Category: climate

Australia Adds ‘Blue Carbon’ to Credit System

More farmers, businesses, and industries will now be able to claim and cash-in Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCU)—a financial instrument awarded to those who reduce their carbon dioxide emissions—with the inclusion of mangroves and tidal marshes to the carbon offset scheme. One carbon credit represents one tonne of carbon dioxide stored or avoided. These can…


2021 Australia’s Coolest Year Since 2012 and Wettest Since 2016

The year 2021 was Australia’s coolest year in almost a decade and also the nation’s wettest in five years, according to the Bureau of Meteorology’s Annual Climate Statement, released on Thursday. While the mean temperature was 0.56 degrees celsius (33 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1961 to 1990 reference period, 2021 was around 0.4 degrees celsius cooler…


Insulate Britain Protests Cost UK Police £4.3 Million

Road-blocking protests carried out by climate campaign group Insulate Britain have cost UK taxpayers at least £4.3 million ($5.8 million) so far, an investigation has found. The information was collated by the PA news agency, which filed Freedom of Information requests to police forces who handled the protests. Insulate Britain, an offshoot of Extinction Rebellion,…


Chinese Regime Using Climate Policy as ‘Weapon’ Against US Economy: Report

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has twisted the climate change movement into a political and economic weapon against the West, according to a new report by The Global Warming Policy Foundation, a London-based non profit. Titled “China’s Energy Dream,” the report details the CCP’s manipulation of international climate agreements and comes to a startling conclusion:…


US Coal Stockpiles Hit Record Low

U.S. coal stockpiles dipped to just 80 million tons in September, the lowest monthly total since the Energy Information Administration (EIA) began tracking such information in 2001. U.S. coal stocks fell 4.8 percent over the course of the previous month, according to the EIA. The record-breaking low came as a national and global energy crunch has…


Manchin Asks Biden to Restart Keystone XL Pipeline

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is asking President Joe Biden to restart construction of the Keystone XL pipeline as gas prices continue to skyrocket across the country. Gas prices have risen steadily since Biden took office, when he made a slew of changes to America’s energy policies, breaking with the policies of President Donald Trump over…


UK Police Arrest 124 Climate Protesters Over Bridge Blockades

London police say they arrested a total of 124 climate protestors belonging to the Insulate Britain group over the blocking of two London bridges at the weekend. The Metropolitan Police said on Nov. 22 that 30 people were held at Lambeth Bridge and another 94 at Vauxhall Cross near Vauxhall Bridge when the roads were…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Nov. 19)

Kyle Rittenhouse walks away free after he’s found not guilty on all charges, House Democrats pass the $2 trillion social welfare and climate spending bill, and a third COVID-19 shot is on the way as U.S. regulators just authorized booster shots for all American adults.


Will the Rights of Indigenous Oil Sector Workers and Business Owners Be Protected in Guilbeault’s Climate Crusade?

Commentary Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault has returned from the COP26 summit full of enthusiasm and big plans. As a former Greenpeace activist, Guilbeault surely enjoyed his week in Glasgow rubbing shoulders with the world’s top environmental virtue signallers. Feeling invigorated, he is doubtless eager to act soon in cracking down on…


Biden and the Religion of Climate

President Joe Biden met with other world leaders at the United Nations COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, and in spite of their goals to limit the world’s temperature change within 1.5 degrees Celsius, China and Russia did not attend and made no such promises. Is climate change the world’s newest religion? Hosted by the…