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Sierra Club Deviated From Environmental Mission To Embrace Far-Left Projects. It Ripped Itself To Shreds
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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 […]
Trump EPA Putting Black Americans Back in Driver’s Seat
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Take a look at the article CFACT’s Donna Jackson posted on Fox News explaining the benefits to America’s Black community of keeping cars affordable. Donna reports that “EPA has proposed the repeal of new tailpipe standards that would have tacked on an agency-estimated $2,100 to the already-rising sticker prices for new gasoline-powered vehicles.” As […]
Why Our Systems Collapse
By Victor Davis Hanson Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes When merit is replaced with ideology, fires rage unchecked, killers walk free, and fragile systems collapse—leaving lives and cities in ruin. America has a lot of built-in safety backups and redundancies. But every once in a while, when tradition, science, time-tested protocols, and common sense are […]
TRANSCRIPT: Trump’s Epic UN Climate and Energy Takedown
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow President Trump shocked the UN General Assembly on Tuesday with a speech that presented the raw, unvarnished facts about climate and energy policy. CFACT’s Marc Morano said, “President Trump delivered to the UN a speech that will go down in history as the most powerful, honest, and accurate climate […]
Kennedy vs. Big Food: Who Is Funding The Fight Against MAHA?
By Tiffany Gabbay Estimated Reading Time: 20 minutes Editors’ Note: We usually would not run an article of this length. But given the recent grandstanding we saw when RFK, Jr. was before the Senate, we thought a deeper dive was a necessity, so we hope you take the time. It is a complex tale of […]
Trump flushes climate movement ‘down the toilet’, NYT admits it’s ‘a uniquely bleak time’—Europe sees ‘Tide Turning Decisively Against Net Zero’
By Marc Morano from Climate Depot Morano on Fox talking 20th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina – Activists keep blaming every bad weather event on ‘climate change’ Watch: Morano on Fox: ‘EPA’s Lee Zeldin has become the most consequential EPA chief in the history of the agency, going back to its creation under Richard Nixon’ […]
Gas Prices Hit 5-Year Low on Labor Day Weekend
By The Geller Report More news the enemedia wont’t cover. The national average was $3.15 per gallon. California remains the big loser in this contest with the highest gas prices in the nation at $4.45 per gallon (EIA). Trump’s Energy Agenda Pays Off: Labor Day Gas Prices Hit 5-Year Low Sarah Arnold This Labor Day, […]
Thoughts On Pima County From A Stupid Masochist
By Craig J. Cantoni Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes The county’s quick approval of a data center is the latest example of treating residents like a saguaro cactus I moved to metro Tucson seven years ago, and, specifically, to the suburban area known as the Foothills, which is just north of the city limit of […]
What Made the Democratic Party Go Crazy?
By Victor Davis Hanson Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes The Democrat Party abandoned the middle class for elites and identity politics—trading broad appeal for globalism, DEI dogma, and political self-destruction The answer was not Trump alone. Indeed, irony abounds when Democrats resonate with the claims of the vestigial Never Trumpers that the MAGA movement “hijacked” […]
The Odd Enemies Of Nuclear Energy
By The Editors of Capital Research Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s silly & hypocritical enough that lefty climate nonprofits oppose carbon free nuclear power. But why are religious and civil rights groups joining them? Anti-nuclear advocacy is a booming business. There are more than 300 anti-nuclear nonprofits in America, including powerhouses such as the Sierra Club, Rocky Mountain […]
Regulating C02 Has Lead To Global Imbalances
By Duggan Flanakin The global push to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant, based on the questionable premise that increasing CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere threaten to trigger a global climate catastrophe, has wreaked havoc on energy and economic development in the United States, Europe, and Africa while giving so-called “emerging” nations like China and India […]
Trump’s “Unleashing American Energy”: America Is Fast Returning as an Energy Superpower
By The Geller Report He saved this country. Trump vows US ban on wind and solar projects as energy bills soar: ‘Days of stupidity are over’ In 2022, The American Energy Alliance began keeping a tally of all the actions Biden and the Democrats had taken to make it harder to produce oil and gas. […]
Record Electricity Demand Signals the Need for New Reliable Power
By Paige Lambermont Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes In July, two separate records for hourly power demand were set for the Lower-48 states. Amid summer heat on July 28th, demand hit 758,000 megawatts (MW) for the hour between 6 PM and 7 PM. The next day, demand climbed even higher, breaking the record at 759,180 MW. The […]
Scientists Lying About Science II
By John Droz, Jr. This is a follow-up to Part 1 of this important discussion. The National Academies of Sciences (NAS) was originally set up by Abraham Lincoln in 1863! The initial intentions were excellent: to provide objective, Science-based assistance to Americans. This came about as all indications were that increasingly technical matters were beyond the understanding of most citizens, so […]
Center for Security Policy Commends Senator Rick Scott for “PROTECT the Grid” Act
By Center For Security Policy Center for Security Policy President & CEO, Lt. Col. Tommy Waller (USMC Ret.) joined four-time Emmy Award winning investigator Grant Stinchfield to commend Florida Senator Rick Scott’s recent filing of the “PROTECT the Grid” Act. The interview begins at 16:39. As Waller explains, the Preventing Remote Operations by Threatening Entities on […]
“Climate Science is Baaaack!”
By Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow by Judith Curry Climate science is baaaack Energy Secretary Chris Wright has commissioned a new climate assessment report: A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate From the Secretary’s Foreword: What I’ve found is that media coverage often distorts the science. Many people—even well-meaning […]
Democrat accusses Trump of doing ‘Exactly what Stalin did’ by dismantling climate agenda!
By Marc Morano from Climate Depot Morano on Fox: EPA Chief: ‘Lee Zeldin is the most consequential EPA Chief in the history of the agency’ – ‘He is dismantling the climate agenda.” MUST Watch: British TV show’s dead-on take on ‘climate change’ – The most accurate & funny way of explaining why politicians get involved […]