By Jazz Shaw, Hot Air – Yesterday, Karen discussed Joe Biden’s odd interview with The Weather Channel where he appeared to claim that he had declared a “climate emergency” to combat climate change. (That was the same interview where he came very close to copping a feel on reporter Stephanie Abrams’ chest.) She correctly noted […]
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Documentary To the End Bombs – AOC’s Green New Deal Flick a Box Office Flop
| AOC’s To the End Bombs at the Box Office | “To the End” is a documentary film that was four years in the making. It follows four women (Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, activist Varshini Prakash, climate policy writer Rhiana Gunn-Wright, and political strategist Alexandra Rojas) as they grapple with new challenges of leadership and power […]
Electric Cars: Inconvenient Facts
Electric car sales are increasing. We’re told they’ll help us use less oil and save the world from climate change. But, most of what politicians, activists and electric car makers are telling the public may just be wrong. At least, that’s the point these John Stossel videos would like to get across. Are electric cars […]
How to Make the World a Better Place
Climate-alarmist politicians and the “intellectual elite” prioritize a vague plan for saving earth over the lives of struggling people all over the world. Governments are being forced to press their citizens, straining already fragile economic and agricultural systems, in order to appease a green utopian vision. Bjørn Lomborg and Ralph Schoellhammer sit down with Jordan B […]
EPA Biofuel Policy In Shambles, So It Mandates More Ethanol
Despite complaints from the oil industry, livestock producers, environmental groups and a whole host of others, the Environmental Protection Agency has increased the amount of biofuels refiners are required to blend into the fuel supply every year. The agency two years late, and mandating that 17.40 billion gallons of biofuels — cellulosic, biomass-based and advanced […]
Embarrassing Predictions Haunt the Global-Warming Industry
By: Alex Newman. It is often said that non-scientists must rely on “expert opinion” to determine whether claims on alleged “catastrophic man-made global warming” are true. Putting aside the fact that there is no global-warming “consensus” among experts, one does not have to be a scientist, or even proficient in science, to be able to review […]
'Where's the global warming?' Expert says public are growing sceptical of climate change
By: Levi Winchester. THE PUBLIC are becoming ever more sceptical of climate change as they begin to ask ‘where is the global warming we were promised?’, a leading scientist has claimed. This week saw the 18th anniversary since the Earth’s temperature last rose – something that Dr Benny Peiser, from the Global Warming Policy Forum, […]
NOAA’s temperature control knob for the past, the present, and maybe the future – July 1936 now hottest month again
By: Anthony Watts. Two years ago during the scorching summer of 2012, July 1936 lost its place on the leaderboard and July 2012 became the hottest month on record in the United States. Now, as if by magic, and according to NOAA’s own data, July 1936 is now the hottest month on record again. The past, […]
Obama administration hides use of bad science
The only thing that is clear is its motive for opacity. By: Marita Noon Six years later, we know that President Obama’s pledge to run the most transparent administration in history was merely a campaign promise, a White House talking point, and not a statement of management style. We’ve seen a series of highly publicscandals—Fast and Furious, Benghazi, […]
Global Warming’s Upside-Down Narrative
By Bjorn Lomborg – When politicians around the world tell the story of global warming, they cast it as humanity’s greatest challenge. But they also promise that it is a challenge that they can meet at low cost, while improving the world in countless other ways. We now know that is nonsense. Political heavyweights from […]
U.S. justices to hear challenge to Obama on climate change
By Valerie Volcovici and Lawrence Hurley The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt a blow to the Obama administration when it agreed to hear a challenge to part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s first wave of regulations aimed at tackling climate change, thus setting up one of its biggest environmental cases in years. But […]
World's top climate scientists told to 'cover up' the fact that the Earth's temperature hasn't risen for the last 15 years
By: Tamara Cohen Scientists working on the most authoritative study on climate change were urged to cover up the fact that the world’s temperature hasn’t risen for the last 15 years, it is claimed. A leaked copy of a United Nations report, compiled by hundreds of scientists, shows politicians in Belgium, Germany, Hungary and the […]
Why Republicans (And Others) Place A Low Priority On Global Warming
By: James Taylor. Global warming typically ranks dead last when the Pew Research Center asks voters to list the “top priorities for the president and Congress” each year. Yet the New York Times and other major media strain to keep the global warming movement alive by carefully ignoring global warming “skeptics,” and giving undeserved coverage […]
How Much Warming Will the President’s Plan Avert? (Hint: It’s way too small to be detected or verified)
By Marlo Lewis President Obama unveiled his Climate Change Action Plan at Georgetown University today. As expected, the President advocated carbon dioxide (CO2) emission standards for new and existing coal-fired power plants, tough new energy efficiency standards for homes and appliances, and federal support for private renewable energy investment on public lands. Congress’s failure to approve his plan would have […]
Here comes the sunny skies: President Obama Pivots to Climate Change
By Jennifer Harper There’s been so much stormy weather around the White House in recent weeks that it’s no wonder that President Obama has heeded the radar and returned to the familiar, vapid region of climate change. On Tuesday, Mr. Obama heads to Georgetown University in the nation’s capital to remind his green-minded pals, global […]