Trees cut and burned to open land for agriculture and livestock in 2021 in the Jamanxim National Forest, part of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. ISTOCK PHOTO
THE so-called World Climate Declaration that is supposed to be such a "savage blow" against the "political orthodoxy" of anthropogenic climate change is more like a wet noodle than a whip when it comes to the actual arguments it presents. It bases its assertion that "there is no climate emergency" on five claims, all of which have been repeatedly debunked for years as they are either misrepresentations of scientific findings, outright lies, and in one case, lunacy of a depth that would make Velikovsky look sane.