Every April, like clockwork, a predictable ritual unfolds. Earth Day rolls around with the same tired apocalyptic sermon from the climate catastrophe cult.
The routine never changes: The planet is dying, humans are to blame, and only surrendering your freedom, your car, and your paycheck to the green elites will save it. Fifty-six years later, they’re still wrong.
The planet is fine. It’s the climate cult that’s cracked.
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You’d think after all the busted prophecies, they’d tone it down. Instead, they double down.
Remember when the “experts” said the Arctic would be ice-free by 2013? The ice is still there, just as thick and stubborn as ever.
We were told hurricanes would grow “more frequent and more powerful.” Instead, there were near-normal seasons in 2023 and 2024.
So now they move the goalposts: Every weather event, hot or cold, wet or dry, is “caused by climate change.” It’s not science. It’s superstition plotted on graphs.
They said snow would vanish from ski resorts — remember that “End of Snow” panic? Instead, skiers in the Northeast this year were digging out from record blizzards.
The 2023-2024 warming spike was caused by a natural El Nino. When the El Nino ended, the spike ended. February 2026 was cooler, in fact, than February 1998 despite a trillion tons of emissions.
Time after time, the “experts” predict apocalypse. And year after year, Mother Nature refuses to corroborate their stories.
Meanwhile, the actual data tell a different story. U.S. air quality today is the cleanest it’s been in 50 years.
Global deaths from natural disasters have plummeted over 90% since the early 20th century. Crop yields worldwide keep hitting records.
Humans are safer, wealthier, and more energy-secure than at any time in history. The planet isn’t gasping for breath — it’s very healthy.
That’s exactly what George Carlin was getting at in his legendary bit, “The Planet Is Fine.” Over three decades ago, long before “climate anxiety” was a diagnosis, Carlin, perhaps the most famous comedian of his time, saw through the sanctimony.
The planet’s been through ice ages, asteroid strikes, and supervolcanoes — and it’s still spinning. Yet today’s enviroactivists think your SUV is going to do what Mount Tambora couldn’t? Please. Their arrogance is nauseating.
The self-appointed saviors of Earth don’t really care about the planet. They care about control.
Earth Day has turned into a political holiday — a green May Day for those who want to remake society in their image. Their “solutions” invariably mean more regulation, higher taxes, and fewer choices.
Shut down the power plants, outlaw gas stoves, ban plastic straws while flying private jets to elitist conclaves dressed up as ‘‘climate conferences.”
It’s not about saving Earth. It’s about saving face.
When the predictions fail, the excuse shifts. Sea levels were supposed to swallow Manhattan, but the only thing underwater now is former Vice President Al Gore’s credibility.
Polar bears were “going extinct” until the population hit record highs. Every “climate emergency” gets debunked, but the headlines roll on because fear sells.
Carlin joked that people crave bad news. The legacy media just industrialized it.
And the public is getting wise. Net-zero mandates are collapsing under their own absurdity.
Europe ran headfirst into the wall of “green reality” and came crawling back to coal and nuclear. Even California’s self-inflicted energy shortages have people asking whether energy policy should be based on cockamamie models or common sense.
The answer should be obvious: If your plan can’t keep the lights on, it’s not saving the planet — it’s sabotaging it.
“Follow the science” is their mantra. Fine. The science says carbon dioxide is plant food.
The science says climate models have blown past reality for decades. The science says mankind thrives in warmer eras.
None of this fits the narrative, so it gets buried under the next climate scare of the month. The apocalypse never arrives — but the grant money does.
Here’s the part Earth Day activists really hate: The planet isn’t fragile — we are.
Nature doesn’t need our policies, our pledges, or our petitions. It will outlast every last panel discussion in Davos, Switzerland.
So instead of groveling over our collective “climate guilt,” maybe they should celebrate what we’ve actually accomplished: clean air, longer lives, record food production, and energy that works at the flick of a switch.
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The planet doesn’t care about your compost bin or your latest electric car mandate. It’s been around for 4.5 billion years, and cooling for the last 485 million years, and it will still be here when the last climate model is rotting on an obsolete hard drive.
It’s humans who need perspective. As Carlin famously said, “The planet is doing great.” The hysterical people who keep screaming that it isn’t are the problem.
Jason Isaac, founder and CEO of the American Energy Institute, previously served four terms in the Texas House of Representatives. Steve Milloy is a senior legal fellow with the Energy and Environmental Legal Institute and is on X at @JunkScience.