{"id":418904,"date":"2025-12-28T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=418904"},"modified":"2025-12-28T14:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:00:20","slug":"how-the-grinch-stole-greenie-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=418904","title":{"rendered":"How the Grinch Stole Greenie Christmas"},"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

Every Greenie down in Green-ville liked green funding a lot,
But the Grinch, up in D.C., most certainly did not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Grinch hated permits! He hated subsidies!
Now please don\u2019t ask why\u2014some say regulatory allergies.
It could be his tie was tied just a bit too tight,
Or his patience for slogans had run out one night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But whatever the reason, his logic or gut,
He stood there on Christmas Eve, funding list in his clutch,
Staring down at Green-ville with a cold, steady stare,
At the grants and the credits still floating through air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor years now,\u201d he muttered, \u201cthey\u2019ve feasted on checks,
On loans and exemptions and modeling specs.
They promise the future! They promise the fix!
All funded by taxpayers\u2014quite a neat little trick.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor every green ribbon, a billion is spent,
Yet emissions stay stubborn, reliability bent.
They call this \u2018transition,\u2019 they call it \u2018the way,\u2019
But none of it works if the funding goes away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then he had an idea. An awful idea.
The Grinch had a wonderful, awful idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ll pull all their funding! I\u2019ll halt all their plans!
I\u2019ll tighten the permits! I\u2019ll cancel the grants!
No fast-track approvals! No blank-check delight!
Let\u2019s see how they do with the market in sight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So he crept down to Green-ville with policy in hand,
With memos and orders and budgets unplanned.
He yanked loan guarantees! He froze every spigot!
He questioned the models! (Oh, Greenies did not dig it.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He canceled the projects that lived on applause,
That fed on good headlines and regulatory laws.
He tugged at the strings of the climate parade,
And watched as the floats slowly started to fade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He took their green ornaments\u2014credits and caps!
He took their big conferences, jet-setting maps!
He took every program that couldn\u2019t survive
Without subsidies keeping its promises alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then he paused. And he listened.
On Christmas Day morn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He expected the wailing! The screaming! The scorn!
The headlines! The protests! The moral outrage!
The chants about science! The rage on the stage!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what he heard wasn\u2019t collapse or despair.
The grid stayed online. Heat flowed through the air.
Lights flickered on homes. The world did not freeze.
Reality carried on\u2014quite rudely\u2014with ease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Down in Green-ville, the Greenies still gathered that day,
But something was missing\u2014they couldn\u2019t quite say.
No fresh pile of funding, no targets brand new,
No glossy report saying \u201cWe\u2019re saving you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They sang their old songs about justice and fate,
About deadlines and tipping points scheduled too late.
But the chorus felt thinner. The rhythm felt wrong.
The checks weren\u2019t arriving to carry the song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some projects sat idle. Some vanished outright.
No private investor came rushing in sight.
No crowd funded turbines that failed on calm nights.
No bank backed a grid that dimmed without lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Greenies grew restless. They frowned and they stewed.
\u201cThis isn\u2019t how it\u2019s meant to be done!\u201d they booed.
\u201cThe Grinch doesn\u2019t care! He denies what is true!
He\u2019s stolen our future! He hasn\u2019t a clue!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the Grinch, up in D.C., just watched with a grin,
Not swelling with warmth, not letting them win.
He didn\u2019t convert. He didn\u2019t repent.
His heart did not grow three sizes\u2014percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, it stayed steady. Analytical. Cold.
He looked at the numbers. The stories they told.
He noted what vanished when funding was gone,
And what quietly worked\u2014and kept carrying on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf Christmas depended on money alone,\u201d
He muttered, \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t have lasted this long.
If energy systems collapse without aid,
They weren\u2019t systems at all\u2014just theater staged.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo let them be angry. Let editorials cry.
Let conferences schedule the end of July.
What matters is this, though it pains them to hear:
Reality doesn\u2019t bend for career.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so Christmas passed without climate salvation,
No miracle born from bureaucratic elation.
The Greenies stayed hopeful. The Grinch stayed the same.
And markets kept asking the simplest question of fame:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so Christmas passed without grand revelation,
No miracle born of bureaucratic elation.
No carbon was saved by sacrifice or decree,
No planet was fixed by a press conference spree.
The Greenies kept planning their next big appeal,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Grinch kept insisting on proof that was real.
And markets, unmoved by belief or by spin,
Kept asking the question that cuts to the skin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not who<\/em> funds the dream,
Or how<\/em> it\u2019s sold out\u2014
But simply and plainly:
Does it work\u2026When the money runs out?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that little question,
Unloved but precise,
Outlived every slogan,
Every target,
Every price<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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