Across the rich world, nearly a quarter of all development aid now goes to climate projects. The core problem is opportunity cost. Every dollar subsidizing solar panels or carbon accounting is a dollar not spent on schools, maternal health or clean water. financialpost.com/opinion/op…

13 million views. Even @ElonMusk commented. Twitter tried to censor it but just wound up exposing (again) the lying nature of climate alarmism. Added bonus: My explanation and warming prediction. junkscience.com/2023/01/mill…

The planet's biological engine continues its daily, seasonal, and decadal cycles—absorbing carbon, building green biomass, and maintaining equilibrium despite the economic targets of centralised planners. This biological feedback loop touches on a central debate in carbon cycle science: how dynamically the Earth’s biosphere acts as a self-regulating buffer against rising atmospheric trace gases, principally CO₂. These processes are well understood and have been part of foundational climate science for over a century. The mechanics involve three distinct physical and biological systems working in unison. The first is a negative feedback loop: higher CO₂ drives increased plant biomass, which in turn absorbs more carbon. Under elevated CO₂ levels, plants partially close their stomata (leaf pores) while taking up the same amount of carbon. This reduces transpirational water loss, allowing vegetation in drylands and semi-arid regions to produce far more biomass per unit of rainfall. Satellite records—such as NASA's MODIS Leaf Area Index data—confirm that global green leaf area has expanded significantly over recent decades. This seasonal drawdown, famously recorded by the Keeling Curve, drops global CO₂ concentrations by roughly 6 to 9 ppm between May and October. In physical mass, 1 ppm of atmospheric CO₂ equals roughly 2.13 gigatonnes of carbon (Gt C). Thus, Northern Hemisphere vegetation pulls down 13 to 19 Gt C during its active spring and summer growing phase. By comparison, total human industrial and land-use emissions add about 4.5 to 5 ppm (9.5 to 10.5 Gt C) over an entire year. The seasonal biological intake in the Northern spring alone comfortably exceeds total annual human emissions. Furthermore, because of expanding global foliage, plants do not return 100% of what they absorb back into the atmosphere during winter decay. Terrestrial ecosystems retain a net excess—absorbing roughly 1.5 to 2 ppm (3 to 4 Gt C) permanently each year. The biosphere is far from a passive background observer. It is an expanding biological engine currently locking away nearly a third of all human emissions annually into woody biomass, deep root networks, and soil organic matter. Yet this self-regulating planetary buffer has been almost entirely ignored throughout a 40-year campaign of climate alarmism.

As smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed parts of North America, much of the commentary portrayed it as evidence of an escalating climate crisis. But the latest data tell a very different story: By August 12, North America was at a record-low burn. Indeed, the world has burned unprecedentedly little, and is on track for the lowest burn in a century. My latest op-ed for WSJ: wsj.com/opinion/despite-what… archive.ph/1BLhT Fire data: xitter.cf/BjornLomborg/status/20…

The percentage of ice cover on Earth’s land surface has remained remarkably stable for more than a century. This directly challenges claims of imminent planetary collapse, while the United Nations' persists with it's global crisis messages 'at some future time'. The real world data - and extended global greening, seen from space (by NASA) - suggests a healthy world that is greening substantially, and possibly cooling. Human activities contribute roughly 3% to the annual carbon flux. We are discussing the trace gas - CO₂ - that still represents only 426 ppm of the atmosphere. Furthermore, water vapor provides roughly 10 times the warming capacity of all atmospheric CO₂ combined. To understand the climate, one must look to the oceans: the atmosphere contains only about 1-2% of the surface carbon, while the oceans hold 86%. This massive thermal power of the oceans is the planet’s climate regulator, a far more powerful force than atmospheric fluctuations. Despite forty years of climate alarmism and the expenditure of trillions of dollars, ice still covers approximately 10% of Earth's land area today, in 2026. In 1900, at the tailend of the Little Ice Age (1300–1850), ice was estimated at 10-11%. It does not appear to be in rapid retreat. The Antarctic ice sheet covers 13-14 million square kilometers (98% of the continent), and in Greenland, approximately 80% of the landmass is under an ice sheet. While glaciers in the Alps and Rockies were at their maximum extent in 1900, due to the preceding cold centuries, the overall global cryosphere has shown incredible persistence. The regional variability we see today is a complex mosaic, driven by: * Orbital mechanics & solar radiance, the primary engines of temperature change. * Ocean currents, 'conveyor belts' like the Gulf Stream redistribute heat to the Northern Hemisphere. * Tectonic shifts provide the long-term movements that alter landforms and oceanic currents. Current global temperatures remain several degrees cooler than the longer-term Phanerozoic average of 18-25°C. This includes the entire age of biology on Earth. We can measure a 1.1C to 1.4C warming trend over the past 250 years. But no-one can say with certainty whether the Earth is still warming, or about enter another 100,000 year glacial period. What a disaster that would be.