{"id":374948,"date":"2025-04-13T12:03:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T10:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=374948"},"modified":"2025-04-13T12:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T10:03:28","slug":"panic-in-the-greenhouse-guardian-shrieks-as-climate-gravy-train-derails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=374948","title":{"rendered":"Panic in the Greenhouse: Guardian Shrieks as Climate Gravy Train Derails"},"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\n

They say you can hear the wailing from space\u2014or at least from deep within the editorial dungeon of The Guardian<\/em><\/a>, where climate correspondents are reportedly being consoled with soy lattes and participation trophies after the unthinkable occurred: the Trump administration canceled funding for ICF International, the contractor coordinating America\u2019s National Climate Assessment (NCA). That\u2019s right\u2014the federal sugar spigot has been shut off, and the climate clergy are not taking it well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s start with a gem from The Guardian\u2019s<\/em> April 9th obituary for the ICF\u2019s federal funding:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s really no coming back from this,\u201d moaned one anonymous staffer, whose main contribution to planetary salvation apparently consisted of convening meetings and photocopying catastrophic graphs. \u201cI\u2019m left without a support system and the latest science on climate change\u201d\u200b.
https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/09\/trump-national-climate-assessment-usgcrf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Good heavens. Without a publicly funded bureaucracy to remind them that hot weather in August is now \u201cunprecedented,\u201d how will America survive?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But fear not, dear reader, for this is not the death of science\u2014it\u2019s the euthanasia of a political machine disguised as one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NCA: Where Science Goes to Be Molded Like Play-Doh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Breakthrough Institute, the NCA, in its current state, is less an objective scientific document and more \u201ca political tool\u201d<\/a> riddled with alarmist framing and selective citation\u200b. It is, to borrow their phrase, \u201cfar less useful than its potential.\u201d Kind of like a $10,000 espresso machine at a climate summit\u2014impressive, expensive, and mostly producing froth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report is infamous for its headline-friendly key messages like \u201cSystemic Racism and Discrimination Exacerbate Climate Impacts on Human Health.\u201d <\/a>Because nothing says peer-reviewed science like intersectionality word salads\u200b.<\/p>\n\n\n

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https:\/\/nca2023.globalchange.gov\/chapter\/15\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Breakthrough\u2019s critique reads like a full autopsy: lack of systematic review, heavy bias toward worst-case scenarios, and reliance on cherry-picked data. The NCA isn\u2019t informing policy\u2014it\u2019s auditioning for a spot on MSNBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Real Tragedy? No More Government-Paid Fiction Writers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One \u201cfederal climate expert\u201d (anonymous, of course) bemoaned that firing ICF staff \u201cguts the entire climate research and services ecosystem\u201d\u200b. Translation: a few dozen Beltway bureaucrats lost their raison d\u2019\u00eatre\u2014and, more importantly, their federal per diems. Another lamented that the sixth National Climate Assessment is now \u201ceffectively destroyed.\u201d Cue dramatic string music and shots of melting glaciers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, back in the world of actual evidence, the Fifth NCA was already shredded by independent analysis. Larry Hamlin here at WUWT exposed the report\u2019s sleight-of-hand,<\/a> such as combining data from geographically disparate regions (like Alaska and Hawaii) with the continental U.S. to fabricate an alarming warming trend\u200b. Real NOAA data\u2014stripped of manipulative region-stacking\u2014shows no significant temperature anomaly increase in the U.S. since the 1930s. In other words, the \u201chottest ever\u201d narrative evaporates under scrutiny, like a snowflake in Phoenix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Real Inconvenient Truth: This Was Never About Science<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the NCA were a scientific document, its elimination would be met with a sober discussion about methodology. Instead, we get Michael Mann, the godfather of hockey-stick hysteria, declaring that ending ICF\u2019s contract is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cA crime against the planet \u2013 arguably, the most profound of all crimes\u201d\u200b.
https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/09\/trump-national-climate-assessment-usgcrf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Calm down, Michael. Genocide, war, and famine would like a word. This isn\u2019t a crime\u2014it\u2019s budget discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s face it: the NCA and its incestuous network of climate \u201cexperts\u201d have long functioned as an echo chamber for worst-case modeling, doomsday predictions, and lucrative consulting gigs. Scrapping it isn\u2019t the apocalypse\u2014it\u2019s spring cleaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t Cry for ICF, Argentina<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cancellation of ICF\u2019s contract doesn\u2019t signal the end of climate science. It signals the end of publicly funded ideological propaganda masquerading as science. It\u2019s a budgetary course correction, a rebalancing of priorities, and a much-needed cold splash of reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And judging by the caterwauling from The Guardian<\/em>, it hit exactly where it should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keep your tissues handy, climate clerics. The gravy train has left the station\u2014and it\u2019s coal-powered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They say you can hear the wailing from space\u2014or at least from deep within the editorial dungeon of The Guardian, where climate correspondents are reportedly being consoled with soy lattes and participation trophies after the unthinkable occurred: the Trump administration canceled funding for ICF International, the contractor coordinating America\u2019s National Climate Assessment (NCA). That\u2019s right\u2014the federal sugar spigot has been shut off, and the climate clergy are not taking it well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":374954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691834440,691818056,691834442,691829298,691834441,691818262],"class_list":{"0":"post-374948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-alarmist-framing","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-government-paid-fiction-writers","11":"tag-national-climate-assessment-nca","12":"tag-selective-citation","13":"tag-the-guardian","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0Screenshot-2025-04-13-120206.png?fit=1795%2C966&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1zxy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":288716,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=288716","url_meta":{"origin":374948,"position":0},"title":"5th National Climate Assessment: Obscured Hurricane Facts to Pull on Heart Strings","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"26\/11\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"By Jim Steele NCA Hype: NCA constantly claimed that \u201churricanes are both expected to increase in the region due to human-induced climate change, which will affect public health unless adaptation measures are taken (high confidence).\u201d The NCA focused on human and ecosystem hardships in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"5th National Climate Assessment\"","block_context":{"text":"5th National Climate Assessment","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=5th-national-climate-assessment"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/0F_Zmmbla0AEGiDe.jpeg?fit=1200%2C843&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/0F_Zmmbla0AEGiDe.jpeg?fit=1200%2C843&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/0F_Zmmbla0AEGiDe.jpeg?fit=1200%2C843&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/0F_Zmmbla0AEGiDe.jpeg?fit=1200%2C843&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/0F_Zmmbla0AEGiDe.jpeg?fit=1200%2C843&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":288740,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=288740","url_meta":{"origin":374948,"position":1},"title":"\u2018National Embarrassment\u2019: Key Stat Used In Biden Admin\u2019s Landmark Climate Report Is Misleading","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"26\/11\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"From The Daily Caller NICK POPE CONTRIBUTOR A key top-line statistic featured in the Biden administration\u2019s latest report on the state of climate change in the U.S. is misleading in several ways. 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