Peter Murphy
Peter Murphy is senior fellow at CFACT. He has researched and advocated for a variety of policy issues, including education reform and fiscal policy.
Wednesday afternoon at the COP30 Climate Summit, the United Nations declared war on free speech and scientific inquiry.
Through its Orwellian-sounding Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change, the UN pushed back hard against “climate disinformation,” which was the very purpose for establishing this UN Global Initiative in June 2025.
Specifically, the initiative issued a “landmark declaration” that “calls on governments, the private sector, civil society, academia and funders to take concrete action to counter the growing impact of disinformation, misinformation, denialism and deliberate attacks on environmental journalists, defenders, scientists and researchers that undermine climate action and threaten societal stability.”
That’s a mouthful.
Our climate masters are getting antsy and cannot brook dissent or contrarians. ‘Question authority’ is so… yesterday.
We at CFACT have never seen such a hysterical, ostentatious display in three decades of attending climate summits, as these masters of the planet attempt to quash dissent.
The existential climate narrative has always been accompanied by tropes such as the “science is settled” and “we’re past the time to ‘debate’ climate change.” This climate summit in Brazil is raising to a much higher level its attempt to silence free speech and scientific challenges to its climate dogma.
Accompanying Wednesday’s “declaration,” less than halfway through the conference, 10 nations endorsed this attack on speech and science that refuses to accept the climate summit’s embellished, shopworn narrative. They are Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and Uruguay.
Shame on Canada and the European nations that purport to stand for democracy and freedom – until it challenges their political climate agenda – even as they welch on their financial commitments to ‘fight’ climate change. That is, talk is cheap. These same nations, and many others expected to sign on, will never put their share of $300 billion in annual support of UN climate funds to back up their “declaration” against dissent.
As for the others thus far, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay, glomming on to squashing opposition to their climate agenda is another crass way of exacting billions of dollars from wealthier nations to redistribute to their national treasuries to finance climate projects in the developing world.
In genuine Orwellian fashion, this UN “information integrity” outfit invokes “international human rights law, including freedom of expression standards,” even as it attempts to stifle those of us who refuse to play along with their climate dogma. In other words, they define ‘freedom of expression’ as following the party line on climate – straight from the totalitarian playbook. History is replete with such examples of tyrannical doublespeak.
Wednesday’s declaration also contains this gem of calling on governments to “foster cooperation and capacity-building to address threats to information integrity” – meaning, nations must quell any challenge to the climate narrative and its control society.
The COP30 Summit’s urgency in announcing this attack on freedom, this threat to dissenters, includes this revealing nugget: “resources [are] falling short of needs globally.” This reference is about urging nations to fund “research climate information integrity,” but I suspect the angst is way bigger; to wit, the wealthiest nation and the wealthiest private foundation are pulling back on funding the their climate agenda.
From his inaugural speech in January, President Trump made clear he’s defunding the “Green New Scam,” as he described it, and Congress followed suit in reducing subsidies and prior financial commitments to solar, wind, and other climate schemes when it passed its Budget Reconciliation law in July.
Former Microsoft head, Bill Gates, last month renounced the “existential” climate narrative and is redirecting his vast foundation’s resources to other, more tangible and beneficial priorities in the developing world, such as fighting disease and poverty.
Rest assured, CFACT and its many organizational allies will continue to advance scientific facts about climate and counter the continuous hot-air hysterics from the UN bureaucracies and lemming nations. Their “landmark declaration” is pure posturing and will continue to be exposed.
Our monthly Climate Fact Check is but one of our many vehicles for advancing scientific truths and countering climate hysterics and groupthink. Our most recent Fact Check, issued in October, revealed peer-reviewed research that demolished the bogus claim of an increased number of “extremely hot days” this year. It also debunked the false assertion of “more intense and erratic” Indian summer monsoons, as such weather intensity has neither increased nor decreased since 1871, to cite two examples among other issues.
Attempts by the UN and its litany of NGO suppliants, corporations cashing in, and nations parroting their climate declarations will not intimidate or deter CFACT and its allies from fighting back with research, facts, and science about the nature and impacts of an ever-changing climate on our long-lasting planet.
This article was originally published by CFACT.
