Sometime during the Trump administration’s fast and furious spending cuts and cancellations, the Rocky Mountain Institute lost millions in Biden-era federal climate-nonsense grants — cut not by DOGE but by the Department of Energy under Secretary Chris Wright.
Tears have been shed, garments rent: $5.3 million would have been used to retrofit a building to make it more green; $1.5 million would have funded research on the practicality of “electric vehicle carshare programs” and the “resilience” and “equity” of U.S. business models.
These initiatives are just the tip of the spear. RMI is also a good buddy of the Chinese government. RMI even has an office in Beijing.
As James Roth puts it over at our sister publication StoptheCCP.org, “Yes, RMI works with the communist government and proudly. It’s all over their website. It’s their specialty.”
Hold on, Roth. We must all try to understand that this is the kind of thing we must do if we wish to pretend to effectuate real global change in order to pretend to finetune world climate. If we let reality infect our thinking, what happens to mankind’s noble dream of instituting a globe-girdling weather-control machine while fatuously enabling the policies, conduct, and lies of tyrants? It would evaporate in the morning sun.
We’d be stuck with facts.
We’d be stuck treating RMI as responsible for its actions, as U.S. Senator Ted Cruz did in a letter to the institute’s CEO in 2023, asking “whether RMI has ever received any funding from any entity or individual associated with the Chinese government. Please answer with a ‘yes’ or ‘no’.…”
There’s at least one such funder. RMI has gotten money from Energy Foundation China, which has CCP ties and is “run by former Chinese Communist Party officials.”
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“…what happens to mankind’s noble dream of instituting a globe-girdling weather-control machine…” Reminds me of Star Trek. In the 24th century they had a weather modification net over planet Earth. They had a vacation planet where it never rained because the natural weather systems were suppressed. Have any of our climate scientists figured out how to cap a volcano or prevent Earth’s tectonic plates from colliding with one another?
It’s kinda funny.
It seems the vast majority of people complaining about DOGE are receiving money from the sources being investigated.
The US government, the Baptist Church, and Apple Inc. all have offices in Beijing, too. And all of them work with the Chinese regime in various ways.
By all means, General Ripper, continue to enlighten us about the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.