The Greatest Scam in History

 By John Larabell

I distinctly remember learning about climate change in elementary school in the 1980s. We students were terrified as our teachers informed us about the “greenhouse effect” and the fact that too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would lead to dangerous warming of the Earth. What’s more, they told us about an even-more-pressing threat, the “hole in the ozone layer.” By running our refrigerators, we were destroying our only protection against dangerous ultraviolet radiation from the Sun. And don’t forget “acid rain,” brought on by pollution caused by too many people driving cars.

While in high school in the ’90s, I remember being taught about global warming as fact. During my junior year, my chemistry teacher told us how we had hit “peak oil,” and the world would run out of oil in the next few decades.

While in my early 20s, I didn’t give much thought to these issues, but they were always in the back of my mind, as something that needed to be addressed “someday.”

Then in 2007 I heard the late Rush Limbaugh explain to his audience why he didn’t believe in global warming or any of the alleged pending climate catastrophes. He even mocked Al Gore’s 2006 prediction that if we don’t do something about global warming now, in 10 years “we’re toast.” I was genuinely surprised to hear Rush’s contrarian view, since I honestly thought that everyone believed in catastrophic global warming.

I thought Rush’s comments made sense, but then I read an online article from the BBC quoting “climate scientists” claiming that by 2012 (still five years off), the Arctic would be ice-free in the summer. This frightened me, and I remember thinking, “Wow, I guess global warming is real. Rush is wrong. This is bad news.”

Fast-forward a few years to early 2012. I began reading TNA articles at thenewamerican.com, where I learned some facts about the global-warming hoax. By June 2012, I was working at TNA as a copy editor. A few months later, I had been thoroughly deprogrammed of the effects of the climate-change propaganda. And, lo and behold, while 2012 was a record low year for Arctic sea ice, the ice did not disappear. In fact, in 2013 the ice coverage was roughly 40 percent greater than in 2012. And, much to Al Gore’s chagrin, the world did not end in 2016.

The idea that human emissions of carbon dioxide are causing catastrophic warming on the Earth is arguably the greatest hoax ever perpetrated in human history. It is perhaps the greatest “Big Lie” ever promulgated by governments, in concert, around the world. As The New American has so accurately documented, literally none of the disaster predictions of so-called climate scientists has come true. Not one. What’s more, many of the arguments put forth by these “scientists” and then echoed by governments and NGOs the world over are simply illogical and unscientific on their face.

Yet the lies and propaganda persist. The globalists at the UN are still holding their climate conferences, meeting in luxurious accommodations after being flown in on private jets. As we outline in our cover story package in this issue of The New American, this year’s Conference of the Parties (COP29) was business as usual: more hysteria, more doom and gloom, and more calls for developed countries to fork over trillions of dollars that will only end up enriching the global elites. It’s really just a massive, worldwide extortion racket: Pay up, or you’re all doomed!

More than a racket, though, the whole climate-change ideology has become a religion for many people, taking the place of traditional faith systems. Indeed, many adherents to this green religion live out their faith with remarkable zeal, taking any new climate pronouncement at face value and refusing to even listen to evidence proving their worldview wrong.

The best way to combat this scam, and end it once and for all, is the same way one stops any other scam: by spreading the truth. The success of the elites in implementing their climate agenda depends on a vast majority of the world’s people believing the lie. Once enough people see the truth, the entire hoax will come crashing down like a house of cards.

Published with permission of thenewamerican.com