“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 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 story line 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.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
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