{"id":427246,"date":"2026-02-21T15:46:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=427246"},"modified":"2026-02-21T15:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:46:56","slug":"had-been-climate-change-the-greatest-financial-scam-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=427246","title":{"rendered":"Had been climate change the greatest financial scam in history?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Stephen Moore<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Environmental scholar Bjorn Lomborg recently calculated that across the globe, governments have spent at least $16 trillion feeding the climate change industrial complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And for what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arguably, not a single life has been or will be saved by this shameful and colossal misallocation of human resources. The war on safe and abundant fossil fuels has cost countless lives in poor countries and made those countries poorer by blocking affordable energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the global warming crusade started some 30 years ago, the temperature of the planet has not been altered by one-tenth of a degree \u2014 as even the alarmists will admit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, $16 trillion has been spent \u2014 a lot of people got very, very rich off the government largesse \u2014 but there is not a penny of measurable payoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it\u2019s much worse than that. In economics there is a concept called opportunity cost: What could we have done with $16 trillion to make the world better off?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if the $16 trillion had been spent on clean water for poor countries? Preventing avoidable deaths from diseases like malaria? Building schools in African villages to end illiteracy? Bringing reliable and affordable electric power to the more than one billion people who still lack access? Curing cancer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many millions of lives could have been saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We could have lifted millions more out of poverty. The benefits of speeding up the race for the cure for cancer could have added tens of millions of additional years of life at an economic value in the tens of trillions of dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, we effectively poured $16 trillion down the drain. For this reason, it is important that we identify the green \u201cclimate change\u201d derangement syndrome as perhaps the most inhumane political movement in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people at the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the United Nations, and politicians like Al Gore, Joe Biden, and John Kerry who voted for and carried out this Green New Deal scam, should be placed on a wall of shame. Biden\u2019s administration alone wasted $400 billion on green energy and other sham climate change programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The one sliver of good news is that it appears the climate change neuroses have finally started to subside. We\u2019ve reached peak global warming craziness in the U.S., for sure, and even Europe seems to have turned its back on its economically masochistic net zero fossil fuels obsession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump is wisely and rapidly dismantling the climate change industrial complex. Of all his pro-growth economic policies, there may be none with a higher longtime payoff than his recent order to repeal the mother of all costly regulations: the anti-fossil fuels \u201cendangerment rule\u201d taxing carbon dioxide emissions. The cost of that regulation had been estimated to exceed $1 trillion over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can\u2019t recapture the $16 trillion wasted on a false crisis. Sunk costs are, alas, sunk. But we can stop the madness of actually believing that politicians who can\u2019t even pay off the balance on their credit cards can somehow change the world\u2019s temperature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared at RealClear Politics<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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