The headlines this week deal with the North Anna nuclear plant in Virginia and the earthquake that struck nearby. Earlier in the summer, it was the Fort Calhoun and Cooper nuclear plants in Nebraska and the encroaching Missouri River floodwaters. Before that it was Japan’s earthquake and tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear complex.
For the third time in just two weeks, CFACT's Marc Morano--editor of ClimateDepot.com--appeared on Fox News. This time, on August 16, he discussed the problems facing electric vehicles with Neil Cavuto. In addition to dropping consumer interest, Morano said that "in the UK they are having trouble financing electric cars because of their rapid depreciation. . . . People are putting down $40,000+ on an electric car that's gonna be obsolete very quickly." More importantly, electric cars are not as safe as regular vehicles because manufacturers are forced to make them as light as possible. "For every 100 lb. weight reduction," [...]
Here in the “upside down” Southern Hemisphere, we have now passed mid-winter and are heading toward summer. However, the nights will remain rather cold for another month, before we start to really feel the returning warmth of summer.
A frequent refrain during budget and debt ceiling debates is that we need revenue enhancement: higher tax rates, reduced deductions, eliminated credits. But doing this, especially amid today’s massively expanding regulations, will kill more jobs and further reduce government revenues.There is a better way. Huge revenue sources are literally under our noses, or more precisely our feet.America is blessed with vast oil, gas, coal, uranium, rare earth and other natural resource riches – to compliment our ultimate resource: the creative, competitive, innovative spirit of our people.Finding and developing these resources would generate millions of jobs and billions, even trillions, in new [...]
This article was originally published in the National Journal. ---------------------------- The world economic crisis is providing a wake up call for climate realism. As registration for COP 17, December's UN conference on climate change in Durban, South Africa, opens on Tuesday, support for the UN climate agenda continues to deteriorate. Take the UK example. Reuters reports that with half of major energy suppliers in the UK announcing double digit price increases for electricity and gas the British public has had enough. 75 percent now favor abandoning Britain's green agenda if it means higher prices.The problem of course is after you thwart [...]
CFACT's Marc Morano, editor of ClimateDepot, appeared on Fox News to discuss the collapse of scientific support for man-made global warming, and specifically a new peer-reviewed paper by Dr. Roy Spencer that shows global temperatures have not been warming according to NASA satellite data. Morano said that as the man-made global warming fear is exposed as "sub-prime science," the alarmists will find other justifications because it "is a political movement at its heart. . . Al Gore is going to try to shift this into an extreme weather event. They are now going to say that every weather event from tornadoes, [...]
By Niger Innis and Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr.From New York, Washington and Atlanta to Chicago, St. Louis and Dallas, America is baking in a furnace. As millions swelter and gasp, they thank their lucky stars for air-conditioned cars, homes, offices and other places of refuge. And for the reliable, affordable electricity that makes AC possible.Previous generations weren’t so fortunate. When a record heat wave slammed the nation in July 1936, Midwest temperatures hit 100-107 for a week. With most homes and businesses lacking even fans in this pre-AC era, millions suffered heat prostration. In Wisconsin, 449 died. Nationwide, thousands perished.Now the [...]
Carbon capture and storage could ensure abundant electricity from coal, while cutting the CO2 emissions “responsible for climate change.” Yet, barely two years after “a sense of determination and common cause” inspired the Obama Energy Department to launch CCS projects, industry is “pulling the plug.”What could have gone wrong? Environmentalists had “heralded” the projects. “What’s killing carbon capture?” Bloomberg Businessweek wondered.The economy is “weak,” its reporters suggested. U.S. climate policy is “uncertain.” There is a “national retreat from the goal of reversing climate change,” largely because of energy industry lobbying against cap-and-trade legislation. The administration spent its political capital on Obamacare. [...]
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has officially flip-flopped about his 2008 Al Gore ad with Nancy Pelosi on global warming. Gingrich declared he now "regrets" making the commercial. Gingrich's announcement comes after months of pressure from global warming skeptics, led by Climate Depot. (See: Sierra Club's Carl Pope recognizes Climate Depot as Kingmaker: 'All seem to be mindful of the remarkable know-nothing standard set for GOP candidates by Marc Morano') The Hill – July 26, 2011 Excerpt: Gingrich regrets 2008 climate ad with Pelosi -- By Michael O'Brien - 07/26/11 -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said Tuesday that he [...]
By Charles BattigThe following article originally appeared as a letter to the editor in the Richmond Times Dispatch. Shakespeare understood the importance of the legal profession when he had Dick "the butcher" suggest: "The first thing we do; let's kill all the lawyers" in his Henry VI. Whatever Shakespeare's intended connotation, it was framed in the context of his play. Others have used the phase to picture lawyers in a less than favorable light. To such critics, I point to the recent action of our most distinguished group of lawyers, our U.S. Supreme Court.In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in [...]
A friend of CFACT, Steve Milloy, recently had an op-ed published in the Washington Times decrying the EPA's use of phony death statistics in its campaign to regulate coal-fired power plants more heavily. This is another example of why CFACT started a petition to stop the EPA's radical agenda. Click here to sign the petition and tell EPA to abandon its job killing policies. The following is an excerpt from Milloy's op-ed (originally published in the Washington Times): The House will soon vote to (slightly) rein in the Obama Environmental Protection Agency. But this much-needed baby step by Congress will only [...]
Marc Morano, editor of CFACT's Climate Depot website, recently appeared on Fox News to discuss President Obama's call for one million electric cars by 2015. The problem, Morano pointed out, is the EPA has declared war on coal fired power plants, which produce half of America's electricity. Click here to sign CFACT's petition to end EPA's radical agenda
The EPA is planning to expand its powers by redefining the "waters of the United States.” The proposed Guidance is currently open to public comment, and CFACT has submitted a comment opposing this power grab. Click here to view CFACT's comment in PDF format Unless EPA is stopped it stands to grab power over virtually all American waters and wetlands. The EPA is trying to usurp the powers of Congress and it's legislative intent by replacing the definitions of waters contained in the Clean Waters Acts with new definitions and interpretations the drafters of the Act would not recognize. This would [...]
By Steve MilloyThis article originally appeared in the Washington Times. The next month is a good time for Congressional Republicans to move beyond empty gestures to solve the job-killing and economy-slowing problem that is the Obama Environmental Protection Agency. Since January, the EPA has been implementing its greenhouse-gas regulations and has advanced an entire suite of regulations intended to make it painfully expensive for utilities to continue burning coal for electricity generation. Known as the "EPA train wreck," the regulations will force utilities to further reduce emissions of conventional pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxides and mercury even though the [...]
Just what substances are they abusing in the global warming camp? Just when you think the propaganda can't get any more daft, we learn that artist Brian Goggin would like to cash in on the warming scam in a uniquely wasteful way. He plans to extract a two ton monolith of Greenland ice (using ancient Egyptian inspired techniques), schlep it via dogs, oxen, donors harnessed to ropes, a sail kite, ships and armored cars, refrigerate it, surround it with laser beams, display it in a “sculptural reliquary in museums around the world,” then sell it at auction. This bizarre scheme has [...]