Killing Net Zero with a Thousand Cuts – The Climate Realism Show #201

About this episode

The episode discusses the reversal of climate policies under Donald Trump and the diminishing commitment to Net Zero in various countries.

Upon taking office in 2025, Donald Trump immediately got busy reversing and defunding the previous administration’s radical climate and energy agenda. That sent a message to the world: You may still cast America as the “villain” in your narrative of panic, but America will no longer play the fool. Net Zero may still be official policy in several European countries, but it’s clear they are decreasingly serious about implementing it. Governments are pushing once-critical deadlines to achieve Net Zero farther out into the future, or signaling the project will be wholly abandoned. Even Germany, once the poster child of Net Zero zealousness, is bringing fossil fuels back. Many private-sector titans joined the Net Zero craze with their own virtue-signaling promises. Those, too, are proving to be as reliable as a dieter who will always start tomorrow. On Episode #201 of The Climate Realism Show, The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Sterling Burnett, and Jim Lakely will talk about all this, and more, including the Crazy Climate News of the Week. You can add getting old to the list of things that cause climate change. Did Al Gore really just say we now need to worry…

People in this episode

Hosts: Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, Sterling Burnett, Jim Lakely

Topics covered

• climate policy
• Net Zero
• energy agenda
• fossil fuels
• climate change
• political commentary
• current events

Keywords

• Net Zero
• climate change
• Donald Trump
• Germany
• Al Gore
• fossil fuels
• energy policy
• climate realism
• politics
• current events

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Organizations: Germany

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