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DDT still needed to control deadly malaria

Not long ago, a United Nations agency conducted research in Latin America and claimed to have found effective ways to control malaria without the use of DDT. But according to expert analysis by two leading malaria researchers, there were no statistically significant reductions in malaria in demonstration areas that spanned Mexico and seven Central American nations.

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|2012-09-18T20:59:48-04:00August 29th, 2012|Comments Off on DDT still needed to control deadly malaria

UN Law of the Sea Treaty endangers American sovereignty

The Obama Administration is pushing for accession to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, but Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation says this would be a mistake . . .

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|2012-09-18T22:52:35-04:00August 28th, 2012|Comments Off on UN Law of the Sea Treaty endangers American sovereignty

2012 a scorcher, but no record setter

2012 has certainly been a brutally hot summer for much of the U.S. But was it a record setter, and was it related to global warming? No on both counts, according to the World Climate Report.

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|2012-09-18T22:54:16-04:00August 27th, 2012|Comments Off on 2012 a scorcher, but no record setter

California cap-and-trade is a ‘moving’ proposition!

By Appeal-Democrat Editorial Marysville, California.  It's probably no coincidence that Gov. Jerry Brown recently launched a website to scare Californians into embracing his global-warming hype....  The state is about to launch a cap-and-trade scheme ... ostensibly to fight global warming.... If Brown were more honest, he would acknowledge that his intention isn't to curb global warming, which we and many scientists maintain is a highly disputable threat. If he were straightforward, Brown would explain to Californians that his cap-and-trade penalties on large industrial emitters of greenhouse gases are nothing but a disguised tax to raise billions to finance already overblown government operations. [...]

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|2012-09-18T23:00:41-04:00August 24th, 2012|2 Comments

Are Delawareans blooming idiots?

In November 2011, BloomEnergy applied for permits to build an energy center in a Delaware protected coastal zone area. The center would employ solid oxide fuel cells powered by natural gas and housed in casings that look like huge boxes – Bloom Boxes or “energy servers.”

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|2012-10-25T11:35:25-04:00August 15th, 2012|Comments Off on Are Delawareans blooming idiots?

Unintended consequences of Obama’s 54.5 mpg mandate

By Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr.Legislators and regulators need to observe a fundamental Golden Rule: Do not implement new laws if you have not considered or cannot control important unintended consequences. A perfect example is the Obama Administration’s plan to increase new car mileage standards, from the currently legislated requirement of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016 to 54.5 mpg by 2025, as an average across each automaker’s complete line of cars and light trucks. Carmakers reluctantly agreed to the new requirements, to avoid even more onerous standards, or different standards in different states. But the deal does nothing to alter [...]

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|2012-09-16T22:32:12-04:00August 8th, 2012|Comments Off on Unintended consequences of Obama’s 54.5 mpg mandate

Are city planners out-SMART-ing themselves?

By Charles Battig, M.D.The editors of the American Planning Association published a paper refuting many of the unfounded claims for “smart growth.” The APA has its own trademarked version: “Growing Smart.” It is to the credit of the APA that it published a paper that refutes a number of the un-proved tenets of this building block of governmental planning at all levels. In the official abstract of this paper, “Growing Cities Sustainably,” in the May edition of the Journal of the American Planning Association, the authors note: “It is commonly asserted that so-called compact development is the urban form most able [...]

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|2012-09-16T22:32:13-04:00July 31st, 2012|Comments Off on Are city planners out-SMART-ing themselves?

The $3.4 billion boondoggle: Green jobs, red ink

By Deroy MurdockDeroy Murdock is a friend of CFACT. This column was originally published by National Review Online in July 2012. “We’ll invest $15 billion a year over the next decade in renewable energy, creating five million new green jobs that pay well, can’t be outsourced, and help end our dependence on foreign oil,” candidate Barack Obama pledged in a November 1, 2008 radio address. Three years and eight months later, as unemployment has exceeded 8 percent for 41 straight months, Obama seems incapable of keeping this promise. With the worst employment figures since at least 1948, when the Bureau of [...]

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|2012-09-16T22:32:14-04:00July 25th, 2012|Comments Off on The $3.4 billion boondoggle: Green jobs, red ink

From Australia: Is the carbon tax the death of democracy?

By Kate Johnston [NOTE:  This article includes an interview with eminent scientist Dr. Vincent Gray, a member of the CFACT Board of Academic and Scientific Advisors.] On July 1st 2012, Australia joined nations around the world in their move towards a carbon economy through the implementation of a Carbon Tax, which will become an Emissions Trading Scheme in 2015. Yet the underpinning justification for this move, the science behind man-made global warming, is not even close to being settled. In fact, an increasingly large body of scientists and researchers are telling us the exact opposite of what the United Nations and [...]

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|2013-10-17T09:34:27-04:00July 24th, 2012|Comments Off on From Australia: Is the carbon tax the death of democracy?

98% climate consensus? Baloney!

By Larry BellExcerpted from Forbes, July 17, 2012; for the full article, go to http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/07/17/that-scientific-global-warming-consensus-not/ On June 19, apparently timed to warm up spirits at the Rio+20 meetings at the U.N. Conference on Sustainability that began the following day, Senator John Kerry gave a sizzling 55-minute indictment on the Senate floor of those who challenge global warming crisis claims. Kerry referred to a “calculated campaign of disinformation”, which he said “…has steadily beaten back the consensus momentum for action on climate change and replaced it with timidity proponents in the face of millions of dollars of phony, contrived ‘talking points’, illogical and wholly [...]

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|2012-09-16T22:32:15-04:00July 18th, 2012|Comments Off on 98% climate consensus? Baloney!

Act now to save the bald eagle!

Submit your comment to the federal register to save our national bird Bald eagles are our national bird. Golden eagles are just as majestic. They have just returned from the verge of extinction, after years of being shot and poisoned. Obama's Department of the Interior and the Fish & Wildlife Service are on the verge of granting industrial wind turbine companies a “programmatic” or blanket license to kill potentially hundreds of eagles every year, for years on end. This is unconscionable. You can help save the eagles by following the instructions below. The Fish & Wildlife Service has proposed a "rule" [...]

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|2012-09-17T17:35:22-04:00July 9th, 2012|3 Comments

Morano on Fox discusses new UN tax

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|2012-09-18T22:23:16-04:00July 8th, 2012|Comments Off on Morano on Fox discusses new UN tax

From charming to alarming: Rio+20 sustainability propaganda

A small sample of the propaganda imagery of the Rio+20 summit

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|2012-11-13T14:53:50-05:00June 28th, 2012|Comments Off on From charming to alarming: Rio+20 sustainability propaganda

Press Conference Thursday 10:30 AM

Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow ADVISORY  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  Thursday June 21, 2012 CONTACT:   Russell Cook,  602-753-9141,  [email protected]    Rio+20: 'Sustainable development' = the new 'climate change' CFACT exposes the UN's latest ruse de guerre Shows a constructive path to rescue Rio+20 CFACT Press Conference -- Thursday, June 21, 10:30 AM, Pavilion 3, Room 8 (P3-8) (Rio de Janeiro) Having failed to secure a binding climate treaty and with the public increasingly skeptical about climate pronouncements of doom, the UN and its allied Green pressure groups hope to rebrand their multi-billion dollar eco-enterprise in Rio. “Follow the money,” said CFACT [...]

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|2012-09-19T20:56:07-04:00June 21st, 2012|Comments Off on Press Conference Thursday 10:30 AM

Inhofe at CFACT press conference: Why isn’t Obama in Rio?

Planet Gore By Harry Graver June 20, 2012 6:30 P.M. Today marked the opening day of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, and in a press release and video, Senator James Inhofe (R., Okla.) blasted the conference’s “radical global-warming agenda,” as well as President Obama’s political maneuvering around the topic. “The bottom line is simple: President Obama is running for reelection and is too busy trying to tell American voters that he is the new fossil-fuels President and that he actually supports the development of oil, gas, and coal,” Inhofe said in the video. “I don’t think that message would sell [...]

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|2012-09-19T19:13:12-04:00June 20th, 2012|Comments Off on Inhofe at CFACT press conference: Why isn’t Obama in Rio?
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