Green Pay

Propaganda pays:

The Daily Wire recently reported on the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), which was "established by Congress in 1990 to coordinate federal research and investments in understanding and responding to the forces shaping the global environment, both human and natural, and their impacts on society." The USGCRP is a consortium of no fewer than 15 cabinet departments and agencies, notably including the Smithsonian, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the EPA, and USAID. The whole program sounds a little odd. Global change? What change? Don't worry. What they mean is “a comprehensive and integrated United States research program which will assist the Nation and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change." What they mean, of course, is climate change, although they break it up into a bunch of categories that are then bundled up in their annual research program, *Our Changing Planet* (the 2025 program is documented here). This, along with ensuring that diversity, equity, and inclusion are major concerns that must be addressed. USGCRP is awarded about $5 billion in the 2025 budget request to study change. One of USGCRP's major contractors is ICF, LLC, a public company traded on the NASDAQ, which is contracted to produce the National Climate Assessment, which Politico's E&E News calls the "crown jewel" of U.S. climate research.

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