Climate Cult Singing ‘Rocky Mountain High Yi Yi’ LAGNIAPPE

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Two days before New Year’s, I told you all about how Southern California’s South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), encompassing Los Angeles and parts of surrounding counties, had decided to approve the accelerated adoption of a rule to ban natural gas boilers in new construction from 2026 forward. Existing facilities would have until 2033 to switch over to electric.

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Going forward from next year, everything would be electric in a state that can’t keep the lights on as it is, and it’s hella expensive for the privilege as it is.

California is being driven off an energy cliff in fits and spurts by its slavish devotion to chasing out the climate change demons in a frantic effort to restore balance, enacting draconian measure after measure to the untameable forces of nature, regardless of the impact on the human inhabitants of the state.

All in the name of the Climate Cult and the Settled Science™ of Global Warming/Climate Change aka Weather.

So serious and so entrenched are Green activists in the state government and so focused on the fervid foaming from Climate Experts™ (Who’ve now specialized in Henny Penny scenarios for so long that they’ve become institutions in their own right), that they’ve condemned…okay, committed California to banning all natural gas heaters, furnaces, etc, by 2030.

Oh, yay – first in the nation!

But who are the Experts™ who drive this ruinous insanity? Just how altruistic are their motives?

…Who is “they” besides California Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature imposing these policies on you?

California is set to become the first state to ban natural gas heaters, water heaters, and furnaces by 2030, a policy of the California Air Resources Board, entirely made up of appointees by the governor, I reported in 2023 in The Tangled Government Web Behind the Push to Ban Gas Stoves, where we link Harvard Health Publishing, the Rocky Mountain Institute,  MDPI International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) National Library of Medicine. NIH is the largest source of funding for medical research in the world. The WHO is named in the studies, as are many Chinese studies.

And they don’t care if it bankrupts you or causes you undue hardship. They don’t care if your public transit system is a hellhole on rails, when they take away your gas-powered car. They don’t care if you have to walk 5 miles to work. They don’t care. Just remember that they don’t care about you. They only care about their autocratic rules – and power.

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Well, huh. Looking back at that list of names with what we know now, it kind of looks like a rogues’ gallery of malevolent intent, doesn’t it? 

I mean, Harvard. The WHO, the Chinese, and the always benevolent NIH – haven’t they been covering themselves in unbiased, trustworthy glory lately?

Another of the co-conspirators named who has contributed to the declining standard of living in CA and came close to impacting all of us is the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI).

You might well remember them for their sensational claim that ‘peer-reviewed research’ proved gas stoves were a major source of indoor air pollution and endangered children primarily by causing asthma through those pollutants. The RMI stove bombshell exploded and caused secondary explosions that damn near cost every American access to their precious gas range, as the Biden administration moved like quick little bunnies to ban them.

Biden’s Consumer Safety Product Commissioner, Richard Trumka, called them a ‘hidden hazard.’ And you know what the government does with ‘hazards,’ especially when they’re predisposed to disposing of them to begin with.

…During an interview with Bloomberg on January 9, 2023, Trumka stated that CPSC was considering banning gas stoves due to health hazards. He asserted that gas stoves are “a hidden hazard . . . Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.”

All this springing from RMI’s report of ‘peer-reviewed reports, ‘ which turned out to have been based on some pretty shoddy methodology.Climate Cult Singing 'Rocky Mountain High Yi Yi' LAGNIAPPE 1

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Like measurements taken in a kitchen walled off and sealed in plastic like a cooking cocoon.

SCIENCE™

Jeez. Nothing suspicious or below decks about these guys.

These are the sorts of ‘think tank’ and advocate grifters who have been feeding at the government trough and advancing an agenda not based on science but on #feelz and manipulation, the fallacious results of which have been allowed to dictate and destroy many facets of the formerly comfortable standard of living Americans enjoyed and had every right to expect.

I want you to know all about every last one of these cancerous leeches.

Not a minute too soon, the gravy train to these adversarial establishments is being cut off. It is a glorious thing to see, particularly in light of the intentional duplicity they’ve employed to twist and force our lives into their malicious, dogmatic molds.

Such has now happened to the Rocky Mountain Institute. In a one-two blow yesterday, our new Secretary of Energy canceled grants.

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There is a reckoning at last afoot.

The Department of Energy canceled two climate grants the Biden administration awarded to the Rocky Mountain Institute, a left-wing climate think tank that has pushed for heavy restrictions on gas stoves and that has collaborated with the Chinese government.

The first grant was worth about $5.3 million and designed to fund the Rocky Mountain Institute’s pilot project retrofitting a 120-unit building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with green energy technology. Then-energy secretary Jennifer Granholm said in March 2022 the grant funding proved the Biden administration was “in an all-out sprint to beat the climate crisis” while Sen. Ed Markey (D., Mass.) said it would help protect the country “from upheaval caused by the global fossil fuel market.”

The second was a $1.5 million grant to fund research into the viability of electric vehicle carshare programs. The research, according to the Department of Energy, would assess business models in the United States for resilience and “equity.”

Between the RMI being a Chinese-linked operative and a Davos tool, every last federal dollar needs to be stripped. Let the WEF and Bloomberg pay their freight.

…And the Free Beacon reported that the Rocky Mountain Institute boasts a number of ties to the Chinese government. The group’s only office outside the United States is located in Beijing. It is also a member of the China Clean Transportation Partnership—a Chinese nonprofit whose founding members include China’s National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Transport—and its board member Wei Ding previously served as chairman of the China International Capital Corporation, a partially state-owned investment bank.

…Michael Lucci, the founder and CEO of the group State Armor, added that the Chinese Communist Party “is committed to infiltrating all aspects of American life from U.S. critical infrastructure to our universities, and think tanks.” He said that state and local governments must now work to block China from having leverage over American companies, organizations, and institutions.

The Rocky Mountain Institute, meanwhile, has received millions of dollars from prominent left-wing nonprofits including the Energy Foundation, Sequoia Climate Fund, the Sergey Brin Family Foundation, the Climateworks Foundation, the Climate Imperative Foundation, the Windward Fund, the New Venture Fund, the Bloomberg Family Foundation, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, according to tax filings reviewed by the Free Beacon.

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None of this climate grifting Science™ is random, or a mistake, or coincidence, or, in most instances, remotely honest.Climate Cult Singing 'Rocky Mountain High Yi Yi' LAGNIAPPE 2

It’s all one-hand-washes-the-other grifting, from the government on down.

Or…it was ’til the purse snapped shut.

Let it keep on snappin’.

LAGNIAPPE: This is too delicious not to share.

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