Trump Slams Door on Climate Grifters

Watts Up With That is doing a happy-dance....

...The wine and cheese set over at Bloomberg has been thrown into full-blown hysteria because—brace yourselves—President Trump turned off the spigot of taxpayer cash that funds their sacred climate cult. Their headline reads like a lost script from The Handmaid’s Tale: “It’s Surreal: Trump’s Freeze on Climate Money Sows Fear and Confusion”​.

“Surreal”? What’s 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 “science.” Imagine a world where these people actually had to produce something of value rather than leech off the federal government. Terrifying, right?...

 
   ... Alex Bomstein of the Clean Air Council, a nonprofit that apparently exists to ensure perpetual panic over air quality. He whines that his organization has been given “mixed messaging” about whether their taxpayer-funded cash flow is actually getting turned off​. Imagine the horror of having to operate like a normal business, unsure if revenue will be guaranteed forever.    

...Dominika Parry, CEO of 2C Mississippi, is devastated that her $gazillion climate grant might not materialize as expected​. Because when you think “Mississippi,” your first concern is clearly whether its climate nonprofit sector is fully funded.

...David Funk, the president of an “energy consulting firm” in Washington state, had to furlough employees because the Department of Agriculture wouldn’t give him free money​. Perhaps he could explore this new concept called “selling a service people want to pay for.”

...Laurence Smith, a professor at Brown University, says a postdoc under him couldn’t access her salary​. Let’s see if we’ve got this right: A researcher who relies entirely on government grants now finds herself in financial limbo because… the government stopped the grants? Almost like relying on endless taxpayer money is a bad career plan....

And many, many more.