EXCLUSIVE: Firm Tied To China’s Military Industrial Complex Plans To Roll Out Massive Battery Chemical Plants In U.S.

The Chinese manufacturer of chemicals for electric vehicle batteries planning to build two U.S. factories has long-standing ties to China’s military industrial complex, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found.

Capchem Technology USA, the wholly-owned subsidiary of China-based Shenzhen Capchem Technology (Capchem), plans to build factories in both Ohio and Louisiana that would produce components for electric vehicle batteries. Chinese government documents reveal the Chinese chemical giant was selected over a decade ago to conduct aerospace research for China’s military industrial complex as part of a program overseen by a blacklisted Chinese government agency.

Corporate reports show the company, as recently as 2023, received payments from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology — a government agency spearheading the Chinese government’s so-called “Military-Civil Fusion” efforts.

“This network of [Chinese Communist Party] military-linked companies proliferating across the United States is a great example of why blind economic engagement with China is a national security threat,” Bryan Burack, senior policy advisor for China and the Indo-Pacific at the Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center, told the DCNF.

The DCNF’s investigation is based, in part, on information provided by the Heritage Foundation and Heritage Action.

Capchem specializes in manufacturing chemicals for electric vehicle batteries, and for years, the firm has advertised its products’ military uses in annual reports and online. Indeed, until very recently, the firm’s website boldly stated its products were used in “high-end military equipment.”

Yet, Capchem denied supplying the Chinese military, and the reference to “high-end military equipment” was scrubbed from the firm’s website within 24 hours of the DCNF reaching out for comment.

Capchem “does not have products used by Chinese military, or any other military organizations,” a spokesperson told the DCNF.

“When the English/U.S. website was developed, the ‘military’ reference was inadvertently included,” the spokesperson said. “You brought it to the company’s attention, and it was removed just as it had been in the Chinese version in 2020.”

However, the military reference also appeared on Capchem’s Chinese-language website when the DCNF reached out for comment. The reference on Capchem’s Chinese-language site appears to have been removed around the same time as their English-language was being scrubbed.

Capchem business filings and corporate announcements from 2023, along with Chinese financial service research reports from as recent as January 2024, also note the firm’s products had military applications.

‘Military-Civil Fusion’

Capchem’s work with China’s military industrial complex extends back to at least 2012. That year, the Guangdong province Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced Capchem was one of 70 companies selected to serve as a “Guangdong Provincial National Defense Science And Technology Industry Military-Civil Fusion Superior Work Unit.”

The work unit focused on “critical components within the aerospace field,” including “space flight-grade, high-reliability and core electronic components, high-end general chips, base software, etcetera,” the 2012 Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announcement reads.

The project was overseen by China’s Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, which is “under direct supervision of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology,” and responsible for “nuclear weapons, aerospace technology, aviation, armament, watercraft and electronic industries,” according to China’s State Council.

China’s “Military-Civil Fusion strategy supports the modernization goals of the People’s Liberation Army by ensuring it can acquire advanced technologies and expertise developed by PRC companies, universities, and research programs that appear to be civilian entities,” according to the U.S. Defense Department.

Chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi recently sent a letter to the Treasury and Defense departments noting the U.S. government’s blacklist of Chinese military companies extends to companies working with China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

“Among other qualifying considerations, a company is a ‘military civil fusion contributor’ if such company is ‘affiliated with the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, including research partnerships and projects,’” the lawmakers wrote in January 2024. “The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology was formed in 2008 and is key to the PRC’s military-civil fusion strategy.”

Capchem’s annual reports show the firm has received millions of dollars in payments from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology since 2017. The ministry paid the firm approximately $1.5 million for an “Industrial Foundation Project” in 2017, according to Capchem’s annual report for that year.

Capchem’s most recent annual report shows the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology had a subsidy of just under $1 million earmarked for the firm at the end of the 2023 mid-term reporting period.

Despite this, Capchem initially denied getting any “money/subsidies/donations from the Chinese government” in an email to the DCNF, though a spokesperson did say the firm had received “economic development tax incentives.”

However, the spokesperson changed their tune when the DCNF pointed to the firm’s own annual reports.

“The last time the company received any Chinese government subsidies besides standard incentives or awards provided for all eligible companies was between 2016 and 2018,” the spokesperson said. “Any reference to subsidies in company reports apply to those received during that time. The company has received no such subsidies since 2018.”

Capchem’s corporate reports list $26 million in subsidies from various Chinese government entities. The company’s 2023 mid-term report lists roughly $10 million worth of new government subsidies in a section labeled “Programs Involving Government Subsidies.”

Heritage’s Burack said Capchem has been “subsidized by the Chinese government” and “manufactures for China’s military.”

“There’s no question who these companies really work for,” Burack said. “There’s no such thing as a private Chinese company.”

‘Aerospace And Military Industries’

Capchem has long advertised the dual military-civilian use for its products. For instance, Capchem’s 2009 annual report touted how the company’s products are used in “aerospace and military industries.”

The vice president of Capchem’s research institute, Liu Zhongbo, discussed the military application of the company’s sodium-ion batteries at a July 2023 battery forum in Jiangsu province.

“Lithium-ion batteries and sodium-ion batteries are representative of new battery types serving as an important foundation for supporting the wide application of new energy sources in the domains of electricity, transportation, communication, military, etcetera,” Liu said during the event, according to Capchem’s website.

“In the future, Capchem will closely follow the national strategy to support the mass production of sodium-ion batteries,” Liu said.

More recently, a January 2024 research report from Chinese financial service firm Huaan Securities identified Capchem’s “fluorinated polyimide” product as being used in the nuclear industry and by the military, and the firm’s “perfluoropolyether oil” product’s use in aerospace landing gear, rudders and aircraft control mechanisms.

‘Security Risks’

Capchem’s plans to expand their U.S. footprint come as federal and state officials move to prohibit the ownership of U.S. land by Chinese entities. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson recently issued an executive order in January 2024 banning entities tied to China from purchasing agricultural land within 10 miles of any “critical military facilities” in the state.

Capchem USA is planning on building an approximately $120 million factory in Lawrence County, Ohio, Capchem announced in June 2023. County commissioners recently approved a 50% tax abatement for Capchem USA’s facility, the Herald Dispatch reported. The facility will serve as a “production facility for the manufacturing of battery chemicals,” according to Capchem.

Capchem USA is also considering a $350 million plant in Louisiana, according to Louisiana Economic Development, a government agency.

Ohio Republican Rep. Brad Wenstrup’s congressional district includes Lawrence County. Barbara Boland, Wenstrup’s press secretary, told the DCNF that the congressman has “warned of the potential security risks to our supply chains, intellectual property and national security posed by Chinese-owned companies operating in the U.S.”

“Congressman Wenstrup recommends local governments and those pursuing economic development opportunities to fully vet any companies seeking to establish a footprint in their communities,” Boland said.

AUTHOR

PHILIP LENCZYCKI

Daily Caller News Foundation investigative reporter, political journalist, and China watcher. Twitter: @LenczyckiPhilip.

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DAVID BLACKMON: The Energy Transition Has Become A Big Green Hot Mess

We spend a lot of time talking and writing about the green energy subsidies contained in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. That’s appropriate given that bill’s content of a raft of incentives and subsidies the CBO estimated would amount to $369 billion over 10 years, a number that some analysts have estimated will be a small fraction of the real final price tag of that bill.

Receiving less attention is the set of similar subsidy programs that were contained in 2021’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), one of which allocated the princely sum of $5 billion to the Departments of Energy (DOE) and Transportation (DOT) to serve as grant money to subsidize the installation of fast-charging EV charging stations around the country. In late February, Nick Pope reported at the Daily Caller that, more than two years after passage of the bill, this government program has resulted in the opening of just two locations – in Ohio and New York – that include only 8 such charging stations.

The slowness of this process should not come as a surprise to anyone, given that this subsidy program incorporates the massive bureaucracies at two federal departments. It is the nature of government agencies to find ways of slowing whatever process over which they have purview, not to speed them up. That’s not a slam on the people who staff those agencies, but a simple recognition of the realities they face in attempting to conform their actions to the complexities of the laws they are required to enforce, of which the IIJA is merely one.

This tension between the nature and complexity of western law and the need for speed the Biden White House hopes to achieve with the setting of hyper-aggressive goals and timelines related to the adoption and enforcement of its Green New Deal policies always has been and remains the central conundrum of the energy transition in the United States. The pace of the multi-faceted, $300 trillion transition is already drastically behind schedule, both in the US and across the rest of the world. There is little prospect for that pace to catch up to the desired timelines anytime in the future.

This reality is not unique to the world of electric vehicles and their associated infrastructure needs, which are massive and hugely expensive. There is also the need for dramatically expanding the electric grid, which provides power to every aspect of not only the transition but to society as a whole. The needs there were already unimaginably huge even before the rise of AI, a power hog of unprecedented proportions.

While the IRA and IIJA included incentives and subsidies that address a subset of the thousands of moving parts of an integrated energy transition, many major elements – such as the gigantic transmission expansion needed for the power grid – were left out entirely.

When the IRA was passed, I warned that the Biden White House viewed it as not a stand-alone subsidy bill, but merely as a down payment for what it viewed as a series of even larger subsidy efforts to come. If one accepts that the climate is really in an emergency condition – as the climate alarm lobby’s propaganda claims – then the passage of a perhaps unending series of debt-funded subsidy bills becomes a moral imperative, after all.

One of the big dangers there is that the momentum behind this fear-driven need for speed begins to be used as justification for the limitation or even abrogation of guaranteed rights of all stakeholders. We see this already starting to happen in states like California and Massachusetts, where Democrat Governors Gavin Newsom and Maura Healey are pushing efforts to overrule the rights of local governments to deny permits for new wind projects and other “green” energy priorities.

The slowness of federal bureaucracies only serves to heighten this sense of alarm, the worst possible motivation to justify the allocation of trillions of debt-funded dollars. It is the worst of all possible worlds, one in which policies motivated by politics promote investment decisions free markets would never create on their own and result in outcomes that do not begin to solve the problem allegedly at hand. It is, in a word, a mess.

The views and opinions express in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation.

AUTHOR

DAVID BLACKMON

David Blackmon is an energy writer and consultant based in Texas. He spent 40 years in the oil and gas business, where he specialized in public policy and communications.

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If You Only Have Time to Read Some Select Articles:

*** Thoughts On The Present State Of American Affairs

*** The 2024 Election Will Be Neither Free Nor Fair

*** Election Integrity Depends on a Virtuous and Engaged Citizenry

*** Mom and political newbie defeats incumbent NC Education Superintendent

*** 60± RNC Staffers Asked to Resign

*** It Begins: AI Is Being Used To Deceive Voters, Disrupt Elections Worldwide

*** Will We Reach Peak Stupidity Before Peak Corruption and Does it Really Matter?

*** Fabulous talk by Dr. Scott Atlas re Fauci, et. al.

*** Short video: The Great COVID Cover-Up | Rand Paul

*** A Tinfoil-Hat Conspiracist no Longer

*** New report blasts government’s COVID response, warns of repeating same mistakes

*** Medicine Has Lost Its Way

*** House Committee Report: The Weaponization of the National Science Foundation

*** French Council of State annuls wind turbine permits, major impact on energy future

*** Irish High Court Slams Wind Turbine Operator for Noise “Like planes that Never Land”

*** Short video: Energy and the Poverty of Nations

*** These 10 Charts Caused an NGO Hissy Fit at NARUC

*** Expect the Evil

*** Alarming Religious Freedom Trends in Democracies Demand Attention

*** The Truth Is The Truth

*** Jordan Peterson Issues Warning about Govt Surveillance and Future ‘Secret’ Police

*** Trudeau Demands Life In Prison For Speech Crimes

*** Google’s Gemini AI exposes tech’s left-leaning biases

*** Not So Free-lance: Fed Rule Takes Effect March 11th

*** Experts: Trillions Spent on ‘Climate Change’ Based on Faulty Temperature Data

*** 5 Tips for Teaching Your Child Humility

Secondary Education Related:

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

*** Mom and political newbie defeats incumbent NC Education Superintendent

*** NC Ed Super Loses to Mom Opposed to Radical Agendas

*** What’s going on with America’s public schools? Enrollment drops and chronic absenteeism tell a dramatic tale

*** Moms for Liberty’s UNCENSORED 60 Minutes Interview

When Classical Learning Meets Public Education, the Dialogue Isn’t Always Socratic

Artificial Intelligence:

*** Google’s Gemini AI exposes tech’s left-leaning biases

Musk To Start His Own Non-Woke AI Company To Compete With OpenAI

AI chat bots are automated Wikipedias warts and all

Top scientist warns AI could surpass human intelligence by 2027 – decades earlier than previously predicted

 Unreliables (General):

Report: Green Guardrails

America’s Energy Scam

Green Tyrants Get Horrible News as Finance Giants Pull Out Left and Right

High Costs, Greenlash Hit Europe

Transition? What Transition?

Wind Energy — Offshore:

CFACT says offshore wind violates Clean Air and Clean Water Acts

Renewed push to put wind turbines in Lake Erie gets blowback in Hamburg

Wind Energy — Other:

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

*** French Council of State annuls wind turbine permits, major impact on energy future

*** Irish High Court Slams Wind Turbine Operator for Noise “Like planes that Never Land”

Solar Energy:

US Solar Factories Are In for ‘Rude Awakening,’ Report Warns

Fossil Fuel Energy:

Policymakers are clueless that all energy sources came after the discovery of oil

Electric Vehicles (EVs):

EVs lose market share across Europe in January

Misc Energy:

*** Short video: Energy and the Poverty of Nations

*** These 10 Charts Caused an NGO Hissy Fit at NARUC

*** Net Zero Emergency Power

America Is Running Out Of Power, Is Rationing And Soaring Energy Prices Ahead?

America’s Energy Scam: A Deliberate Exploitation of Humanity that Only Increases Emissions!

Heat Pumps Could Quadruple Your Electricity Consumption

Robert Bryce: A Sunday Roundup

When Technocrats Intentionally Sabotage A Nation’s Energy Supply

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:

*** Experts: Trillions Spent on ‘Climate Change’ Based on Faulty Temperature Data

*** The “climate disclosure” fraud

The Continuing Albedo Change Warms the Earth More Than Twice as Much as CO2

The Sad Joke of Climate Change Politics

Did Exxon Make It Rain Today?

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

Climate Fact Checks: 2024

Methane is Responsible for 30%± of the Current Rise in Global Temperature

New Book: Everything Reminds Me of Tim: Biography of Tim Ball

Manmade Global Warming — Farming:

Why Not to Worry about Farming’s Contribution to Global Warming

The Battle for our Grasslands and Livestock

The Big Squeeze: Over 140,000 U.S. Farms Lost In 5 Years

US Election:

Election-Integrity.info (10 major election reports by our team of experts, plus much more!)

*** Election Integrity Depends on a Virtuous and Engaged Citizenry

*** The 2024 Election Will Be Neither Free Nor Fair

*** 60± RNC Staffers Asked to Resign

Let My People Go” Full Length Documentary

House Republicans Probe Education Department’s ‘Partisan’ Bidenbucks Scheme

Highlights: Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on a Bill That Puts the DOJ in Control of Elections

US Election — State Issues:

Early Voting in Michigan a Big Flat Flop

RNC Sues Michigan Secretary of State

Misc US Politics:

*** Not So Free-lance: Fed Rule Takes Effect March 11th

*** The Truth Is The Truth

Mr. President, What About Day 1,461?

Censorship:

*** Jordan Peterson Issues Warning about Govt Surveillance and Future ‘Secret’ Police

*** Trudeau Demands Life In Prison For Speech Crimes

*** The Broad, Vague RESTRICT Act Is a Dangerous Substitute for Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation

CHD, John Stockton and Censored Doctors Sue Washington Medical Commission

Societally US:

*** Thoughts On The Present State Of American Affairs

*** Tyranny Is Rising As Freedom Falls

*** 5 Tips for Teaching Your Child Humility

GOP lawmakers rip VA for memo to remove iconic WW II victory kiss photo, demand author be fired

Globalism:

*** It Begins: AI Is Being Used To Deceive Voters, Disrupt Elections Worldwide

*** Will We Reach Peak Stupidity Before Peak Corruption and Does it Really Matter?

Irish voters, I salute you

Childless China: Coercive Population Plan Implodes

Religion Related:

*** Expect the Evil

*** Alarming Religious Freedom Trends in Democracies Demand Attention

Science:

*** House Committee Report: The Weaponization of the National Science Foundation

Doing statistics can be difficult but understanding them can be fairly simple

Harvard achieves consensus by eliminating those who disagree

When Science Journals Become Activists

Health:

*** Medicine Has Lost Its Way

*** A new Report exposing dangerously pseudoscientific surgical and hormonal experiments on children, adolescents, and adults

Achieving quality in clinical decision making: cognitive strategies and detection of bias

Cancer risk assessment, its wretched history and what it means for public health

Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say

The Yin and Yang of traditional Chinese and Western healthcare

Ukraine/Israel:

Latest Developments in Israel: March 17th

Latest Developments in Ukraine: March 17th

The Consequences of Good Intentions: Ukraine

Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

A well-rated source to make a Ukraine donation

COVID-19 — Misc:

*** Fabulous talk by Dr. Scott Atlas

*** New report blasts government’s COVID response, warns of repeating same mistakes

*** Short video: The Great COVID Cover-Up | Rand Paul

*** A Tinfoil-Hat Conspiracist no Longer

“Long Vax” Finally Enters The Lexicon


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How I ‘Made Sea Level Rise Go Away’!

A short story behind the story


Some readers may be surprised that I’m more than a pretty face. Through persistence, invaluable help from allies, and dumb luck, I’ve had some influence on a wide variety of issues, on local, state, and national levels. A reward for this is that I’ve been repeatedly targeted by anti-science, anti-citizen, anti-American parties.

What’s interesting, is that none of the targeting involves an accurate recounting of the relevant facts. This is a short summary about such a recent case. This example is about a major state’s legislative process, where I was a player. The scene is 2012, and North Carolina legislation about Sea Level Rise (SLR) had just became law.

Once that happened, the S hit the fan, as alarmists were outraged that Real Science took precedence over their political science. The “audacity” of our NC law became national news — even warranting a major hit piece by Colbert on late-night TV!

There are two major sagas here: 1) how this law came about, and 2) what happened after it was passed. Part one is a fascinating tale, but it is too long to cover today. If I get inspired (and have the time), I may write about that in a future episode.

Re #2, a LOT happened after the law was passed, and this commentary is about just one interesting part — where I again became a target (because I was instrumental in the NC SLR law being written and passed).

I’m writing about this now as Left-wing alarmists continue to bring this up. For example, this lengthy hit piece appeared March 12, 2024. It attempts to tag me on a few different matters, but my Teflon shield ensures me that none of them will stick, any more than their slings and arrows have in the past. (BTW, the author here, Ms. Burns, did not contact me, so there is not even a pretension of any fact verifications.)

As part of her ammunition to discredit me, she references this well-known article in Scientific American (September 2013) “The Man Who Makes Sea Level Rise Go Away.”

The first thought that comes to mind is “one lies and the other swears to it.” In any case, today’s brief commentary is about how that article came about…

In early 2013, I received a phone call from a contract journalist, who I did not know. He said that he had been hired to do an in-depth report about my role in bringing about this unique North Carolina SLR law. I asked him several questions and he seemed to be on the up-and-up. He requested an in-person interview.

Since he was three hours away in Raleigh, I invited him to come and visit us on the coast, promising that we would provide a very good lunch. A week or so later he did come and we had a cordial and productive four-hour session (including a superb home-made lunch). I requested that he send me a draft of what he was proposing, so that we could discuss any factual errors. He agreed to do that. Things were going well!

A week or so later he sent me the draft of his report. I thought that he had written an interesting, accurate, and informative story about my involvement with this NC law. I suggested a few minor edits, which he agreed to make. Still going OK!

A few weeks later he contacted me with the news that his editor had rejected his submission! I asked why and he said that the editor didn’t think that it was controversial enough… Hmmm, so for an article about what happened, the facts are not what will be reported… I asked him what he was going to do, and he said that he wouldn’t get paid unless he scrapped what he had written and started over…

So what eventually got published was version #2, where he injected things he knew were not accurate, just to make the editor happy. (For example, he wrote that I “spends much of his time quietly and effectively plying the halls of power in Raleigh…”) The reality is that I go to Raleigh about once every 3 years, and stay for just a few hours. He also did not send me any drafts of version #2 to comment on.

Fortunately, the article still has some remnants of truth in it — which is a credit to the journalist. In many cases (e.g., with Ms. Burns) we are not dealing with writers whose goal is to be objective and factual, but rather activists promoting undeclared agendas, posing as journalists.

It’s fascinating that the media continues to bring up matters where I was successful over ten years ago. Don’t they realize that it’s embarrassing to them to refresh people’s memory about their past failures? (E.g., despite all their alarmist rhetoric about the NC SLR bill, here we are 12+ years later, and what harm has it caused? None!)

Since the Left is generally adept at PR, it would seem that they would realize that they should move on. Yet they don’t!

What they are EXTREMELY concerned about (and they can’t help themselves) is that there will be more educated, critical-thinking citizens. That is the single greatest threat to their plans to promote unscientific, anti-American ideology.

Towards that end, take much of what you read in mainstream media about Science-related matters, with a very heavy dose of salt.

©2024. John Droz, Jr. All rights reserved.


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It’s Climate Fact Check Time

Another month, another load of unvetted climate exaggerations and misrepresentations that climate campaigners set bouncing about the media echo chamber.

Fortunately, CFACT and our partners are on the job correcting the record.

Each month we work together to publish a scholarly climate “fact check” that debunks Green propaganda with verifiable data.


Read the full February “Climate Fact Check” at CFACT.org.


This month we remind readers about natural El Nino / La Nina cycles and the impact they have on our weather.  It was warm during the 1998 El Nino, it is warm during this one, and it will be warm during the next one, whether we live in a free economy or not.

The media wants you to know that Dallas hit 93 degrees on February 26th, 2024.  That’s a hot February day.  Dallas also hit 93 degrees on February 25th, 1918.  A touch of history adds valuable perspective, don’t you think?

The Washington Post is alarmed that recent Canadian wildfires kept on burning underground.  They called it a “zombie fire.”  We reproduced a newspaper ad about underground Canadian fires from 1988.

Nothing wrecks an alarming narrative like a touch of history.

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One of Saturn’s Moons has More Oil and Natural Gas than Earth. Why?

Greenies, a.k.a. the Biden regime, are bent on ending the use of all fossil fuels. They argue that fossil fuels cause climate change.

It that true? If the Greenies get their way and end all use of fossil fuels, then what will happen to mankind?

Here’s an interesting take on fossil fuels by Dr. Willie Soon, an astrophysicist and a geoscientist based in Salem, Massachusetts.

WATCH:

On December 4th, 2023, The Daily Caller’s Nick Pope reported,

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the president of this year’s United Nations (UN) climate summit, said that there is “no science” behind calls to eliminate fossil fuels to counter global warming, according to The Guardian.

Al Jaber also said that getting rid of fossil fuels would not allow for sustainable economic growth “unless you want to take the world back into caves,” according to The Guardian. He made the remarks during an exchange with Mary Robinson, the chair of the Elders group and a former UN special envoy for climate change, during a virtual event held on Nov. 21.

“There is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5,” Al Jaber told Robinson, referencing the 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold for increase in global average temperatures that many scientists and activists point to as critical to stay below, according to The Guardian.

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If You Only Have Time to Read Some Select Articles:

*** Lara Logan outs Corporate-Media-Government Collusion

*** “Four Pillars of Civilization” Under Attack

*** American Paralysis and Decline

*** Mediocrity in Education putting ‘A Nation at Risk’

*** Why Are Americans Becoming More Stupid?

*** Rigor? No. Merit? You must be joking. Elite? Oh, so much elite.

*** The Collegiate War Against Merit

*** Google’s Anti-White Artificial Intelligence Model, Gemini, is a Dystopian Hell

*** Claude (AI) admits biased training

*** Elon Musk Sues Sam Altman For ‘Breach Of Contract’

*** A Blow to Big Wind?

*** Hurricane Threats to Ocean Wind Turbines

*** The American revolt against green energy has begun

*** Blackouts, Here We Come

*** U.S. Seeks to Boost Nuclear Power After Decades of Inertia

*** The Role of Nuclear in the Global World of Energy

*** Apple Kills Its Electric Car Project

*** Weakest Link for EV’s Is in China’s Supply Chain

*** Climate scientists

*** New Studies Undercut Key Climate Change Claims

*** The Hockey Stick Trial: Science Dies in a DC Courtroom

*** All 2020 Presidential Election Related Lawsuits

     (Updated… Now Trump has won 75% of lawsuits decided by merit!)

*** A Summary of Post-election Audit Requirements, by State

*** Scant Election Reforms Since 2020 Forebode a Repeat in November

*** Obama’s Third Term — Going For Four

*** Political Corruption and Taxpayer Money Behind Google Disinformation and Censorship

*** Anatomy Of A Hit – How Leftist NGO’s Bury The Truth

*** Did Fulton Sheen Prophesy About These Times?

*** How (not) to deal with missing data: An economist’s take on a controversial study

*** What ‘safe and effective’ really means

*** Health Care: Right, Privilege, or Neither?

Secondary Education Related:

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

*** Mediocrity in Education putting ‘A Nation at Risk’

*** Why Are Americans Becoming More Stupid?

*** Meet The Left’s Trendy New Buzzword, And What It Really Means

*** States Should Embrace Scientifically Based Reading Instruction

School Boards for Academic Excellence

The Most Important Product of America, is Our Kids

From the Left: US Biology Textbooks have ‘Misguided Assumptions’ on Sex and Gender

How Bad Therapy Hijacked Our Nation’s Schools

New Book: Getting Education Right: A Conservative Vision for Improving Early Childhood, K–12, and College

If you want to climb a mountain, don’t go two steps and ask, ‘How do I feel?

Higher Education Related:

*** Rigor? No. Merit? You must be joking. Elite? Oh, so much elite.

*** The Collegiate War Against Merit

*** Marc Rowan, Co-Founder and CEO of Apollo Global Management, Inc.

University of Florida fires all DEI employees in compliance with state law

The Emptiness of College Rankings

A trip through UNC’s course catalog is a wild ride

UConn Seeks $3 Million ‘Chair For Inclusion within the College of Engineering’

CU Boulder professor dresses like butterfly to fight ‘climate anxiety’

Artificial Intelligence:

*** Google’s Anti-White Artificial Intelligence Model, Gemini, is a Dystopian Hell

*** Claude (AI) admits biased training

*** Elon Musk Sues Sam Altman For ‘Breach Of Contract’

Anti-White racial bias coded into many sources of artificial intelligence

Google CEO Pledged to Use AI to Counter “Fake News,” Racism, and Populism After Trump Victory

Government Funds AI Tools For Whole-Of-Internet Surveillance And Censorship

Technocrats Claim AI Breakthrough to Generate ‘Boundless’ Clean Fusion Energy, But You Won’t Get Any Of It

Unreliables (General):

*** US counties are blocking wind and solar energy: These maps, graphics show how

*** The American revolt against green energy has begun

*** Blackouts, Here We Come

Out Of Transmission Revisited

Planning for climate blackouts

Wind Energy:

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

*** A Blow to Big Wind?

*** Hurricane Threats to Ocean Wind Turbines

Nuclear Energy:

*** U.S. Seeks to Boost Nuclear Power After Decades of Inertia

*** The Role of Nuclear in the Global World of Energy

*** On Radiation: Nuclear energy myths versus facts

Fossil Fuel Energy:

*** Biden liquefied natural gas export ‘pause’ hurts Americans and our allies

*** Chinese Control Over U.S. Oil and Gas at Heart of Biden Family Influence Peddling

How the Natural Gas Industry Supports Rural America

Electric Vehicles (EVs):

*** Apple Kills Its Electric Car Project

*** Weakest Link for EV’s Is in China’s Supply Chain

*** EV con job perpetrated by Politicians will cost us dearly!

*** Consumer Reports: Electric vehicle owners report 80% more problems than with conventional cars and trucks

The EV market hits the brakes as sales hit a speed bump!

Biden admin throws electric vehicle mandate in reverse

Misc Energy:

*** Grid Responsibility

*** When (And Why) Heat Pumps Suck

Energy User Responsibility

Green Energy Goals in Conflict: Electric Power

Grid Down, Power Up: What the U.S. Is Not Prepared For

Burn Those Trees!

Manmade Global Warming — Some Other Deceptions:

*** Climate scientists

*** New Studies Undercut Key Climate Change Claims

*** The Hockey Stick Trial: Science Dies in a DC Courtroom

*** How NYS Hid the True Cost of 2019 Climate Law—And What Lawmakers Can Do About It

Leading British Physician Says Going NetZero Would Probably Lead To 6 Billion Starving

Fixation on CO2 Ignores Real Driver of Temperature, Experts Say

The Absurdity of Measuring Breath for Climate Change

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

*** Archive: The Communism Behind Environmentalism (Part 1 & Part 2)

The Great European Farmer Revolt: Jilted, Turning On The Greens

Now the Alarmists Want Your Tires

‘Climate Crisis Is About Power and Money’: Bonner Cohen

Joanne Marcotte: Inconvenient Doubts: Climate Change Apocalypse: Really?

Drastic and Irreversible Climate Geo-engineering Worries Scientists

Net Zero and National Security

US Election:

Election-Integrity.info (10 major election reports by our team of experts, plus much more!)

*** All 2020 Presidential Election Related Lawsuits

     (Updated… Now Trump has won 75% of lawsuits decided by merit!)

Bidenbucks Laundered Through Education Department Target Likely Biden Voters

Judge says Mike Lindell must pay $5 million to man who won his ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ challenge

US Election — State Issues:

*** A Summary of Post-election Audit Requirements, by State

*** Scant Election Reforms Since 2020 Forebode a Repeat in November

Will Illegal Aliens Choose the 2024 Republican Nominee in Arizona?

Patriot Street Fighters in Wisconsin Can Show Republicans How to Win 2024

Arizona’s new voting laws that require proof of citizenship are not discriminatory, a US judge rules

Misc US Politics:

*** Obama’s Third Term — Going For Four

*** Anatomy Of A Hit – How Leftist NGO’s Bury The Truth

*** Dear President Trump, Can We Talk?

*** Worst Intel Failure Since WW2

Dear Robert Reich: Your Odious, Unprovoked Attack on Robert Kennedy Jr. Is Unworthy of You

Censorship US:

*** Lara Logan outs Corporate Media-Government Collusion

*** Political Corruption and Taxpayer Money Behind Google Disinformation and Censorship

Google To Start Running “Prebunk” Ads and Quizzing YouTube Viewers To Fight So-Called “Misinformation”

Evidence Suggests FBI And Secret Service Are Covering Up What They Know About January 6 Bomb Scare

The Full-Spectrum, Asymmetric War On Free Speech – Now You Know

Societally US:

*** “Four Pillars of Civilization” Under Attack

*** American Paralysis and Decline

*** Indiana parents warn nation after child is removed from home for improper pronoun usage

*** My Phone: A Privacy Expert Doesn’t Like What She Finds

*** How and Why Journalism has Failed Us Miserably But Can Self-Correct

New: Dissent Television

Globalism:

*** Carlson: The National Security State & the Inversion of Democracy

The Insidious Cult Of World Order Is Clearly Seen

Tyson Foods Scales Up Investment In Insect Protein Maker For Global Food Chain

Religion Related:

*** Did Fulton Sheen Prophesy About These Times?

Fulton Sheen’s Clear Warning About the Anti-Christ

Attacks against churches doubled in 2023, report warns: ‘Growing disdain for Christianity’

Science:

*** How (not) to deal with missing data: An economist’s take on a controversial study

*** Study: America’s Critical Underground Water Stores in Rapid Decline

Science Feedback (a “fact-checker organization”) has generated disinformation about CERES-Science

Coalitional Instincts

Health:

*** What ‘safe and effective’ really means

*** Health Care: Right, Privilege, or Neither?

*** PragerU video: What’s Wrong with Marijuana?

New Guide: Exercise, Brain Health and Parkinson’s

Fasting-like diet could slow the aging process, study suggests: ‘Living longer and healthier’

Biden v. Medicare Advantage

Ukraine/Israel:

Latest Developments in Israel: March 3rd

Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

A well-rated source to make a Ukraine donation

Latest Developments in Ukraine: March 3rd

COVID-19 — Misc:

AARP Just Told Its 38 Million Members to Get an 8th (Yes, Eighth!!) Shot of mRNA

mRNA Vaccine Shedding of Spike Protein: State of the Scientific and Clinical Evidence

Book: Truth vs. Deception – Liberty vs. Tyranny: Covid-19, Fact vs. Fiction


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VIDEO: Amazon Streaming Eco-Terrorism film ‘How to blow up a pipeline’!

A young girl in a hoodie draws a knife, kneels beside an SUV, and slashes two of its tires.  She slaps a paper on the windshield — “Why I sabotaged your property.”

This is the opening scene of a movie you can stream right now on Hulu, or rent from Amazon, called “How To Blow Up a Pipeline.” It is adapted from a book by the same name.

Here’s the book blurb on Amazon:

In this lyrical manifesto, noted climate scholar (and saboteur of SUV tires and coal mines) Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for the climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of ecological collapse. We need, he argues, to force fossil fuel extraction to stop–with our actions, with our bodies, and by defusing and destroying its tools. We need, in short, to start blowing up some oil pipelines.

“We have to show how vulnerable the oil industry is by hitting something big, like a refinery,” says the hoodie-girl (looking to move up from slashing tires), “what do you know about Texas?”  What do you know about building a bomb?” her friend replies.

Next scene they’re wiring a bomb.

What better way to normalize eco-terrorism than invite us to follow along and identify with an appealing PC cast of multicultural young people as they attack our nation’s infrastructure?

Watch CFACT’s Marc Morano explain on Fox that government officials are lining up in favor of eco-terror, which has even entered the curriculum at universities.

“This is coming not from just some lone nut like the author of the book “How to Blow Up a Pipeline”; this is coming from NPR, Bloomberg, and the New York Times.  It’s coming from NASA. In 2010, NASA’s lead global warming scientist endorsed a different book that called for ridding the world of industrial civilization.  He literally said they should essentially be blowing up dams.  James Hansen, the former NASA scientist in endorsing this book said the author has it right, the system is the problem… This is nothing short of eco-porn in the form of hard core terrorism.”

“If the American empire calls us terrorists,” the movie bomb-maker says, “than we are doing something right.”

Who will be held accountable when an impressionable young person watches this anti-American call to violence and translates their sick fantasies into action?

For nature and people too.

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‘Another Day, Another Regulation’: DOE Continues War On Appliances, Locks In Regs For Clothes Washers And Dryers

The Biden administration finalized regulations for residential clothes washers and dryers on Thursday.

The Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it is locking in the “energy efficiency” regulations for residential clothes washers and dryers, marking the latest development in the Biden administration’s wide effort to shape markets to decidedly favor more energy efficient appliances in the coming years. The agency stated that the rules will reduce carbon dioxide emissions and save consumers money on their water and electricity bills over the course of many years.

“For decades, DOE’s appliance standards actions for clothes washers and dryers have provided loads of savings for American families while also decreasing harmful carbon emissions,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said of the finalized regulations. Her agency contends that the rules could save Americans as much as $39 billion on their energy and water bills, while also reducing about 71 million metric tons worth of carbon dioxide emissions over the next three decades.

The regulations increase the minimum water and energy efficiency levels that washers and dryers must meet down the road in order to remain on shelves. In many cases, more energy efficient units do not work as effectively or quickly as older and less efficient models, O.H. Skinner, the executive director of the Alliance for Consumers, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Another day, another regulation from the Biden administration to remove products from the shelves and limit what people can buy in the name of their ideological goals. At this point, consumers have gotten the message: if it moves or has a motor and it is in your house, Biden would like it to cost more and probably be less effective,” Skinner told the DCNF. “Their primary rationale is that it will cost you less in the electricity bill, but don’t worry, in places like California, politicians are busy trying to drive up electricity bills, too.”

In a January opinion relating to a separate legal battle over DOE appliance energy efficiency rules for dishwashers and clothes washers, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals notably pointed out that some appliances favored by Biden administration policy “make Americans use more energy and more water for the simple reason that purportedly ‘energy efficient’ appliances do not work.”

Beyond clothes washers and dryers, the Biden DOE has also promulgated energy efficiency regulations for common household appliances like dishwashers, water heatersfurnaces and pool pump motors. The administration has also spent hundreds of millions of dollars on helping state and municipal governments pursue building codes that phase out natural gas infrastructure and favor electrification.

The DOE did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

AUTHOR

NICK POPE

Contributor.

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Mercedes-Benz Walks Back On Huge Electric Vehicle Commitment Amid Slowing Demand

Mercedes-Benz on Thursday walked back plans to have an all-electric line-up by 2030 as consumers decline to adopt electric vehicles (EV) at the rate automakers expected.

The company has changed its expectations to have only 50% of its sales be EVs by 2030, announcing that it will be updating its current line-up featuring the internal combustion engine into the next decade, according to Mercedes-Benz in its fourth quarter report. EV sales grew 21% year-over-year in 2023, but total car sales remained relatively the same, bucking hopes that EVs would fuel growth as the automaker pushes electric models.

“It is almost like we will have a new lineup in 2027 that will take us well into the 2030s,” Ola Kaellenius, CEO of Mercedes, said following the report, according to Reuters. Kaellenius noted near the end of last year that even European markets, which are more likely to adopt EVs, might not be able to reach the 2030 all-electric goal due to consumer reservations about issues like lack of charging infrastructure and appealing models.

The Biden administration has sought to ease charging concerns as the president pushes for an EV transition, allocating $7.5 billion for charging infrastructure. Despite the huge investment, lack of demand, regulations and union requirements have stalled construction, with only two charging stations having been built as of December 2023.

Mercedes-Benz also posted its fourth quarter results, with revenue declining a disappointing 1.8% year-over-year but up slightly by 2.1% comparing 2023 to 2022, according to a release from the company. Net profit was down 21.5% in the quarter year-over-year and 1.9% for 2023.

The company also announced a 3 billion euro stock buyback in an effort to boost its stock price, according to the fourth quarter report.

Other automakers have also had to cut EV goals, including Ford, which announced that it would be reducing production volume of its F-150 lighting as of January after losing a total of $4.7 billion on EVs in 2023. General Motors reported a $1.7 billion loss in the fourth quarter in the production and sale of its EV line, despite being profitable otherwise.

“Our overall goal remain unchanged: Our Ambition 2039,” Mercedes-Benz said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Thereby, the ambition is to make our entire fleet of new vehicles net carbon-neutral along the entire value chain and over the vehicles’ entire life cycle by 2039. Therefore, we continue to put our company in a position to go all electric.”

AUTHOR

WILL KESSLER

Contributor.

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Read The Lie Filled Letter I Got From Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.

I received a letter, below, from Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. in response to my concern about the rising cost of energy in America.

After reading his letter I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry. It was so filled with myths, lies and propaganda.

Here are some of the lies in the letter below:

  1. Biden blames Russia for our energy crisis, when in fact it is due to his green energy policies, which are anti-fossil fuels, anti-drilling and anti-building new pipelines to deliver oil and natural gas nationwide.
  2. It claims that by releasing millions of barrels of oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve it brought prices down at the pump. The truth is that prices at the pump in some areas keep rising and that robbing oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve and don’t drill policies are making the U.S. energy dependent on foreign oil and natural gas.
  3. Biden wrote, “When I signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, we made a historic move to transition America to a clean energy economy and create millions of good-paying jobs in the process.” This statement is false as many of the “green companies” that Biden sent our hard earned tax dollars to have either gone bankrupt or are losing billions in revenue a year. These green companies are barely staying afloat only because they are being subsidized with billions of our tax dollars.
  4. Biden claims that the Inflation Reduction Act, “It will make it easier for families to install energy efficient appliances and make home upgrades so they can save on household energy costs. ”  This is a lie because now were are seeing this act used to eliminate certain appliances and the use of things like natural gas stoves, home heating and cooling units and even gasoline driven lawn mowers.
  5. Finally Biden wrote, “And it [the Inflation Reduction Act] will make it easier to buy electric vehicles so that more Americans never have to pay at the gas pump again.” This again is a lie in that many of Biden’s charging stations are either not working or are being provided electricity from diesel generators. In fact, there are NO EV charging stations at Interstate rest stops because of Biden’s policies. On August 16th, 2023 even Newsweek wrote an article titled “One Year Later, President Biden’s ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Is a Total Flop.” One paragraph states, “The legislation mostly consisted of green energy subsidies, healthcare subsidies, tax increases, and more funding for the Internal Revenue Service. Yet the President sold it to the public as a way to bring down the crushing inflation that continues to bankrupt the American people. (The typical U.S. family spent $709 more on monthly expenses last month, July 2023, than it did in July two years ago.)”
  6. Biden ended his letter with the BIG LIE! He wrote, “At this critical inflection point, we are finally taking historic steps to break our reliance on foreign energy, lower energy costs for American families, and protect our children’s futures from the impacts of climate change.  And we’re bringing true energy security to America, making us stronger and cleaner than ever before.” Since January 20th, 2021 America has become less and less energy secure. Biden has take historic steps to see that we are not energy secure via his Green New Deal policies. Never before have I feared that the future of our son, his wife and our two grandchildren is in such great peril. Finally, I don’t give a damn about climate change because mankind cannot control the weather let alone the climate. Climate change is a hoax and a myth to take control of all of our choices on what cars we buy, how to heat and cool our homes and made everything more expensive all at the same time.

America is going bankrupt, its people are deeper in debt and our nation is no longer safe. Put that in you pipe and smoke it.

Letter from Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. I reply to my dissent to his energy policies:

On November 5th, 2024 we have a choice between Biden’s failed energy policies or Trump’s drill baby drill and make American truly energy independent policies.

Chose wisely.

©2024. Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Woke Investment Managers Pull $15.7 Trillion from Climate Activism Pact

BlackRock and other U.S.-based investment management conglomerates have chosen to withdraw from a controversial initiative, Climate Action 100+ (CA100+), that pressured companies to “reduce greenhouse gas emissions” to “net-zero emissions by 2050 [or] sooner,” in pursuit of “limiting global average temperature increase” to 1.5 degrees above “pre-industrial levels.” The withdrawals follow financial and legal pressure from U.S. state officials, as well a new phase of cooperation for CA100+ that would move “from words to action.”

As of last June, more than 700 firms had joined CA100+, controlling a breathtaking $68 trillion, or nearly 2.5 times the U.S.A.’s annual GDP.

However, last week, Reuters reported that some of the world’s largest investment managers had withdrawn from CA100+. BlackRock, the world’s largest investment firm with $9 trillion assets under management (AUM), withdrew its U.S. arm, worth $6.6 trillion. State Street (4th largest with $4.1 trillion AUM), J.P. Morgan (6th largest with $3.1 trillion AUM), and PIMCO (14th largest with $1.9 trillion AUM) all withdrew entirely. However, Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs, Invesco, and Franklin Templeton (U.S. firms among the world’s 20 largest asset managers) are still signatories.

With the withdrawal of these four firms, CA100+ lost influence over the $15.7 trillion in assets they managed, cutting its influence by 23%.

At least in part, the withdrawals were triggered last summer, when the Steering Committee for CA100+ announced a “Phase Two” for their campaign of corporate climate activism, expected to last until 2030. “In phase two, the overarching goal is to go from words to action,” explained CA100+ Steering Committee Chairman Francois Humbert. The new phase would mean “more accountability, more transparency, more seniority.” The new guidelines would require investment managers to disclose how they vote on climate-related motions at shareholder meetings, as well as how often they lobby corporations and policymakers with their climate agenda.

When CA100+ upped the ante, several major U.S. investment firms promptly folded. BlackRock and State Street cited independence concerns, J.P. Morgan said it had developed “its own climate risk engagement framework,” while PIMCO claimed it “operates its own portfolio-relevant engagement activities with issuers on sustainability.”

In other words, these investment managers do not object to leveraging their fiduciary trust to pursue climate activism. All four of them are still doing climate activism on their own. They did object to the loss of independence of having an international organization micromanage their climate activism — how very American.

However, independence concerns over CA100+’s move to “Phase Two” does not fully explain the abrupt withdrawal of these investment management firms. After all, they still basically share CA100+’s goal of leveraging the investments they manage to advance their climate activism agenda. And these firms did decide to join CA100+ in the first place, knowing that it might inevitably lead to phases that required more action and accountability. Here, grasping the full picture requires viewing the scenery from more than one vantage point.

On March 30, 2023, 21 state attorneys general wrote a letter to the largest U.S.-based asset managers, expressing concern over their political activism and warning that such behavior could violate federal securities laws. The letter, led by Montana AG Austin Knudsen (R), specifically highlighted the CA100+ agenda as “potential unlawful coordination” to “push policies through the financial system that cannot be achieved at the ballot box.” It put investment managers on notice that “ongoing investigations” would “continue to evaluate” whether the firms were engaged in “potential unlawful coordination and other violations … as part of Climate Action 100+, Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative [NZAM], or the like.”

Woke asset managers have sustained considerable pressure from state governments in recent years, as the vast scale of their political activism became known. State officials have issued opinions declaring political activism with public funds illegal, published blacklists of politicized corporations the state won’t do business with, opposed woke companies’ purchases of public utility shares, and demonstrated the public support for doing so by winning subsequent elections.

Asset management firms are wilting before the ire of these state officials. Last summer, after 11 state governments pulled more than $5 billion in assets from his firm’s management, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink declared he was abandoning the acronym “ESG” (for left-wing “environmental, social, and governance causes) — but not the spirit. In December 2022, Vanguard (the world’s second largest asset manager, with approximately $7 trillion AUM) announced plans to withdraw from the NZAM after pressure from state governments.

The mini-exodus from CA100+ seems to be undertaken with the same goal in mind. The firms withdrawing from the climate pact haven’t abandoned their commitment to climate activism, but they would prefer not to become the next Bud Light in doing so. Re-asserting their “independence” from CA100+ frees them to evaluate the political or legal costs of any particular deed of climate activism and avoid provoking uncomfortable investigations or costly lawsuits. Even without changing their behavior, distancing themselves from the climate organization can help them avoid charges of “unlawful coordination” without distancing themselves from the climate agenda.

The backdrop to this performative calculus is that much left-wing corporate activism is neither essential nor profitable. In a 2022 survey of top executives, 59% of CEOs said they would “plan to pause or reconsider their organization’s ESG efforts” in response to a recession. That’s the sort of numbers you would expect from an optional extra — like a soft-serve machine in the breakroom. It might keep the workforce happy, and it might help mute outside criticism, but it doesn’t help a business achieve its core mission — to produce, move, or sell a product, or to provide certain services.

In the case of asset management firms, they provide the service of managing assets, in hopes of providing a better return for investors than they could obtain on their own. Climate activism is not relevant to the goal of asset management. In fact, climate activism can hamper an asset manager’s goal (obtaining the best return for his client) by forcing a company to adopt costly “green” policies that reduce its profitability and thus the profitability of assets invested in that company.

“Broadly, [federal securities] laws require you to act as a fiduciary, in the best interests of your clients and exercising due care and loyalty,” the attorneys general wrote the asset management firms. “Simply put, you are not the same as political or social activists and you should not be allowing the vast savings entrusted to you to be commandeered by activists to advance non-financial goals.” Asset management firms aren’t yet convinced of this argument and continue to pursue climate activism, but changes in their behavior indicate the pressure is having an effect.

AUTHOR

Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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If You Only Have Time to Read Some Select Articles:

*** Foundations of Science Under Attack in U.S. K-12 Education

*** Piers Morgan Interviews Teacher Who Schooled Student to Think Critically

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*** SF brings back 8th-grade algebra, admits ‘equity math’ failed

*** AI can help − and hurt − student creativity

*** Beware: The Apple Vision Pro may Rewire our Brains in Unexpected Ways

*** A landmark Energy Freedom Resolution from the RNC

*** Dispelling the Cult Claim—”Wind and Solar are Lower Cost Generation than Natural Gas”

*** Time to retire the term ‘renewable energy’ from serious discussion and energy policy directives

*** The State of Reliability in PJM and Nine Slides from My Testimony in Ohio Explaining Why Costs are Rising and Reliability is Faltering

*** Stealing with Solar: The Great Net-Metering Heist

*** Steal from the Poor, Give to the Rich

*** A landmark Energy Freedom Resolution from the RNC

*** Introducing: AlexAI (energy questions answered by Alex Epstein’s AI)

*** The Deindustrialization of Europe in Five Charts

*** Mann vs Steyn verdict: More evidence that Critical Thinking has left the Building

*** Judith Curry’s Expert Report (in defenses of Steyn)

*** Judith Curry’s ethics complaint against Michael Mann

*** False Equivalence

*** Men at War, Part 6 – American V Russian Temperature Reconstructions

*** One More Scary Graph will Surely Do it!

*** Climate Models Exaggerate Effects of Global Warming

*** WHO Demands Global Meat Consumption Ban by 2025

*** Hear No Evil, See No Evil (Michigan re 2020 elections)

*** Who Really Won the 2020 Election?

*** Data Specialist Finds Thousands of Illegal Votes in 2020, 2021, and 2022

*** Michigan undergoes federal audit. MFE submits 64-page request for auditors to assess nine areas of potential noncompliance

*** “Confronting Zuckerbucks” Committee Hearing, Mollie Hemingway is on Fire!

*** MERITOCRACY vs DIVERSITY, EQUITY and INCLUSION

*** Ivermectin Squares Off in a New War on Cancer

*** No doubt about it: the COVID vaccines CAUSE dementia

*** Peer-Reviewed Study: mRNA Shots Killed 14 Times More People Than Were Saved

*** Long COVID is highest in these states, says new CDC report

*** CDC Warns CDC’s Own Scientists That Their Finding on Masks “Is Not Scientifically Correct”

Secondary Education Related:

*** Report: The Key to Fixing the US Education System (Major update on Page 6)

*** My Proposed New Science Class

*** Foundations of Science Under Attack in U.S. K-12 Education

*** Piers Morgan Interviews Teacher Who Schooled Student to Think Critically

{Note: here is more, including the teacher’s original short clip}

*** SF brings back 8th-grade algebra, admits ‘equity math’ failed

California Elementary School Goes Extremely Woke

Teacher who exposed school’s ‘Woke Kindergarten’ program put on leave

Higher Education Related:

Let Florida Try

UCLA medical school assignments call for abolition of borders, says crisis ‘imagined’

Against Scholar-Activism

It’s Time to Upend the Modern University

Artificial Intelligence:

*** AI can help − and hurt − student creativity

*** Beware: The Apple Vision Pro may Rewire our Brains in Unexpected Ways

*** FCC makes AI-generated robocalls illegal after fake Biden voice used

Hollywood star’s AI lawsuit faces major setbacks in battle against copyright infringement

AI security infrastructure needed after ‘malicious’ foreign actors use OpenAI to train operatives

Greed Energy Economics:

*** Dispelling the Cult Claim—”Wind and Solar are Lower Cost Generation than Natural Gas”

Two wind facilities share $100± million to turn off

Unreliables (General):

*** Time to retire the term ‘renewable energy’ from serious discussion and energy policy directives

*** The State of Reliability in PJM and Nine Slides from My Testimony in Ohio Explaining Why Costs are Rising and Reliability is Faltering

Wind Energy — Offshore:

Danish Clean Energy Giant Sucking Wind

Study Provides Guidance on Detecting North Atlantic Right Whales in Wind Energy Areas

Wind Energy — Other:

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

Industrial Wind Turbines demonstrate their Unreliable and Intermittent Nature Generating 1.8% of their Capacity than jumping to 80.4% only a few days later

Solar Energy:

*** Stealing with Solar: The Great Net-Metering Heist

*** Steal from the Poor, Give to the Rich

Nuclear Energy:

*** After scrapping nuclear reactors, Germany to spend billions on new gas power plants

Fossil Fuel Energy:

*** Coal’s Life-Saving Role Ignored by Climate-Obsessed Media

House delivers blow to Biden’s climate agenda, votes against natural gas moratorium

Biden to Export Ideology Instead of Natural Gas

Climate Cultists at The Guardian: This Time, It’s Evil Propane

Electric Vehicles (EVs):

*** Ford Lost $4.7B On EVs Last Year, Or About $64,731 For Every EV It Sold

Car Dealers Slash Prices Of EVs As Demand Craters

Experts warn electric vehicle weight threatens road safety and infrastructure

Heavier EV’s tearing up the roadways but paying nothing for road maintenance

Misc Energy:

*** A landmark Energy Freedom Resolution from the RNC

*** Introducing: AlexAI (energy questions answered by Alex Epstein’s AI)

*** The Deindustrialization of Europe in Five Charts

Congress and courts enable energy and climate fantasy and tyranny

Energy regulator’s exit may flummox Biden’s green plans

Can the government create a green hydrogen fuel industry?

Environmental NGOs Dwarf “Energy Shills”

Mann v Steyn Trial:

Mann v Steyn (and us) {Note: I’ve made major updates to the links at the end!}

*** Mann vs Steyn verdict: More evidence that Critical Thinking has left the Building

*** Judith Curry’s Expert Report (in defenses of Steyn)

*** Judith Curry’s ethics complaint against Michael Mann

*** False Equivalence

Manmade Global Warming — Some Other Deceptions:

*** Men at War, Part 6 – American V Russian Temperature Reconstructions

*** One More Scary Graph will Surely Do it!

*** Climate Models Exaggerate Effects of Global Warming

*** WHO Demands Global Meat Consumption Ban by 2025

Carbon capture – yet another green white elephant

If You Want To Control People, You Have To Control The CO2

The next big climate scare: Counting climate change deaths

The Most Bizarre Experience of My Life

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

Net Zero Climate Policies will Wreck Farms

Victory for Europe’s farmers as Brussels caves in on emissions targets and eating less meat

Europe’s Green Agenda Collides With Geopolitical, Economic Reality

US Election:

Election-Integrity.info (10 major election reports by our team of experts, plus much more!)

*** Hear No Evil, See No Evil (Michigan re 2020 elections)

*** Who Really Won the 2020 Election?

*** Musk is Right and the NY Times is Wrong About Illegal Voting by Non-Citizens

Project 2025 (Heritage)

Angry leftists threaten to go after conservatives

US Election — State Issues:

*** Data Specialist Finds Thousands of Illegal Votes in 2020, 2021, and 2022

*** Michigan undergoes federal audit. MFE submits 64-page request for auditors to assess nine areas of potential noncompliance

*** “Confronting Zuckerbucks” Committee Hearing, Mollie Hemingway is on Fire!

America First Legal Files Landmark Lawsuit Against Maricopa County, Arizona Officials for Violating State Election Laws

RNC, AZGOP File Major Arizona Election Integrity Lawsuit

Misc US Politics:

*** Eli Crane Straight-Up Insults Reporters In Angry Tear

Based on today’s oral arguments, it will probably be a decision for Trump

How Many Elections Must High-Polling Republicans Lose To Learn Ballots Matter More Than Votes?

Biden Staffer Who Mishandled China, Iran Secrets Retains High-Security Pentagon Job

14 Members of RFK’S Campaign Staff have Quit, and Here’s Why

Victor Davis Hanson Warns America: Brace Yourself for What’s Coming in 2024

Censorship US:

Tucker Carlson, Episode 75: The National Security State and Its Drive for Censorship in the United States with Mike Benz

Government Funds AI Tools For Whole-Of-Internet Surveillance and Censorship

Societally US:

*** The Association of Mature American Citizens has Quietly Become a Conservative Powerhouse

US Politics and Socialism:

*** MERITOCRACY vs DIVERSITY, EQUITY and INCLUSION

*** Corporate giants such as Meta, Amazon and Google lost 3,000 ESG staffers in just ONE MONTH as backlash over ‘woke capitalism’ and equity hires intensifies

Inside the Wire: Communism in America

The Defense Department’s China Military Power Report: The Threat Is Worse Than Advertised

Globalism:

*** Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Putin

Breaking Down the Tucker-Putin Interview

What Surprised Tucker Carlson Most About His Putin Interview

*** These are the specific NGOs helping illegal aliens cross the border

Chinese State Media Issues Ominous Warning about ‘World War’ with NATO

Religion Related:

*** Letter to the American Church Study Guide

Short videos: Eric Metaxas: God will hold us accountable and with Charlie Kirk

The Overwhelming Evidence of God | Eric Metaxas

Archdiocese of New York condemns ‘scandalous,’ ‘sacrilegious’ behavior following trans activist funeral

Science:

Helping Mann be a Mensch: Have Scientific Institutions (And the Rest of Us) Let Him Down?

Good book: Breaking Through: My Life in Science

Health:

*** Ivermectin Squares Off in a New War on Cancer

Medicine Now Diagnoses the Non-White ‘Oppressed’ with an Oppressive Case of ‘Weathering’

Israel:

Latest Developments in Israel: February 18th

Sorry, But There Is No Two-State Solution

Ukraine:

Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

A well-rated source to make a Ukraine donation

Latest Developments in Ukraine: February 18th

COVID-19 — Misc:

*** No doubt about it: the COVID vaccines CAUSE dementia

*** Peer-Reviewed Study: mRNA Shots Killed 14 Times More People Than Were Saved

*** Long COVID is highest in these states, says new CDC report

*** CDC Warns CDC’s Own Scientists That Their Finding on Masks “Is Not Scientifically Correct”

DOD Told Pharma Exec the Virus “Posed a National Security Threat” on Feb. 4, 2020

Shocking Data: England Has Suffered ONE MILLION Covid Vaccine Deaths in Just Two Years


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Understanding Solar Flares and What They Can Do To Us

The sun, our life-giving star, is a dynamic ball of constantly changing plasma.  Among the most spectacular phenomena it produces are solar flares, intense bursts of light, and energetic radiation that erupt from its surface.  While these events capture our imagination, they also raise concerns.

Solar flares originate in the sun’s atmosphere, specifically in regions with intense magnetic activity.  These areas, known as “sunspots,” exhibit complex interactions among magnetic fields, leading to the sudden release of enormous amounts of energy.  This energy manifests as intense radiation across various wavelengths, including visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays, and gamma rays.  Additionally, solar flares can propel streams of charged particles into space, known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs).

Fortunately, Earth possesses several natural barriers that protect us from the brunt of solar flares.  Our planet’s magnetic field acts as a shield, deflecting most harmful radiation and charged particles.  The atmosphere further filters out a significant portion of the remaining radiation.  However, this protection could be better, and the intensity of a solar flare can determine the extent of its impact.

Solar activity exhibits cyclical patterns, with periods of high and low activity.  The sun is in the rising phase of its 11-year cycle, which means that an increased frequency of solar flares can be expected in the coming years.  While most flares are relatively minor, large flares can trigger a cascade of effects on Earth.

Radio blackouts: Intense X-rays can temporarily disrupt radio communications, impacting air traffic control, navigation systems, and emergency services.

Power grid disruptions: Induced currents in power grids due to geomagnetic storms can cause transformer failures and widespread blackouts.

Satellite malfunctions: Energetic particles can damage sensitive electronics aboard satellites, impacting GPS navigation, communication networks, and scientific observations.

Aurora borealis and australis: Increased charged particles create stunning auroral displays but pose radiation risks to astronauts and high-altitude aircraft.

Solar flares are indeed powerful events.  However, while they are a natural phenomenon we should be aware of, it’s important to maintain perspective and not let fear overwhelm us.  Here are some key points to consider:

Solar superflares are rare: While observed on other stars, superflares from our sun are highly uncommon.  Evidence suggests that the sun experiences powerful flares roughly every 10,000 years, and even those may not be as devastating as the worst-case scenarios depict.

Scientific warning: Solar activity is closely monitored, and scientists would likely anticipate a superflare with some lead time.  This allows for potential mitigation measures like shutting down power grids to minimize damage.

How to prepare: Although complete protection might not be feasible, taking steps like hardening critical infrastructure, developing backup systems, and raising awareness can still significantly reduce the impact.

Not everything dies: Even in a worst-case scenario, the extent of the damage would depend on the characteristics of the flare and our preparedness.  Life might persist in sheltered areas, and the planet would eventually recover.

Focus on what you can control: Instead of dwelling on worst-case scenarios, let us focus on actions that empower.  Staying informed about solar activity is one; supporting efforts to improve preparedness is an extra step.  Advocating for resilient infrastructure should be a continuous effort.

Understanding and predicting solar flares is crucial for minimizing their impact.  International organizations like NOAA closely monitor solar activity and issue timely warnings of impending events.  This allows critical infrastructure operators to take precautionary measures, such as switching to backup power systems or shielding sensitive equipment.

Research into space weather forecasting and mitigation technologies is ongoing, aiming to better predict and defend against future solar storms.

From understanding their mechanisms to mitigating potential effects, proactive preparedness remains vital in confronting the challenges posed by solar flares.  This ensures a more resilient future where our planet and its technological infrastructure can weather these natural phenomena.

We should do everything to approach this issue with informed caution and proactive solutions.

As an end note, this post only briefly overviews solar flares and their effects.  Please refer to authoritative sources like NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center for the latest information and warnings.

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Big Climate Tries to Censor Opponents — Block TV Ads Opposing Biden’s EV Mandate.

The objective of the climate complex is to remove as much of our freedom as possible.

JP Morgan Chase, BlackRock and State Street have confirmed they are exiting the world’s largest climate alliance which seeks to push investors away from funding the fossil fuel sector. It’s a hoax. So the truth must be crushed.

Big Climate Tries to Censor Opponents

Progressives move to block TV ads opposing the Biden EV mandate.

By The Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal, February 16, 2024:

If President Biden’s electric-vehicle mandate is as popular as progressives claim, why are they trying to censor critics who want to inform the public about the mandate’s costs?

That’s the story this week, after the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) launched ads in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, Ohio and Montana to educate Americans about the Administration’s back-door EV mandate. Mr. Biden is “rushing to ban new gas-powered cars” and wants “to force you into an electric vehicle,” one ad says.

The Biden team doth protest. “There is no EV mandate,” a Biden campaign official declared. No? The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed greenhouse gas emissions standards that would effectively require that EVs make up two-thirds of auto maker sales by 2032. The standards will “accelerate the transition to electric vehicles,” EPA said.

EPA’s proposed emissions rules are so stringent that auto makers will be able to comply only by producing an increasing number of “zero-emission vehicles” or by buying regulatory credits from EV manufacturers like Tesla
. Americans shopping for a new car will have no choice but to buy an EV or pay a fortune for the few gas-powered cars still available.

Yet Mr. Biden and his allies don’t want voters to know that banning gas-powered cars is their end game. That’s why the progressive umbrella group Climate Power on Tuesday shot off a missive to broadcasters demanding that they pull the AFPM ads—or else. These “advertisements include obvious lies aimed at deceiving the public and must be pulled from the air immediately,” Climate Power chief operating officer Jill Shesol wrote. But who’s actually trying to deceive the public?

The letter cites a PolitiFact report claiming it is “wrong to say there is a ‘Biden mandate’ to replace gasoline-powered cars with [electric vehicles].” PolitiFact is a liberal opinion operation. Was it also wrong for the New York Times
last May to report that EPA’s proposed rule is “designed to ramp up sales of electric vehicles while ending the use of gasoline-powered cars”?

“The EPA does not have the authority to demand such a mandate,” the Climate Power letter says. Correct, which is why the EPA is using regulation to impose the de facto mandate. The Obama Administration similarly tried to force a transition to renewable power by setting unfeasible emissions standards for fossil-fuel power plants.

Climate Power warns local broadcasters that the Federal Communications Commission could pull their licenses if they continue broadcasting the ads. “Failure to prevent the airing of ‘false and misleading advertising’ may be ‘probative of an underlying abdication of licensee responsibility’ that can be cause for the loss of a station’s license,’” the letter says.

EDF Action on Tuesday also sent stations a letter claiming that the AFPM ad “appears to be a deliberate attempt to tarnish the politicians . . . who may support policies that reduce air pollution and save lives.” But President Biden isn’t trying to reduce air pollution or save lives, and the EPA rule doesn’t aim to do either.

Opponents of “cleaner alternatives,” the letter adds, “do not have the right to mislead voters and spread disinformation on public airwaves.” But they do have a First Amendment right to critique public policies that damage their livelihoods.

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