Blatant Blue State hypocrisy

Blue State residents are turning blue from the cold that their solar heaters and wind turbines cannot rescue them from -- but Blue State politicians insist on blaming fossil fuels for making their residents cold (global warming actually means colder winters, right?). CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen points out the hypocrisies of the leftists who seek to win through censorship of factual information and opinions not in alignment with their fantasized story lines about climate and more.

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|2018-01-14T11:16:07-05:00January 14th, 2018|2 Comments

Confiscating private land for frogs

CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen warns that a pending Supreme Court case could leave property owners at the mercy of federal bureaucrats who would have absolute authority to order them to renovate their property to welcome endangered species -- at their own expense, even if the species was not native to the property.

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|2018-01-04T12:09:52-05:00January 4th, 2018|Comments Off on Confiscating private land for frogs

Find the cure – ignore the symptoms

West Virginia University professor James E. Smith argues that the U.S. needs more entrepreneurs and innovators, but our educational system seems bent on focusing on identifying and managing the symptoms of problems we face today rather than on solutions that address or eliminate the origin or root of those problems -- and in all too many cases, they find reasons NOT to pursue solutions that MIGHT create new problems, even when the potential for harm is tiny.

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|2017-11-13T10:53:04-05:00November 13th, 2017|Comments Off on Find the cure – ignore the symptoms

Renewable energy – by royal decree!

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen exposes the shame of the city leaders in St. Louis, Missouri, who have sought to deflect from the city's poor reputation for violent crime, high school graduation rates, and overall quality of life by declaring the city MUST transform its power base from 1.5% wind and solar today to 100% wind and solar within the next 18 years. The staggering cost of such a transformation, assuming it can even be done, will be borne by the very people who suffer from high crime, low-performance education, and a sense of hopelessness in the face of arrogant posturing.

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|2017-11-06T12:40:36-05:00November 6th, 2017|3 Comments

Trying to perpetuate alarmist climate “science”

Analyst David Wojick reports that the Climate Science Special Report, soon to be released by the federal Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) as Volume I of the National Climate Assessment, is an alarmist document that would undermine all efforts to rein in the climate monarchy. Wojick calls for a Red Team review of the CSSR that would be entered as an official critique of the CSSR.

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|2017-10-20T01:08:36-04:00October 20th, 2017|Comments Off on Trying to perpetuate alarmist climate “science”

What natural disasters should teach us

Ugandan author Steven Lyazi scoffs at the chiding and covert racism of wealthy environmental advocates who live in luxury but demand a lower quality lifestyle for Africans. He points the finger at the Club of Rome for banning DDT once they realized that Africans not dying from malaria and other diseases would live longer and have more children. His words echo the toothless declarations that sustainable development restrictions should not apply to the very poor.

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|2017-09-29T12:47:45-04:00September 29th, 2017|Comments Off on What natural disasters should teach us

Now it’s a war on pipelines

CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen calls out those who are protesting the shipment of oil and gas via pipeline as hypocritically favoring railcar transport even though railcar spills are much more commonplace and more dangerous -- and costly. Driessen notes that these same people have protested fracking and for that matter all use of fossil fuels -- even though they continue to rely on fossil fuel products for their own lifestyles.

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|2017-09-24T17:33:13-04:00September 24th, 2017|2 Comments

Texas leadership, fellowship is a model for America

CFACT policy advisor Larry Bell provides a personal account of the human response to Hurricane Harvey's destruction.

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|2017-09-01T15:36:29-04:00September 1st, 2017|Comments Off on Texas leadership, fellowship is a model for America

Debunking the EPA’s fake accounts of the Gold King mine disaster

The EPA inspector general's report is full of lies and misrepresentations, says Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Rob Gordon. The whitewashed report claims that the dam failure came after EPA contractors “inadvertently … initiated an internal erosion failure.” But Gordon notes the IG report omits the critical fact that the EPA crew reburied the natural plug; ignores the EPA's wrongful assumption that the floor of the mine was 6 feet lower tghan the ground outside when in fact the adit's entire purpose was to drain the mine; and that the EPA failed to follow its own instructions that did not include excavating the blockage.

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|2017-07-26T17:41:47-04:00July 26th, 2017|Comments Off on Debunking the EPA’s fake accounts of the Gold King mine disaster

REAL climate science shows Trump was right to Exit Paris

Eight top scientists responded to complaints by Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Rafael Reif and others condemning President Trump for withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate accords, stating strongly that he had done the right thing for America. The authors cite temperature and other climate data that are at odds with the computer modeling upon which the global warming theory is founded -- and show that myriad claims by warmists are either false or misleading. Number one with a bullet is that carbon dioxide is a killer when in fact is is the life-giving catalyst for plant growth.

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|2017-07-09T17:31:04-04:00July 9th, 2017|1 Comment

Green energy poverty week

April 22 is Earth Day, the March for Science, and Lenin’s birthday (which many say is appropriate, since environmentalism is now green on the outside and red, anti-­free enterprise on the inside). April 29 will feature the People’s Climate March. The Climate March website says these forces of “The Resistance” intend to show President Trump they will fight his hated energy agenda every step of the way. Science March organizers say they won’t tolerate anyone who tries to “skew, ignore, misuse or interfere with science.” After eight years of government policies that killed jobs and economic growth – and skewed, ignored, [...]

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|2024-02-08T16:09:28-05:00April 22nd, 2017|Comments Off on Green energy poverty week

Financial security versus independence

Entrepreneurship has been the backbone of the United States economy since its inception. The good news is that Americans are still entrepreneurial and willing to take risks in search of greater rewards both financially and personally. But the U.S. must ensure that its laws and regulations do not stifle innovation and entrepreneurship.

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|2017-04-21T16:42:32-04:00April 21st, 2017|Comments Off on Financial security versus independence

The undeniable innovation-leadership impulse

West Virginia University professor James Smith shares insights about leadership -- and notes that leaders are sorely needed to help organize societies for the common good. Some leaders have very public faces, while others toil in near total anonymity, but both extremes are vital to the health of a society, Smith contends.

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|2017-03-22T19:32:59-04:00March 22nd, 2017|Comments Off on The undeniable innovation-leadership impulse

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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|2017-01-17T21:48:08-05:00January 17th, 2017|Comments Off on Regional power grids face three dangerous threats

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