THE TRUE COSTS OF WIND ENERGY ARE TOO OFTEN (DELIBERATELY?) IGNORED OR UNDERESTIMATED by Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris, ©2019 (May 21, 2019) — Wind energy can never replace fossil fuels, despite claims of environmentalists and advocates of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal (GND). It’s not environment-friendly either. Indeed, wind power is hampered by […]
LET’S FINALLY REVIEW ENDANGERMENT FINDING USED TO JUSTIFY TRILLIONS IN CLIMATE AND ENERGY COSTS by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (May 19, 2019) — In December 2009, the Obama Environmental Protection Agency issued its Endangerment Finding (EF) – decreeing that carbon dioxide (CO2) and other “greenhouse gases” (GHGs) endanger the health and welfare of Americans. In the process, […]
BACK TO THE MEDIEVAL GREEN WORLD by Viv Forbes, ©2019, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club (May 10, 2019) — Greens dream of a zero-emissions world without coal, oil and natural gas. They need to think what they wish for. First there would be no mass production of steel without coke from coking coal to remove […]
ALARMISTS GAME THE SYSTEM TO ENRICH AND EMPOWER THEMSELVES, AND HURT EVERYONE ELSE by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Apr. 29, 2019) — The multi-colored placard in front of a $2-million home in North Center Chicago proudly proclaimed, “In this house we believe: No human is illegal” – and “Science is real” (plus a few other liberal […]
“WHAT REALLY MATTERS” IN SAFEGUARDING THE EARTH by Tom Harris, ©2019 (Apr. 26, 2019) — Despite the anger of activists about President Donald Trump’s official Earth Day statement, he was right to highlight the important role economic prosperity and a strong market economy play in protecting the environment. After all, without prosperity, we cannot afford […]
EXTREME GREENS GROUSE, BUT AFRICAN AND OTHER POOR FAMILIES SEE HOPE IN DAVID MALPASS by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Apr. 13, 2019) — President Obama infamously told Africans they should focus on their “bountiful” wind, solar and biofuel. If they use “dirty” fossil fuels to raise living standards “to the point where everybody has got a […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2019 (Apr. 7, 2019) — FACT: The Green New Deal (GND) is driven by the fraud that is man-caused global warming, AKA Climate Change. (Read the Socialist-Democrat sponsored GND. It should scare the living daylights out of you!) FACT: Man-caused global warming is unsettled […]
A “TROJAN HORSE FOR SOCIALISM” by Dr. Jay Lehr & Tom Harris, ©2019 (Apr. 5, 2019) — On March 26, the United States Senate voted against putting forward Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) Green New Deal (GND) resolution to the Senate floor for debate and final vote. Those voting against the […]
“THAT IS NOT SCIENCE” March 1, 2019 Dear Friends and Colleagues: This piece is not about climate change denial. No sane person would deny that our lovely earth’s climate has swung back and forth wildly over the eons and will continue to do so. In our northern states one finds the moraine – the rocks […]
GLOBAL COOLING – AND GLOBAL TOTALITARIAN SOCIALISM – ARE THE CATASTROPHES WE SHOULD FEAR MOST by Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris, ©2019 (Feb. 18, 2019) — What do heat waves, floods, droughts, rising sea levels, forest fires, hurricanes, African wars, mass extinctions, disease outbreaks, and human and animal migrations from South America and the […]
IN COMMITTING NATIONAL ECONOMIC SUICIDE AND SENDING LIVING STANDARDS BACK TO 19TH CENTURY by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Feb. 18, 2019) — Twenty-nine-year-old ex-bartender and freshman U.S. Representative (D-NY) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received thunderous environmentalist and media acclaim when she introduced her Green New Deal resolution in the House and Ed Markey (D-MA) submitted it in the […]
“THE HIGH WATER MARK” by Viv Forbes, ©2019, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club (Feb. 10, 2019) — A NSW judge (an ex-solicitor and activist from the Environmental Defenders Office) has stopped development of the small Rocky Hill coking coal mine because the Commonwealth Government has signed the Paris Climate agreement which requires “rapid and deep […]
GLOBAL COOLING, AND GLOBAL SOCIALISM, THE REAL FEARS by Jay Lehr and Tom Harris, ©2019 (Feb. 7, 2019) — What do heat waves, floods, droughts, rising sea level, forest fires, hurricanes, African wars, mass extinctions, disease outbreaks, and migration from South America and the Middle East have in common? They are all, according to climate […]
AND THE GLOBAL WARMING APOCALYPSE IS NOT NIGH. REAL-WORLD EVIDENCE CERTAINLY SUPPORTS HIM. by Jeffrey Foss, PhD, ©2019 (Feb. 2, 2019) — Everyone has heard the bad news. Imminent Climate Apocalypse (aka “global warming” and “climate change”) threatens humanity and planet with devastation, unless we abandon the use of fossil fuels. Far fewer people have […]
“CLIMATE HAS ALWAYS CHANGED” January 30, 2019 Dear Friends and Colleagues: Everybody east of the Cascades is shivering with near-record cold from the scary “polar vortex.” And meanwhile, ‘great minds’ like California’s Jerry Brown, New York’s Governor Cuomo, and that of my very own, new Governor Northam here in Virginia, joined by members of Congress […]
CLIMATE ALARMISTS MUST PROVE EXPENSIVE, WEATHER-DEPENDENT ENERGY IS GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Jan. 26, 2019) — The IPCC says it’s still possible to limit planetary warming to an additional 0.5 degrees C (0.9 F) “above pre-industrial levels” – but only if global CO2 emissions are halved by 2030 and zeroed out by 2050. […]
INCREASINGLY ABSURD DISASTER RHETORIC IS CONSISTENTLY CONTRADICTED BY CLIMATE AND WEATHER REALITY by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Jan. 20, 2019) — Call it climate one-upmanship. It seems everyone has to outdo previous climate chaos rhetoric. The “climate crisis” is the “existential threat of our time,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi told her House colleagues. We must “end the […]
CLIMATE SCARE BASED ON MODELS THAT DO NOT WORK by Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris, ©2019 (Jan. 8, 2019) — For the past three decades, human-caused global warming alarmists have tried to frighten the public with stories of doom and gloom. They tell us that the end of the world as we know it […]
CLIMATE CRISIS INC. GETS BILLIONS TO PROMOTE IMAGINARY MANMADE CATACLYSM – BUT ATTACKS REALISTS by Paul Driessen, ©2018 (Dec. 29, 2018) — The climate crisis industry incessantly claims that fossil fuel emissions are causing unprecedented temperature, climate and weather changes that pose existential threats to human civilization and our planet. The only solution, Climate Crisis, […]
VIRGINIA WIND PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS THE NEED IN CLIMATE, SUSTAINABILITY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY ARENAS by Paul Driessen and Roger Bezdek, ©2018 (Dec. 23, 2018) — In this season of New Year resolutions, we should insist that governors, legislators, regulators, activists and their corporate allies resolve to be more honest, especially on climate and renewable energy issues. […]