{"id":421975,"date":"2026-01-18T18:44:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=421975"},"modified":"2026-01-18T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:17:12","slug":"suppressing-climate-dissent-cannot-prevent-reality-from-asserting-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=421975","title":{"rendered":"Suppressing Climate Dissent Cannot Prevent Reality from Asserting Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Francis Menton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here in the U.S., the second Trump administration has largely pulled the plug on the suite of crazy energy policies marching under the banner of \u201cfighting climate change.\u201d But the same is not true in many other advanced-economy countries, for example Germany, Australia and the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider the UK. In the 2024 election the voters gave a large parliamentary majority to the left-wing Labour Party. The resulting government has doubled down on the policies of Net Zero, fossil fuel suppression, and generating energy from \u201crenewables.\u201d Convinced of their own correctness, and indeed righteousness, the government seeks to silence all dissent from its policies, characterizing disagreement as \u201cmisinformation\u201d or \u201cclimate denial.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, however, when it comes to actual energy production, reality keeps asserting itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a January 9 column at Net Zero Watch, Andrew Montford covers the UK government\u2019s latest tactics in enforcing groupthink and silencing climate dissenters. (Full disclosure: I am on the Board of NZW\u2019s American affiliate.). The title of the column is \u201cThe antics of the climate clique.\u201d<\/a> It seems that Parliament has formed a group called the \u201cEnergy Security and Net Zero Select Committee,\u201d and that Committee is conducting a series of hearings with the title \u201cSupporting the energy transition.\u201d Andrew\u2019s summary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s very much what you might expect \u2013 panel after panel of prominent members of the green blob, with not a dissenting voice heard, either among the witnesses or the panel members. This is no surprise \u2013 most select committees are simply choreographed stage shows, carefully designed to maintain narratives and suppress inconvenient truths.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Montford lists witnesses at two recent hearings, all of them members of what he calls the \u201ctightly closed clique\u201d of climate scaremongers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n