After President Trump cuts taxpayer funds for climate change research, vigilantes are crying to heaven for vengeance.
The comically named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), passed by the Democrats in 2022, “instructs hundreds of millions of dollars worth of investment in climate and environmental justice projects.” Note Grist and activists, a Green Advocacy publication, fear that a river of free money might dry out under Trump.
“We're excited to be able to help you get started,” said Gabriel Filiperi, executive director of the Institute for Environmental Resilience at Indiana University. It has been suspended.
“But what people don't fully recognize is that if you disrupt your funds on a wide range of scales, even in a short period of time, the hangover effect lasts for a long time,” he adds. I did.
“These are clear attempts to undermine the scientific community,” lamented Richard Ostfeld, a scientist at the Ecosystem Research Institute, which studies the effects of climate change on tick-borne diseases.
“For some reason, science and scientists, information and facts are recognized as enemies,” he argued. “Along with scientists, all these victims are American citizens.”
Critics have long advocated for the enormous amount of funding bias created by government-sponsored research on climate change.
As economist Stephen Moore has It's written“”[T]His waves of tide reveal a powerful financial motivation for scientists to conclude that the apocalypse is above us. ”
“If there's no fire, no one will hire a firefighter. If there's no catastrophic change in the weather, no one will hire a climate scientist (there are thousands now),” he added. .
Such biases were abundantly clear under the Biden administration, with no effort to hide their beliefs about the “climate crisis” and only fundraising research supporting their own biases.
As National Public Radio (NPR) It's attracting attention“Biden has resigned from his position, which introduced the most ambitious climate agenda of the previous president,” he describes the inflation reduction law as “the most important action in world history.” did.
It is understandable that there are currently recipients of taxpayer-funded climate pork.
