The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) was held this week in Davos, Switzerland, and the timing could not have been worse.
The WEF wants to control every facet of the lives of every person on Earth, excluding themselves, of course.
While they travel to the meeting in their private jets, they criticize the consumption of fossil fuel by the masses, and no one preaches this message more stridently than former Vice President Al Gore, who became a multi-millionaire as a climate alarmist.
When Gore addressed the gathering on Wednesday, he displayed a photograph that he said was taken from the International Space Station.
It depicted a thin, blue line surrounding the Earth’s surface that illustrated the planet’s atmosphere.
"Unfortunately, that thin shell is also what we’re using as an open sewer for all of the global warming pollution that we spew into it every single day," he said.
While Gore was talking about global warming, residents of states fronting the Gulf of Mexico America woke up to six inches of snow.
A large section of I-10, from the Florida-Alabama line to just west of Tallahassee, was closed in both directions due to icy conditions.
At the same time, Florida state House Speaker Daniel Perez and Senate President Ben Albritton, both Republicans, canceled committee meetings scheduled for the week because of the snow and ice.
This would be the same Al Gore who predicted in 2008 that the North Pole would be ice-free within five years — by 2008.
Instead, Arctic ice has increased and it’s snowing in Florida.
Gore droned on, digging an even bigger hole for himself.
"And it [global warming pollution] comes from a variety of sources, including agriculture and forest land clearing, and forest burning and mining, and all of the different industrial operations. And it mounts up — 175 million tons every day."
To recap, Gore said that the factors causing global warming include:
- Agriculture: Is he saying eating is overrated now?
- Forest land clearing: If California had engaged in proper forestry management — including forest clearing — it may not be on fire today.
- Forest burning: See above.
- Mining: Mining is required to extract the lithium needed for batteries to power the electric vehicles the left is so enamored of.
And bringing up the rear, industrial operations, Gore’s final complaint, suggesting that he wants us to return to a pre-industrial era, which would be agriculture-based.
Agriculture, in turn, was his initial complaint.
President Trump addressed the WEF yesterday by teleconference and attempted to take their heads out of the clouds to face some cold, hard truths — truths that clash with their own thinking.
"What the world has witnessed in the last 72 hours is nothing less than a revolution of common sense," Trump said of his new term.
"I terminated the ridiculous and incredibly wasteful Green New Deal — I call it the "green new scam" — withdrew from the one-sided Paris Climate Accord, and ended the insane and costly electric vehicle mandate.
"We’re going to let people buy the car they want to buy."
Freedom. Now there’s an idea.
"I declared a national energy emergency . . . to unlock the liquid gold under our feet and pave the way for rapid approval of new energy infrastructure. The United States has the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth, and we’re going to use it."
Under Biden, domestic energy production declined, and we made up the difference by purchasing it from Venezuela. Trump, however, observed that energy independence is good for everyone.
"Not only will this reduce the cost of virtually all goods and services, it’ll make the United States a manufacturing superpower, and the capital of artificial intelligence and crypto."
Trump announced other ideas to reduce manufacturing and consumer costs.
"My administration has also begun the largest deregulation campaign in history, far exceeding even the record-setting efforts of my last term," he said. "I have promised to eliminate 10 old regulations for every new regulation, which will soon put many thousands of dollars back in the pockets of American families."
Deregulation: There we go with freedom again, a concept the WEF globalists hate.
Newsmax’s Chris Plante called Trump’s efforts "a renewed world reorder," as opposed to the WEF’s vision of "a new world order."
Last year at Davos another newly-elected president, Argentina’s Javier Milei, gave the WEF another lesson in freedom.
"We're here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world," he told the group. "Rather, they are the root cause."
This year Trump expanded on the importance of freedom, while a climate alarmist made a fool of himself, turning Davos 2025 into a very bad vintage for the World Economic Forum.
Michael Dorstewitz is a retired lawyer and has been a frequent contributor to Newsmax. He is also a former U.S. Merchant Marine officer and a Second Amendment supporter. Read Michael Dorstewitz's Reports — More Here.
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