When Wind Concerns was launched, our goal was to provide our community with information about industrial wind turbines and their impacts on the environment and human health. That research inevitably led us to the main reason behind the irrational drive for so-called “green energy”: the “global warming” narrative. We hope articles like the following will awaken more and more people to the folly, if not fraud, behind unreliable wind energy, carbon taxes, and the rising cost of living…
Lucy Biggers was big in the climate activist world. She interviewed Greta Thunberg, U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (aka. “AOC”), and pushed ideas like the Green New Deal, plastic straw bans, plastic bag bans, “anything you could think that is like the typical climate activist, I pushed those things,” says Biggers.
But then she “woke up.”
“I thought I was on the right side of history and that these ideas were so important to push,” she says in a recent Instagram video (see above). But then she began to see contradictions in the climate movement that didn’t make sense. “I would have some questions, like, why we’re protesting pipelines when, you know, the pipelines were already approved; maybe we shouldn’t have done that. Or the fact that… oil pipelines are better for the environment and safer than transporting these materials on trains. Or… the idea that plastic has a lower carbon footprint than glass and wood. I would sometimes see these contradictory facts, but my ideology and identification was so tied up in the group that when I would see those things, I would push them away.”
She calls it being “brainwashed.”
It’s one of the reasons critics of global warming often call the movement a “climate cult.” It operates on “fear”, says Biggers. There is no tolerance for dissenters who are labeled “deniers,” no matter their qualifications. Such researchers are defunded if not outright deplatformed. And the mainstream media and propaganda rags like DeSmog uncritically accept the agenda and ridicule those who raise questions.
It’s classic cult behavior.
But after having her first son and then seeing during COVID how nations were “barely making a dent in our climate emissions, even though the world was shut down… that’s when I started to think,” she questioned, “what is the climate movement wanting from us? Because if they want to get our emissions down to [net] zero, that would require destroying our way of life.”
That’s when Biggers opened her horizons to opposing views, such as those in Michael Shellenberger’s Apocalypse Never and Steven Coonan’s Unsettled. “And it made me realize that this climate narrative, this black and white thinking that I was pushing, that climate change was an existential threat and that the world was going to be destroyed by it, was not true, and that the truth was much more complex.”
“I realized,” says Biggers, “I did not want to be on my deathbed one day having regrets of sitting on what was the truth because of fear. Overall, what I think about climate change now is this: that climate change is happening if you define it as we’re going through a warming period. We’ve actually been going through this warming period since the end of the Little Ice Age in the 1600s.”
“So we’ve seen warming consistently for the past 400 years. And in the last 150 years, we’ve seen 1.3 degrees of warming, which has coincided at the same time with the most human flourishing the world has ever known. So I don’t think that this idea that warming is bad for humans can hold up to any scrutiny if you look at it honestly.”
“And then at the same time, we’re also releasing CO2 into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, which is oil, coal, natural gas. And [with] the increase in CO2, we’ve seen global greening go up by 15% to 20% in some areas.” Wind Concerns published an article on peer-reviewed studies confirming that the earth has been greening, which results in more food, and healthier and more nutritious plants.1 Biggers adds: “We’ve seen plants have better growing seasons because CO2 is a plant food, if you remember from biology class. And so this idea that CO2 is inherently bad, I also kind of call bullshit….”
The Climate Apostates
Biggers isn’t alone in this regard. A study at The Heartland Institute shows that 96% of climate data used to justify this climate push is flawed. (Note: it was flawed computer modelling that also drove COVID-19 pandemic hysteria). Dr. Judith Curry, like Biggers, was a mainstream climate activist. But she left that world when she discovered that the climate narrative is driven by flawed computer models and that politicians’ real goal ought to be minimizing air and water pollution, not carbon dioxide. Tom Harris, Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition, was a climate alarmist who has now reversed his position due to flawed “models that don’t work,” and is now calling the whole narrative a hoax. Indeed, one study admits that the 12 major university and government models that have been used to predict climate warming are faulty. Remember “climategate” when scientists were caught deliberately altering statistics and ignoring satellite data that showed no warming? Indeed, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been caught several times fudging data in order to rush forward their agenda — an agenda now openly mocked and opposed by the President of the United States, who recently, at Davos, Switzerland (January, 2026) again called green energy a “scam.”2
“This ‘climate change,’ it’s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion. All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their countries fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success. If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail.”
President Donald Trump, UN address on September 23, 2025, Video: YouTube timestamped at 5:20
Even Bill Gates managed to shock CNN with his critique of the “doomsday view of climate change.”
Perhaps the biggest surprise resistance has come from former Greenpeace co-founder, Dr. Patrick Moore, PhD, who told Forbes magazine: “The alarmism is driving us through scare tactics to adopt energy policies that are going to create a huge amount of energy poverty among the poor people. It’s not good for people and it’s not good for the environment… In a warmer world, we can produce more food.”3
Moore went on to summarize the agenda, driven, he says, by money, politics, and harmful ideology:
Climate change has become a powerful political force for many reasons. First, it is universal; we are told everything on Earth is threatened. Second, it invokes the two most powerful human motivators: fear and guilt… Third, there is a powerful convergence of interests among key elites that support the climate “narrative.” Environmentalists spread fear and raise donations; politicians appear to be saving the Earth from doom; the media has a field day with sensation and conflict; science institutions raise billions in grants, create whole new departments, and stoke a feeding frenzy of scary scenarios; business wants to look green, and get huge public subsidies for projects that would otherwise be economic losers, such as wind farms and solar arrays. Fourth, the Left sees climate change as a perfect means to redistribute wealth from industrial countries to the developing world and the UN bureaucracy.
—Dr. Patrick Moore, P.h.d., co-founder of Greenpeace; “Why I am a Climate Change Skeptic”, March 20th, 2015, Heartland Institute
Trying to Turn the Tide
As for Biggers, she thought she’d never return in front of a camera, but decided to make a comeback as an influencer — this time, on the right side of history. In her Instagram post, she laments the censorship and propaganda that has stifled scientific debate of the facts: “…There’s a really healthy movement out there of climate skeptics who, unfortunately, have been censored and maligned. A lot of them have been kicked out of their jobs for reporting on the truth, and it’s really sad.”
“And so the goal with my content and my page is to help bridge the gap between this information that’s out there in the climate skeptic realist community… It’s just spreading information that’s already out there — but maybe you have not seen it because of your media sources.”
Information like that of Dr. Judith Curry, who is likewise exposing the disinformation of the Green movement. The climate change narrative, she says, is nothing short of a “manufactured consensus.”10 Dr. Curry notes that the doomsday scenarios of “emissions” causing 4-5 °C of warming by 2100 are no longer accepted:
These extreme scenarios have been dropped by UN Conference of the Parties to the UN Climate Agreement. However, the new Synthesis Report [of the IPCC] continues to emphasize these extreme scenarios, while this important finding is buried in a footnote: “Very high emission scenarios have become less likely but cannot be ruled out”… Clearly, the climate “crisis” isn’t what it used to be… The IPCC Reports have become “bumper sticker” climate science – making a political statement while using the overall reputation of science to give authority to a politically manufactured consensus.
“UN’s climate panic is more politics than science”, March 28, 2023, judithcurry.com
As a result of repeatedly failed alarmist predictions, more and more scientists are joining these climatologists to debunk the mainstream media and their elite globalist partners’ agenda. Over 2000 signatories, including Nobel laureates Ivar Giaever of Norway and Dr. John Clauser, have signed a declaration stating that there is ‘no climate emergency.’ David Siegel, one of the signatories, declared: “It’s clear that CO2 has almost nothing to do with climate” — unlike data showing that ocean currents have more impact than the so-called “Greenhouse effect”. Swedish climate expert Dr. Fred Goldberg agrees that carbon dioxide is not the main cause of global warming and that climate change is not affected by human action but mainly by solar activity and ocean currents. Geologist Gregory Wrightstone makes a ‘massively compelling case’ that pretty much everything we have been told about climate change is the opposite of the truth.4
Terrorizing the Youth
Ultimately, Bigger’s greatest concern is for the young, “because young people have been taught this in school now for over a decade, if not two decades… and it’s led to a mental health crisis young people.”
She echoes the warning of publisher Steve Forbes:
…the apocalyptic language surrounding the climate has done a deep disservice to humanity. It has led to incredibly wasteful and ineffectual spending. The psychological costs have also been immense. Many people, particularly younger ones, live in fear that the end is nigh, too often leading to debilitating depression about the future. A look at the facts would demolish those apocalyptic anxieties.
Forbes magazine, July 14, 2023
The youth, says Biggers, are “having this sort of nihilism about their futures — they don’t want to have kids; they’re afraid; they think that modern society and capitalism — all these things in fossil fuels, of course — are the downfall of our civilization, when it’s kind of the opposite is true… that we live in a really abundant, safe, prosperous time, and humans have never had more choice than they do now.”
“So this idea that climate change is dangerous and that our systems are causing it, I just, I want to throw it all out. And that’s the point of this: I want people, young people, to have the full context. We’re safer than ever. We’re more prosperous than ever. Climate change isn’t dangerous, and there isn’t a consensus on how much of it we can even control, and if the solutions like solar and wind even work.”
Are We Going to Keep Doing This?
Well, solar and wind certainly don’t work when the sun ain’t shinin’ and the wind ain’t blowin’. They certainly don’t work when you consider the rape of third-world countries of rare earth minerals for battery storage, etc. on the backs of child labor.5 And they certainly don’t work when you consider the amount of agricultural land that is sequestered and the harm to humans, wildlife, birds, and marine life that is now well-documented. Which is why Schellenberger flat out asks:
In the effort to save the climate, are we destroying the environment?… Now that we know that renewables can’t save the planet, are we going to let them keep destroying it?
Michael Shellenberger is President of Environmental Progress, TED Talk, January 4, 2019; youtube.com
Finally, some environmentalists are beginning to see the forest for the trees. The question is whether our politicians will have the courage to finally stop feeding the scam.
- see Peer Reviewed Study: Carbon emissions are greening the planet[↩]
- https://www.windconcerns.com/hot-air-behind-the-wind/[↩]
- Fox Business News with Stewart Varney, January 2011; Forbes.com[↩]
- see Hot Air Behind the Wind for a comprensive critique of “global warming” hysteria[↩]
- cf. The Devastating Costs of Saving the Planet[↩]
Mark Mallett is a former award-winning reporter with CTV Edmonton and an independent researcher and author. His family homesteaded between Vermilion and Cold Lake, Alberta, and now resides in the Lakeland region. Mark is Editor in Chief of Wind Concerns.