The Climate Deniers Who Love Jeffrey Epstein

PRESENTED BY THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN

The Epstein Files is the reverse Climategate.¹  

We’ve mentioned previously how climate-denier-for-hire Bjørn Lomborg, the climate-denial advisor to Microsoft billionaire and pal-of-Jeffrey Bill Gates, is in the files, meeting with Jeffrey Epstein on a September 2012 afternoon before Jeffrey’s dinner with Wøødy Allen.

Also among the files: Nathan Myhrvøld, the Microsoft and patent troll billionaire involved with the Freakonomics climate denialism chapter, re-forwarding to his friend Jeffrey the Dr. Strangelove-esque Løwell Wøød’s forwarding of a Steve Køønin climate denial column. Koonin has recently appeared in the Hill Heat files, as he was one of the deniers picked by Energy Secretary Chris Wright to be on his illegal climate-denial group:

Here’s Bari Weiss’s new CBS contributor Peter Attia telling his pal Jeffrey in 2015 that an extraordinarily nasty climate denial screed by the prominent British climate denier Matt Ridley is “pretty good piece.”

The work of a legislator is never done!

Watch members of House Science Committee put the corpse of NASA earth science into the ground, with their markup of the NASA Reauthorization Act of 2026, which began at 10 am.

At 2 pm, members of the Energy and Commerce energy subcommittee mark up several bipartisan bills intended to militarize (sorry, “secure”) the electric grid and fracked-gas pipeline network and bring the Department of Energy into deeper collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security. The great thing about applying the war-on-terror security framework to the power grid is that it extends the police state everywhere, right into everyone’s homes!

And at 2:30 p.m, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s European subcommittee host international oil, LNG and mining lobbyists to explain how European “energy security” means giving the oil, LNG, and mining industries carte blanche.

Sure is funny how all this security isn’t making the world more secure.

It was a bit difficult to explain to my son why centibillionaire Jeff Bezos is destroying the Washington Post, but he did get that AI slop is cheaper to make and less likely to criticize centibillionaires.

“The owners of a Colorado power unit say the Department of Energy violated their Constitutional rights when it ordered them to continue running a coal-fired generator they had been planning for years to retire at the end of 2025.”

They’re just following task orders:

It’s turning out that the vast majority of Americans, regardless of party or politics, don’t want the regime to keep building concentration camps.

The ice is melting.

Hearings on the Hill:

• 10 AM: House Science, Space, and Technology Committee
  Markup of the NASA Reauthorization Act of 2026

• 10 AM: House Natural Resources Committee
     Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee
  Testimony on Bird Conservation, Fish Conservation, and Private Big Cat Ownership Bills

• 2 PM: House Energy and Commerce Committee
     Energy Subcommittee
  Markup of Grid and Pipeline Security Legislation

• 2:30 PM: Senate Foreign Relations Committee
     Europe and Regional Security Cooperation Subcommittee
  European Energy Security

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1  For those of you too young to remember 2009: in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate talks, thousands of emails from the University of East Anglia webmail server— a top climate research center in the United Kingdom — were hacked and dumped on a Russian web server. Global warming deniers sifted through the illegally obtained letters of private correspondence for easily debunked “proof” that the scientific consensus on climate change was a global conspiracy. In a transparent effort to weaken the international climate negotiations, the conspiracy theories were promoted ad nauseam by Republican politicians, Fox News, and other right-wing outlets, and treated as a “controversy” by corporate media outlets. Climate scientists were relentlessly harassed and libeled in what Kate Sheppard summarized as “the best-funded, best-organized smear campaign by the wealthiest industry that the Earth has ever known.”