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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.

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.

Stale ‘Big Oil’ Attacks: Fundraising at ‘Inside Climate News’

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 15, 2025

“The anti-Big Oil political campaign, which harks back to 19th century’s ‘a right to do an independent business’ (Tarbell) against Standard Oil, is anti-consumer and pro-elitism…. Human betterment via economic and energy freedom is the moral imperative. Political capitalism (of which ‘Big Oil’ is also guilty) is the foe.”

The headline exclaims: “Big Oil’s Climate Ads Have Propped Up Fake Promises and False Solutions for Past 25 Years, Report Finds.” The subtitle of the article by Dana Drugmand: “First-of-its-kind analysis of hundreds of climate-related advertisements from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell suggests that oil companies are continuing to mislead the public on climate.”

Well, it is fundraising time for Inside Climate News. And no, this report, coming on top of many similar ones, presents nothing new. It is more of more of the same.…

“THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE GOOD FOR ENRON STOCK!!” (1997 Kyoto memo)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 12, 2025

COP 30: Far Worse than COP 28 (Kalmus ignored)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 11, 2025

COP30 (50,000 participants for what?)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 10, 2025

African Energy Chamber to G20: Fossil Fuel Future

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 9, 2025

Jean Boissinot Goes Strange Post-COP30

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 4, 2025

Solar Bankruptcy: Pine Gate Renewables (boom to bust continues)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 3, 2025

“Tax the Rich”: The Successor to Net Zero?

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 2, 2025