Temperatures in much of the US soared to near and above 100 degrees Fahrenheit this past week. Temperatures this high are highly unusual and humans are to blame. This is obvious, right?  

Not so fast. Regardless of the popular memes, history and nature still have an enormous say on current climate events. 

History and nature are given a voice in Climate Cult: Exposing and Defeating Their War on Life, Liberty, and Property by certified broadcast meteorologist and talk-radio host Brian Sussman. 

Climate Cult reveals much of the history of climate change and explores the sustained, deep roots of cultists using current climate events and trends to control populations while they downplay, distort, and disregard inconvenient past natural conditions. Critical natural climate components and processes are disclosed in Climate Cult as to their undeniable role in climate control. 

So, even though numerous states have been sweltering recently, Climate Cult notes that “[c]ooling and warming trends are regular occurrences, but right now the party line is to hide from truth recorded in the past that doesn’t align with the present agenda.” 

For an example of past truth, the book gives a list of twenty US states that registered record temperatures of at least 109 degrees Fahrenheit, all occurring in the 1930s. And the 1930s contained the infamous Dust-Bowl years along with those record-breaking temperatures. Greenhouse gas emissions could not be named the culprit back then; rather, other anthropogenic practices (e.g., farming) and natural cycles can be blamed. 

However, “[u]nprecedented pressure is being placed upon the masses to dogmatically believe that humanity is on the brink because of lifestyle choices dependent on energy derived from fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide, once taught to be life’s essential ally, is now the enemy. Our planet’s history of fluctuating temperatures has been blotted out and replaced with sensationalized graphs that spike upward in the present like a red-hot skewer. Alternative deliberation is not tolerated.” 

Climate Cult is a book written in many ways for the younger generation. Sussman’s earnest desire is “to present a facts-based perspective that will hopefully cause many to step back and honestly reexamine their strongly held convictions that the climate is out of control, and drastic measures including new laws, mandates, regulations, and peer pressure must be instituted to change the course and reset society.” 

Sussman lays out “the complete canon of the climate cult, from its crafty genesis to its planned revelation of paradise on Earth.” Sussman then describes a winning strategy requiring a full understanding of the climate cult roots and a bringing to light of “all of its vengeful programs designed to usurp life, liberty, and happiness realized in the ownership of personal property, both physical and intellectual.” 

There are many gems of reflection to be discovered in Climate Cult. One of the best, which captures the premise of much of the book, posits that those orchestrating the climate change agenda “hate the ideals that made America great—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Taking a wrecking ball to the economy, doling out electricity like a miser, reducing the population, and limiting personal financial opportunity is the climate change cult’s plan to keep the ‘lesser-minded’ under their control.” Of course, the concept of the intelligentsia imposing their will on the lesser-minded emerges from Marxist doctrine. 

As a 40+ year veteran in atmospheric science and a science communicator, the personal event Sussman described very early in Climate Cult (and early in his broadcast career) that caught my attention the most was when his boss advised him that when it came to reporting on the causes of climate change you need to know “which facts to leave out.” In this example and others in the book (and in my own professional experience) key facts are quite frequently excluded to foist the terror of an impending climate disaster on an unsuspecting public. 

Yet, so often the most newsworthy information is the information that is excluded. Climate Cult includes the excluded information. 

This article was adapted from one originally published at WashingtonTimes.com and has been republished here with permission.