…In my view, 2025 will go down as the year the climate grift was fully exposed. The virtue signaling from governments and global elites hit new lows, and people began to wake up. [some emphasis, links added]
We’ve seen climate anxiety plummet among young people as they access more real-world information and witness the blatant hypocrisy. Take the COP conference in Belém, Brazil, held in a region where residents lack basic sanitation.
I can’t imagine their top concern is a slight increase in temperature or atmospheric CO2. Events like that put the agenda on full display.
I’m proud to have played a part in exposing this, bringing data and observations to the masses that were suppressed just a few years ago through organized “consensus” manufacturing. …
My mission this year is to hold these government and academic institutions accountable, along with the mainstream media that amplifies their storylines without ever checking the data.
A perfect case in point is a brand-new paper published in Nature Geoscience on January 5, 2026, about Greenland’s Prudhoe Dome.
This ties directly into what I’ve called the “Greenland Warming Paradox,” which I detailed in a previous article.
In short, Greenland has been dramatically warmer in the past… like during the Holocene Thermal Maximum 9,000 to 5,000 years ago, when temperatures were 4–8.5°C higher than today, yet sea levels were lower.
This challenges the alarmist claims that modest modern warming will drown the world.
The new paper reveals that Prudhoe Dome, a key part of northwestern Greenland’s ice sheet, was completely ice-free around 7,000 years ago during the early Holocene.
This happened at preindustrial CO2 levels, under natural warming of just 3–5°C above today’s temperatures.
If CO2 is the supposed driver of today’s melting, why was Greenland deglaciating back then without any human emissions?
This is the kind of bombshell that should make headlines for debunking the narrative, but instead, it’s being spun as a warning for future warming.
It’s a classic example of how ideology twists science. I’ve been ahead of the curve on this… discussing these paradoxes on my Substack long before they hit academic journals or media. It gives me great pleasure to see these ideas percolate out, but it’s also a reminder of how ingrained the alarmism still is.
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Research published in 2026 confirms that during the early Holocene (roughly 11,000 to 8,000 years ago), summer temperatures in parts of Greenland were 3–5°C warmer than today’s levels.
Greenland makes up only 0.43% of Earth’s total surface area
The study is based on local proxies, which are always inaccurate.
Looks at the summer season, ignores 3/4 of the year.
Meaningless for any conclusions about the global average temperature in the past 10,000+ years. Large majority of scientists today believe no period in the past 10,000 years had a global average temperature warmer than the past decade.
Well of course it is based on proxies. Did you think they drilled through the ice sheet and discovered ancient thermometers? Chemical signatures in the ice column suggest that none of the ice was left over from the last glaciation, and that the dome fully melted and reformed in the years since (7100 years ago). Isotopic measurements of the sediments beneath the ice confirm that the sediments last saw sunlight seven thousand years ago.
Don’t hold your breath that Greene will actually respond.
When ever data for a local area contradicts the climate crisis narrative, the standard play book is to assert that the data was only for a local area, as Richard Green just did. At one time the alarmists tried to say that the medieval warm period was isolated to just Europe. Then by analyzing pollen in the sediment of African lakes it was shown that the continent had a warm period at the same time. Richard Green’s October 25, 2025 comment on the US Dust Bowl was, “The US is only 1.6% of Earth’s surface.” However, in the 1930’s Europe experienced extreme heat and drought in many areas, especially Northern Europe. In the 1930’s parts of Asia experienced excessive warming. In the 1930’s Australia experienced exceptional warming and an exceptional dry climate. In the 1930’s South American and Africa didn’t have excessive warming, but both continents experienced extreme drought. Scientists saying that the past decade is the warmest in 10,000 years is a reflection of the politicalization of climate science, as is the case of the computer climate models which are programmed to run hot. The hottest temperatures in the past 100 years was not the last decade, but in the 1930’s.
Greene is known to pick cherries to justify his statements.
But, but, our Most Holy Computer Models tell us…