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Going broke by going green

By Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr. and Niger InnisPresident Obama’s healthcare program came under intense scrutiny in 2010. As we enter 2011, we need to open our eyes to what is really going on behind his green energy propaganda, as well. To some, it may not seem as desperate an issue as healthcare, but it will grow to become just as devastating to those citizens among us who are poor, because access to affordable energy affects everything we do.The administration’s green policies are being thrust into a precarious American economy. Every “green scenario” shows raised energy costs across the board. Not only [...]

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|2011-01-14T16:41:46-05:00January 14th, 2011|Comments Off

The real story behind President Obama and Michael Vick

By Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr. and Niger InnisPresident Obama recently called Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie, to thank him for hiring MVP-candidate Michael Vick, and underscore the President’s support for giving rehabilitated ex-convicts a second chance. We strongly support both sentiments, and think it is wonderful that a God-gifted athlete like Vick can again market his formidable talents. Our church has an active, successful rehabilitation programs for men and women who “did their time” and want to become productive members of society. However, the main purpose of the call to Lurie had nothing to do with rehabilitation. It was to push [...]

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|2011-01-10T12:22:43-05:00January 10th, 2011|Comments Off

Driving US families into fuel poverty

By Niger Innis, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez and Amy FrederickThe Obama Administration still hasn't gotten the message voters sent Washington on November 2.The lame duck session and 111th Congress finally ended, without the White House getting key items on its wish list. So now, the Environmental Protection Agency and Interior Department intend to impose costly, job-killing, economy-strangling new rules for power plants and refineries, and implement more land-grabs that will lock up additional millions of acres and more billions of dollars of American energy.Their goal is to end the hydrocarbon and nuclear era in America, and force us to convert to “renewable” [...]

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|2011-01-07T11:43:07-05:00January 7th, 2011|Comments Off

EPAâ€™s Texas power grab

By Paul Driessen and Willie SoonAny Texas granddaddy will tell you he’s seen it all, when it comes to weather and climate extremes. Tornadoes, hurricanes, heat waves, blizzards, droughts, flash floods, and storms that bring unique combinations of wind, dust, thunder and hail.Any Lone Star citizen will point out that Texas is America’s leading producer of crude oil, natural gas and (heavily subsidized) wind-based energy. It has the second largest workforce and gross state product in the USA, produces more electricity than any other state, and refines one-fourth of our petroleum – for a country that is 85% dependent on fossil [...]

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|2011-01-01T16:36:34-05:00January 1st, 2011|Comments Off

The Cancun climate con

As conference delegates shivered in Cancun during its coldest weather in 100 years, power-hungry elitists labored behind the scenes to implement the real goal of this “global warming” summit, this sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-16), this clever political con job. That the Cancun summit was never a climate conference at all has become increasingly obvious. Even before it began, IPCC Working Group III co-chair Ottmar Edenhofer said, COP-16 is actually “one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War…. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy.” In fact, it has [...]

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Duggan Flanakin

|2012-11-13T14:53:54-05:00December 29th, 2010|Comments Off

Hype versus reality on Indian climate change

The Cancun global warming and wealth redistribution summit concluded last week, with little to show for two weeks of talking in 5-star hotels and restaurants, other than vague promises that countries will try to do something meaningful about the “threat” of “dangerous” climate change. Indian Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh nevertheless praised the summit. Rich countries will finance global warming adaptation measures in poor countries, he announced, invoking the good will of “goddesses” of Mexico to achieve some degree of public relations success. (At least they promised, again, to provide some financing … someday … from somewhere.) Meanwhile, the Northern [...]

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Dr. Willie Soon, selvaraj-kandasamy

|2013-10-15T16:07:15-04:00December 24th, 2010|Comments Off

Make your year-end contribution today!

It is time to say “well done, but now let's get busy!” A year-end gift will help CFACT close the books on a very effective 2010, then hit the ground running in 2011. CFACT has become the preeminent organization presenting constructive alternatives to green radicalism that hold the left at bay. Your gift will have a direct impact on our educational programs and on our award-winning outreach. Whether it's Climate Depot, campus activism, innovative analysis, first-rate journalism, sound science, lampooning hypocrisy, or going toe to toe with the UN on it's own turf, CFACT is the best investment anyone can make [...]

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|2010-12-23T00:00:00-05:00December 23rd, 2010|Comments Off

Do you believe in magic . . . climate numbers?

Average annual global temperatures have risen a degree or two since the Little Ice Age ended some 150 years ago. Thank goodness. The LIA was not a particularly pleasant time.Prolonged winters, advancing glaciers, colder summers, more frequent storms and extended cloudiness reduced arable land, shortened growing seasons, rotted grain in wet fields, and brought famine, disease and death. Coming after the prosperous Medieval Warm Period – when farmers grew wine grapes in England and Vikings raised crops and cattle in Greenland – it must have been quite a shock.The LIA underscored how much better a warmer planet is than a colder [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2012-10-23T09:12:29-04:00December 14th, 2010|Comments Off

Cancun endgame: Kyoto II or climate talks of the living dead?

This article originally appeared in the National Journal's Cancun Insider.------------------------------ COP16 has come and gone. Every COP drags through two weeks of impotent spectacle while the real activity takes place behind closed doors. COP16 was no exception. Deals are struck and then rushed before the plenary session at the 11th hour. In Cancun the real action started 7 PM Friday night and lasted until 3 AM.On Thursday, the metaphor of the day was the climate talks zombie - an animated corpse which staggers along producing nothing, yet feasts upon the flesh of anyone constructive who blunders into its path. This was [...]

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Craig Rucker

|2012-11-13T14:53:55-05:00December 13th, 2010|Comments Off

What to do about Wikileaks & dwindling support for warming? Ramp up the fear!

Developed countries, deep in debt, are no longer chomping at the bit to pay $100 billion a year in climate reparation and adaptation penalties. Fast-growing nations like China and India refuse to curb the hydrocarbon use that is fueling their development, thereby ensuring that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels will continue to rise. Wikileaks reveal that U.S. diplomacy under President Obama has been geared towards bribing and bullying countries to support climate deals. These countries are not buying the global warming scare on the merits (or lack thereof). It takes cash and arm twisting to keep them in line. What to do? [...]

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Craig Rucker

|2012-09-16T23:49:07-04:00December 7th, 2010|Comments Off

Climate realism for the developing world

By David Rothbard & Craig RuckerThis article originally appeared in The Washington Times opinion section. ------------------------------------ The Cancun, Mexico, climate summit had barely begun when the topic du jour became how much "climate debt" the developed world "owes" developing countries for emitting carbon dioxide. The developed world stands accused of causing "imminent global climate disruption," or whatever the politically correct term is this week. The facts are quite different.The developed world is healthy and prosperous primarily because it created legal, political and economic systems, entrepreneurial opportunities and technologies that enabled it to develop. Poor countries aren't poor because we have emitted [...]

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|2012-09-19T23:51:55-04:00December 7th, 2010|Comments Off

Climate of absurdity: Illegal immigration caused by warming?

This article originally appeared in the National Journal's Cancun Insider.------------------------------ Cancun, Mexico--Just when you think you've heard everything, we're told that impoverished Mexicans are fleeing north to escape global warming.Despite the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), vast natural resources and bright, hard-working people, the host country for the Cancun climate summit remains impoverished. Wealth and power are still concentrated in relatively few powerful Mexican families. Employment and economic opportunities are few. The government is plagued with corruption. The state-owned oil company Pemex cannot keep even its best fields operating efficiently. Remittances from the US remain a major part of Mexico's economy. Impoverished millions [...]

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Craig Rucker

|2012-09-19T23:51:56-04:00December 5th, 2010|Comments Off

No bright prospects for deadlocked treaty

This article originally appeared in the National Journal's Cancun Insider.--------------------------------- Cancun, Mexico--At last year's COP-15 meeting in Copenhagen delegates were greeted with snow and frigid temperatures. This year Europe is already in the grip of an early freeze that closed London, Gatwick. The UN did well in choosing the more inviting Cancun as a venue to discuss global warming. This year's conference is basking in temperatures already reaching 80 degrees on its third day. The sunshine that usually marks this beautiful resort getaway has been missing during the first few days of the conference. Perhaps symbolically, looming storm clouds and occasional [...]

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Craig Rucker

|2012-09-19T23:51:56-04:00December 2nd, 2010|Comments Off

Exclusive CFACT interview: UN climate chief Pachauri ignorant of 15 years without warming

Cancun, Mexico--At COP16, the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, CFACT had the opportunity to interview the chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri. When asked about the fact that there has been no statistically significant global warming for the past 15 years, Pachauri became evasive. Even Phil Jones, a climatologist at the University of East Anglia and a prominent global warming alarmist, admitted this fact in the wake of Climategate. A year after Climategate, however, the IPCC's Pachauri still refuses to face reality and clings to the deeply flawed 4th Assessment Report, which has been [...]

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Adam Houser

|2012-10-19T17:34:21-04:00December 2nd, 2010|Comments Off

From Cancun: Leadership is the courage to say no

This article originally appeared in the National Journal's Cancun Insider. Cancun, Mexico--Ed Markey wonders, “Where do we go from here?” With any luck, COP 16 will be the last UN sponsored Climate conference, and we can all just go home, to spend time with our families and do something worthwhile with our hard-earned money. Maybe Canadians can process a bit of tar sands as well – and enjoy ever so slightly warmer Januaries, if the Earth would just warm a bit more, instead of continuing to cool and snow.After the fears of “global cooling” passed in the 1970s, alarmists quickly [...]

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Redmond Weissenberger

|2012-09-19T23:51:56-04:00December 1st, 2010|Comments Off