{"id":415567,"date":"2025-12-01T12:04:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=415567"},"modified":"2025-12-01T12:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:04:54","slug":"the-sierra-club-loses-60-of-members-350-org-is-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=415567","title":{"rendered":"The Sierra Club loses 60% of members, 350.org is suspended"},"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=\"415570\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=415570\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AQMQ7yBkN6aQC0NXgvvfycqvCq9YOl9UgpCk7xC4qMf6sPvFPPgdh6PGWWNSVqfr2IVmEw-AFKjF6Ghq9Gxi_3s_Tnu61dlrZrHLArAehydf2mkcIn4NT4z-dDulL8739O3V996-mseHLPRV5gwKOFOSf6mFDQ.jpeg?fit=1280%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AQMQ7yBkN6aQC0NXgvvfycqvCq9YOl9UgpCk7xC4qMf6sPvFPPgdh6PGWWNSVqfr2IVmEw-AFKjF6Ghq9Gxi_3s_Tnu61dlrZrHLArAehydf2mkcIn4NT4z-dDulL8739O3V996-mseHLPRV5gwKOFOSf6mFDQ.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.cfact.org\/2025\/11\/30\/the-sierra-club-loses-60-of-members-350-org-is-suspended\/\">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=\"415572\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=415572\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/00Emergency-exit-plane.jpg?fit=2508%2C1672&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2508,1672\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Kelly vanDellen&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Emergency Exit Vent On Shuttle Bus in a national park&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1615297070&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright 2021 Kelly vanDellen, All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;30.5&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Emergency Exit Vent On Shuttle Bus&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Emergency Exit Vent On Shuttle Bus\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Emergency Exit Vent On Shuttle Bus in a national park&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/00Emergency-exit-plane.jpg?fit=723%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/00Emergency-exit-plane.jpg?resize=723%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"View of an emergency exit hatch with bilingual instructions in English and Spanish, indicating how to open it.\" class=\"wp-image-415572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/00Emergency-exit-plane.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/00Emergency-exit-plane.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/00Emergency-exit-plane.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/00Emergency-exit-plane.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/00Emergency-exit-plane.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/00Emergency-exit-plane.jpg?resize=640%2C427&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/00Emergency-exit-plane.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/00Emergency-exit-plane.jpg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/00Emergency-exit-plane.jpg?w=2169&amp;ssl=1 2169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Emergency Exit Vent On Shuttle Bus in a national park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The phase change in the Climate Apocalypse Trade rolls on, and the U.S. leads the way.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Already some US \u2018grassroots\u2019 organizations are having an existential crisis. Actually, the Sierra Club has been struggling for three years, but no one wanted to mention that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Francis Menton at the Manhattan Contrarian points out the extraordinary collapse of the largest US environmental group, the Sierra Club:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1764345361989_492\">&nbsp;The Sierra Club is in the middle of what might well be called an implosion.&nbsp;<em>The&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/07\/us\/politics\/sierra-club-social-justice.html?searchResultPosition=1\"><em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;reported the story on November 7<\/a>. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1764345361989_486\"><em>The Sierra Club calls itself the \u201clargest and most influential grass roots environmental organization in the country.\u201d But it is in the middle of an implosion \u2014 left weakened, distracted and divided just as environmental protections are under assault by the Trump administration.&nbsp;The group has lost 60 percent of the four million members and supporters it counted in 2019. It has held three rounds of employee layoffs since 2022, trying to climb out of a $40 million projected budget deficit. . . .&nbsp;[T]his year, as the Trump administration returned better organized and better prepared than in its first term, the Sierra Club was the opposite. While Mr. Trump boosted coal power, canceled wind farms and rolled back pollution limits, the club was consumed by internal chaos, culminating when the board fired its executive director, Ben Jealous, a former president of the N.A.A.C.P.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No doubt some of the pain is due to Donald Trump, and the DOGE effect, but a lot of this was an inside job with help from the cheer-squad-media. The Sierra Club forgot it was supposed to care about the environment and jumped into all the crazy lefty bandwagons they could find. As they ran off the road, the media cheered them on and censored anyone who tried to tell them how the real world works. Thus, and verily, they went double or nothing over Lemming cliff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Proving even the Green left can \u201cGo Woke, Get Broke\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"link-53b19d2d\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/07\/us\/politics\/sierra-club-social-justice.html?searchResultPosition=1\">The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By David A. Fahrenthold and Claire Brown,&nbsp;<em>The New York Times<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During Mr. Trump\u2019s first term, when the Sierra Club was flush with donations, its leaders sought to expand far beyond environmentalism, embracing other progressive causes. Those included racial justice, labor rights, gay rights, immigrant rights, and more. They stand by that shift today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By 2022, the club had exhausted its finances and splintered its coalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It drove away longtime volunteers who loved the club\u2019s single-minded defense of the environment, by asking them to fully embrace its pivot to the left. Some even felt they were investigated by the club for failing to go along. Many hard-core supporters felt the Sierra Club was casting aside the key to its success: It was an eclectic group of activists who had one, and sometimes only one, cause in common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The club hired Mr. Jealous, its first Black executive director, that year to stop that slide, but his tenure accelerated it as accusations of sexual harassment, bullying, and overspending piled up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Another casualty is 350.org which has lost revenue and suspended operations<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1764355296137_437\">And then there is&nbsp;350.org. This organization is the baby of uber-climate-activist Bill McKibben, with the \u201c350\u201d supposedly designating some limit of ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere that must never be exceeded, or else . . . something may happen that they think is really, really scary. (The current level of CO2 in the atmosphere is approximately 424 ppm.). On November 13, even as COP30 was going on, 350.org \u201csuspended operations.\u201d From&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/11\/13\/green-group-350-org-suspends-us-operations-00651124\"><em>Politico<\/em>, November 13<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Environmental group 350.org, which spearheaded the movement to block the Keystone XL oil pipeline, will \u201ctemporarily suspend programming\u201d in the U.S. and other countries amid funding woes, according to a letter obtained on Thursday by POLITICO. . . . The letter to outside organizations from Executive Director Anne Jellema said 350.org had suffered a&nbsp;<strong>25 percent drop in income<\/strong>&nbsp;for its 2025 and 2026 fiscal years, compelling it to halt operations. The group will keep three U.S. staff members in hopes of reviving operations in the future.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In the US, the giant UN climate event in Brazil wasn\u2019t even on the news.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2026were you even aware that this year\u2019s COP 30 happened? In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.civitasinstitute.org\/research\/the-death-rattle-of-apocalyptic-environmentalism\">piece today for the Civitas Institute<\/a>, Steven Hayward notes that not one of the American television networks sent reporters to this year\u2019s event. Coverage in the American print and online media was also dramatically reduced. Hayward writes,&nbsp;<em>\u201cA few reporters at the conference filed stories wondering whether this would be the last COP meeting.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It appears that since Donald Trump didn\u2019t go, the U.S. TV networks didn\u2019t bother sending camera teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can\u2019t remember a COP meeting ever, where anyone discussed how it might be the last\u2026<\/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\/11\/the-phase-change-continues-the-sierra-club-loses-60-of-members-350-org-is-suspended\/\">JoNova<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/author\/cap-joanne-nova\/\">Joanne Nova<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A prize-winning science graduate in molecular biology. She has given keynotes about the medical revolution, gene technology and aging at conferences. She hosted a children\u2019s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. She was formerly an associate lecturer in Science Communication at the ANU. She\u2019s author of The Skeptics Handbook which has been translated into 15 languages. Each day 5,000 people read joannenova.com.au<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Already some US \u2018grassroots\u2019 organizations are having an existential crisis. 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