Boo! Hoo! Hoo! The drive-by media is livid that their one of their pet projects is no longer relevant.

Lee Zeldin touted his deregulatory record as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency before the staunchest supporters of his policies. The EPA chief, who has been floated as a possible pick for attorney general, was the keynote speaker at a climate denial conference put on by the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank that has likened people worried about climate change to the Unabomber.

The speech underscored the radical change at the EPA under President Donald Trump compared to his predecessor’s efforts to cut emissions.

“If the election didn’t go the same way in November 2024, I’m pretty confident that whoever would be in this position instead of me might not have been here this morning,” Zeldin told the crowd of roughly a couple hundred people gathered in a hotel basement ballroom just a few minutes walk from the White House, prompting the room to explode with laughter.

Not just Bloomberg but The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Politico have published news stories essentially shedding crocodile tears. The Times is especially vitriolic:

Climate change is a hoax perpetrated by “leftist politicians.” Fossil fuels are the greenest energy sources. More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will be harmless.

These were some of the false claims made at a conference on Wednesday held by groups that reject the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change. What might have seemed like a fringe event in years past this time boasted a prominent keynote speaker: Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and one of President Trump’s possible choices for the next attorney general.

“We aren’t just following blind obedience to whatever the dire, doom-and-gloom prediction of the day is,” Mr. Zeldin said at the conference, which drew around 220 attendees to the basement ballroom of a hotel in downtown Washington.

“We won’t sign up for the script that the world is imminently about to end,” Mr. Zeldin added, drawing applause from the crowd, which had given him a standing ovation before his speech.

The event made clear that climate change deniers are experiencing a triumphant resurgence in Mr. Trump’s Washington after years of feeling sidelined by the scientific and political establishments.

Outlets, like the Gray Lady, are fast becoming or are already irrelevant resulting from pushing narratives like human-induced climate change.

Climate cultists still have energy left, though the once-vibrant movement appears to be losing momentum. They’ll try to find another way to revive themselves somehow. They may be down, but they’re not out.

President Trump has aggressively dismantled global-warming initiatives while accelerating oil and gas production; European nations are retreating from their net-zero emission commitments; and prominent climate figure Bill Gates undermined the movement last year by rejecting its catastrophic predictions. Even Greta Thunberg has moved on.

However, never underestimate your opponent’s ability to make a comeback.