Tag: extreme weather

  • COP-30 Insanity vs the Global Tide of Climate and Energy Reality

    COP-30 Insanity vs the Global Tide of Climate and Energy Reality

    by Paul Driessen, ©2025 (Nov. 16, 2025) — The 30th Conference Of Parties (COP-30) is in full tirade down in Belém, Brazil. Many of the 50,000+ attendees arrived via the sleek private jets they always take to planet-saving climate conferences. To make travel from the airport to the host city easier, Brazil felled some 100,000…

  • Will Biden Withdraw?

    Will Biden Withdraw?

    by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 2, 2024) — At 1:00 p.m. EDT Tuesday, White House incumbent Joseph R. Biden, Jr. will speak on the topic of “extreme weather.” His address follows Biden’s four-minute speech from the White House Monday night critical of the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion upholding the concept of presidential immunity for the president…

  • Europe’s ‘Unprecedented Manmade Floods’

    Europe’s ‘Unprecedented Manmade Floods’

    by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2021 (Aug. 9, 2021) — Deadly floods in Germany and Belgium have put climate change back in the news in time for the COP-26 climate gabfest in Glasgow. Not surprisingly, government officials again blamed fossil fuels, greenhouse gases and manmade climate change for the calamities, to deflect attention from their official…

  • REAL Threats to Threatened Species

    REAL Threats to Threatened Species

    by Paul Driessen, ©2021 (Feb. 28, 2021) — Many activists, politicians and regulators believe our Earth and its wild kingdoms are threatened by fossil fuels, conventional farming, modern living standards, and catastrophic climate change resulting from the aforementioned human activities. Many promote these fears to gain ever-greater control over energy and economic systems, circumscribe personal…

  • The IPCC’s Latest Climate Hysteria

    The IPCC’s Latest Climate Hysteria

    REALIST EXPERTS SHOW WHY $60-80 TRILLION OVER NEXT 17 YEARS WOULD BE WASTED ON IMAGINARY CRISIS by Paul Driessen, ©2018 (Oct. 14, 2018) — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report 15 claims the latest disaster “tipping point” is just 12 years away. If governments around the world fail to make “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented…

  • Adapt to Climate Change; Don’t Try to Stop it

    Adapt to Climate Change; Don’t Try to Stop it

    “UNFOUNDED ALARMISM” by Dr. Madhav Khandekar and Tom Harris, ©2017 (Aug. 23, 2017) — Former Vice-President Al Gore could not have chosen a worse time to release his new climate change film, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. For, ‘global temperatures’ were higher in 2006 – 2007 when An Inconvenient Truth was released and Gore…

  • Political Elite Out of Touch on Climate Change

    Political Elite Out of Touch on Climate Change

    MOST PEOPLE WANT LEADERS TO FOCUS ON REAL, IMMEDIATE PROBLEMS by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2016 (Sep. 15, 2016) — In his September 8th speech announcing California’s new greenhouse gas emission laws, Governor Jerry Brown said, “If we don’t stop climate change, it’s not going to be 110 [degrees] in Imperial County; it’s going…

  • So What?

    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…

  • Base Policies on Reality, Not Deceit

    Base Policies on Reality, Not Deceit

    DR. BOB CARTER UNDERSTOOD THAT CLIMATE FREQUENTLY CHANGES, AND WE MUST PREPARE TO ADAPT by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Jan. 23, 2016) — Dangerous manmade global cooling, global warming, climate change and extreme weather claims continue to justify what has become a $1.5-trillion-per-year industry: tens of billions spent annually on one-sided research and hundreds of billions sent…

  • Public Misled on Climate Impacts

    Public Misled on Climate Impacts

    GLOBAL WARMING CAUSES REDUCED EXTREME WEATHER by Tom Harris and Tim Ball (Oct. 16, 2015) — The public are being told by politicians, bureaucrats, and activists that global warming will cause more extreme weather. Yet both the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) have…

  • Climate Change Issues for 2012

    Climate Change Issues for 2012

    DOES “GLOBAL WARMING” EVEN EXIST? by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Nov. 3, 2012) — [Author’s Note:  Over the past several months people have asked CFACT a number of questions about climate change, energy and the environment. We responded to them, and then decided to compile their questions and our answers into two 6-page documents that present…