Climate News – October 2025

Written by Alan Moran on October 2, 2025. Posted in Current News

Addressing the UN, Mr Trump urged countries to abandon the “green scam” or risk collapse, accusing the UN of making incorrect and alarmist predictions

He said wind turbines were “pathetic” and other ‘clean’ energy sources were “a joke … not strong enough to fire up the plants that you need to make your country great.”

He said that ‘climate change’ was a politically correct fraud and said the concept of a ‘carbon’ footprint was a “hoax made up by people with evil intentions”.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright warned International Energy Agency head Fatih Birol that he was considering cancelling America’s membership in and funding of its activities due to its increasingly political nature.

The Energy Department is seeking to “return more than $13 billion in unobligated funds initially appropriated to advance the previous Administration’s wasteful Green New Scam agenda.”

The U.S. Department of the Interior opened 13.1 million acres of federal land for coal leasing, tripling the benchmarks previously set, and reduced the royalty rate.

 Two years after The New York Times described attorney Missy Sims, representing Puerto Rico municipalities as using, “a creative legal gambit (anti-racketeering laws) to make oil and gas companies pay” for the effects of ‘climate change’ in the latest rebuff to activists, a federal judge has dismissed the case. 

Britain’s energy minister Ed Miliband said talk of a U.S. led global retreat from ‘climate action’ was overstated and that the economic arguments supporting ‘net zero’ were strong enough to see off domestic and international scepticism.

Australian climate interests are not taking the chance: the Labor Party-appointed activist Human Rights Commissioner says “regulation is necessary” to stop “false narratives” and “misinformation” on ‘climate change’ that is delaying ‘green’ action and denying Australians the right to a healthy planet.

The Australian Senate is conducting an inquiry into ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ on ‘climate change’ and energy. Designed to reveal funding of pro-coal sources, it has drawn submissions, including from the Page Research Centre (sub 140), that reveal the extent of funding (over $170 million a year) to disseminate false narratives praising ‘renewables’ and condemning coal and nuclear energy.

Most submissions supported or were supported by anti-coal bodies; among those countering this were from The Australian Environment Foundation (sub 5), Peter Ridd (sub 11), Aynsley Kellow, (sub 27) John McClean (sub 93), Ian Plimer (sub 116) Malcolm Roberts (sub 125), Nick Jorse (sub 139) and Jo Nova (sub155).

Roger Pielke examines Australia’s emission reduction target of 62-70 per cent below 2005 level by 2035. He compares them to the 2011 targeted 25 per cent fall by 2025, which came in at a 15 per cent increase.

He finds the new targets even more implausible and that claims of ‘decarbonisation’ are only possible because Australian governments have forced a re-wilding of pastoral land (without compensating landowners).

Treasury’s modelling claims the policy will bring benefits but Judith Sloan shows this to be false because it neglects the reality that most other countries will not follow Australia’s targets and unrealistically assumes electricity prices will fall.

Among the many inaccurate assertions of the Australian Government’s agitprop publication  “Assessing Australia’s Climate Change Risks” is that “losses in Australian property values could be $571 billion (out of $11 trillion) by 2030”.

In fact, immigration and building restraints have caused rising property values. Roger Pielke updates the real costs of insurance claims from disasters in Australia since 1967 and finds no trend.

Paradoxically, Morningstar claims that ‘climate change’ will increase reinsurance volumes.

Indonesia has overtaken Australia as a coal exporter and is rapidly expanding its use of coal for domestic electricity, leading to it displacing Australia as a nickel smelting hub.

Implausibly, its Government has reportedly suspended the operations of 190 mining companies due to their failure to submit financial guarantees for post-mining rehabilitation.

Greenpeace suggests Chinese power sector emissions could peak in 2025 with increased ‘clean’ energy deployment, no new coal plant capacity and “high-efficiency electrification” to lower electricity demand growth rates.

Anthony Albanese has called on China to go harder on cutting emissions and to start closing more coal-fired power stations. But the AFR, a strong green energy supporter asks, “Why are Xi’s climate targets so tiny?” and `quoted Trump “if you don’t get away from the green energy scam, your country is going to fail”.

The U.S. Energy department report that showed no detectable human induced ‘climate change’ is now unofficial (because of a technical irregularity in a panellist’s contract), but it remains in place.

David Wojak analyses the “refutation” of the report by alarmist scientists and finds they have no difference with the science of the report, only in the rhetoric surrounding it.

The department requires its officials to avoid using terms like ‘climate change’, ‘green’, ‘energy transition’, ‘sustainability’/’sustainable’, ‘clean’ or ‘dirty’ energy, ‘Carbon/CO2 Footprint’ and Tax breaks/tax credits/subsidies to avoid an implication that ‘climate change’ is caused by rising ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions, driven by burning oil, coal and natural gas for energy.

 The CO2 trend is causing no change from the 3-4 mm per year increase in sea levels observed over the past 200 years.

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