VIDEO: A Veteran Journalist Details the Nature of Scientific American that Once August Magazine

This is an interesting and at times amusing look at how a benchmark magazine of science and reason has become a vector for dialectical narrative enforcement.

Some of the examples he offers could be seen as amusing, if it wasn’t for the red zone level of danger to America and the West that it represents.

Much like how medical journals such as the Lancet are partially responsible for the deaths of everyone denied HCQ or who didn’t take it when available when it may have saved their lives during Covid, because of their fraudulent article detailing its dangers and ineffectiveness.

WATCH: The Scientific American Goes Woke + Laura Helmuth’s Resignation by Michael Shermer

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Let’s Say Man IS Changing the Climate. So What?

“The temperature is rising!” “The temperature is dropping.” The temperature is staying the same.”

We argue the “facts” of climate change (even as parts of New Jersey were just buried under 11 inches of global warming). One side wants the facts to show that man is disrupting the climate, while the other wants them to show that he’s not. But an almost never posed question should be asked:

Let’s say, for argument’s sake, that our industry is causing global warming. So what?

No, I’m not a guy who “just wants to see the world burn” (and that would be literally). Rather, if anthropogenic climate change were occurring, why should we assume it wouldn’t be beneficial?

Oh, it’s not just that the Earth is greener and crop yields are higher when CO2 levels are greater; it’s not just that relative warmth breeds life. It’s also this:

Some scientists have said the Earth will soon enter, or has already entered, a significant cooling phase. Others even contend that another ice age is nigh. And if this is so, any man-caused temperature increase would merely mitigate this naturally induced but deadly phenomenon.

One of these scientists was the late Professor S. Fred Singer, an atmospheric and space physics expert who had been a founding director of the Science & Environmental Policy Project. “I have recently become quite concerned about ice ages and the dangers they pose to humans on our planet,” he wrote in 2015 — “and indeed to most of terrestrial ecology.”

Singer explained later in his article that there “are two kinds of ice ages”:

(i) Major (Milankovich-style) glaciations occur on a 100,000-year time-scale and are controlled astronomically.

(ii) “Little” ice ages were discovered in ice cores; they have been occurring on an approx. 1000-1500-yr cycle and are likely controlled by the Sun.

The scientist then warned that the “current cycle’s cooling phase may be imminent….”

Now, this is a frightening prospect. Even the liberal New York Times admitted in 2017, reporting on a Lancet study, that “cold weather is responsible, directly or indirectly, for 17 times as many deaths as hot weather.” That’s in our relatively warm time, too. What would happen during a major ice age?

Well, “The coolings are quite severe,” informed Singer. “[T]he most recent one, ending only about 12,000 years ago, covered much of North America and Europe with miles-thick continental ice sheets and led to the disappearance of (barely) surviving bands of Neanderthalers; they were displaced by the more adaptable Homo Sapiens.”

In other words, another major ice age would likely be a Hollywood-like, apocalyptic disaster. In fact, Singer insisted that we should be prepared to use scientific interventions to mitigate such an eventuality (while Bill Gates wants to do the same to cool down the Earth). To be clear, though, while Singer said that another ice age could begin tomorrow, it could also be tens of thousands of year away. And my article isn’t about hashing out the details, assessing probability, or recommending mitigation measures. (you can read Singer’s work for that). It is about this: prejudice.

Again, accepting for argument that man is significantly warming the planet (not my belief), why assume this is bad?

In reality, moderns’ thinking so often reflects a kind of misanthropism or, at least, a bias against Western-triumph-born modernity. People believing that extraterrestrials furtively visit our planet never assume the aliens’ matter-of-course environmental impact could be malign; they’re too advanced. People pondering a hunter-gatherer tribe (e.g., the North Sentinelese) generally assume they just must live “in harmony with nature” and be innocuous; they’re too primitive. Never mind that American Indians deforested stretches along, and caused the sedimentation of, the Delaware River long before Europeans’ New World arrival (to provide just one perspective-lending example). The activities of man, or modern man or Western man, depending on the precise prejudice, just must be harmful for the simple reason that he engaged in them. So, yes, racial profiling is a problem — against the human race.

In fairness, we can do and have done much to damage the environment. In fairness again, though, forested area in the U.S. is greater than it was a century back and our water and air are cleaner than they were 60 years ago. And in recent times the Great Barrier Reef has actually increased in size (this isn’t necessarily due to man’s activities). So we can also be good shepherds of the Earth.

The odd thing, though, about the misanthropic prejudice is that implicit in it is an idea that man is akin to some unnatural, artificial presence. This, coming from people who generally also believe man is himself only an animal, a mere product of evolution; in other words, just another part of nature. And, of course, whether the result of divine creation or evolutionary happenstance, part of nature (or Creation) is precisely what man is.

As for the world’s fortunes, 99.9 percent of the species of life that have ever existed are extinct, partially due to ice ages. So ironically, if man’s activities — either accidentally, intentionally or both — mitigate the coming ice age, we humans may be responsible for counteracting the next great extinction.

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RELATED ARTICLE: COP FLOP: UN COP29 climate summit faces ‘Trump Effect’


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COP FLOP: UN COP29 climate summit faces ‘Trump Effect’ – UN advisors label summit ‘meaningless ritual’ – Climate grifters unhappy with $300 billion a year pledges

Climate Depot COP29 Round Up

Watch: Morano on Sky News TV: ‘UN climate slush fund’: ‘This whole UN conference was about money, money, money’

Money, money, money! Compromise deal reached at UN’s COP29 climate talks for $300 billion a year (up from $100 billion) to poor nations – ‘With hopes that more money flows in the future’

BINGO! UN advisor turns on UN: COP climate conferences have become ‘meaningless rituals which don’t actually deliver anything’

Climate finance’s ‘new era’ shows new political realities – USA, Germany, Canada & Australia turn away from climate agenda

Analysis: COP29: Climate fallacies & ‘the usual wretched nonsense’ as ‘attendance dropped sharply, major nations stayed away’

The TRUMP EFFECT: Argentina suddenly withdraws negotiators from Cop29 summit after just 3 days!

Watch: Morano on Fox live from UN climate summit in Azerbaijan – Trump victory is like a ‘funeral wake’

Watch: Morano on Fox on UN climate summit’s call for a ‘meat tax’ – ‘They are coming for your meat. They want it to be rationed’

WATCH: After Demanding Meat Tax, Activists at UN COP29 Climate Summit Gobble Up Meat & Avoid Vegan Offerings

Just Stop Oil rips Morano during COP29 TV debate: ‘People like Marc have actually not allowed the real progress to be made’

COP FLOP: ‘Woefully inadequate’: activists slam COP29 UN climate finance deal – ‘A death sentence for the millions on the climate front lines’ & ‘The world is still on course for runaway collapse’

Peer-Reviewed Study: ‘Climate change is encouraging unsanitary toilet practices among vulnerable communities’ – ‘Climate change makes toilets more likely to break, which leaves people more likely to ‘go’ outside’

Cop29 deal fails to consider inflation so is not tripling of target, economists say – ‘Poor nations will in effect get billions less in value from £300bn pledge’

Morano profiled in German Newspaper Junge Freiheit as ‘one of the world’s most outspoken critics of climate policy’

Watch: Morano on Fox & Friends en route to UN climate summit: Trump will fight the ‘anti-human, demented climate agenda’ – This was ‘the most consequential election for the UN’

India rejects $300 billion COP29 climate finance deal, calls it ‘optical illusion’ & incompatible with ‘equity’ – Nigeria declares deal a ‘joke’

COP FLOP: ‘Woefully inadequate’: activists slam COP29 UN climate finance deal – ‘A death sentence for the millions on the climate front lines’ & ‘The world is still on course for runaway collapse’

Third-World Grifters Reject Climate Deal on Wealth Transfer – As election of Trump ‘has thrown entire climate change industry into chaos’

Analysis: COP29: Climate fallacies & ‘the usual wretched nonsense’ as ‘attendance dropped sharply, major nations stayed away’

Listen: Morano on Joe Piscopo Show from COP29 in Azerbaijan on why the Taliban are attending & have been rehabilitated by embracing climate alarmism

Peer-Reviewed Study: ‘Climate change is encouraging unsanitary toilet practices among vulnerable communities’ – ‘Climate change makes toilets more likely to break, which leaves people more likely to ‘go’ outside’ –

Money, money, money! Compromise deal reached at UN’s COP29 climate talks for $300 billion a year (up from $100 billion) to poor nations – ‘With hopes that more money flows in the future’ – Climate Depot

COP29: UN climate summits ‘no longer fit for purpose’, warn leading figures

COP 29: Climate cash freak out – Seeking trillions to ‘end up in the pockets of climate kleptocrats’

COP FLOP: A ‘paltry’ $300 billion climate finance deal on offer, is COP of any benefit anymore

How Saudi Arabia Turned Back Climate Progress at COP29: ‘Was crucial in making sure none of the major outcomes called for nations to move away from fossil fuels’

Climate finance’s ‘new era’ shows new political realities – USA, Germany, Canada & Australia turn away from climate agenda

Analysis: COP29: Climate fallacies & ‘the usual wretched nonsense’ as ‘attendance dropped sharply, major nations stayed away’

Can America survive!? Politico claims Pete Hegseth as Pentagon chief could ‘translate into downplaying the role of climate science at the Pentagon, it could be bad news for the nation’s defense system, analysts say’

Azerbaijani president & UN climate summit host calls oil a ‘gift of God’ in COP29 speech – ‘The people need them’ – Slams Western ‘fake news media’

UN’s COP29 summit partners with the World Health Organization to advance ‘agenda to protect health in the face of climate change’

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Checkout the 2024, 2023, & 2022 archives, plus asterisked items below.


— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —

If You Only Have Time to Read Some Select Articles:

*** Critically Thinking about Children’s Books — What’s in Your School? (Part 1)

*** America First vs. America Last Report Card: K-12 Mathematics Achievement

*** A New Way to Educate K-12 Students

*** UN Plots Changes to Standardized Tests to “Green” Education Globally

*** Make Education Great Again!

*** Schoolhouse Limbo: How Low Will Educators Go to ‘Better’ Grades?

*** Comparing the Pollsters’ Presidential Predictions

*** Suing Election Officials Proves Effective

*** President-elect Trump’s bold plan to dismantle the Deep State and return power to the people

*** No, Joe. This is no peaceful transfer of power

*** RFK Jr. tapped to lead Department of Health and Human Services

*** Trump taps former WWE CEO Linda McMahon to serve as education secretary

*** Musk & Vivek Targeting Government Waste

*** Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy: The DOGE Plan to Reform Government

*** Ramaswamy says some federal agencies will be ‘deleted outright’ by DOGE with ‘mass reductions’ on tap

*** The Plot to Manage Democracy

*** Federal court upends decades of environmental regulations

*** How Helene Gave Way to ‘Hurricane Snafu’ in the Carolinas

*** The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog

*** Trump: ‘Religion and Christianity are the biggest things missing from this country’

*** Science Shock: U.K. Met Office is “Inventing” Temperature Data from 100 Non-Existent Stations

*** How Can We ‘Trust The Science’ When We Can’t Trust The Data?

*** Manufacturing Consensus on Climate Change

*** President-Elect Trump: The final nail in the coffin of the environmental globalists?

*** Dutch appeals court overturns landmark climate ruling against Shell

*** COP29 is immoral (Alex Epstein)

*** The injustice of climate reparations

*** 3 undeniable facts about climate for #COP29

*** BRICS’ Kazan Declaration Trumps COP29 Climate Blather

*** Inaudible Infrasound from Wind Turbines Disturbs Health of Humans and ALL Organisms

*** Red Power

*** Ten Climate/Energy Action Items Trump Should Take On

*** Chris Wright, An Unapologetic Energy Humanist, Will Be The Next Secretary Of Energy

*** Chris Wright: An Energy Secretary Nominee Who Actually Knows Energy

*** Why I strongly support Chris Wright for Secretary of Energy — Epstein

*** Whistleblow Uncovers Covid Scam (Germany)

*** Now it can be told: the truth about the Covid jabs is slowly coming out

*** Nature paper shows the COVID “vaccines” increased your risk of getting COVID

*** How $190 Billion in COVID-19 Relief Spending Failed America’s Students

*** The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps Nationwide

*** How Federal Funding Constrains Scientific Insight

*** Scientists Haven’t ‘Saved’ the Ozone Layer

*** Scientific American Ignored Years of Editor Laura Helmuth’s Appalling Conduct, Then Scalped Her After I Circulated Her Own Tweets

*** Does ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care Affect IQ?

*** Top Agriculture Exec: ‘All of Canada’s Shrimp Are Injected with mRNA, America Will Follow’

Secondary Education Related:

*** Report: The Key to Fixing the US Education System

*** Critically Thinking about Children’s Books — What’s in Your School? (Part 1)

*** A New Way to Educate K-12 Students

*** America First vs. America Last Report Card: K-12 Mathematics Achievement

*** UN Plots Changes to Standardized Tests to “Green” Education Globally

*** Make Education Great Again!

*** Schoolhouse Limbo: How Low Will Educators Go to ‘Better’ Grades?

Moms for Liberty call for DOE to be ‘shut down’: ‘Put parents back in the driver’s seat’

NC Funds even more money for School Choice

Higher Education Related:

How Academic Elites Are Undoing Centuries of Progress

A New College “Racism” Study Really May Be Peak Woke

Greed Energy Economics:

Another Wind Project Surpasses $ Billion in Subsidies

The Disastrous Economics of Trying to Power an Electrical Grid with 100% Intermittent Renewables

Unreliables Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:

*** Inaudible Infrasound from Wind Turbines Disturbs Health of Humans and ALL Organisms

Wind Energy — Other:

*** Red Power

Trump must trash Biden’s radical ‘environment justice’ rules on Day 1

Misc Energy:

*** Ten Climate/Energy Action Items Trump Should Take On

*** Chris Wright, An Unapologetic Energy Humanist, Will Be The Next Secretary Of Energy

*** Chris Wright: An Energy Secretary Nominee Who Actually Knows Energy

*** Why I strongly support Chris Wright for Secretary of Energy — Epstein

Trump says Interior pick Burgum will chair new National Energy Council

Weatherizing Your Home for Winter

New Data Shows NY is Nowhere Near Its Energy Goals

Utility Companies are Run by Technocrats Obsessed with Control Over Energy

Manmade Global Warming — COP29:

*** COP29 is immoral (Alex Epstein)

*** The injustice of climate reparations

*** 3 undeniable facts about climate for #COP29

*** BRICS’ Kazan Declaration Trumps COP29 Climate Blather

Argentina walks away from COP29 – amid fears Trump may pull US out of Paris climate deal

COP29 Preview: Hot Talk vs. Reality

It’s All About the Money

Green Activists Are Coming for Your Money

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:

*** How Can We ‘Trust The Science’ When We Can’t Trust The Data?

*** Science Shock: U.K. Met Office is “Inventing” Temperature Data from 100 Non-Existent Stations

*** Manufacturing Consensus on Climate Change

Charitable Climate-Change Entities have Adopted Woke Attributes

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

*** President-Elect Trump: The final nail in the coffin of the environmental globalists?

*** Dutch appeals court overturns landmark climate ruling against Shell

Let’s Make CO2 Great Again

“Hygiene Poverty”: The Brutal Reality of Life in Net Zero Britain

US Election:

*** Comparing the Pollsters’ Presidential Predictions

*** Election Integrity Going Forward

Recharging The Light Of Liberty

US Election Integrity:

*** Suing Election Officials Proves Effective

PA Democrats openly admit to counting illegal ballots in McCormick-Casey race

Democrats are now proposing a shadow government to go against President Trump

Minnesota election judge faces felony charges over accepting unregistered votes

US Election — Trump:

*** President-elect Trump’s bold plan to dismantle the Deep State and return power to the people

*** No, Joe. This is no peaceful transfer of power

Choice of globalist water boy John Thune as Senate Majority Leader a slap in the face to 73 million Trump voters

Trump’s sentencing is canceled. Will reality ever take a bite out of Bragg’s outrageous case?

Progressives Insult Americans Because Trump Won

US Election — Trump’s Cabinet:

*** RFK Jr. tapped to lead Department of Health and Human Services

*** Trump taps former WWE CEO Linda McMahon to serve as education secretary

Karoline Leavitt feels well-prepared to tackle ‘hostile territory’ as White House press secretary

Who is Susie Wiles, Trump’s Chief of Staff?

US Election — Musk & Ramaswamy:

*** Musk & Vivek Targeting Government Waste

*** Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy: The DOGE Plan to Reform Government

*** Ramaswamy says some federal agencies will be ‘deleted outright’ by DOGE with ‘mass reductions’ on tap

Pentagon holds briefing as dept fails to explain where $824 billion went

Misc US Politics:

*** The Plot to Manage Democracy

*** Federal court upends decades of environmental regulations

*** How Helene Gave Way to ‘Hurricane Snafu’ in the Carolinas

General Flynn: Democrats Must Remove President Biden Now

The UK’s Soviet Justice System

5,800 IRS Agents and Contractor Employees Owe Over $546 Million in Unpaid Taxes

Societally US:

*** The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog

Reality Wins: Transwomen Are Men

Religion Related:

*** Trump: ‘Religion and Christianity are the biggest things missing from this country’

Pope Francis rejects tradition, opts for wooden casket and burial outside Vatican

Science:

*** How Federal Funding Constrains Scientific Insight

*** Scientists Haven’t ‘Saved’ the Ozone Layer

*** Scientific American Ignored Years of Editor Laura Helmuth’s Appalling Conduct, Then Scalped Her After I Circulated Her Own Tweets

Health:

*** Does ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care Affect IQ?

*** Top Agriculture Exec: ‘All of Canada’s Shrimp Are Injected with mRNA, America Will Follow’

Survey Study Shows How to Reduce Family Physician Burnout

COVID-19 — Misc:

*** Whistleblow Uncovers Covid Scam (Germany)

*** Now it can be told: the truth about the Covid jabs is slowly coming out

*** Nature paper shows the COVID “vaccines” increased your risk of getting COVID

*** How $190 Billion in COVID-19 Relief Spending Failed America’s Students

*** The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps Nationwide

Medical Journal Censorship is the Proximate Cause of the Covid Vaccine Catastrophe

Catholic woman fired for refusing COVID vaccine wins over $12M in Michigan court

Israel/Ukraine:

Pray for the safety of the Israeli people

Latest Developments in Israel

Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

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President Trump Announces Doug Burgum Will Lead the NEW “National Energy Council”

Energy independence is back!

This Council will oversee the path to U.S. ENERGY DOMINANCE by cutting red tape.

President Trump just announced the forming of a new council called the National Energy Council to propel the nation into energy dominance. North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum will lead it.

“It will consist of all Departments and Agencies involved in the permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation, and transportation of ALL forms of American Energy. This Council will oversee the path to U.S. ENERGY DOMINANCE by cutting red tape, enhancing private sector investments across all sectors of the Economy, and by focusing on INNOVATION over longstanding, but totally unnecessary, regulation.”

WATCH: President Trump forms National Energy Council to propel the nation into energy dominance

‘Drill, drill, drill’: New energy council signals Trump to prioritize energy production

By:  – November 16, 2024 

President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement Friday afternoon that his pick for Interior secretary, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, would also coordinate a new council on energy policy is a sign the incoming administration will make energy production a core part of its domestic policy.

Few details of the new National Energy Council were available Friday, as activists and lawmakers processed the surprise 4 p.m. Eastern announcement. But the move likely reflects a focus by Trump and his next administration on energy production, including fossil fuels.

“They’re signaling ahead of time that this is one of their priority areas,” Frank Maisano, a senior principal at the energy-focused law and lobbyist firm Bracewell LLP, said in an interview.

Burgum “will be joining my Administration as both Secretary of the Interior and, as Chairman of the newly formed, and very important, National Energy Council, which will consist of all Departments and Agencies involved in the permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation, transportation, of ALL forms of American Energy,” a written statement from Trump said.

“This Council will oversee the path to U.S. ENERGY DOMINANCE by cutting red tape, enhancing private sector investments across all sectors of the Economy, and by focusing on INNOVATION over longstanding, but totally unnecessary, regulation.”

Trump said the council’s objective to increase U.S. energy supply would benefit the domestic economy and allies overseas and help power “A.I. superiority.”

“The National Energy Council will foster an unprecedented level of coordination among federal agencies to advance American energy,” Burgum said in a written statement. “By establishing U.S. energy dominance, we can jumpstart our economy, drive down costs for consumers and generate billions in revenue to help reduce our deficit.”

It was unclear what the role of the Department of Energy would be in such an arrangement. The current secretary in the Biden administration is Jennifer Granholm, a former governor of Michigan.

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Does Trump signal the end of climate change extravaganzas?

NEWS FLASH: John Robson, of the Climate Discussion Nexus, reports from Baku about COP29.


The 29th UN climate conference convened in Baku, Azerbaijan, on November 11 under something of a cloud. Or rather a pile-up of incoming storm fronts. There were a lot of reasons for delegates to arrive pre-discouraged. And then came the Trump of Doom. Or a peculiar orange formation mistaken for same.

I haven’t actually heard a whole lot of detailed references to the outcome of the American election, which not only put someone openly contemptuous of climate alarmism into the White House but also gave his party control of both houses of Congress. But it’s not as though people didn’t notice. Thus American marquee New York Times columnist David Wallace-Wells, who I believe is absent physically but is certainly present ideologically, just wrote bitterly:

“Trump’s election may look like a black dawn to climate activists. And indeed it is: When the timelines of climate action are so short, and the paths to climate stability so narrow and difficult, any setback is a disaster.”

That he then whistled a happy “global renewables boom” tune that couldn’t change the mood. Not least because his own publication’s “Climate Forward” promptly emailed about “Trump’s potential threat to weather data”.

Canada’s “The Hub” chimed in with a typical Canadian perspective, aka something nobody outside Canada cares about at all: “There’s no reason for Trump to put the brakes on Canada’s low-carbon economic growth”. Nor indeed any reason for anyone to care, given our trivial contribution to supposedly planet-roasting “carbon pollution” despite our outsized contribution to sanctimony on the subject.

The strange thing is that Wallace-Wells did have a point, accidentally. It is true that Trump cannot stop America’s renewables boom, or for that matter Canada’s low-carbon economic growth, because neither is happening anyway. And more broadly, Trump can’t derail the COP agenda because it’s already off the bridge and smouldering in broken chunks in the river below.

Petrostate hospitality

As delegates here must be dimly aware, this conference is problematic in many ways. Including being hosted, for the second straight year, by a petrostate. Azerbaijan cannot really be called democratic, except by regime propagandists and I’m not sure how much they bother. (In case you all aren’t from around there, it’s an hereditary dictatorship whose late president Heydar Aliyev, who died in 2003, had been the local Soviet party boss from 1969 to 1983. He rose to that position via a KGB career that saw him reach the Politburo, before falling out with Gorbachev, being “retired”, then becoming president of Azerbaijan in a military coup in 1993. That it is ruled by the New Azerbaijan Party should not mislead you. But I digress.

The key point is that Azerbaijan is a poor country with a messy history and a lot of problems and one big hope: the energy industry. It accounts for about a third of the entire economy and 90 percent of exports, and they can’t just chuck it into the Caspian Sea and go back to living on salt.

In fact, speaking of the Caspian Sea, it’s in terrible condition ecologically. And as with things like having enough food, potable water, sewers, the ability to defend the nation’s borders in a rough neighbourhood, the idea of cleaning up the Caspian relies on generating a lot more wealth than they currently have. And while the government does hope to foster the tourist industry, an aspiration dealt a harsh blow by COVID, the truth is that Azerbaijan is hard to get to and there aren’t a lot of obvious reasons to come here on vacation.

They do have half the world’s active mud volcanoes, which is kind of cool. And also the Gobustan Petroglyphswhich were also. We went and saw both. But it’s no substitute for being the world’s 21st largest oil exporter, into a pipeline through Georgia and Turkey (I told you it was a tough neighbourhood) into Europe.

Azerbaijan is not alone, of course, in being dependent on hydrocarbon energy. Essentially the whole world is. But where many nations are dependent primarily as consumers, no small matter, some are also dependent as producers. And as the current president Ilhan Aliyev pointedly informed delegates, his government wasn’t about to ditch their key industry.

I could get off on a tangent about the challenges of “modernization”, which is actually and crucially Westernization, in a place with Azerbaijan’s history including forcible incorporation into the Soviet Union from 1920 to 1991 after previous forcible incorporation into the Russian Empire and a lot of other seedy ventures before that. They promptly introduced a modified Latin alphabet and phased out the Cyrillic one, though the replacement has 32 letters, about half of which are not pronounced the way we would.

Oh, and the roads are littered with Ladas, sometimes literally, though also in Baku at least you also see a lot of modern cars made everywhere but here. Likewise the name for car, “Avto”, was made in… Russia. Not a good sign.

There. I did get off on a tangent. But not entirely or I would have edited it out. It’s pertinent because the challenges facing anyone trying to create a decent life for the inhabitants of Azerbaijan are enormous (and arguably include its current government). But they would certainly get worse, even catastrophically so, if the economic lifeline were cut. Which brings me back to Donald Trump who, I’m told, is surprisingly popular here among people who have any idea who he is.

A key reason why the second election of Trump is so big delegates can’t cope with it is this. It’s not just that Orange Man Bad, or anti-Americanism, is one of the forms of hatred not merely permitted but encouraged in our modern, tolerant, diverse, equitably bitter world. It’s that the return of Trump, warts and all, is part of a much larger reaction that threatens the COP agenda and much more besides.

For all his flaws, he represents an overdue and necessary backlash of ordinary people against presumptuous elites who despise them and their lives and would casually wreck them, from COVID lockdowns to Net Zero. And whatever else comes along. And the COP delegates here, I think, dimly sense that it’s a powerful force. Only dimly, because they live in an intellectual as well as sociological bubble.

Copping it sweet

Despite the lack of mental diversity or real debate here, another undercurrent of gloom is that, as the name suggests, it’s the 29th such conference. And for the first seven, or even 15, it was possible to believe they really were going to produce a dramatic, rapid, workable solution to the crisis they claim is so immense and urgent that the great and good must gather every year, and often in between, to solve it for the wretched and ungrateful proles on expense accounts funded by same.

But somewhere around COP27 it dawned on a lot of them that they could not remake the world economy to run on wind, solar, unicorns or empty promises. So they switched to this notion that what the Soviets used to call the First World (and the smart set happily went along it), was going to give not billions but trillions of dollars to the “Third World” every year to deal with the effects of bad weather we allegedly caused by driving cars in 1972 or something.

What exactly the 50,000 or so people who have descended on Baku in the largest tourist incursion in its history make of all these considerations is unclear. I do not think 100 of them left the “Galactic metropolis” bubble of airport, taxi, hotel, taxi, conference centre, taxi, hotel, taxi and airport to see the country. It is in one sense a cosmopolitan gathering, with delegates from Scotland to Burkina Faso to Timor Leste to Kazakhstan to Indonesia.

In fact, I met one who was from Indonesia but was on the Kazakh delegation. In some sense it’s all one big if not at the moment especially happy family. And a friend back home asked me how the food was here and I responded that inside the conference centre it was quite good but exactly what you’d find anywhere in the galactic metropolis; it could as easily have been a sandwich and coffee bar in, say, Paris airport, complete with gluten-free apple cookies. They are here to save the world but not to see it or talk to it.

I do not think most of them, despite their pretensions, really know or care what life is like for the average Azerbaijani nor, crucially, what it would be like if their aspirations to “move away from fossil fuels” in short order were realized. For their information, and yours, there are just over 10 million people in this country, about a quarter of them in the greater Baku area, if that’s the right term, and Baku is basically the only metropolis. The rest live very differently, and close to the edge, though many in Baku are in straightened circumstances too.

Abandoning any realistic prospect of getting to “Net Zero” or meeting “Paris targets” or “1.5C” or any of that other insider jargon must nevertheless surely have had a depressing impact, even if many of them pretend it might still happen or at least don’t challenge the ubiquitous slogans on the walls here about it. But gathering year after year to try to extract lavish but insincere promises from First World politicians skilled at same can’t improve the mood much. And now there’s Donald Trump not just saying the whole thing is silly, but saying it on behalf of a massive constituency in America and beyond.

It’s too big and too awful to be discussed except in hushed tones or knowing asides. But yes, he has trumped their ace of conferences. And they know it.


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AUTHOR

John Robson is the Executive Director of the Climate Discussion Nexus, a documentary filmmaker, a columnist with the National Post, the Epoch Times and Loonie Politics. He holds a PhD in American history from the University of Texas at Austin.

RELATED VIDEO: Oil and gas are “gift of God”, Azerbaijan leader Ilham Heydar oghlu Aliyev tells climate summit

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AGENDA 47: The Plan to Dismantle the Deep State

Agenda 47 is the 20 point plan to dismantle and destroy the deep state while at the same time rebuilding America into a free nation once again.

Agenda 47 restores and strengthens our Constitutional Republic, returns power to the people and makes Americans healthy, happy and prosperous once again.

The 20 point plan

  1. Seal the border and stop the migrant invasion
  2. Carry out the largest deportation operation in American history
  3. End inflation, and make America affordable again
  4. Make America the dominant energy producer in the world, by far!
  5. STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER
  6. Large tax cuts for workers, and no tax on tips!
  7. Defend our constitution, our bill of rights, and our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms
  8. Prevent world war three, restore peace in Europe and in the middle east, and build a great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country — all made in America
  9. End the weaponization of government against the American people
  10. Stop the migrant crime epidemic, demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence, and lock up violent offenders
  11. Rebuild our cities, including Washington D,C., making them safe, clean, and beautiful again.
  12. Strengthen and modernize our military, making it, without question, the strongest and most powerful in the world
  13. Keep the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency
  14. Fight for and protect social security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age
  15. Cancel the electric vehicle mandate and cut costly and burdensome regulations
  16. Cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children
  17. Keep men out of women’s sports
  18. Deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again
  19. Secure our elections, including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship
  20. Unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success

President Donald J. Trump Declares War on Cartels

Ending Veteran Homelessness in America

No Welfare for Illegal Aliens

The American Academy

President Trump’s Pledge to Homeschool Families

President Trump’s Message to America’s Auto Workers

President Trump’s Ten Principles For Great Schools Leading To Great Jobs

America Must Have the #1 Lowest Cost Energy and Electricity on Earth

Returning Production of Essential Medicines Back to America and Ending Pharmaceutical Shortages

President Trump Calls for Death Penalty for Human Traffickers

Rescuing America’s Auto Industry from Disastrous Job-Killing Policies

Rebuilding America’s Depleted Military

Protecting Students from the Radical Left and Marxist Maniacs Infecting Educational Institutions

Cementing Fair and Reciprocal Trade with the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act

Using Impoundment to Cut Waste, Stop Inflation, and Crush the Deep State

Addressing Rise of Chronic Childhood Illnesses

Ending the Scourge of Drug Addiction in America

Celebration Of 250 Years Of American Independence at the Iowa State Fairgrounds

Day One Executive Order Ending Citizenship for Children of Illegals and Outlawing Birth Tourism

Protecting Students from the Radical Left and Marxist Maniacs Infecting Educational Institutions

Ending the Nightmare of the Homeless, Drug Addicts, and Dangerously Deranged

Liberating America from Governmental Regulatory Onslaught

Watch more here.

The Bottom Line

We know that when President Trump makes a promise he keeps his promise. We also know that there are Democrats and some Republicans who don’t want Agenda 47 fully implemented.

We will be watching what President Donald J. Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance and the Trump cabinet will do to implement Agenda 47.

We will also be watching what Congress does.

We believe that it will take up to 20 years to fully implement Agenda 47. Therefore we are looking forward to POTUS 47 to get it started followed by two terms for J.D. Vance to make Agenda 47 into Agenda 48, Agenda 49 and beyond.

©2024 Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) All rights reserved.

UN COP 29 Host Proclaims Oil and Gas ‘Gifts from God’

In a major embarrassment for the UN climate regime, the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, took the stage at COP 29 and proclaimed oil and gas to be gifts from God.

Azerbaijan is the host country for this years UN climate conference.

Aliyev also denounced what he called the “fake news”  media for hypocrisy in labeling Azerbaijan a “petro state,” while the United States and Europe produce many times more oil than his nation.

WATCH: Oil and gas are “gift of God”, Azerbaijan leader Ilham Heydar oghlu Aliyev tells climate summit

You can’t make this stuff up!

In a major embarrassment for the UN climate regime the president of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, took the stage at COP 29 and proclaimed oil and gas to be gifts from God.

That’s not exactly how the Left’s climate narrative is supposed to go.

CFACT’s delegation is at UN COP 29, the biggest UN climate conference of the year.  Azerbaijan is this year’s host country.

Aliyev also denounced what he called the “fake news” media for hypocrisy in labeling his country a “petro state,” while the United States and Europe produce many times more oil and gas than his nation.  He also told the assembled conference delegates that Azerbaijan’s greenhouse gas emissions (if that’s your thing) are tiny when compared to other nations and the world.

The UN climate process has degenerated into farce, although it remains an incredibly expensive farce.

The Wall Street Journal called for this to be the last UN climate conference, writing that:

“The real joke of these summits is that so many people still take them seriously. Whatever one thinks of the arguments surrounding climate change, there won’t be a material reduction in global carbon emissions until China, India and other developing countries—such as, say, Azerbaijan—agree to sacrifice their economic growth on the altar of Western green fixations. This isn’t happening in practice, and Mr. Aliyev’s comments suggest leaders of those countries feel less pressure to pretend.

It makes you wonder if COP29 may be the last time anyone tries to organize a spectacle like this. The world should be so lucky.”

The UN climate regime is indeed faltering.  President Biden skipped COP 29 as did many other world leaders.

I told OAN News that, “you don’t see a Macron here, you don’t see a Justin Trudeau here, you don’t see leaders of the various western countries because they would be the ones giving out the money.  What you do see at COP 29 are leaders from a number of developing countries looking for money.”

Donald Trump’s victory poses a major challenge to the UN and the climate Left.

While there is plenty of wailing and gnashing of teeth from the usual suspects, you’d be surprised how many delegates and attendees here at COP 29 are quietly (sometimes not so quietly) cheering America on for our election results.

As I told OAN, many representatives of the developing world think it is crazy to talk about giving up private automobiles, abundant electricity and eating meat.  They want a high living standard for their countries.  They view President Trump as the leader who can restore sanity to climate and energy policy.

For nature and people too.

AUTHOR

Craig Rucker

Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president. Widely heralded as a leader in the free market environmental, think tank community in Washington, D.C., Rucker is a frequent guest on radio talk shows, written extensively in numerous publications, and has appeared in such media outlets as Fox News, OANN, Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hill, among many others.

Rucker is also the co-producer of the award-winning film Climate Hustle, which was the #1 box-office film in America during its one night showing in 2016, as well as the acclaimed Climate Hustle 2 staring Hollywood actor Kevin Sorbo released in 2020. As an accredited observer to the United Nations, Rucker has also led CFACT delegations to some 30 major UN conferences, including those in Copenhagen, Istanbul, Kyoto, Bonn, Marrakesh, Rio de Janeiro, and Warsaw, to name a few.

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Morano on Fox: President Trump “will pull the UN climate agenda down”

Marc Morano discusses COP29 and the climate agenda under the new Trump administration on Fox & Friends.

COP 29: The U.S. can finally escape the Paris Climate Accords

Consider the following

During Donald Trump’s years after he pulled us out of the Paris Accords, the global temperature had its ups and downs but was essentially level.  Look what happened.

From  a Close up of Dr Roy Spencer’s site https://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/

Now suppose I thought like the mainstream media does about every weather event, but wanted to make my point for my side of the issue.

Here is the headline:

Joe Biden causes a massive temperature jump once America rejoins the Paris accords.

Nothing is further from the truth. Yet if you are a warped propagandist, you can take any event and blame it on someone, in this case, I can blame it on Biden putting us back in the all pain, no gain, Paris Accords

But it would be a lie.

What is true is the Paris Accords are UNABLE TO MEANINGFULLY ALTER THE GLOBAL CLIMATE.  It’s a waste of money and  a useless feel-good exercise.

In fact, the recent jump in temperature should be a nail in the coffin of the man-made climate change pushers for it proves it has to be water vapor linked. The simple intuitive explanation: Increase the water vapor and you increase the amount of energy in the atmosphere, and heat is a measure of energy.

Let us look at water vapors in relation to the whole shooting match.

Source: https://scienceofclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/SCC-Koutsoyiannis-DogTail-Nov-2024.pdf

Co2 is next to nothing That means the increase in co2 has to have much less effect and is overwhelmed by clouds and water vapor. That man is only responsible for a small amount of that, and the US only about 10% of that, which makes it absurd to be dumping money and support into what is a fool’s errand.

If you simply look at Saturation mixing ratio tables ( I have shown this many times, so I am not going to go over it again), it explains not only why it would warm, but where it is warming most, in the driest coldest places. Much of the warming is in those areas during their cold seasons. Clouds have been decreasing in general across the tropics and increasing in the arctic areas, a sign of a distorted warming pattern brought about by the relationship of water vapor to temperature.

The combination of the strong El Nino and Tonga blasting the most measurable amounts of water vapor in the air led to the rise The question is why are the oceans warming and I like the hypothesis of geothermal input brought about by changes in the exosphere ( the core of the earth) reacting to the change in gravitational pull by the alignments of the planets and the sun, changing the center or the gravitational forcing. I will have an expert on my show, the Wise Guys of Weather on Am 970 the Answer, NYC 5 pm on Sundays, on this matter on Nov 24. It is mind-boggling but worth considering.

But the left in all its glory wants to scream at President-elect Trump for taking us out of the accords, which we should not be in anyway. Co’2, for whatever it may do, is dwarfed by large natural-scale forcing. And that should be clear as day given what we have just witnessed from the volcano and strong El Nino and the cumulative reaction. I have a hypothesis, that the left hates and a lot of people on my side don’t like on the geothermal spreading and the work of Dr. Arthuer Viterito jives with what this 50-year forecaster snow has observed. For whatever reason the oceans ARE WARMING but not because of what CO2 is doing. In fact, the warming oceans are likely a major contributor to the rise in CO2. If we reduced man’s CO2 input to zero on the chart above, the other drivers would simply take up whatever little effect it has.

Here is my forecast. Once President Trump stops this waste of money and pulls us out of the accords, the temperature will level off unless there is another Tongo or major El Nino. So if you try to link the warmth to man-made sources because the source of the spike has nothing to do with it, you have to be blind or brainwashed.

Or a liar.

Take your pick

In the meantime the sooner we are out of this worthless accord, the better.

AUTHOR

Joe Bastardi

Joe Bastardi is a pioneer in extreme weather and long-range forecasting. He is the author of “The Climate Chronicles: Inconvenient Revelations You Won’t Hear From Al Gore — and Others” which you can purchase at the CFACT bookstore. His new book The Weaponization of Weather in the Phony Climate war can be found here: phonyclimatewar.com

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God comes knocking at the door of science

Science at the Doorstep to God: Science and Reason in Support of God, the Soul, and Life after Death   by Fr Robert Spitzer SJ | Ignatius Press | 2023, 299 pages


Are all scientists really atheists? What can science do and what can it not do? Can it at least help understand whether the universe needs an intelligent creator? Can it throw light on the human soul as trans-physical, capable of surviving bodily death?

Fr Robert Spitzer believes it can, by offering a combination of converging arguments, as St John Henry Newman does in The Grammar of Assent. Author of Evidence for God from Contemporary Physics and articles about astrophysics and cosmology, Fr Spitzer has navigated the connections and disconnections between faith and science in a balanced and wise way, rather in the spirit of Fr Georges Lemaȋtre, proposer of the Big Bang, of whom he has much to write in this book. He shows that eight recent studies confirm the existence of an intelligent creator of physical reality as well as a trans-physical soul which survives bodily death

Did the universe have a beginning?

Fr Spitzer begins by asking whether science points to a beginning of the universe. There have been many theories about the cause of our universe: infinite or finite multiverses, a bouncing universe that waxes and wanes, of which our universe is just an interlude, a string of universes, and an infinite steady state quantum cosmology, which also would predate “our” universe, initiated by the Big Bang.

All of these theories, however, either require a beginning anyway, or else are incompatible with the facts, according to the best scientists in the area, whose arguments Spitzer rehearses in detail, but readably for the layman.

So was the Big Bang really the beginning?

All the indications are that it was: you cant have an expanding universe without a beginning; entropy would long ago have killed our universe if it were infinite, and so, if physical reality had a beginning, prior to which there was nothing, we are left with a something” beyond physical reality which can cause it all, that is, create it out of nothing. Sounds familiar?  

Life, the impossible

How about the extraordinary and unlikely fine-tuning which was needed for life to emerge? Sir Fred Hoyle, an adamant atheist, after discovering the need for exceedingly precise fine-tuning in the resonance levels of oxygen, carbon, helium, and beryllium needed for carbon bonding and carbon abundance, concluded that some supercalculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom”.

Spitzers most challenging chapter rehearses the background and subsequent development of this point. Spitzer looks long and hard at all of the other options, and comes to the conclusions that it is virtually impossible” for life to have emerged: the creator (or whatever) would have had to aim at a tiny (1/1010/123 ) volume of the available space. This figure is so unimaginably small (the denominator has so many figures if it were written out the solar system could not contain it) that most physicists agree that it is impossible to hit it. Low entropy, the cosmological constant, the ratio of mass to energy straight after the Big Bang also point to an impossible” achievement. But it has been achieved; so how did it happen?

Many hypotheses have been tried; string theory, cyclic or bouncing cosmologies, the multiverse… All of them cause the problems that they were trying to solve: they require a beginning, they are unobservable, and actually make it impossible in principle to observe what we actually are observing and to be what we actually are: carbon-based intelligent life forms. We really do need an unrestricted transphysical/transmaterial conscious intelligence” to ground our universe.

Can we disprove God?

Impossible. Neither observable evidence nor intrinsic contradiction could ever manage that, since the God of Christianity, Judaism and Islam is beyond observation, unlike the god” which is denied by Richard Dawkins & Co. But, more positively, can Gods existence be proved? Spitzer offers a basic Aquinas-style demonstration: there must be a unique and unrestricted uncaused reality at the basis of the whole of reality, or else there would be nothing at all, since everything else depends on it here and now. Such a reality will be spiritual, completely intelligible and unrestrictedly intelligent, aware of the what, why and wherefore of all caused realities.

Is human intelligence all that special?

A central theme of the book is an analysis of near-death experience, as evidence for a trans-physical soul. Spitzer uses peer-reviewed studies which offer a well-judged and careful analysis of the facts. We have evidence of blind people being able to see perfectly and identify surroundings; terminal lucidity in Alzheimer and hydrocephalic patients with almost no cerebral activity, leading to the question: is the brain really necessary?”

Could we have simply evolved materially to being intelligent animals? For Noam Chomsky, for instance, this will not work. We need to communicate knowledge, with declarative sentences. The once fashionable behaviourism is not at the races when it comes to this phenomenon, involving complex declarative sentences which associate subjects with predicate/object with multiple words between them, etc. Behaviourists just cant cope with long sentences.

Another argument for the trans-physical soul: for Thomas Nagel, atheist author of What is it Like to Be a Bat?, there is a subjective feel” about being an organism which goes beyond the actual organic make-up of the being. Facts about self-consciousness, therefore, are further facts about our world, over and above the physical facts. There is something about consciousness that requires a trans-physical principle, since we can also reflect on ourselves, project ourselves into the future and have an awareness of our own inner world, distinct from the outer world we are inhabiting; even higher primates are unable to do this.

Transcendent experiences

Spitzer’s final chapter deals with religious experience, conscience, and the transcendental desire for perfect truth, love, goodness beauty and being/home are all matters which paint a picture of a truly material, carbon-based being, which still cannot be completely explained in a material way.

He concludes that when you take into account the beginning of the universe, the impossible fine-tuning for life, the fact that the world cannot explain itself, scientifically accepted near-death experiences, the irreducibility of self-consciousness and the transcendent religious, moral and aesthetic experiences it gives rise to, there is a converging series of indications of God and the soul which it is difficult to ignore. Science is at the doorstep to God, as Fr Spitzer claims, and the more we are able to reflect on its findings the more open we become to God’s existence and the reality of the spiritual soul.   


If there is a God, the next question is: does He matter? What do you think?


AUTHOR

Rev. Patrick Gorevan is a priest of the Opus Dei Prelature. He lectures in philosophy in St Patrick’s College Maynooth and is academic tutor at Maryvale Institute. He has written on the early phenomenological movement, virtue ethics and the role of emotion in moral action. 

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Welcome! We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections.

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Checkout the 2024, 2023, & 2022 archives, plus asterisked items below.


— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —

If You Only Have Time to Read Some Select Articles:

*** Full Speech: Donald Trump declares victory in 2024 Presidential Election

*** Winning: The Trump Effect

*** A Reason to Rejoice

*** RFK, Jr. Unriddles America’s Biggest Political Shift Since the Civil War

*** Trump’s Assignments to RFKjr

*** My Letter to RFKjr

*** The Two Factors That Cheated Trump Out Of Even More Electoral Votes

*** How Republicans Tackled Election Integrity Threats and Swept 9 Ballot Integrity Measures

*** Cheating on US Elections has Never Looked Easier

*** Mainstream Media Overdramatized and Underestimated MAGA

*** Here Lies the Mainstream Media

*** A Warning to the Trump Administration

*** “Woke” Theocracy and the Suppression of Free Speech

*** A beginners guide to news sources not influenced by government narratives, legacy media, or biased ‘fact checkers.’

*** Humanity’s Race to Become More Fake and Artificial

*** Idaho regional health department becomes first to ban COVID vaccine

*** Pfizer’s ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ & Media Reporting Failure

*** The WHO’s Road to Totalitarianism

*** The History of the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) Model

*** Grading Florida’s Schools: A for Achievement and Return on Investment

*** Trump announces his 10-point plan to rebuild America’s school system

*** Get DEI out of STEM

*** Lipstick on a Pig (rebranding DEI)

*** How I hunt down fake degrees and zombie universities

*** The Carbon Capture Pipeline Deception

*** A Looming Political Earthquake

*** AI knows it is biased on climate change

*** World Bank Missing $41 Billion in Climate Funds

*** Climate Journalism Done Right

*** Who Really Cares About Climate Change?

*** Florida Major Hurricanes, 1900-2024: What Do the Statistics Show?

*** How President Trump can stop offshore wind on day one

*** ‘Not feasible’ – Engineers whack offshore wind plans

*** Sweden says no to 13 Wind Projects, as they could slow its response to a Russian missile attack

*** Massive Big Wind Project Off Massachusetts Coast Suffers Another Big Blow

*** Ford lost $58,391 for every EV it sold during the 3rd quarter

*** Electric Vehicles: A Tale of Woe in the Absence of the Market Process

*** Affordable electricity can resolve worldwide poverty

*** SCOTUS Stumbles: EPA’s Power Plant Rule is Inflicting Irreparable Harm

*** Resolving the Dissonance Regarding Fossil Fuels

*** Report: Estimation of the quantity of metals to phase out fossil fuels in a full system replacement, compared to mineral resources

*** Fracking and Pennsylvania: Why it Matters

*** Alec Epstein: The most heretical idea in the world

Secondary Education Related:

*** Report: The Key to Fixing the US Education System

*** Grading Florida’s Schools: A for Achievement and Return on Investment

*** Get DEI out of STEM

*** Trump announces his 10-point plan to rebuild America’s school system

High school students can understand climate change

Higher Education Related:

*** Lipstick on a Pig (rebranding DEI)

*** How I hunt down fake degrees and zombie universities

Heritage Releases 2024 Education Freedom Report Card, Interactive College Guide

Yale Astronomy Department Website Features ‘BIPOC’ Support Statement

Artificial Intelligence:

*** When AI Takes Control Of Your Computer

Do Artificial and “Alternative” Intelligence Systems Pose a Threat to Human Existence?

Unreliables (General):

Rising Electricity Rates under Biden (Texas wholesale up 200%)

An Australian community’s expensive experiment to go all renewable, is over after a fortnight of blackouts

Wind Energy — Offshore:

*** How President Trump can stop offshore wind on day one

*** ‘Not feasible’ – Engineers whack offshore wind plans

*** Sweden says no to 13 Wind Projects, as they could slow its response to a Russian missile attack

*** Massive Big Wind Project Off Massachusetts Coast Suffers Another Big Blow

Whales Declare BOEM is a Terrorist Organization Committing Genocide

Wind Energy — Other:

*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)

Intermittent Wind Generation on Full Display in the First Two November Days

Dutch coalition party calls for stop on land turbines after devastating Clintel report

Nuclear Energy:

Thorium’s potential as a source of fuel for the future, and its other important uses

Fossil Fuel Energy:

*** Resolving the Dissonance Regarding Fossil Fuels

*** Report: Estimation of the quantity of metals to phase out fossil fuels in a full system replacement, compared to mineral resources

*** Fracking and Pennsylvania: Why it Matters

*** Alec Epstein: The most heretical idea in the world

Resolving the Dissonance Regarding Fossil Fuels

Coal Is Still King In Spite Of War On ‘Fossil Fuels’

Electric Vehicles (EVs):

*** Ford lost $58,391 for every EV it sold during the 3rd quarter

*** Electric Vehicles: A Tale of Woe in the Absence of the Market Process

The “Energy Transition” coupled with “White Gold” Generates Battery Fires

Misc Energy:

*** Affordable electricity can resolve worldwide poverty

*** SCOTUS Stumbles: EPA’s Power Plant Rule is Inflicting Irreparable Harm

Alex Epstein: Answers to questions about fracking, Keystone, hurricanes, and more

Navigating the physical realities of the energy transition

FBI thwarts man’s alleged plan to attack Nashville power grid with explosive-laden drone

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:

*** The Carbon Capture Pipeline Deception

*** A Looming Political Earthquake

*** AI knows it is biased on climate change

*** World Bank Missing $41 Billion in Climate Funds

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

*** Climate Journalism Done Right

*** Who Really Cares About Climate Change?

*** Florida Major Hurricanes, 1900-2024: What Do the Statistics Show?

For the second time in a week, climate scientists surprised with an increased CO2 absorption mechanism

Global climate action plans ‘falling miles short’, warns UN

Trump would withdraw US from Paris climate treaty again, campaign says

US Election — Trump:

*** Full Speech: Donald Trump declares victory in 2024 Presidential Election

*** Winning: The Trump Effect

*** A Reason to Rejoice

How a Trump presidency could lead to a purge at the Pentagon

Why Trump Won | Victor Davis Hanson

Song: The Outlaw and the Hillbilly

A Victory for America

Apres Deluge…

US Election — RFKjr:

*** RFK, Jr. Unriddles America’s Biggest Political Shift Since the Civil War

*** Trump’s Assignments to RFKjr

*** My Letter to RFKjr

US Govt Agency Nominees from Citizens

US Election Integrity:

*** The Two Factors That Cheated Trump Out Of Even More Electoral Votes

*** How Republicans Tackled Election Integrity Threats and Swept 9 Ballot Integrity Measures

*** Cheating on US Elections has Never Looked Easier

*** Report: Beyond the Ballot: A Survey of Statistical Methods for Uncovering Election Anomalies

Beating Cheating; Talking Truth

GOP prepared for pivotal court battles that could decide 2024 elections

“There’s no question NBC knows” Saturday Night Live broke the law

Arizona county defends restoring 98,000 with unconfirmed citizenship to voter rolls

‘Tipping the scales’: House GOP leaders rip ActBlue after Dem fundraising giant hit with subpoena

GOP lawmakers sound alarm on military voting ‘deficiencies’ ahead of Election Day

US Elections — The Electoral College:

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, the Electoral College, and the ”Urban SuperState”

The Electoral College Serves an Important Purpose

Do You Understand the Electoral College?

Misc US Politics:

*** Mainstream Media Overdramatized and Underestimated MAGA

*** Here Lies the Mainstream Media

*** A Warning to the Trump Administration

*** “Woke” Theocracy and the Suppression of Free Speech

Is wokeness hampering FEMA’s response to Helene?

TV Network calls Kamala Harris’ conduct ‘shocking’

Five key questions on Election 2024 and crypto currency

Court strikes down New York’s John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act

Societally US:

*** A beginners guide to news sources not influenced by government narratives, legacy media, or biased ‘fact checkers.’

*** Humanity’s Race to Become More Fake and Artificial

The Influx of Illegal Aliens Impacting Community Functions

Religion Related:

*** Vatican says Archbishop Viganò ‘guilty’ of schism and excommunicated

*** Archbishop Viganò publishes book telling his side of his excommunication story

Catholic swing voters were critical to Trump’s blowout victory: ‘Harris snubbed us’

The Foolish Quest to Save Mankind

Science:

*** The History of the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) Model

Health:

*** Pfizer’s ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ & Media Reporting Failure

*** The WHO’s Road to Totalitarianism

What Are the 72 Other Genders?

Should the Body Roundness Index Replace BMI?

Beware: Vaccine Passports And Cult Worship Are Around The Corner

COVID-19 — Misc:

*** Idaho regional health department becomes first to ban COVID vaccine

Israel/Ukraine:

Pray for the safety of the Israeli people

Latest Developments in Israel

Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

A well-rated source to make a Ukraine donation

Latest Developments in Ukraine


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WINNING: The Trump Effect

It’s been three days…..Let’s recap:

Hamas wants an immediate end to the war

Trump Gives Hamas until Inauguration Day to return the hostages

The Houthis surrender just hours after Trump wins Presidency saying, “Our operation in the international waters were for defensive purposes only, and we announce an immediate ceasefire.”

The EU said it will buy its oil from America not Russia.

— Qatar has told all Hamas officials in the country: You are no longer welcome here. Leave the country immediately.

Iran’s currency has crashed

Donald Trump and Elon Musk informed Zelenskyy that the war is over and urged him to prepare for negotiations. They also stated that no additional funds or weapons will be sent to Ukraine.

– Trump lawfare is disappearing (here and here)

The stock market is soaring

— Interest rates are down

The migrant caravan that was bound for our southern border has BROKEN UP now that Trump has won.

— China is optimistic and talking peaceful co-existence

Federal Judge strikes down Biden regime’s citizenship for illegals

The world is healing.

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‘Trump Wins, Planet Loses’ — Morano heads to UN’s COP29 in Azerbaijan — Gore depressed — Bernie Sanders: ‘Struggle against climate change is over’

Mag: ‘Trump Wins, Planet Loses’ —

Plus: Morano heading to UN climate COP29 in Azerbaijan to help celebrate funeral of Net Zero —

Gore depressed —

Trump ‘a wrecking ball’ to climate —

Sen. Bernie Sanders: ‘The global struggle against climate change is over’

Climate Depot note: I will be on the ground again this year attending the UN climate summit COP29 in Azerbaijan. Morano will be there for the week of November 10th through 15 in Baku, following the UN’s every effort to squelch your freedom and continue the dark path of net-zero rationing of energy, food, freedom of movement, and free speech. This will be my 20th out of the past 22  international UN summits to attend in person.

Flashback 2016: UN Armed Security Shuts Down Morano After he SHREDS UN Paris Pact at Climate Summit Next To Trump Cut-out

This year’s summit is being dubbed the “finance COP” because climate and green energy lobbyists are descending on the event to try to funnel even more U.S. taxpayer money into their pockets.

Morano: “With Donald Trump winning the US presidential election, the United Nations COP29 will turn into a giant wake, with the United Nations facing defeat of their anti-human climate agenda. The entire climate agenda is facing utter and complete collapse due to its unrealistic mandates and targets. Failure across the board is occurring, from emission targets to anemic electric vehicle sales to pushback by farmers fighting back against agricultural climate restrictions. The Trump victory will help push the United Nations and its net zero agenda into the dustbin of history. I will be on the ground with other team members to report daily on what’s happening post-election at one of the most consequential UN climate summits.”

Trump wins U.S. presidency! Net Zero, UN climate pacts, Green New Deal & Inflation Reduction Act face ruin

Climate Depot’s Marc Morano: “Congratulations to President Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance. Finally, US leadership has returned to fight the international climate agenda. The U.S. will finally have a president back in the Oval Office who will be pro-science, pro-environment, and fight the demented net zero climate agenda, the Green New Deal, and the UN climate treaty process.

President Trump will also be able to face off against the ridiculous, unsustainable, and unscientific claims that emanate from our most esteemed institutions. America will once again be a beacon of scientific realism regarding climate change and energy policy. Bravo!”

Grist mag: ‘Trump Wins, Planet Loses’ – ‘Poised to upend U.S. climate policy’

Ivy League University’s brightest climate bulb, Michael Mann, rips the U.S. for re-electing Trump: ‘America is a failed Democracy…Our people failed us…We now pose a major threat to the planet’

Watch: Sen. Bernie Sanders declares on CNN: ‘If Trump wins, the struggle—the global struggle—against climate change is over’

Despite Climate Concerns, Young Voter Turnout Slumped & Its Support Split Between the Parties

Excerpt from Inside Climate News: 

As early exit polling comes out, it appears that young voters—often expected to reliably support Democratic candidates—did not vote as a monolith. Although Kamala Harris still took the majority of the youth vote, her margin of support from young voters, 6 points, was much smaller than Biden’s 25 point lead in 2020, and young men—unlike in 2020—broke in favor of Trump…

Alice Siu, associate director of the Deliberative Democracy Lab at Stanford University, said that young voters’ opinions were more diverse than may have been expected…

Climate Didn’t Necessarily Move Young Voters to Harris: Young voters also consistently rank climate change as an important issue, and in the lead up to the election some experts suggested that young climate voters could tip the race in favor of Harris.

BBC: Trump victory is a major setback for climate action, experts say

AP: Experts worry Trump’s second term will cripple efforts to stop climate change

POLITICO: What’s at stake for climate policy? ‘Who the hell cares,’ Trump says

Gore depressed by Trump’s victory: ‘All major reform efforts, from civil rights to the climate movement, suffer dark days. And this is surely one’

Al Gore, Founder and Chairman of The Climate Reality Project on Trump winning: “In a moment such as this, it is important to remember that all major reform efforts, from civil rights to the climate movement, suffer dark days. And this is surely one.” Via Gore’s email list on November 6, 2024

‘A wrecking ball’: Experts warn Trump’s win sets back ‘global climate action’ – Poses ‘major threat to the planet’

Trump’s reelection has sweeping climate change consequences

‘It’s going to suck’: Climate world absorbs a reality they’d hoped to avoid: Trump is back!

‘A setback for global climate action’: Trump’s election victory sparks dismay — and defiance — among architects of the UN Paris climate accord

POLITICO: Trump victory a ‘gut punch’ to US climate action – ‘The stakes for the planet could hardly be higher’

Climate activists spray US embassy in London with orange paint after Trump reelection victory

Watch: Morano on Fox on Harris’s fracking flip flops: ‘She really thinks the people of Pennsylvania are stupid’ – Biden-Harris ‘riding the coattails of’ Trump’s energy policies

Grist Mag: ‘Authoritarianism is on the rise. Is climate change to blame?’ – ‘Global warming creates fertile ground for political strongmen to come to power’ – ‘Floods, droughts, & wildfires can help autocratic politicians consolidate power’

Implies Trump can win due to unchecked climate change: McCarthy believes this is true even though supporters of many strongmen — including a third of Americans who voted for Trump in 2020 — deny that climate change is real. “I think that people are reacting to manifestations of climate change or effects of climate change without always or often recognizing them as such,” he said.

Time Mag: ‘Climate change is causing sleep loss’ – ‘Led to 5% more hours of sleep lost worldwide over the past five years’ – Lancet study

CBS News: ‘Threat of foodborne pathogens is growing with climate change, experts warn’ – ‘McDonald’s (E. coli) outbreak is a reminder that climate change is real’

New Study implies UN climate pact can save unborn babies!? – Rising ‘miscarriages due to climate crisis’ – ‘Report aimed at decision-makers’ attending COP29 summit

If Green Energy Is the Future, Bring a Fire Extinguisher – Lithium battery fires are breaking out all over the place

‘Climate’ Policies in a Harris Admin: If Harris wins, ‘every county in America will be ground zero for climate policies’

Morano speaks at Western Kentucky University on climate change & the Great Reset

‘Game over’ for ‘climate action’! UK Guardian: ‘Five ways a Trump presidency would be disastrous for the climate’ – ‘Would restore climate denialism to an Oval Office’ – ‘A purge of science’

Dr. Matthew Wielicki: ‘Insanity at the Polls’: ‘The Myth of Voting to Save the Climate’ – ‘CO2 rises no matter who you vote for’

Morano accused of engaging in ‘Climate Denialism ‘ & ‘Crossing the Atlantic’ to ‘Spread Misinformation & Conspiracy Theories’ in Austrian speech

Climate change driving ‘record threats to health’ claims ‘major report’ by Lancet released ‘just weeks before the UN COP29 talks are held in Azerbaijan’ – Report ‘painted a dire picture of death & delay’

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Energy Prices Shot Up 72% Under Harris-Biden and Their ‘War On American Energy’

“Green” energy – green as in money for leftwing scammers.

Who, in their right mind, will vote for this?

Energy Prices Shot Up 72% Thanks To Biden And Harris’ War On American Energy

By: Bill Peacock, The Federalist, November 01, 2024

Critics of former President Donald Trump often claim he is lying. Much of the time, however, the critics fail to recognize he is simply using hyperbole to highlight the problems Democrats and establishment Republicans are causing across our country.

Sunday night, Trump was at it again during his campaign rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden. He told the crowd, “We will achieve energy independence … We’re gonna drill, baby, drill. And I will terminate the green new scam and will cut your energy prices in half, 50 percent, within one year from Jan. 20.”

Trump was not spreading fake news. During the first three years of the Biden-Harris administration, electricity prices nationwide have skyrocketed. There is hope for major reductions in energy prices — if American politicians will repent of their support for renewable energy.

As I show in a new study by the Energy Alliance, wholesale electricity prices increased 72 percent during the first three years of the Biden-Harris administration. The energy prices for the seven U.S. independent regional service areas averaged $70 per megawatt hour during that period, up from $41 from 2018 to 2020.

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FEMA Whistleblower Goes Public, Reveals Agency’s Focus on ‘DEI Initiatives’ Over Disaster Response

Kelsey Goodman, a Hazard Mitigation Emergency Manager for FEMA’s Region 4, shed light on the agency’s evolving priorities, emphasizing that the number one goal of FEMA is instilling equity in emergency management—not to save lives or build stronger communities.

Following Hurricane Helene, residents in North Carolina expressed frustration over the lack of visible FEMA support in their communities, despite the widespread devastation and flooding. Many reported feeling abandoned, with Goodman noting there were ”Questions on the ground from home owners… asking where FEMA is, ‘Why aren’t they coming to help?”

Goodman expressed frustration about FEMA’s approach, stating that their internal narrative differed from the experiences of those in the affected areas. She explained that, internally, employees were told they were doing everything right, and “Anyone who has a problem with the way we’re doing things, they’re bad actors, they’re spreading misinformation.”

Moreover, Goodman pointed out FEMA’s increasing focus on equity initiatives, stating, “We are prioritizing disadvantaged communities when there’s no clear definition of what that is.” She argues that this focus detracts from FEMA’s core mission of assisting all Americans in urgent need following disasters. “When you’re dedicating that time and those resources to things that you can’t tie to fact… you’re not dedicating to the things that matter, which is helping American families stay safe,” she added.

Despite the risks of speaking out, Goodman felt compelled to share her perspective, stating, “If you feel a calling from the Lord…you need to speak the truth.”

She urged FEMA to refocus on the essentials of disaster response, declaring, “We have the resources. We need to get back to basics and use them to actually help people.”

WATCH: FEMA Whistleblower Goes Public, Reveals Agency’s Focus on ‘DEI Initiatives’ Over Disaster Response

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