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NEWSMAX TV to Broadcast Climate Hustle 2
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow It is finally arriving. Grab the popcorn, gather your family. It will be a Mother’s Day to climatologically remember! The climate change debate is set to be rocked as CFACT’s skeptical film, Climate Hustle 2: The Rise of the Climate Monarchy, hosted by actor Kevin Sorbo, is set for it’s […]
While Americans Can’t Afford Gas, Biden Slashes Drilling
By Jihad Watch It’s not Putin’s price hike, it’s Biden’s. And he insists on reminding us of that every few days. The Biden administration on Monday reversed a Trump administration plan that would have allowed the government to lease more than two-thirds of the country’s largest swath of public land to oil and gas drilling. The Bureau […]
The Climate Change Doomsday Cult: ‘The end of private car ownership and of meat-eating’
By Marc Morano Watch: Morano on TV explains how climate agenda is pushing ‘the end of private car ownership’ & end of meat-eating: Tipping Point with Kara McKinney on One America News – OAN – Broadcast April 26, 2022 Morano: “The whole climate agenda stripped bare is literally a self-immolation of your national security and […]
Elon Musk: ‘We should not shut down nuclear power plants, we should reopen the ones that we’ve shut down’
By Dr. Rich Swier Elon Musk did a broad interview (below) that was published on IsraelUnwired.com’s website by Phil Schneider. Elon Musk discussed during the interview the need for nuclear energy and re-opening any nuclear plants that have been shut down. Watch: We fully agree with Elon. In our column America’s Energy Future: Oil, […]
Biden’s Wind-Solar-Powered U.S. Economy is a Dangerous Myth
By Dr. Rich Swier In a Gatestone Institute column titled “A Mostly Wind- and Solar-Powered U.S. Economy Is a Dangerous Fantasy” Francis Menton wrote: When President Biden and other advocates of wind and solar generation speak, they appear to believe that the challenge posed is just a matter of currently having too much fossil fuel […]
Twitter Bans Science and Knowledge to Promote Climate Change ‘Consensus’
By Dr. Rich Swier “SCIENCE: Knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method.” – Merriam-Webster Dictionary. “CONSENSUS: General agreement; the judgment arrived at by most of those concerned.” – Meriam-Webster Dictionary. Twitter has take off the gloves for Earth Day by […]
18 Spectacularly Wrong Predictions Made Around the Time of the First Earth Day In 1970. Expect More This Year.
By Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) The prophets of doom were not simply wrong, but spectacularly wrong. CLICK HERE TO VIEW INFOGRAPHIC: ANNUAL CO2 EMMISSIONS IN THE U.S. FROM ENERGY CONSUMPTION, 1992 TO 2017 Today (Sunday, April 22) is Earth Day 2018 and time for my annual Earth Day post….. In the May 2000 issue […]
Will solid-state batteries bail out electric vehicles? Electric cars currently have rather combustible batteries!
By MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Recently, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a recall for electric-vehicle batteries made by LG Energy Solution of South Korea. Fires have been caused by some of these batteries, which are used in Mercedes, Hyundai, and General Motors products, among others. The problem is that rare manufacturing defects can cause […]
The Myth That the Polar Bear Population Is Declining
By Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) The story of a resurgent polar bear population deserves to be told and applauded. Many of us watched the viral video in horror. A starving polar bear scavenging for food on barren land, his ribs visible beneath a jaundiced white coat. “This is what climate change looks like,” said National […]
PODCAST: Blood on the blades! Are thousands of dead bald eagles too high a price to pay for ‘clean’ energy!
By Conservative Commandos Radio Show GUESTS AND TOPICS PAUL DRIESSEN Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and author of articles and books on energy, environmental and human rights issues. TOPIC: Don’t Look Up! by Paul Driessen GREGORY WRIGHTSTONE Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist, Executive Director of the […]
Woke investors threaten the West’s security
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Since Russia attacked Ukraine two months ago, Western governments have been learning the hard way about the critical importance of energy to their national security. Germany’s 20-year, trillion-dollar “Energiewende” (Energy Transformation) has made its economy totally dependent on supplies of Russian natural gas and paralyzed its response to Russian aggression. French […]
Bidens’ Stupidity on Gas Continues!
By Save America Foundation “This above all: to thine own self be true.” – William Shakespeare Joe Biden, the usurper occupying, in my mind, the White House illegally, continues trying to pretend to be doing his best to get gas prices down. Remember, it’s an election year and he is about to get annihilated! Anyway. […]
How Mask Mandates Make a Mess of Things—Literally
By Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Government-driven litter can quickly become pollution. The mask mandate for all airplanes and public transit in the US was set to expire on April 18. But on Wednesday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention extended it for 15 days, citing an uptick in cases, especially of the “BA.2 omicron subvariant.” […]
‘Lockdown’ Europe [again] to punish Putin!
By Marc Morano Report urges Europe to ‘ban all business flights, private jets & internal flights…ban car use within cities…reducing heating in buildings’ Lockdown 2.0: The “Switch Off Putin” RePlanet report: “We propose bans on all business flights, private jets and internal flights within Europe to save oil, and bans also on car use within cities,” […]
VIDEO: The Batwa paid the ultimate price to save gorillas. Do environmentalists care?
By MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Which is more important: human beings or exotic species? The Batwa are a group of pygmy people who have lived in central Africa for millennia. Their homeland spreads across what is now Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Shorter in stature than other Africans, they dwell in […]
Climate Campaigners Recommend Europe Ban Inter-Continental Flights and Car Use to ‘hurt Putin’
By Jihad Watch The only people who will be hurt by this are the Europeans who have no easy way to travel. The Western intelligentsia seems bent on committing civilizational suicide. If they aren’t able to force that suicide in response to Putin, they’ll find another angle. Ban European flights and car use in cities […]
Biden Wants More Oil from Canada — But He Killed The Keystone Pipeline That Would Bring It
By The Geller Report America hating lunatics are running the country. From the story: Biden administration officials are seeking ways to boost oil imports from Canada, people familiar with the situation say, but with one big caveat—they don’t want to resurrect the Keystone XL pipeline that President Biden effectively killed on his first day in office… […]
A Tesla Model 3’s CO2 emissions is equal to 1.4 years of driving a Gas-powered Sedan
By Dr. Rich Swier A friend sent us some information about the CO2 emissions of all electric vehicles (EVs) compared to the CO2 emissions of a gasoline powered internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. We wanted to see which type of vehicle emitted the most CO2, you know that greenhouse gas that the EPA wants to […]
The Environmental Downside of Electric Vehicles
By Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) An electric vehicle requires six times the mineral inputs of a comparable internal combustion engine vehicle, according to the International Energy Agency. At one time, “Saving the Environment” and “Fighting Climate Change” were synonymous. That is no longer true. The quest for Clean Energy through electric vehicles (EVs) epitomizes […]
Trust me! Our gas prices are high by Democrat design.
By Save America Foundation For this insidious administration to blame Trump, Russia, oil companies and the goats mother for the state of our high gas prices is purely and simply a lie. A huge and deliberate lie they hoped their traditional cohorts, the MSM, would embellish and promote. Their cow-towing to the extreme left members […]
How ’emergency declarations’ & crises are being used to bypass democracy to implement Green New Deal
By Marc Morano Watch: Morano on Tucker Carlson on how ’emergency declarations’ & crises are being used to bypass democracy to implement Green New Deal Morano on Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight: “They know the Green New Deal won’t pass…The solution to the Russian invasion is the same solution to climate change, it happened […]
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 […]