Sunday, January 6, 2019

Follow the Climate Money


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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