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Climate Change
Heartland on the Radio: Tom Harris on Climate Change and the Paris Accord
by Tom Harris June 8, 2017On June 6, Policy Advisor and Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition Tom Harris appeared on the Charles Tendell Show discussing the complicated nature of leaving the Paris Climate Accord.
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After calling dangerous manmade climate change a hoax and vowing to withdraw the USA from the Paris agreement, President Trump has apparently removed language criticizing the Paris deal from a pending executive order initiating a rollback of anti-fossil-fuel regulations, to help jumpstart job creation.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Keystone Decision is About Obama’s Position on the World Stage
by Marita Noon November 6, 2015Today, in finally denying the Keystone pipeline, President Obama showed his true colors. We now know, as we’ve long believed, that those colors are the green of the anti-fossil fuel crowd, rather than the color of jobs resulting in economic growth in the hard-hit heartland of the United States.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Top EPA Official Coordinated With High-Powered Green Groups on Policy
by Emily Zanotti June 24, 2015According to newly unearthed documents, an EPA policy director colluded with the anti-coal Sierra Club on policies regulating carbon emissions, particularly from coal plants.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Welcome to the “No Pee” Section of the Swimming Pool
by Marita Noon June 2, 2014America is poised to become the “no pee” section of the global swimming pool and the useless actions will cost us a bundle—raising energy costs, adding new taxes, and crippling the economy. Even some environmentalists agree. Yet, for President Obama, it’s all about legacy.
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If anyone could rationally be labeled climate change deniers, it is those who hold the absurd view that our climate was relatively tranquil until the arrival of humans. They seem to not know that half of North America was under a vast ice sheet only 22,000 years ago. And, as Patterson has written, “Ten thousand years ago… temperatures rose as much as 6 degrees Celsius in a decade — 100 times faster than the past century’s 0.6 degrees Celsius warming.”
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Bitter Cold Blasts Chicago, a City Fighting Climate Change
by Steve Goreham January 7, 2014Keep up the good work, Chicago. With the ample snow and bitter cold, your efforts to fight global warming appear to be working!
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Shooting stars as Karen C. Fox noted on NASA.gov, only “the tip of the iceberg when it comes to meteoroids slamming into Earth’s atmosphere. Some 10 to 40 tons of material of invisible meteoric dust enters the atmosphere from interplanetary space every day.” And you were worried because Al Gore has been ranting about a little bit of carbon dioxide (CO2), a mere 0.038 percent of the atmosphere, was going to destroy the Earth?
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPolitics
Margaret Thatcher: Global Warming Provides Excuse For ‘Worldwide, Supra-National Socialism’
by Marita Noon April 16, 2013In honor of Margaret Thatcher’s memory, favorite quotes from the Iron Lady have popped up everywhere. This one came across my Facebook newsfeed: “Global warming ‘provides a marvelous excuse for…
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Environment/Energy
Global Warming Alarmists Chant ‘Forget The Carbon, We Demand The Tax’
by James Taylor March 5, 2013If global warming were truly a crisis, China would be the earth’s bad-guy bully. China emits more carbon dioxide than any other nation on earth. Heck, China emits more carbon dioxide than all the nations in…
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Environment/Energy
Taylor at Forbes: Global Warming Alarmists Seek More Power, Not Emissions Reductions
by James Taylor September 17, 2012[First posted at Forbes.] As U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to decline, one would think global warming alarmists would celebrate the ongoing achievement. Instead, alarmists are ramping up their vitriol.…