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Allen Jackson Now – Broadcast Nov. 11, 2026

Al Gore and Gavin Newsom want Democrats to put climate change back at the center of politics. In this episode of Allen Jackson Now, Pastor Allen Jackson welcomes Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot and former Senate Environment and Public Works Committee staffer, to examine the renewed political push for climate policies.

Al Gore’s organization and California Governor Gavin Newsom are urging Democrats to make climate policy a renewed political priority. Pastor Allen challenges the influence of secular ideology on government policy and warns against allowing fear-driven narratives to replace careful examination of the facts. We must remain anchored in truth during a season of extraordinary cultural and political change.

: Well, good evening and welcome to Nashville. I’m Allen Jackson. President Trump has made American energy independence a cornerstone of his America First agenda—withdrawing from international climate agreements, rolling back environmental regulations, and promoting the oil, natural gas, and coal industries that have helped power America’s economic prosperity.

But following the midterm elections, the political landscape has shifted dramatically, and a climate movement that appeared to be losing influence may be preparing for a significant comeback. This week, influential global climate activists are boarding their private jets that run on fossil fuel, and they’re flying to Turkey for the United Nations climate summit. President Trump didn’t send an official delegation, but more than 100 governors, mayors, and officials are participating.

Former Vice President Al Gore’s organization is urging newly elected Democrat officials to prioritize climate policy. California Governor Gavin Newsom wants Democrats to stop avoiding the climate debate, arguing that everything from droughts to the price of beef and the price of coffee should be connected to climate change. And looking toward 2028, progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could become the Democratic presidential nominee, and she was one of the principal architects and public champions of the Green New Deal. It called for a sweeping government-led overhaul of America’s energy and transportation systems through massive amounts of taxpayer dollars.

Michigan’s newly elected Senator Abdul El-Sayed has supported the Green New Deal and has advocated moving toward 100% renewable energy. And in Texas, Senator-elect James Talarico argued in 2022 that not eating meat was necessary to fight climate change. There’s a larger contradiction here. America is in a high-stakes national security race with China for dominance in artificial intelligence—a technology that demands enormous amounts of reliable electricity. While communist China aggressively builds coal-fired power plants and expands its energy capacity to fuel its technological ambitions, progressive Democrats and climate activists are pushing to heavily restrict America’s energy production.

There’s a strategy that has been in play in our nation now for decades. It’s the ascendancy of globalism and the diminishment of nationalism. The worldview that has held globalism up and the values that guide their decisions are not in sync with the biblical worldview. If you want to promote the globalist worldview, the effect is you must diminish your other allegiances. Instead of nations making decisions based on their own strength, they outsource those decisions to international agreements.

It was President Barack Obama who bypassed Congress by formally committing the U.S. to the Paris Climate Agreement. He put U.S. energy policy inside of a global climate framework instead of making American energy production the top priority. The Paris Agreement sounds good on paper—reduce emissions, protect the planet—but at what cost? America starts pulling back on fossil fuels. President Obama rejected the Keystone pipeline in 2015, arguing it was not in the national interest, and then he tied it to climate concerns.

The unfortunate reality is secular ideas are driving policy. It is not science. Science didn’t drive the discussion that said fossil fuels are going to destroy us; that was very much ideologically driven. Case in point: in 2018, climate activist Greta Thunberg fired off an urgent tweet. The tweet said, and I quote: “A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.” Well, here we are eight years later, and the people of the planet are still with us, thank God. What has vanished is not humanity and the earth, but rather that tweet.

Former Vice President Al Gore, the United Nations, and other globalist groups lean toward the same kind of error. They emphasize worst-case scenarios, using fear to drive urgency, and then calling for greater government intervention as the solution. It’s their religion. It’s what gives them a place in our world.

Well, I’m grateful for what President Trump has done in putting America first when it comes to energy. Trump made energy dominance federal policy. He cut energy regulations, making it easier and less expensive to drill and produce. During Trump’s first term, America became a net energy exporter with domestic energy production exceeding consumption. In 2019, America also became a net petroleum exporter, marking a historic reversal from decades of heavy dependence on foreign oil. Trump pulled America out of the Paris Climate Agreement. He argued that U.S. workers should not bear the cost of global climate rules that competitors like China do not match. China is the world’s largest carbon dioxide emitter, responsible for roughly a third of global emissions. China and India combine to produce approximately 40% of annual global fossil carbon dioxide emissions. Why aren’t the globalists and progressive Democrats bringing the same kind of scrutiny to those nations? Why focus on America?

Well, I propose that being anchored in truth is vital in this season because we’re walking through another season of change and unprecedented discontinuity. So, how do you stay anchored? The best way I know to maintain your equilibrium is to stay grounded in the Bible. I know it sounds like such an oversimplification, but it isn’t. It’s worth an investment of your time on a daily basis to read your Bible, then determine to honor Christ in every area of your life so that you might walk in the light of the truth that you’re learning.

Joining us in just a moment is the former senior staffer of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Marc Morano. He’s now the publisher of Climate Depot and our go-to expert on the environment. He’s coming to us today from Turkey where he’s attending the United Nations Climate Conference. I’ll be right back.

: Tonight we’re joined by the former senior staffer of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Marc Morano. Welcome to the show, Marc.

: Thank you, Reverend. Happy to be here live from Antalya, Turkey, at this turkey of a UN conference, COP31.

: Well, thank you for staying up late to do this. You are joining us from Turkey and it’s the UN’s climate summit. President Trump didn’t send an official U.S. delegation, so maybe you can give us a little bit of insight into what’s happening on the ground and what we should be aware of.

: Well, this just began—yesterday was the first official day. And rest assured, I want to tell everyone in America, Donald Trump did not send an official delegation, but I have appointed myself the unofficial U.S. representative.

There’s been a lot happening on the ground here, and it opens up with the World Health Organization President Tedros announcing that climate change was increasing cancer and heart attacks, which is scientifically absurd. Beyond this, you can see what the agenda is: they want to merge climate change into a public health agenda. He said that the public health threat of climate change was the strongest call for “climate action.”

Reverend Jackson, they have talked openly about adding climate change to death certificates as a cause of death. They have had doctors in Canada diagnosing patients as suffering from “climate change” when they get heat stroke. The American Cancer Society has done studies fretting about the carbon footprint of cancer treatments. So this is a very serious development, especially given what we saw happen during COVID, where the medical community went all authoritarian and appealed to authority. That was part of it.

The second part was John Kerry showing up—and just as gleeful as John Kerry can be, he still had a long face, oddly enough. I don’t know how he pulls that off, but he was happy. All right, that was a cheap shot there. But he revealed that America voted for climate change and made climate change a voting issue in the midterms. What I find fascinating about that is Michael Shellenberger did an analysis, and just 2% of Democratic House and Senate candidates even mentioned climate change during the entire year of 2026—2% of press releases mentioned it. Now that they’ve won, suddenly climate change is the mandate that they have.

We have 120 members of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and we have 20 Democratic congressmen arriving later this week, and they’re all claiming some kind of climate mandate. This is how you turn a midterm election into a complete sea change on the climate front. They are going all in. There’s so much excitement here that Greta Thunberg, now 23 years old, has appeared at her first UN conference in five years. She senses that climate is about to rise like a vampire again, and she doesn’t want to miss out on all the fun.

: Well, just to make the point that you’re not actually manufacturing this, we have a clip from the UN climate change secretary. Listen to what he had to say.

(): The climate crisis is now a global health crisis of pandemic proportions. The impacts of rising heat on pregnancy, newborns, and maternal health are another unfolding health disaster which has the fingerprints of the climate crisis all over it. The root cause is humanity still burning colossal amounts of coal, oil, and gas and destroying forests.

: How is it possible to make these sweeping statements and offer no data, no scientific support? They just declare a crisis with all the authority of a revivalist preacher. How do they get away with that?

: They get away with it year after year, decade after decade. There’s really no one except the scattered climate skeptics and scientists who are willing to challenge it—and, of course, the Trump administration. That’s why they’re so excited. They see the midterms as a rebuke of Trump, and he was probably globally the number one reason they couldn’t get away with the kind of nonsense you just played.

First of all, climate is not causing any kind of public health problem. If you go back 100 years, there’s been a 99% drop in climate-related deaths. Second of all, the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and all these public health officials like to say that any bad weather event is due to your SUV driving, your coal plants, or you eating meat—when in reality, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, wildfires, and droughts show either no trend or declining trends on climate timescales of 30, 50, or 100 years. So, it’s completely bonkers, unscientific, and insulting to the basic intelligence of the listener that they even make claims like that.

But they are in a giant echo chamber here, and they feel the energy. There’s so much energy here that the German chancellor’s party, the CDU party in Germany, is now considering creating a public register of any German citizens who allegedly spread “climate disinformation.” And the UN has already said they’ve partnered up with Google to make sure that the public only hears what the UN wants them to hear.

So this is a situation right now where we’ve got to be extra vigilant. As Donald Trump serves out his next two years and the Democrats have majorities, they are going to do everything possible to get the U.S. back in, and it does set the stage for 2028. I feel that never has there been more of an opportunity for someone like AOC—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—to win the presidency with the electorate doing these wild swings and the Republican Party fractured. This is just the kind of election in 2028 where someone like AOC could get in, and then it’s going to be all climate, all the time—Green New Deal, Democratic Socialists of America.

And one last point on this: this whole movement where they’re trying to merge climate, public health, infant mortality, cancer, and heart attacks is part of this DSA movement, which I like to say is not your father’s Green New Deal. If you go back to 2019, that Green New Deal was pretty wacky, but this new version of the Green New Deal is even more sinister in scope. You have leaders of the DSA openly embracing Stalin and Mao. Up until a few years ago, the DSA wouldn’t even allow avowed Soviet communists in, and they reversed that—they now allow them in, and they are now the think tank, the brainchild if you will, for the Democratic Party, leading the charge for taking power. So we are at a dark moment in U.S. history politically at this time.

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: Well, Marc, we need to take a short break. I hope you’ll stay with us for another segment.

: Sure. Yes, absolutely.

: We’re back now with the publisher of Climate Depot, Marc Morano. You know, Marc, I like to believe that I’m an environmentalist. I want the environment to be healthy and I think we have a responsibility to be good stewards of the planet Earth, but I don’t want to be a left-wing loon connected to communism, socialism, and the DSA. Is there a lane for those of us that might be a little more grounded in reality and real science?

: There has been, and the Trump administration was actually achieving it. With Chris Wright as Energy Secretary and Lee Zeldin at the EPA, they were trying to restore both the Energy Department and the EPA to their original missions. Keep in mind, the EPA’s entire mission was hijacked by President Obama and then President Biden just for climate change. The entire environmental movement has been hijacked by climate change.

In Washington, D.C., we had hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage spilling into the Potomac River for weeks and months at a time. For both entities in charge of the jurisdiction—meaning the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland—the entire focus of their environmental departments was on banning gas-powered cars and promoting EVs, solar, and wind, all about global warming and climate change, and they were almost clueless on how to deal with the raw sewage spill.

We saw during the Biden administration, with the East Palestine train wreck and the toxic plume that went up from the chemical explosion, they were almost paralyzed because they thought, “Wait, that’s not CO2. That’s not climate change,” and they just didn’t do anything. We have lead in drinking water and toxic waste site cleanups. What the Trump administration has been trying to do is restore the environmental movement back to the environment.

We had a professor named Denis Rancourt out of Canada, who was a left-wing professor, and he said the entire environmental movement is now focusing on this tenuous level of carbon dioxide in the environment—which is a trace natural gas that humans exhale—instead of actually focusing on real environmental problems. And the American people agree with this. Every Gallup poll has showed that global warming and climate change are dead last among environmental issues, meaning they rank lower on Americans’ concerns than species extinction, deforestation, clean air, and clean water. People just don’t care about climate change.

But the socialist left, the political left, and the international global elites from the World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization all focus on climate change because it’s the ultimate measure of control over humans. Over the last three years—particularly the last two—there’s been an unbelievable collapse of the whole climate movement. What we’re seeing here right now is like a vampire rising from the ground. You have hundreds of Democrats flying out here, John Kerry and Al Gore on the ground, and Greta back involved, and you can just feel it. There are so many people, Reverend Jackson—we had to wait four and a half hours yesterday just to get into this conference. The highways are clogged with people, and the restaurants are clogged. I think this was like a last-minute add-on that the country of Turkey was not ready for, with all the excitement due to the U.S. midterms.

They’re declaring the rise of climate even though they never talked about climate. In fact, one last point: climate activists have conceded—and this is on a website called HEATED—that the billionaire donor class of the Democratic Party explicitly told House and Senate candidates, “Do not mention climate change. Do not bring it up. Only use phrases like ‘affordability.’” And the Democrats did that—98% of press releases had zip mention, not even a mention of climate. Now that they’ve won the election, guess what they’re doing? “We have a climate mandate. The world’s concerned. We’re back in.” The whole event here over two days on Thursday in Turkey is all these mayors, congressmen, and Democrats coming to say, “We’re back in it. The U.S. is back in the climate agenda.”

: Well, data centers have been a hot topic through the election cycle. What’s the truth about data centers and their impact on our environment?

: There are two aspects to this—one some of your audience may not like, and the other I think they’ll understand very easily. Let’s talk about the environmental impact first. Data centers have a lower footprint than almost every other energy source or facility you could put up. They’re equivalent to putting in a shopping mall. They can recycle up to 60% to 70% of their water; they have new techniques to do that. They’re now going to be mandated by federal law to provide their own energy, and they’re also being mandated to work with local communities so that local communities aren’t damaged.

Having said that, here’s where I think the Republicans miscalculated in the midterms, and this is pretty significant. I don’t know if you’ve had a guest talk about this yet, but let me throw this out at you. I work for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) along with my website, Climate Depot. We deal with the anti-solar and wind folks, we deal with agriculture and the farmers, and we deal with the environmentalists on offshore wind. All of those grassroots people did not like data centers, and it really wasn’t even about the environmental impact. They just didn’t like the idea of Big Tech fat cats getting potential government contracts, and they didn’t like the scary thought of a surveillance state or Big Tech getting more power. And thirdly—which I don’t think anyone mentions enough—these are ugly, Soviet-style buildings. We’re finding out from the exit polls that people were just not happy, and I mean the Republican base. That is an issue that has to be retooled messaging-wise and policy-wise for Republicans to deal with. I don’t know if you were expecting me to say that, but I think that’s an important aspect of this midterm defeat.

: Now, we like the truth. I understand that congratulations are in order—Newsweek recently included you in their list of the 50 most prominent green policy dissenters. What an honor.

: Yes, thank you. I joined, of all people, Bill Gates. Bill Gates came out last year at the United Nations climate summit in Brazil and announced that climate was no longer a catastrophe and that people should focus on human flourishing. Of course, he was about to go heavily into AI, so people speculated that’s why. But I’ve been listed there with Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Joe Rogan, and Donald Trump, which begs one question, Reverend Jackson: how is my net worth not even on any scale compared to theirs? I feel like I’ve completely failed when you put me in their company.

In all seriousness, it’s an honor to be mentioned on that list of Newsweek’s top climate skeptics with those names because I’ve been fighting this whole climate movement for almost three decades now. My first global warming interview was back in the year 2000.

: Marc, I appreciate your time today and, most importantly, your commitment to the truth. Thank you.