{"id":287692,"date":"2023-11-12T18:29:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T17:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=287692"},"modified":"2023-11-12T18:29:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T17:29:29","slug":"as-the-transition-to-green-energy-crumbles-funding-for-the-climate-scare-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=287692","title":{"rendered":"As The Transition To Green Energy Crumbles, Funding For The Climate Scare Soars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The MANHATTAN CONTRARIAN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francis Menton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Donald Trump had just been elected President. He had been widely accused of calling the climate scare a \u201choax.\u201d In a post titled \u201cThe Impending Collapse Of The Global Warming Scare,\u201d<\/a> I went out on a limb predicting that the change of administration could bring about a the rapid demise of the climate scare. The post reported the then-increasing focus of the environmental movement on the climate issue, and ended with this prediction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The environmental movement has climbed itself way out onto the global warming limb.  Now the Trump administration is about to start sawing off the limb behind them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, that didn\u2019t happen. In the event, the Trump Administration was mostly a disappointment to us climate skeptics. Yes, they did take on a few significant regulatory matters, like rescinding the so-called Clean Power Plan (forced closure of fossil fuel power plants). But they never tackled the Endangerment Finding (labeling CO2 a \u201cdanger\u201d to human health and welfare); nor did they make any meaningful pushback against the activist bureaucracies or scientific societies; nor did they cut funding for the climate alarm movement to any significant degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we have been left to wait for the climate scare and the energy transition to collapse under the weight of the combination of their own scientific absurdity, physical impossibility, and crushing costs. It has been a long wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you have likely seen over the course of just the past few months that the supposed green energy transition \u2014 widely hyped and massively subsidized for two decades \u2014 has suddenly started to crumble on multiple fronts. We are rapidly approaching the green energy wall. And yet at the same time, the promoters of the climate scare are not backing down. Not in the least. To the contrary, the New York Times reports just today that the major environmental NGOs are in a process of cutting their funding for their most basic programs, like dealing with toxic chemicals, in order to double down and focus even more on the one big issue \u2014 climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More on that in a minute. But first, a small update on the approach of the green energy wall. Here are just a few of the latest data points on the supposed green energy transition not happening due to issues of cost and physical impossibility:<\/p>\n\n\n\n