Environmentalism Archives - Page 9 of 17 - CFACT

Graduates face a big challenge

As they don caps and gowns, endure commencement speeches, and take their diplomas, many high school and college graduates face bleak prospects in an economy that grew a dismal 0.5% the first quarter. The United States added a meager 160,000 new non-farm jobs in April, a paltry 4,000 of them in manufacturing. First quarter 2016 averaged just 203,000 jobs per month. The labor force participation rate remains stuck at an abysmal 63% – meaning 93 million working age Americans are still unemployed. Many who are working hold multiple jobs to make ends meet, while others are toiling at temporary, part-time or [...]

By Paul Driessen |2016-05-21T19:52:49-04:00May 21st, 2016|9 Comments

Ben Rhodes spins climate change

The entire climate agenda is lunacy until you realize that this is not science but a power play to increase government control over more and more aspects of the lives of ordinary citizens. The brain-dead who only parrot what they have been told by media minions cannot be persuaded through sound argument that their beliefs are in error -- so strong is the mind control that punishes dissent. Yet, despite all of this, the truth is beginning to win the day.

By Paul Driessen |2016-05-16T02:16:34-04:00May 16th, 2016|3 Comments

Real world energy and climate

Weather Channel founder John Coleman has a lot to say about debunking or just ignoring the wild claims of environmentalists -- and instead enjoying the real benefits that our civilization has brought us and the many more that will emerge over time -- that will do much more to improve our environment than curbing life-giving carbon dioxide.

By CFACT |2016-05-03T16:54:16-04:00May 3rd, 2016|Comments Off

Climate alarm skeptics defend constitutional liberties

The Left in America no longer makes even the slightest pretense of following the U.S. Constitution. Instead, they have undertaken a very public conspiracy to deprive opponents of their fraudulent schemes that include massive transfers of taxpayer dollars to crony, doomed to fail corporations using the RICO statute. One wonders why no state attorney general has not already initiated a RICO investigation against this climate cabal? They are the ones profiting from climate hysteria.

By Larry Bell |2016-05-02T14:51:54-04:00May 2nd, 2016|Comments Off

Inside Climate propaganda

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen explains how the climate crisis cabal has systematically created and coordinated an effort to silence climate dissent -- and identifies the billionaire foundations behind this Inquisition.

By Paul Driessen |2016-05-02T14:28:39-04:00May 2nd, 2016|2 Comments

Hudson Valley landowners’ 22-year battle against New York land trusts

The fat cats who run land trusts actually believe they are entitled to anyone else's property just because they want it ... and in the case of the former Smitty's Dude Ranch in upstate New York, they have fought low down and dirty over the past 30 years to seize property that 28 years ago was sold, under a deed upheld many times in court, to a couple of modest means. Decency is not in the vocabulary of these modern day robber barons, who finally won a judicial victory after 22 years of fraudulent efforts, ridiculous claims, and other methods designed to destroy the ability of the owners to fight back.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2016-04-29T13:05:37-04:00April 29th, 2016|Comments Off

“Climate Hustle” demolishes climate alarmism

Without presenting it to the U.S. Senate, as required by the Constitution, President Obama has signed the Paris climate treaty. He is already using it to further obligate the United States to slash its fossil fuel use, carbon dioxide emissions, and economic growth … control our lives, livelihoods, living standards, and liberties … and redistribute our wealth. Poor, minority, and working class families will suffer most. China, India, and other "developing" economies are under no such obligation, unless and until it is in their interest to do so. For them, compliance is voluntary – and they cannot afford to eliminate the [...]

By Paul Driessen |2016-08-31T09:26:21-04:00April 27th, 2016|3 Comments

Smelling blood in the political water

The great white environmentalist sharks smell blood in the water. It’s gushing from mortally wounded U.S. coal companies that the Obama EPA has gutted as sacrifices on the altar of “dangerous manmade climate change” prevention and other spurious health, ecological, and planetary scares. Peabody Energy, Arch Coal, and other once vibrant coal producers have filed for Chapter 11 protection, shedding some $30 billion in shareholder value and tens of thousands of jobs in their companies and dependent industries. The bloodletting has left communities and states reeling, union pension funds and 401-k plans empty, and the health, welfare, hopes, and dreams of [...]

By Paul Driessen |2016-04-24T10:51:41-04:00April 24th, 2016|6 Comments

Earth Day’s anti-fossil fuel focus could plunge millions into green energy poverty

As European nations come to grips with the exorbitant costs of energy subsidies and over-reliance on "green" energy (and build new coal-fired power plants to offset those costs and address the intermittent nature of wind and solar energy), the U.S. has been heading in the opposite direction -- President Obama's onerous Clean Power Plan. Thankfully, the plan is held up in court, as the world is beginning to recognize the enormous costs of complying with the non-binding Paris Climate Agreement. The question remains, though, whether America will go the way of California, which already has electricity prices 40% above the national average and the highest retail gasoline prices in the U.S.?

By Marita Noon |2016-04-18T12:21:11-04:00April 18th, 2016|3 Comments

The developing world wants natural gas and electricity, Hillary Clinton responds with an “epic fail”

While serving as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton created a nonprofit to fund so-called clean cookstoves that are being marketed as the preferred UN solution for Africans and others without access to electricity (rather than, for example, providing electricity to them)(. Turns out the Clinton Foundation has an interest in this project, and perhaps the deeper goal is acquiring carbon credits for sale to the highest bidder once Hillary becomes President and imposes a carbon tax.

By Marita Noon |2016-03-29T09:00:36-04:00March 28th, 2016|2 Comments

Don’t believe ‘hottest-year’ hype

The government spins information, distorts facts, and ignores the scientific record in its assertion that 2015 was the "hottest year ever." But what else is new? They want us to believe their models are more accurate than actual satellite and other real temperature measurements.

By Larry Bell |2016-03-14T15:58:52-04:00March 14th, 2016|Comments Off

Enviro gadflies demand right to trespass on your land

A challenge to Wyoming laws that protect private property may open the door for self-appointed environmental snoops to look for “pollution” anywhere they can find it on private land.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2016-03-08T07:38:56-05:00March 8th, 2016|23 Comments

“Keep it in the ground” at work in the real world

The Luddites are loose! It was not enough for them to waste billions of tax dollars on unsustainable wind and solar projects, but now they want to shut down the only safe, secure, 24/7 sources of energy in the U.S. -- oil, natural gas, and coal (and, yes, nuclear power too). The new Stone(d) Age awaits those who empower these de-development radicals who have enjoyed the fruits of innovative technology unleashed by a capitalist society but now want to deprive future generations (and those currently living as well) of the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

By Marita Noon |2016-02-11T08:12:20-05:00February 9th, 2016|1 Comment

Electric cars: Another failed Obama campaign promise

President Obama promised a million electric cars by the end of 2015, but got less than half that number, and many of those are being leased. Studies show that EVs, because they run on whatever is generating the local electricity, are often in effect more polluting than gasoline vehicles -- and a lot more expensive and less convenient. Without massive subsidies and arm twisting, there would likely be very little market at all for these overpriced, underperforming vehicles.

By Marita Noon |2016-02-02T14:57:47-05:00February 2nd, 2016|6 Comments

Censorship won’t win climate debate

The irony here is that the same censors who are trying to stifle dissent from the warmist tyranny -- and claim to be journalists and supporters of real science -- also argue that the EPA's so-called supporting data not be subjected to public scrutiny -- perhaps because they KNOW that real data do not support the warmist positions.

By Larry Bell |2016-01-25T13:03:20-05:00January 25th, 2016|Comments Off