More than thirty years ago, Congress launched an initiative called the US Global Change Research Program [USGCRP]. Today, it spends billions of dollars a year to enhance the capacity of free climate scientists to spread the doom of climate change. [emphasis, links added]
The government panel said its role is to provide a “scientific foundation for climate change to support informed decision-making across the United States.”
This is done by producing five national climate assessment reports that are considered “the crown jewelry” of climate research.
Although funding was obtained from at least ten separate government agencies, making the report seemed to be the sole function of the group.
The latest iteration (published in 2023 and is still on display on its government website, which is “severe climate risk to the United States will continue to grow.”
According to E&E News, the next report will be released in the coming years.
National climate assessment is not just an intellectual exercise, but an exercise that adopts real policy.
Congress and agencies use it to justify regulations and funding decisions, and states and cities across the country use it as the nonpartisan scientific basis for their climate action plans.
In short, this is the scientific bedrock that will guide the goal of free climate change at all levels.
Although USGCRP noted on its website that its budget is $4.95 billion in 2025, it lists only two full-time employees. So, who gets paid to put together large-scale and corresponding reports?
Familiar with the data on past iterations of national climate assessment This work mainly outsources it to a group called ICF, a large-scale government contractor that has active contracts to work on the report.
Daily Wires identified at least one active contract from NASA to “support” USGCRP.
During the Trump administration, the ICF will be paid millions of dollars to “help the nation and the world understand, evaluate, predict and respond to the human-induced and natural processes of global change.”
The contract was first announced in June 2021 and was described as a $34 million five-year contract to help with the national climate assessment.
According to the government spending database, only $18 million was paid. But with another year under the contract, an additional $16 million could be paid next year with another assessment of the deck and the ICF.
Climate scientists who have worked in national climate assessments in the past say the ICF hosted the show, which actually controlled the entire USGCRP.
“By providing all staff to the federal agency USGCRP, the ICF has had an undue impact on the narratives and priorities of global change proposed by the federal government,” he said. The official said he asked to discuss the work anonymously.
“The ICF passes USGCRP, which has an undue impact on national climate assessment production every four years. [Except for] ICF Executive Director and Director of National Climate Assessment provides all staff related to USGCRP. ”
The two positions mentioned by climate officials are the only two employees on the USGCRP staff list: Ariela Zycherman, director of the National Climate Assessment, and Heidi Roop, deputy director of Services.
Russell Vought, the top official in the Trump administration, said he wanted to monitor more of the next climate assessment. Vought has a strong management and budget office and publicly stated that he wants to cut deeper spending on “wake up and weaponize”.
Vought specifically proposed the USGCRP report, believing that the bureaucrats who write letters ended up with huge power over government action. He called for an investigation into the political tendencies of the contractors who assembled the report.
The two employees listed by USGCRP appear to be partisan actors. Last year, Zicherman contributed to the presidential campaign of Joe Biden and then-VP Kamala Harris, according to campaign financial records.
Roop has her pronouns in her Instagram Bio and describes herself as a “climate scientist dedicated to preparing for the warmth of the world.”
ICF is an incredibly partisan company.
Its website exaggerates its “corporate citizenship,” “culture and belonging” and “environmental justice.”
Several blogs have posted information on their websites on how to inject “equity” into “climate discussions”, support EV authorization and improve “environmental justice.”
Perhaps most convincing is that almost all of its website officials are part of the ICF climate team, Democratic donors, donating to candidates including Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Daily Wires can't find any contribution to Republicans.
The ICF's government contract revenue is more than the $34 million active contract from NASA.
An analysis of federal spending data found that consulting firms refreshed at billions of dollars each year through federal contracts and earned more than $2 billion in revenue during the Biden administration.
The consulting firm is likely to realize that the scope of its administration’s work could be cut during Trump’s term, as do investors.
Its stock price was $171 per share before its election last November, but it has only $77 per share since, the lowest since Trump's last presidency.
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