First there was Grexit, the prospect of Greece exiting the Europe Union, which didn't happen. Then came Brexit, the British voters' stunning decision to leave the "superstate."

Now there are calls for a "Clexit," through which wise and thinking people would leave the U.N. Climate Agreement, promoters say.

"The U.S. needs to join the fledgling 'Clexit' movement and demand the U.S. withdraw from the UN Paris climate agreement," wrote Marc Morano on his Climate Depot site.

"The time has come for a U.S. and Australia led 'Clexit' from the climate madness."

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The idea comes on the heels of a Breitbart report about Attorney General Loretta Lynch's suggestion that the government could prosecute those who deny "climate change," which was "global warming" until evidence showed warming had stopped.

Lynch said the issue of "deniers" has been referred to the FBI "to consider whether or not it meets the criteria for which we could take action on [sic]."

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The Obama administration had said in a statement that the "similarities between the mischief of the tobacco industry pretending that the science of tobacco's dangers was unsettled and the fossil fuel industry pretending that the science of carbon emissions' dangers is unsettled has been remarked on widely, particularly by those who study the climate denial apparatus that the fossil fuel industry has erected."

"Under President Clinton, the Department of Justice brought and won a civil RICO action against the tobacco industry for its fraud. Under President Obama, the Department of Justice has done nothing so far about the climate denial scheme."

Then, this week "leading climate doomsayer" Michael Mann said data and models about global warming "increasingly are unnecessary" because the warming is so obvious.

"Fundamentally, I'm a climate scientist and have spent much of my career with my head buried in climate-model output and observational climate data trying to tease out the signal of human-caused climate change," he told the Democratic Platform Drafting Committee.

"What is disconcerting to me and so many of my colleagues is that these tools that we've spent years developing increasingly are unnecessary because we can see climate change, the impacts of climate change, now, playing out in real time, on our television screens, in the 24-hour news cycle."

Morano noted the "Clexit" call was posted online at Carbon-Sense.com.

That organization is a "voluntary group of people concerned about the extent to which carbon is wrongly vilified in Western societies, particularly in government, the media, and in business circles."

"We aim to restore balance and reason to the carbon debate, and to explain and defend the key role of carbon in production of most of our energy for heat, light, and transportation, and all of our food."

The group said, "We need our own CLEXIT – climate exit from the energy vandals of Europe."

It cited a blog posting warning that the Australian government already has approved a carbon tax.

The blog cited Alan Kohler's report in the Australian saying: "One hundred and fifty companies, representing about 50 percent of Australia's total carbon emissions, will be capped by legislation at their highest level of emissions between 1009-10 and 2013-14. … If they emit less than their caps, they will get credits, called Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), which were created by the Gillard government's 2011 legislation; if they emit more, they have to buy ACCUs on the market."

The blog also links to a satirical video promoting electric energy and battery powered cars. It promotes the non-existent AA-battery powered Mercedes, which uses 9,648 batteries and has a "top speed of 52 MPH."

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WND reported a new movie, "Climate Hustle," was pulling back the veil on a movement that even some of its supporters concede has taken on religious overtones.

Hosted by Morano, a former Republican political aide, the movie exposes "the history of climate scares including global cooling; debunks outrageous claims about temperatures, extreme weather, and the so-called 'consensus;' exposes the increasingly shrill calls to 'act immediately before it's too late,' and in perhaps the film's most important section, profiles key scientists who used to believe in climate alarm but have since converted to skepticism."

Morano said on his website the movie shows "the climate establishment comparing climate skeptics to Holocaust deniers."

"It's all an attempt to silence the debate, to silence any science and go right to centralized planning," he said. "That's what this is all about. The U.N. has admitted their goal is wealth redistribution and it doesn't have anything to do with environmental policy."

In an interview with WND, Morano affirmed the end goal of "climate change" activists is money and control.

Famous predictions

One of the more famous predictions came from former vice president and current carbon-credit entrepreneur Al Gore, who told an audience in a 2009 speech that "the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years."

His 2006 documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," famously predicted increasing temperatures would cause earth's oceans to rise by 20 feet, a claim many scientists say is utterly without rational basis.

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Another came from a 2013 column by Mark Hertsgaard, which was headlined "The End of the Arctic? Ocean Could be Ice Free by 2015."

He wrote: "Say goodbye to polar bears and a whole lot of ice. New research suggests the Arctic Ocean could be ice-free by 2015, with devastating consequences for the world. Can it be stopped?"

Taking one more step back in time, the BBC said Arctic summers would be ice-free by 2013.

Sierra Club Canada also said in 2013 that the Arctic sea ice would vanish that year.

Tim Ball, a former University of Winnipeg climatology professor, said global temperatures have been dropping since the turn of the century, prompting the change in terminology from "global warming" to "climate change."

Activists are also spending less time discussing temperatures and more time pointing to more extreme events such as tornadoes, droughts, cold snaps and heat waves. Ball said there's a shred of truth there, but it's being badly distorted.

"Yes, there's been slightly more extremes," he said in an interview with WND and Radio America. "That's because the jet stream patterns are changing, because the earth is cooling down. All the arguments about sea-level rise, about Arctic ice disappearing, if you recall it's not that long ago that our friend Al Gore was saying that there would be no summer ice in the Arctic. I think the year he set for it was 2014. That proved to be completely wrong."

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At the Ron Paul Liberty Report, Chris Rossini said the "alarmism" about "climate change" is reaching "levels of desperation."

"The arguments go from ridiculous to hysterical. We're told by many politicians that 'climate change' is the #1 threat to Americans. This is of course a favorite of the swindling class. Others tell us that the #1 threat is ISIS, and some are now saying that it's Donald Trump. Some say it's North Korea, Russia, or Iran. The carousel of #1 threats is always in motion."

Rossini continued: "In the media you'll find stories that free birth control is needed in order to battle climate change, and that climate change will turn women into prostitutes. Non-believers of this ridiculous propaganda are branded as 'deniers'.

"Even appeals to religion and the afterlife have been showered on Americans. Whether it be comments from the pope, or from Nobel Prize winning 'economist' Paul Krugman, who says: 'You can deny global warming (and may you be punished in the afterlife for doing so – this kind of denial for petty personal or political reasons is an almost inconceivable sin).'"

Rossini wrote, "Boy, do these characters really want Americans to believe the climate change religion."

Scientist Art Robinson has spearheaded The Petition Project, which has gathered the signatures of at least 31,487 scientists who agree that there is "no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate."

They say, "Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plan and animal environments of the Earth."

Robinson, who has a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California-San Diego, where he served on the faculty, co-founded the Linus Pauling Institute with Nobel-recipient Linus Pauling, where he was president and research professor. He later founded the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. His son, Noah Robinson, was a key figure in the petition work and has a Ph.D. in chemistry from Caltech.

Heresy hunters

Many advocates have declared that it's heresy not to agree that man is the cause of cataclysmic climate change. Some attorneys general, for example, have banded together to target any companies that challenge the climate "consensus."

When the Daily Caller reported the story it cited the Spanish Inquisition, which "systematically silenced any citizen who held views that did not align with the king's."

WND also reported when some two dozen scientists with major U.S. universities urged President Obama to use racketeering laws to prosecute opponents who deny mankind is causing catastrophic changes in the climate.

In a letter addressed to Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Office of Science and Technology Policy Director John Holdren, the scientists said they "appreciate that you are making aggressive and imaginative use of the limited tools available to you in the face of a recalcitrant Congress."

"One additional tool – recently proposed by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse – is a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) investigation of corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America's response to climate change," they wrote, according to Politico.

Two years ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said legal punishment was the appropriate response to global-warming dissenters.

"I wish there were a law you could punish them with," he said, launching into a diatribe against philanthropists Charles and David Koch, known for their support of conservative causes.

"I think it's treason. Do I think the Koch brothers are treasonous – yes, I do. They are enjoying making themselves billionaire[s] by impoverishing the rest of us. Do I think they should be in jail – I think they should be [enduring] three hots and a cot at the Hague with all the other war criminals. Do I think the Koch brothers should be tried for reckless endangerment? Absolutely, that is [a] criminal offense and they ought to be serving time for it."

President Obama has demanded action on climate change, even though the top climate scientist for the U.N. at that time, Rajendra Pachauri, admitted: "The protection of planet Earth, the survival of all species and sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma."

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