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The problem with all the grants are that they are not meant for science, but, for climate cult activism, to push an agenda

NOAA told to search grant programs for climate-related terms

The Commerce Department has sent NOAA officials a broad set of keywords to search grants in ways that would cover most climate change-related projects.

Why it matters: NOAA is one of the world’s top weather and climate agencies and provides funding to universities and researchers to improve the understanding and prediction of extreme weather and climate change.

Any potential challenges to NOAA’s peer-reviewed grants are “myopic and misguided,” said Rick Spinrad, who led NOAA during the Biden administration.

If the employees do not like it, they can go work in the private sector, right? Where they will mostly have to justify their funding with results.

Zoom in: The list of keywords, a copy of which was seen by Axios, includes DEI-related language and terms pertaining to a range of Trump’s executive orders to date.

Commerce’s interpretation of Trump’s orders on environmental agreements and energy covers the terms “climate,” “methane,” “nitrous oxide,” “greenhouse gas,” “climate science,” “carbon,” the “Paris Agreement,” and other terminology.

They should also take away all use of fossil fuels for travel by all NOAA employees not doing something like flying hurricane hunter planes. No meat allowed in NOAA buildings. For starters.

The intrigue: The potential effects of the keyword searches are illustrated by an example of funding directed to NOAA for grants under the Biden climate law known as the Inflation Reduction Act.

That law funded a $575 million program of climate resilience grants, according to Spinrad.

They keep telling us the science is settled, but, keep wanting more money for their research. Which never really comes to fruition, because if they solve a problem they cannot do more research and have more taxpayer money to use for shady purposes. Can’t live high on the hog without that money, eh?