He posited three characteristics: reliance on group thinking rather than critical independent thought, obdurate resistance to contrary opinions, and a willingness to conform.  However, Bonhoeffer might have added a fourth dimension: financial incentive.

All four of those elements are evident in the latest offering by the Presidential Climate Commission published in Business Report on October 21. Premised on alarmism and packaged with all the usual buzzwords and jargon — ‘sustainable future, climate finance, projected warming, fair and equitable, extreme weather, decarbonisation’—the spin piece strives to project confidence in a future based on implementation of the ‘just transition.’

The stupidity of this ideology is increasingly exposed by its cost and failure.  Oil-rich but green-obsessed, California now relies on 61% of its fuel needs from other states as well as a quarter of its electricity.  Google’s Principal for Global Infrastructure and Energy, Alex Smith, has warned that renewables cannot be harnessed to power data centres simply because breezes and (sun) beams are unreliable and inadequate.

Germany, which has one billion cubic meters of shale gas reserves, imported 684 terawatt hours of gas in 2025 from Russia – the EU’s supposed bogeyman – after having shut down the last of its nuclear plants. The 182-year-old Kahla porcelain factory in Thuringia has closed as it is no longer economical to run kilns at 1,000-degree temperatures.

New York State has become a case study in engineered energy scarcity. Laws all but prohibit construction of new gas pipelines; electricity costs are ballooning because of the cost overruns of offshore wind turbine energy. NYC has reverted to diesel-powered buses despite having spent $12 billion on EV buses which use enough electricity to power 200,000 homes.

Portugal’s flagship solar park is now insolvent. Oversupply on sunny days meant prices dropped into negative territory, playing havoc with projected revenue. Damage from inverter fires took 8-14 weeks to repair.

To justify their claims, the climate alarmists bury the history of climate swings involving floods, droughts, failed harvests, and heat and cold extremes that occurred long before the widespread burning of coal. The reality is that climate risks are a natural phenomenon.

The International Journal of Climatology of 2020 provides another exposure of the lie of human-driven global warming. Concerning temperatures recorded in Adelaide, Australia, since 1856, it revealed that until 2019 no temperatures exceeded those of the very hot years of 1858, 1867 and 1914-15.

Upending the global warming alarm index is the finding of scientists working on a new assessment of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). They conceded that the assumptions of the Panel, commonly referred to as RCP 8.5, were “implausible,” in effect, discrediting them.  As a result, Ivan Oransky, co-founder of Retraction Watch, notes the retraction of thousands of papers based on RCP 8.5.

The stupidity of the Presidential Climate Commission’s scientifically flawed, unaffordable  mission of decarbonisation cannot be overstated, a reality now painfully apparent by the need, unprecedented since the late 1960s, of having to import 70% of our refined fuel.

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A constant refrain of the decarbonisation promoters is that “misinformation and disinformation are impeding global progress on climate change,” as UN Secretary Antonio Guterres insists. According to Guterres, the UN and the World Economic Forum (WEF) are the true custodians of “reliable and accurate information,” because they have science and the mass media on their side.

Yet historical evidence of past warming and cooling periods during which fossil fuel usage was negligible contradicts their narrative blaming carbon emissions for climate change.

This same decarbonisation lobby remains impervious to the reality that the inconsistent elliptical cycles of the Earth around the Sun and variations in the tilt of the Earth naturally account for climate change.

Nonetheless, money and population control are the two reasons why the UN, WEF, the bought scientists, media and politicians persevere in ignoring the fact that climate change is a natural phenomenon and not a man-made issue.

Until President Trump emphatically reinstated oil, gas and coal exploitation, companies like BP were content to repurpose their business into unreliable, hugely expensive so-called renewables and to be part of the contrived chorus disingenuously endorsing the so-called just transition from fossil fuels.

But because ‘follow the money’ is a natural business instinct, fossil fuel-based enterprise and industry have now happily abandoned the fantasy of a decarbonized world. Just as Trump has upended the globalists’ geopolitical order, so he has upended their Orwellian designs of a depopulated world, which decarbonisation would bring about as a result of mass unemployment and starvation.

Economic reality and common sense are steering Germany back to nuclear and coal as energy providers. Petroleum drives the engine room of industry. That is why the Presidential Climate Commission should be abolished. The call for more carbon taxes and debt-based billion-dollar green transformation loans is nothing less than criminal when South Africa is staring at the oil and gas bonanza off the Cape west coast.

By insisting on demonizing and abolishing the use of fossil fuels, the Presidential Climate Commission displays a Luddite-type mentality for insisting on pursuing what experience has already shown to be unaffordable, unreliable and retrogressive.

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