Gregory Wrightstone

The United Nations is at it again — trafficking in climate change alarmism to promote its globalist political agendas. 

The latest climate-change-disaster-du-jour was the lead story in many newsfeeds and headlines around the globe.

Since she first stood alone in front of the Swedish parliament last August protesting insufficient action in fighting climate change, 16-year-old Greta Thunberg has literally become the poster child for a worldwide student movement.

A new UN report warns that “around 1 million species already face extinction, many within decades.”

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf released the latest version of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Climate Action Plan, announcing that Pennsylvania would join the U.S. Climate Alliance.

American innovation, private property rights and capitalism have led to a revolutionary sea change in the energy landscape by developing the vast oceans of natural gas through horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

European witch hunts of the 15th to 17th centuries targeted witches that were thought to be responsible for epidemics and crop failures related to declining temperatures of the Little Ice Age.

On Friday (7/20/18), a Congressional Resolution introduced by House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and West Virginia Rep. David McKinley condemning a carbon tax passed, mainly on a party line vote of 229 – 180.

The recurring theme of civilization’s relationship with climate is that the end of each warming period went badly for humanity.

Nearly all of the major news outlets last month ran attention-grabbing headlines uncritically reporting a supposed crisis of rapidly increasing melting of Antarctica.

This month, the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) voted unanimously to ban wind turbines on the 1.5 million acres it controls.

Rather than spreading fear of increasing carbon dioxide, we should be thankful that both the Earth and humanity are thriving, in part due to more CO2.