Watch: Morano on TV from COP31 in Turkey: ‘Once you roll climate into a public health threat, you don’t need no stinkin democracy’ – Just the News

Nov 13, 2026 – Just the News TV

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Marc Morano: Thank you, Amanda. Happy to be here in Antalya, Turkey – YAY! That’s the correct term.

Amanda Head: Turkey, yay! All right. So, John Kerry with this proclamation that “we’re back in the fight”—how much is this going to cost taxpayers? Millions, billions, or trillions?

Marc Morano: It’s always in the trillions. Billions isn’t even—that’s for small-timers. Come on, we passed that boat a decade ago.

What’s happened here is the most remarkable thing. First of all, I feel like I need to apologize because I had been declaring climate a dead issue, that there was no pushback, and that Trump had done so many unbelievably good things. But what’s happened here is the greatest sleight of hand in climate history that I’ve been following for 25-plus years.

Essentially, the Democrats—and Michael Shellenberger analyzed Democrat House and Senate press releases—mentioned the word “climate” in less than 2% of them during the midterms before the election. Emily Atkin of a climate activist website called HEATED noted that billionaire Democrat donor climate activists told Democrat candidates, “Do not talk about climate. You’re forbidden. Only talk about affordability.”

Suddenly, the election happens, and now you have Al Gore saying the first thing Congress should be doing is climate action. John Kerry says it’s a mandate for the climate agenda and green energy. You have 120 Democrats from state and local offices and the Conference of Mayors coming here. You have a delegation of congressmen. I interviewed Governor Walz of Minnesota today. I interviewed Obama’s former EPA chief, Gina McCarthy. You had Gavin Newsom here today like a rock star, and they’re basically at the pavilion here called “America Is All In”—you could add the word “back” in. They are acting as though they are the heads of state coming to the United Nations representing the United States.

Now, officially, Trump did not send a delegation. I like to think of myself as the unofficial delegation. I’ve appointed myself, though I’m in competition with Gavin Newsom right now, and I’ve got to say, he’s got a better head of hair than me, so he has that advantage.

Essentially, this is a sea change from where we’ve been at the last couple of climate summits. You can feel the energy—100,000-plus people here flooding the zone. Greta Thunberg decided to show up for the first time in five years. Why? Because Greta knows a good grift when she sees one, and she senses climate is back with the midterm election. So, we are in for it deep. They are really going to push this. Of course, 2028 is going to be the key year and where that goes with elections, but the Democrats think that Trump’s second term never existed by the way they’re acting here this week so far.

Amanda Head: So, Marc, help me understand this. Considering how much they messaged on climate stuff prior to this past year, and then this past year less than 2% of fundraising, press releases, and things like that mentioned climate—it seems to me that Democrats do understand that is not the way to Democrat voters’ hearts. So, if not for winning votes—I mean, I understand it’s a grift, I understand it’s a con, I understand it’s for making money because frankly, it’s just a money-laundering operation—is there a point at which Democrats realize that they are continuing to do this? They are doubling down. They are continuing to spend, as you said, trillions in taxpayer dollars. Is there a point at which Democrat voters see this and they completely turn on the issue?

Marc Morano: Well, you would think there would be because the climate agenda and their number one issue—”affordability,” in quotes—are opposites. They are completely at odds with each other. You cannot have a climate agenda and at the same time have an affordability agenda. They just don’t go together.

In fact, I asked Tim Walz today, the former vice presidential candidate, on camera: “Are you betraying America by coming here to this United Nations climate summit?” And I mentioned CO2 continues to go up after all 31 UN summits. Over 80% of energy still comes from fossil fuels. The UN has been completely ineffective. The UN admitted a month ago that everything they’ve done has failed, that nothing worked, and that we’re still on a path to climate doom.

But to answer your question, Tedros of the World Health Organization may have the answer. He announced right before the start of this that climate was increasing cancer and heart attacks, and that the public health threat of climate change was the number one reason for climate action. Today, Greta Thunberg met with Tedros here at COP31, and she agreed that climate was a public health threat.

Now, once you roll climate into a public health threat, you don’t need no stinkin democracy. You don’t need Congress voting on any measures, because what happens is what we saw happen during COVID—what you see in the unelected bureaucracy and emergency decrees. All of this becomes rolled into an unelected stealth bureaucracy that doesn’t require congressional high-profile action, and I think that’s really part of what this agenda is.

They’re resurrecting it, and while there’s plenty of talk here about tipping points—and Greta’s guilty of all that crap—they are going to try to reverse the whole agenda and keep it stealth. They learned a lot from COVID. They were able to achieve lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine mandates, canceling of weddings and funerals, and stay-at-home orders without a single ounce of democracy. They were able to start banning red meat without a single ounce of democracy. They were able to ban gas-powered cars without it. So that’s their model. They don’t need public support. They need to do it through the Endangerment Finding, where you regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.

Amanda Head: I think that once Democrats figure out that the climate agenda and affordability can high-five each other going in the opposite direction, I think Democrats lose their power in all of this. Marc Morano, executive editor of Climate Depot—always an honor having you with us, sir. Thanks so much for being here.

Marc Morano: Thank you, Amanda. Appreciate it.

Amanda Head: Absolutely.