Much to do in Bonn
The biggest issue on the UN's Bonn table is the supposed $100 billion a year that developing countries say we owe them,
Want to Protect the Environment? Embrace Capitalism
Not only has capitalism lifted more people out of poverty than any system ever implemented in the history of civilization, but in so doing, it has done more to protect the environment than any socialist or communist initiative.
The changing world energy economy
West Virginia University professor James E. Smith and graduate student Alex Hatch report that the United States economy has begun to grow steadily despite falling oil consumption. Moreover, worldwide energy demand dropped significantly between 2013 and 2015 and the trend is continuing despite growing world populations and expanding energy availability. They note that , worldwide (not just in today's rich countries), the only thing limiting our future progress and comity is our imagination and ingenuity.
America First Energy Conference
The Heartland Institute is gathering the country’s best energy policy experts, as well as key players in the industry, at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Houston, Texas on Thursday, November 9, 2017, for its America First Energy Conference. It’s an event that will explain what has happened, and more importantly, what comes next.
California’s clean-energy future: A ‘medieval society’?
“These mandates would only further spike costs for basics such as transportation and power and continue to fall most heavily on the middle and lower-middle classes and accelerate the ongoing bifurcation of the state into a medieval society of masters and serfs."
Climate alarmism wins one in New Mexico
The New Mexico Public Education Department tried to balance teaching about the climate. Then warming pressure groups got involved.
Forestry regulations ignite more California wildfires
CFACT policy advisor Larry Bell reports on the disastrous mismanagement of America's Western forests by federal officials and the tremendous cost in human and plant and animal life and quality of life these policies have fostered. As Rep. Tom McClintock says, "These laws have not only failed to improve our forest environment, but they are literally killing our forests."
Agitators, regulators, and predators on the prowl
CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen reports on the legal and political war against glyphosate -- a pesticide claimed to be a "possible" carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer despite repeated peer-reviewed studies showing the opposite is true. The IARC finding was exposed as fraudulent by two Reuters reporters, for ignoring contrary evidence, manufacturing evidence, and suppressing access to their "research."
Academic develops video game teaching eco-terrorism
An academic at a public university created a computer game that teaches players to torch oil pipelines and block energy projects.
CFACT students ambushed by ANTIFA — Forum goes on
Last night left-wing ANTIFA activists tried and failed to shut down a CFACT forum featuring Canadian commentator Lauren Southern. After the forum, however, things got ugly. ANTIFA thugs were lurking nearby and attacked CFACT students as they left the event.
ANTIFA maced, arrested, CFACT forum goes on! – WATCH ABC NOW
ANTIFA maced three times by police, arrest made as ANTIFA fails to prevent Lauren Southern from speaking to the CFACT chapter at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. WATCH ABC NOW.
CFACT students stand up to ANTIFA — WATCH CBS NOW
CFACT students at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities stood up to ANTIFA last night. Watch David Blondin stand up for students' rights. WATCH CBS NOW.
ANTIFA planning to shut CFACT down tonight!
The hard Left is planning disruption and violence to silence a CFACT speaker at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Organics Board illogically fights against indoor farming
"Organic" farmers don’t want produce from indoor hydroponic agriculture to be certified as "organic," but competition, like fresh vegetables, is healthy.
Looking for a Big Easy windfall
CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen explains how the election of trial lawyer buddy John Bel Edwards as Governor of Louisiana has paved the way for Green lawsuits against oil and gas companies that are nothing more than shakedowns -- claiming the energy industry as a whole is responsible for coastal land erosion in the state.