{"id":373153,"date":"2025-04-01T18:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T16:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=373153"},"modified":"2025-04-01T18:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T16:46:10","slug":"as-the-trump-administration-starts-to-claw-back-waste-fraud-and-abuse-sanity-is-making-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=373153","title":{"rendered":"As the Trump administration starts to claw back waste, fraud, and abuse, sanity is making a comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Jeff Reynolds<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Think back to about this time in 2024. Envirowackos and climate cultists had just made nuisances of themselves again by attempting to hurl canned soup on the Mona Lisa<\/em> to make some point about Mother Earth. The Biden administration was still shoveling money out the door and paying off their friends at climate NGOs to the tune of billions of dollars, while subsidizing electric vehicle companies and wind farms that would later go bankrupt. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had not yet formulated a plan to use the $7.5 billion he got in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to \u201cbuild electric vehicle charging stations\u201d [snicker]<\/em>. Donald Trump had essentially wrapped up the Republican nomination for President, but the road to his re-election seemed daunting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, contrast that to everything that happened in 2024, the fact that Trump won, and where we\u2019ve arrived today. Every week, it seems the Trump effect has spread throughout Western culture. Not just the direct effects of DOGE rooting out misspent federal funds, or shutting down the Department of Education, or rooting out climate hysteria from every agency. We\u2019re now starting to see a seismic shift in how even leftist organizations self-police their most radical elements. Corporations and hedge funds have shifted away from DEI and woke policies. Entertainment and sports organizations have moved ever so slightly back to the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week\u2019s column begins with news from across the pond, where the nuts in Just Stop Oil have decided maybe gluing themselves to airport runways didn\u2019t have the effect on the public they thought it might, so they\u2019ve decided to tone things down some. Ponder that, and then consider how much nicer things are in 2025. We do have some crazy news items though, including a power outage at a major international airport made worse by green energy; the Chinese create an ecological catastrophe overseas; and our weekly look at both the imploding EV market and the imploding green energy market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our good news segment, the children\u2019s climate lawsuit got thrown out; and an AI-generated paper made it into a scientific journal that debunks the entirety of the claims of man-made climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s get to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just Stop Oil\u2014Just Stop<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Our friend Kevin Killough at Just the News<\/em> reported this week<\/a> that the extremist climate protest group, Just Stop Oil, has decided to hang up their soup cans and their super glue and retire from the direct action business:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just Stop Oil<\/a>, the climate group based in the U.K., known for tossing cornstarch on Stonehenge<\/a> and throwing soup<\/a> on Vincent Van Gogh\u2019s painting \u201cSunflowers<\/em>,\u201d announced Thursday<\/a> that it would cease these kinds of protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just Stop Oil announced it will conduct one last protest <\/a>on April 26 at Parliament Square in London. According to the announcement, the protest will be \u201ca lower-risk action and we won\u2019t be pushing for arrest.\u201d It remains to be seen how many show up for this last hurrah.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Killough spoke with a noted energy and environment expert:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s the Trump effect. There\u2019s a cultural shift throughout the West that\u2019s going on right now, and that was reflected in the election of Donald Trump,\u201d Jeff Reynolds, senior editor for Restoration News<\/em><\/a>, told Just the News<\/em>. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

See how much better life is under the new administration?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heathrow Airport Goes Down<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This week, a transformer explosion caused a power outage at Heathrow International Airport in London. These things happen from time to time. No problem, as most large infrastructure facilities like this have backup generators to keep everything operating. London being London, however, they had to do something more \u2026 creative. Instead of having the standard diesel generators on standby, Heathrow decided to bow to their green gods and replace them with electric generators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you\u2019ll never guess what happened next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apparently the backup generator for the power plant near Heathrow is electric, not diesel, meaning it\u2019s currently about as much use as a chocolate teapot. This fire has wiped billions off of the British economy, but that\u2019s alright, eh? As long as we can say we\u2019re going green.<\/p>— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) March 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>