the climate bureaucracy, know how fragile the claim that \u201cclimate change is caused by CO2\u201d really is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a former scientist with the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change and later a technical expert for United Nations Environment, I saw firsthand how the modern climate narrative was shaped \u2014 not by evidence, but by politics. Uncertainty wasn\u2019t treated as a question to investigate; it was treated as a threat to suppress. Entire careers and institutions came to depend on preserving a preordained conclusion: that carbon dioxide, the same gas that feeds plant life, is destroying the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What began as environmental concern has hardened into climate orthodoxy \u2014 a moral creed enforced by bureaucrats, bankers, and media alike. It is a belief system that demands faith rather than understanding, obedience rather than inquiry. None of this means the climate isn\u2019t changing. It means that the conversation about&nbsp;<em>why<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>how<\/em>&nbsp;has been systematically narrowed \u2014 not by discovery, but by decree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Rise of Climate Bureaucracy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the 1990s, climate science had morphed from an academic discipline into a vast global bureaucracy. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), founded in 1988, became the central authority \u2014 linking governments, corporations, and NGOs under a single mission: to define and manage \u201cthe problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the IPCC\u2019s reports were never neutral. The \u201cSummary for Policymakers\u201d \u2014 the only section most journalists ever read \u2014 was often written&nbsp;<em>before<\/em>&nbsp;the science was finalized. Conclusions drove the evidence, not the other way around. Scientists who emphasized natural climate drivers such as solar cycles or ocean oscillations were quietly pushed aside. The institution that once claimed to study the climate became invested in proving a single narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Other Consensus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the UN promotes its \u201cconsensus,\u201d thousands of scientists disagree. In 2019, more than 2,000 experts signed the Climate Intelligence (CLINTEL) Declaration, stating bluntly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is no [CO\u2082-induced] climate emergency. The geological record shows Earth\u2019s climate has always varied naturally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CO2 is not pollution \u2014 it is plant food, essential for life and photosynthesis. Yet the UN\u2019s focus on carbon rather than true pollutants such as heavy metals or industrial toxins has diverted environmentalism from its original mission into politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I witnessed this distortion firsthand while working within the UN system. My role involved servicing the Pollution Release and Transfer Register Protocol \u2014 a multinational agreement that monitors pollutants to air, land, and water. Real pollution exists, and it\u2019s severe. But CO2 is not the problem. Confusing the two has served political and financial ends, not ecological ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>When Science Becomes Statecraft<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The line between scientific advice and political advocacy blurred long ago. Governments needed crisis to justify regulation and taxation. NGOs needed fear to justify funding. And so \u201cconsensus science\u201d \u2014 a contradiction in terms \u2014 entered the lexicon and became the new norm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Real science advances through dissent and enquiry; consensus is a political construct. But once the term took hold, it became a weapon. Questioning it marked one as a heretic. The language of faith \u2014&nbsp;<em>belief<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>denial<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>salvation<\/em>&nbsp;\u2014 replaced the language of analysis. What began as environmental concern hardened into a kind of secular theology: the&nbsp;<strong>carbon creed<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Complexity was the enemy. Climate models that showed alarming forecasts were amplified, while those showing uncertainty were ignored. What followed was the moralization of data. The language of faith replaced the language of evidence:&nbsp;<em>belief, denial, salvation, catastrophe.<\/em>&nbsp;Dissenters weren\u2019t debated \u2014 they were denounced. What began as environmental concern hardened into an ideology \u2014 one that rewards fear over reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Scientists Who Broke Ranks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many respected scientists have spoken out.&nbsp;<strong>Professor John R. Christy, Director of Atmospheric and Earth Sciences, University of Alabama, stated:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cThe established global warming theory significantly misrepresents the impact of extra greenhouse gases.\u201d MIT\u2019s Richard Lindzen observed, \u201cIn Earth\u2019s long history, there\u2019s been almost no correlation between climate and CO\u2082.\u201d Dr. Nils-Axel M\u00f6rner, once with the IPCC, called the carbon narrative \u201ca wonderful way to control taxation and people.\u201d Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore declared the crisis \u201cfake science\u201d hijacked by ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such voices are rarely heard in mainstream media, not because their credentials lack merit, but because they challenge the most politically valuable story of the century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Money Behind the Mandate<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Follow the money, and the picture becomes clearer. The financialization of carbon \u2014 through emissions trading, carbon credits, and \u201cgreen investment\u201d funds \u2014 transformed moral urgency into a trillion-dollar industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Governments pour billions into renewable subsidies, enriching banks and corporations far more than benefiting the planet. If the climate crisis were truly existential, would its management really be entrusted to those who profit from it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my book&nbsp;<em>Climate CO\u2082 Hoax \u2013 How Bankers Hijacked the Environmental Movement<\/em>, I detail how the 1992 UN Earth Summit in Rio marked the turning point \u2014 when financial elites effectively captured global environmental policy. Reports and whistleblower accounts later suggested that key policies adopted at the summit were drafted without open debate \u2014 policies that subordinated national sovereignty to global \u2018sustainability\u2019 goals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Net Zero: The Mirage of Green Energy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world\u2019s economies are being restructured around \u201cnet zero,\u201d but the irony is glaring. Building the infrastructure for so-called \u201cgreen energy\u201d \u2014 from solar panels to EV batteries \u2014 requires massive fossil-fuel use and destructive rare-earth mining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Electric cars rely on lithium and cobalt extracted through environmentally devastating processes. The energy required to mine and refine these materials often exceeds what the vehicles save over their lifetimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Germany, the green energy transition has turned a once-stable, low-cost energy grid into one of the most expensive in the industrial world. In Ireland, plans to close the coal-fired Moneypoint power station were reversed in 2022 as the government quietly converted it to burn oil instead \u2014 an unspoken admission that \u201crenewables\u201d can\u2019t power modern economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Silencing Dissent<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this new orthodoxy, questioning the narrative is treated as blasphemy. Scientists who deviate from the CO2 script face censorship, ostracism, and blacklisting. The term \u201cdenier\u201d \u2014 borrowed from the lexicon of moral condemnation \u2014 equates disagreement with depravity, and scepticism with sin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado revealed how the IPCC relies on the RCP 8.5 model \u2014 one he described as \u201cfantasy land,\u201d completely detached from real-world data. Yet it remains the foundation of global policy and countless policy papers and media headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When truth becomes heresy, science itself collapses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Moralization of Carbon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CO2 has been transformed from a molecule into a moral symbol \u2014 the embodiment of human guilt. Citizens are told to measure their \u201ccarbon footprint\u201d as if it were a sin ledger, redeemable only through \u201cgreen\u201d consumption. Yet many of these same products \u2014 from electric cars to solar infrastructure \u2014 depend on the same industrial extraction that environmentalism once opposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This framing serves a purpose. Instead of questioning the powerful institutions that profit from pollution and its supposed cure, individuals are encouraged to internalize blame. The message:&nbsp;<em>You<\/em>&nbsp;are the problem \u2014 not the system. It\u2019s an old strategy of control \u2014 rule through guilt rather than force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Politics of Fear<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No ideology survives without fear. Apocalyptic imagery \u2014 burning forests, flooded cities, \u201cticking clocks\u201d \u2014 has replaced empirical evidence as the main instrument of persuasion. Yet forest fires and floods are as old as the Earth itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Children now grow up believing the planet will collapse before they reach adulthood. Politicians invoke \u201cexistential threat\u201d rhetoric to justify sweeping economic and social controls. What was once a challenge to power has become a tool of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The New Creed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Modern climate orthodoxy is not science but ideology \u2014 a sociopolitical construct \u2014 a fusion of fear, money, and power that rewards conformity and punishes doubt. Science must never serve politics. When data becomes dogma, truth dies \u2014 and with it, freedom. If we truly wish to \u201csave the planet,\u201d we must first save science itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Mark Keenan is a former scientist at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change and a former Environmental Affairs Officer with United Nations Environment. He is the author of<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0C1JB53TD\">Climate CO2 Hoax: How Bankers Hijacked the Environment Movement<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"699\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"408295\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=408295\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-318.png?fit=1200%2C1758&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1758\" 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-318.png?fit=699%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-318.png?resize=699%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Book cover of 'Climate CO2 Hoax: How Bankers Hijacked the Environment Movement' by Mark-Gerad Keenan, featuring green grass and a misty backdrop.\" class=\"wp-image-408295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-318.png?resize=699%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 699w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-318.png?resize=205%2C300&amp;ssl=1 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-318.png?resize=768%2C1125&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-318.png?resize=1048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-318.png?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, politicians and pundits have told us that \u201cthe science is settled.\u201d Those four words have become a shield for power and a sword against dissent. But real science thrives on inquiry and investigation; not the suppression of it. What has emerged instead is not science at all, but a kind of secular faith \u2014 one that demands belief in man-made CO2-induced climate catastrophe and punishes heresy. 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