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California To Blame For Water Scarcity Not Climate
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow You may have heard about California’s perennial woes with drought and flooding. Governor Newsom, like a parrot with limited vocabulary, dutifully squawks out “climate change” as being the culprit. Nothing could be further from the truth. CFACT’s Gabriella Hoffman investigates the situation and documents her findings in a brand […]
Climate Ideology in America’s Classrooms
/in Education, Environment, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Peter Murphy America’s K-12 classrooms are increasingly becoming indoctrination centers for a one-sided view of climate change, aka, global warming and the supposed existential threat to humankind. The Biden administration, universities, left-of-center think tanks and state governments are developing and spreading climate change curriculum that also contains an explicit activist bent to turn the […]
Here’s Why Europe’s Energy Giants Are Pivoting Back To Oil
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Two of Europe’s largest energy firms are pivoting from green energy back to their core oil and gas businesses, a move that industry experts tell the Daily Caller News Foundation signals a willingness to take political hits as oil and gas continue to be major sources of revenue. Both Shell and fellow U.K. […]
Arsonist Charged with Setting Massive Yosemite Park Fire That Democrats Blamed on Climate Change
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report One might begin to suspect that Democrats set these fires in order to blame their climate change myth. Eco-terrorism. The fire destroyed over 127 houses and burned 19,244 acres of vegetation, 66 outbuildings and threatened ancient Sequoias. No media mea culpa and another one of their enormous, fantastic lies. Man, 71, […]
Lesson From Canadian Fires: We Need Better Forest Management, Not Utopian Fantasies
/in Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jarrett Stepman NEW YORK—It’s that time again for the Left. Another crisis it just can’t let go to waste. The crisis of the day is a series of large-scale forest fires in Canada—at least some apparently started by arson—that caused a huge amount of smoke to descend on the United States. Some areas got […]
There is No Such Thing as “Bad Science”!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. It’s easy to be confused about this, but don’t be fooled… The Left has an aggressive campaign to undermine America. Some people will be surprised to find out that one of their primary targets is Science. There are several reasons for this — for instance, that Science is a gatekeeper against bad technical […]
Best of Twitter: Carbon Dioxide and the Climate Hoax
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy The Editors Editors’ Note: Dr. Patrick Moore, one of the original environmentalists and a founder of Greenpeace, talks about the theory of global warming and the role of science. We wonder if this “existential crisis” was brought to you by the same people that claimed WMD in Iraq, Russian collusion, that Covid vaccines work, […]
Critically Thinking about Wind and Solar
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. Are there any scientifically proven NET benefits from either? This will be brief, as I’ll cut to the chase. A journalist recently asked me the following thoughtful question: “I’m working on an article that looks at the climate impacts of wind energy. There are some studies linked below (and you likely […]
The Climate Lobby Is Openly Plotting To Steal Our Freedom
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller During her May 15 speech to The Beyond Growth Conference held by the European Parliament, European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen, citing a 1970s de-growth plan published by the Club of Rome, made reference to the European Union’s “social market economy” five times in a span of less than 150 words. A […]
Green industrialization greatly increases CO2 emissions
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Despite calling for rapid reduction in CO2 emissions, the left is rushing green industrialization which will dramatically increase emissions for the foreseeable future. This obvious absurdity has yet to be admitted. On the one hand, there is growing literature on the enormous material requirements required for building huge numbers […]
VIDEO: 96% of U.S. Climate Data is Corrupted, New Report Finds
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The report neglected to mention “deliberately” corrupted — a means to a malevolent end. 96% of U.S. climate data is corrupted By: Jazz Shaw, June 11, 2023 This seems like an appropriate time for a story like this to pop up since it involves both smoke clouds and climate change. You probably […]
Why is Bill Gates releasing 30 million genetically modified mosquitoes into 11 countries including the U.S.?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier Well this is interesting. Presidential Democrat primary candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. posted a tweet that asks why Bill Gates’ Columbian mosquito factory is releasing genetically modified mosquitoes into 11 different countries including the state of Florida. Should Bill Gates be releasing 30 million genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild? Part […]
Who’s to blame for the massive wildfires in the Northeast? Canada!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Who’s to blame for the massive wildfires festooning the Northeast in smoke? CFACT’s Marc Morano puffed a cigar on Jesse Watters to illustrate the point that the fault lies not with your energy use, but with bad Canadian government policy! “This is Canadian natural disaster mismanagement,” Marc said, “and now […]
Biden Regime Now Targeting Your Furnace
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report “They’re going to have to, in many cases, install new equipment to exhaust gas out of their home….this rule would require additional retrofits for a lot of consumers. And those retrofits can be extremely cost prohibitive.” — Richard Meyer, American Gas Association Democrats hate you. Between 40%-60% of the current residential furnaces […]
How Much Wind Killing Do We Want?
/in Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy David Wojick That rapidly growing wind power development kills birds in ever increasing numbers is clear. That it also kills whales and other marine mammals is becoming clear. So the policy question is how much killing is enough, before we stop killing more? This question seems not to be asked. The stampede to build […]
Facebook’s ESG Agenda Went Down to Georgia and Trashed a Trophy Fishing Lake
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ken Braun Meta, the parent firm of Facebook, was in the media promoting its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) virtues in December 2021. That preening didn’t end well for the company this month after a decision was handed down in a lawsuit dealing with the destruction of a trophy fishing lake in Lumpkin, Georgia. “We thank […]
Biden Wants To Give Power Over Defense Contracts To Climate Activist ‘Cabal’ Bent On Curtailing Economic Growth
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, National Security, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Biden administration is pushing to give veto power over major Pentagon contracts to a group of climate activist groups that advocate for establishing “guardrails” on economic growth, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation. The administration proposed a rule in November that requires major contractors for the Department of Defense (DOD), NASA and […]
Biden Interior Department Cuts Off Navajo Nation From Oil And Gas Development
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tristan Justice In May, the Navajo Nation rejected the Biden administration’s plan to withdraw 351,000 acres from consideration for oil and gas leases. President Joe Biden’s Department of the Interior took another step this week to lock up 30 percent of the nation’s land and waterways by 2030. On Friday, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland […]
Plans to Slaughter 200,000 Farting Cows to Save Planet from ‘Global Warming’ Inbox
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report It starts with cows.. if this kind of inhumanity and carnage is heralded as some kind of ‘benefit to planet’, their is a madness afoot. The ruling class has lost its collective mind and they mean to take us down. In the latest effort to reduce emissions from agriculture, Ireland said […]
Lab-grown ‘meat’ worse for environment than retail beef: Study
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities The lab-grown meat industry is propped up more by hopeful modelling than favourable data. The high-tech utopia we keep hearing about will have to wait, if a recent pre-print study on laboratory-cultured meat products is to be believed. According to researchers at the University of California, Davis, and the University of […]
Climate Czar Kerry: Emissions From Agriculture Must be “Front and Center”
/in Economy, Environment, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bonner Cohen Farmers and ranchers who assume that their main job is to produce food to feed hungry people stand corrected. John Kerry, the Biden administration’s special envoy on climate, wants to enlist them in the global struggle to combat the “climate crisis.” “A lot of people have no clue that agriculture contributes about […]
South Dakota Farmers Face Land Theft By Climate Hoaxers
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Appalling and terrifying. When John Kerry said US farm confiscations were not off the table, he meant it. Read through this thread. South Dakota Farmers Face Carbon-capture Land Theft By: Rebecca Terrell June 1, 2023 Farmers in South Dakota are facing egregious intimidation tactics by a private company that wants to use eminent domain to […]
Debunking Another Misleading Green Energy Study
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jack Spencer A popular talking point among green energy evangelists is that gas, oil, and coal are, in large part, successful because they are highly subsidized. Wind and solar, so the argument goes, would win in a fair fight, but, alas, the playing field is far from fair. But the supposed data they are […]
Climate Lockdowns Begin: France bans short-haul flights ‘to cut carbon emissions’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Marc Morano Marc Morano comment on banning short airline flights: “You were warned! This is what a climate lockdown looks like. This is what the Great Reset looks like. The climate agenda demands you give up airline travel, car travel, cheap reliable energy, and plentiful food. Net Zero goals are now dictating vehicle shortages to […]
Great Reset: WEF Demands Fewer Private Cars, Increase in Public Transport
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Catherine Salgado The insidious World Economic Forum (WEF) of the “Great Reset” is now pushing cities, countries, and companies around the world to adopt a new “scorecard” to encourage the expansion of supposedly “green” energy and public transportation, and fewer private cars. You will own nothing, you will ride public transport, and you have […]
The Leftist Climate Hoax Agenda Is Buying Its Way Into The News
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The news is a fiction much like your favorite episodic TV series. They manufacture a story, frame it, bring in the actors to sell it. Until America understands this, we are susceptible to manipulation and thought control. By: Larry Behrens, The Federalist, May 30, 2023 Take a moment to consider the phrase […]
Without Economic Freedom, None of the Others Matter
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Paul Schwennesen [One Fine Spring Day, Over the Phone…] “Oh, and by the way, your background check says there’s a warrant out for your arrest.” This is not, mind you, the kind of thing one expects to hear updating teaching credentials in a very staid University bureaucracy. Nevertheless, there it was. “Oh?,” I retorted, […]
Biden’s ‘Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde Approach’ To Mining Critical Minerals Could Derail His Own Green Dreams, Critics Say
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The Biden administration’s policies limiting domestic mining of key minerals are hindering its effort to transition the U.S. economy to green technologies while increasing America’s dependence on China, industry experts and lawmakers told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The administration has taken steps to block major mining projects in Arizona, Alaska […]
The Great American Electric School Bus Boondoggle
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Washington, D.C. could use another fiscal hawk like the late Sen. William Proxmire of Wisconsin. During his Senate career from 1957 to 1988, Proxmire instituted a regular Golden Fleece Award, with which he mocked “the biggest, most ridiculous or most ironic example of government spending.” Among his infamous recipients was the Department […]
Does ‘Net Zero’ make sense?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Do the maths. The figures don’t add up. A lot of people are worried about climate change and global warming. Who can blame them? We are constantly told that global climate catastrophe is only a few years away or that “time has quite literally run out” as then Prince Charles […]