The Climate Con:
How Billionaires Rigged the System to Steal Your Sky
By Serge Brown / Serge vs Goliath
A jet hums over Iowa’s cornfields, leaving a white trail that doesn’t fade. It’s 2025, and the skies are a billionaire’s playground. A leaked memo from Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures brags: “We shaped the laws. The revenue streams are ours.” This isn’t about saving the planet—it’s a meticulously planned heist. Billionaires seed climate companies, write the bills, and cut backroom deals with lawmakers to funnel your tax dollars into their pockets. The climate crisis is their cash machine, and you’re footing the bill.
Meet Maria, a single mother in Nevada, scraping by as a diner waitress. Her electricity bill spiked 30% last year, thanks to "green energy" mandates forcing her utility to buy from solar farms tied to Jeff Bezos' empire. Her son, Luis, coughs through nights thick with haze from nearby geoengineering trials—chemical sprays she never voted for. “I can’t afford to keep the lights on,” Maria says, her voice cracking as she counts change for rent. Her struggle is no accident. Billionaires like Bezos and Elon Musk profit while Maria’s taxes fund their experiments, turning her life into collateral damage in a rigged game.
Billionaires don’t reach these heights without mastering discretion. Their moves may be hard to trace, but the system they’ve built is unmistakable. Before we unravel today’s playbook, consider a warning from the past: Solyndra.
In 2009, the Obama administration granted a $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra, a solar panel manufacturer touted as a green energy triumph. By 2011, it was bankrupt. Investigations revealed that billionaire George Kaiser, a major Obama donor, held over 35% of Solyndra through his Argonaut Private Equity firm. Solyndra set the stage: politically connected elites, government subsidies, and minimal accountability. Today’s billionaires have perfected this model.
This isn’t climate policy—it’s a five-step swindle, engineered by billionaires to turn a manufactured crisis into obscene wealth. Here's how it works:
1. Seed the Narrative
Billionaires fund elite universities and think tanks to manufacture consent. Bill Gates pumps millions into Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program. Bezos' Earth Fund finances the World Resources Institute. These institutions publish white papers selling climate manipulation as science.
2. Finance the Solutions
With the crisis narrative in place, billionaires back the startups that "solve" it:
Bill Gates: Deep Sky (carbon capture), Form Energy (battery storage)
Jeff Bezos: Climeworks (air capture), Rivian (EVs)
Elon Musk: Indirectly connected to Make Sunsets (aerosol geoengineering) via a four-step chain: xAI → Andreessen Horowitz → Tim Draper → Boost VC → Make Sunsets. Musk does not directly fund the company but is connected through Silicon Valley’s tightly-knit VC ecosystem.
Farhad Ebrahimi: First Solar (solar panel manufacturing)
3. Capture the Policy Pipeline
These same billionaires fund policy shops to shape the law:
Gates: Bipartisan Policy Center, IRA lobbying
Bezos: WRI, ESG mandates
Musk: Social media pressure campaigns for EV credits
Ebrahimi: $1M to Biden campaign; First Solar lobbying team
4. Backroom Deals with Lawmakers
ProPublica and PBS News confirm these billionaires meet with White House advisors and Senate aides. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) — originally sold as a $369 billion climate plan — has now ballooned to $1.2 trillion, tripling its cost due to lax oversight and open-ended tax credits. IRA tax credits and DOE grants were embedded into law, pre-rigged for their portfolio firms.
5. Profit Off the Back End
Gates: Deep Sky sells carbon credits subsidized by tax dollars
Bezos: Climeworks gets DOE grants
Musk: Tesla pockets $7,500 per EV sold; indirect exposure via Make Sunsets funding chain
Ebrahimi: First Solar cashes $650M in IRA credits sold to tech firms
These billionaires aren’t saviors. They’re system-riggers:
Bill Gates: $2B in BEV investments tied to laws he helped shape
Jeff Bezos: $24M in lobbying while cashing in on subsidies
Elon Musk: Exploits EV credit system, indirectly linked to geoengineering via VC path
Farhad Ebrahimi: Funds First Solar, profits from IRA while buying influence
And they’re not alone.
Other dynasties and elite power players use this exact same playbook to extract wealth from the climate agenda:
Warren Buffett benefits from wind and solar subsidies through Berkshire Hathaway Energy, while lobbying for liability shields and utility protection.
The Rockefeller Foundation, once synonymous with oil, now shapes climate policy and global finance through philanthropy-linked influence.
The Rothschild family maintains key roles in global energy finance, pushing ESG frameworks and carbon markets.
The British royal family, through the Crown Estate and green venture partnerships, profits from offshore wind and net-zero investments.
George Soros and his son Alex fund global climate policy NGOs while holding stakes in carbon market startups.
The Walton family, heirs to the Walmart fortune, back green infrastructure projects while lobbying for retail-centered ESG supply chains.
They move quietly, often through foundations, private equity funds, and policy nonprofits—but the structure remains the same: seed the narrative, fund the solution, rig the law, and siphon the payout.
And the lawmakers? Bought and sold. The Inflation Reduction Act — a $1.2 trillion bill written by lobbyists, passed with zero oversight, and tripled in cost — was a payoff masquerading as policy. The Biden administration's 2023 geoengineering report? Influenced by Gates-funded advisors.
Search "clean energy grants"
Email your senator and demand audits of IRA payouts
Support state legislation to restrict geoengineering
Next, we’ll expose how a single carbon capture patent could give Gates control over the air you breathe. The truth is connected.
Keep pulling the threads.