HOW IT STARTED: An Ecological Kristallnacht. Listen.

—Al Gore, the New York Times, March 19th, 1989.

How It’s Going: David Marcus: New York Times announces the end of the climate change hoax.

For almost the entirety of the half century I have lived on Earth, I have had experts, teachers, politicians and activists hectoring me about how climate change is going to destroy the planet. But this week, in The New York Times, of all places, is evidence that climate alarmism is finally cooling down.

“Democrats Do Not Have To Campaign On Climate Change Anymore,” blared the headline, this week, as author Matt Huber argues that voters are rather turned off by the subject. I would like to suggest that this is because it is the single most expensive lie in human history.

Of course, there’s two reasons for the change of heart by the left. One is that AI is Silicon Valley’s latest bright shiny object, replacing virtual reality in the late 1980s, and the World Wide Web during the next decade, and AI requires power and lots of it. And the other is purely tactical:

Hi could you be just a little more transparent about how every last one of your Causes is just a thin hypocritical pretext to mask your insatiable, instinctive, simian lust for power https://t.co/ZvnPRVuXrv

— Curtis Yarvin (@curtis_yarvin) May 10, 2026