The main purpose of this ongoing blog will be to track planetary extreme, or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day. I’ll refer to extreme or record temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials).😉
Main Topic: Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos
Dear Diary. On the subject of climate, nothing that I have encountered so far stemming from Donald Trump’s orbit is worse or more insidious than Project 2025. We have learned over the last month that they plan to scrub all mention of the word climate from all government documents and data sites. This means shutting down NOAA and definitely that part of NOAA which is NCEI- the National Center for Environmental Information. Also, that part of NASA that deals with climate would proverbially be kicked to the curb and the EPA would be defanged.
Today will be my second post on Project 2025. All I have to add here is vote and get your friends to vote for Kamala Harris in order to avoid a fascist Orwellian 1984 like reverse on climate and horror in association with of other campaign issues.
Here are more details from Desdemona Despair:
Inside Project 2025’s secret training videos – “Eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere”
Bethany Kozma, a conservative activist and former deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development in the Trump administration, appears in a Project 2025 training video denying the seriousness of climate change and saying the movement to combat it is really part of a ploy to “control people.” Kozma says, “If the American people elect a conservative president, his administration will have to eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere.” Photo: Heritage Foundation / ProPublica
By Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey
10 August 2024
(ProPublica) – Project 2025, the controversial playbook and policy agenda for a right-wing presidential administration, has lost its director and faced scathing criticism from both Democratic groups and former President Donald Trump. But Project 2025’s plan to train an army of political appointees who could battle against the so-called deep state government bureaucracy on behalf of a future Trump administration remains on track.
One centerpiece of that program is dozens of never-before-published videos created for Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy. The vast majority of these videos — 23 in all, totaling more than 14 hours of content — were provided to ProPublica and Documented by a person who had access to them.
The Project 2025 videos coach future appointees on everything from the nuts and bolts of governing to how to outwit bureaucrats. There are strategies for avoiding embarrassing Freedom of Information Act disclosures and ensuring that conservative policies aren’t struck down by “left-wing judges.” Some of the content is routine advice that any incoming political appointee might be told. Other segments of the training offer guidance on radically changing how the federal government works and what it does.
In one video, Bethany Kozma, a conservative activist and former deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development in the Trump administration, downplays the seriousness of climate change and says the movement to combat it is really part of a ploy to “control people.”
“If the American people elect a conservative president, his administration will have to eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere,” Kozma says. […]
A Project 2025 training video features Bethany Kozma, a conservative activist and former deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development in the Trump administration, denying the seriousness of climate change and saying the movement to combat it is really part of a ploy to “control people.” Kozma says, “If the American people elect a conservative president, his administration will have to eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere.” Video: Heritage Foundation / ProPublica
“Eradicate Climate Change References”
The project’s experts outline regulatory and policy changes that future political appointees should prepare for in a Republican administration.
One video, titled “Hidden Meanings: The Monsters in the Attic,” is a 50-minute discussion of supposed left-wing code words and biased language that future appointees should be aware of and root out. In that video, Kozma says that U.S. intelligence agencies have named climate change as an increasingly dire threat to global stability, which, she says, illustrates how the issue “has infiltrated every part of the federal government.”
She then tells viewers that she sees climate change as merely a cover to engage in population control. “I think about the people who don’t want you to have children because of the” — here she makes air-quotes — “impact on the environment.” She adds, “This is part of their ultimate goal to control people.” [more]
Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos
Here are more “ETs” recorded from around the planet the last couple of days, their consequences, and some extreme temperature outlooks, as well as any extreme precipitation reports:
Here is more new July 2024 climatology (More can be found on each prior daily post during August):
Here is More Climate News from Sunday:
(As usual, this will be a fluid post in which more information gets added during the day as it crosses my radar, crediting all who have put it on-line. Items will be archived on this site for posterity. In most instances click on the pictures of each tweet to see each article. The most noteworthy items will be listed first.)