I & I Editorial BoardAs much as $16 trillion has been spent worldwide to defeat global warming. It could have been twice that and it would never be enough because the climate hustlers need to keep the dollars rolling in to line their own pockets. Now we finally have an Environmental Protection Agency chief who’s exposing the racket.
Testifying last week before a Senate committee, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin told lawmakers that the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $27 billion stash that was created through the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, is a con. His office found that money that was supposed to have some environmental benefit has been funneled “to former Obama and Biden officials” as well as Democratic donors
“The conflicts of interest that we saw … the amount of self-dealing, the unqualified recipients … (the) Climate United Fund CEO was a special assistant in the Office of Management and Budget during the Obama-Biden administration … they received $6.9 billion,” said Zeldin, who, as a rational skeptic of the climate narrative, is finally the right man for the job.
He also told the committee that a Biden-Harris climate adviser served on the board of the Coalition for Green Capital, joining in 2023 while the organization was applying for federal funds. He reported, as well, that the Power Forward Communities chief executive ran Fannie Mae during the Obama-Biden administration.
“If we had 10 more minutes,” said Zeldin, “I could just go through conflicts of interest.”
One assumes it might take more than 10 minutes. The global warming scare has been an ongoing grift, a bursting slush fund for the political left for some time.
After the hearing, Zeldin continued his most-welcome broadside, posting on X that he was “done with the likes of AOC, Al Gore, John Kerry, and the rest of the lying cabal that make stupid climate predictions, plunder tens of billions of tax dollars, enrich their well-connected allies, and are committed to strangulating out of existence entire sectors of our economy.”
He finished by declaring, “The GREEN NEW SCAM is DEAD!!!”
We hope so. We’ve been trying to kill it for nearly three decades, and at times it felt we were nearly alone. We weren’t. We’ve had allies whom we relied on. But the overwhelming storyline that had become widely accepted as undeniable fact was a fire hose of misinformation, exaggerations, implausible assumptions, scientific fraud, tall tales, and outright lies that overshadowed the truth.
Now it feels as if it’s about to break. People are beginning to realize that the entire scheme has had no connection to the climate and is inextricably connected to aggregating political power, social dominance, and piles of money for the left. Our hope is that within a few years, we’ll never have to write about global warming again because justice and reason finally caught up with the shakedown.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
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One pattern I have noticed with these climate grifters, among others, is that they have never operated a real business. The only operation any of them have ever run is fund-raising for their political allies, who put them in positions to continue the grift. Then those same politicians funnel the money to continue the grift.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
When do the prosecutions start?
This is my field. Humans do not facilitate the climate. The atmosphere is quite dynamic. Does climate change? Yes–at its own will. Humans can facilitate pollution. The US has pretty good air quality if you examine the data on EPA’s site. So the Clean Air Act has done its job. I would not be so concerned about greenhouse gases. It’s sticking to keeping the regular pollutants in check as we have. If you are worried about CO2, put up carbon capture. That will reduce some. What the country could do better is prepare for natural hazards. That includes better building materials & codes-both exterior & interior, barriers in some cases; better zoning away from seismic faults & beaches; proper silviculture of forests, geotechnical protocols to control runoff of fertilizers into streams, tidying up the landscape around decommissioned mines. Reduciton of plastic would be good too. There is no reason to rely on all the plastic that we use when there are other materials today. There are some interesting technologies to clean up the land & water. But administrations don’t care. They only want votes & they are the key players in allowing slush funds to function.
Lots of us felt like this all along, but the social pressure was so great not to speak up (cf. “deniers”) that word had trouble getting around.
In the meantime the fossil fuel powder kegs of the world continue to act as focal points for global conflict and instability, and whilst the US doubles down on dirty coal and polluting fossil energy, the UK is more getting more than half its energy from renewables and China is rinsing the US on every aspect of the energy and electrification future including renewable energy generation, batteries and energy storage, electric motors, and robotics.
Yeah. China with it’s building of a new COAL fired power plant every couple of weeks is the way to go.
I am a retired meteorologist who worked for 30 years in Army Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E). About 1991, a young meteorologist who worked under my supervision asked me about “global warming”. I said I did not think the science was very good, and we should be cautious.
He said, to effect: What does it matter if the science is not right? There is no harm. All the things which come from assuming “global warming” is real are good. Less use of fossil fuels, more efficient cars, more regulation of the environment. Besides, don’t we have to act now? If we wait it may be too late!
He went on to higher and more prestigious positions.
Behind all his statements was the assumption: Government does nothing but good. Empowering government is good. It is the basic premise of Progressive (leftist) ideology. It was, and is , hubris of a high order.
Prosecutions and convictions are in order IF this is true. Entire industries have been destroyed, e.g. coal mining, transportation, power generation with epic social costs; suicides, foreclosures, family break ups, due to this pogrom. Liars must be confronted, e.g. scientists, regulators, politicians, or lobbyists. Trust has been destroyed. Alternate energies, with much higher costs are extant. Your light bill was shifted to our national debt.
And our grid is creaky, many of our plants came on line in the Korean war era.
While researching how much money has been spent to date for renewable power generation (wind/solar) I found that at least $3 to 5 trillion dollars has been spent to date which has removed 1 to 2 million barrels of crude oil from daily production. To remove the next 98 million b/d my back of the envelope calculation was that another $415 trillion dollars would be needed…Good luck with that…