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  • How Dare YOU – Doom Pixie and Your Political Pals!?!

    How Dare YOU – Doom Pixie and Your Political Pals!?!

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    by Paul Driessen, ©2026 (Aug. 30, 2026) —Swedish activist Greta Thunberg earned her moniker Doom Pixie because of her diminutive height and shrill accusations of human and planetary doom allegedly due to fossil-fuel-fueled climate change. Her most famous tirade was directed at world leaders for allegedly doing too little to stop it. “How dare you?”…

  • No, Paris, US Air Conditioners Did Not Cause Europe’s Heat Wave

    No, Paris, US Air Conditioners Did Not Cause Europe’s Heat Wave

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    Euro ruling elites need scapegoats for their incompetence and malfeasance, and we’re it by Paul Driessen, ©2026 (Jul. 5, 2026) — Happy July Fourth and America 250! We have much to celebrate, beginning with our Constitutional rights, equality and liberties and the prosperity they have bestowed. Indeed, living in this incredible, diverse, energized country, during…

  • International Energy Agency Wrong to Forecast Coal’s Demise

    International Energy Agency Wrong to Forecast Coal’s Demise

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    by Tom Harris, ©2026 (May 14, 2026) — Environmentalists would have us believe that coal is a dying energy source. But, thankfully for American coal states such as West Virginia and Canadian provinces Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia, all of which use millions of tonnes of coal every year to generate electricity, that is not even…

  • Coal and Sanity Rushing Back Through Sound Science

    Coal and Sanity Rushing Back Through Sound Science

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    by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center, ©2025 (Nov. 10, 2025) — The Department of Energy is doing something smart for a change. They just announced that they want to restore coal plants across the nation “for up to $100 million in federal funding.” That sounds good to me – real energy, and maybe some will…

  • UN, EU, ICJ, Climate Cabal Want to Keep World’s Poor Impoverished

    UN, EU, ICJ, Climate Cabal Want to Keep World’s Poor Impoverished

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    by Paul Driessen, ©2025 (Sep. 30, 2025) — On the evening of September 30, 1882, Henry Rogers turned a switch and the Hearthstone Historic House living room in Appleton, Wisconsin (my mother’s hometown) was bathed in a soft amber glow. Hearthstone became the first home in the world lit by electricity. Today, few can imagine…

  • National Suicide – a Rejection or Just a Reprieve for the USA?

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    by Paul Driessen, ©2025 (May 7, 2025) — “Poor Jud is dead. A candle lights his head! He’s looking oh so pretty and so nice. He looks like he’s asleep. It’s a shame that he won’t keep. But it’s summer and we’re running out of ice.” In Oklahoma! Curly McClain almost succeeds in convincing Jud…

  • The World Needs People Day More than Earth Day

    The World Needs People Day More than Earth Day

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    by Paul Driessen, ©2025 (Apr. 22, 2025) — Al Gore recently announced that he is refocusing his climate and energy efforts from the United States to the international arena, especially Africa. Like President Obama, he wants Africa to “leapfrog dirty fossil fuels” and have wind and solar energy power industries, businesses, communications, transportation, and modern…

  • Misplaced Green Energy

    Misplaced Green Energy

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    by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2025 (Mar. 4, 2025) — Why are we always putting green energy assets in all the wrong places? The main electricity demand comes from big cities and their industries, so the electricity generators should be nearby, thus reducing capital costs and transmission losses, and supporting local jobs.…

  • Is Economic Collapse Coming?

    Is Economic Collapse Coming?

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    by Capt. James M. Hoover, CACM (Ret), ©2024 (Sep. 7, 2024) — There are many early signs of a forthcoming market crash these days. When Warren Buffett makes a move in the market, we common folks should sit up and take notice.  He is reported to have sold Bank of America and other risk stocks…

  • Back Online, but for How Long?

    Back Online, but for How Long?

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    by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 27, 2024) — Late Wednesday night, a severe thunderstorm with winds up to 80 mph, a rarity in this area of the country, knocked out The Post & Email‘s power and cable service for the second time in less than a week. A National Weather Service (NWS) alert on cell phones…

  • We Can and Must Adjust to Climate Change – and Not Kill Billions  

    We Can and Must Adjust to Climate Change – and Not Kill Billions  

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    by Paul Driessen and Ronald Stein, ©2024 (Jun. 16, 2024) — Earth’s climate has changed many times over four billion years, and 99.999% of those changes occurred before humans were on this planet. During that short time, humans adjusted their housing, clothing and agriculture in response to climate changes. Can we now control the climate?…

  • Net Zero Burial of Carbon Dioxide?

    Net Zero Burial of Carbon Dioxide?

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    by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2024 (Jun. 3, 2024) — The Queensland Government recently placed a ban on pumping and dumping carbon dioxide into the rocks of the Great Artesian Basin. This was an event rarely seen – politicians have stumbled onto a sensible energy policy. Burying CO2 would achieve nothing useful…

  • Make Sure to Keep a Diesel in the Shed

    Make Sure to Keep a Diesel in the Shed

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    by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2024 (Apr. 22, 2024) — A Diesel in the Shed. You can have your solar panels              and your turbines on the hills;You can use the warmth of sunshine              to reduce your heating bills. You can dream you’re self-sufficient              as you weed your vegie bed;As long as you…

  • Virginia – Don’t Follow Net-Zero Lemmings over the Energy Cliff

    Virginia – Don’t Follow Net-Zero Lemmings over the Energy Cliff

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    by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2023 (Oct. 27, 2023) — Seventeen states – including Virginia – tie their vehicle emission standards and electric vehicle sale mandates to California, the most climate-centric state in the Union. Unless current laws change, by 2035 all their new cars, pickups and SUVs must be electric (or hydrogen-powered). In further obeisance…

  • The Coming Green Electricity Nightmare

    The Coming Green Electricity Nightmare

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    by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2022 (Oct. 2, 2022) — Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) wanted regulatory reform, in part to reverse some of the Biden Administration reversals of Trump era reforms intended to expedite permits for fossil fuel projects. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) needed Manchin’s vote in the 50-50 Senate to enact his latest spending…

  • Powerless Times Ahead

    Powerless Times Ahead

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    by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (Sep. 22, 2022) — It is a still winter night in Green-topia. Wind turbines are idle; solar panels are in darkness; some are covered with snow. In the rich green suburbs, electric cars are getting re-charged. Lights, heaters and TV are on, and coffee is percolating.…

  • Ruled by Fools

    Ruled by Fools

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    by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (Sep. 14, 2022) — Australia has become a nation ruled by fools. We have surrendered power over every aspect of our lives and industry to fifteen debating chambers in eight ruling cities. These assemblies are controlled by lawyers, unionists, centralists, green dreamers, power seekers and tax…

  • Washington, DC’s Energy Colonialism

    Washington, DC’s Energy Colonialism

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    by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2022 (Sep. 10, 2022) — Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser thinks people worldwide have a “human right” to come to the United States, legally or illegally. Our nation’s capital proudly proclaimed itself a “sanctuary city” in 2016. “We celebrate our diversity and respect all DC residents,” the mayor said, “no matter…

  • Small Modular Reactors Advance in the Nuclear World

    Small Modular Reactors Advance in the Nuclear World

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    by Dr Kelvin Kemm, ©2022 (May 8, 2022) — The first two decades of the 21st Century will go down in history as a time of amazing world confusion about energy supplies, particularly electricity. This is all due to electricity planning being done too much at a political policy level, and not by engineers and…

  • Energy Transition Disruption Might Bite the SEC

    Energy Transition Disruption Might Bite the SEC

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    by David Wojick, CFACT, ©2022 (Apr. 3, 2022) — The SEC has proposed that the companies it regulates start reporting what it calls “climate related risks.”  In addition to the speculative physical risks from supposed climate change, these risks include the very real damage that the so-called energy transition could cause. “Transition risks” are specifically…