CFACT barnstormed CPAC, The Conservative Political Action Conference, this weekend with a series of activities that culminated in a light saber duel between “Green Energy” Darth Vader and the “Reliable Energy” Jedi! “We thought this would get the point across to the crowd pretty easily: That so-called ‘green’ energy that needs subsidies is the bad […]
It didn’t take long at the UN’s “World Urban Forum,” currently underway in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for those assembled to voice their displeasure with American freedom. “We’re not sure what happened to North America [audience laughter] but we’re trying to make sustainable development great again,” said a panel of European Union mayors and city planners. […]
This week President Trump declared an “America first” defense policy. Energy independence is its cornerstone. Despite everything government can do to mess things up, the free market drove the shale energy revolution. Today we are fracking our way to genuine energy independence. This drives the anti-energy Greens nuts. CFACT is just back from a (frozen) […]
COP 23, the UN climate conference in Bonn, Germany, ended with a coal-powered whimper. The point of the meeting was to write the rule book for the Paris Climate Agreement that President Obama signed the U.S. onto. President Trump then declared that the U.S. would exit Paris and make no future payments to the UN’s […]
CFACT joined a champagne toast to America’s withdrawal from the UN’s Paris Climate Accord at the EIKE scientific conference in Dusseldorf. Conference-goers are united in their conviction that the UN imposes massive economic and political costs upon developed nations that cannot be justified by the benefits, of which there may be none, flowing from the […]
What’s missing at this year’s big UN climate conference? The American pavilion. When President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the UN’s Paris Climate Accord, he also cut back on the American presence in the UN process. Sure, the official State Department representatives are here, but the sideshow is tellingly absent. In past years the U.S. […]
It’s not easy to be a climate campaigner. From Gore on down, their hysterical predictions never seem to come to pass. If they didn’t play in a rigged game, they’d have no game at all. Marc Morano compiles a host of their failed prophecies of doom-and-gloom over at CFACT’s award-winning Climate Depot news and information service. Make Climate […]
Labeling food as “organic” is big business. So-called “organic” food has become popular, though people are often surprised by just how political “organic” agriculture is and how illusory any benefits often turn out to be. The keepers of the “organic” label can function as a guild, using the label as a a barrier to competition. […]
The fires ravaging California have caused heart-rending devastation. Forty-one people have lost their lives and damages are now estimated to top $3 billion. Never ones to let a “serious crisis go to waste,” Green pressure groups are shamelessly attributing the fires to global warming and claiming that this years fires ravaged the largest area ever […]
President Obama infamously said, “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions.” This he did with a vengeance. One of the most egregious areas he wielded his menacing pen was in expanding federal control over wilderness areas with use […]
“The war against coal is over” was the message coming out of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s visit with coal miners yesterday in Hazard, Kentucky. Today Pruitt signed a “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” beginning the regulatory process to repeal President Obama’s Orwellian-named “Clean Power Plan.” EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt minced no words: “The Obama administration pushed […]
Wind and solar lobbyists like to claim that their industry is “sustainable.” They couldn’t sustain them long without taxpayer subsidies and “feed-in tariffs” that guarantee them high prices for any electricity they produce whether power companies want it or not. Now Elon Musk’s solar power company is in hot water with the feds. The Wall […]
The scientific evidence is mounting against the global warming narrative and climate campaigners don’t like it. In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, a group of scientists concede that climate computer models have been projecting warmer temperatures than observations show for decades. This is a crucial issue. If the climate is not as sensitive […]
The Wall Street Journal caused quite a kerfuffle over the weekend when it reported that “the Trump administration is considering staying in the Paris agreement.” They got it wrong. The WSJ based its reporting on statements by attendees at a climate conference in Montreal and by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson who said the President is […]
Can government ever admit a mistake and reform? Government “biofuel” mandates are a mistake we should eliminate. CFACT senior policy advisor Paul Driessen reminds us at CFACT.org of Ronald Reagan’s quip that, “the closest thing to earthly eternal life is a government program.” “The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS),” Driessen writes, “created under the 2005 Energy Policy Act and expanded […]