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Critically Thinking About Industrial Wind Energy
By John Droz, Jr. One of my faithful readers (W. van Snyder) recently wrote an important book: Where Will We Get Our Energy: A Comprehensive System Examination. As it turned out, another reader here (Dr. Jon Boone) emailed him an insightful and entertaining commentary. I’m reposting this below… Van: Thanks for recommending your book. Over the last month, […]
Hydro Produces Clean Snake River Energy — The Left Wants to Wreck It
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow the Trump administration affirmed its support for the four Lower Snake River hydroelectric dams in the Pacific Northwest. CFACT’s Conservation Country series, particularly our investigative report from September 2024, highlighted the benefits of this energy source, going directly to Ice Harbor Dam in eastern Washington. Energy Secretary Chris Wright […]
The Fight Over National Park Fees Exposed The Sierra Club As Fake Conservationists
By Ken Braun nginx
Give Thanks for the Fossil Fuel Industry
By The Daily Signal Just by living in 21st-century America, you have a lot to be thankful for. You live in the richest country in the history of the world—and one of the freest. Despite what the left claims, the benefits of wealth aren’t limited to the 1%. The amenities most people take for granted—a […]
Interview with Climate Scientist Tom Harris: What was COP30 in Brazil and what will it mean to citizens of Western nations
By Vlad Tepes Blog With the left, the point is never the point, the revolution is always the point. So when politicians have an international conference on an issue which is scientific (or medical) in nature, and what readers of this site know is in fact, a Line of Operation supported not by science, but […]
A Key Energy Perspective: Energy is the Lifeblood of our Society
By John Droz, Jr. What this chart shows are two important things: China is rapidly modernizing their country, as they are very serious about being THE global power. The US is stagnating, as annual electricity generation is a good indicator of industrialization. What this graph does NOT reveal are some additional important matters: Almost all of China’s increase is […]
UN Climate Summit Ends in Failure at Every Level
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Climate campaigners are flying home from Brazil in deep dejection following one of their worst failures ever to exploit a UN climate summit to advance their agendas. Not only did climate radicals fail to get COP30 to agree to eliminate fossil fuels, every mention of fossil fuels and 1.5 […]
Trump ‘Winning The Climate Debate’ — Trump credited for COP-FLOP — ‘The sad, sorry state of COP’ — ‘What the f*ck are we even doing here?’
By Marc Morano from Climate Depot Trump blamed for failure of UN climate summit! Newsweek: ‘Trump May Be Winning the Global Climate Debate’ — POLITICO: ‘The sad, sorry state of COP’ — European Govt official: ‘What the f*ck are we even doing here?’ Morano: ‘Failure of a UN climate summit is great news for humanity!’ Climate […]
The Hewlett Foundation’s Mission To Divide And Rule The Right
By Michael Watson nginx
A nuclear resurgence, but major obstacles remain
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow The first commercial nuclear plant started operation at Calder Hall in England in 1956. By 1970, reactors were in construction around the world. Many predicted that atomic energy would generate most of the world’s power by 2000. In 1973, President Richard Nixon stated, “It is estimated that nuclear power will […]
How to Actually Solve the Affordability Crisis
By Connor O’Keeffe nginx
BREAKING: Globalist Climate Conference Bursts Into Flames
By The Daily Caller A fire erupted at the United Nations climate conference in Belém, Brazil on Thursday, according to the Brazilian publication GloboNews. Firefighters worked to extinguish the flames engulfing the pavilion roof, and the power was cut off in regions across COP30 as authorities evacuated the section known as the “Blue Zone,” according to GloboNews. One official reportedly told GloboNews […]
Energy is Power!
By Karen Schoen “Under my plan your energy costs will…necessarily skyrocket.” — Barack Hussein Obama Power to the people . . . NOT. It seems to me that our governmental policies on energy are taking power away from the people. In Florida, those massive PUBLIC utilities, you know the ones that are supposed to provide low-cost energy […]
RFK Jr. Probes Health Dangers Of Offshore Wind Turbines
By Bonner Cohen nginx
Arizona Court To Hear Arguments About Right To A Jury Trial
By Chris Woodward nginx
CRAP30! UN urges delegates ‘not to flush toilet paper…in the toilets at the COP 30′ — Hamburgers sell out at UN! — Gore says Gates fears Trump!
By Marc Morano from Climate Depot Note: COP30 is serving up chicken and Bob’s Burgers & Shakes to UN delegates. No sign of bugs available to eat. Politico reported that Bob’s sold out of hamburgers on Day 2 of the climate summit. CRAP30! Breaking News: UN demands no toilet paper in toilets! Urges delegates ‘not to […]
Sierra Club Deviated From Environmental Mission To Embrace Far-Left Projects. It Ripped Itself To Shreds
By Natalie Sandoval nginx
The Emperor Has No Clothes: Bill Gates Ends The Climate Change Scam, Trump Was Right: A Return To Rational Environmentalism
By Judd Dunning nginx
Bill Gates Ends The Climate Change Scam: A Return To Rational Environmentalism
By Judd Dunning nginx
The Weekend Read: The MAHA Moment
By Benjamin Braddock nginx
No Kings? More Like No Electricity
By Ken Braun nginx
COP FLOP: Morano to Brazil for UN’s Clear-Cut30 Climate fest as 100k Amazon trees felled for summit — Gates Retreats from Alarmism
By Marc Morano from Climate Depot Morano Note: I will be heading to Belém, Brazil, from November 6 to November 16 for the UN’s COP30 (also known as Clear-Cut30) to provide on-the-ground coverage as a fully UN-credentialed observer. I will be self-declaring myself part of the ‘unofficial’ U.S. delegation. I will be reporting on the reaction […]
New video: The Truth About Wind And Solar
By The Editors Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute A new video released today by Center of the American Experiment exposes the real environmental costs of wind and solar energy. Wind and Solar: Too Good To Be True? is a short video (2:40) that uses data and facts to dispel the myths about alternative energy sources. The video informs viewers […]
What Happened to Climate Change, the “Existential Threat” of our Time?
By John Droz, Jr. Critically Thinking about alarmists. As readers know, I periodically repost another author’s column that I believe is consistent with my Critical Thinking objective. This is a good example from Ron Hart who frequently has good insights. FYI: interestingly, Bill Gates just publicly backed off of his climate alarmist rhetoric. Not surprisingly Bill never had a hard […]
Featured Video: Global Warming Is And Always Was A Gigantic Fraud
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Taking action to defend America from the UN’s first global carbon tax
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Joint Statement by Secretary of State Rubio, Secretary of Energy Wright, and Secretary of Transportation Duffy President Trump has made it clear that the United States will not accept any international environmental agreement that unduly or unfairly burdens the United States or harms the interests of the American people. […]
Trump Administration Is Trying to Kill a UN Carbon Tax on Global Shipping
By Family Research Council The International Maritime Organization (IMO) will vote this week whether to approve new regulations authorizing them to charge maritime shipping companies for their carbon emissions. The measure would be the first ever carbon tax on maritime commerce and the first ever tax collected directly by a U.N. agency, which is unaccountable […]
2025 Vehicle Operating Costs
By John Droz, Jr. Once again the mainstream media is trying to deceive us. The marketing strategy for electric or hybrid vehicles, almost always pushes the idea that consumers should ignore the higher initial cost, as the annual operating costs will soon make up the difference (e.g., see here). Recently, AAA published the latest US annual operating costs […]
Physics Demonstrates That Increasing Greenhouse Gases Cannot Cause Dangerous Warming, Extreme Weather or Any Harm
By Editors of the C02 Coalition Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes More Carbon Dioxide Will Create More Food. Driving Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Net Zero and Eliminating Fossil Fuels Will Be Disastrous for People Worldwide. Richard Lindzen Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Emeritus Massachusetts Institute of Technology William Happer Professor of Physics, Emeritus, […]
Energy Department Cuts $7.56 Billion in Green Projects
By Family Research Council The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has terminated nearly $8 billion in green energy projects, it announced Thursday, determining “that they did not meet the economic, national security or energy security standards necessary to justify continued investment.” The cancellations delivered on President Trump’s agenda to “protect taxpayer dollars and expand America’s supply of […]