Craig Rucker, Author at CFACT

About Craig Rucker

Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think tank community in Washington, D.C., Rucker is a frequent guest on radio talk shows, written extensively in numerous publications, and has appeared in such media outlets as Fox News, OANN, Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hill, among many others. Rucker is also the co-producer of the award-winning film “Climate Hustle,” which was the #1 box-office film in America during its one night showing in 2016, as well as the acclaimed "Climate Hustle 2" staring Hollywood actor Kevin Sorbo released in 2020. As an accredited observer to the United Nations, Rucker has also led CFACT delegations to some 30 major UN conferences, including those in Copenhagen, Istanbul, Kyoto, Bonn, Marrakesh, Rio de Janeiro, and Warsaw, to name a few.

Can this “miracle tree” uproot slash and burn agriculture?

The Inga tree has properties that both fight soil erosion and help replenish nitrogen in the ground necessary for crop production.

Craig Rucker

|2021-06-30T10:12:24-04:00July 2nd, 2021|Comments Off

CFACT in action in Florida

Florida's citizens care deeply about the quality of their beautiful environment. It's the reason they live there

Craig Rucker

|2021-06-29T11:38:16-04:00July 1st, 2021|Comments Off

Seventeen year cicadas “shocked” by failed climate predictions

A cicada is outraged the climate doom he prepared for 17 years ago failed to occur.

Craig Rucker

|2021-06-11T12:37:32-04:00June 11th, 2021|Comments Off

China’s “Artificial Sun” beats fusion record

China set the fusion reaction record on May 23rd by sustaining a temperature of 120 million degrees C (216 million degrees F) for 101 seconds; far hotter than the temperature of the sun. The experiment took place at "EAST," the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak in Hefei, China. South Korea held the prior record achieving a 100 million degree C fusion reaction for 20 seconds in December. If future fusion reactions can be controlled at a rate at which the energy produced exceeds the amount needed to sustain the reaction, humanity's quest for clean, abundant, affordable energy will be achieved. Fusion power [...]

Craig Rucker

|2021-06-03T16:34:53-04:00June 6th, 2021|Comments Off

Bark Beetles unhindered by infusing tree diversity

Bark beetles ravage forests. Introducing new trees may not be the hoped for solution.

Craig Rucker

|2021-05-28T12:15:31-04:00May 29th, 2021|Comments Off

CFACT talks sense as Greens foment Exxon shareholder fiasco

ExxonMobil took it on the chin as it suffered stinging defeats at the hands of radical climate activists during its annual shareholders meeting yesterday.

Craig Rucker

|2021-05-27T08:05:54-04:00May 27th, 2021|Comments Off

Waking up “Woke” corporations

American corporations. are surrendering en masse to left-wing and Green ideologues. They think they can maximize profit through appeasement. CFACT is pushing back hard against this disturbing trend by engaging corporations directly in the boardroom, at shareholder meetings, and by educating shareholders and customers directly

Craig Rucker

|2021-05-27T16:50:43-04:00May 26th, 2021|Comments Off

Biden raves over expensive, inefficient, electric F-150 pickup

Is the American Everyman prepared to shell out $70,000 for an electric base model and over six figures at the top of the line?

Craig Rucker

|2021-05-25T13:11:38-04:00May 19th, 2021|Comments Off

Endangered Sea Turtles begin rebound in Cayman Islands

A study shows that, despite reaching critically low levels, nesting populations of green and loggerhead turtles have recovered significantly.

Craig Rucker

|2021-05-18T12:47:56-04:00May 13th, 2021|Comments Off

Gas shortage: toilet paper 2.0

Why rob banks? "That's where the money is." Why attack energy? That's what drives the economy. Gas line during Hurricane Sandy I had to visit three gas stations today to find enough fuel to run an errand for my child and then get to a meeting. The East Coast is experiencing the kind of gas shortages today we usually only see during major hurricanes. It also reminds those of us old enough to remember, of the long lines and closed pumps we endured during the Carter-era energy crisis. A Russia-based criminal enterprise named "DarkSide" launched a cyber attack against [...]

Craig Rucker

|2021-05-18T13:33:30-04:00May 12th, 2021|Comments Off

Biden’s offshore wind energy mirage

The reality is a lot of turbines, not much energy.

Craig Rucker

|2021-05-06T11:29:53-04:00May 6th, 2021|Comments Off

Bald Eagle numbers soar to high levels, FWS report finds

Bald eagle's low point came in 1963 when there were only 417 known pairs. Efforts to protect the eagles have seen their numbers claw back to healthy levels. Bald eagles were delisted as an “endangered” species in 2007 under President George W. Bush.

Craig Rucker

|2021-05-03T13:07:34-04:00May 3rd, 2021|Comments Off

Grilling down on the Left’s “beef” with cattle ranchers

If ranchers aren't managing the land, the State is forced to come in and manage it with far less benefit to both the environment and humanity.

Craig Rucker

|2023-03-06T09:28:45-05:00April 30th, 2021|Comments Off

Are the Texas blackouts a preview of Biden’s coming Green New Deal?

Imagine how much worse the Texas power crisis would have been if natural gas had been completely phased out via a Green New Deal.

Adam Houser, Craig Rucker

|2021-04-30T15:00:17-04:00April 29th, 2021|Comments Off

Climate models hotter than reality

Global warming policy is based on climate computer models. These simulations of the temperature of the Earth are wrong and always have been. They start out on the left side of the graph looking pretty good. They have to. Real-world recorded temperature observations had already been made. It's like projecting the results of races that have already been run. As soon as the models start trying to project the future, however, they diverge wildly from reality, pretty much always running way too hot. Projecting races that have not yet run is a trickier business. Dr. Roy Spencer and Dr. John Christy [...]

Craig Rucker

|2021-04-27T12:04:54-04:00April 29th, 2021|Comments Off