Climate Porn
How and Why Anti-Population Zealots Fabricate Science, while Targeting American Capitalism, Freedom, and Independence
By Kevin J. Mooney
Bombardier Books
PB, US$19.99
ISBN-13: 979-8895650646
New book exposes how anti-population zealots fabricate science around climate change
By Rachel Alexander
web posted April 13, 2026
Investigative journalist Kevin Mooney has published a book exposing the deceitful efforts behind the climate change agenda, titled Climate Porn, How and Why Anti-Population Zealots Fabricate Science, while Targeting American Capitalism, Freedom, and Independence. He compares the movement to pornography, because it also has harmful effects — on the scientific method. The green zealots are “addicted to climate porn.”
What it comes down to, Mooney believes, is “a quest for political power and a desire on the part of neo-Marxists and economic central planners to target and dismantle American-style capitalism.” He said “the climate movement has hijacked any remaining remnants of environmentalism as it’s defined in the dictionary.”
However, Mooney told me that “the science is on our side,” the “climate realists.” There is evidence from astronomers that the earth is moving towards a cooling stage. The dire predictions have never materialized. Natural climate variability, not human CO2 emissions, is the main driver of changes, and CO2 is beneficial, such as for plant growth — it’s not a pollutant.
The government first got heavily locked into the climate change agenda in the 1990s due to the UN. And later, under the Biden administration, every federal agency was required to have a climate mandate. There are “green groups dialed into all levels of government.” Wealthy left-wing organizations such as the Tides Foundations and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, as well as Beijing, are pouring money into these efforts. Beijing wants to dominate the energy sector in order to become the global superpower. The international climate agreements are to make us more dependent on foreign energy, Mooney said.
Mooney refers to this cozy relationship as “the unelected fourth branch of government that has taken hold of America.” Big Green, Inc., run by the Institute for Energy Research, tracks the left-wing funding.
However, President Donald Trump is making incremental progress dismantling the “Climate Industrial Complex,” through overturning the EPA's "endangerment finding" on CO2 and exiting the Paris Accords. The American Energy Alliance put together a list of 50 actions the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have taken to unleash American energy. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has made inroads eliminating the green mandates in government. He is engaging in “devolution federalism,” moving environmental efforts back to the local level, where governments are doing valuable work such as running parks. Mooney cited Trump’s famous statement, “I represent Pittsburgh, not Paris.”
Mooney said there is nothing wrong with wind turbines — “except physics and economics.” Wind and solar are intermittent, not reliable sources of power. And in the future, the “revolution towards data centers will make them unsustainable.” He’s fine with using wind and solar for energy, as long as it involves investors and is not done by mandates that pick winners and losers.
In New York and New Jersey, offshore wind turbines are causing the deaths of humpback whales, Mooney said in the book. The underwater noise of construction indirectly stresses or displaces whales, causing them to wash up on shores. Big environmental groups that should care about the whales and having pristine beaches, such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club, the National Wildlife Federation and the League of Conservation Voters, are strangely quiet.
The tragedy is the opportunity cost, Mooney said. We could have been improving living standards instead of wasting money mandated by environmental regulations. He lamented that “it is the most vulnerable populations in the poorest regions that have suffered the most from the anti-energy impulses of the climate movement.” In the U.S., regular Americans, such as farmers, small business owners, scientists and local officials, are penalized by green policies driven by these motives. Mooney said it’s those of us who seek realistic energy policies are the true environmentalists with our emphasis on conservation.
Other chapters in his book go over the advancing of “Net Zero” policies that seek to eliminate all fossil fuels and how opponents are silenced and canceled, including being sued. “In several instances, well-credentialed scientists have been either forced out of their positions or pressured to abandon their research.” Roger Pielke Jr., a professor in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Colorado, said in 2015, “The incessant attacks and smears are effective, no doubt, I have already shifted all of my academic work away from climate issues.”
Another chapter discusses how credit card companies are tracking “carbon footprints” with purchases in order to eventually constrain the actions of individuals. Critics describe the latter as “a Chinese-style social credit card system,” complete with a UN global action logo, Mooney said. Mastercard partnered with the UN to launch its card, which cuts consumers off from spending once they hit a certain limit.
What needs to happen is to change the public’s perception of CO2. Mooney said with increasing school choice, this can take place in K-12 education. But it will be a generational change maybe 12 years down the road for this shift to take place.
Mooney concluded the book recommending that the best way the U.S. can celebrate the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is to withdraw from the UN. The Disengaging Entirely from the United Nations Debacle (DEFUND) Act in Congress would accomplish that. 
Rachel Alexander and her brother Andrew are co-Editors of Intellectual Conservative. She has been published in the American Spectator, Townhall.com, Fox News, NewsMax, Accuracy in Media, The Americano, ParcBench, Enter Stage Right and other publications.
