It was spent to make a low budget video game.

The College Fix reports.

Feds pay university $450K to scare kids about climate change

What are your tax dollars wasted on? Well, for one thing, this indoctrination:

The National Science Foundation gave the University of South Florida a nearly $450,000 federal grant to develop a low-budget video game to teach high school students that, essentially, the world will end in some sort of weather catastrophe if they don’t change their behaviors.

The federal grant was highlighted this week by Republican Senator and presidential contender Rand Paul through his “Waste Report” effort:

The game will involve a science fiction narrative of the effects of climate change on the students’ community as told by virtual persons from the future.

“[The] environment will help students attach a ‘human face’ and a sense of immediacy to hitherto abstract issues of global warming.”

The first part of the game will ask students to deal with simulations like severe weather and sea-level rise, while the second part of the game will group students in teams to create plans to “save the future.”