Patrice POYET

IN 1877, EL NIÑO HELPED KILL TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. Read that again. The devastating 1876–1878 global famine crisis, associated in part with one of the strongest El Niño events ever reconstructed, is estimated by some researchers to have killed MORE THAN 50 MILLION PEOPLE. Drought. Starvation. Disease. Entire regions devastated. And this happened nearly 150 years ago, before SUVs, commercial aviation, coal-fired power plants on today's scale, or anything remotely resembling modern industrial energy consumption. Fast-forward to 2026. We're being warned about another potentially historic El Niño. But here's what the climate alarmists conveniently leave out: WE ARE NO LONGER LIVING IN 1877. We have diesel-powered agricultural machinery, fossil-fuel-derived fertilizers, refrigerated food distribution, irrigation, modern hospitals, global transportation networks, and reliable electricity. We can feed billions, transport food across oceans, purify drinking water, forecast severe weather, and keep people alive through conditions that once meant almost certain death. Why? CHEAP, ABUNDANT, RELIABLE ENERGY. The very energy that some activists want to make more expensive, restrict, or eliminate. And now we're supposed to believe that the energy systems responsible for so much of humanity's extraordinary progress are the enemy? El Niño was wreaking havoc long before modern industrialization. Fossil fuels didn't invent El Niño. It's a naturally occurring feature of the Pacific Ocean's climate system. Here's the inconvenient truth: Nature was killing people long before industrialization. Modern civilization has given us the tools to fight back. The next major El Niño could still cause enormous economic damage and human suffering. But there is every reason to expect its global death toll to be nowhere near the catastrophe of 1877–1878. Not because nature has become kinder. BECAUSE HUMANITY HAS BECOME WEALTHIER, MORE TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED, AND FAR BETTER PROTECTED. And much of that progress was made possible by fossil fuels. The ultimate irony? Some of the people most terrified of natural climate variability are campaigning against the very energy infrastructure that makes us resilient to it. You literally couldn't make this stuff up. Stop demonizing the energy that helped liberate humanity from nature's worst consequences. Human flourishing requires energy. Energy poverty kills.

🚨 Right, let’s get back to this! … tomorrow at COP31 the UN is launching Natural Capital. For millions of years on planet Earth forests, plants, grass and the oceans have absorbed carbon, the soils store it and rivers have carried water. No one owns this output! its life force is free for all living creatures on the planet. A God given gift. But the UN and its massive network want to give those natural processes financial values, convert them into credits and trade them on international markets. A company can already buy credits linked to a forest’s carbon absorption to offset its own emissions. Banks, investors, brokers and project developers can make money from arranging and trading those credits. This addition to the system is called NATURAL CAPITAL … It puts a financial value on biodiversity, forests, wetlands and the services nature and God provides for free. It creates opportunities for enormous private wealth from natural processes that none of these institutions created. And not one citizen has voted on this, nor will they be able to. No one has the moral authority to turn what belongs to all on the Earth into profit for the UN and financial institutions. But they are doing it anyway. 🚨

Where exactly is the “climate crisis”? Not in reported disaster frequency. Not in weather-related losses as a share of global GDP. And certainly not in human lives... disaster deaths have collapsed over the past century. CO₂ increased. The planet warmed. Yet humanity became safer, wealthier, and dramatically more resilient. These charts don’t prove climate never changes. They expose something far more inconvenient: the data do not support the relentless narrative of escalating global catastrophe. No accelerating disasters. No exploding relative costs. No mounting death toll. If your “crisis” disappears whenever the complete historical record is shown, you’re not presenting science. You’re selling fear.

Electrification, implementation and tomorrow’s launch of the #WeNeedToTalk campaign to put climate change back on the agenda, not just during COPs, but every single day. That’s what I’m looking for from this year’s #COP31!

Many vulnerable countries still lack the data needed to prepare for increasingly extreme weather. At the @turkiyecop31 @UNFCCC Pavilion, WMO’s Celeste Saulo will show how observations help understand the climate, anticipate risks & drive action. 🔴 bit.ly/48OBdYo #COP31

I never make a key climate intervention without consulting with a group of scientists first, to make sure my remarks are informed by the latest scientific evidence. I thank the climate scientists who shared their insights with me today, ahead of tomorrow's #COP31 Leaders' Summit.

After last year's record increase in ice on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, new ice accumulation this winter is already 33% above the 1981-2010 average. The Greenland melting scam is dead. polarportal.dk/en/greenland/…

Politicians promise net zero by 2050. But what will it cost you, and how much will it cut global warming? Take the EU: €4.3 trillion ($5.0 trillion), for just 0.0268°C less warming in 2100 Today I launch NetZeroCostBenefit.com: numbers for almost 200 countries. Find yours

2026 is on track to be one of the warmest years on record, with ocean heat & sea levels reaching new highs. New @WMO's #StateOfClimate update warns El Niño is expected to bring more extreme weather in 2027 & calls for urgent #ClimateAction. wmo.int/news/media-centre/st…

🗣️ En Dinamarca, el estado de salud de las vacas está empeorando, y según los rumores, se están volviendo frecuentes las muertes causadas por el aditivo alimentario Bovaer, que se ha vuelto obligatorio desde el otoño de 2025. Bovaer es un aditivo alimentario a base de 3-nitrooxipropanol (3NOP), desarrollado por la empresa suizo-holandesa DSM-Firmenich. Está diseñado para reducir las emisiones de metano durante la digestión del ganado vacuno en un promedio de 30% (esos mismos "gases" de las vacas que preocupan a los globalistas). Una locura total 💔

"Sortir des énergies fossiles": Raphaël Glucksmann prévoit 200 milliards d'investissements pour sa "révolution écologique" l.bfmtv.com/J2XA

Climate change is already causing immense suffering worldwide, particularly among the over 3 billion people in highly vulnerable areas. Our window to avert catastrophe is narrowing. We only have one planet, one home. We urgently need more ambitious climate action to protect it.

"#ClimateAction without #ClimateScience is like a ship without a rudder. Robust evidence and comprehensive findings such as those provided by IPCC can steer effective climate action.” - IPCC Chair @JimSkeaIPCC at the Ceremonial opening of #COP31 today. lnkd.in/eztGPehx

Ahead of #COP31, I spoke to @BBCJustinR for the @BBCPanorama climate special. The climate crisis is here. We are seeing its impact on communities here in Britain and across the world. And at a time when some are trying to divide us, this is the moment to come together, not pull apart. Because we know the solutions. We can break our dependence on fossil fuels, bring down bills and cut emissions. But no country can do this alone. This is the time for multilateralism and collective action.

Hi. Meteorologist here. This is nonsense. We have not entered a “new age of climate extremes.” There is no such thing as a “supersized El Niño” and the planet isn’t being “superheated” by climate change either. First, the correct meteorological term is “very strong El Niño.” Second, El Niño a natural part of Earth’s internal weather and climate variability. It is just the positive (warm) phase of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Correspondingly, La Niña is the negative (cool) phase. The atmospheric circulation component of ENSO in the tropical Pacific is the “Southern Oscillation.” But the resulting warming (cooling) sea surface temperature (SST) response is El Niño (La Niña). Normally, the thermocline (a transition layer separating warmer mixed water at the surface from cooler water below) in the Pacific Ocean slopes down towards the west. This means that the western Pacific usually has a deep, warm mixed layer of water extending downward from the surface, while the eastern Pacific has a relatively shallow mixed layer. These are “ENSO neutral” conditions. The sloped nature of the thermocline is maintained by easterly wind stress on the equatorial Pacific ocean surface. The strength of the easterlies is determined by the balance between convection (upward motion) over Indonesia and subsidence (downward motion) in the central and eastern Pacific. During La Niña, easterlies are stronger than normal because convection is displaced further west. Lower pressure over the Maritime Continent and higher pressure over Tahiti results in a strongly positive SOI index. Higher wind stress pushes even more warm surface water westward, resulting in the formation of an even larger warm pool in the west Pacific near Asia, which steepens the thermocline. This enhances divergence, leading to upwelling of cool, nutrient-rich water in the central and eastern Pacific. However, if convection moves eastward over the Pacific, the easterlies weaken or even locally reverse (we call these “westerly wind bursts”) and thermocline begins to flatten, allowing warmer water in the west Pacific to slosh eastward, creating a deeper pool of warm water in the central and eastern Pacific. This is El Niño, and this is occurring right now. The state of ENSO is quantified using the SST anomalies [relative to the most recent 30-year mean; currently, we use 1991–2020] along the equatorial belt. The main area for which SSTAs are monitored is the Niño 3.4 region, which runs from the 120–170th meridians of longitude and 5° north or south of the equator (5°N–5°S, 170°W–120°W). If the three-month averaged SSTA in Niño 3.4 is at least +0.5°C (+0.9°F), then El Niño is declared. If the three-month averaged SSTA is at least −0.5°C (−0.9°F), La Niña is declared. El Niño (La Niña) events are classified as either being “weak,” “moderate,” “strong,” or “very strong” depending on how far above (below) average SSTs in Niño 3.4 have been for the last three months. If the three-month averaged SSTA is +0.5–0.99°C (−0.5°C to −0.99°C), then the El Niño (La Niña) is weak. If it's +1–1.49°C (−1°C to −1.49°C), then the El Niño (La Niña) is moderate. If it's +1.5–1.99°C (−1.5°C to −1.99°C), then the El Niño (La Niña) is strong. If it's ≥ +2.0°C (≤ −2.0°), then the El Niño (La Niña) is very strong. The latest data from CDAS indicate that the Niño 3.4 region is currently +2.9°C (relative to 1991–2020). This means that we are in “very strong El Niño” territory.” And this has happened several times before. Very Strong El Niños occurred in 1790–93, 1827–28, 1844–45, 1890–91, 1925–26, 1982–83, 1997–98, and 2015–16. You are nothing but an ignorant, agenda-driven clown.

Hi there, @UN. I have a question. How did these world leaders, unelected bureaucrats, and scientists get to Turkey for this conference? Did all several thousand of them row a canoe? Did they walk? Surely they didn’t fly by air and emit world-ending “carbon pollution,” right?