Commentary Many Western countries are enacting policies to rapidly transition away from fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and oil) to less reliable and costly “green” energy sources (mostly wind and solar) while ignoring the critical benefits that hydrocarbons provide. The outcomes will be nothing short of calamitous for more developed countries as their energy industries…
Critical Facts Ignored in the Climate Change Debate
Learning All the Wrong Lessons From America’s Energy Crisis
Commentary Self-inflicted wounds create teachable moments, but the architects of America’s current energy crisis are learning all the wrong lessons. Skyrocketing energy costs are one of America’s harsh post-COVID realities. And with one in four American households struggling to pay for their energy needs before COVID, policymakers should have set their sights on making energy more affordable…
Doubt-Free, America’s Schools Warm to Climate Activism
Public school districts are adopting curricula on climate change from well-funded progressive groups casting the issue as a threat to life on the planet that students should respond to through activism. As of fall 2020, 29 states and the District of Columbia have adopted standards that require science classes to teach human-caused climate change as…
PREMIERING 7 PM ET: Moral Blackmail and Environmental Movement: Rupert Darwall
Rupert Darwall is a senior fellow at RealClearFoundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the principles of honest journalism. Darwall, who is based in the UK, is also the author of several books including “The Age of Global Warming: A History” and “Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex.” NTD’s Paul…
PREMIERING NOW: The Environmental Movement’s Moral Blackmail: Rupert Darwall
Rupert Darwall is a senior fellow at RealClearFoundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the principles of honest journalism. Darwall, who is based in the UK, is also the author of several books including “The Age of Global Warming: A History” and “Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex.” NTD’s Paul…
The Environmental Movement’s Moral Blackmail: Rupert Darwall
Rupert Darwall is a senior fellow at RealClearFoundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the principles of honest journalism. Darwall, who is based in the UK, is also the author of several books including “The Age of Global Warming: A History” and “Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex.” NTD’s Paul…
New Zealand’s Cow Burp Tax Proposal Angering Farmers
The New Zealand government has attracted the ire of the country’s farmers after it announced a proposal to impose taxes on greenhouse gasses that farm animals emit as part of burping and urinating. New Zealand—home to around five million people—has about 10 million dairy and beef cattle as well as 26 million sheep. Roughly half…
Researcher Questions Extent of Carbon Dioxide’s Climate Effect
A Sept. 18 paper in the journal Climate Dynamics claims that the climate’s long-range sensitivity to carbon dioxide could be remarkably low. In an Oct. 4 interview with The Epoch Times, the study’s author, Nicola Scafetta, noted that models assuming that our climate system is quite sensitive to carbon dioxide are “more alarming” than those…
Never Let a Devastating Natural Disaster Go to Waste
Commentary Be prepared for Democrats to exploit the devastation of Hurricane Ian to peddle de-modernization. And because there is no conclusive way for anyone to prove that global warming isn’t triggering every natural disaster—and because nature offers a continuous flow of these terrifying events and always will—the exploitation will never stop. The effort began in…
Climate Crisis ‘Not Evident Yet,’ Says New Study
European researchers say there is a lack of scientific data supporting the view that the world is currently experiencing a climate crisis. Their study assessed time series and crisis indicators—such as natural disasters, heatwaves, and crop yields—ultimately concluding that observations to date show “no clear positive trends of extreme events.” “In conclusion on the basis of observational…
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