As LA burns, politicians and media are ramping-up global warming hysteria.
According to Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, supported by multiple data sets, the overall trend in Earth's temperature is actually decreasing — debunking a claim by CTV, posted to social media by federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault — that 2024 was the "hottest year ever."
"Here is the record of global temperatures going back 5 million years, as the Earth sank into the Pleistocene Ice Age which began 2.6 million years ago," said Moore in a statement.
"Note that it is still getting colder over the long term."
The Associated Press story published by CTV said, "The last 10 years are the 10 hottest on record and are likely the hottest in 125,000 years."
That may or may not be correct.
In fact, Earth's average temperature was significantly warmer before human industrialization.
Guilbeault, who worked for Greenpeace Canada for over a decade in various roles, said in a social media post, "The stakes are higher than ever. This news comes at a pivotal time and we cannot let the environment come second on any political agenda."
"Our plan is working," he said. "Canada's emissions have fallen to their lowest level since 1997 and we can’t let up now!"
Guilbeault and other politicians around the world have used climate change as justification for advancing polices involving deindustrialization and carbon taxation.
A pivot away from fossil fuels has created energy scarcity and insecurity — particularly in the U.K. and Germany.
In Canada, Guilbeault threatened to impost a de facto production cap on Alberta oil and gas to help save the planet from climate change.
"There is no definitive scientific proof, through real-world observation, that carbon dioxide is responsible for any of the slight warming of the global climate that has occurred during the last 300 years, since the peak of the Little Ice Age," said Moore, who holds a PhD in Forestry from the University of British Columbia.
Climate trends throughout a significant portion of geological history suggest Guilbeault and others are wrong about so-called climate change and the "hottest year ever" — even though very recent numbers indicate slight warming.