Animal rights activists lost a lawsuit to recognize elephants as people
A Connecticut court denied a lawsuit from animal rights activists to grant three zoo elephants the legal rights to “bodily integrity and bodily liberty.”
What will the US role be in UN IPCC climate reports?
These reports are supposedly summarizing the existing scientific literature, but in reality the merely choose and use scholarly citations to support the one-sided argument for alarmism.
A little slice of Alaskan tundra is finally open for drilling
CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen extols the benefits of the opening some 2,000 acres of the huge Arctic National Wildlife Reserve to exploration and drilling for oil and gas. The potential for the region is at least 15 billion gallons of oil a year - more than enough to keep the Trans-Alaska Pipeline up and running for a long time to come.
The Southern Hemisphere hasn’t seen a single cyclone this season
The Southern Hemisphere storm season has gotten off to a slow start so far, with the lowest cyclone activity on record.
Biased National Academies review taints National Climate Assessment
The review committee includes no one willing to correct the flaws in the assessment.
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Eco-terrorist attacks on energy infrastructure on tap for 2018
Determined to disrupt the interstate transport of oil and natural gas throughout the United States, a network of environmental activists is openly threatening to resort to sabotage to achieve their ends.
More cracks in the European Union
Things still seem to be going downhill for the EU, or at least for the left-wing elements of it.
Proposed principles for use of speculative models in federal rulemaking
The use of wildly speculative and extreme modeling is spreading throughout the government, with potentially destructive consequences.
U.S. fishermen “losing ground” to massive offshore wind farms
U.S. fishermen are pushing back against plans to construct offshore wind farms along the East Coast, claiming the large clusters of turbines affect navigation, regulation and fish behavior,
EPA ponders regulating CO2
The second shoe has dropped in EPA's wondering about how to regulate CO2 emissions from power plants. As the shoe dropping metaphor suggests, EPA can now go to sleep for awhile. Everyone else is going to be very busy commenting on this complex issue. The first shoe dropped in October when EPA proposed repeal of the Obama Clean Power Plan. The Agency correctly cited the well known legal arguments against the CPP, especially that it illegally required States to regulate their entire electric power systems, not just their power plants. This meant changing (that is, restricting) people's use of electricity, a favorite [...]
Gov’t website claims Santa will move to the South Pole to escape global warming
Policy Horizons Canada, a government website, notes that due to “rapidly melting Arctic ice and growing human operations in the North, Santa Claus has signed an agreement with the International community to relocate his village next year to operate in an exclusive zone in the South Pole.”
Trump’s Energy Department supports UN IPCC alarmism big time
Climate change alarmism is driven by computer modeling and the IPCC. The IPCC modeling is a collective activity, led by the US Department of Energy. The Trump Administration has not touched this DOE scare factory, but should rein it in.
Time to get them off our gravy train
Greg Walcher, President of the Natural Resources Group, lauds the recent decision by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to end two decades of the scurrilous "sue-and-settle" scam run by EPA for the benefit of environmentalist plaintiffs and the policies some EPA officials wanted but could not get regulatory authority to accomplish.
Linking global warming to refugees is ‘most idiotic use of statistics’
Global warming activists have seized upon a study purporting to link temperature changes to mass migration from the third world to Europe, in an apparent attempt to attack the Trump administration.