Tag: CO2 emissions
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Beyond Mad Max with Dystopian AI
by John Mikkelsen, ©2024 (Jun. 8, 2024) — The dystopian future predicted in the Mad Max movie franchise may be closer than ever and it won’t take World War 3 to make it a reality. To me the only ones worth watching were the original and its sequel starring homegrown hero Mel Gibson. Those drab…
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Billionaire Climate Elites Have Their Own Rules
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2022 (Jul. 2, 2022) — Progressives have long wanted to tax unrealized gains from billionaires’ stocks, bonds, land holdings, homes, artwork, cars, yachts and other property. As appealing as this sounds, the scheme would be vastly complicated and unworkable. In the absence of sales, who would evaluate current values – and…
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Materials Acquisition for Global Industrial Change (MAGIC)
by Paul Driessen, ©2021 (May 3, 2021) — Via executive orders, regulatory edicts and partisan Green New Deal legislation, President Biden intends to slash US carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions by 50% below their 2005 peak by 2030, and eliminate them (and fossil fuel use) by 2050. But as AOC’s former chief of…
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China’s Strange Endorsement of ‘Net Zero’
by Duggan Flanakin, CFACT, ©2021 (Apr. 23, 2021) — You have to hand it to Xi Jinping. The Chinese “president for life” schmoozed United Nations royalty last September with his unexpected pledge that his country aims “to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality (Net Zero) before 2060.” Confident that the mantle…
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India Ignores Media Preaching on ‘Net Zero Carbon’
by Duggan Flanakin, ©2021 (Apr. 12, 2021) — India is just one of an increasing number of “developing” nations which have recognized that the mad rush toward a “net zero carbon” economy does not serve the interests of their ordinary citizens. These countries are also waking up to the fact that serving the public interest…
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EPA’s Totalitarian Assault on America
by Duggan Flanakin, ©2021 (Apr. 2, 2021) — Biden-Harris Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan is clearly on a mission. He has “bold aspirations, and a long to-do list,” says The Washington Post. But to succeed, the Post acknowledges, he must “help the EPA get its groove back.” As Regan put it, “We’ve got a…
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Happer vs. AOC: A Telling Contrast
“RADICAL VERSUS REASON” by David Wojick, Ph.D., CFACT, ©2019 (Apr. 26, 2019) — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is by far the best known climate change alarmist today, having way surpassed Al Gore for that title. Gore is now something of a has-been in the fame department. On the other side, Will Happer is far and away…
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Platte River Power’s “Green” Folly
“HUGELY RISKY” by David Wojick, Ph.D., ©2019, CFACT (Jan. 2, 2019) — In the wacky game of power generating utilities going green, Colorado’s Platte River Power Authority is a true leader. Today they get 65 percent of their juice from coal, but their new green goal is to be “emissions free” by 2030. “Emissions free”…
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But What Will Take its Place?
DOES GOVERNMENT REALLY NEED TO REGULATE EVERYTHING? CAN NO PROGRAM BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE? by Greg Walcher, ©2018 (Oct. 23, 2018) — In high school and college, I competed in debate tournaments across the state and country. I clearly remember many occasions when a debate team’s plan would include abolishing some government program. Inevitably, the…
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A Cafe is Where Food is Served, Not a Place to Limit Driver Safety
RELIEF IS ON ITS WAY TO REMEDY DAMAGING FUEL EFFICIENCY STANDARDS by Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris, ©2018 (Sep. 28, 2018) — It began to go wrong in the late 1950s when M. King Hubbert of the US Geological Survey predicted that America would start to run out of oil by the end of…
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The Misguided Affordable Clean Energy Rule
WHY IS THE US EPA STILL DETERMINED TO CONTROL PLANT FOOD AND DRIVE UP ELECTRICITY PRICES? by Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris, ©2018 (Aug. 30, 2018) — On August 28, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a press release “EPA Acting Administrator tours Ohio to promote ACE rule,” his proposed Affordable Clean…
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Killing Paris Agreement is Not Enough
LIKE DANDELIONS, UN CLIMATE TREATIES MUST BE PULLED OUT BY THE ROOTS by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2017 (May 8, 2017) — If President Donald Trump merely pulls the United States out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, it will be like cutting the head off a dandelion. It will look good for…
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Killing Clean Power Plan Crucial Step in Ending Climate Deception
REALISTS MUST NOW SWAY PUBLIC OPINION FIRMLY AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING SCARE by Tom Harris, ©2017, Executive Director, ICSC (Mar. 31, 2017) — President Donald Trump is right to kill the Clean Power Plan (CPP). The rules only regulate emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), which even school children know is not unclean. CO2 is an essential…
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GIGO-Based Energy and Climate Policies
IT’S LIKE FORMULATING PUBLIC SAFETY POLICIES USING MODELS BASED ON DINOSAUR DNA FROM AMBER by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Feb. 27, 2017) — Things are never quiet on the climate front. After calling dangerous manmade climate change a hoax and vowing to withdraw the USA from the Paris agreement, President Trump has apparently removed language criticizing…
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Send Environmental Hypocrites Back To The Stone Age
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2016 (Dec. 18, 2016) — To millions of Americans, the environmental movement has become a cult-like obsession that has consumed the collective mindset with emotional hogwash, propaganda, outright lies and irrational guilt. Some have labeled this cult “The Green Plague.” (The “Plague“) The “Plague”…
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Judges Must Understand: Climate Rules are Irrational
CLEAN POWER PLAN ALL PAIN, NO GAIN, FOR THE U.S. by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2016 (Sep. 23, 2016) — On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear arguments in the litigation over President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). If implemented, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)…
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So What?
HYPOCHONDRIAC CLIMATE CHANGE CONCERNS HURT US ALL by Tom Harris and Tim Ball, ©2016 (Jul. 22, 2016) — The best answer to most of the claims by climate activists and their political allies is simply: so what? “Climate change is real,” they say. So what? Gravity and sunrise are also real. That doesn’t mean we…
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More Job-Killing Rules From EPA
SOCIAL COST OF METHANE REGULATIONS WILL FURTHER CONSTRAIN ENERGY PRODUCTION, FOR NO BENEFIT by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Jun. 12, 2016) — Having already done yeoman’s work stifling economic growth and job creation, President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency is doubling down again. The United States created a paltry 38,000 new jobs in May: one for every 8,000…
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SEC Issues Climate Chaos “Guidance”
WHAT ABOUT RISKS FROM ANTI-ENERGY POLICIES IMPOSED IN THE NAME OF STOPPING CLIMATE CHANGE? by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (May 30, 2016) — President Obama continues to use “dangerous manmade climate change” to justify a massive regulatory onslaught that will “fundamentally transform” America’s energy, economic, business, industrial, social, legal and constitutional systems before he leaves office. The…
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Climate Change Surveys Still Useless
POLLSTERS SHOULD ASK HOW MUCH AMERICANS WILL PAY TO SET AN EXAMPLE TO THE WORLD by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2016 (Apr. 8, 2016) — Public opinion polls are regularly cited by politicians and activists to support government action on climate change. Yet these surveys rarely make meaningful contributions to the public policy debate since…