Tag: fossil fuels

  • Alarmist “Newspeak” is Poisoning the Climate Debate

    Alarmist “Newspeak” is Poisoning the Climate Debate

    by Tom Harris, ©2026 (Oct. 2, 2026) — Two brilliant linguistic mechanisms of control were introduced in George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four: Both were designed to support only the state’s politically correct messages. While Western societies remain far freer than Orwell’s Oceania, many observers argue that elements of these linguistic mechanisms have emerged here…

  • Governments Ignored Scientists’ Warnings that Climate Scare was Based on Implausible Scenarios

    Governments Ignored Scientists’ Warnings that Climate Scare was Based on Implausible Scenarios

    by Tom Harris, ©2026 (Sep. 21, 2026) — The United Nations has been regularly releasing apocalyptic reports for decades in an attempt to justify extreme cuts to our carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and a major overhaul to our modern way of life. Yet the most cited future forecast, the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5), is…

  • Artificial Intelligence and the Elephant in the Data Room

    Artificial Intelligence and the Elephant in the Data Room

    by John Mikkelsen, ©2026 (Jul. 8, 2026) — Artificial Intelligence is a major issue these days for all sorts of reasons ranging from union concerns over likely job losses to the big question mark hanging over its huge energy appetite, but there’s another fat elephant in the room – can it be trusted as a…

  • Climate Alarmists Howl after EPA Rescinds ‘Endangerment’

    Climate Alarmists Howl after EPA Rescinds ‘Endangerment’

    by Paul Driessen, ©2026 (Feb. 22, 2026) — The US Environmental Protection Agency has finally rescinded the 2009 Endangerment Finding (EF) – the Obama era EPA ruling that claimed carbon dioxide and other “greenhouse gas” (GHG) emissions “endanger” human health and welfare. Within minutes, climate alarmists challenged it in court. The action follows an extensive…

  • Poor Nations Won’t Follow Europe, UN in Economic Suicide

    Poor Nations Won’t Follow Europe, UN in Economic Suicide

    by Paul Driessen, ©2026 (Feb. 1, 2026) — Calling them wasteful and a threat to America’s sovereignty, freedoms and prosperity, President Trump pulled the United States out of 66 international organizations – most importantly the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the foundation for “climate crisis” treaties and policies. He also withdrew the US from…

  • Climate Censorship and Integrity at COP30 and Beyond

    Climate Censorship and Integrity at COP30 and Beyond

    by Paul Driessen, ©2025 (Dec. 1, 2025) — The Roman god Janus had two faces: for comings and goings, beginnings and endings, the interim between war and peace, and transitions both tangible and abstract. Climate Cultists might hail him for presiding over the demise of fossil fuels and advent of wind, solar and battery power;…

  • The World Needs People Day More than Earth Day

    The World Needs People Day More than Earth Day

    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…

  • Thousands of Scientists Contest the Climate Scare

    Thousands of Scientists Contest the Climate Scare

    by Tom Harris, ©2025 (Apr. 9, 2025) — [See Part 1 of this series here.] Climate change science is “settled,” we are told by activists, politicians, media and official science bodies. It is our emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) that is supposedly causing a climate crisis and we must take action to prevent dangerous global…

  • Reexamining the Obama Era Endangerment Finding

    Reexamining the Obama Era Endangerment Finding

    by Paul Driessen, ©2025 (Mar. 30, 2025) — The supposed climate cataclysm consensus is disintegrating under growing pressure from reality. Green energy subsidies, regulations and mandates are crumbling. Greenpeace has been hit with a $667-million judgment for conspiracy, defamation, trespass, and fostering arson and property destruction. Last year’s “Buy a Tesla – save the planet”…

  • Greens Detest ‘Little Guys’ who Get in Their Way

    Greens Detest ‘Little Guys’ who Get in Their Way

    by Paul Driessen, ©2024  (Oct. 31, 2024) — Environmentalists insist they love “little guys.” At least in the abstract, until those folks get in the way, raise inconvenient questions, or try to block “renewable energy” projects intended to “save the planet” from “manmade climate cataclysms.” Then the little folks learn the environmentalists are really working…

  • Energy Should Play Key Role in 2024 Pennsylvania (and US) Elections

    Energy Should Play Key Role in 2024 Pennsylvania (and US) Elections

    by Don Ritter, ©2024 (Aug. 13, 2024) — Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman thinks energy won’t be at the forefront of his constituents’ voting decisions this year. But he’s not accounting for the difference between 2020 and 2024, or the clear connection between energy costs, jobs and inflation. Inflation, illegal immigration and crime are key voter…

  • Who is Directing the War on Agriculture and Nutrition?

    Who is Directing the War on Agriculture and Nutrition?

    by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2024 (Aug. 11, 2024) — Elite billionaire organizations and foundations, government agencies and activist pressure groups are funding and coordinating a global war on modern agriculture, nutrition, and Earth’s poorest, hungriest people. Instead of helping more families get nutritious food, better healthcare and higher living standards, they’re doing the opposite, and…

  • The Dangerous Delusion of Biden and World Leaders of Transition to ‘Just Electricity’

    The Dangerous Delusion of Biden and World Leaders of Transition to ‘Just Electricity’

    by Ronald Stein and Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2024 (Jul. 18, 2024) — Since all hospitals, airports, communication systems, militaries, planes, trains, and vehicles are based on the products that did not exist before the 1800’s, that are now made from fossil fuels, today’s policymakers are incapable of sharing a plan to support a…

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

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

    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?…

  • Radical Leftists Say Oil Companies are Committing Climate Murder!

    Radical Leftists Say Oil Companies are Committing Climate Murder!

    by Paul Driessen, ©2024 (May 4, 2024) — We’re constantly told fossil fuel use is causing an existential climate crisis, extreme weather, worsening wildfires, and more frequent and intense hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and droughts. Actual temperature, storm and other records provide no support for these claims. They certainly don’t back up ludicrous assertions that burning…

  • Innovating for a Water-Starved Planet

    Innovating for a Water-Starved Planet

    by Paul Driessen, ©2024 (Apr. 13, 2024) — More than 3,400 years ago, God told Joshua to lead the Hebrew people across the Jordan River into the Promised Land that is now Israel. If they worked hard and followed his commandments, it would become “a land flowing with milk and honey.” At least the central,…

  • Climate and Energy Fantasy and Tyranny

    Climate and Energy Fantasy and Tyranny

    by Paul Driessen, ©2024 (Jan. 26, 2024) — It’s mystifying and terrifying that our lives, livelihoods and living standards are increasingly dictated by activist, political, bureaucratic, academic and media ruling elites, who disseminate theoretical nonsense, calculated myths and outright disinformation. Not only on pronouns, gender and immigration – but on climate change … and energy,…

  • In the Next UN Climate Summit OPEC+ Delegates Must Not Back Down

    In the Next UN Climate Summit OPEC+ Delegates Must Not Back Down

    by Tom Harris, ©2024 (Jan. 5, 2024) — In last month’s United Nations Climate Change Conference, it appeared at first that OPEC+ nations had injected a note of much-needed realism into the event (OPEC+ is a group of 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and 11 other non-OPEC members (the top…

  • Memo to Climate Skeptics: You’re Losing, Change Strategies

    Memo to Climate Skeptics: You’re Losing, Change Strategies

    by William L. Kovacs, ©2023  (Dec. 6, 2023) — As 90,000 corporate and environmental elites land their private planes in Dubai to be exquisitely wined and dined at the UN Climate Conference (“COP 28”) from November 30 to December 12, 2023, they will be demanding more reductions in fossil fuels and trillions more dollars for…

  • The Cult of Climate Change Convenes Church in Dubai

    The Cult of Climate Change Convenes Church in Dubai

    by Jeff Crouere, Ringside Politics, ©2023  (Dec. 3, 2023) — Until December 12, leftists from around the world will be meeting in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for COP28, the 28th annual meeting of the “Conference of Parties” of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In the beginning, the conference attracted only 5,000 attendees;…