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Climate Fundraising Update: Hope amid Doom

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 19, 2025

“Climate activists are in denial. A great reset is underway…. But are they willing to emotionally reject their prior thinking for cause?”

It’s a funny, scary time in the climate alarmist camp. Once-favorable economic and political trends are going the other way in the U.S. and increasingly in the world. What to do? Literally thousands of climate-issue employees (grifters?) need to find alternative employment, almost all in net-positive (CO2) industries where value is being created rather than redistributed and lost. Big Money Green will keep priming the pump for many, however, so a base of false-green advocacy will remain.

Scaleback

In 2024 (Google summary):

  • Breakthrough Energy, the climate group funded by Bill Gates, laid off all of its US public policy team and its entire European staff. This decision was seen as a major retreat from public policy advocacy in a shifting political landscape.
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Who Should Your Climate Speaker Be?

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 18, 2025

“Anyone with real climate anxiety who can make a living outside of the Climate Industrial Complex should take up the Alex Epstein challenge….”

On social media, Greg Small, executive director of Climate Solutions, asked his followers:

Ok folks, looking for some ideas. We are starting to plan out the Climate Solutions dinner for next May. This is our big annual event that typically has about 700 or so people attend.

We are thinking about who a great keynote speaker might be. In the past we have had folks like Gina McCarthy, Van Jones, Bill McKibben, Bill Gates, Mindy Lubber, and Jigar Shah.

Who have you seen recently that lights things up and brings energy and excitement to a keynote speech.
Who do you want to hear from? Huge thanks for any ideas that you have.

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Environmental Groups Urge Congress to Ban Data Centers

By Steve Goreham -- December 17, 2025

“Environmental groups fear the AI tidal wave will wash away the net zero energy transition…. The end result will be a victory for AI and common sense, and the failure of renewable energy and the ideology of Climatism, the fear of human-caused global warming.”

Environmental groups seek to halt data center construction in the United States, warning that data centers consume enormous quantities of electricity and water and contribute to climate change. Further, environmentalists now oppose the artificial intelligence revolution (AI), the irresistible force that is transforming the US economy.

Last week, more than 230 environmental organizations delivered a letter to Congress requesting a “national data center moratorium.” The letter stated, “The rapid expansion of data centers across the United States, driven by the generative artificial intelligence and crypto boom, presents one of the biggest environmental and social threats of pollution, straining water resources, and rising electricity prices across the country.”…

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Trump’s AI “Manhattan Project”? (U.S. Department of Energy mission creep)

By Kennedy Maize -- December 16, 2025
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Stale ‘Big Oil’ Attacks: Fundraising at ‘Inside Climate News’

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 15, 2025
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“THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE GOOD FOR ENRON STOCK!!” (1997 Kyoto memo)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 12, 2025
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COP 30: Far Worse than COP 28 (Kalmus ignored)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 11, 2025
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COP30 (50,000 participants for what?)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 10, 2025
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African Energy Chamber to G20: Fossil Fuel Future

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 9, 2025
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Energy & Environmental Review: December 8, 2025

By -- December 8, 2025
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