August 2015 – CFACT

The climate alarm industry is scientifically bankrupt

Increasingly, pub lic policy is becoming the captive of a new scientific-technological elite that produces fatally flawed research that seeks not the truth but rather to sculpt data that fit their theory of the world. Indeed, many scientific journals have been publishing bogus studies which reference nonexistent data. A primary reason is that most climate research funding comes from public alarm-dependent agenda-driven government sponsors and their Green activist acolytes.

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Larry Bell

|2016-03-24T13:30:39-04:00August 31st, 2015|2 Comments

Governors, billionaires secretly promote Obama’s crippling energy agenda

Most of us feel that time goes by faster as we get older. It does. When you are 5 years old, one year represents 20% of your life. Yet, when you are 50, that same calendar year is only 2% of your life—making that single timeframe much smaller. Those of us involved in fighting the bad energy policies coming out of Washington have a similar feeling: The second term of the Obama Administration seems to be throwing much more at us and at such speed that we can barely keep up. Likewise, they are. We knew that President Obama was planning [...]

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Marita Noon

|2015-08-31T13:46:17-04:00August 31st, 2015|1 Comment

WOTUS: Court blocks EPA water rule

At the eleventh hour a federal court ordered an injunction blocking EPA's water rule. EPA was defiant. EPA bureaucrats declared that they will only halt the rule in the 13 states that requested the injunction.

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Craig Rucker

|2015-08-28T00:34:36-04:00August 28th, 2015|3 Comments

Oil’s down, gasoline isn’t. What’s up?

CFACT contributor Marita Noon points out that the recent drop in crude oil prices has not been felt at the gasoline pump, largely thanks to unplanned shutdowns at numerous aging refineries that -- thanks to counterproductive government regulations -- cannot be replaced or even significantly upgraded at any reasonable cost. Indeed, the last time anyone built a new oil refinery in the U.S. was 1977.

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Marita Noon

|2015-08-25T11:26:39-04:00August 25th, 2015|2 Comments

Catastrophic wildfires in the West

Bureaucrats placed in charge of "public" lands -- largely in the Western U.S. -- are rewarded for poor management and punished for good management that might lower the cost to the public. They get further incentives toward mismanagement as a result of federal laws and regulations and the

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2015-08-25T11:28:51-04:00August 24th, 2015|20 Comments

Climate Crisis, Inc. has become a $1.5 trillion industry

The annual revenue of the Climate Crisis & Renewable Energy Industry has become a $1.5-trillion-a-year business! That’s equal to the annual economic activity generated by the entire US nonprofit sector, or all savings over the past ten years from consumers switching to generic drugs. By comparison, nues for much-vilified Koch Industries are about $115 billion, for ExxonMobil around $365 billion.

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Paul Driessen

|2015-08-24T10:30:17-04:00August 22nd, 2015|102 Comments

Watch students wake up about warming

Watch the double take students do when confronted with the straight facts that there has been no dramatic global warming as they've been led to believe.

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Craig Rucker

|2015-08-20T11:00:02-04:00August 20th, 2015|140 Comments

WOTUS: Whom do you trust with your water after EPA’s toxic spill?

EPA was created in 1970 largely in response to the Cuyahoga River in Ohio catching on fire. Forty-five years later, things have come full circle. Now, it is EPA that is polluting a vast river system in the Southwest. Should EPA be allowed to take over the rest of the "waters of the United States?"

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2015-08-21T08:28:03-04:00August 20th, 2015|1 Comment

Property owners stand up to National Park Service bullying

Tom and Kathy Stocklen fought the National Park Service for over 40 years and retired with their property intact, despite repeated efforts, even threats, by NPS bureaucrats to take their land in Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes Natioanl Lakeshore. Curiously, the NPS has recently ended four decades of dredging the Platte River, where the Stocklens placed their canoes, for safe navigation. Clearly, Washington thinks that landowners are public nuisances.

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Ron Arnold

|2015-08-20T08:07:17-04:00August 19th, 2015|Comments Off

America’s big ‘green’ wrecking machines

CFACT contributor Mary Kay Barton shows how wind farms re in reality tax farms that squeeze local residents out of tax dollars as they dramatically reduce the value of the farms in communities that were doing quite well before some of their elected officials sold out to gain fame and fortune from wind developers. Worse, wind projects are designed to lose money over their lifetimes, even without factoring in that actual lifetimes are about half of promised lifetimes.

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Mary Kay Barton

|2021-02-15T21:28:30-05:00August 19th, 2015|23 Comments

Climate statism: Science, poverty, free speech at Issue

“Over the past three decades, fossil fuels helped 1.3 billion people get electricity and escape debilitating energy poverty – over 830 million because of coal. However, 1.3 billion people (the population of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe combined) still do not have electricity…. That is why climate change is a “critical moreal issue." Scientists who question the supposed “consensus” on climate change are routinely labeled “skeptics” or even “deniers,” in a not-so-subtle reference to Holocaust denial. It is an absurd charge. All of us agree that climate change has been “real” since Earth and human history began. It is ongoing, [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2015-08-24T10:42:27-04:00August 19th, 2015|5 Comments

Singin’ the blues for Gina “Old Yellowstain” McCarthy

There's a fun little interlude in "The Caine Mutiny" during which a young ship's ensign sings "The Yellowstain Blues" to honor Captain Queeg's incompetence. Here it is for 2015's "Old Yellowstain," Gina McCarthy, whose EPA released the contaminants that turned the Animas River yellow.

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CFACT Ed

|2015-08-19T09:34:06-04:00August 19th, 2015|Comments Off

The agency that contaminated the Animas River is about to start regulating water that may be in your backyard

Unless a federal judge issues a preliminary injunction, the definition of the “Waters of the U.S.” will change on August 28—giving the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the authority to regulate the water in your backyard (even the water that might be in your backyard due to a heavy rain). Even, according to West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey: “any area where agencies believe water may flow once every 100 years.” Thirty-one states, in four districts, have filed motions with the federal courts to block the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) from beginning to enforce the new “Waters [...]

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Marita Noon

|2015-08-17T14:58:13-04:00August 17th, 2015|9 Comments

The EPA’s green attack on red states

The final Clean Power Plan rule actually allows California to INCREASE its carbon dioxide emissions, while forcing Kentucky and other states to cut theirs by over 40%. Some have called the Obama plan an attack on coal -- others wisely see it as a power play to crush anyone who dares oppose the elitist central government. The answers may lie within the federal court system -- or direct confrontations with Washington.

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Larry Bell

|2015-08-17T13:18:20-04:00August 17th, 2015|1 Comment

EPA’s gross negligence at Gold King

On August 5, an Environmental Restoration company crew, supervised by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials, used a backhoe to dig away tons of rock and debris that were blocking the entrance portal of Colorado’s Gold King Mine, which had been largely abandoned since 1923. Water had been seeping into the mine and out of its portal for decades, and the officials knew (or should have known) the water was acidic (pH 4.0-4.5), backed up far into the mine, and laced with heavy metals. But they kept digging – until the greatly weakened dam burst open, unleashing a 3-million-gallon (or more) toxic [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2015-08-19T15:23:12-04:00August 15th, 2015|6 Comments