By Issues & Insights Editorial Board | November 12, 2026
It’s been almost three decades since the worldwide global warming scare was kicked off by a congressional hearing. Despite hundreds, if not thousands, of warnings since then insisting we had only a few years to act, there’s been no climate cataclysm. Nor will there be one caused by man’s use of fossil fuels. But the warmists won’t give up. So we have to keep fighting their nonsense with sense.
Today we take on United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, who continues to make wild pronouncements about climate.
“We’ve entered a new age of climate extremes: A supersized El Niño is colliding with a planet already superheated by climate change,” claimed in a recent X post. “The latest @WMO report shows once again that leaders must get serious by cutting emissions faster, accelerating a just transition from fossil fuels & delivering the finance & protection vulnerable countries need.”
This is so tedious, so worn out, and so overplayed.
It’s also “nonsense,” says meteorologist Chris Martz. “We have not entered a ‘new age of climate extremes.'”
Martz continues:
“First, the correct meteorological term is ‘very strong El Niño.’
“Second, El Niño is a natural part of Earth’s internal weather and climate variability. It is just the positive (warm) phase of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Correspondingly, La Niña is the negative (cool) phase.”
Though the rest of Martz’s rebuttal is technical, we suggest readers take it all in, as well as the entirety of his X posts. He goes where Guterres didn’t and will never because Guterres is in the business of fearmongering through rhetoric, yapping childishly that “the climate crisis is outrunning us,” and claiming that “fossil fuel interests keep making a killing — while killing our planet.” Guterres is a shameless sycophant who’s actually proud to have “been seeking the advice of young people” about the climate.
Predictably, Guterres vows on his social media profile that “We will never, ever give up making this world better for everyone, everywhere.”
Were he more honest, though, his message would tell the world that “We will never, ever give up on draining prosperous nations of their wealth, redistributing it to nations that didn’t earn it while keeping a portion that ensures we will never have to give up our tax-free sinecures and our lofty perches from which to nag mere mortals.”
For the record, the U.N. has not solved poverty, prevented a famine, stopped a war or halted genocide.
But the U.N. can put on a good show. Which is exactly what it is doing this week in Turkey, where it is hosting the 31st edition of the Conference of the Parties (COP31) climate change shindig. Without even having seen the meeting schedule, we know that much is being discussed in serious tones, while fine food and drink are consumed in excess, and pious platitudes will be issued at the close so the world will know that the U.N. is doing its usual principled work.
It’s peak buffoonery, and as a nation we should be thankful we have a president who pulled us out of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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