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What Is Good For The Climate Geese Is NOT Good For The Ganders
The billionaires prolificating “green” for the world, such as Mike Bloomberg, Tom Steyer, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio, and others are the same individuals amassing huge carbon footprints for their numerous private jets, houses, boats, and cars. For Bloomberg alone, a Business Insider analysis found that Bloomberg’s emissions-heavy private jets took more […]
REAL Threats To Planet And People
Totalitarian actions in the name of ‘climate change’ threaten wildlife, people and freedoms. Environmental activism was already nasty and lethal when I wrote Eco-Imperialism: Green Power – Black Death 18 years ago. It’s gotten steadily worse since then, especially with hysteria about the “looming manmade climate apocalypse” driving ever more extreme demands that we […]
Activists Panicked CFACT Will Correct Them On Climate
If there’s anything climate computer modelers and warming activists fear, it’s real-world hard data that corrects their exaggerations. CFACT’s Marc Morano is expert on just that. Climate Depot puts climate claims in perspective through reliance on actual measured temperature and historical weather data. All that objective reporting gives the Left the willies. Here’s a perfect example. The […]
Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are ‘Absolutely Exploding’
Editors’ Note: While California’s descent into mismanagement is a policy lesson for Arizona, it could well become a burden for Arizona. California will be looking to import power when power is needed for the growth of Arizona. Arizona must not follow in their footsteps with “green fantasies”. The actions and leadership of our Arizona Corporation […]
A “Tell” Upon America
The term “tell” is often used regarding poker playing or pulling a scam. It refers to a gesture, a look, a twitch someone has that indicates what they are thinking. For example, a person always scratches his forehead when he is bluffing in poker. I recently encountered a situation that was itself not significant. Yet […]
Why We Shop at Walmart Instead of Whole Foods
Years ago it was popular for companies to sponsor a day for employees to take their kids to the office to see where mom or dad worked. My wife got stuck with organizing one of the days for her employer. In an introductory exercise, she had the kids sit around a conference table and take […]
44 Things You Should Know about the Green New Deal
What should we make of this Green New Deal? On Feb. 7, US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and US Sen. Ed Markey introduced legislation known as the Green New Deal. You’ve probably heard of it. It’s a big deal, to paraphrase Joe Biden. The History of New Deals Wikipedia, the internet’s fountain of knowledge, describes the legislation as […]
Media Balanced Newsletter: Energy, Environment, Covid, Policy, Politics and More
Welcome to the latest issue of our Media Balance Newsletter, which covers a wide range of national interest topics: from COVID to Climate. (For all 2020 Newsletters, go here. For all 2021 Newsletters, go here.) (Our ten Election Integrity Reports are now at: Election-Integrity.info. Please pass that link onto your social media contacts…) COVID-19: Therapy Ivermectin is effective for COVID-19 when used early. Analysis […]
PODCAST: Ending Hydraulic Fracturing Will Sabotage America as Energy Prices Soar!
GUESTS AND TOPICS CONGRESSMAN TOM PRICE Congressman Tom Price served as the U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 6th congressional district, encompassing the northern suburbs of Atlanta, A physician Dr Price He was appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services by President Donald Trump. While in Congress, Price chaired the House Committee on the Budget, Republican Study […]
Climate Models: Worse Than Nothing?
“Climate modeling is central to climate science….” (Stephen Koonin, below) When the history of climate modeling comes to be written in some distant future, the major story may well be how the easy, computable answer turned out to be the wrong one, resulting in overestimated warming and false scares from the enhanced (man-made) greenhouse […]
Swiss Voters Reject Climate Legislation
The Swiss have one of the few federal systems in the world. And interestingly, they are perhaps the only country to limit government power through a federal system of cantons and direct initiative voting that developed before, and independently of England. Other countries that have a dispersion of power systems like the United States and […]
Watch: COVID Lockdowns Morphing Into Climate Lockdowns
Climate Depot’s Marc Morano reacts to climate activist fantasy for keeping emissions down. WATCH: “Chuck Schumer is urging Biden to declare a national climate emergency. Just like a blue-state governor, he could have emergency powers,” Marc Morano of Climate Depot said on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show last night. Morano continued: “The World Health Organization […]
Biden Backward On Energy
The Biden White House is run by ideologues who do not understand the real world. Nowhere is this more evident than on energy. CFACT joined a coalition of nine public policy organizations to co-sign a letter detailing the egregious mistake that regressing to the “CAFE” fuel standards for vehicles would be. Read the full letter. The […]
DEMOCRAT EPIC FAIL: Federal Judge Lifts Biden’s Moratorium on New Oil and Gas Leases on Federal Land
The Democrats war on Americans, American businesses and American freedoms has suffered a serious setback. Harder! Faster! Federal Judge Lifts Biden’s Moratorium on New Oil and Gas Leases on Federal Land By: New York Post, June 17, 2021: A Louisiana federal judge issued an order lifting President Biden’s moratorium on new oil and gas leases on […]
Beijing Power Players Poised To Pull Plug On Prospects To Go ‘All-Electric’
Editors’ Note: Even if one accepts the dubious proposition that carbon emissions cause global warming, it seems to us almost insane to wreck America’s energy infrastructure, while giving China a free pass on coal-fired plants until 2030. All of the U.S. sacrifices would do nothing to improve the situation as China is the main contributor […]
How Many Species Have Gone Extinct?
Editors’ Note: Not many people keep a scorecard on the veracity of public statements. If they did, they would find that most predictions from government and private organizations concerning “the environment” have a poor track record. Many are based on faulty computer modeling and many tend to the hyperbolic to encourage fundraising or political action. […]
Do Climate Alarmists Believe Their Own Predictions?
In public discourse, it’s considered bad form to insult your opponent’s integrity. But it’s almost impossible to believe that climate alarmists believe their own apocalyptic predictions. Greta Thunberg, Al Gore, and other experts sternly warned that our planet will be an uninhabitable, unsalvageable oven unless within 15 years (now 10 or 12) we bend all […]
RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE: G7 Leaders to Agree Anti-Coal, Anti-Car, and Carbon-Cutting Targets
The war on industry and capitalism is war on freedom, individualism and personal liberty (and more immediately – the American worker). Repudiate its mindless nihilism and to uphold, instead, a philosophy of reason, individualism, capitalism, and technological progress. G7 Leaders to Agree Anti-Coal, Anti-Car, and Carbon-Cutting Targets (AFP) — G7 leaders were on Sunday urged to […]
Media Balance Newsletter: Energy, Environment, COVID, Policy & Politics
Welcome to the latest issue of our Media Balance Newsletter, which covers a wide range of national interest topics: from COVID to Climate. (For all 2020 Newsletters, go here. For all 2021 Newsletters, go here.) (Our ten Election Integrity Reports are now at: Election-Integrity.info. Please pass that link onto your social media contacts…) COVID-19: Therapy Ivermectin is effective for COVID-19 when used early. […]
Climate Alarmists Flip-Flop Again: Cancel their Monsoon Drought Crisis, Now Claim Too Much Rain
Among its top results today under the search term “climate change,” Google News is highlighting articles claiming new research shows global warming will cause stronger Indian and South Asian monsoons and rainfall, which will wreak climate havoc in future decades. Yet, just a few years ago climate alarmists and their media allies claimed global warming […]
State of Wyoming to Install Nuclear Reactor at Retiring Coal Plant
Wyoming is the largest coal-producing state in the country. However, the Cowboy State is also going to be a pioneer in the emerging industry of building small, modular nuclear reactors. According to a press release from TerraPower, the company developing the reactor. TerraPower, Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon and PacifiCorp today announced efforts to advance a […]
PODCAST: Secretary Pompeo Sounds Off On Climate Alarmists
“Former Secretary Kerry is driving the central thesis of this administration’s foreign policy. Ours was America First, we were unambiguous. When I met with my counterparts around the world, it was pretty clear Mike Pompeo showed up to make sure Americans were more prosperous and more secure and safer. When when this administration has these […]
How can climate alarmists explain away ancient megadroughts? They can’t
As reported by Fox News, a 2015 study published in the journal Nature Climate Change compared 117 computer model projections during the 1990s with the amount of warming that actually occurred. Of the 117 projections, only three were roughly accurate. On average, the computer models predicted twice as much warming as that which actually occurred. The projections […]
Ducey Declares Emergency Over Wildfires
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is freeing up extra money to aid in the fight against two large fires that have left tens of thousands of acres charred. Ducey issued two emergency declarations Wednesday because of the Telegraph and Mescal fires, making up to $400,000 available for increased response. Ducey’s office has requested additional federal funds […]
International Energy Agency’s Green Energy Fantasy Is A Hoot
Looking for laughs? The International Energy Agency has produced a laugh-filled report, grandly titled: “Net Zero by 2050: A roadmap for the global energy system“. Redesigning the global energy system. My, oh my. Below are a few highlights, out of many. To begin with, it is not a roadmap, as it does not tell us how to get there. In fact, you cannot get […]
Arizona, Sonora, Sign Water and Air Quality Agreement
Gov. Ducey and Sonoran Governor Claudia Pavlovich met for the last time to sign an agreement to secure Sonora’s access to water and further monitor air quality. The agreement marks the end of a six-year professional relationship between Ducey and Pavlovich, who was elected in 2015 and will leave office this year. She is the […]
AWED: A Media Balanced Newsletter
Welcome to the latest issue of our Media Balance Newsletter, which covers a wide range of nation interest topics: from COVID to Climate. (For all 2020 Newsletters, go here. For all 2021 Newsletters, go here.) (FYI, Our Election Integrity Reports have a new url: Election-Integrity.info. Please pass that onto your social media contacts…) COVID-19: Therapy Ivermectin is effective for COVID-19 when used early: analysis […]
Greens Invade Exxon Mobile: Foment Shareholder Fiasco
ExxonMobil took it on the chin as it suffered stinging defeats at the hands of radical climate activists during its annual shareholders meeting yesterday. Efforts by the green hedge fund “Engine No. 1” to infiltrate Exxon’s Board of Directors succeeded when two of the outfit’s activist candidates, Gregory Goff and Kaisa Hietala, defeated standing Exxon […]
Social Justice Warriors Have A Beef With Meat
It seems like only yesterday that mainstream media sources like Forbes were condemning Fox Business News economist Larry Kudlow and other Republicans for “falsely claiming” that President Biden’s Green New Deal would force people to stop eating meat. The condemnation ranged from Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC lamenting “the Right’s foolish lie” to a Media Mattersgrenade, “Right-wing […]
Fossil Fuels and Fossilized Thinking
An expert in linguistics takes aim at the coloured language of the climate change debate. Eighty-one years ago, in 1940, a popular science magazine published a short article by Benjamin Lee Worf that initiated one of the trendiest intellectual fads of the 20th century. The author was a chemical engineer who worked for an insurance company and […]