President Donald Trump has never been shy about stating his belief that the climate change narrative pushed by the globalist community for the last half-century is a massive “scam.” He has said it time and time again, starting long before his political career began. It is a theme he famously repeated in the confrontational speech he delivered to the United Nations General Assembly last September.
No international organization has placed more emphasis on pushing the climate alarm narrative across the decades than the World Economic Forum (WEF), whose full support for the U.N.’s Agenda 2030 is largely based on leveraging fright claims by the climate activist community to impose a vast array of authoritarian controls on global populations. From 15-minute cities to forced adoption of electric vehicles to effectively destroying power grid reliability at the altar of wind and solar subsidies, any so-called “clean” energy solution pushed by climate activists has gained the happy buy-in from the WEF.
As it happens, Trump will travel to Davos, Switzerland next week along with what is being hyped as the largest official U.S. delegation to ever attend any WEF annual conference. Trump will deliver a speech to the conference on Wednesday, Jan. 21, and there is little doubt the topics of energy and environmental policy will be a part of it just as they were in his speech to the U.N. last September.
In that speech, Trump referred to the climate alarm agenda as “the greatest con job perpetrated on the world,” and he was just getting started. Moving on to one of the WEF’s favored, heavily subsidized alternatives to fossil fuels, wind power, the President said, “they’re a joke. They don’t work. They’re too expensive. They’re not strong enough to fire up the plants that you need to make your country great. The wind doesn’t blow.”
Trump ended his remarks on the green scam by admitting they are “not politically correct,” and that he will be harshly criticized for saying them. “But I’m here to tell the truth,” he said, adding, “I don’t care. It doesn’t matter to me.”
And that’s the thing about Trump: He really doesn’t much care what those who run the U.N. and the WEF think about him. This seems especially true in the realm of energy and environmental policy, where he and his administration have led a revolution of common sense over the last 12 months. If the President really cared about how WEF attendees view him, he’d simply be continuing the crony capitalism-driven policies of the Biden years.
Trump’s excursion to Davos comes at an opportune time in which the U.S. and international media are filled with stories reflecting the fading utility of the climate alarmist narrative. When even the Democratic Party is urged by supporting pollsters and NGOs to stop even speaking the words “climate change,” you know the entire globalist project is in what George H.W. Bush would call “deep doo-doo.” The trip also comes in the wake of Trump’s order removing the United States from participation in more than 60 “International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States.”
Some of the impacted international efforts strike right at the heart of the WEF’s climate alarm agenda, most notably the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose annual reports form the foundational bible of the climate change movement. Combined with Trump’s removal of the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords and the administration’s accelerating efforts to free the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere from Chinese domination of global supply chains for energy materials – a big part of what the capture and removal of Nicolas Maduro from Venezuela was all about – and no one can doubt that America is moving in exactly the opposite direction on energy and climate policy than the WEF desires.
Thus, next Wednesday’s speech serves as the perfect opportunity for Trump to drive that message home with the same force he used in his speech to the U.N. Will he do it? My Magic 8-ball says, “Signs point to yes.”
David Blackmon is an energy writer and consultant based in Texas. He spent 40 years in the oil and gas business, where he specialized in public policy and communications.
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