James O’Keefe tells CFACT student leaders to fight for free speech
O’Keefe spent the overwhelming majority of his lecture speaking about media censorship.
Correcting the record on climate
These stories have a common tell. Watch out for superlatives such as hottest, coldest, wettest, driest, snowiest, most, etc.
Humanity survived previous natural warming
Projects that forecast dire effects from warming receive government funding, but not investigations of pre-industrial warming.
Conservationists scurry to find why Muskrat numbers are dropping
Found throughout most of Canada and the United States, the muskrat is an animal, often resembling but not related to the beaver, that can be found swimming or scurrying along many marshes, lakes, rivers, ponds and streams.
Covid and hurricane points to ponder
To assert that things are worse today, they deny yesterday.
The fusion race
The worldwide race to achieve affordable, functional nuclear fusion is rolling along, with new players popping up all over the map seeking a slice of what promises to be an unlimited energy pie that could pave the way to interplanetary travel (among many other things).
The disparate impact of California climate policies
Policies disproportionately harm its poorest residents particularly Latinos and African Americans.
EP 86: Atlantic Coast Pipeline SCOTUS Ruling, Forest Service Modernization, ‘Get on Board’ Campaign
In Episode 86 of District of Conservation, Gabriella discusses three important updates. First, being the SCOTUS ruling in favor of the Atlantic Cost Pipeline. Second, the new U.S. Forest Service rule to allow more balanced use on USFS lands. And the third update on the newly-launched Discover Boating x TakeMeFishing campaign 'Get On Board' out today. SHOW NOTES: SCOTUS Majority Opinion AP article on SCOTUS ruling ACP's response to ruling US Forest Service Rule Memorandum [...]
Supreme Court deals blow to opponents of Atlantic Coast Pipeline
The 7-2 ruling, handed down June 15, removes the biggest legal obstacle to the 600-mile pipeline, which would carry up to 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale basin in West Virginia to customers in Virginia and North Carolina.
Green policies compound racial injustice
Green groups policies harm the most vulnerable in society.
Climate groupthink at Yale
A glacier of climate groupthink has descended on New Haven. It will take some time before “Lux et Veritas” – Yale’s motto for over three centuries - prevails.
California keeps raising energy costs
How many citizens and businesses must flee before California adopts sane energy policies?
The “Great American Outdoors Act” is a federal land grab slush fund
In a display of bipartisanship that is as rare as it is frightening, Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill are joining forces to impose their own brand of socialism on rural America.
Pandemic uncertainty means more campuses going digital
Higher-education administrators and practitioners must seize upon this period of coronavirus upheaval and uncertainty as an incentive to apply and optimize benefits of virtual classrooms at every level to make learning more effective — both off campus or on.
Shameless Gore goes woke
As America confronts real issues of race, justice and civil order, global warming campaigners can't resist shamelessly glomming on.
Batteries not a sustainable backup for wind and solar — Part II: Safety, health & cost
We have all witnessed gigantic cost over runs on government projects, but overrunning the cost 8 fold may be a record. We are quite certain of our numbers.
The 97% consensus myth — Watch Now
97 Percent of scientists believe in catastrophic human caused climate change? Of course not!
Trump rolls back Obama’s North Atlantic monument fishing ban
In a proclamation issued June 5, President Trump lifted a fishing ban on 4,000 miles of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monument, located about 130 miles off the New England coast.
Trump order confronts Big Tech bias
President Trump issued an Executive Order targeting viewpoint discrimination by Big Tech social media companies.
Climate campaigners want to make the shutdown permanent
The world is reopening and economic recovery is gathering steam. Global warming campaigners don't like this one bit. They view the COVID-19 shutdown as a model for the future they want.
Reining in Green bureaucracy
It took 13 months and 15 days to construct the Empire State Building. It took 11 years to construct the Freedom Tower, which opened 2014 adjacent to where the Twin Towers once stood.
EP 85: Jennie Gordon, First Lady of Wyoming, Talks New Hunger Initiative and How Hunters Can Play a Role
In Episode 85 of District of Conservation, Gabriella interviewed Wyoming First Lady Jennie Gordon about her newly-launched Wyoming Hunter Initiative—a program geared towards ending childhood hunger. A component of her initiative, believe it or not, gives hunters the ability to donate their food through the program's 'Food from the Field' facet. Here's more about this new component from the No Hunter Wyo website: "Wyoming's majestic landscapes offer hunters some of the best opportunities in the [...]
Green New Deal dress rehearsal
The Covid-19 lockdown as a blueprint for a permanent economic shutdown to ‘save the Earth.’
Can “Superworms” help rescue world from plastic pollution?
Despite their Clark Kent-like outward appearance, these worms are actually pretty special because they have a superpower: They can degrade polystyrene plastic.
Fear: The best tool of the ruling class
The current Coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated that members of the ruling class are adroitly curtailing our constitutional basic rights in the name of saving us from ourselves.
Book review: “Natural” asks the wrong question
Alan Levinovitz begins Natural: How faith in nature’s goodness leads to harmful fads, unjust laws, and flawed science by asking the question, “How can we live in harmony with nature?” A better question might be, “Should we?”
It’s time to follow Mexico and pull the plug on “renewables”
The only things ‘inevitable’ about the ‘transition’ to wind and solar are rocketing electricity prices and unstable power grids.
“Scientist” reveals politicized GISS as NASA returns Americans to space
With America working through a painful moment on race, GISS scientist Dr. Kate Marvel declared on June 1: “Climate justice and racial justice are the same thing, and we’ll never head off climate catastrophe without dismantling white supremacy.”