What climate marchers are saying — Watch Now
Participants in the "people's climate march" in their own words.
Climate craziness descends on NYC
Images from the "People's Climate March" -- From anti-capitalist to crazy in New York.
UN exploits gender issues to hustle climate treaty
If the climate crowd truly cared about women’s issues, they would focus on the link between poverty and affordable energy instead of wasting time, money, and resources on policies based on junk science.
What do radical Greens and Atlas Shrugged have in common?
Atlas Shrugged Part II opens in theaters October 12, 2012.
Will SoloPower be another Solyndra?
SoloPower is set to get a $197 million federal loan guarantee. The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.
Debate over ethanol remains unhusked
Supporters of ethanol fuel claim that its widespread use has reduced gasoline prices in the U.S. But according to a study at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ethanol production has almost no impact on gas prices, and claims to the contrary omit important variables and rely on seriously flawed statistical data.
DDT still needed to control deadly malaria
Not long ago, a United Nations agency conducted research in Latin America and claimed to have found effective ways to control malaria without the use of DDT. But according to expert analysis by two leading malaria researchers, there were no statistically significant reductions in malaria in demonstration areas that spanned Mexico and seven Central American nations.
UN Law of the Sea Treaty endangers American sovereignty
The Obama Administration is pushing for accession to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, but Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation says this would be a mistake . . .
2012 a scorcher, but no record setter
2012 has certainly been a brutally hot summer for much of the U.S. But was it a record setter, and was it related to global warming? No on both counts, according to the World Climate Report.
California cap-and-trade is a ‘moving’ proposition!
By Appeal-Democrat Editorial Marysville, California. It's probably no coincidence that Gov. Jerry Brown recently launched a website to scare Californians into embracing his global-warming hype.... The state is about to launch a cap-and-trade scheme ... ostensibly to fight global warming.... If Brown were more honest, he would acknowledge that his intention isn't to curb global warming, which we and many scientists maintain is a highly disputable threat. If he were straightforward, Brown would explain to Californians that his cap-and-trade penalties on large industrial emitters of greenhouse gases are nothing but a disguised tax to raise billions to finance already overblown government operations. [...]
Unintended consequences of Obama’s 54.5 mpg mandate
By Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr.Legislators and regulators need to observe a fundamental Golden Rule: Do not implement new laws if you have not considered or cannot control important unintended consequences. A perfect example is the Obama Administration’s plan to increase new car mileage standards, from the currently legislated requirement of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016 to 54.5 mpg by 2025, as an average across each automaker’s complete line of cars and light trucks. Carmakers reluctantly agreed to the new requirements, to avoid even more onerous standards, or different standards in different states. But the deal does nothing to alter [...]
Are city planners out-SMART-ing themselves?
By Charles Battig, M.D.The editors of the American Planning Association published a paper refuting many of the unfounded claims for “smart growth.” The APA has its own trademarked version: “Growing Smart.” It is to the credit of the APA that it published a paper that refutes a number of the un-proved tenets of this building block of governmental planning at all levels. In the official abstract of this paper, “Growing Cities Sustainably,” in the May edition of the Journal of the American Planning Association, the authors note: “It is commonly asserted that so-called compact development is the urban form most able [...]
The $3.4 billion boondoggle: Green jobs, red ink
By Deroy MurdockDeroy Murdock is a friend of CFACT. This column was originally published by National Review Online in July 2012. “We’ll invest $15 billion a year over the next decade in renewable energy, creating five million new green jobs that pay well, can’t be outsourced, and help end our dependence on foreign oil,” candidate Barack Obama pledged in a November 1, 2008 radio address. Three years and eight months later, as unemployment has exceeded 8 percent for 41 straight months, Obama seems incapable of keeping this promise. With the worst employment figures since at least 1948, when the Bureau of [...]
98% climate consensus? Baloney!
By Larry BellExcerpted from Forbes, July 17, 2012; for the full article, go to http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2012/07/17/that-scientific-global-warming-consensus-not/ On June 19, apparently timed to warm up spirits at the Rio+20 meetings at the U.N. Conference on Sustainability that began the following day, Senator John Kerry gave a sizzling 55-minute indictment on the Senate floor of those who challenge global warming crisis claims. Kerry referred to a “calculated campaign of disinformation”, which he said “…has steadily beaten back the consensus momentum for action on climate change and replaced it with timidity proponents in the face of millions of dollars of phony, contrived ‘talking points’, illogical and wholly [...]