Thursday, August 21, 2025

Fake Trump meets fake Putin for public show but, it won’t stop the revolution

 

Fake Trump meets fake Putin for public show but, it won’t stop the revolution

By Benjamin Fulford

August 18, 2025, full

 
The world was presented last week with a summit meeting featuring a fake chinless Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting a short and fat fake US President Donald Trump.


In the public version of events, they had a 3-hour meeting, lunch was cancelled, and the Russian delegation left without reaching any deals. Instead, the leaders of Russia, a country that has outlawed Satanism, were greeted with an air force display of a giant Satanic star in the sky. This happened as the “leaders” posed for photos in front of nuclear-capable bombers. The message being that the alternative to peace is all-out nuclear war.
Notice that neither “Trump” nor “Putin” was allowed to talk to reporters and instead read prepared scripts. That is because, for security reasons, both men were second-string avatars who were not considered qualified to answer unscripted questions.

As an example, look at the bodyguard next to Trump in the video below. Is this AI, an avatar robot, or CGI? Look at his weird movement and facial expression. Is the whole video CGI ?
The real negotiators in this “summit” were Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the Russian side, while the US side was represented by State Secretary Marco Rubio and Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff.

Pentagon sources say that behind the public show, this is what took place:

The Trump-Putin meeting was a publicity event for the masses. It was arranged by both Trump and Putin in advance. They communicate regularly.

The real deal is that Trump has approval from Putin to take over Greenland. A new large military base will be installed to protect the US from what is being planned by Sweden and its NATO allies. (Now that Sweden is a member of NATO)

Trump will allow Russia to purchase the minerals and metals from Alaska. They have discussed a mutual sharing of the mineral reserves of Greenland. An underground tunnel for maglev trains is already on the drawing boards for connecting Russia with the US. Under the Bering Strait.

Polish intelligence says the US side also offered de facto recognition of the territories occupied by Russia through deferral of the issue for either 49 or 99 years.

They also offered the lifting of most of the sanctions imposed on Russia and, in the long term, a return to energy cooperation – namely imports of Russian gas and oil.
However, Russian FSB sources say they want a permanent return of liberated territories to Russia and that the asking price to sell Alaska back to Russia was too high. That is why the summit ended abruptly. “Putin is urgently flying to Moscow; lunch with Trump was canceled. Negotiations in the expanded composition of the US and Russian delegations were also canceled,” the sources say.

So, despite the semi-neutral statements of the two presidents, the “agreement” has been postponed for the time being.
Other than haggling over money, the main sticking point continues to be Russia’s request for denazification of Ukraine, plus the EU’s and for war crimes tribunals. Russia also hinted that they were prepared to march into Western Europe in September if a deal is not reached.

This is why European leaders are all flying to Washington, DC this week, including:
  • Ukrainian President Zelensky
  • Finnish President Alexander Stubb
  • UK PM Keir Starmer
  • French President Emmanuel Macron
  • German Chancellor Friedrich Merz
  • Italian PM Giorgia Meloni
  • EU President Ursula Von Der Leyen.
  • NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte
Dignitaries from Poland, Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania are also expected to arrive.

“It looks like Ukraine’s map is gonna be redrawn tomorrow in the presence of European leaders,” a Pentagon source comments.

In reaction to the summit, the EU leadership – joined by the heads of five of the 27 EU member states and the UK – released a statement, which European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen published on X.

In substance, the final text does not introduce a new peace proposal, but instead reiterates Brussels’ familiar talking points, from pledges of military supplies to calls for a “just peace”
However, it is clear that a decision has been made to throw Ukrainian dictator Vladimir Zelensky to the dogs. A whole series of establishment talking heads are now saying this. In one example, former U.S. Army officer Stanislav Krapivnik tells RT that Zelensky is part of the West’s Ukraine corruption scheme.

“Zelensky has NO political future – and possibly no future as far as being ALIVE.”

“If he opens his mouth, that’s a big problem for a lot of people.”
We are also being told Zelensky has been sending $50 million a month to the UAE, where he hopes to seek asylum after he flees Ukraine.


French intelligence warns the Khazarian Mafia, who are literally fighting for their lives now that they have been defeated in Ukraine- are planning a “very bad event that will take place in...   

...Mexico in September.” They say whatever happens will be artificially provoked. The disaster is intended to be huge, and its aim is to use it to replace the human trafficking operations now being shut down in Ukraine. We now know that the horrific events staged by the KM in places like Libya, Syria, Yugoslavia, etc., have all been the scenes of mass kidnapping of children for the purpose of adrenochrome harvesting. The KM has repeatedly tried to tell me the people disappearing are being sent off planet, but that is just an excuse to cover up mass murder.

This planned event may be why Trump is planning to breach Mexican sovereignty by sending US troops there.

The white hats need to go after the KM leadership to prevent this and other planned catastrophes. One person of interest is BlackRock Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink. Mexican sources say the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Friday appointed BlackRock’s Larry Fink and Roche Holding Vice President André Hoffmann as interim co-chairs of the board. At the same time, they ended a fake investigation into its founder, Klaus Schwab Rothschild and they exonerated him of any irregularities.

Fink has been linked to man-made disasters using space-based weapons in places like Hawaii, Los Angeles, Mexico, etc. He needs to be arrested and taken in for questioning ASAP.

The KM is desperate to distract us with a major man made disaster because economic collapse and revolution is coming to the West, possibly in September.

The US faces its September 30th fiscal year financing deadline and is having trouble raising money, according to P3 Freemason and other sources.

“The US can find no buyer for its debt, so it buys its own debt via hedge funds while Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent uses FRB money to finance stock buybacks to make it look like the US has more stock market equity than it has debt,” the P3 sources say.

Certainly, there can be no doubt that the US government has been caught red-handed lying about inflation. CNBC reports wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July compared to the previous month, but then goes on to write “On an annual basis, headline PPI increased 3.3%, the biggest 12-month move since February.”

No, 0.9% monthly is 11.35% on an annual basis, so they are deliberately underestimating inflation by 75%. This is the sort of thing banana republics do.

In another example of outright lies posing as government statistics:

“US Industrial Production dipped 0.1% MoM in July, but thanks to an upwardly revised 0.4% MoM rise in June, the YoY rise in Industrial Production was +1.43% – the biggest YoY jump since Jan 2023…”

If you look at the details, everything positive is coming from after-the-fact “upward revisions.” Their own statistics show this: industrial production is supposedly rising while capacity utilization is down.

In yet another example, Initial Jobless Claims have been stuck “at the same level (224k) they were at in Nov 2021 (with non-seasonally adjusted claims hovering near record lows)…” This is a statistical impossibility.

We are also seeing more fakery as the fake Trump regime that took over in June tries to reopen the NASA (Not A Space Agency) money laundry: US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said that NASA intends to build a lunar base for national security. “Space is a world, but people can use it for malicious purposes.… Whoever controls space will control the Earth,” the transport minister added.

Translation: we need NASA to launder our fake money.

They need that because the implosion of the Federal Reserve banks has begun. The Clinton linked Chinese company Evergrande’s stock will be delisted from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on August 25, 2025, as it implodes under the weight of $300 billion in debt it cannot pay. This is just the tip of the iceberg, but $300 billion is not small change.



Who is going to buy debt issued by a country that fakes its own data and buys its own debt with fake money? Not anybody with real money.

The situation is even worse in Europe.

A toxic mix of a ballooning budget deficit, an overgrown welfare state, and a persistent recession makes France a prime candidate for a full-blown sovereign debt crisis.

Now, France has been cut off from the free uranium it used to get from Niger, and as a result, its nuclear power plants are about to shut down.

France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear power, so we may watch a complete implosion of that country. It also exports electricity to other European countries.

If electricity generation stops in France, you can be sure guillotines will soon appear.

Germany is in equally dire straits. Last year alone, €64.5 billion in direct investments left Germany due mainly to high energy costs, a long-standing trend now accelerating. Consequently, Germany is losing its economic foundation, on the verge of becoming Europe’s Rust Belt, much like parts of the US.

Trump’s tariffs are making things worse. In a typical example, the value of exports from Ireland to the US dropped by almost 60 per cent between May and June, falling from €10.8 billion to €4.4 billion due to Trump sanctions.

In the UK, crime committed by illegal immigrants is adding fuel to the fire of discontent caused by economic collapse.

Those who think this immigration policy in Europe has something to do with voters should pay attention to this revelation: The British government leased trucks from BlackRock to take back to France the rubber boats that illegals use to come to GB over the channel.

In a striking display of public discontent, close to 750,000 people at the time of writing have signed an official parliamentary petition demanding an immediate general election in the UK.

Like everyone else in the West, the British are tired of plunging living standards and uncontrolled immigration of military-aged males from non-Christian countries.

The government is also turning a blind eye to the crimes committed by the criminals they are smuggling into the country:

A leftist councilor in the UK who called for “cutting the throats” of anti-mass migration protesters has been acquitted of all charges and set free, while conservatives who expressed anti-illegal immigration sentiment in tweets are still languishing in prison.

The comments about this article on Zerohedge show just how angry the British public is getting:

The British government is doing this to demoralize its population so that they cannot resist the coming digital prison being built all around them. The European ruling class has decided that it would rather take down all of society rather than give up power.

In just the past 3 weeks, Brits have protested the immigrant hotels in Epping, Birmingham, Norwich, Stockport, Waterlooville, and Nuneaton—and successfully got some of them shut down.

A story was recently posted right here on Zerohedge about an immigrant who dropped his pants on a commuter train in East London—and promptly got the sh*t beaten out of him by the English guys in the same carriage.

Best for it to burn and collapse, then the elites can be hunted.

It’s time for some IRA-style justice, and for the people to rise up against the evil and corruption of the British government.

It’s them or us. And they are all in.

People are just as angry in Canada. Crime has been skyrocketing since the Liberal government began loosening immigration controls since it took power in 2015. It is no longer skilled nurses and engineers who are immigrating, but, as in the rest of the West, unskilled military age males. The result:

Car Theft: +25.3%

Homicides: +29.3%

Sexual Assault: +75.9%

Gun Crimes: +130.5%

Extortion: +330.1%

TOTAL VIOLENT CRIME: +54.8%




New numbers released on Wednesday confirm that 200,000 members “did not cast a ballot” in the March leadership election, which saw Mark Carney win in a landslide with 131,000 votes. “This confirms that the election was rigged and Carney is nothing more than a criminal gangster in a pinstriped suit,” a Canadian intelligence agency source says.

Now it looks like the flight attendants of Air Canada are going to take over where the truckers left off:

Air Canada: “Everyone back to work at 2PM.”

Flight attendants: “Go Fuck yourself.”

10,500 workers just DEFIED a government order to return to work.

Air Canada flight attendants just told the Liberal government to TAKE THEIR MANDATE AND SHOVE IT.

They’re NOT going back.

They’re UNDERPAID, OVERWORKED, and DONE being treated like trash.

This isn’t just a strike. This is the beginning of a Movement. The KM-controlled government is in big trouble.

Remember: If Digital ID and Central Bank Digital Currency were implemented as the government now plans, this would not be possible.




https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/air-canada-union-refuses-order-strike-b2809197.html




The Canadian regime is desperately trying to censor the news. For example, once again I had to use a VPN to make it appear I was not in Canada before I could read an article in Britain’s Express newspaper. It reads:

The Trump administration will deploy hundreds of National Guard members from Republican-led states West Virginia, Ohio and South Carolina across Washington, D.C.

This news from an Irish newspaper was also blocked in Canada:

Photos taken at the summit have caught people’s attention, especially Trump’s ankles looking swollen, weeks after the White House shared he had been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency.

The stories being put out about Trump being senile or having some serious medical issue are clearly coming from the Clinton/Rockefeller/Hitler faction in the US that has been battling the real Trump. They want to announce his death and have him replaced with one of their own.

Of note on this front, former acting attorney general Sally Yates and former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe were responsible for both the Russiagate smear on Trump and for quashing investigations into Clinton Foundation corruption.

Another Clinton apparatchik, former CIA Director John Brennan, has left the United States for Austria, where he has set up a fake studio to make it appear as if he is in the country for media appearances.

Now, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has named Bill Clinton as the number one suspect in the committee’s ongoing investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein saga.

Remember, the Epstein story is not about rich old men diddling sexually mature but underage boys and girls. It is about the industrial-scale torture and murder of young children by the elite.

Last week, we decided not to publish a photograph of a young Japanese girl, who was presented to Barack Obama, being tortured for adrenochrome harvesting, out of respect for her family. However, Japanese military intelligence informs us that the 16,000 children Japan is forced to hand over to the KM each year are selected because they have no family. They are often orphans from car accidents, etc. Therefore, we have decided that people need to see with their own eyes the horrific crimes being carried out against children by many of our so-called leaders.




We have been warned we will be attacked by demons, or DEMONetized if we publish this photo, but, we refuse advertising because we do not want to be censored. If the authorities now try to censor me by preventing my subscribers from paying for the truth, then they will be found guilty of protecting child torturers and will face the full force of the law.

We are hoping the real Trump is finally deploying troops to arrest these criminals. Trump has already deployed Federal Troops in Los Angeles and Washington, DC and will likely soon occupy other cities:

“You look at Chicago, how bad it is, you look at Los Angeles, how bad it is. We have other cities that are very bad. New York has a problem. And then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland. We don’t even mention that anymore —they’re so far gone,” he said. “We’re not going to let it happen. We’re not going to lose our cities over this,” Trump says.

Of course, the real question is whether the real Trump will take on Israel, and this case makes us wonder:

Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, an Israeli cyber official who works directly under Benjamin Netanyahu, was arrested in Nevada for allegedly using a computer to lure a child for sex, but has since been released and returned to Israel.

Ari Ben-Menashe, who was an Israeli intelligence officer, claims that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell worked for Israeli intelligence, running a child sex trafficking operation. He said he is not aware of Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell working for any intelligence agency other than Israel.

He also claims that Israeli intelligence, along with Netanyahu, has copies of Epstein’s blackmail videos and files on American politicians and other influential figures around the world that have not been destroyed.

As things now stand, this blackmail is being used to force politicians to support Israeli crime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “historic and spiritual mission” to conquer the Middle East.

In an example of how controlled US Politicians are, Lindsey Graham warns that if Americans pull the plug on Israel, “God will pull the plug on us.” Presumably, he means, “Israel will publish my pedo-murder videos.”

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The key to ending this nightmare is going to be either truth and reconciliation hearings or war crimes tribunals.

The other key is to take away the KM’s source of power: their control of the magic money printing machine of the Fed.

This is nothing more than a system of Babylonian debt slavery. Polish intelligence sources note, “in pre-war Poland, a loan interest rate above 15% was considered usury and punishable by law. Today, banks charge at least 23% or more for loans.”

This money, stolen from us via usury and inflation, is also used to finance organizations designed to control us. According to the Yearbook of International Organizations, between 1990 and 2020, the global number of international organizations (including non-governmental organizations) increased from approximately 6,000 to 72,500. If you look at where their funding comes from, you are almost certainly likely to find the Fed in most cases.

In an ongoing counter-attack, the real Trump has promised a “major lawsuit” against the Fed Chair over what he calls “horrible” and “grossly incompetent” mismanagement of a Federal Reserve building project.

Trump claims the cost ballooned to $3 billion for work that should have cost around $50 million.

Pentagon sources say, “This isn’t just about a construction bill, it’s about pulling the mask off the Fed itself. For over a century, the Federal Reserve has operated as an untouchable power center; a privately controlled, debt-issuing machine masquerading as a government institution. By even floating legal action against its head, Trump is signaling that the Fed’s ‘independence’ may no longer be a sacred cow. This is more than a jab at Powell; could it be a warning shot at the entire central banking system?”

If you take Google Maps as your source, then the Fed has already been “permanently closed.”




Of course, the US cannot close the Fed without help from the rest of the world, especially China. That is because the US economy is now only 15% of world GDP (on a PPP or real basis), and the US is the most indebted nation in the history of the world.

The Chinese are willing to write off this debt if the US deals with its Satanic KM infection, Asian secret society sources say.

The Chinese have already made a deal with the Western white hats to work together to make this planet a paradise on earth:

Chinese Premier Li Qiang urged efforts to write a new chapter in the building of ecological civilization in the new era…Li said this important concept provides scientific guidance for the harmonious coexistence of humans and nature…Efforts should be made to enhance the diversity, stability, and sustainability of ecosystems

So the Chinese are pushing to increase the amount and variety of life, while the West is trying to kill 90% of humanity and extort money from the world by threatening to destroy the planet.

We all need to overthrow the KM or become slaves for eternity.

 
Benjamin Fulford 

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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Zelensky Rushed to the White House Not for Peace Talks — But to Answer for the Biolabs, etc.


Zelensky Rushed to the White House Not for Peace Talks — But to Answer for the Biolabs, etc.

By Ethan White

Post on August 20, 2025


Today, August 18, 2025, history is being written inside the White House. President Donald J. Trump is not meeting Volodymyr Zelensky as an equal, nor as a partner. He is confronting him as the frontman of a collapsing globalist project that has drained billions, spilled blood across Europe, and been used as one of the elites’ biggest money-laundering operations in modern history.

This meeting is not about peace on the surface. It’s about exposing who really holds the strings — and those strings are snapping.

The Real Reason for the Meeting

Trump already showed his cards in Alaska when he sat down with Vladimir Putin. For the first time in years, Russia and America spoke without Ukraine in the room. That alone terrified the elites. Why? Because Ukraine has been their golden goose — a hub for biolabs, weapons trafficking, child exploitation routes, and endless financial slush funds disguised as “aid.”

Billions in taxpayer money disappeared into black budgets, shell corporations, and offshore accounts. Everyone from Brussels bureaucrats to Washington insiders fed off the carcass of Ukraine.

Now, Trump is cutting them off. That’s why Zelensky was dragged here today, flanked by Macron, Scholz, Sunak, Meloni, and the EU technocrats — they’re not here to protect Ukraine. They’re here to protect themselves, to beg Trump not to collapse the system they’ve built on lies.

Zelensky’s Weakness Exposed

Zelensky has been paraded as a wartime hero, but his mask is slipping. His calls for NATO membership, his fantasy of “restoring” Crimea, his demand for Article 5-style guarantees — all of it is theater. Without America, Europe is powerless. NATO without Trump is a corpse. And everyone in that room knows it.

Trump has already signaled the truth: Crimea is gone. Donbas will never return. Ukraine’s dream of NATO membership is dead. That’s not a “proposal” — it’s reality. Zelensky can scream about sovereignty, but Trump is dealing with facts, not fantasies.

Behind the cameras, whispers circle that Zelensky’s government is fractured. His generals are tired of watching their soldiers die while Western elites sip champagne in Brussels and Davos. His oligarch backers fear Trump because they know their offshore accounts — fattened with “aid” — are being traced. The entire Kiev regime is a puppet stage, and the puppeteer’s hand is slipping.

Why the Elites Are Panicking

This isn’t just about Ukraine. It’s about the global financial system that the elites have chained to the war. Every dollar of “aid” was tied to IMF strings, European bond markets, and kickbacks flowing to defense contractors. Biden’s fake administration, before it crumbled, used Ukraine as a laundering pipeline. The EU used it to justify digital ID rollouts, military spending hikes, and censorship campaigns against their own people.

Now Trump is cutting the pipeline. He is dismantling their machine piece by piece.

That’s why they sent the European leaders to Washington today. Not to stand with Zelensky — but to stand against Trump. They fear that Trump and Putin, by bypassing their fake “unity,” will strike a framework that leaves them irrelevant. Macron, Scholz, von der Leyen — they are not allies, they are desperate administrators of a collapsing empire.

The Military Shadows Behind It

Sources tied to U.S. military intelligence have hinted that today’s meeting is not just about politics. It is about security guarantees that bypass NATO entirely. Think about that: a direct U.S.-led coalition, outside of NATO, offering “peacekeeping forces” after a ceasefire. That is the quiet burial of NATO, the crown jewel of the globalists’ control.

And deeper still, whispers from the Pentagon suggest Trump’s team has proof of NATO weapons being siphoned from Ukraine into black markets, ending up in Africa and the Middle East, fueling chaos exactly where the elites want instability. If this evidence surfaces, NATO’s credibility is destroyed overnight.

The Bigger Picture

This meeting today is the globalists’ nightmare. They see their Ukraine project slipping away. They see Trump exposing their biolabs, their stolen billions, their trafficking networks. They see Putin sitting down with Trump instead of them. (More info on gazetteller.com)

Zelensky isn’t in Washington as a strong leader. He’s here as a pawn being shoved onto the board while the real players — Trump and Putin — redraw the map. The Europeans cling to him, not because they believe in him, but because without him, their entire narrative collapses.

August 18, 2025, is the day Zelensky learns he is no longer the darling of the West. He is a liability. And Trump, standing firm in the White House, is making it clear: the war machine is shutting down, the elites’ money-laundering racket is over, and the people pulling the strings behind Kiev are being exposed for what they are.

The illusion is breaking. Trump holds the hammer. And today, he swung it straight at the heart of the global elite’s biggest scam.

Ethan White

The Scapegoat for Climate Change and Cloud Seeding


The Scapegoat for Climate Change and Cloud Seeding

By Lance D Johnson

Post on August 20, 2025


Picture this: a courtroom drama where the prosecution has spent decades pinning a crime on a suspect who was barely at the scene. The evidence? A few scattered fingerprints, a whisper of motive, and a mountain of assumptions. The jury—public opinion—has already convicted him. But then, the defense presents a single, devastating exhibit: the suspect’s alibi isn’t just solid; it’s physically impossible for him to have done it. The case collapses. That, in essence, is what’s happening to the long-held belief that carbon dioxide is somehow the mastermind behind climate change. A growing body of research, including a razor-sharp new study in Frontiers, isn’t just poking holes in the CO2-driven climate narrative—it’s dismantling it entirely, piece by piece, like a house of cards in a hurricane.

For years, we’ve been told that CO2 is the planet’s thermostat, that human activity is cranking up the heat, and that the science is settled. But science, by its very nature, is a restless beast—always probing, always questioning. And now, the questions are getting louder. What if the villain in this story isn’t CO2 at all? The data suggests exactly that: water vapor and clouds are the real heavyweights, shouldering 95% of the greenhouse effect, while CO2—that much-maligned molecule—contributes a paltry 4-5%. Not to mention, most of this CO2 – up to 96% – is naturally occurring and is not the result of human activity whatsoever!

This means that cloud seeding could be the greatest threat to manmande global warming! Geoengineering operations – which seed clouds to block out the sun or create moisture in select environments – are the real cause of global warming!

Key points:

    • CO2’s climate influence is statistically negligible, contributing only 4-5% to the greenhouse effect, while water vapor and clouds dominate at 95%.
    • Human emissions account for just 4% of CO2’s already tiny role, meaning natural sources—oceans, volcanoes, decomposing plants—overwhelm any human impact.
    • Temperature changes lead CO2 shifts, not the other way around, debunking the idea that rising CO2 drives warming; historical data shows CO2 lags behind temperature by centuries.
    • The “greenhouse effect” analogy is flawed—real-world heat transfer is governed by convection and atmospheric mass, not radiation trapped by trace gases.
    • Doubling CO2 levels would have no measurable warming effect, according to radiative transfer models; the Earth’s temperature gradient is dictated by physics, not CO2 concentrations.
    • Cloud seeding is the real global warming threat, and geoengineering operations should be shuttered.

The invisible giant: Why water vapor dwarf CO2—and no one talks about it

Imagine you’re at a concert where the lead singer is belting out a power ballad; the crowd is roaring; and the bass is shaking the floor. Now imagine someone pointing at a single violinist in the back corner and saying, “That’s who’s making all the noise.” That’s the CO2 narrative in a nutshell. Water vapor—the true rock star of the greenhouse effect—is so overwhelmingly dominant that CO2’s contribution is like a whisper in a hurricane.

The numbers don’t lie. Water vapor and clouds account for 95% of the atmospheric radiative effect (ARE), the technical term for what we casually call the greenhouse effect. CO2? A measly 4-5%. And yet, for decades, climate policy, media headlines, and political debates have fixated on CO2 as if it were the sole architect of our planet’s temperature. It’s like blaming the violinist for the mosh pit.

But here’s where it gets even more absurd: of that 4-5% CO2 contribution, humans are responsible for just 4%. The other 96% comes from natural sources—ocean out-gassing, volcanic activity, the slow exhale of forests and soils. That means if you took every car, every factory, every cow burp, and every coal plant off the planet tomorrow, CO2’s role in the greenhouse effect would shrink by a fraction of a fraction. The climate, meanwhile, would keep doing what it’s always done: fluctuating, warming, cooling, entirely indifferent to our carbon guilt.

Historically, this isn’t even controversial. Ice core records from Antarctica show that temperature changes precede CO2 changes by hundreds of years. During glacial periods, the planet warms first, and then CO2 levels rise—a lag effect, not a cause. It’s like saying the siren on a fire truck causes the fire because it shows up after the blaze starts.

The greenhouse myth: Why your car’s windows don’t work like the atmosphere

Here’s a word that should be banished from climate discussions: greenhouse. The term is a metaphor that’s outlived its usefulness, like calling a smartphone a “pocket computer.” A real greenhouse stays warm because its glass traps heat via convection—the air inside can’t escape. But the Earth’s atmosphere? That’s a different beast entirely.

In the real world, heat transfer is dominated by convection and atmospheric mass, not radiation trapped by gases. The air near the surface is dense, packed with molecules that absorb and redistribute heat. As you go higher, the air thins, and temperatures drop—about 6.5°C per kilometer in the troposphere. This is why Mount Kilimanjaro’s base is a balmy 24°C while its summit hovers at -18°C. That 42°C difference isn’t because of CO2. It’s because of physics: pressure, density, and the lapse rate.

The same principle applies to the Earth’s surface. The 36 Kelvin difference between the planet’s effective radiating temperature (252 K) and its actual surface temperature (288 K) is often attributed to the “greenhouse effect.” But as the Frontiers study points out, this warming is primarily due to the temperature gradient caused by atmospheric mass, not CO2. In fact, the study’s models show that doubling CO2 concentrations would result in a temperature increase of zero. Let that sink in: even if we burned every last drop of fossil fuel on Earth, the direct warming effect from CO2 would be undetectable.

This isn’t just theory. Satellite measurements of longwave radiation—the kind CO2 is supposed to trap—show no discernible change despite rising CO2 levels. From 300 ppm to 420 ppm, the atmospheric radiative effect hasn’t budged. It’s as if someone kept turning up the volume on a silent radio and expected the music to get louder.

The war on carbon: A crusade built on a scientific mirage

So how did we get here? How did a gas that makes up 0.04% of the atmosphere become public enemy number one? The answer lies in a perfect storm of simplistic modeling, political convenience, and a human hunger for control.

In the 1980s and 90s, climate science began relying heavily on computer models that assumed CO2 was the primary climate driver. These models, however, struggled to account for water vapor’s dominance because its behavior is chaotic and harder to simulate. So, CO2 became the proxy—the easy villain. Politicians and activists seized on it because, unlike water vapor, CO2 could be regulated. You can’t tax the clouds, but you can tax factories and cars.

But nature doesn’t conform to models. The real world is messier, more dynamic, and far less cooperative with human narratives. The Frontiers study isn’t an outlier; it’s part of a growing chorus of research—over 100 papers—that describe CO2’s effect as “negligible.” Yet the myth persists, propped up by a media ecosystem that treats skepticism as heresy and dissent as denial.

The irony? Even if CO2 were a major driver, the proposed “solutions” wouldn’t work. Shutting down fossil fuels overnight would cripple modern civilization without measurably cooling the planet. Meanwhile, natural CO2 sources—like the Pacific Ocean, which releases 20 times more CO2 annually than all human activity—would keep doing their thing, utterly indifferent to our carbon offsets and electric cars.

A reckoning is coming. The CO2-centric climate narrative is crumbling under the weight of its own contradictions, and geoengineering operations are coming under the microscope as there real cause of climate change. The question is no longer if the science will correct itself, but when—and how many trillions of dollars, how many misguided policies, and how much unnecessary fear will pile up before we admit we’ve been barking up the wrong tree.

Lance D Johnson