Dr Shane Fudge’s latest piece in The Conservative Woman – exposing how universities have become engines of climate ideology rather than bastions of scientific inquiry – has struck a nerve. Not because the revelations are surprising, but because they confirm what so many people have instinctively known for years.For all the talk of “settled science”, “expert consensus”, and “trust the institutions”, ordinary citizens sensed the shift long before academics finally began admitting it. We saw the pattern forming. We watched as dissent became dangerous. And we recognised – correctly – that no real science behaves this way.
People Don’t Need a PhD to Recognise a Cult When They See One
When every university department, every research centre, every funding body, every major grant, and every “world-leading institute” repeats the same narrative with word-for-word precision, alarm bells ring.
Real science thrives on argument.Ideology thrives on obedience.For decades, we’ve been told that climate research sits atop a mountain of impartial evidence. Yet the architecture Dr Fudge describes makes it clear:
universities weren’t producing neutral science – they were producing the outputs demanded by the funders.Select the right keywords: “climate change”, “sustainable lifestyles”, “Anthropocene”, “net zero”.Tick the ideological boxes.Secure the grant.Advance your career.It was never subtle.
The public spotted it immediately.The Capture Was Hiding in Plain Sight
Across the UK, universities transformed themselves into climate-focused hubs seemingly overnight:
Environmental Change Institutes
Net Zero Innovation Institutes
Sustainability Research Centres
Interdisciplinary Climate Hubs
These weren’t built on sceptical inquiry or scientific curiosity; they were built on money. Billions in government, EU and philanthropic funding poured into departments promising to reinforce the UN-approved worldview.
Ask the wrong questions and that funding would disappear.Publish the wrong findings and your academic career would vanish just as quickly.And through multi-agency partnerships – universities, industry, councils, NGOs – an entire ecosystem formed, designed not to challenge climate doctrine but to operationalise it across society.
ESG, degrowth, behavioural change, carbon rationing, 15-minute cities… all grew out of the same intellectual pipeline.To many of us, it was obvious.
The Public Spotted the Script Before the Institutions Did
What caused people to doubt the integrity of climate science wasn’t ignorance or conspiracy thinking. It was the unmistakable symmetry of the message:
every university says the same thing
every government adopts the same policies
every media outlet repeats the same lines
every dissenting expert is smeared, silenced or defunded
Genuine science doesn’t require this level of enforcement.People recognised a pattern of choreographed certainty. They understood instinctively that when a theory becomes unfalsifiable, policed, and rewarded with power, it has ceased to be science and become something else entirely.
Fudge calls it a “cult”.Many would say that’s generous.
Why This Matters Now
Trust collapses when institutions abandon truth in favour of ideology. And climate ideology – as shaped by UN agencies, academic research centres, billionaire foundations, and political actors – now dominates public policy across the Western world.
But the public never fully bought into the theatre. They sensed the capture long before insiders began admitting it.People know when they’re being managed. They know when a narrative is too perfect. They know when they’re expected to obey rather than think.
This article won’t be the last revelation. More academics, researchers and insiders will come forward as the gap between lived reality and official narrative widens.And as that happens, one truth becomes impossible to deny:
The people saw through the climate consensus long before the institutions did.
Shane Oxer Campaigner for fairer and affordable energy
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