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Environmentalists Want Us to Freeze, Starve, and Die
By Jihad Watch Every now and then someone pipes up to point out that if environmentalists really want to lower carbon, they’re going to have nuclear. And they’re promptly buried in a tsunami of outrage (nuclear, do you want us all to die) and spin (look at this blog post sponsored by a solar panel […]
8 Commonsense Proposals to Alleviate Climate Change
By Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Climate change is real, but you should be skeptical of lawmakers who refuse to repeal legislation that is contributing to the problem. Here’s a thought: Let’s start addressing climate change by ending government policies that make it worse. Let’s repeal laws and regulations that force people and companies to […]
VIDEO: Biden Irresponsibly Taps Strategic Petroleum Reserve
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow President Biden announced that he will tap into America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and will consume one third of it in an attempt to control rising gas prices. This is as irresponsible as it is dangerous. Following the Arab oil embargo of the 1970’s, the SPR was built […]
Would You Trust Biden to Sell You Your Next Car?
By Dr. Rich Swier Joe Biden Car Salesman? Yep, Uncle Joe is determined to get you to buy all electric cars (EVs), even if you can’t afford one. Watch: Here Uncle Joe says that an EV will save $80 a month more than your current internal combustion engine care. But wasn’t it Uncle Joe […]
The Great Food Reset: Expect ‘real’ food shortages
By Marc Morano The Great Food Reset: Expect ‘real’ food shortages, Biden declares – Meanwhile, Bill Gates & China buy up U.S. farmland. Climate Depot’s Morano: “If the Davos crowd of the World Economic Forum were looking for a better global environment on which to enact their central planning vision of a Great Reset, it would […]
AWED Media Balance Newsletter: We cover COVID to Climate to Ukraine, as well as Energy to Elections.
By John Droz, Jr. Welcome! We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections. Here is the link for this issue, so please share it on social media. Particularly note the *** asterisked *** items below. — This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic — Ukraine: *** Report: 8-Year CIA Program Helped Provoke Russian Invasion […]
Water Vapor, Not Mankind, is the Greatest Contributor to Green House Gases
By Dr. Rich Swier It seems over the past decades there’s been the notion that mankind has been the largest contributor to green house gas emissions. While green house gases do come from things developed to help mankind grow and prosper like: factories, plants that produce energy, cars, trucks, railroads, airplanes, they combined are not […]
Biden’s Dream of ‘Clean Cars’ is Turning Into a Lithium Nightmare
By Dr. Rich Swier Lithium is often dubbed as “white gold” for the development of electric vehicles. The cost of lithium needed to make electric car batteries is up 472% just in the past 12 months and 850% since Biden took office. Biden, Harris, Buttigieg and Democrats want America to go all green and want […]
SEC Unveils Sweeping Climate Requirements For Public Companies
By The Geller Report The left’s climate hoax wrecking ball is taking down our markets – the financial foundation of this once great nation. SEC Unveils Sweeping Climate Requirements For Public Companies By: Thomas Catenacci, Daily Caller, March 21, 2022: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed rules Monday that would force companies to publicly […]
The Biden/Buttigieg Solution To High Gas Prices: ‘Take The Bus!’
By The Geller Report The Biden regime contemptuously commands Americans to ‘take the bus’ in the wake of Biden-created obscene gas pricing. The 2022 version of ‘let them eat cake.’ Literally. Actually cake is better. Pete Buttigieg’s Solution To High Gas Prices: Take The Bus/Trainhttps://t.co/APXkS32e1u — Mr Producer (@RichSementa) March 16, 2022 “If you don’t […]
PROPAGANDA WATCH: MSNBC, CNN, PBS Echo Biden’s Lie that Putin Caused Gas Price Hikes
By Jihad Watch “Gas prices have risen 59% since Biden took office — prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.” These are not news outlets, and have not been for a long time. They exist in order to propagate the socialist globalist line, and to act as a PR arm for the Democrat Party. by Nikolas Lanum, Fox […]
Net-Zero and ESG are Worsening the Energy Crisis – and Weakening the West
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow The day after President Biden announced that the United States would ban imports of Russian oil and gas, a group of eleven powerful European investment funds that includes Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, outlined plans to force Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s second largest bank, to cut its lending to oil and gas companies. The […]
FACT: All Electric Vehicles (EVs) Are Powered by Coal, Uranium, Natural Gas or Diesel-Powered Energy
By Dr. Rich Swier “The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy “There are three facts about the climate (weather): 1. the climate changes, 2. the changes in the climate follow natural cycles (i.e. summer, […]
International Energy Agency Urges Energy Lockdowns Due to Russian War — Bans use of private cars on Sundays, SUV tax
By Marc Morano ‘Banning use of private cars on Sundays…Reducing highway speed limits…more working from home…cutting business air travel’ & SUV ‘tax’. – IEA Report IEA report ‘A 10-Point Plan to Cut Oil Use’ excerpts: “Reducing highway speed limits by about 6 miles per hour; more working from home; street changes to encourage walking and […]
VIDEO: Sometimes Conservation is a Bear
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow How do we find the best solutions for both bears, and people too? That’s what Gabriella Hoffman set off to find out on the latest episode of CFACT’s Conservation Nation series. Hoffman traveled to Montana and Wyoming to interview stakeholders and find out what’s really going on with Grizzly […]
Democrats want Biden to Declare National ‘Climate Emergency’ and Ban Oil Drilling on Federal Lands
By The Geller Report There is one common thread running through every Democrat policy – it’s hurt Americans, destroy America. And as one commenter points out, “What oil subsidies are there? Sorry there aren’t billions or trillions of subsidies going to fossil fuel producers. The last time I looked the only subsidies I found were […]
Energy Expert and Congressional Candidate, Niki Conforti, on Biden’s Energy Policies
By Dr. Rich Swier WHEATON, Ill. /PRNewswire/ — As a candidate for Illinois’ 6th Congressional District and an Energy Consultant, I feel compelled to speak out on the current state of energy in America, because America’s energy policy is a matter of National Security. Being energy dependent as a country, as we are today, is not […]
House GOP Demands Investigation into Russian Influence in U.S. Environmental Groups
By The Geller Report Foreign actors have been funding the destruction of the American energy sector under the guise of green/clean climate hoax propaganda. “Unlike the Russia hoax, Putin’s malign influence on our energy sector is real and deserves further investigation,” Jim Banks said. As many Americans are seeking an increase in domestic energy output […]
Biden and the Alexandra Ocasio Cortez’s Green Energy Agenda
By Robert Heller Alexandra Ocasio Cortez (AOC) is neither a climatologist or scientist. Before she was elected to Congress she was a bartender. Nothing wrong with being a bartender but creating a program called ‘The Green New Deal’ is above her pay level. Nevertheless the Biden White House is in the process of implementing AOC’s […]
Deadly Incompetence
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Incompetence destroys. Weakness kills. The disastrous debacle in Afghanistan signaled to Vladimir Putin that the time to strike is while Joe Biden is in charge. Just yesterday, Biden blinked and declined Poland’s offer of fighter jets, leaving Ukraine struggling to defend its skies as equipment runs short. Biden continually […]
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. America’s Energy-Liar-In-Chief
By Dr. Rich Swier “It’s simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production. It’s simply not true!” – Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. There are lies and then there are damn lies. It appears that Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is a damn liar. In fact he is America’s Energy-Liar-In-Chief. […]
Buttigieg and EPA Reveal Biden’s ‘Zero-Emissions’ Agenda Behind Skyrocketing Gas Prices
By Jihad Watch This is a real “Let Them Eat Cake” moment for Transportation Department top dog Pete Buttigieg, as most Americans can’t afford electric cars and the infrastructure isn’t there for them in all parts of the country, but Buttigieg here reveals the Biden agenda. He doesn’t care about skyrocketing gas prices because he […]
Oil Outrage
By Christopher Cirino Good day Deano, I hope today finds you well at your desk, as the Executive Editor of the iconic New York Times. It seems as though the entire world is spinning out of control with bad news these days. That is why I turn to your ever honest and trustworthy tabloid to […]
MORANO: ‘No ban on Russian energy until U.S. lifts sanctions on U.S. energy’
By Marc Morano Morano: “How about this? No ban on Russian oil & gas until the U.S. lifts sanctions against U.S. domestic energy. Any Congressional bill to ban Russian energy should include lifting of all climate-related sanctions on U.S. homegrown energy! It’s time to stop the sanctions — against American domestic energy!” Former Obama U.S. […]
TONE DEAF: Rep. Jayapal, Gas Prices Will Go Up ‘No Matter What We Do’
By Discover The Networks Saturday on MSNBC’s Cross Connection, Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair and radical leftist Rep. Pramila Jayapal put forth the false argument that we have to transition away from fossil fuels to be “free of the ability of dictators to blackmail us over oil and gas.” Jayapal said, “[I]f we ever want to be truly free […]
America’s Energy Future: Oil, Natural Gas and Nuclear
By Dr. Rich Swier America’s energy future is not in solar and wind power. Rather our energy needs are best met by oil, natural gas and nuclear power. Let’s look at the current numbers to see where Americans get their energy from. Here is a chart showing how much U.S. energy is produced by coal […]
VIDEO: Biden’s Handlers Won’t Open Domestic Production, May Buy Iranian Oil
By Jihad Watch “Tell me you hate America, without telling me you hate America.” The Biden administration is still fighting congressional efforts to stop the importation of Iranian oil. In a surreal exercise, Biden expects the rest of the world to sanction Russia even as we keep buying Russian energy products. And if that’s […]
Russian Collusion Exposed: Russia Funded Environmental Groups to Oppose Fracking in Europe and U.S.
By Marc Morano From 2018 Congressional Report: A Republican staff report by the Senate suggests that Russian funds have been funneled through off-shore corporations and passed on to U.S.- based environmental activist organizations with the intent to effect political change. [ … ] In January 2017, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued […]
Defeat Tyrants With Energy Independence
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow They said it couldn’t be done. Then we did it. Energy independence! Then Biden yanked away what generations had worked for in the blink of an eye. Put that together with Biden’s provocative weakness in Afghanistan and now Ukrainians are paying the price in blood. Will Taiwan be next? […]
The War in Ukraine Shows a Dark Side of Environmentalism
By MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Europe’s dependence on natural gas mutes its objections to Russia’s invasion. “Save the planet!” Ah, what a wonderful phrase. To quote an adorable little Swedish girl, “how dare you” even think otherwise? Well, pace Greta, dare we must. Garry Kasparov recently hit the nail on its head, when he tweeted, […]