The Climate Change Cult’s Credibility Collapses Under the Weight of Evidence
A house of cards built on computer models and manipulated emotions collapses under the weight of a persistent, uncomfortable reality. The “climate emergency” exists only in the frantic press releases of a movement that knows its time is up.
For decades, activists have based their arguments on dramatic warnings about species extinction, melting ice caps and the end of life at the poles, failing ecosystems and disappearing biodiversity, writes Vijay Jayaraj .
The goal was always the same: sow fear, influence policy, amass power, and, if sufficiently clever or corrupt, make money. But what does the actual evidence tell us now?
Some of the world’s largest countries have significantly expanded their forest cover , even as alarmists predicted ecological disaster. Between 2015 and 2025, China added approximately 4 million hectares of forest. During the same period, Russia gained more than 2 million hectares, and India nearly half a million. The list goes on. Turkey added nearly 300,000 hectares. Australia, France, South Africa, and Canada all showed significant increases.
Perhaps the most striking example of a failed prediction is the so-called extinction of species. For twenty years, images of healthy polar bears on melting summer ice were used to manipulate emotions. However, reports from 2025 show that bear populations are stable and even growing compared to the 1950s . Bear numbers have not declined in the past 10 to 15 years , and populations are showing resilience, even as the summer ice fluctuates.
The Bengal tiger population in India, majestic felines I’ve observed up close during my work as a naturalist, presents another contradiction in the fear-mongering. Between 2014 and 2022, the number of tigers in India grew from 2,226 to 3,682. This represents a 65% increase in eight years, with an annual growth rate of over 6%.
Furthermore, a groundbreaking 2025 study of data from nearly 2 million species revealed that the extinction rate has not accelerated. Instead, it peaked more than a century ago and has been declining since the early 20th century. The massive die-off proved to be a phantom. The study shows that past extinctions were largely caused by invasive species on isolated islands, not by the “climate crisis” or the effects of modern civilization.
Global agricultural performance undermines another cornerstone of environmental pessimism. Famine has been averted because farmers around the world have enjoyed record harvests. Crop yields have risen significantly , allowing farms to feed more people while using less land.
This productivity gain has far-reaching consequences: as agriculture becomes more efficient, less land is needed to feed the world’s population. Harvest yields in 2024 have belied all Malthusian predictions . Carbon dioxide, the gas demonized as a pollutant, has fulfilled its role as plant food, fertilizing crops and feeding a world population that has doubled since the 1970s. The planet is not perishing, but being nourished.
Why is this important? Because it proves the core premise of the anti-fossil fuel movement wrong. Industrial society is not destroying the Earth. The data shows the opposite: as countries become richer and more industrialized, they gain the capacity to protect ecosystems, expand forests, and support more people.
The climate movement’s silence on these victories is deafening. Have you seen a single headline in the mainstream media celebrating the millions of acres of new forest? Have you heard anything about the University of Arizona research debunking the extinction crisis? No.
These stories are suppressed because they don’t sell fear. The fact that these positive developments are rarely acknowledged outside of niche scientific reporting says more about the movement’s priorities than about the health of the planet.
In science, a hypothesis contradicted by data is revised or abandoned. Yet, climate alarmists have redoubled their rhetoric.
The climate industrial complex’s business model relies on public panic, but the spread of the truth has only increased the fears of the doomsayers.
Voters around the world are waking up. Recent elections in Europe and the US have led to new governments openly hostile to the net-zero agenda. They were elected on mandates to restore energy security, lower prices, and throw off the shackles of globalist climate treaties.