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Exposing The Great Green Grift
Issues & Insights ^ | 5 May, 2026 | I & I Editorial Board

Posted on 05/06/2026 4:27:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber

As much as $16 trillion has been spent worldwide to defeat global warming. It could have been twice that and it would never be enough because the climate hustlers need to keep the dollars rolling in to line their own pockets. Now we finally have an Environmental Protection Agency chief who’s exposing the racket.

Testifying last week before a Senate committee, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin told lawmakers that the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $27 billion stash that was created through the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, is a con. His office found that money that was supposed to have some environmental benefit has been funneled “to former Obama and Biden officials” as well as Democratic donors

“The conflicts of interest that we saw … the amount of self-dealing, the unqualified recipients … (the) Climate United Fund CEO was a special assistant in the Office of Management and Budget during the Obama-Biden administration … they received $6.9 billion,” said Zeldin, who, as a rational skeptic of the climate narrative, is finally the right man for the job.

He also told the committee that a Biden-Harris climate adviser served on the board of the Coalition for Green Capital, joining in 2023 while the organization was applying for federal funds. He reported, as well, that the Power Forward Communities chief executive ran Fannie Mae during the Obama-Biden administration.

“If we had 10 more minutes,” said Zeldin, “I could just go through conflicts of interest.”

One assumes it might take more than 10 minutes. The global warming scare has been an ongoing grift, a bursting slush fund for the political left for some time.

After the hearing, Zeldin continued his most-welcome broadside, posting on X that he was “done with the likes of AOC, Al Gore, John Kerry, and the rest of the lying cabal that make stupid climate predictions, plunder tens of billions of tax dollars, enrich their well-connected allies, and are committed to strangulating out of existence entire sectors of our economy.”

He finished by declaring, “The GREEN NEW SCAM is DEAD!!!”

We hope so. We’ve been trying to kill it for nearly three decades, and at times it felt we were nearly alone. We weren’t. We’ve had allies whom we relied on. But the overwhelming storyline that had become widely accepted as undeniable fact was a fire hose of misinformation, exaggerations, implausible assumptions, scientific fraud, tall tales, and outright lies that overshadowed the truth.

Now it feels as if it’s about to break. People are beginning to realize that the entire scheme has had no connection to the climate and is inextricably connected to aggregating political power, social dominance, and piles of money for the left. Our hope is that within a few years, we’ll never have to write about global warming again because justice and reason finally caught up with the shakedown.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: climate; corruption; fraud; grift; leftism; newworldodor; ripoff; scam; transferofwealth

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1 posted on 05/06/2026 4:27:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The left seems to be nothing but grifters.


2 posted on 05/06/2026 4:27:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Socialism is a scam too.


3 posted on 05/06/2026 4:28:38 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: MtnClimber

The money being spent and made off weather manipulation via aerial spraying world wide alone must be staggering.


4 posted on 05/06/2026 4:35:00 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: MtnClimber

“People are beginning to realize that the entire scheme has had no connection to the climate”

Right there is the summation. The Kovid Krap, EV’s etc. were just smaller flareups, there will be others. Trust any government at any level at your own peril.


5 posted on 05/06/2026 4:49:32 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: MtnClimber

Only 4.73 years left.


6 posted on 05/06/2026 5:53:22 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: MtnClimber

That money builds permanent left-wing structure, it recruits, educates, and indoctrinates countless millions and introduces and trains them into activism and politics, and fundraising, and leads to new businesses and industries, and lifelong commitments and careers, it builds corporations in solar and other industries to compete against and fight the existing energy structure and unleashes fellow travelers in government at all levels from city to federal.

Trillions of dollars don’t just go into pockets, it builds a new world, the money makes the left huge, powerful, and dominate, the left is the profitable industry itself and today it is a global entity.


7 posted on 05/06/2026 6:23:00 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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So a bunch of salaried federal government employees were part and parcel to all of the scams as well as elected officials. Absolutely stealing from the taxpayers. There needs to be deep investigations, complete transparency, and major criminal prosecutions.


8 posted on 05/06/2026 6:25:05 AM PDT by Smnz (FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!!)
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Please! Put these integrity-free criminals behind bars and under hard labor for a couple decades. Rip back the money from these sham “gloBULL” warming nitwits. What sociopathic criminal losers. If you are unfortunate such that you know these pathetic dregs, shun them and their extended families forever.

Is there no justice???


9 posted on 05/06/2026 6:37:39 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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He finished by declaring, “The GREEN NEW SCAM is DEAD!!!”

Well there are 1000s of data centers that need to be built now so of course it’s dead. We have 300 million people to track and control, cars to shut off, SMART devices to listen to.


10 posted on 05/06/2026 7:03:18 AM PDT by Pollard (It's just another few hundred $$$)
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Good for Lee Zeldin for exposing this crafty scheme. We know man can’t control the climate, only control their circumstances, but they pretty much have to do that with their own money; not the taxpapayer’s.


11 posted on 05/06/2026 10:13:45 AM PDT by oldtech
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They are a good part of the reason we have such a huge national debt.


12 posted on 05/06/2026 10:15:19 AM PDT by oldtech
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People are only starting to realize how much fraud there is in government. The global warming hoax is only a fraction of the fraud.


13 posted on 05/06/2026 10:20:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Pollard

BINGO.


14 posted on 05/06/2026 10:49:29 AM PDT by drwoof
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Re: "Our hope is that within a few years, we will never have to write about global warming again because justice and reason finally caught up with the shakedown."

Tell that to the Seattle Times, the most circulated news paper in my town.

They have front page Global Warming news reports at least twice a week.

Most of their Global Warming commentary is written by local Seattle Times reporters, so this issue is NOT going away any time soon.

15 posted on 05/06/2026 11:45:58 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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