climate change

Epoch Times Interviews Sussman: Climate Change and the Communist Connection

The well-known conservative media outlet, Epoch Times, has just released their extensive video interview with me regarding the connection between human-caused climate change (of which there is no such thing) and communism.  It was so inspiring to meet with the crew in their Silicon Valley studio as most of them had fled communist countries for a life of freedom in the United States of America.

Trust me, that same anti-communist theme was sown into the fabric of my being as my grandfather escaped pre-Soviet Russian (Lenin was just rising to power) as a teen. I was taught as a young boy to loath communism and progressivism.  My latest book, Climate Cult  is really the result of my upbringing. In the interview with Epoch Times, I clearly reveal the originators of the climate agenda, all of whom were communists.

Here’s a link to the Epoch Times segment with me. PLEASE share, and thanks!

https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/meteorologist-exposes-the-communist-roots-of-climate-change-agenda-5986350?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy

 

Facts In, Fear Out

For decades, federal environmental policy has been driven by a spirit of exaggerated fear put forth by radicals desiring to reshape the United States into some sort of fashionable Marxist society.

Their efforts often reminded me of an important life principal found in the Bible:  For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline (2 Timothy 1:6).

The new Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lee Zeldin, has announced major changes in environmental policy that will move us away from destructive alarmism and into solid science. For example, the EPA seeks to:

  • End the federal policies mandating subsidized electric vehicles, which were set to cost the taxpayer over $1 Trillion.
  • Eliminate the do-nothing Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program which costs us hundreds of millions of dollars each year and does nothing to improve air quality.
  • Prevent catastrophic wildfires by allowing prescribed burns to reduce the amount of fuel in the forests that can allow a small fire to become monstrous.
  • Revise ridiculous rules that interpret small rural ditches and seasonal backyard ponds as sensitive eco-systems that must be protected from use or disturbance.

These four examples are just the start of a scientific sanity campaign put forth by a White House administration that applies facts, not fear, and returns Power to the People.

And, speaking of the facts, please purchase a copy of my latest book, “Climate Cult: Exposing and Defeating Their War on Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

Six Ridiculous Examples Illustrating Why USAID Should be Shuttered

PLEASE NOTE: This is not meant to be a humorous post.

In 2023, its own words, USAID stated, “through the Agency’s flagship ‘Clean Cities, Blue Ocean’ program under the ‘Save our Seas Initiative,’ is responding to the ocean plastic pollution crisis by working with its partner countries in Asia, the Pacific Islands, Latin America and the Caribbean to address these challenges to provide the tools and resources so that women can successfully participate in and advance local circular economies.”

Note the last twelve words: “so that women can successfully participate in and advance local circular economies.”

So how is USAID making way for Clean Cities, Blue Oceans, and Saving our Seas?

These are six word-for-word examples, according to USAID:

  1. Creating opportunities for women to establish and expand their waste businesses.
  2.  Including gender in the local government planning processes.
  3. Promoting the safety of women in waste.
  4. Strengthening women’s agency and confidence to be recycling champions.
  5. Designing waste system solutions based on gender-inclusive research.
  6. Rightsizing technology and facilities for women

For fiscal year 2024 alone, the Biden Administration budgeted $53 million for this project.

Not a Natural Disaster: The Los Angeles Fires

Both the Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, and the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, are blaming the horrific fires in Southern California human-induced climate change. This is a bogus mantra designed to cover for the gross dereliction of duty employed by a myriad of elected officials at all levels of government in the Golden State.

As mentioned in my last post, the incredibly high winds experienced in Southern California were accurately forecast by the National Weather Service several days before they began. These winds are seasonal, blowing east to west, down the slopes of the nearby mountain ranges and towards the Pacific. As the winds rush down the mountainside, they manifest warm and extremely dry air. This is NOT a feature of so-called climate change. It’s a weather condition that has been around forever.

At this point in time, the only suspected and known cause for these fires is arson.

Now, let me diverge for a moment and speak to a subject I wrote about in my 2012 bestseller, Eco-Tyranny (WND Books).

In 2005, the FBI stated that America’s number one domestic terror threat was eco-terrorism. At that time the concern was focused on two radical environmental organizations, Earth Liberation Front and EarthFirst. Why should we think that such terror concerns would have evaporated since 2005?

In large measure, the leadership of these eco-radical orgs has been able to curry favor with liberal elected leaders and bureaucrats to see their goals accomplished within the construct of government. This is all easily accomplished through the doctrine of Sustainable Development.

Created by the United Nations in the 1983, Sustainable Development requires, as Al Gore has stated, “a wrenching transformation of society.” It seeks the near elimination of fossil fuels, the shuttering of all nuclear power plants, the tearing down of dams (they are declared “unnatural”), and—perhaps more germane to the situation in Los Angeles—moving the population from single family residential housing to stack-and-pack complexes in “Fifteen Minute Cities.”

Driving this Sustainable mentality is something also created by the UN: Social Equity.

Social Equity is not DEI. It declares that all species are equal. In other words, humans are no more important than termites. This is one of the reasons why farmers in the California’s Central Valley (one of the richest agricultural valleys in the world) can no longer get the water they need from the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta. The environmentalists claim that using the water for crops endangers a 3-inch-long fish known as the Delta Smelt. Thousands of acres of farms have gone to weeds as a result of the delta water pouring out to sea.

Social equity also accused the homes on the Malibu coast of endangering the nests of the California Least Tern.

Also, I discovered this from a friend who is a municipal water consultant in California regarding that empty reservoir in Pacific Palisades that was supposed to be under repair: normally such maintenance takes thirty or fewer days. Instead, this critical reservoir had been bone-dry for the past TEN months. Perhaps Sustainable Development is why the elected officials and desk-jockeys in LA County decided it wasn’t a critical piece of infrastructure?

California is the wealthiest state in the nation. It possesses the highest overall tax base. It has the most restrictive environmental rules and regulations. It’s also a one-party state dominated by elected officials who have more in common with Marx than Madison.

You can blame this entire disaster on authoritarian office holders and monolithic public officials, all of whom are overpaid and promised a hefty pension to boot.

And, perhaps the arsonists are radical environmentalists.

Hope you’ll read my newest book, Climate Cult.  Just Click Here.

Thank you!

UPDATES – The Southern California Fires: Not Climate Change 

Updated Friday, January 10 –

Fire officials in Southern California are investigating the causes of several wildfires that have destroyed homes and businesses primarily located in Los Angeles County.

The initial blaze—The Palisades Fire—was reported at 10:30AM Tuesday and has scorched thousands of acres in and around the beach towns of Santa Monica and Malibu. This fire was preceded by an Extreme Warning from the National Weather Service in Los Angeles as early as Thursday, January 2, which warned of “a particularly dangerous situation – in other words this is as bad as it gets in terms of fire weather.”

The Weather Service then forecast winds blowing to 100MPH.

The naturally occurring atmospheric scenario responsible for this event has nothing to do with so-called “global warming” or “climate change.”

The conditions are meteorologically referred to as “downslope” winds. In the Los Angeles region they are known as “Santa Ana Winds” and blow from land to sea, across the Santa Ana mountains (5600’) on the eastern edges of the Los Angeles and into the Pacific Ocean. As the winds sweep down the mountainside they naturally warm and dry the air making for ideal fire conditions. These winds generally occur in the cooler months when air from a high-pressure system in the Desert Southwest flows westward towards a low-pressure system in the Pacific off the California coast.

Similar wind scenarios are often found north of Los Angeles in Santa Barbara where the events are called “Sundowner Winds.”

Later on Tuesday, around 6:30PM, the Eaton Fire broke out in Altadena near Pasadena and swelled to more than 10,000 acres. By 10:30 that night a smaller blaze, The Hurst Fire, ignited in Sylmar, in the San Fernando Valley northwest of downtown Los Angeles and consumed about 500 acres. Altogether there are at least six major fires in the region.

The cause of all the blazes remain under investigation, according to Cal Fire. However it has been determined that at least one fire was arson; in fact there have been several credible reports of  arson, several which include video.

The powerful Santa Ana winds are likely to continue through the weekend.

Aside from the tremendous winds, the fires were able to initially grow out of control because of what I described in my 2012 book, Eco-Tyranny, as being part of an “earth-first” mentality that has overtaken common sense within California’s environmental practices (it’s occurring in other states as well). In the case of the Los Angeles fires, forests in California are never properly cleared or manicured, making for wild overgrowth and fire potential. Additionally, as we have learned, in the name of budget cuts the County of Los Angeles allowed its residential fire hydrants to go untested. As a result, hundreds of hydrants were found to be inoperable when they were finally needed this week.

Brian Sussman is a Certified Meteorologist and the author of the new book, Climate Cult: Exposing and Defeating heir War on Life, Liberty and Property.