November 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content: 426.46 ppm; November 2024: 423.85 ppm; November 2023 420.46 ppm

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1. Hoax!

I wish Bjorn Lomborg would drop dead. (I am surprised he supports family planning assistance in Africa. It would be more on brand for him to claim that family planning assistance is racist. He is typically of the Mises school of thought which makes convoluted arguments like these: regulations preventing child labor oppress children and deprive them of the right to work! The family planning might be more Gates’ idea though. Although Gates is a sleazy asshole, he has a stopped clock quality like some of these guys on stuff like vaccines and family planning).

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/eight-of-the-top-10-online-shows-are-spreading-climate-misinformation/

Nevertheless, many online personalities, including Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, and Russell Brand, have platformed Danish political scientist, author, and climate denier Bjørn Lomborg. Climate scientists have pleaded with Lomborg to stop misrepresenting and misinterpreting their science.

Several show hosts also claim that climate change is a hoax designed to control and oppress. Kirk said, “Climate change is the wrapper around Marxism. You have Marxism at its core and you have climate change on the exterior. Climate change activism, environmentalism, pseudo-paganism – we call it a Trojan horse.”

‘New denial’ is gaining momentum

Like Kirk, some influencers lean into the idea that climate change is a conspiracy by governments to control their residents. That’s similar to conspiracy theorizing about efforts by governments to reduce illness and death from COVID-19, Tortoise Media, a British news website, noted recently. “Climate-sceptic narratives have merged with Covid-sceptic ones, and some of the personalities are the same,” the site reported.

We have been trying to find a good company to install solar panels. But it’s taking longer than we thought…for one thing we want to be sure that they can be contacted after for follow up work in case repairs are needed etc.