Climate Grinches & Spurious Correlations

Climate Grinches Ignore CO₂ Gifts

There is a gift arriving right on cue to meet a continuous increase in population and demand for food.

This gift of plenty is a remarkable increase in agricultural productivity that is due, in large part, to a process fundamental to all life, starting with plants: Photosynthesis is a mechanism by which plants use CO₂, water and sunlight to make sugars for food. And the more CO₂, the better!

Only the Climate Grinches would oppose such a bounty of greening from modern warmth and CO₂ concentrations. These are the characters who have dominated headlines in popular media and policy roundtables in Brussels and Washington. They steal not only the joy of experiencing this natural abundance by spreading false fears but also the prosperity and sovereignty of nations.

Climate Grinches look at a greening planet and see disaster. When NASA announces that Earth has added vegetation equivalent to two American continents, they warn that this cannot last, that benefits are temporary, that doom still awaits. When farmers report bumper harvests enabled by longer growing seasons and CO₂ fertilization, the Climate Grinches insist that gains are outweighed by unspecified future horrors.

So, this Christmas season, when you gather with your family, look at the spread before you with new eyes. Reject the guilt that climate orthodoxy seeks to place on our shoulders. Modern lifestyles are not destroying the planet. We are basking in a vibrant ecosystem that supports more greenery, more people and more human potential than at any other time in history.

Read Vijay Jayaraj's entire commentary here, first published by American Greatness on December 8, 2025.

Spurious Correlation: Stock Market Drives Temperature Increase

Those promoting climate doom due to increasing man-made emissions rely on the fact that generally increasing temperatures also coincided with increasing atmospheric CO₂ over the last130 or so years. All the while, they ignore the longer history over many hundreds and thousands of years that contradict this failed hypothesis.

Spurious Correlations is a popular site that showcases strange correlations such as the correlation between ice cream sales and shark attacks. Our Science and Research Associate, Byron Soepyan, had some fun and found a great correlation between recent temperature and the Standard and Poor Stock Market Index.

We continue to remind you that correlation is not causation.