Unusually, when explaining what something is, this page starts off by explaining what Climate Change isn’t.
Climate Change, contrary to the view hels by most laypersons, has almost nothing to do with the changing climate of the Earth.
This cannot be put better than the words of Edenhofer:
Ottmar Edenhofer is a professor of the Climate Economics and Public Policy at the Technische Universität in Berlin, as well as Director and Chief Economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
From 2008 to 2015, he served as Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC and was lead author of the technical summary and of the summary for policy makers for both the WG III contribution to the IPCC AR5 and the IPCC’s Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation.
In 2020, Ottmar Edenhofer was ranked among the 1% of the most cited scientists worldwide in the category "interdisciplinary science" according to the Web of Science citation index.
Ottmar Edenhofer advises and collaborates in many boards and committees nationally as well as on European and international level. He is, among others, member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the National Academy of Science and Engineering acatec, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) as well as a CESifo Research Network Fellow. He was prominent in the drafting of the 2015 Papal Encyclical Laudato Si.
Having established that it's got very little to do with the environment, what exactly is 'Climate Change'?
it may be defined as an anthropocentric belief system that is oriented towards destruction of the (Western) Economies of the ‘Global North’. It is underpinned by scientific ‘theoretical’ calculations designed to verify the belief-system's basic assertion that 'Anthropogenic emissions are the cause of Climate Change and if not curtailed will lead to Climate Armageddon'.
Compliant media (almost all outlets) indulge in ‘Climate alarmism’ to boost ‘Climate anxiety’ and ‘Climate fear’ where 'Climate Change' is used as shorthand for 'we must curtail the burning of fossil fuels'.
Houghton, the co-chair of the IPCC’s first scientific assessment working group which shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with Al Gore said, in the early days of the IPCC:
The sub-pages of 'What is Climate Change' will elaborate on the elements of this 'nutshell' definition followed by a timeline of how the belief system came to dominate the climate-related element of the philosophies of the modern globalist elite often referred to as 'The Anointed' on this website and in my books: ‘Natural and Anthropogenic Climate Variability’.
is a term used by Thomas Sowell in his book ‘The Vision of the Anointed’ (Published in 1995 “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”.
The book is a powerful critique of the mindset of what he calls the "anointed"—a group of intellectual and political elites who believe in their moral and intellectual superiority over the general population.
The book argues that many policies championed by these elites have failed because they are based on a flawed, utopian vision rather than empirical evidence and practical consequences.
Nowhere is this characteristic of the Anointed more evident than in their complete faith in the truth of the assertion "Anthropogenic emissions are the cause of Climate Change and if not curtailed will lead to Climate Armageddon".