By Craig Rucker, CFACT, 1/3/19.
Hundreds of billions of dollars flow through the
global warming campaign and they are greedy for more.
Yet the warming crowd has the temerity to attack
the comparatively minuscule funding available to those of us who labor to
correct the record on climate. They do this to avoid dealing with us on
substance where they are weakest.
For the record, CFACT is overwhelmingly funded
by friends like you. Thank you to everyone who donated to fund CFACT's
"Mission Poland" and our end-of-the-year campaign. We couldn't
do it without you. You're the best!
CFACT's Paul Driessen posted a thorough
discussion at CFACT.org in which he applies
the Left's "standards to those very same climate alarmists and their
allies – who are determined to shut down debate and impose their wind, solar
and biofuel policies on the world. Where do they get their money,
and how much do they get?."
The numbers are
shocking: Billionaire and
potential presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg gave the Sierra Club $110 million in a six-year
period to fund its campaign against coal-generated electricity. Chesapeake
Energy gave the Club $26 million in three years to promote natural
gas and attack coal. Ten wealthy liberal foundations gave another $51 million over eight years
to the Club and other environmentalist groups to battle coal.
People are becoming insanely rich off all this
and they don't take kindly to those of us who threaten their take.
The warming crowd blew their credibility on
distortions, personal attacks and outright lies long ago.
CFACT and our allies routinely use thousands of
dollars to defeat their billions. We are able to do so because unlike our
opponents, what we say checks out.
Over a 12-year period, the Environmental
Protection Agency gave its 15 Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee
members $181 million in grants –
and in exchange received quick rubber-stamp
approvals of various air quality rules. It paid the American Lung Association
$20 million to support its regulations.
During the Obama years, the
EPA, Interior Department and other federal agencies paid environmental pressure
groups tens of millions in collusive, secretive sue-and-settle lawsuit payoffs on dozens of issues.
Then we get to the really
big money: taxpayer funds that government agencies hand out to scientists,
computer modelers and pressure groups – to promote global warming and climate
change alarmism.
Federal funding for climate
change research, technology, international assistance, and adaptation has
increased from $2.4 billion in 1993 to $11.6 billion in 2014, with an
additional $26.1 billion for climate change programs and activities provided by
the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The Feds spent an estimated
$150 billion on climate change and green energy subsidies during President
Obama’s first term.
That didn’t include the 30%
tax credits/subsidies for wind and solar power: $8 billion to $10 billion
a year –
plus billions more from state programs that require utilities to buy expensive
“green” energy.
Overall hundreds of billions are routinely
spent, with the UN demanding we ramp up climate spending to $3.5 trillion per
year!
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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