“COLLECTIVE NUTTINESS” by David Wojick, ©2019, CFACT (May 14, 2019) — Rising star presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke has put out his own version of the Green New Deal. It is milder than AOC’s monstrosity but it is still a multi-trillion dollar monstrosity. Unlike the GND, and perhaps wisely, Beto’s fantastical blueprint has no name. In […]
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 […]
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2019 (Feb. 10, 2019) — “Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena, or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.” — Stephen Hawking NOTE: This article is about the hijacking of science […]
NO MATTER WHAT THE FORMER VP SAYS, TRUTH DOES NOT APPLY TO SCIENCE by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2017 (Aug. 9, 2017) — Overlooked in the controversies about former Vice-President Al Gore’s global warming films, An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017), is that truth is not possible in […]
CREATING BALANCE AND STABILITY IN A CHAOTIC POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT by James E. Smith and Alex Hatch, ©2017 (Jun. 7, 2017) — Many successful domestic and global companies and enterprises were started and driven by the visionary, problem-solving and leadership capabilities of technically trained founders and/or principals. Historically, those skills and entrepreneurial instincts came from […]
THE PARIS TREATY IS NOW A TOOTHLESS TIGER by Viv Forbes, Secretary, The Clexit Coalition, ©2016 (Nov. 18, 2016) — The Clexit Coalition has pledged to assist any government or politician seeking to exit the Paris Agreement and to curb the wasteful and destructive UN/IPCC. The Secretary of Clexit (Climate Exit Coalition), Mr Viv Forbes […]
SCIENCE IS A PROCESS, NOT A DESTINATION, AND MUST NOT BE IMMUNE TO FALSIFICATION BY EXPERIMENT by Bill Frezza, ©2016 (Sep. 15, 2016) — “And yet, it moves.” Thus muttered Galileo Galilei under his breath, after being forced by the Inquisition to recant his claim that the Earth moved around the Sun, rather than the […]
NEW YORK TIMES IS LOOKING FOR A CLIMATE CHANGE EDITOR. THAT’S ME! by William M. Briggs, ©2016 (Sep. 13, 2016) — Dean Baquet and Sam Dolnick New York Times New York, NY Re: Climate Change Editor Dear Misters Baquet and Dolnick: Please accept my application for the position of Climate Change Editor, the details of which I […]
HOW CORRUPT AND FRAUDULENT IS THE GOVERNMENT “SCIENCE” THAT DENIES NATURAL CLIMATE CHANGE? by Paul Driessen and Ron Arnold, ©2016 (Apr. 16, 2016) — A self-appointed coalition of Democrat state attorneys general is pursuing civil or criminal racketeering actions against ExxonMobil, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and other organizations. The AGs claim the groups are committing fraud, […]
THE VAUNTED “97% CONSENSUS” ON DANGEROUS MANMADE GLOBAL WARMING IS JUST MORE MALARKEY by David R. Legates, ©2016 (Apr. 10, 2016) — By now, virtually everyone has heard that “97% of scientists agree: Climate change is real, manmade and dangerous.” Even if you weren’t one of his 31 million followers who received this tweet from President […]
SCIENTIFIC DETECTIVE WORK STOPPED CHOLERA – NOW IT NEEDS TO SEPARATE MYTHS, MITES AND NEONICS by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Mar. 27, 2016) — If modern activist groups held sway in the mid-nineteenth century, countless multitudes would have died from typhoid fever and cholera. The “miasma” paradigm held that the diseases were caused by foul air arising […]
THE DIMENSION OF “ETERNITY” by RoseAnn Salanitri, ©2016, TPATH Contributor (Jan. 4, 2016) — As people of faith reflect on the miracle of the Christ child and His resurrection, churches can expect unusually high attendance on Christmas and Easter. However, there are an increasing number of those that believe science has disproved the existence of […]
PRESENTING “THEORY” AS FACT by RoseAnn Salanitri, ©2015, TPATH Contributor (May 18, 2015) — INTRODUCTION Before beginning the next part of this series, I would like to ask two critical questions: 1. How did a country founded on Christian principles become so apostate? The comprehensive answer to this question has many contributing factors. However, there […]
“A TRAVESTY OF PROPER SCIENTIFIC PROCESS” by Bob Carter, Willie Soon, and Tom Harris, ©2015 (Feb. 13, 2015) — Why is it that when politicians make basic science mistakes in support of the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming, no government agency or university representative corrects them? It is not as if such errors are […]
WAS THE LONDON TIMES SNOOKERED BY GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS – OR WILLINGLY COMPLICIT? by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (Nov. 18, 2013) — A recent Times of London article claimed new “research” demonstrates that a “chemical onslaught is destroying Britain’s amphibians.” A “toxic cocktail,” it stated, is killing UK frogs, toads and newts. Manmade chemicals “can affect animals’ immune […]
PUBLICLY-FUNDED SCIENTISTS WHO KEEP THEIR WORK SECRET SHOULD BE CENSURED AND CUT OFF FROM FUTURE FUNDING by Ron Arnold, ©2013 (Sep. 4, 2013) — Who owns taxpayer-funded science? From the way many scientists behave, it’s not the taxpayers. Many scientific studies funded by federal agencies – through grants, contracts or cooperative agreements – hide the guts […]
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 […]
BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS ARE DISRUPTING OUR POLITICS, SCIENCE, ENERGY POLICIES AND ECONOMY by Paul Driessen, ©2012 (Sep. 16, 2012) — Pick up any 40-year-old science textbook – on chemistry, biology, geology, physics, astronomy or medicine – and you’ll find a slew of “facts” and theories that have been proven wrong or are no longer the […]
THIS “MANN-MADE” GLOBAL WARMING LAWSUIT COULD BACKFIRE ON THE PENN STATE ALARMIST by Paul Driessen, ©2011 (Oct. 31, 2011) — Lewis Carroll died too soon. Just imagine the fun he’d have with the cliquish clan of climate catastrophe researchers who seek to control science, debate and public policy on global warming and energy – and then […]