About Peter Murphy

Peter Murphy is Senior Fellow at CFACT. He has researched and advocated for a variety of policy issues, including education reform and fiscal policy, both in the non-profit sector and in government in the administration of former New York Governor George Pataki. He previously wrote and edited The Chalkboard weblog for the NY Charter Schools Association, and has been published in numerous media outlets, including The Hill, New York Post, Washington Times and the Wall Street Journal. Twitter: @PeterMurphy26 Website: https://www.petermurphylgs.com/

Covid transitioning to climate “emergency”

The Left enjoyed power in the name of COVID. They don't want to give it up.

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|2021-05-10T08:56:56-04:00May 8th, 2021|Comments Off on Covid transitioning to climate “emergency”

Painting the sky to cool the planet?

Bill Gates and others have been funding research at Harvard University called the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (i.e., “SCoPEx”) to conduct solar geo-engineering in a way that could cool areas of the planet. The plan is to spread chalk dust in the stratosphere to deflect the sun’s rays to lower the temperature.

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|2021-04-26T11:19:21-04:00April 25th, 2021|Comments Off on Painting the sky to cool the planet?

CNN’s climate scare plans exposed

CNN is a shell of its former self to the point where no serious person can view it any longer as a “news” operation.

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|2021-04-17T17:53:52-04:00April 17th, 2021|Comments Off on CNN’s climate scare plans exposed

Pete Buttigieg’s fake climate change virtue

The day Sec. Pete rode his bike to the White House, he started the journey in a large, luxury SUV. A few blocks from the destination, he unloaded his bike and peddled to the meeting.

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|2021-04-12T15:25:38-04:00April 12th, 2021|Comments Off on Pete Buttigieg’s fake climate change virtue

Corporate climate “wokeness” reaps diminishing returns

Businesses hope to find the courage to resist the “Say on Climate” initiative, which is an effort to make a corporation’s carbon emissions subject to annual vote by its shareholders.

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|2021-04-11T08:04:40-04:00April 5th, 2021|Comments Off on Corporate climate “wokeness” reaps diminishing returns

States proposing new trash taxes

At least ten states have proposed legislation for "extended producer responsibility" (EPR) laws to force disposal and recycling mandates and costs on employers that produce goods.

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|2021-04-11T08:05:42-04:00March 26th, 2021|Comments Off on States proposing new trash taxes

China is outplaying President Biden on climate

Chinese "climate cooperation" is a bogus ploy and the Biden Administration is falling for it.

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|2021-03-24T15:02:38-04:00March 24th, 2021|Comments Off on China is outplaying President Biden on climate

“Ecocide” may be another $hakedown of the U.S.A.

A group of lawyers wants the International Criminal Court to prosecute America for the crime of "ecocide."

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|2021-03-19T07:55:33-04:00March 18th, 2021|Comments Off on “Ecocide” may be another $hakedown of the U.S.A.

Will a changing climate flood Earth… again?

A new book by the Pope released earlier this month, entitled Of Vices and Virtues, includes discussion of climate change, which he weaves into a morality lesson.

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|2021-03-23T02:23:41-04:00March 8th, 2021|Comments Off on Will a changing climate flood Earth… again?

House politicians declare war on the First Amendment

The Eshoo/McNerney letter reads almost as parody, except that it is a genuine power play to intimidate and threaten companies to eliminate what they believe is their political opposition.

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|2021-02-28T18:28:17-05:00February 26th, 2021|Comments Off on House politicians declare war on the First Amendment

Radical Deb Haaland on deck for Interior Dept.

Democratic Representative Deb Haaland unabashedly supports the socialistic absurdity that is the Green New Deal, opposes hydro-fracturing for natural gas, and opposes the Dakota Access Pipeline that transports nearly 600,000 barrels of oil.

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|2021-02-21T09:19:01-05:00February 21st, 2021|Comments Off on Radical Deb Haaland on deck for Interior Dept.

The most influential broadcaster in history

Rush Limbaugh (1951-2021) understood the climate change agenda as a threat to liberty

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|2021-03-22T16:09:22-04:00February 17th, 2021|Comments Off on The most influential broadcaster in history

Anti-energy “celebrities” demand Biden shut Dakota Pipeline

It’s not enough for the entertainment industry to celebrate the cancelling of the Keystone XL Pipeline by President Joe Biden, which resulted in 1,000 middle class, mostly union workers losing their jobs and another 10,000 jobs foregone. Now, dozens of wealthy actors and film industry folk have joined other climate activists as signatories to a letter sent earlier this month to urge the president to “immediately shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline.” Doing so will eliminate thousands more middle class jobs and raise energy prices further. The Dakota Access Pipeline runs from North Dakota’s energy-rich Bakken shale region to Illinois, where [...]

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|2021-02-28T11:41:44-05:00February 17th, 2021|Comments Off on Anti-energy “celebrities” demand Biden shut Dakota Pipeline

Biden forcing feckless climate policies

The new special envoy for climate change, John Kerry, stumbled on the truth by inadvertently refuting the Biden climate agenda.

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|2021-03-23T01:46:56-04:00February 5th, 2021|Comments Off on Biden forcing feckless climate policies

A Biden climate “emergency” would jettison democracy

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer just urged President Biden to declare a state of emergency and impose climate policies on the country unilaterally, without Congress.

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|2021-02-06T12:09:01-05:00January 27th, 2021|Comments Off on A Biden climate “emergency” would jettison democracy
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