{"id":453293,"date":"2026-07-01T07:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=453293"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T14:20:30","slug":"europe-the-times-may-be-a-changin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=453293","title":{"rendered":"Europe \u2014 the times may be a-changin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"481\" data-attachment-id=\"453295\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=453295\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-UK-EU-flags-cracked-wall.jpg?fit=2512%2C1670&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2512,1670\" 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;Flags of the UK and the EU on a cracked brick wall&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;Flags of the UK and the EU on a cracked brick wall&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Flags of the UK and the EU on a cracked brick wall\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Flags of the UK and the EU on a cracked brick wall&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-UK-EU-flags-cracked-wall.jpg?fit=723%2C481&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-UK-EU-flags-cracked-wall.jpg?resize=723%2C481&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-453295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-UK-EU-flags-cracked-wall.jpg?resize=1024%2C681&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-UK-EU-flags-cracked-wall.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-UK-EU-flags-cracked-wall.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-UK-EU-flags-cracked-wall.jpg?resize=1536%2C1021&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-UK-EU-flags-cracked-wall.jpg?resize=2048%2C1362&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-UK-EU-flags-cracked-wall.jpg?resize=640%2C425&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-UK-EU-flags-cracked-wall.jpg?resize=1200%2C798&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-UK-EU-flags-cracked-wall.jpg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0-UK-EU-flags-cracked-wall.jpg?w=2169&amp;ssl=1 2169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Flags of the UK and the EU on a cracked brick wall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2026\/07\/01\/europe-the-times-may-be-a-changin\/#\">CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/author\/paul3\/\">Paul Driessen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf something cannot go on forever, it will stop,\u201d economist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wist.info\/stein-herb\/3711\/\">Herb Stein<\/a>&nbsp;often observed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCome MPs and prime ministers, please heed the call,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyricsmania.com\/the_times_they_are_a-changin_lyrics_bob_dylan.html\">Bob Dylan<\/a>&nbsp;might sing about Europe. \u201cDon\u2019t stand in the doorway. Don\u2019t block up the hall\u2026. For the times they are a-changin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or at least&nbsp;<em>may<\/em>&nbsp;be changing \u2013 not only in Europe but across the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Europe\u2019s ruling elites&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2025\/08\/which-european-countries-will-become-muslim-potential-tripling-by-2050.html\">opened their countries\u2019 borders<\/a>&nbsp;to millions of unvetted, largely third world, often Islamist migrants with little interest in assimilating \u2014 and gave them free lodging, food, medical care (paid with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.socratic-method.com\/quote-meanings\/margaret-thatcher-the-problem-with-socialism-is-that-you-eventually-run-out-of-other-peoples-money\">other people\u2019s money<\/a>), and an official blind eye to rising crime and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Holy-Hell\/Robert-Spencer\/9798895653005\">molestation of women<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In&nbsp;2023, except in Luxembourg and Slovakia, the number of immigrants coming&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/web\/interactive-publications\/migration-2025\">from outside the Union<\/a>&nbsp;exceeded the number of immigrants from other EU countries, some by nearly 100 percent. European societies, cultures, economies, and civilization could face existential transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Britain, Union Jack flags were outlawed, while Palestinian flags were applauded. UK \u201csubjects\u201d were arrested for expressing outrage, while immigrant criminals went free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Politicians have been too afraid of being labeled racist to address the migrant crimes and disruptions \u2014 or too reliant on expected new or future voters to challenge them, even as native populations are assaulted, robbed, raped, stabbed, and murdered (as elites could be amid&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Strange-Europe-Hardcover-Collection-Douglas\/dp\/9124220108\/ref=sr_1_3?adgrpid=1330409634534192&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.4bDimmCkr6iuWhgFu627HWJQYEI61HUsV9ECectqOr9IhEOl9aSdeYZZ0AYw-NNi6gmG9IQUM7z6VCx9ibCfuacOV61fWmMDRBkOSBJUmTIUhLCbyySxf0c84OarqUjYAFPBVfWuviR4UKKX2853pjEXpbPyG0XekhkBtxwm4ZyHqLSnoFOQRfv-EUWAkL-WHsUfNuZCraTV40KbuuMEfVWEcUiLN-CFr3HyUG46VXk.PzGX_tb2o86Wdlaf2p07LhMBS1cvA24zqtarCX61v0M&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;hvadid=83150925178135&amp;hvbmt=be&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=67093&amp;hvnetw=o&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvtargid=kwd-83150949229700%3Aloc-190&amp;hydadcr=15307_13557495&amp;keywords=the+strange+death+of+europe&amp;mcid=4d4a1e346d723c859204efc95a29b57e&amp;msclkid=bdbc06469f131c8f1cd16c07e58b8707&amp;qid=1782676157&amp;sr=8-3\">Europe\u2019s Reconquista<\/a>). But recent events have brought things closer to the boiling point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A disabled man was nearly decapitated. A young man was stabbed, then handcuffed and allowed to bleed to death because his assailant falsely claimed the victim had used racist slurs. Police arrested a girl for brandishing an axe to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-15894491\/Scottish-12-year-old-vilified-arrested-word-Bulgarian-couple-finally-vindicated-guilty-assault.html\">protect her 12-year-old sister<\/a>&nbsp;from a would-be migrant rapist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A little boy \u201clanded in\u201d a crocodile pit, where he was mauled. Police and media refused to say he\u2019d been&nbsp;<em>thrown<\/em>&nbsp;into the pit or provide the attacker\u2019s name or ethnicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/6810978a41bbc42489eafa81\/t\/6a314bb1151e511944bd4421\/1781615537601\/The+Rape+Gang+Inquiry+Report.pdf\">Rape Gang Inquiry Report<\/a>&nbsp;finally reveals horrors that politicians, media, police, and hospitals have suppressed for decades. Perhaps&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/kevindowneyjr\/2026\/06\/17\/new-inquiry-reveals-the-terrifying-truth-of-muslim-atrocities-against-uk-girls-and-women-n4954076\">250,000 working class British girls<\/a>&nbsp;(as young as eleven) were systematically befriended, \u201cgroomed,\u201d sexually assaulted,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitchy.com\/grateful-calvin\/2026\/06\/17\/a-million-times-worse-than-epstein-new-uk-groomer-gang-report-is-a-nightmare-of-horrors-n2429333\">raped, and trafficked<\/a>&nbsp;to the Middle East. Many were raped by scores, perhaps&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-in\/news\/world\/was-raped-by-600-700-different-men-put-a-cigarette-uk-mp-reads-horrific-grooming-gang-testimonies-in-parliament\/ar-AA24C0NU\">even hundreds<\/a>, of mostly Pakistani men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMostly peaceful,\u201d but sometimes incendiary, protests have become the language of citizens whose voices have too long been ignored. \u201cThe battle outside is raging.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer released more than 13,000 accused Muslim rapists with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/politics\/keir-starmer-cps-child-rapists-let-off-warning-note\">warning letters<\/a>&nbsp;and no jail time. Just 23 months after his landslide victory as Prime Minister, he was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/starmer-resigns-timeline-elections-labour-leader-b3000989.html\">forced to resign<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reform UK party leader&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/nigel-farage-calls-general-election-085130350.html\">Nigel Farage<\/a>&nbsp;wants to take Starmer\u2019s place and has called for immediate general elections, but ultra-progressive wealth-redistributionist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/2026\/06\/22\/uk-meet-the-new-commie-worse-than-the-old-commie-n4954224\">Andy Burnham<\/a>&nbsp;wants to be ordained the next PM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Spanish government intends to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/david-strom\/2026\/06\/17\/not-shocking-spains-regularization-of-illegal-migrants-nearing-1-million-n3816022\">legalize 500,000 illegal migrants<\/a>&nbsp;(applications for legal status already exceed 1,000,000), on top of 7,300,000 foreigners already living in Spain. Not only will this deliberately overwhelm conservatives in future elections, but it also opens the door for all of them, including radical Islamists, to travel throughout the visas-not-needed Europe-wide Schengen Zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/10\/07\/swedens-immigration-stance-has-changed-radically-over-the-last-decade.html\">Sweden responded<\/a>&nbsp;to its growing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.petersweden.org\/p\/the-swedish-rape-crisis-is-just-getting\">rape and organized crime crisis<\/a>&nbsp;by adopting \u201csustainable immigration\u201d policies that reduce the number of undocumented and low-skill immigrants, make it harder for family members to join immigrants already in Sweden, and offer $34,000 voluntary return-to-home-country grants.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/11\/19\/europe\/denmark-asylum-immigration-system-intl\">In Denmark,<\/a>&nbsp;refugee residence permits now last only 1-2 years, and refugees must wait eight years before applying for permanent status, show they are fluent in Danish, and have held a full-time job for several years. Alternative f\u0171r Deutschland is challenging groupthink and policies in Germany. Other countries are also implementing reforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, immigration is hardly the only source of unrest, even though&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/europe\/strategic-europe\/2026\/06\/the-climate-blind-spot-in-europes-new-migration-pact\">more immigrants<\/a>&nbsp;mean more travel, more energy and food consumption, and building more housing \u2014 all of which contribute to the alleged \u201cclimate crisis\u201d \u2026 and to rising prices for all these necessities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the real problem is that energy policies based on eliminating fossil fuel (and nuclear) power have made heating and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/worldpopulationreview.com\/country-rankings\/cost-of-electricity-by-country\">electricity prices<\/a>&nbsp;the highest on earth,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/energy-oil\/europes-green-energy-rush-slashed-emissionsand-crippled-the-economy-e65a1a07?\">crippled Europe\u2019s economy<\/a>, cost millions of jobs, exported entire industries to nations with cheap energy and labor, killed thousands who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fuelpovertyaction.org.uk\/about-fuel-poverty\/the-impacts-of-fuel-poverty\/\">couldn\u2019t afford to heat<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.endfuelpoverty.org.uk\/about-fuel-poverty\/fuel-poverty-doesnt-end-in-winter-its-a-summer-crisis-too\/\">cool their homes properly<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisismoney.co.uk\/money\/article-15928737\/Warning-signs-solar-panels-burst-flames-heatwave.html\">simply don\u2019t work<\/a>. Indeed, 47 million people \u2014 more than 10% of Europe\u2019s population \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/voxeurop.eu\/en\/europe-energy-poverty-heating-home\/\">cannot afford to heat their homes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EU policies have also resulted in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bbcrecordlondon.com\/destroying-countrysides-to-save-earth-from-a-climate-non-crisis-watts-up-with-that\/\">millions of acres<\/a>&nbsp;being blanketed with habitat-smothering solar panels, bird-and-bat-butchering wind turbines, and endless transmission lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recognizing what\u2019s happening across the pond, President Trump pulled the United States out of UN climate organizations, the Paris climate agreement, annual climate conferences,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2026\/06\/21\/britain-will-need-up-to-240bn-of-net-zero-upgrades\/\">net-zero policies<\/a>, and the Obama Era&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/pauldriessen\/2026\/02\/21\/climate-alarmists-howl-after-epa-rescinds-endangerment-finding-n2671669\">Endangerment Finding<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most European leaders remain obstinately dedicated to battling climate change, making the calamitous transition to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2026\/06\/23\/the-subsidy-clock\/\">expensive, heavily subsidized<\/a>, weather-dependent wind and solar power, and \u201cleading by example\u201d to \u201csave the planet\u201d \u2014 regardless of how that impacts their constituents, how angry and mutinous they\u2019ve become, or how meaningless their \u201cexample\u201d is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In emerging economies and developing countries across the globe, the only noticeable&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/co2coalition.org\/2026\/04\/13\/fossil-fuels-shine-light-of-hope-in-africa\/\">energy transition<\/a>&nbsp;is from wood and dung to oil, gas, coal and (small modular) nuclear power plants. These countries want abundant, reliable, affordable electricity, and the homes, cars, living standards, schools, factories, clean water, nutritious food,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/energysecurityfreedom.substack.com\/p\/the-great-european-climate-suicide\">air conditioning<\/a>,&nbsp;stoves, and ovens that we enjoy in the USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They want to end the squalor, disease, and early death that still afflict their people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They know&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/katharinabuchholz\/2026\/02\/27\/chinas-new-coal-power-installations-reach-18-year-high\/\">China is building<\/a>&nbsp;new coal-fired power plants every week, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/co2-emissions-in-2023\/the-changing-landscape-of-global-emissions\">China and India together<\/a>&nbsp;now account for one-third of all \u201ccarbon\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/co2coalition.org\/facts\/co2-is-plant-food\/\"><em>carbon dioxide<\/em>&nbsp;plant food<\/a>) emissions worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those attending the just-ended&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2026\/06\/19\/opinion-un-climate-bureaucrats-useless-meeting-craig-rucker\/\">SB64 climate meeting<\/a>&nbsp;and upcoming&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cop31.tr\/\">COP31 event<\/a>&nbsp;have no interest in translating \u201cclear, measurable targets\u201d into \u201cimmediate action\u201d through \u201cshared responsibility, strong cooperation, and determined implementation\u201d via \u201cinvestments\u201d in the new \u201cglobal green economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They\u2019re attending to advance their demands for trillion$ in \u201creparations\u201d for \u201cclimate damages\u201d allegedly inflicted by developed nations \u2014 and the right to develop as they see fit, not as the UN and EU tell them. They\u2019re unlikely to get more than a pittance in reparations, but they will chart their own destinies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite EU and UK efforts to block access to all but \u201capproved\u201d and \u201caccurate\u201d information, Europe\u2019s native poor and still-working classes are increasingly aware of all this. Immigrant costs and crimes may be the most immediate and obvious flash points. But destructive energy policies are also roiling things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change can host COP gabfests until the cows come home. But the events, the UN and EU themselves, and the endless junk science and fearmongering they spew have become increasingly irrelevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The natives are increasingly restless, un-subservient, outraged at their ruling classes, and ready to replace the current authoritarian system. The status quo cannot go on forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The order is rapidly fading. The first one now will later be last. For the times may be a-changin\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf something cannot go on forever, it will stop,\u201d economist Herb Stein often observed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome MPs and prime ministers, please heed the call,\u201d Bob Dylan might sing about Europe. \u201cDon\u2019t stand in the doorway. Don\u2019t block up the hall\u2026. 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