Posted on 02/14/2025 7:47:22 PM PST by lightman
For the past two decades, leftist activists have captured billions of dollars in taxpayer funding – domestically and abroad – under the guise of “fighting climate change.”
From Al Gore preaching about the Earth being in a "frying pan" while getting rich off of Qatari oil money to John Kerry demanding taxpayers send him to climate change conferences around the world on a private jet – and much more. The environment was never the concern; it was a front for corruption and communist-style control.
Last week, we were given yet another example of this grift when a solar project fully backed by the Obama administration was shuttered, leaving thousands of previously pristine acres and dead wildlife in its wake.
“A major California utility — Pacific Gas &Electric — announced that it will no longer buy power from the Ivanpah solar plant off Interstate 15 near the Nevada-California border. As a result, two of the plant’s three towers will shut down next year — and the third will probably follow,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. “This is in stark contrast to the fanfare that characterized Ivanpah’s opening in 2014, made possible thanks to a $1.6 billion U.S. taxpayer contribution courtesy of the Obama administration. One solar official heralded the moment as a ‘dawn of a new era in power generation in the United States.’”
“The plant became better known as a prolific executioner of wildlife, particularly of the flying kind. The massive fields of mirrors that directed sunlight to the tops of tall towers generated red-hot rays that were lethal to birds. Estimates were that the Ivanpah plant burned up at least 6,000 birds a year,” the story continues.
Nearly $2 billion and thousands of fried birds later, we’re left with thousands of acres of toxic solar waste. The same ideologues behind this failed and disgraceful project will insist that American taxpayers continue to fund similar projects all over the West. We should all loudly say, “Hell no.”
With President Donald Trump in the White House for a second term, future climate grifting is coming to an end.
It started on January 20, when Trump pulled the United States out of the Climate Paris Accords immediately upon taking office.
“In recent years, the United States has purported to join international agreements and initiatives that do not reflect our country’s values or our contributions to the pursuit of economic and environmental objectives. Moreover, these agreements steer American taxpayer dollars to countries that do not require, or merit, financial assistance in the interests of the American people,” Trump’s executive order on the matter states.
Now, Elon Musk and his DOGE team, in partnership with Trump Cabinet officials, are taking an ax to activist funding, from the EPA to the State Department and beyond.
"I just canceled a $50 MILLION Biden-era environmental justice grant to the Climate Justice Alliance, which believes “climate justice travels through a Free Palestine,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin proudly declared on X. “The days of irresponsibly shoveling boatloads of cash to far-left activist groups in the name of ‘environmental justice’ and ‘climate equity’ are over.”
The climate change narrative has always been a scam. It's long past time for the government to stop subsidizing the fear-mongering of leftist activists, especially for the sake of implementing more government control at the expense of the American taxpayer.
Bkmk
”Green” on the outside
but RED on the inside!
The whole climate change thing has been a scam since day one.
BTTT
“The environment was never the concern; it was a front for corruption and communist-style control.”
I’ve mentioned it before and I’ll mention it again. I was around during the Cold War, going to college at ESU. Saw all of the Leftists, many openly Communist, protesting everything the US did militarily, they also protested in support of the ‘environment’, but to a much lesser extent. It was clear that they wanted a Soviet victory in the Cold War, or if not, then they’d destroy the economy via environmental regulations.
Well, 1990 came, Earth Day, coupled with the collapse of the USSR - and those SAME PEOPLE put away their Soviet flags and Che tee-shirts and, with USAID no doubt funding them, they made the FASTEST political pivot I’ve ever seen and it was like “what Cold War, we need to SAVE THE PLANET!!”. And so, with the USAID-controlled media operating in full blast, the planet had to be SAVED.
So, you are correct, the Environmental groups at least started out as Communists that no longer were able to strive for the Soviet Union to defeat America, so they immediately pivoted to the ‘Environmental Movement’.
How much money did Obama and other make from Solyndra before it went under? It was all from taxpayers.
First “Earth Day” was in April of 1970.
What does “climate justice” even mean? Years ago I used to go camping and exploring in the Mojave Desert near Ivanpah, originally an 1870s railroad watering hole. It was a beautiful, pristine desert there until the solar plant went in.
My daughter is flying to Seattle this weekend for a concert being held at the “Climate Change Arena”.
Hope she enjoys the music, but I’m LMAO.
“First “Earth Day” was in April of 1970.”
True, it was the 20th Anniversary. No one ever heard of it for years...and then it CAME OUT OF NOWHERE (more likely, got USAID funding).
I was at the first one...
(trying to pick up chicks)
How do you shut down a solar cell, blanket? Sun light shine on solar cell, generate electricity. Cut wire? What’s the lifespan of a solar cell with stuck electrons?
Ivanpah uses mirrors, not solar panels.
Gaia worshipers. Thank goodness we’ve been able to resist much harder than Britain and Germany have. We’ve wasted huge amounts of money but we were able to prevent the Gaia Worshipers from completely wrecking our power grid like they have in those two countries They’re both economically screwed now. They have energy costs that are literally 4X to 5X what ours are rendering them economically uncompetitive with no quick fixes in sight. Germany is rapidly deindustrializing. Its large chemical industry is all but dead and all manufacturing soon will be.
Final climate change is recognized as a global scam and we are holding the bill
“Climate justice” means dumping pollution on white people.
It is about anti-white hate, all of it.
Thanks. Still have the issue some investment was made and now no generation of revenue. 2.2 billion spent and now coming up with a new plan.
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