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The hidden agendas of sustainability illusions

Like “dangerous manmade climate change,” sustainability reflects poor understanding of basic energy, economic, resource extraction, and manufacturing principles – and a tendency to emphasize tautologies and theoretical models as an alternative to readily observable evidence in the Real World. It also involves well-intended but ill-informed people being led by ill-intended but well-informed activists who use the concept to gain greater government control over people’s lives, livelihoods, and living standards.

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Paul Driessen

|2017-02-10T05:56:21-05:00February 9th, 2017|47 Comments

Climate doomsayers can’t get it right

CFACT policy analyst Larry Bell recounts the sad history of the "global cooling" scare of the 1970s as well as earlier climate fears that likewise proved needless -- and demonstrates how today's prophets of climate doom will fare no better than their predecessors.

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Larry Bell

|2017-02-09T14:55:40-05:00February 9th, 2017|6 Comments

Fake climate news brings costly, unneeded regulations

CFACT policy advisor Larry Bell recounts the origins and history of the so-called "97% consensus" of climate scientists that human activity is the chief cause of climate change. Bell points out that neither historian Naomi Oreskes nor Australian blogger John Cook - nor Illinois graduate student Maggie Kendall ZImmerman - is a climate scientist and that their so-called data are bogus.

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Larry Bell

|2017-01-23T13:34:12-05:00January 23rd, 2017|70 Comments

Conservation – not more control

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen reports on the final assault by the Obama Administration against Western States -- and a new war being declared against much of the rest of the country -- all to "save" three species of bumblebee but really intended to place much of the rest of private and state land in the U.S. under very restrictive federal government control. The best way to stop this assault on human freedom is to repeal, or drastically modify, the Endangered Species Act.

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Paul Driessen

|2017-01-23T13:16:19-05:00January 23rd, 2017|1 Comment

Trumping the media

Scot Faulkner recounts the history of the rise of alternative media and how President Trump is fully utilizing new media outlets like Twitter to bypass the entrenched bastions of political correctness.

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CFACT

|2017-01-20T15:40:13-05:00January 20th, 2017|1 Comment

Regional power grids face three dangerous threats

The U.S. power grid is very susceptible to cyber attacks and physical attacks (as happened in Metcalf, California) but mostly to the ongoing fanatical green assault that has led to wind and solar -- both intermittent and widely fluctuating -- interrupting the normal flow of energy through the grid and causing awkward moments for backup natural gas and other generators.

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Larry Bell

|2017-01-17T21:48:08-05:00January 17th, 2017|Comments Off

Reality-based climate forecasting

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen demonstrates how the inappropriate, politicized fixation on so-called "climate science" is not even science since it is an opinion demanding a positive conclusion and how this is both teaching bad research habits but also starving much-needed research that can yield valuable results.

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Paul Driessen

|2017-01-08T11:14:42-05:00January 8th, 2017|23 Comments

For new year be grateful for a great climate

CFACT advisor Larry Bell celebrates the fact that the Earth's climate is very human friendly -- and polar bear friendly, too. The alarmism that has darkened our hearts for the past decades is no longer encouraged from the White House (as of January 20). Enjoy!

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Larry Bell

|2017-01-03T14:17:02-05:00January 3rd, 2017|21 Comments

U.S. must invest in anti-terror power grid infrastructure

CFACT advisor Larry Bell cites problems with the security of the U.S. power grid -- including the lackadaisical attitude held by many power brokers toward the need for increased security.

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Larry Bell

|2016-12-27T14:12:24-05:00December 27th, 2016|10 Comments

It’s climate regulations that threaten us

CFACT Advisor H. Sterling Burnett says that President Trump would do well to ensure that the EPA's ruling that carbon dioxide is a "pollutant" be reversed following a true scientific review. He should also withdraw the U.S. from international climate agreements that drive and justify many domestic climate actions – and stop diverting billions of dollars of taxpayer money from important domestic and defense concerns to UN climate programs.

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Duggan Flanakin

|2016-12-20T19:53:45-05:00December 20th, 2016|19 Comments

New EPA head a welcome political climate change

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, President-Elect Trump's pick to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is being painted by fearful leftists as a monster, a creature who will destroy the planet. The fact is he is much more interested in reversing the unconstitutional power grabs that the EPA has accomplished that are hurting the American people financially, reducing human freedom, and doing little to really protect the environment.

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Larry Bell

|2016-12-19T12:27:59-05:00December 19th, 2016|1 Comment

Environmentalist insurance policies

Many liberals went into denial, outrage, and riot mode after November 8. Now they’re having meltdown over President-Elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees with climate and environmental responsibilities. Former Texas Governor Rick Perry at Energy, Oklahoma AG Scott Pruitt for EPA, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson at State, Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke at Interior. As Department of Agriculture secretary, and multiple assistant, deputy assistant, and other senior level positions are filled, the meltdown will likely raise sea levels by several feet. It’s even worse than “white supremacists” and “Russian hackers” rigging and stealing the election. Having [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2016-12-19T03:27:55-05:00December 19th, 2016|Comments Off

Swamp draining will expose corrupt climate crocodiles

One of the biggest areas of change in government behavior under the Trump Administration may well be the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- where Scott Pruitt intends to return the agency to reliance on sound science that balances costs and benefits.

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Larry Bell

|2016-12-12T13:23:33-05:00December 12th, 2016|53 Comments

Sea level rise – or land subsidence?

New research by Dr. Roger Bezdek shows that excessive groundwater pumping, not manmade "global warming," is the primary cause of subsidence in coastal areas studied -- subsidence that gives the false appearance of sea level rise. The best way to protect these coastal lands is to stop or sharply curtail groundwater pumping that collapses water tables and leads all too often to saltwater intrusion.

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Paul Driessen

|2016-12-10T18:12:39-05:00December 10th, 2016|143 Comments

Trump could shutter NASA climate alarm shop

President-elect Donald Trump’s senior space policy advisor, Bob Walker, recently observed that NASA has been reduced to "a logistics agency concentrating on space station resupply and politically correct environmental monitoring." Instead, "We see NASA in an exploration role, in deep space research." He added, "Mr. Trump’s decisions will be based upon solid science, not politicized science."

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Larry Bell

|2016-12-06T11:26:53-05:00December 5th, 2016|4 Comments