The Climate Crisis Con Game The climate crisis isn’t just a narrative—it’s the Left’s longest-running confidence game, leveraging fear for our children to loot wallets, liberties, and the public trust. By Thaddeus G. McCotter
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/12/the-climate-crisis-con-game/
The technical term is “confidence game.” A crook gains the confidence of a victim (the “mark”) and preys upon their naivety, greed, and/or fear. Ultimately, the duped mark gives their money and/or property to the crook willingly.
Consider this real-world example provided in Connie Fletcher’s 1991 book, What Cops Know: Today’s Police Tell the Inside Story of Their Work on America’s Streets, wherein an anonymous Chicago Police Department (CPD) detective reminisces about a con game he redressed:
“One of the superintendents of the Chicago Police Department—his aunt was taken for $15,000… She was a recent widow, Italian. And during this con, they sent her back to Italy to dig up her husband’s body and take a button off his vest. International phone calls were made between Chicago and Palermo, Italy, continuing the con on this woman, warning her that she must do these things in order to keep her three grandchildren safe. It was five thousand dollars for each grandchild.”
“When I went to the [lead con artist, Louis]… I said, ‘Louis, you cost these people [fifteen thousand] dollars.’ He said, ‘I was taking a curse off their children.’ ‘Louis, come on.’ ‘Listen, are those children safe today?’ ‘Yeah, they’re safe.’ ‘Then it’s off. The curse has been taken off them.’ I said, ‘Why did you charge them [fifteen thousand] dollars?’ He said, ‘It was to take the curse off.’”
While this seems a rather involved scam, boiled down to its essence, it aligns with the experience of another CPD detective: “The best con is the simplest con.” At its stony heart, the con preys upon a grandmother’s love and fears for her grandchildren to extort money from her.
Viewed in its proper light, then, what to make of the Left’s “climate crisis?”
Despite the lack of any remote consensus regarding the alarmists’ proclamations of an impending climate apocalypse, what to make of the leftist “experts” and politicians who implore a concerned public to trust the science—i.e., the selectively chosen science that purports to support their alarmist position and deepens the “mark’s” fears for their offspring and/or planet?
What to make of the left’s incessant warnings of impending environmental doom despite the failure of past dire prognostications to materialize?
What to make of the crisis actor activists who ape these apocalyptic prophecies and engage in acts of vandalism and other pressure tactics to create chaos and further fuel the public’s anxieties about the “climate crisis?”
What to make of the left’s preying upon and exacerbating people’s virtuous concerns for their children, future generations, and the environment to frighten them into willingly parting with not only their money but their liberty, too?
Yes, these are rhetorical questions. The left’s climate crisis is a political con game—and a tragically effective one.
Per American Greatness, ponder the recent scandalous vignette: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin’s discovery of some of the gold bars tossed off the Titanic as the dwining Biden administration sank into the depths of historical ignominy.
[The EPA] has uncovered roughly $20 billion that was stashed at “an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA” by the Climate United Fund (CUF)…
The CUF was advertising to hire for a position to help spend the $6.97 billion “climate change” grant which it had received as part of the $20 billion which was dispersed during the final days of the departing Biden administration.
A political appointee to the EPA under the outgoing administration was caught on video bragging about “tossing gold bars off the Titanic” in an effort to push as much money as possible out the door before the Trump administration was inaugurated.
Rightfully, on behalf of the mark—namely, the taxpaying public—Mr. Zeldin assailed the deceit of this specific Biden administration climate crisis con: “This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposefully designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight.”
The un-dearly departed Biden administration’s cynically devised shell game to make and mask federal appropriations that a Democrat administration rammed through to fund the left for generations is a sign of its success in executing its climate crisis political con. But it also reveals that they sense the mark is onto their con.
Even before President Trump’s victory, the left sensed its marks were getting wise to their con. Indeed, the late Democrat congressional majority falsely labeled the “Inflation Reduction Act.” It was, in fact, a trillion-dollar bill to “address” the climate crisis (for it can never be allowed to end, lest the gravy train derail). So, while the climate crisis political con was enough to get elected to a majority, the Democrats sensed openly announcing a trillion-dollar “Green New Deal” to radically alter the American economy and, in consequence, imperil Americans’ prosperity, was not a winning issue, despite all the tendentious effort put into promoting the scam among the public. Ironically, for once, one of their dire predictions proved correct: the Democrat majority was swept out, as was eventually Mr. Biden.
But for the left, the con must go on, and $20 billion is $20 billion, however nabbed. Who would know better than the pardon-happy Biden administration that, in the swamp, there is no honor among thieves?
Which, from Ms. Fletcher’s book, brings to mind another CPD officer’s reminiscence:
“So one night, a guy appears on one of the roofs, almost two o’clock in the morning, a cold and windy night—carrying a bike. We later found he came up through the high-rise stairwells. Takes the bike, puts it on the roof. Then he…rappels down three floors off the top and drops onto the balcony. And he goes in through the sliding doors… Who’s gonna think somebody’s gonna come in from outside on the fiftieth floor?
“He came back out with some camping stuff, climbed back on the roof. That’s when we caught him. He’s going to the bike he rides to and from the burglaries. [I ask] ‘What’d you bring the bike up [to the roof] for?’
“‘I don’t want nobody to steal it.’”
One cannot help but presume the thief had stolen the bike, too.
Oh, by the by, Mr. Zeldin has referred the matter of the “parked” $20 billion in EPA funding to the Inspector General and Attorney General Pam Bondi.
After all, where else would you report the existence of a con game?
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