{"id":433641,"date":"2026-03-23T20:18:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=433641"},"modified":"2026-03-23T20:18:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:18:44","slug":"climate-alarmists-indifferent-to-geopolitical-realities-and-human-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=433641","title":{"rendered":"Climate Alarmists Indifferent to Geopolitical Realities and Human Suffering\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Robert Girouard<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As war rages in the Middle East and Ukraine, as missiles and drones claim new victims every day, and as the global order is threatened\u2014with all the attendant consequences of human misery\u2014a strange persistence haunts the comfy living rooms of certain remote corners of the West, tucked away warmly and safely from the turmoil. A segment of our elite, obsessed with the quest for carbon neutrality, seems indeed incapable of lookng away from its Excel spreadsheets to contemplate the human drama unfolding before its eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an article titled \u201cWhen War Drives Up GHG Emissions\u201d recently published in Montreal-based La Presse Plus<\/em>, journalist \u00c9ric-Pierre Champagne poses the question that seemingly haunts climate alarmists: \u201cDo armed conflicts like those in Iran, Ukraine, or Gaza drive up global greenhouse gas emissions? But is this pollution significant or marginal? In short, does war hinder our efforts to reach carbon neutrality?\u201d In this scholarly expos\u00e9, where numerous experts are consulted, there is not a single word regarding the economic and human costs engendered by these conflicts; only carbon accounting holds any importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is something deeply disconcerting, if not morally suspect, about seeing experts ponder the \u201ccarbon footprint\u201d of an invasion or a bombardment. This attitude reveals an unprecedented derailment of reason: the elevation of a technical indicator\u2014the CO2 molecule\u2014to the rank of an absolute divinity, before which every other reality, even the most atrocious, must bow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morality demands a hierarchy of urgencies. Yet, the ideology of carbon neutrality operates a flattening of all values. How have we reached this stage of emotional anesthesia, where the survival of a nation or the agony of a civilian population is passed through the filter of greenhouse gas accounting? Prioritizing \u201cnet-zero\u201d while the world tips into geopolitical brutality is not foresight; it is a form of narcissism totally disconnected from geopolitical realities and human suffering. It is the stubbornness of one who, seeing their house burning and their family trapped, worries about whether the fire trucks are electric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

War should be a wake-up call. It should remind us that heat, electricity, and the capacity for self-defense are not negotiable options in the name of climate virtue, but the very foundations of civilization. Even Germany, a champion of the energy transition, did not hesitate to reopen its coal mines to avoid freezing in winter, having suddenly rediscovered, through pain, Maslow\u2019s hierarchy of needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who continue to place decarbonization above basic security and human dignity demonstrate a lack of morality hidden behind the shroud of \u201cscience.\u201d By refusing to see that peace and freedom are the prerequisites for any environmental policy, they condemn societies to helplessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The senseless quest for carbon neutrality at any cost, disconnected from the needs of ordinary people, has become an ideological drift that blinds us. It is time to denounce this indecency. A ton of carbon avoided will never be worth a life saved. A world freed from fossil fuels but enslaved or destroyed by violence is not progress; it is an ecological cemetery. True reason consists in admitting that there are realities greater, more urgent, and more sacred than the planet\u2019s thermostat. War forces us to look horror in the face. Let us at least have the decency not to ask for its carbon footprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As war rages in the Middle East and Ukraine, as missiles and drones claim new victims every day, and as the global order is threatened\u2014with all the attendant consequences of human misery\u2014a strange persistence haunts the comfy living rooms of certain remote corners of the West, tucked away warmly and safely from the turmoil. A segment of our elite, obsessed with the quest for carbon neutrality, seems indeed incapable of lookng away from its Excel spreadsheets to contemplate the human drama unfolding before its eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":433645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691841986,691829997,691830433,691818228,691841985],"class_list":{"0":"post-433641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-carbon-footprint-2","9":"tag-carbon-dioxide-co","10":"tag-carbon-neutrality","11":"tag-fossil-fuels","12":"tag-middle-east-and-ukraine","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0-Climate-Alarmists-Indifferent-to-Geopolitical-Realities-and-Human-Suffering.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1OOd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":255063,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=255063","url_meta":{"origin":433641,"position":0},"title":"China-Russia axis is dangerous for fossil fuel disarming America and the West","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"04\/28\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The relationship between China and Russia\u00a0poses the greatest danger faced by America and the West since the Hitler-Stalin Pact in 1939 initiated WWII.","rel":"","context":"In \"China\"","block_context":{"text":"China","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=china"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0rIYHARmNuzkCrWrnvOQ22EufTSLWdo1Z.jpg?fit=1200%2C740&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0rIYHARmNuzkCrWrnvOQ22EufTSLWdo1Z.jpg?fit=1200%2C740&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0rIYHARmNuzkCrWrnvOQ22EufTSLWdo1Z.jpg?fit=1200%2C740&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0rIYHARmNuzkCrWrnvOQ22EufTSLWdo1Z.jpg?fit=1200%2C740&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0rIYHARmNuzkCrWrnvOQ22EufTSLWdo1Z.jpg?fit=1200%2C740&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":246765,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=246765","url_meta":{"origin":433641,"position":1},"title":"Russia\u2019s Biggest Weapon (And China\u2019s Too) Is Fossil Fuel Energy","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"03\/04\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The capacity of a modern economy to produce food and goods for its citizens, and weapons and fuel for its military to project power, are the undeniable twin pillars of global power. 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