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A nuclear engineer’s briefing on the emergency in Japan

By Evelyn MervineThis Q&A briefing provides a concise overview of much of what you need to know on the nuclear emergency in Japan. Nuclear engineer Mark Mervine gave this interview to his daughter Evelyn Mervine. It was originally posted on her blog, Skepchick. Mark and Evelyn Mervine are not associated with CFACT. My name is Mark Mervine. I graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1981, and went into the Navy nuclear power program. I was in submarines, and while I was in the Navy I qualified on two different types of Navy nuclear power plants and served as an [...]

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|2012-09-19T23:59:04-04:00March 14th, 2011|Comments Off

Virginia’s governor is blind to renewable energy faults

By Charles BattigThe following article originally appeared as a letter to the editor in the Richmond Times Dispatch. Virginians know that "Virginia is for Lovers." We also know the adage that love is blind. Such blindness is exemplified by Gov. Bob McDonnell's and Sen. Frank Wagner's love affair with renewable energy.Offering reason to those committed to love relationships obviously seen as disastrous to rational outsiders is often futile. Scientific analyses, cost-benefit economic impact studies and the disastrous experience of wind power and solar power have not dissuaded the governor. For lovers, cost may be no object to happiness; for others [...]

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Adam Houser

|2011-03-07T11:28:27-05:00March 7th, 2011|Comments Off

Wind power: questionable benefits, concealed impacts

America is running out of natural gas. Prices will soar, making imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) and T Boone Pickens’ wind farm plan practical, affordable and inevitable. That was then.Barely two years later, America (and the world) are tapping vast, previously undreamed-of energy riches – as drillers discover how to produce gas from shale, coal and tight sandstone formations, at reasonable cost. They do it by pumping a water, sand and proprietary chemical mixture into rocks under very high pressure, fracturing or “fracking” the formations, and keeping the cracks open, to yield trapped methane. Within a year, US recoverable shale gas reserves [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2011-02-28T12:04:27-05:00February 28th, 2011|Comments Off

CFACT’s Morano explains on Fox News why Greens are happy with high gas prices

Marc Morano, editor of CFACT's Climate Depot website, appeared on Fox News with Neil Cavuto yesterday to discuss the recent spike in oil and gas prices in the wake of instability in the Middle East. Neil Cavuto asked why, instead of getting oil from Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and other Middle East countries, America doesn't drill for more oil domestically. Morano replied, "The Congressional Research Service just did a study of natural gas, coal, and oil. We have more than the entire world, we have more than China, Canada, and Saudi Arabia combined, but 83% of our lands are inaccessible for oil [...]

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|2012-10-19T17:17:27-04:00February 24th, 2011|Comments Off

Environmentalist fraud and manslaughter

Many chemotherapy drugs for treating cancer have highly unpleasant side effects – hair loss, vomiting, intense joint pain, liver damage and fetal defects, to name just a few. But anyone trying to ban the drugs would be tarred, feathered and run out of town. And rightly so.The drugs’ benefits vastly outweigh their risks. They save lives. We need to use chemo drugs carefully, but we need to use them.The same commonsense reasoning should apply to the Third World equivalent of chemotherapy drugs: DDT and other insecticides to combat malaria. Up to half a billion people are infected annually by this vicious [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2011-02-23T00:00:00-05:00February 23rd, 2011|Comments Off

Battle brewing over proposed coal export port in Pacific northwest

China’s growing appetite for energy and America’s abundance of coal are putting a small port on Washington’s Pacific Coast in the middle of a clash between local officials and environmentalists.At issue is a proposed coal export terminal in Longview, Washington, located near the mouth of the Columbia River. Millennium Bulk Terminals LLC, a subsidiary of Australia-based Ambre Energy, LLC, purchased the site of an abandoned aluminum smelter in Longview last November. Ambre plans to spend $100 million constructing a terminal through which coal from Montana and Wyoming would be shipped to China. After completion of the terminal sometime in 2012, Millennium [...]

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2011-02-22T00:00:00-05:00February 22nd, 2011|Comments Off

Capitol Hill eyes cuts to federal land purchases

Facing ballooning federal deficits, the House of Representatives is preparing to take the knife to a variety of programs, including those aimed at bringing more land under Washington’s ownership.In the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, GOP appropriators have put forth a list of 70 cuts they want to see included in the Continuing Resolution that will keep the government funded beyond March 4. Republican lawmakers have proposed slashing $348 million from the Obama administration’s request for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), which disperses tax dollars to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service for federal land [...]

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2011-02-14T00:00:00-05:00February 14th, 2011|Comments Off

CBS News covers CFACT’s human hamster wheel at CPAC

CFACT's campus arm, Collegians For A Constructive Tomorrow, is in D.C. this week for CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference), and they are already drawing attention with a human-sized hamster wheel! CBS News covered the story, demonstrating that CFACT's Collegians have a knack for creative activism that communicates our message of free-market environmentalism to a large audience. (Click here for the press release) This time, Collegians has targeted renewable energy. Radical environmentalists and the Obama administration want America to stop using the reliable clean coal power that supplies the country with affordable electricity. Instead, they call for a switch to so-called "renewable" [...]

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Adam Houser

|2012-09-18T21:25:38-04:00February 11th, 2011|Comments Off

Did the US ethanol mandate contribute to the Egypt crisis?

By Dave JudayFarm Futures magazine, in an article "Ethanol is Not to Blame for Egyptian Riots," notes “as the unrest in Egypt continues and spreads, several theories are surfacing as to why the riots are happening. Bob Dinneen, president and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association says don't blame American ethanol production.” Moreover, the article attributes to Tom Buis, the leader of another ethanol lobby group, Growth Energy, the notion that current Egyptian and Middle East unrest is a product of “40 foolish years of leaving our economy in the hands of OPEC, leaving our economic and national security in the [...]

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|2011-02-09T13:01:43-05:00February 9th, 2011|Comments Off

Washington Post compares Climate Depot to Drudge Report

Marc Morano is CFACT's editor in chief of Climate Depot, and he has been garnering extensive coverage lately. Last week he was cited in the Washington Times. This week it's the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang and Fox Nation. Today, Andrew Freedman of the Washington Post described Climate Depot as "the climate skeptic equivalent of the Drudge Report." Yesterday, Marc Morano wrote a story about how Al Gore, self-proclaimed inventor of the internet, had his website crash because it could not handle all the traffic it received after Drudge linked to it. That story was quickly picked up by Fox News, [...]

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Marc Morano

|2012-10-19T18:32:21-04:00February 2nd, 2011|Comments Off

U.S. court deals smack-down to greens

In a victory of David over Goliath, two powerful, well-funded environmental groups suffered a smack-down at the hands of a rural Utah county, when a U.S. court ruled the environmentalists couldn’t challenge the county’s ownership claims to dozens of roads on federal lands. The 10th U.S. Court of Appeals ruled on January 11 that the Wilderness Society (TWS) and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) did not have standing to file a lawsuit against Kane County. In its 9-to-2 decision, the court stated that, “TWS has taken sides in what is essentially a property rights dispute between two landowners, only one [...]

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2011-01-27T08:28:40-05:00January 27th, 2011|Comments Off

CFACT’s Morano exposes anti-American climate extremist

The editor of CFACT's Climate Depot, Marc Morano, was recently cited in a Washington Times editorial: Last week, blogger Marc Morano discovered a Nov. 24 blog post by Mr. Hansen calling on China to lead an international effort to impose fees on carbon-dioxide emissions, then lead the World Trade Organization to allow import fees on goods from any county - with the U.S. being the target - without such fees. The goal would be to punish America, causing “continual descent into second-rate and third-rate economic well-being,” until the “fossil-money- ‘democracy’” no longer “rules the roost in Washington.” Mr. Hansen also praised [...]

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Marc Morano

|2012-10-19T18:35:09-04:00January 25th, 2011|Comments Off

National Geographic’s sea level rise projections way off the mark

I started watching a National Geographic programme on TV about how the climate had changed over the past centuries. I have always had great respect for National Geographic because its material has always been well researched and presented. The programme showed how the sea level rose dramatically 125,000 years ago. Geological records showed underwater corals that were frozen in time in rock formations that are now some metres above sea level. Professional geologists explained how science was able to show all this to be true. Up to this point, the programme was good. Then, suddenly, the programme switched to projecting sea [...]

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Kelvin Kemm

|2011-01-24T08:20:32-05:00January 24th, 2011|Comments Off

Greens lie, Africans die

By Paul Driessen and Robert NovakFina’s little body shook for hours with teeth-chattering chills. The next day her torment worsened, as nausea and vomiting continued even after there was nothing left in her stomach. Finally, her vomiting ebbed and chills turned to fever, drenching her body in sweat. Then more chills, fevers, nausea, convulsions, and constant, unbearable pain in every muscle, bone and joint.She cried out, and tears mixed with sweat. But no one could help her. She had no money for doctors, medicines or a hospital room. She didn’t even have a mother or father to comfort her. All the [...]

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Christina Norman

|2011-01-20T07:15:18-05:00January 20th, 2011|Comments Off

Salazar’s wild lands policy sends shockwaves across the West

This article was featured on Fox News' website! _____________________________________ Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s Dec. 22 announcement directing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to survey its vast holdings with a view towards determining which should be designated as “wild lands” has sent shock waves across the West.Salazar’s move is widely seen as the Obama administration’s way of dealing with a new Congress that is unlikely to create new wilderness areas legislatively. The administration is rebranding wilderness as wild lands so it can make millions of acres of public land off-limits to development through regulatory fiat. Salazar unveiled the plan after Congress [...]

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2011-01-18T13:50:35-05:00January 18th, 2011|Comments Off