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For all the efforts of Elon Musk and the DOGE, there’s nonetheless a large quantity of taxpayer money being wasted on all kinds of issues. One of the more egregious examples of authorities spending on flat-out horse squeeze is the quantity of money spent on fostering climate-change panic.

Yes, that is proper. We’re paying for a group of “consultants” whose funding depends upon their spreading climate panic. I’d love for anybody to show me in the Constitution the place that is an enumerated energy of any portion of the federal authorities. Hint: It is not, however that is by no means stopped the left and big-government advocates (however I repeat myself) from spending more and more of our money.

I first wrote about this group in March:

Previously on RedState: Targets for the DOGE: The US Global Change Research Program Begs for Scrutiny

Now, a piece in the Daily Wire not solely gives us with more particulars; it signifies that regardless of the Trump administration and the DOGE, they’re nonetheless spending our money.

More than three many years in the past, Congress launched an initiative known as the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Today, it spends billions of {dollars} a 12 months empowering liberal climate scientists to unfold climate change doom. 

The authorities group says its position is to supply the “scientific foundation to support informed decision-making across the United States” on climate change. It’s executed so by producing 5 National Climate Assessment stories, that are thought of the “crown jewel” of climate analysis.

And what’s on this “crown jewel?” Well, the manufacturing of this report, because it seems, is outsourced nearly totally to a group known as ICF. And they’re raking it in.

Despite taking funding from at the least ten separate authorities companies, producing the report appears to be the group’s sole operate. The most up-to-date iteration — printed in 2023 and nonetheless prominently showcased on its authorities web site — warns that “severe climate risks to the United States will continue to grow.” The subsequent report is due out in the subsequent couple of years, in accordance with E&E News. 

This group, thoughts you, has a outlined funds nearing $2 billion, and, as I wrote in March, takes money from a selection of authorities sources:

There are stories that funding from our federal authorities to ICF runs as high as $7.4 billion. There definitely are a pile of grants going IDF’s method:

EPA Awards ICF $75 Million Environmental Support BPA

EPA Selects ICF for $33 Million in New Environmental Assessment Contracts

EPA Selects ICF for $31 Million Health Risk Assessment Contract

U.S. Air Force Selects ICF for $25 Million Environmental Services Contract

EPA Selects ICF for $5.7 Billion Environmental and Climate Support BPA

Note that the majority of these are taken straight from ICF’s web site. They are bragging about this.

They are bragging about it, and they’re taking steps to make sure the continuation of that unearned increment of taxpayer {dollars}:

And ICF is an extremely partisan firm. Its web site boasts about its “corporate citizenship,” “culture and belonging,” and “environmental justice.” Several blogs are posted on its web site about how to infuse “equity” into “climate discussions,” assist EV mandates, and advance “environmental justice.” Perhaps most telling, almost all of the officers its web site lists as being half of the ICF Climate Team are Democrat donors, giving to candidates together with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The Daily Wire was unable to identify any contributions to Republicans.

They hit all the buzzwords: “Corporate citizenship,” “culture and belonging,” and, of course, “environmental justice.” They have fallen into the entice of leftists all over the place, considering you’ll be able to take a weak trigger and make it compelling by sticking the phrase “justice” on the finish of it.

See Also: Trump’s EPA Chief Just Trashed a Biden-Era Shrine to ‘Environmental Justice’ – Done ‘Burning Tax Dollars’

And that is the place issues stand immediately: Our authorities is outsourcing the climate agenda to a shadowy group that’s raking in billions in grants to perpetuate climate scoldery.

Not solely is there no constitutional cause for this to be occurring, however there’s no scientific cause. Yes, the climate is altering. Yes, the development has been barely upward. It has been for some time, in accordance with knowledge from sources like ice cores, tree rings, and preserved lake varves. We ought to do not forget that, 30,000 years in the past, a lot of North America was lined with mile-thick ice sheets, and we are actually in an interglacial period, when the climate is a little hotter than during a, you realize, ice age. 

The climate will not doom us. If it grows a little hotter, there might be some results on humanity; some already heat areas will grow a little hotter, and so will some cooler areas; Siberia might change into a breadbasket. We even have our own method of coping with something climate-related; technology, technology that requires cheap, dependable, plentiful vitality; the vitality that the climate scolds need to shut down, and as we see on this report, we – you and I – are paying for the people who need this to occur. We are paying billions.

There doesn’t, as of this writing, look like any indication that the DOGE or the Trump administration has their eyes on this waste. That must change; after all, a billion right here, a billion there, and fairly quickly we’re speaking actual money.

Elon Musk and DOGE are bringing much-needed accountability to our out-of-control forms as they take a chainsaw to rampant waste, fraud, and abuse.

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