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Via Heatmap - By ROBINSON MEYER: "What hasn’t received as much attention is that Silicon Valley Bank was particularly important to the climate-tech sector. “Silicon Valley Bank was an integral part of the early-stage climate tech community and I hope that they survive in some form to continue that role,” Gabriel Kra, a managing director at Prelude Ventures, told me on Friday. Silicon Valley Bank served as a banker to dozens of climate and energy-tech companies, holding their cash on a day-to-day basis and issuing billions of dollars in loans in support of the type of large-scale, one-off projects that are essential to the sector. The bank’s website bragged about its particular support of solar, hydrogen, and energy-storage companies. It provided more than half a billion dollars in revolving credit to Sunrun, the country’s largest residential solar company.

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Bank of England Downgrades Net Zero & Will Cut Spending for its Work on Climate Change – Shift ‘to focus on core areas’

Was the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Caused by Climate Activism?

$100 billion spent by U.S. to stop climate change called ‘the greatest ripoff in American history’ as CO2 emissions continue to rise

Fox and Friends - Fox News Channel - Broadcast March 12, 2023

Rachel Campos-Duffy: Here to react publisher at ClimateDepot.com and author of The Great Reset, Marc Morano. Marc, tell me why we have our Energy Secretary touting China as the example on climate change and environmentalism.

Morano: "This is right out of a Seinfeld episode. This is Bizarro World. It's the exact opposite of what you would expect. China, which is literally 50% of the world's coal production. China, which brags, 'oh, we're doing solar, wind'. They're building solar and wind using rare earth mining, using human rights violations, using the worst environmental standards around the world, in order to sell to the West, not to use themselves. Their percentage of solar and wind is tiny. So the idea that we're supposed to be modeled after them kind of reminds me that [Biden Energy Sec. Sec. Granholm] not talking about in energy, or is she talking about politically? ... 

We all modeled ourselves after China when it came to the lockdowns. We copied what China was doing with COVID lockdowns with World Health Organization, and the rest of the world like lemmings jumped off a cliff. ... Our ruling class, academia, and media elites, have done nothing but praise China. They've lusted after China's one-party authoritarian rule...And here's what the kicker is. The COVID lockdowns gave the once-free West the opportunity to finally have what they dreamed of:  Chinese one-party-style authoritarian rule as the most consequential decisions of our lifetime -- whether we go to school, work, church, weddings, funerals medical care, stay-at-home orders -- were decided without an ounce of democracy, it was all done to emergency decree. This is what our power-hungry politicians love. So when I hear Jennifer Granholm praising China, I know it's not for environmentalism that makes no sense. I think it's for their politics and their politics of absolute control because that's where we're all moving. In the once-free West. That's what we're copying now."

Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm:" I think China has done — has been very sensitive and has actually invested a lot in their solutions to achieve their goals."  "So we’re — we’re hopeful that, you know, we can all learn from what China is doing." Granholm added that the amount of money China is investing "in clean energy is actually, you know, encouraging." ... The secretary's statement regarding China comes after the country recently hit its coal-production record in 2022. 

Republicans slam Biden energy secretary for claiming US can 'learn from what China is doing' on climate change'

China Is Dominating World Coal Production – China’s emissions 3 to 4 times higher than U.S. — even though U.S. economy is 50% larger than China’s

Flashback: ‘We gotta leave you in the ground’: Biden Energy Sec Granholm appeared in 2018 video singing about end of gasoline, fossil fuels – ‘Gasoline, gasoline, the world’s aflame’

Flashback: Covid lockdowns transforming USA into Chinese-style one-party state

Flashback 2015: Then Sec. of State John Kerry explains climate futility: If U.S. zeroed out CO2 emissions, it ‘still wouldn’t be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world’

Biden Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on CNN: "The challenge of extreme weather events, the gravity, and frequency, not just here in the United States, but internationally and their consequences of triggering migration, the greatest level of migration that we’ve had in the hemisphere in decades and decades.” ... "The issues that we have are extraordinarily diverse. I spoke about extreme weather events. I spoke about cybersecurity."

Cheryl Chumley of The Washington Times reacts: "It’s policy — not the weather...To call out the crisis as a climate issue is the height of hubris, though."

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Yellen: "As climate change intensifies, natural disasters and warming temperatures can lead to declines in asset values that could cascade through the financial system. And a delayed and disorderly transition to a net-zero economy can lead to shocks to the financial system as well," she said in remarks prepared for delivery at the advisory board's first meeting.

The Joe Piscopo Show - Broadcast Feb. 28, 2023 - Morano: "We've actually had now the government is finally acknowledging the first related injury in East Palestine Ohio and this is huge progress, Joe. The governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine, is now wearing a boot on his foot because he injured himself on one of his visits to there. DeWine must have tripped one of the cameras when he was trying to spin all the nonsense of his weak response as a governor. So we actually do have a confirmed injury and finally, the government is willing to admit it. But unfortunately, it was only a boot that's on the ankle of our of the governor of Ohio, Mike DeWine.

This whole situation just shows you environmentalism has been hijacked by climate change. If it's not climate, they don't care. The big news I have out of this, for this whole East Palestine derailment is this: In 2020, in Scotland, a fatal train derailment was blamed on climate change. Even Greta herself linked to this story saying that extreme weather caused the railways to be more vulnerable to crashes. See: ‘Climate change!’ What can’t it do?! Flashback 2020: Fatal train derailment in Scotland blamed on ‘climate change’

Well, now we know that if East Palestine had told Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg from day one they thought this was a climate change train derailment, they would have got FEMA money, they would have got visits from Biden, and Mayor Pete would have been there the first day. That's where I would tell you the residents failed. They should have linked this to climate change like other past train derailments. And they could have got instant help because then it would have been seen by the Biden admin as: 'Hey, this is in our agenda.' But an actual chemical spill with actual environmental harm to people and this administration doesn't have time for it."