The coldest winter in over a decade provides just the latest evidence that climate alarmism has oversimplified a complex issue to suit its agenda.

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The same sort of “experts” who assured us that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation,” and who banished any suggestion that Covid originated in a Chinese laboratory rather than a purely coincidentally nearby bat cave, have lectured us for nearly fifty years that anthropogenic (man-made) climate change is an “existential” threat.  

Can anyone remain surprised that populations across the world increasingly tune that so-called “expert class” out?  

The latest occasion for that eroding trust arrived with the announcement that the United States just experienced the coldest winter in a decade.  

For decades now, climate doomsayers had warned that frigid winters would soon become a disappearing relic of history.  In March 2000, for instance, British climatologists and media alarmists literally announced that “Snowfalls Are Now Just a Thing of the Past” and that “children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”  

Still waiting.  

Experts also assured that polar icecaps would vanish and that catastrophic warming trends would render beachside living impossible.  Yet somehow, people like Barack Obama continue to snatch up Martha’s Vineyard homes while reciting the ritualistic claims of the climate-industrial complex.  People like Al Gore, John Kerry and celebrity virtue-signalers fly private jets across the globe while forecasting ecological collapse.  

But here we are, still awaiting those doomsdays as we continue shoveling our driveways and bundling up against low temperatures unseen in over a decade.  

Predictably, those warnings serve as predicates for relinquishing more of our individual freedoms to government bureaucrats, global institutions and people like – you guessed it – Al Gore, Barack Obama and John Kerry.  

News of the most frigid winter in over ten years offers another stark reminder, however, that nature remains beyond the control and full understanding of bureaucrats and activists who claim omniscient knowledge.  Climate change is complex, and simplistic narratives pushed by politicians and activists with something to gain lack the requisite nuance and empirical support that they pretend to possess.  

Erroneous climate predictions aren’t merely of recent vintage, of course.  

As recently as the 1970s, the wave of climate hysteria centered on global cooling and a new ice age, not global warming.  By 1989, however, that global cooling narrative was replaced by warnings that Britain itself could be underwater by the year 2000.  Decades later, islands that were supposed to disappear remain above water, Arctic ice remains and polar bear populations thrive in record numbers despite warnings of their disappearance.  

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Al Gore and “climate experts” proclaimed the dawn of a new era of more frequent and more intense hurricanes.  Instead, we literally experienced the longest stretch without a major-category hurricane hitting the U.S. in recorded history.  

As noted above, climate alarmism isn’t the only realm in which Americans experienced a crash course in the fallibility – and outright dishonesty – of so-called “experts.”   The Covid pandemic offered a tutorial in institutional corruption, and the Hunter Biden laptop incident exposed media and deep-state intelligence officials who dismissed it as “Russian disinformation.”  Only after the 2020 election did the truth come out:  That laptop was genuine, and the establishment misled the world.  

Informed citizens across America and the world increasingly recognize that what’s presented as “settled science” is really about politics, extremist ideology and government control.  The radical climate agenda empowers government bureaucracies, enriches global organizations and increases the regulatory stranglehold over what should be a free-market economy.  

It’s no coincidence that the proposed “solutions” to climate change – from energy boondoggles like Solyndra to farming restrictions – always seem to align with the interests of the political left while punishing middle classes.  Why must average citizens drive electric vehicles while climate shamans fly private jets to international summits?  

The answer is obvious:  Climate alarmism is a tool for consolidating power.  Generating synthetic fear among the public might convince them to surrender freedoms in the name of “saving the planet.”  As referenced above, however, skepticism across the world is rising while people begin to push back.  

The coldest winter in over a decade provides just the latest evidence that climate alarmism has oversimplified a complex issue to suit its agenda.  

As more Americans awaken to that reality, they increasingly see past the fear-mongering, failed forecasts and transparent political motives of an elitist caste that continually proves itself unworthy of our trust, in favor of public policy based more upon a foundation of rationality, more reliable science and economic prosperity.