Few topics are discussed by the American President Biden more than climate change, by which he means global warming. This concern has driven many of his presidential actions, such as reducing drilling for oil in America and relying on buying foreign oil to meet our requirements. This policy has contributed to record high oil prices, and has enabled Russia to finance their war in Ukraine. In turn, America has given Ukraine billions of dollars to fight the war against the Russian war financed by patrol dollars. I am not a climatologist, but have to rely on those who are.

Aside from reading several short books on the topic, 17 years after I first saw it, I watched again the excellent 2006 film by Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth. Although I was very impressed with it in 2006 when I first saw it, I realize that 17 years later most of his major predictions have not come to pass.

Founded in 2019, the coalition of 1,688 experts, including two Nobel laureate physicists, John Francis Clauser and Ivan Giaever, has recently published their conclusions. First, they concluded that Earth's climate has experienced several cold and warm phases since the Earth was created. The last Little Ice Age only ended in 1850, and, as we come out of the Little Ice Age, the Earth has warmed slightly. Specifically, it has warmed about 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit (equal to 1 degree Celsius) since 1880. The coalition consensus has concluded that global warming is happening, but “far slower” than predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They also concluded that "There is no climate emergency."

The validity of a climate model depends on what the model makers put into their model. Existing climate models are imperfect because not all of the many factors affecting climate are known. The coalition has concluded that existing models tend to exaggerate the effect of greenhouse gases. They ignore the fact that enriching the atmosphere with CO₂ is actually very beneficial because CO₂ is essential for all life on Earth, and extra CO₂ encourages the growth of the global plant biomass and boosts worldwide crop yields. Furthermore, a large amount of sunlight is reflected back into space by cumulus clouds, which on average, cover over half of the Earth. Therefore for these and other reasons these models are problematic for making policy.

The coalition also rejected the claim that global warming is linked to increased natural disasters, such as hurricanes, floods, and droughts, because no compelling statistical evidence exists to support these claims. They concluded that climate science has degenerated into a discussion based on beliefs, not sound, self-critical science. Nobel laureate Francis Clauser concluded that "The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people. Misguided climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience. In turn, the [climate] pseudoscience has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills."
 
This declaration against the climate change narrative counters propaganda spread by climate alarmists who have long predicted doomsday scenarios triggered by global warming—none of which have ever come true. Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, John R. Christy, noted the American Western states have experienced its largest number of hot summer records in the past century, but the Ohio Valley and Upper Midwest are experiencing their fewest. For the United States as a whole, the last decade has produced an average number of records. Furthermore, the 1930s still hold the most records of extreme temperature fluctuations. Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., even opined that climate change "is being used to control us through fear. More people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change." The 1,688 coalition experts agree.

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