For far too long, our universities have partnered with the elite media to push narratives that are corrosive to the nation and harmful to our young people.
One example is ‘climate anxiety’, which is nothing more than the ginned-up fantasy fear of the life essential gas known as carbon dioxide.
Studies show that nearly 60% of Americans aged 16-25 are very or extremely worried about climate change, with over 85% experiencing some level of climate-related distress. Furthermore, 43% report that their mental health is directly impacted by climate change, while 38% say these feelings negatively affect their daily lives.
This added stress is needless and distracts our young people from achieving healthy goals and learning to do personal risk assessment properly.
The Trump administration has cut approximately $4 million in federal funding for climate research programs at Princeton University, citing concerns that the program “exaggerated” climate threats and contributes to “climate anxiety” among youth.
The cuts to programs that study topics like sea-level rise and coastal flooding were announced Tuesday by the Commerce Department, which houses the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the world’s premier climate science agencies. They come after federal agencies including NASA and the Energy Department announced last week that they would pause dozens of research grants at Princeton.NOAA currently spends roughly $220 million per year funding climate research, but the Trump administration has signaled that it intends to pare back those efforts.Among the latest cuts was funding for the Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System, a collaboration between NOAA and Princeton that focuses on improving computer models that show how the ocean and atmosphere are changing. One of the program’s meteorologists, Syukuro Manabe, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2021 for his work on modeling Earth’s climate and predicting the effects of global warming.
Being bombarded with scare stories from woke activists will do much to alleviate climate anxiety. I know I have felt less anxious since November.
The Trump administration is also gutting the funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), a congressionally mandated entity responsible for coordinating federal climate research and producing the National Climate Assessment (NCA). The move effectively halts work on the NCA.
The officials said NASA has canceled the contract with consulting firm ICF International, which coordinates the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the 13 federal agencies that write the National Climate Assessment.Killing that contract has “forever severed” climate change work occurring across agencies, said one federal official heavily involved in USGCRP efforts, who was granted anonymity to discuss the politically sensitive issue to avoid retribution.The practical effect means the National Climate Assessment will not move forward even though Congress requires a new assessment be issued by 2027, said a second official who is involved in USGCRP activities and was also granted anonymity.
However, the NCA turned out to be a conduit to send millions to liberal environmental activists.
A climate scientist who has worked on the National Climate Assessment in the past says ICF runs the show, virtually controlling the entire U.S. Global Change Research Program.“By providing all staff for the USGCRP, a federal agency, the ICF exerts undue influence over the global change narrative and priorities presented by the federal government,” said the official, who requested anonymity to discuss the work. “The ICF, through the USGCRP, exerts an undue influence on the production of the National Climate Assessment every four years. With the exception of its Executive Director and the Director of the National Climate Assessment, the ICF supplies all staff associated with the USGCRP.”Those two positions mentioned by the climate official are the only two employees listed on the U.S. Global Change Research Program staff list: a director of the National Climate Assessment named Ariela Zycherman, and a deputy director for services named Heidi Roop.A top Trump administration official, Russell Vought, has signaled that he wanted to exert more oversight over the next climate assessment. Vought runs the powerful Office of Management and Budget, and has openly stated that he wants to make deep cuts to “woke and weaponized” spending.
So, after reading this, I hope your anxiety has also decreased.
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