'Gradually, then Suddenly’ – Is the Climate Scam Narrative Headed for Bankruptcy?

Source: https://blackmon.substack.com/p/gradually-then-suddenly-is-the-climate

When asked how it was that his finances fell into disarray, forcing him to declare for personal bankruptcy, famed author Ernest Hemingway famously responded, “Two ways: gradually, then suddenly.” Recent events and energy trends indicate that the global climate alarm movement may well be headed in the same direction.

Writing at Axios, energy writer Amy Harder says “The climate agenda’s fall from grace over the past year has been stunning — in speed, scale and scope.”

Harder quotes oil historian and S&P Global vice-chairman Dan Yergin as saying, “There’s no hand-waving about how ‘We want to cooperate on climate.’ It’s, ‘We’re slamming the door on that issue.’ We’ve gone from over-indexing it to zero-indexing it.”

Polling has never shown climate change as being an issue of primary concern to American voters. Americans have consistently been more worried about issues that impact their daily lives today than about warnings from modern-day P.T. Barnums like UN Secretary General Antonio Guterrez about some nebulous “highway to hell” and “the age of global boiling.” True to Hemingway’s quote, the issue had been slowly losing its effectiveness during the Biden years even as that administration tried to memorialize the movement’s objectives in policy.

On 1/14/2026 at 9:18 PM, Red Phoenix said:

Source: https://blackmon.substack.com/p/gradually-then-suddenly-is-the-climate

Your source is a substack

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

https://www.ipcc.ch/

NASA

https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/

MIT

https://climate.mit.edu/what-can-be-done-about-climate-change

United Nations

https://unfoundation.org/what-we-do/issues/climate-and-energy/

41 minutes ago, Bandersnatch said:

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

https://www.ipcc.ch/

Are you seriously still mentioning the IPCC as a credible source?

In case you might still have any doubts that Climate Change is a giant fraud/hoax/con/lie...

What do scientists who have left the IPCC (Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change) have to say?

This was posted on former UK Member of Parliament Andrew Bridgen's Telegram channel today < https://t.me/ABridgen >

These are the words of the first 16 scientists of 46 that have left the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) due to the corruption of science within the organisation.

Dr Robert Balling: The IPCC notes that “No significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise during the 20th century has been detected.” This did not appear in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers.

Dr Lucka Bogataj: “Rising levels of airborne carbon dioxide don’t cause global temperatures to rise…. temperature changed first and some 700 years later a change in aerial content of carbon dioxide followed.”

Dr John Christy: “Little known to the public is the fact that most of the scientists involved with the IPCC do not agree that global warming is occurring. Its findings have been consistently misrepresented and/or politicized with each succeeding report.”

Dr Rosa Compagnucci: “Humans have only contributed a few tenths of a degree to warming on Earth. Solar activity is a key driver of climate.”

Dr Richard Courtney: “The empirical evidence strongly indicates that the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis is wrong.”

Dr Judith Curry: “I’m not going to just spout off and endorse the IPCC because I don’t have confidence in the process.”

Dr Robert Davis: “Global temperatures have not been changing as state of the art climate models predicted they would. Not a single mention of satellite temperature observations appears in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers.”

Dr Willem de Lange: “In 1996 the IPCC listed me as one of approximately 3000 “scientists” who agreed that there was a discernible human influence on climate. I didn’t. There is no evidence to support the hypothesis that runaway catastrophic climate change is due to human activities.”

Dr Chris de Freitas: “Government decision-makers should have heard by now that the basis for the long-standing claim that carbon dioxide is a major driver of global climate is being questioned; along with it the hitherto assumed need for costly measures to restrict carbon dioxide emissions. If they have not heard, it is because of the din of global warming hysteria that relies on the logical fallacy of ‘argument from ignorance’ and predictions of computer models.”

Dr Oliver Frauenfeld: “Much more progress is necessary regarding our current understanding of climate and our abilities to model it.”

Dr Peter Dietze: “Using a flawed eddy diffusion model, the IPCC has grossly underestimated the future oceanic carbon dioxide uptake.”

Dr John Everett: “It is time for a reality check. The oceans and coastal zones have been far warmer and colder than is projected in the present scenarios of climate change. I have reviewed the IPCC and more recent scientific literature and believe that there is not a problem with increased acidification, even up to the unlikely levels in the most-used IPCC scenarios.”

Dr Eigil Friis-Christensen: “The IPCC refused to consider the sun’s effect on the Earth’s climate as a topic worthy of investigation. The IPCC conceived its task only as investigating potential human causes of climate change.”

Dr Lee Gerhard: “I never fully accepted or denied the anthropogenic global warming concept until the furore started after NASA’s James Hansen’s wild claims in the late 1980s. I went to the [scientific] literature to study the basis of the claim, starting with first principles. My studies then led me to believe that the claims were false.”

Dr Indur Goklany: “Climate change is unlikely to be the world’s most important environmental problem of the 21st century. There is no signal in the mortality data to indicate increases in the overall frequencies or severities of extreme weather events, despite large increases in the population at risk.”

Dr Vincent Gray: “The [IPCC] climate change statement is an orchestrated litany of lies.”

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31 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

you seriously still mentioning the IPCC as a credible source?

Trump just cancelled funding for the IPCC, that's 80% of their finance gone.

20 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Trump just cancelled funding for the IPCC, that's 80% of their finance gone.

It’s time for another congressional hearing on data fraud now that the funding for the ipcc has been revoked and the Paris climate accord has been officially outed as a joke for the gullible.

2 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

This was posted on former UK Member of Parliament Andrew Bridgen's Telegram channel today < https://t.me/ABridgen >

"Andrew James Bridgen is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Leicestershire from 2010 until 2024.^[3] He was a member of the Conservative Party until his expulsion in April 2023"

The Commons Select Committee on Standards which found that he had repeatedly breached rules over paid lobbying and declaring interests and that he also attempted to pressure the commissioner investigating his lobbying breaches.^[13]

After leaving the Reclaim Party in December 2023, Bridgen sat as an independent MP for the rest of the term of the 2019 Parliament, announcing his decision to run as an independent for his constituency of North West Leicestershire at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, where he lost his seat and deposit"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bridgen

This is your new source

2 hours ago, Bandersnatch said:

"Andrew James Bridgen is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North West Leicestershire from 2010 until 2024.^[3] He was a member of the Conservative Party until his expulsion in April 2023"

The Commons Select Committee on Standards which found that he had repeatedly breached rules over paid lobbying and declaring interests and that he also attempted to pressure the commissioner investigating his lobbying breaches.^[13]

After leaving the Reclaim Party in December 2023, Bridgen sat as an independent MP for the rest of the term of the 2019 Parliament, announcing his decision to run as an independent for his constituency of North West Leicestershire at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, where he lost his seat and deposit"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bridgen

This is your new source

What has the fact that Andrew Bridgen lost his MP seat, to do with the CONTENT of the message he posted?

Let's talk substance > so do you have any rebuttal on the literal quotes of 16 IPCC scientists that left that corrupted organization?

1 hour ago, Red Phoenix said:

Let's talk substance > so do you have any rebuttal on the literal quotes of 16 IPCC scientists that left that corrupted organization?

The views of 16 scientists needs to be seen in the context of scientific consensus

"Based on well-established evidence, about 97% of climate scientists have concluded that human-caused climate change is happening."

https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/scientific-consensus/

16 minutes ago, Bandersnatch said:

The views of 16 scientists needs to be seen in the context of scientific consensus

"Based on well-established evidence, about 97% of climate scientists have concluded that human-caused climate change is happening."

https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/scientific-consensus/

Dr John Christy: “Little known to the public is the fact that most of the scientists involved with the IPCC do not agree that global warming is occurring. Its findings have been consistently misrepresented and/or politicized with each succeeding report.”

...

And here another tidbit:

2 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

Dr John Christy

"When Trump’s EPA Needed a Climate Scientist, They Called on John Christy"

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02112020/john-christy-alabama-climate-contrarian/

You are still quoting from the 3%

17 minutes ago, Bandersnatch said:

"When Trump’s EPA Needed a Climate Scientist, They Called on John Christy"

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02112020/john-christy-alabama-climate-contrarian/

You are still quoting from the 3%

The 3% that aren't bought...

58 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

The 3% that aren't bought...

You have a citation that doesn't come from the 3%

https://holoceneclimate.com/temperature-versus-co2-the-big-picture.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Cenozoic_Ice_Age

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age

we are still stuck in the deepest ice age since before complex life evolved, and almost all lives lost are due to cold, not warmth

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/heat-cold-deaths

AI: Yes, current data shows that cold temperatures cause significantly more deaths globally than heat, often by a 9-to-1 or greater margin