By Jeff Reynolds, CFACT |March 31, 2025
Think back to about this time in 2024. Envirowackos and climate cultists had just made nuisances of themselves again by attempting to hurl canned soup on the Mona Lisa to make some point about Mother Earth.
The Biden administration was still shoveling money out the door and paying off their friends at climate NGOs to the tune of billions of dollars, while subsidizing electric vehicle companies and wind farms that would later go bankrupt.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had not yet formulated a plan to use the $7.5 billion he got in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to “build electric vehicle charging stations” [snicker]. Donald Trump had essentially wrapped up the Republican nomination for President, but the road to his re-election seemed daunting.
Now, contrast that to everything that happened in 2024, the fact that Trump won, and where we’ve arrived today. Every week, it seems the Trump effect has spread throughout Western culture. Not just the direct effects of DOGE rooting out misspent federal funds, or shutting down the Department of Education, or rooting out climate hysteria from every agency. We’re now starting to see a seismic shift in how even leftist organizations self-police their most radical elements. Corporations and hedge funds have shifted away from DEI and woke policies. Entertainment and sports organizations have moved ever so slightly back to the center.
This week’s column begins with news from across the pond, where the nuts in Just Stop Oil have decided maybe gluing themselves to airport runways didn’t have the effect on the public they thought it might, so they’ve decided to tone things down some. Ponder that, and then consider how much nicer things are in 2025. We do have some crazy news items though, including a power outage at a major international airport made worse by green energy; the Chinese create an ecological catastrophe overseas; and our weekly look at both the imploding EV market and the imploding green energy market.
In our good news segment, the children’s climate lawsuit got thrown out; and an AI-generated paper made it into a scientific journal that debunks the entirety of the claims of man-made climate change.
Let’s get to it.
Just Stop Oil—Just Stop
Our friend Kevin Killough at Just the News reported this week that the extremist climate protest group, Just Stop Oil, has decided to hang up their soup cans and their super glue and retire from the direct action business:
Just Stop Oil, the climate group based in the U.K., known for tossing cornstarch on Stonehenge and throwing soup on Vincent Van Gogh’s painting “Sunflowers,” announced Thursday that it would cease these kinds of protests.
Just Stop Oil announced it will conduct one last protest on April 26 at Parliament Square in London. According to the announcement, the protest will be “a lower-risk action and we won’t be pushing for arrest.” It remains to be seen how many show up for this last hurrah.
Killough spoke with a noted energy and environment expert:
“It’s the Trump effect. There’s a cultural shift throughout the West that’s going on right now, and that was reflected in the election of Donald Trump,” Jeff Reynolds, senior editor for Restoration News, told Just the News.
See how much better life is under the new administration?
Heathrow Airport Goes Down
This week, a transformer explosion caused a power outage at Heathrow International Airport in London. These things happen from time to time. No problem, as most large infrastructure facilities like this have backup generators to keep everything operating. London being London, however, they had to do something more … creative. Instead of having the standard diesel generators on standby, Heathrow decided to bow to their green gods and replace them with electric generators.
And you’ll never guess what happened next.
China Creates an Ecological Destruction in Africa
China’s Belt and Road initiative is a massive investment program in other nations designed to increase the CCP’s influence around the world. They help impoverished nations build infrastructure projects, creating a network of interconnected roads and industries with the assistance and oversight of the CCP. Many of these projects involve mineral extraction—mining, logging, etc. Of course, China reaps the benefits of mining for rare earth minerals in African nations, using slave labor in many cases. One of these projects, a copper mine in Zambia, suffered a catastrophic breach recently. As reported by Breitbart:
A Chinese-owned copper mine in Zambia suffered an accident in mid-February that dumped about fifty million liters of acid waste into the local water table, creating both an environmental disaster and a diplomatic rupture between Zambia and China.
The accident occurred on February 18 at the Sino-Metals Leach Zambia copper mine, located in Zambia’s Copperbelt province. China is the dominant operator of copper mines in Zambia, which in turn is one of the most important copper-producing nations in the world.
Environmental activists called the toxic spill an “environmental disaster of catastrophic consequences” and pronounced the 930-mile-long Kafue River “totally dead.”
This Week in Imploding EV Markets
Speaking of life under the new administration, it seems the electric vehicle market has fallen on hard times now that the massive government backstops for the industry have systematically hit the chopping block. Shocking, right? So many stories, so little space:
- A new video explores the possibility that Chinese EV maker BYD’s new fast charging system could cause a safety hazard, and turn users into “crispy bacon.”
- Thomas Shepstone runs the Energy Security and Freedom column on Substack. His recent headline perfectly encapsulates the state of the “industry:” Australia EV Sales Tank As Industry Suggests Mandates Like Europe’s Are Needed to Force Them on Public.
- Another great hit by Kevin Killough at Just the News on Biden’s legacy and the inescapable failure of his EV mandates and subsidies: Biden’s legacy lingers in the failing Proterra electric buses he promoted during his presidency.
This Week in Imploding Green Energy
There are lots of signs that what’s happened to the EV market is also beginning to happen in the broader green energy markets. The Trump administration has systematically dismantled the subsidies and supports for that industry, and we’ve seen the results in abandoned offshore wind projects on the East Coast. But it doesn’t stop there—Europe’s energy production has failed so spectacularly that even massive government subsidies can’t keep the lights on.
We have several headlines this week showing the industry flailing about, seeking survival in a hostile economic landscape.
- CFACT writes that the companies invested in offshore wind projects may be concealing facts from their investors: Corporatist Bullying: Big Wind Is Ignoring Trump’s Executive Order on Offshore Wind As If It’s Entitled to Our Money.
- Energy expert David Blackmon takes a victory lap in his Substack post: Cry Harder: Politico Warns of Pending Hydrogen Hub Project Cuts in Blue States.
- Blackmon takes another victory lap, this time at the expense of Bloomberg: “In a story published Wednesday under the glorious headline, ‘Years of Climate Action Demolished in Days: A Timeline,’ Bloomberg writers Mark Gongloff and Elaine He bemoan the quick action Trump and chief appointees like Chris Wright, Doug Burgum, Lee Zeldin, Howard Lutnick, Sean Duffy, and others are taking to reverse the economy-killing mess left behind by 12 years of radical climate alarmism under presidents Barack Hussein Obama His Own Self and Old Joe the Sock Puppet Biden and his busy autopen. In the process, the apparently tearful writers deploy all the standard grotesque dogma preferred by the Global Church of Climate Alarm, in which the publication’s owner, Mike Bloomberg, serves as a prominent Cardinal.”
- Finally, Mark Mills takes a look at the “green energy transition” for the Manhattan Institute, and finds it lacking: We’ll Never Have an Energy Transition.
Now for this week’s Good News segment.
Supreme Court Makes Child’s Play of Climate Suit
The absurdity of children suing the government over their climate future at the behest of well-funded extremist NGOs appears to have ended. This week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of Juliana vs. United States, which a lower court dismissed. That case, initiated and funded by Our Children’s Trust, sought damages from the federal government for failing to protect the “right” of children to grow up in a world unsullied by the effects of “fossil fuels:”
The nation’s highest court declined to hear a petition that would have revived a landmark climate change lawsuit against the federal government, led by young Oregonians and their peers from across the country.
The court’s denial ends 21 youths’ decade-long fight for a trial where they could hold the U.S. government accountable for accelerating global climate change through lawmakers’ policies and fossil fuel subsidies.
Juliana v. United States was first filed in U.S. District Court in Eugene in 2015. Eleven Oregon youths and 10 of their peers from Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, who were between 8 and 18 years old at the time the suit was filed, are listed as plaintiffs.
AI Can See the Poor Logic of Climate Hysteria
A fascinating paper made it into a peer-reviewed scientific journal that used artificial intelligence (AI) to debunk climate change arguments. Dr. Robert Malone wrote about the potentially massive implications of this publication at his Substack:
On March 21, 2025, the Science of Climate Change journal published a ground-breaking study using AI (Grok-3) to debunk the man-made climate crisis narrative. Click on the link below for the paper titled: A Critical Reassessment of the Anthropogenic CO2-Global Warming Hypothesis:
This peer-reviewed study and literature review not only reassesses man’s role in the climate change narrative it also reveals a general trend to exaggerate global warming.
Furthermore, this paper demonstrates that using AI to critically review scientific data will soon become the standard in both the physical and medical sciences.
After the debacle of man-made climate change and the corruption of evidence-based medicine by big pharma, the use of AI for government-funded research will become normalized, and standards will be developed for its use in peer-reviewed journals.
The future of spotting climate BS looks a lot more efficient. The cultists better up their game if they hope to convince anyone in the future.
This article originally appeared at Restoration News
Jeff Reynolds is Senior Editor for Restoration News, specializing in energy and science policy, as well as dark money. Jeff is an author, editor, strategist, and public speaker. A prolific researcher and writer, he authored the book Behind the Curtain in 2019, which details the billionaires and foundations responsible for the radical left's ascension in American politics. Jeff graduated from Connecticut College with a bachelor's in Zoology.
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