{"id":365249,"date":"2025-02-06T16:58:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T15:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=365249"},"modified":"2025-02-06T16:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T15:58:36","slug":"schadenfreude-at-its-finest-climate-grifters-cry-over-trumps-grant-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=365249","title":{"rendered":"Schadenfreude at Its Finest: Climate Grifters Cry Over Trump\u2019s Grant Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Charles Rotter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-02-04\/-it-s-surreal-trump-s-freeze-on-climate-money-sows-fear-and-confusion<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Oh, the humanity! The wine and cheese set over at Bloomberg has been thrown into full-blown hysteria because\u2014brace yourselves\u2014President Trump turned off the spigot of taxpayer cash that funds their sacred climate cult. Their headline reads like a lost script from The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>: \u201cIt\u2019s Surreal: Trump\u2019s Freeze on Climate Money Sows Fear and Confusion\u201d<\/em>\u200b.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSurreal\u201d? What\u2019s surreal is that these people think they have some divine right to an endless fountain of taxpayer money to fund their political activism disguised as \u201cscience.\u201d Imagine a world where these people actually had to produce something of value rather than leech off the federal government. Terrifying, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A \u201cCrisis\u201d for the Climate Industrial Complex<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s set the scene: Trump waltzes back into office and, in a move that should have shocked exactly no one, hits the brakes on the Biden-era climate boondoggles like the Inflation Reduction Act (which, ironically, reduced inflation about as effectively as a gasoline shower puts out a fire). Millions of dollars in grants\u2014aka your hard-earned money\u2014suddenly vanish from the pockets of climate non-profits, academics, and other assorted grifters who had built their entire existence around government handouts\u200b.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloomberg describes this as \u201cconfusion and panic.\u201d Oh no! You mean these self-proclaimed geniuses who claim they can control the global temperature to within a fraction of a degree 100 years from now couldn\u2019t foresee a Trump policy move that was as predictable as the sunrise? Not so bright after all, are they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The World\u2019s Saddest Sob Stories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The article parades out a cast of characters who are struggling to cope with the horrors of not<\/em> being able to suckle at the federal teat. Let\u2019s meet a few:<\/p>\n\n\n\n