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Biden Regime Cancels Trump-Era Oil and Gas Leases in Alaska
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The Democrats mean to kill the engine of America. Biden canceled all of the Alaska drilling on Federal land. At the same time, he stopped allowing liquid natural gas from being transported by train. That leaves the only mode of transportation by trucking. About 2 months ago the largest trucking company […]
Weekend Read: What the Left Did to Our Country
/in Education, Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Victor Davis Hanson Will their upheaval succeed? In the last 20 years, the Left has boasted that it has gained control of most of America institutions of power and influence—the corporate boardroom, media, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, the administrative state, academia, foundations, social media, entertainment, professional sports, and Hollywood. With such support, between 2009-17, […]
Second Nobel Prize Winner Signs Letter With 1,600 Scientists Declaring Climate ‘Emergency’ A Myth
/in Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tristan Justice A coalition of more than 1,600 scientists critical of their peers’ hyperbolic claims about climate change drew a prominent recruit to sign their 2019 declaration that the climate “emergency” is a myth. John Clauser, who won last year’s Nobel Prize in physics, became the second Nobel laureate last month to sign the document with 1,607 […]
Wealthy Democrats Aided And Abetted The Biden Border Crisis, Now They’re Whining About It
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy John Daniel Davidson Amid the scrum of news this week about Democrat-led schemes to put former President Donald Trump on trial during the GOP primaries and rig the 2024 election in plain sight, you might have missed a cautionary tale out of New York City, where Democrat millionaires are whining about a migrant crisis […]
The Richest Opponents of Carbon-Free Nuclear Energy
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ken Braun A new profile at InfluenceWatch for the Opposition to Nuclear Energy movement lists eleven anti-nuclear nonprofits that each individually have annual revenue in excess of $50 million. As shown in a previous essay, there are hundreds of left-leaning nonprofits that oppose the use of zero-carbon nuclear energy, including nearly all of the nation’s largest climate/carbon alarmist […]
COVID-19 Lies and What to Do About Them
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kurt Mahlburg The fall of Fauci and the unraveling narrative about COVID-19’s origins is something of a slow-motion train wreck. As recently as 2021, White House Chief Medical Advisor and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci was hailed as a national hero and an icon of science. To be […]
DAVID BLACKMON: Energy Companies Want Nothing To Do With Biden’s Botched Offshore Wind Projects
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Is investor interest in committing billions of dollars to new offshore wind projects starting to wane in the United States? If the results of last week’s heavily-touted Biden administration lease sale in the Western Gulf of Mexico are any indication, that could be the case. The auction resulted in a single […]
I Rented A Tesla For A Week And Am Totally Sold On Gas-Powered Cars
/in Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Stella Morabito After test-driving one for an entire week, we learned we will never buy a Tesla or any electric vehicle as long as we have the option of gas-powered cars or even hybrids. While planning a week-long trip to the Seattle area recently, I wondered aloud to my husband if we should rent […]
‘ALL CARS ARE BAD’: Biden’s Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s Equity Advisers
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Cars are racist. ‘ALL CARS ARE BAD’: Pete Buttigieg’s Equity Advisers Want You To Stop Driving Transportation secretary’s equity committee aims to bring ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ to America’s infrastructure By: Washington Free Beacon, September 1, 2023 Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is appointing a group of “leading experts” to advise him on “transportation […]
Greenhouse Gas Abatement that Makes Some Sense: Methane-Sniffing Drones
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Bad old carbon dioxide is not the only gas that contributes to the earth’s net heat balance by trapping heat in the atmosphere. Another commonly used gas — methane, the chief constituent of natural gas — is more than 25 times as effective as CO₂ in trapping heat. Fortunately, […]
Climate scientists and experts declare ‘there is no climate emergency’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. In particular, scientists should emphasize that their modeling output is not the result of magic: computer models are human-made. What comes out is fully dependent on what theoreticians and programmers have put in: hypotheses, assumptions, relationships, parameterizations, […]
‘Climate Crisis’ Lies Are Killing People
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Catherine Salgado The thoroughly mendacious “climate crisis” narrative, which has been consistently and wildly wrong for 50 years and continues to be wrong now, has turned deadly. People are dying as a result of terrible policies based off climate change hysteria. I just reported for PJ Media on a media call where several climate experts agreed that government […]
Offshore Wind Is Neither Clean, Nor Green And Doesn’t Cut CO2 Emissions
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig Rucker America is preparing to spend trillions of taxpayer and ratepayer dollars to install thousands of offshore wind turbines – for illusory benefits. Advocates claim offshore wind energy is clean and sustainable. Wind itself certainly is, but that doesn’t mean getting energy from wind is. Relying on the wind just to provide electricity […]
Hawaii’s Green Agenda — And Questionable Decisions — Primed The State For One Of The Deadliest Wildfires In History
/in Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Nick Pope While climate hawks were quick to blame the tragic Hawaiian fires on climate change, some of the state’s green policies and questionable decision-making before and during the tragedy helped set the stage for a disaster that has so far claimed over 100 lives. Along with other Democrats and some members of the […]
Grading the First Peanut Gallery Debate
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Eric Lendrum Vivek was the single exception to an underwhelmingly mediocre debate While the eyes of well over 160 million people were on the highly-anticipated interview between President Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson, the undercard debate of also-ran candidates proved very telling in its own way, often at the expense of the GOP. With a single […]
New Study Shoots Down Biden’s Claim that Transition to Green Energy will Create Jobs
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The grim reality is that the transition to green energy will be catastrophic for the economy, and if it is fully followed through, will reduce the United States to Third World status. The Biden regime seems intent on making life as difficult as they possibly can for Americans, and aiding and […]
Climate Change in the UK.
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Shirley Edwards (These are my views as a woman living in England, on how the culture and spirit of my country has changed over 50 years. Why the country does not feel protected or strong any more, how it has lost, and is losing it values and decency, and how we are daily losing […]
The Biden Administration Can’t Ignore This Whale Of A Problem Any More
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Steve Milloy As whale deaths mount on the east coast, the Biden administration can no longer pretend offshore wind farms are harmless to marine life. FOX News Digital revealed that the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is quietly offering a grant to study interactions between wind farms and critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. […]
Biden To Vacation With Hunter At Home Of Billionaire Climate Activist And Dem Megadonor
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller President Joe Biden will be joined by his son, Hunter, as he embarks on yet another lengthy vacation at a property belonging to billionaire climate activist and Democratic megadonor Tom Steyer at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, according to multiple reports. Biden has faced criticism for remaining largely silent on the wildfire disaster in Maui, […]
Wokeness, not climate change, is to blame in Maui
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Over 111 lives have been lost in the tragic Maui fires that wiped the historic township of Lahaina off the map and have left authorities searching for another possible 1,000 victims. Like clockwork, corporate newsrooms have concluded that a climate apocalypse is to blame. “The explanation is as straightforward […]
Haaland Hit With Ethics Complaint After Stripping Oil And Gas Opportunities From Navajo Nation
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tristan Justice Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was hit with an ethics complaint Thursday over her controversial decision to choke off hundreds of thousands of acres in New Mexico from oil and gas development. The government watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) filed the complaint with the Interior Department inspector general’s office, citing the secretary’s […]
Weekend Read: Your Car Your Freedom
/in Environment, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel The automobile is one of the devices that truly changed America and the world. Invented originally in Germany, it found its greatest expression and success in America. In the early years, car technology competed with each other based on gasoline or kerosene power, diesel, electric, and even steam. The internal combustion engine […]
Montana Climate Decision No Big Deal
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Much ado is being made from the supposed win of a kid’s climate lawsuit in Montana. The alarmists call it a victory, the skeptics a tragedy, but it is neither. What was won is almost funny, while the big ask was in fact denied. The climate kids won a […]
What Will Happen When the Grid Goes Down?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. A WAKEUP warning about what you can and should do. Sometimes the biggest threats are so obvious that we dismiss them as not being likely… I will try to emulate Paul Revere here, so it’s up to you whether you say Ho-Hum or take the radical actions that are urgently called for right now… […]
Two Princeton, MIT Scientists Say EPA Climate Regulations Based on a ‘Hoax’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report It was never about climate, the biggest political fraud in history. Power, money, and control. The destructive Democrats condemn industry, technology, the intellect, and want to return us to the state of grunting sub animals digging the soil with our bare hands. You have to wonder what its going to take […]
We Asked Every GOP 2024 Hopeful If They’d Abolish The EPA And Repeal Biden’s Climate Law. Here’s What They Said.
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Energy policy is shaping up to be a key issue in the 2024 presidential race as President Joe Biden’s massive climate spending and regulatory agenda takes hold of the U.S. economy. Several 2024 GOP primary hopefuls told the Daily Caller News Foundation their administrations would repeal Biden’s signature climate law, defund […]
Biden Makes Grand Canyon National Monument, Ending Uranium Prospecting
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Cameron Arcand Editors’ Note: The concept used to be, “public lands”, where ranchers, lumbermen, miners, off-road enthusiasts, hunters, hikers, and mountain bikers, in other words, “the public” had use of the Federal lands. Now propelled by the environmental movement, increasingly these become “private lands” government-owned and approved for only progressive causes. It is even […]
Biden DOE Called CCP Official Before Releasing Petroleum Reserves
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Catherine Salgado A new report says that Biden’s Energy Secretary called up a top Chinese Communist Party (CCP) energy official before the Biden administration released America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) in late 2021. Aside from the ostensible goal of lowering gas prices (even while the Biden administration wrecked America’s energy independence), the Biden administration’s […]
Biden: Already Declared Climate Emergency ‘Practically Speaking’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council President Biden has “practically speaking” already declared a national emergency on climate change, the president said in an interview with The Weather Channel published Wednesday. “We’ve conserved more land. We rejoined the Paris Climate Accord, we passed a $368 billion climate control facility.” At first, he said he had declared an emergency, but […]
TAKE ACTION: End the ‘ESG War’ on Energy Freedom
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy ACT For America! “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” — President Abraham Lincoln Take Action to Abolish Partisan ‘ESG’…It’s Time to End the War on Energy Freedom and Abolish the Partisan ESG Transfer of Wealth and Power TAKE […]