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Climate and COVID ‘Science’
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Donald J. Boudreaux Physicist and former CalTech provost Steven Koonin’s superb 2021 book, Unsettled? What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, busts many popular myths about climate change. Koonin is clear that global temperatures are indeed rising, and that some of this rise in temperatures is caused by human activity. But Koonin […]
UK Abandons Net-Zero Energy Policies for Energy Security
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow “I’m ending the short-term thinking on energy once and for all. I’m acting now so people and businesses are supported with a new Energy Price Guarantee. I will tackle the root cause of the issue by boosting domestic energy supply to ensure we’re not in this position ever again.” […]
Electric Cars Are Not “Zero-Emission Vehicles”
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy James D. Agresti While praising California’s decision to ban the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, Governor Gavin Newsom declared that this will require “100% of new car sales in California to be zero-emission vehicles” like “electric cars.” In reality, electric cars emit substantial amounts of pollutants and may be more harmful to […]
Biden’s Climate Czar John Kerry’s Carbon Footprint is 300 Times That of the Average American
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report “In his role as President Joe Biden’s climate czar, John Kerry has flown more than 180,000 miles—flights that emitted more than 9.5 million pounds of carbon.” — Washington Free Beacon The whole climate ruse is a hoax, of course. But the point here is clearly those hawking it don’t believe it […]
It Is Still a Dilemma for Investors
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel Editors’ Note: The author’s warning and advice at the end of this article are so important. The economic problems plaguing much of the world are related to Democrat and Biden administration governance in many areas of public policy and economic management. The Inflation Reduction Act (misnamed – it is the Green New Deal Slush […]
Agriculture Shoulders Brunt of First Wave of Water Cuts
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Joe Pitts In 2019, states and tribes across the American West, alongside the United States and Mexican governments, signed the Drought Contingency Plan (DCP). Touted as a multi-partner agreement that would mitigate the region’s water troubles, the DCP was implemented in response to sinking water levels in Lake Powell and Lake Mead, which are […]
Amazon Takes Solar Rooftops Offline Following Major Fires, Electrical Explosions
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Grids going down, Rolling blackouts, EVs that can’t be charged – “green ain’t green but it is an epic failure. Another Green Disaster: Amazon Took Solar Rooftops Offline Following Major Fires, Electrical Explosions By: Breitbat News, September 7, 2022: A new report from CNBC reveals that Amazon powered down all of […]
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin Vows to Stop ‘Ridiculous’ State Ban on Gas Vehicles
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The totalitarian Newsom government on the communist state of California has banned gas vehicles. Gov. Glenn Youngkin vows to stop ‘ridiculous’ state ban on gas vehicles Former Virginia Gov. Northam signed legislation in 2021 tying state’s emissions policies to California’s Air Resources Board By: Anders Hagstrom, Fox Business, August 28, 202 Republican […]
New Hampshire Can Blaze The Trail To Plentiful Carbon-Free Energy
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Center For Security Policy As energy prices continue to crush families and businesses, the future looks bleak for northern New England and its heavy reliance on carbon-belching fossil fuels. But there’s a bright spot up ahead. This summer, Governor Chris Sununu signed into law House Bill 543, an act “establishing a commission to study nuclear […]
CFACT Brings ‘Energy Reality’ to Television, Radio, Social Media and in Movies!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Healthcare, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow CFACT constantly speaks pro-energy truth to green anti-energy propaganda. Any given day you’ll catch CFACT’s team on TV, the web, social media, radio, movies… you name it. Institutional leftism has grown so prevalent, it takes an unrelenting voice of reason, creatively utilizing media of all kinds to compete and win through. […]
Marine Vet to Milley: Your Job is to Win Wars, Not Fight Climate Change
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Discover The Networks In an interview with Breitbart News, Marine veteran Stuart Scheller, who demanded accountability from senior military leaders over the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, slammed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley for being focused on “white rage” rather than fighting wars. Milley, during a House hearing in June 2021, defended military […]
The Psychology of Totalitarianism
/in Education, Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Mattias Desmet At the end of February 2020, the global village began to shake on its foundations. The world was presented with a foreboding crisis, the consequences of which were incalculable. In a matter of weeks, everyone was gripped by the story of a virus—a story that was undoubtedly based on facts. But on […]
Why Nuclear Power Is [Quietly] Making a Big Comeback All Around the World
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) From California to France to Japan and beyond, nuclear power is all the rage suddenly. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that California Gov. Gavin Newsom was spearheading an eleventh-hour effort to pass legislation to extend a lifeline to Diablo Canyon, a 2,250-megawatt nuclear plant that supplies some 8 percent of the […]
Replacement cost of a Chevrolet Volt Battery $29,842.15 but it gets worse, much worse!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier In 2019 GM retired the Chevy Volt to make way for its successor, the more compact but fully electric Chevy Bolt. We recently received a copy of an estimate from Roger Dean Chevrolet, located in Cape Coral, Florida, to replace the battery in a Chevy Volt (VIN: 101RB6E4XCU113962) that has on […]
Experts Blame Green Energy Policies for Europe’s Full-Scale Energy Crisis: ‘A warning to the U.S.’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, National Security, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report We are watching the villainous Left deindustrialize our societies, under the guise of climate nonsense. All while they fly around the world in private jets, which emit far more green-house gasses into the atmosphere. The Green Movement is a total assault on capitalism, our freedom, and our entire way of life. […]
California Tells Residents Not To Charge EV Because Of Blackouts A Week After Saying State Would Ban Sale Of Gas Cars
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Brianna Lyman California residents are being told not to charge their electric vehicles due to possible blackouts just one week after the state announced it would ban the sale of gas-powered cars in 2035. The state issued a heat advisory Tuesday, warning excessive heat “will stress [the] energy grid.” “Consumers are urged to reduce energy use […]
The Rise of ESG, Replacing Profits with Paternalism, and Strategy with Standards
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kimberlee Josephson The movement for creating systemic change in the economic system is growing. Traditionally, investments in entrepreneurial ventures were based on expectations for a favorable return given the risks involved. Businesses were expected to perform at their best to ensure shareholder value, and to do so they needed to cater to consumer needs, […]
Romancing The All Electric Vehicle
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US Going somewhere for the holiday weekend? Not if you live in California and drive an electric vehicle, you’re not. California issued an emergency alert asking people not to charge their EVs because the power grid can’t handle the demand. This from a state that is moving to ban the sale of […]
Musk: “Civilization Will Crumble” Without Oil and Gas
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy David Kelly Editors’ Note: Elon Musk is hard to categorize. On the one hand, he is selling a lot of cars because of government subsidies, tax breaks, and coercion. But on the other hand, he notes such policies are anti-human and will lead to great misery and chaos. His space business gets a lot […]
Why California’s Green Power Grid Is Collapsing
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier We have been warning that subsidizing and mandating the use of green energy and eliminating all fossil fuels is going a wrong and dangerous direction for America. We have been proven right because of the warm summer of August 2022. We have argued that using all forms of energy effectively and […]
Conservation Nation: Motoring through the Grand Canyon State
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow CFACT’s @Gabriella Hoffman traverses the Grand Canyon State, exploring Agua Fria national monument, Horseshoe Bend, and of course, the Grand Canyon. Along the way, she talks to various stakeholders giving their take on whether Arizona needs more national monuments, or is the federal government mismanaging what they already have? […]
60 Minutes Highlights Vulnerabilities of the Electric Grid and Biden Administration Inaction
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Center For Security Policy “No one is in charge” of protecting America’s electrical grid, Biden Homeland Security Advisor Dr. Liz Sherwood-Randall told CBS News’ 60 Minutes, during a recent short segment regarding the vulnerability of America’s most critical of critical infrastructures. Sherwood-Randall added that the federal government has no ability to mandate utility companies […]
What Would Global Decarbonization Actually Cost?
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Robert Lyman and Dr. Jay Lehr As those who write frequently on climate policy issues, we are often asked, “What will decarbonization cost?”. Decarbonization is the term used to refer to effectively eliminate emissions of greenhouse gases, usually measured in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent, allegedly to stop human-caused global warming. In practical terms, that […]
What Is Really Behind The Climate Agenda?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Authors Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. Bonner R. Cohen, Ph. D., is a senior policy analyst with CFACT, where he focuses on natural resources, energy, property rights, and geopolitical developments. Articles by Dr. Cohen have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, The New York Post, The […]
Biden Admin Handed California The Power To Mandate EVs Nationwide
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller California instituted a new regulation on Thursday that will ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles by 2035; the rule, which was permitted by the Biden administration, could accelerate the nationwide transition to electric cars. “I don’t think Congress gave that authority to California, specifically to set their own standards for greenhouse […]
FRAUD, WASTE AND ABUSE: Joe Biden and Joe Manchin’s Green New Deal—Costs a Lot of Green
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier “I want to testify today about what I believe is a planetary emergency—a crisis that threatens the survival of our civilization and the habitability of the Earth. Just six weeks ago, the scientific community, in its strongest statement to date, confirmed that the evidence of warming is `unequivocal.’ Global warming is […]
NEWEST CLIMATE MYTH: Black Lives Movement Launches ‘Climate Initiative’ Centering on Black Americans
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Healthcare, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report “I didn’t know that, according to Black Lives Matter, the climate discriminates against blacks! Is the climate now a ‘white supremacist global movement’ created by God?” — Dr. Rich Swier Here we see the ‘intersectionality’ of every loathsome fraud and ludicrous hoax the left has rammed down the throat of the […]
An Infrared Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Gary M. Galles Grace Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist, and Navy rear admiral once said, “One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions,” which extended W. Edward Deming’s “Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.” But rather than relying on accurate measurements, as Thomas Sowell put it in Discrimination and Disparities, public policy is often […]
Tucson’s Privileged Public Sector
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni Those at the top of the public sector are doing well while Tucson stays mired in poverty. The City of Tucson and the surrounding Pima County have a lot of poverty. The city’s poverty rate of 20.79% is near twice the national average, and the county’s poverty rate of 15.94% is […]
The Real Problem with Greta Thunberg Is Not Her Age
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Greta Thunberg first came into the public light in 2018 when she started a school strike on climate in front of the Swedish parliament. March 15th saw enthusiastic worldwide school student protests inspired by passionate appeals from 16-year-old Swedish school girl-turned-global-leader Greta Thunberg. Thunberg first came into the public […]