Peter Clack

Peter Clack is the author of Bloodstains on the Cocaine Trail (2023) & Firestorm Trial by Fire (2003). He was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship in 1995.

[Peter Clack @TruthMythLies]

The global warming scam can only exist because humanity has not moved on from witchcraft, sorcery, fairytales & leprechauns. The western world is dying as economies collapse. But coal, oil, gas & hydro are still the foundation for power acrosss the world, as they should be.

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The backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, against which the rise of CO₂ was measured, was in reality a world Military Revolution.

The initial increase in CO₂ wasn't really about coal and steam engines. It was the birth of modern mechanised warfare - the ironclad ships of the 1860s, the tank factories of World War I and the total industrial mobilisation of World War II.

Military and combat capability have dominated a world involved in endless major wars since preindustrial 1850. This includes World Wars I and II and includes large scale conflicts like the Vietnam War, Korean War and endless other regional and revolutionary wars, often funded, caused and driven by the leading superpowers of the day.

The challenges of innovation for military advantage has always been the overriding driving force to accelerate military spending as an escalating proportion of GDP.

The Twentieth Century wars of WW1 and WWII alone saw levels of steel production and fuel burning that dwarfed any civilian activity of the time. You can argue that the baseline of 280 ppm was broken not by the average person, but by nations at each other's throats.

The exact same process used to create the fertilisers that greens our planet still today was originally invented to create explosives for the trenches of WWI.

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The world's superpowers have been excluded from vast CO₂ emissions from military armaments and weaponry for almost two centuries.

The world's armaments industry since 1850 represents the biggest single industrial manufacturing industry in the history of the world. Every nation on earth sees military spending as its main priority.

This colossal volume of CO₂ emissions would surpass almost every nation on earth. The military share of CO₂ represents 5.5% of all global emissions totaling 2.75 billion tonnes of CO₂ annually. It is a giant blind spot in the global climate narrative, and it has been one of the world's best kept secrets for 175 years.

If the global military were a country, it would be the 4th largest CO₂ producing nation on Earth (surpassing Russia and Japan).

This means that while the rest of the world struggles with the sacrifices of trillions of dollars towards a debatable net zero target, it's business as usual for the barracks.

Reporting military activities and emissions is still 'voluntary' under the Paris Agreement. In 2026, the big three military nations of the US, China and Russia refused to provide full, transparent data about all their military manufacturing.

This includes nuclear bomb production and testing and storage and launch facilities, sea going armadas of warships, vast tank armies, ballistic missiles and robes, enormous air forces, including heavy bombers, and every military item from boots, uniforms and rifles, transport and logistical headquarters.

A single M1 Abrams tank consumes roughly 10 gallons of fuel per mile. In one day of operation, it can burn more fuel than an average driver uses in a year.

Military emissions reporting remains voluntary under Article 172 of the 2015 Paris Agreement. This is a loophole large enough to drive a carrier strike group through.

While citizens across the world are taxed and regulated, the world's largest industrial military force operates in a CO₂ shadow.

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The Earth is literally getting greener.

Instead of the brown, desiccated wasteland predicted by the likes of Al Gore and John Kerry, the Earth is bouncing back through a process the media rarely mentions: Global Greening.

According to multiple NASA-led studies (including the landmark 2016 report and updated 2024–2026 data), the increase in atmospheric CO₂ acts as a fertiliser and the results are staggering. The increase in leafy vegetation over the last 35 years is equivalent to adding a green continent twice the size of the continental United States.

NASA’s models show that 70% of this greening is directly attributable to CO₂ fertilisation. Plants are growing faster, thicker, and in places that were previously too arid to support them. In drylands and regions like the Sahel, CO₂ has improved water-use efficiency. Because plants don't have to open their stomata as wide to take in CO₂, they lose less water. This allows them to thrive in harsher conditions.

If the crisis was as apocalyptic as the UN forecast 40 years ago, this should be the end of the road for net zero.

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It's been a 40-year trail of failed forecasts.

If the Climate Crisis were a commercial product, it would have been recalled for false advertising decades ago. This emerging economic disaster relies on a Code Red emergency that simply hasn't arrived. Surely, the most important metric for any science is the accuracy of its deadlines.

The broken promises:

1989 (UN): Predicted the Maldives would be underwater by 2000. Today, the Maldives' land area has actually expanded through natural accretion and reclamation.

2009 (Al Gore): Predicted ice-free Arctic summers by 2014. In 2026, the ice remains resilient.

2019 (António Guterres): Claimed Tuvalu was sinking on the front line of an emergency. Scientific studies show Tuvalu’s land area has increased by nearly 3%.

The goalposts are always moving because the Climate Cavalcade is anchored in policy and finance not atmospheric reality. When a 2014 deadline fails, its reset to 2030. When 2030 fails, it moves to 2050. It’s an easy game of chance when you're playing with other people's money.

The real crisis isn’t the climate; it’s institutional overreach and a massive breach of public trust.

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More than 1.8 billion individual trees have been mapped in the Sahara Desert and the Sahel.

This demonstrates the physical reality behind a greening surge across large land areas of the world, identified by NASA satellite studies. These areas were all previously regarded as bare soil or grassland.

This greening narrative counters long term warnings of desertification throughout Africa and the Middle East. For decades this was the theme of most conversations surrounding global warming and climate change. We were told the desert is winning and the world faced a Code Red for Humanity.

But according to the landmark study supported by NASA, researchers used artificial intelligence and high-resolution satellites to count every single tree in a 1.3 million km² area of the West African Sahara and Sahel.

The area studied is 1.3 million km² in Western Sahara/Sahel). The total count was 1,837,565,501 trees at roughly 13.4 trees per hectare, even in hyper-arid zones.

If we missed 1.8 billion trees in just one corner of the Sahara, what else is the Code Red narrative failing to see?

Source: Martin Brandt (University of Copenhagen) & NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

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The last interglacial (Eemian/MIS 5e) is a significant hurdle for the 'Code Red for Humanity'.

During this period (129,000–116,000 years ago) the Earth was dramatically warmer than today and sea levels were 6 to 9 meters higher. Yet CO₂ levels remained stable between 275–287 ppm.

While modern discourse fixates almost exclusively on the trace gas CO₂, the Eemian proves that Milankovitch cycles - specifically high orbital obliquity and eccentricity - are the true primary drivers of major climate shifts.

Northern Hemisphere summer insolation (solar radiation) was roughly 10% higher than today. This gave a 'solar shove' that triggered massive glacial melting and thermal expansion without the CO₂ catalyst.

Even if we account for this warming being more pronounced in the Northern Hemisphere than global, the biological record is undeniable; Hippos and lions flourished in the Thames Valley.

The IPCC models rely on high climate sensitivity to CO₂. Yet the Eemian shows us a planet that reached much higher temperatures and sea levels with only 'pre-industrial' CO₂ levels. This suggests that natural variability (solar and orbital mechanics) has been the dominant force for the last 12,000 years and most likely beyond.

The climate emergency rhetoric ignored Earth’s historical capacity for warmth and higher sea levels during biological abundance. Today, we are seeing the visible benefits of higher CO₂, with a greening world where agricultural productivity has increased significantly.

Unlike the Eemian, where warming was driven by orbital forcing, our current CO₂ increase is providing a direct biological boost to the biosphere. The Eemian was nature flourishing at higher temperatures despite lower CO₂. The modern alarmism over 425 ppm CO₂ appears more like fantasy than a data-driven catastrophe.

We should be weighing the rash code red dogma against the very real and measurable benefits from a greener, more productive Earth.

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Part 3: The well known properties of water, ocean currents and clouds utterly dominate the earth's entire biosphere and all life within it.

This raises many questions and doubts about the actual influence of the trace gas CO₂ on regional climate conditions around the world.

It's already established that CO₂ was not the cause of the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, or the recurring glacial cycles during the last 2.58 million years of the Quaternary glaciation. Even worse, it also reveals how one-sided and narrowly focussed this climate debacle has been.

If solar radiation, orbital cycles, oceanic thermohaline circulation and water vapor have historically dictated the rise and fall of Ice Ages - independent of CO₂ - why have we pivoted our entire global economy to focus on this single trace gas?

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Part 2: The oceans are the world's ultimate conveyor belt and the greatest air conditioning invention of all time; this is thermohaline circulation at work.

Heat is also carried by eddies, similar to low-pressure systems in the atmosphere. Many form permanent gyres where water constantly circulates, like the Sargasso sea.

Water clouds permanently cover 67% of the world's surface, reflecting incoming shortwave radiation from sunlight yet trapping outgoing longwave infrared radiation. Clouds are both a cooling parasol and a warming blanket. This relationship prevents the earth from becoming an intolerable hothouse r a frozen wilderness.

There's a hundred times more water vapour in the air than CO₂. In stark contrast, CO₂ is a trace gas at 0.0427% of the atmosphere or 427 parts 'per million'.

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Part 1: We should rename our planet 'Ocean' - because we live in a world entirely dominated by water.

The Earth's great oceanic currents have carried warm waters up from the tropics to Northern Europe for hundreds of millions of years. This round trip takes 1,000 years for a single parcel of water. The eternal flow of warm waters to the world's north has prevented most of northern Europe being entombed under glaciers, just like Greenland.

The world's oceanic waterways cover 71% of the global surface area to an average depth of 2.3 miles. They hold 96.5% of all water and contain 91-93% of the world's retained heat energy. Water is 1,000 times denser and heavier than the air. Water vapour dominates the entire atmosphere, reaching 4% in atmospheric volume over most of the world's temperate and tropical regions.

Water vapour is responsible for up to 75 percent of all atmospheric warming and is overwhelmingly responsible for earth's cloud cover, storms, rain, humidity and snowfall. However, without CO₂ or other non-condensing gases, the water vapor would actually precipitate out and the planet would most likely freeze.

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Have we really gambled the entire world economy on a statistical rounding error?

CO₂ is a single trace gas at 427 parts per million. Its effects do not increase exponentially, as the warming crisis narrative seems to overlook. The warming effects of CO₂ are actually logarithmic, as parts of its bandwidth become saturated or overloaded. Each additional unit has a diminishing impact.

There are endless examples of warming trends that were not caused by CO₂, such as the Roman and Mediaeval warm periods during the 11,700 years of the current Holocene interglacial period. This 'control knob' scenario cannot be compared with the massive, linear influence of a world dominated by the oceans and ocean currents.

The well understood properties of water, ocean currents and clouds ultimately dominate the earth's dynamic biosphere and all life within it. It's well established that CO₂ is not the root cause of the ongoing Late Cenozoic Ice Age - and the recurring glacial cycles and climate spikes over the last 2.58 million years.

The oceans are truly vast. They cover 71% of the world's surface area to an average depth of 2.3 miles and hold 96.5% of all water. They also contain 91-93% of all the world's retained heat energy, the great driver of ocean currents. Water is also 1,000 times denser and heavier than the air.

This massive volume of water is the de facto lungs of the earth, containing 86% of the entire carbon reservoir (the atmosphere retains only 1-2%). The oceans are also the world's great air conditioning unit and the heartbeat of all life.

Ocean currents have warmed Northern Europe for hundreds of millions of years; one round trip takes 1,000 years for a single parcel of water. The flow of warm waters to the north prevents most of northern Europe having a climate like Greenland.

The oceans effects on the climate we experience day-to-day are overwhelming. There's a hundred times more water vapour in the air than CO₂, a trace gas at 427 parts 'per million'. Water vapour dominates the world's atmosphere, reaching 4% over the mid latitudes and responsible for clouds, storms, rainfall, humidity and snowfall.

Clouds permanently cover around 67% of the world's surface, reflecting incoming shortwave radiation from sunlight yet trapping outgoing longwave infrared radiation. They are a unique cooling parasol and warming blanket at the same time.

Solar radiation, orbital cycles, oceanic thermohaline circulation and water vapor dictate earth's endlessly changing climate - largely independent of CO₂.

Oceanic heat content is the primary driver that dictates how much water vapor is released, rather than the air temperature alone.

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New Scientist's current tactic is to mathematically subtract nature from the conversation about the Earth's climate.

A 0.36°C rise since 2014 has become a new 'tipping point' for the cult of climate crisis, which exists only in computer models, with the natural world filtered out. This new 'tipping point' comment responds to the Geophysical Research Letters study (published March 6, 2026). This study filtered out all the effects of natural variability - like the oceans, volcanoes and sunlight - then simply makes an educated guess. It can't be seriously regarded as evidence of a warming shift.

Effectively, New Scientist is saying, Forget the physical greening, lets focus on the 'calculated disaster'. By ignoring the biological benefits of CO₂, these messiahs are treating a life giving gas that feeds the world - and creates all oxygen -as a pollutant that must be taxed and traded.

A greening world suggests independence and abundance. Unfortunately, Antonio Guterres' 'code red world' requires a centralised, UN-managed 'Nature Transition Economy'. To keep this money cascading, all the political and media based forces aligning with the Guterres dogma must maintain a state of climate chaos (now Guterres’ favorite 2026 keyword).

Tipping Point is now the new 'code red' planetary forecast by the prophets of doom.

Yet NASA has revealed the Earth becoming visibly greener since 2000.

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In his March 2026 World Wildlife Day message, Antonio Guterres claimed plant decline was accelerating.

He wasn't talking about total biomass (which is increasing); he is only talking about a narrow subset of medicinal and aromatic plants and biodiversity. By focusing on the fragility of specific species, he has sidestepped the surging agriculture and shrinking deserts (the global greening identified by NASA).

Guterres has framed this greening phenomenon - not as a sign of a healthy CO₂-enriched planet - but as a temporary carbon sink on the verge of a world collapsing due to heat.

In the UN’s new priority for 2026, his 'Beyond GDP' initiative, Guterres is now pushing for a new global metric that replaces economic growth with his own ideas of planetary vulnerability.

If the world is trending into a green paradise it demolishes any rush to meet a vague net zero to target, possibly costing a devastating $275 trillions for a global transition to unreliable wind and solar (McKinsey, 2022). The greening identified by NASA outlines 'expanded human opportunities' with a significant boost to agriculture, and possibly opening up remote wasteland like the frozen tundra.

This 'green new world' demolishes the UN's shaky new appeal for a fresh $4 trillion annual redistribution of wealth.

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We are witnessing the most elegantly prepared deception in history: a bureaucracy that looks at a flourishing planet and sees only a business opportunity for fear.

The UN has sidestepped recognition of the global greening over more than two decades, a study recently prepared using NASA satellite data. Instead, Antonio Guterres has once again moved to drag his code red narrative back on track. Instead of seeing the global greening bonanza as a boon for the world.

Once again he has sunk back into a 'collection of fears' theme to drive his code red climate agenda. This Guterres' dogma requires the Earth to be failing.

When NASA’s satellites return images of a planet that is physically expanding its green lungs, the UN pivots to create a fresh narrative emergency, one that is far more pressing than any climate emergency.

The new agenda is nothing more than cold hard deception and is quite transparent. Since they cannot deny the physical greening (the data is far too public), the UN has moved to discredit the meaning of that greening.

The UN is taxing the same biological processes that create the air we breathe and the food we eat.

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This picture of the last 1,000 years shows that earth's biosphere is constantly changing. This is not from the trace gas carbon dioxide, which does help stabilise a baseline preventing freezing but not enough change earth's climate in any meaningful way, a massive distortion.

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@mirandadevine Biden enjoying the perks of office. Meanwhile, life is not so good in Palestine, Ukraine or Afghanistan. How did America lose its standing in the world in less than 4 years?

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@MTGrepp Yes I think he should be charged, along with all the Pentagon and law enforcement crooks who signed the document about Hunter's laptop. The CIA is the greatest crime organisation in the world. Disband it. These forces have hijacked democracy.

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@joiedevivre789 I am confident that Jesus looked nothing like a western European Caucasian. No-one in the middle east looks anything like this and never did.

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@WeThePeople021 What a f..ING charade... two political hacks about to dance their way to f..ING glory. What a joke.

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The idea of 'climate' rests entirely on daiky weather records over a long time, which creates an understanding of local weather conditions. Climate is an abstract concept, & it has been hijacked in a massive propaganda campaign of lies, myth, fake science & deliberate confusion.

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Carbon dioxide increased by less than 2 molecules in 10,000 over the 11,700 years of the current Holocene interglacial. For 81.3 per cent of this time temperatures have been far higher than today yet CO2 levels have been significantly lower. This is the greatest hoax in history.