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James Hansen: Today’s Nostradamus?

By Eric HeylMarc Morano operates Climatedepot.com, an Internet clearinghouse for information on climate, environmental and energy news. Morano, a former aide to U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., spoke to the Trib on the latest developments in the climate-change debate.Q: It’s the hottest year on record so far in the Northeast. Must be global warming, right?A: Globally, it’s not the hottest. In fact, here is the problem: The heat they are touting as proof of man-made global warming is occurring in the continental United States, which is less than 2 percent of the Earth’s surface. So far in 2012, (global) temperatures have [...]

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Adam Houser

|2012-09-16T23:47:50-04:00August 10th, 2012|Comments Off

Rio wrapup: People matter (but not to the UN?)

The Rio+20 World Environmental Conference has come and gone. The “Plus 20” comes from the fact that it took place twenty years after the first such conference, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. Between these dates, I was a delegate at the 2002 world environment conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ever since 1992 I have watched the eco-evolution taking place. There is a good side and a bad side. The good side is that general world environmental awareness has been enhanced. That is definitely good. But there is still so much to be done, especially in poor countries where [...]

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Kelvin Kemm

|2012-09-16T22:32:15-04:00June 29th, 2012|Comments Off

UN shifts from climate taxes to sustainability taxes

By Paul Driessen and Duggan FlanakinThe Future We Want -- the theme of the UN's Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, outlined a “common vision” for planetary “sustainable development,” as proclaimed by the “Organizing Partners of the Major Group of NGOs,” to guide the taxpayer-funded Rio+20 summit that ended last week in disarray and acrimony. The activist organizations that cobbled the document together filled it with hundreds of platitudes and pseudo-solutions to global warming cataclysms, newly reconstituted as threats to resource depletion and biodiversity – and presented as standards and mandates for countries, communities and corporations. The terms “sustainable development,” “sustainable” and [...]

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CFACT Ed

|2012-09-16T22:32:15-04:00June 27th, 2012|Comments Off

“PC” power is not “sustainable”

When the President says “all-inclusive,” he means politically correct (PC) “green” energy (wind, solar and bio-fuels), and nothing that actually provides reliable, affordable power – especially not hydrocarbons. Another PC buzzword – “sustainable” – is right out of the United Nation’s Agenda 21 Protocol and the President’s goal of “fundamentally transforming” America.

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CFACT

|2012-10-25T11:06:13-04:00April 10th, 2012|Comments Off

Joe the Plumber: Real American energy could create real American jobs

By Joe the Plumber President Obama supports job creation, economic growth and revenue generation – except when he doesn’t. Official announcements from his Labor Department reported that the nation’s February unemployment rate is still 8.3 percent. That’s a decent decline from previous months. But the reality is far worse.

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CFACT

|2013-02-11T16:22:40-05:00April 2nd, 2012|Comments Off

Keystone veto means jobs are not in the President’s interest

President Obama “is focused like a laser on putting people back to work,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) assured us last fall – echoing repeated statements by President Obama and Administration officials who “can’t wait” for Congress or others to take action and create jobs. The jobs thing didn’t last long, however. The President soon vetoed TransCanada’s application for permits to build the Keystone XL pipeline.

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Paul Driessen

|2013-03-25T16:39:56-04:00February 9th, 2012|Comments Off

Signing global warming’s death certificate

By Alan CarubaThe sixteen names of the scientists who jointly signed the article in the Wall Street Journal, “No Need to Panic About Global Warming” on January 27th are mostly unknown to the general public. Perhaps the best known would be Harrison H. Schmidt, a former Apollo 17 astronaut and U.S. Senator. Others might recognize Burt Rutan, an aerospace engineer and designer of Voyager and SpaceShip One. Moreover, not only were the signers distinguished scientists, but they came from places like Paris, France and Cambridge, England, Jerusalem, Israel, and Geneva, Switzerland. Mostly climatologists and meteorologists, some were physicists and astrophysicists. Antonio [...]

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|2012-09-19T21:01:33-04:00February 2nd, 2012|Comments Off

Dr. Kelvin Kemm on Kenyan TV

Dr. Kelvin Kemm, a South African nuclear physicist and CFACT advisor, explains on Kenyan TV that Africans need to greatly increase the availability of affordable electricity and do not need Europeans telling them "No."

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Kelvin Kemm

|2012-10-25T11:42:17-04:00January 20th, 2012|Comments Off

Georgia needs Plant Washington’s affordable energy

By Jeff EdgensPlant Washington is a planned 850-MW base-load, 24/7 facility capable of generating 6.7 billion kWh of electricity a year; it will use a mixture of pulverized low-sulfur Powder River Basin and Illinois basin coal and will be one of the cleanest, most efficient coal plants in the nation. Like all energy projects today, Plant Washington is under attack. Its supporters are fighting back. This article was originally published in the The Marietta Daily Journal. The recent op-ed from a Cobb EMC member questioning the need for Plant Washington demonstrates a surprising misunderstanding of energy markets from someone who worked in the industry [...]

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|2012-10-25T11:25:05-04:00January 20th, 2012|Comments Off

Charles Manson energy

Wind turbine companies, officers and employees, however, are immune from prosecution, fines or imprisonment, regardless of how many rare, threatened, endangered or migratory birds and bats they kill. In fact, FWS data show that wind turbines slaughter some 400,000 birds every year. If “helter-skelter” applies to any energy source, it is wind turbines, reflecting their Charles Manson effect on birds.

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Paul Driessen

|2012-11-13T14:53:51-05:00January 16th, 2012|2 Comments

Deep Green Resistance: Occupy (and more) till civilization falls

By Duggan Flanakin (reviewer)The central theme of Deep Green Resistance, written by Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, and Derrick Jensen (author of Endgame), is simple. To save the planet, its wildlife and some of its people, the enlightened few must rise up in resistance – not to reform, but rather to totally tear down the corporate capitalist economic system, and even civilization itself as we know it. Jensen presents his thesis in the book's preface. "The dominant culture – civilization – is killing the planet, and it is long past time for those of us who care about life on earth to [...]

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CFACT Ed

|2012-09-16T22:32:44-04:00December 27th, 2011|Comments Off

Save the light bulb!

We're about to lose our light bulbs. Among the many foolish things the political class in Washington has foisted on an unsuspecting public in recent years was the mandated phase-out of one of the most successful inventions in human history, the incandescent light bulb. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, passed by a Democratic Congress and signed into law by President Bush, set in motion a scheme to phase out the incandescent light bulb, replacing it with what the public was told were “more efficient” and “climate friendly” alternatives. Those who questioned the wisdom of the move were assured [...]

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2012-09-16T22:32:44-04:00July 10th, 2011|Comments Off

The science and global politics of climate change

Click here to download the full report in PDF format Lord Christopher Monckton's Special Report on "global warming" gives pragmatic, factual insight into climate science, economics and policy, and offers sensible, straightforward, affordable answers to the key questions now before the international community. The world faces many real environmental problems. In any view, however, "global warming" is not one of them. Science shows that the world will not warm dangerously. Even if warming were to prove severe, focused adaptation to its consequences would be the most cost-effective approach. Taxing or regulating carbon – however profitable it might be for the Armageddon [...]

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CFACT Ed

|2012-09-19T14:02:06-04:00May 16th, 2011|Comments Off

Environmentalism as a surrogate religion

By Thomas Sheahan, Ph. D.As we reflect on Earth Day 2011 (April 22) and on passionate appeals that we support environmental initiatives almost too numerous to count, we should also reflect on a fundamental new reality.Environmentalism has replaced religion for many of its adherents.The ending “-ism” denotes a way of thinking, perceiving and structuring one's life. Every “ism” is based on underlying assumptions, principles and beliefs that tell its adherents what they ought to believe and do. Providing ethical guidance for its members is a major part of what an “-ism” does.Followers of Judaism who observe Passover as their ancestors’ liberation [...]

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|2011-05-04T00:00:00-04:00May 4th, 2011|Comments Off

I have a dream for a prosperous Uganda

By Cyril Boynes I am of a Christian background. However, one of my favorite people was Jewish, and another is Muslim. The Jewish man was business professor and author Julian Simon. He taught that people are the world’s most valuable resource, and the “ultimate resource” is our creative intellect. The Muslim is Bangladeshi banker and economist Muhammad Yunus. He says “poor people are like bonsai trees,” planted in a little pot. “There is nothing wrong with their seeds. It’s just that society never gave them an adequate soil base to grow.” “Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity,” Dr. [...]

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Christina Norman

|2024-02-08T16:10:09-05:00March 21st, 2011|Comments Off