So many political leaders are backtracking on green policies, Bloomberg laments the Climate Deniers are Hiding in Plain Sight.

Sir Kier Starmer was a star at the last COP meeting in Azerbaijan, but this year he doesn't even want to go to the next COP meeting in Brazil. Apparently his aides "are worried about being criticized by the Reform UK party." Only two years ago Starmer was criticizing Rishi Sunak for missing COP27, now he's too scared to go himself lest he look crazy-green. 

Everywhere countries are saying they care about climate change but are doing the opposite. The EU nations are fighting over their 2035 and 2040 emissions targets, Mexico is borrowing up to keep its oil company afloat, Canada scrapped their carbon tax, and is being "coy" about their 2030 target. Governor Gavin Newsom just boosted oil drilling in California "a year after he described the industry as the "polluted heart of this climate crisis.""

Now Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Tories in the UK, is promising to dump The Climate Change Act if she gets elected. Suddenly, the race is on to be skeptical. She's in an existential fight for relevance against the storming Reform party which are polling as high as 29% now, compared to the Labour government on 21% and the Tories at just 16%. All those skeptical voters were there all along, enough to break the two party system in Britain.

The Climate Voodoo Doll is coming undone

Ponder how fast it all is. Only one year ago UK voters had a choice of Net Zero by 2050 from both sides of politics.  Labour were offering to be recklessly green, and the Tories were aiming to be 95% as reckless, while calling themselves "pragmatic".

The BBC lays out how similar the two main Parties were in 2024 —  Labour wanted to decarbonize the whole grid by 2030, while the Tories were aiming for "only" 95% of the grid to be low carbon by 2030.  Labour hoped to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, but Richi Sunak pushed that back all the way to… 2035.

Then Trump won, and Nigel Farage stood up and said it is 'absolutely nuts to call CO2 a pollutant', and the crowd roared.  Somehow, improbably, Farage is now "nearly as trusted" as Labour on climate change, which only shows how many skeptical voters there are. They trust him to get rid of climate parasites.