Green Meltdown: Trump’s Second Term Breaks the Back of Climate Activism

President Trump called climate change the “greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” at the UN. 🇺🇳

🗨️ “𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑡 ‘𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒,’ 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛’𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑓… pic.twitter.com/DcECXLyBz1

— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) September 23, 2025

 

When President Trump took office for his second term, it was clear from the moment he started signing executive orders in the Oval Office that he had every intention of implementing his plans to reverse the Obama-Biden climate crisis agenda. Ending U.S. Participation in the Paris Climate Accord was a clear signal that he would double down on his agenda.

Trump then selected Chris Wright, the head of a fracking company, to head the Department of Energy (DOE). His team continued with the defunding of the Biden “Green New Deal” ...

Green activist groups are now experiencing deep frustration, a sense of failure, and internal turmoil as their funding and agendas have been targeted by the executive branch…just as Trump promised during his campaign.

The movement is struggling with lower fundraising, membership challenges, staff layoffs, and internal divisions, differing from the first Trump term that saw surges of resistance-driven support.

Some groups, such as 350.org and Greenpeace USA, openly acknowledge that their previous strategies are failing, signaling a need for tactical reinvention as traditional methods of mass protest and lobbying have not yielded results in the current hostile political climate.

I would argue that part of the problem is that the COVID pandemic made people aware of how many scientific “experts” were simply narrative pushers. Climate change science is not more than pseudoscience, but on a much longer timescale than COVID. Americans are now unafraid of the hysteria the green activists and their media minions are trying to promote.

However, it is not just the U.S. that is moving away from global climate politics. Anthony Watts of the Watts Up With That blog reviews a very fascinating piece recently published in The New York Times, which concludes the age of the Paris Climate Accord is over.

…America is not the only player abandoning climate pieties. Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney—once the high priest of climate finance—made his first act in office the repeal of Canada’s carbon tax, and he was rewarded with a landslide victory. Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist by training, now boasts about her nation’s booming oil and gas industry while enjoying one of the highest approval ratings of any world leader. Europe, once the vanguard of green virtue, is retreating as well. Laws once touted as proof of planetary salvation are being weakened, watered down, or repealed under pressure from populist coalitions and economic reality.

The mood has shifted so dramatically that Jason Bordoff, a former Obama energy adviser and now head of Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, admits: “You can’t walk more than two feet at any global conference today without ‘pragmatism’ and ‘realism’ being thrown around as the order of the day. … But it’s not clear to me that anyone knows what those words mean other than this whole climate thing is just too hard”.

GRTWT.