Christina Norman – Page 6 – CFACT

About Christina Norman

Christina Norman serves as the Director of Development for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. She is also responsible for CFACT’s website building, web maintenance, and graphic design. Christina holds a BA from the University of MN-Duluth and is a graduate of the Koch Associate Program. Christina is passionate about the environment and outdoors, particularly our lakes and rivers in Minnesota. She and her husband live in Lake Elmo, and have 3 beautiful children.

35,000 jobs lost if Bayer bolts Germany over electricity cost

Deutsche Welle reports that Germany stands to lose 35,000 jobs if Bayer chemical & pharmacuetical follows through on threats to leave the country over Germany's high cost of electricity. Bayer CEO told Wirtschaftswoche (Business Week) that, ""It is important that we remain competitive in comparison with other countries ... otherwise a global business such as Bayer would have to consider relocating its production to countries with lower energy costs." Following the Japanese tsunami and the resulting emergency at the Fukushima nuclear plant, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany would end its use of nuclear energy. German subsidies and tariffs for [...]

By Christina Norman |2011-08-15T18:14:28-04:00August 15th, 2011|Comments Off

NAACP and EPA would inflict heat prostration and death

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 [...]

By Christina Norman |2011-08-04T00:00:00-04:00August 4th, 2011|Comments Off

After pressure from Climate Depot, Gingrich ‘regrets’ Gore climate ad with Pelosi

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 Christina Norman |2011-07-28T00:00:00-04:00July 28th, 2011|Comments Off

Why are lawyers arguing climate science?

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 [...]

By Christina Norman |2011-07-26T00:00:00-04:00July 26th, 2011|Comments Off

Milloy: Show us the bodies, EPA

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 [...]

By Christina Norman |2012-09-17T12:38:04-04:00July 22nd, 2011|Comments Off

CFACT’s Morano on electric cars and the war on coal

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

By Christina Norman |2011-07-22T09:17:54-04:00July 22nd, 2011|Comments Off

Lord Monckton wins climate debate down under

By Christina Norman |2012-09-19T14:24:46-04:00July 21st, 2011|Comments Off

CFACT submits comment on EPA land grab regulation

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 Christina Norman |2011-07-21T10:41:59-04:00July 21st, 2011|Comments Off

Last chance for GOP to stop EPA train wreck

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 [...]

By Christina Norman |2011-07-12T00:00:00-04:00July 12th, 2011|Comments Off

Otto von Habsburg-Lothingen, RIP

CFACT mourns the loss of Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius von Habsburg, a great European and advocate for individual freedom and dignity. CFACT will be well represented at the funeral in Vienna with both Holger Thuss and Einar Du Rietz attending. He will be buried together with his wife Regina, who died in February 2010, in Vienna's Imperial Burial Vault on 16 July 2011. Funeral arrangements.

By Christina Norman |2011-07-08T00:13:10-04:00July 8th, 2011|Comments Off

The crazy ice monolith

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 [...]

By Christina Norman |2011-07-07T12:02:44-04:00July 7th, 2011|Comments Off

Poland blocks EU environment council on climate

Poland, which is about to assume the EU Presidency, is so fed up with EU climate policy that on June 22 it blocked the conclusions of the EU environmental ministers council. Polish good sense blocked the ministers from recommending the EU reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050 which would devastate European economies. This would hit Poland and similar economies which have not yet recovered from their forced experiment with 20th century socialism particularly hard. EU climate policy has recently been shown to be rife with waste, fraud and abuse and the Poles have had enough. There is a saying [...]

By Christina Norman |2011-07-01T17:41:21-04:00July 1st, 2011|Comments Off

CFACT’s Morano receives award at 6th climate conference

We're not sure exactly what the hermit crab symbolizes and look forward to finding out. Congratulations to Marc Morano who edits CFACT's Climate Depot on winning yet another award!

By Christina Norman |2011-06-30T22:44:32-04:00June 30th, 2011|Comments Off

UN climate of desperation

DAVID ROTHBARD & CRAIG RUCKER – The Washington Times As the United Nations wrapped up its recent climate conference in Bonn, talks organizer Christiana Figueres proclaimed that climate change is the “the most important negotiation the world has ever faced.” Faced with real problems – financial meltdowns, unemployment, war and genuine human suffering – the world no longer agrees. It’s a good thing human productivity doesn’t threaten the global thermostat the way the U.N. would have us believe. If it did, we’d be cooked. Countries rich and poor are backing away from commitments they made years ago during rosier economic times, [...]

By Christina Norman |2012-09-19T12:13:53-04:00June 29th, 2011|Comments Off

6th International Conference on Climate Change watch live here June 30-July 1

Watch live streaming video from heartlandinstitute at livestream.com CFACT is proud to partner with the Heartland Institute to bring you the 6th International Conference on Climate Change. Heartland continues to do a real service to science with these conferences which we all should appreciate.

By Christina Norman |2011-06-27T16:14:31-04:00June 27th, 2011|Comments Off