Tim Blair: Ending the demented climate hoax is next on the agenda

Climate activists fear incoming President Donald Trump could chargrill the climate change cash cow. And that’s a good thing, Tim Blair writes.

Donald Trump is still a month away from being sworn in, but he’s already adding daily to what must be a world-record winning streak.

First, let’s once more review Trump’s astonishing election triumph, just for the fun of distressing our leftist friends.

Feel the joy! Former and future president Trump won the Electoral College count by 312 to 226. He won the popular vote by a margin of more than 2.2 million. He won every single crucial swing state.

Put those brilliant numbers aside and by any other measures this was an absolute election annihilation for Kamala Harris and her party of woke.

All 50 states plus Democrat-worshipping Washington DC swung in Trump’s direction relative to the outcome in 2020. Trump won last month’s election after surviving two literal assassination attempts, multiple political and financial assassination attempts by lawfare and almost hourly character assassination attempts by media.

Which he accomplished, by the way, without spending nearly as much as his cashed-up rival.

And the victories have continued with Trump’s cabinet picks and senior White House nominations. You can judge the worth of those decisions by the subsequent tonnage of lefty tears.

Trump’s latest win delivered a $US15m payout after he sued the American ABC News network and presenter George Stephanopoulos, who claimed in March that Trump had been found “liable for rape” in a sexual assault case.

Former Democrat staffer Stephanopoulos was wrong. Hilariously, Trump directed that ABC News pay that $15m towards construction of a “presidential foundation and museum”.

Even before he’s begun his second term, Trump’s media enemies are building his monument. Beautiful.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a Time magazine Person of the Year event at the New York Stock Exchange. Picture: AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Perhaps that monument will include a wing celebrating Trump’s demolition of weather mania. Temperature activists fear that Trump could chargrill the climate change cash cow.

“It’s so depressing,” one attendee at a US science conference told the Guardian last week. “Hopefully we will survive it all,” said another, obviously talking about funding rather than our planet. “We’ve been hearing a lot from scientists who are incredibly worried,” a climate lawyer whined to Politico.

Good. Panic means that the global cash-grab crowd is on the defensive – and maybe soon on the run.

Unlike most Australian conservatives, who are careful to not offend climate bullies, Trump stands up to them. Of particular interest to progress enthusiasts and jittery climate folk alike is a Trump speech from 2022, when he outlined his future administration’s philosophy on climate and energy.

“One of the most urgent tasks, not only for our movement but for our country, is to decisively defeat the climate hysteria hoax,” Trump, who hadn’t announced his 2024 election bid, told a Florida audience.

“These people are crazy … they’re radical climate people,” Trump continued, accurately. Then he got to the heart of the matter.

“The radical left’s fearmongering about climate and our future is no longer just scaring American youth,” he said. “It’s destroying America’s economy, weakening our society and eviscerating our middle class. It’s really hurting us.”

Everything that Trump said is also true of Australia. Our economy has been damaged by climate activism. Our society is intellectually and morally weakened. Our middle class is down and hurting.

The likes of Chris Bowen are peeling money out of our wages and taking affordable power out of our futures. Our federal climate munchkin could really do some damage before he’s thrown out.

Australia’s own economy has been damaged by climate activism.

Trump routinely identifies solutions as well as problems. “Conservative leaders, think tanks and intellectuals must be fearless in calling out the lunacy of what you’re seeing and what you’re being led into,” he said in that speech. “The world is not ending. Our future is not dying. We have to defeat the climate hoaxsters once and for all.”

Yes, yes and yes. Our local conservatives would be wise to embrace all of these mighty truths – and soon, before the moment passes.

Trump has created a movement that extends far beyond the US. This should embolden Liberals to take similar stands, or encourage moderates to bugger off to the teals or Greens where they belong.

Meanwhile, Trump is outlining his next climate vision. He’s planning to bypass stupid environmental regulations for major investors.

“Any person or company investing ONE BILLION DOLLARS, OR MORE, in the United States of America, will receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including, but in no way limited to, all environmental approvals,” Trump posted last week on social media.

“GET READY TO ROCK!!!”

We could use some of that.