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During December 2017, Germany’s millions of solar panels received just 10 hours of sunshine; and when solar energy did filter through the clouds, most of the panels were covered in snow.

An annual two-week luxury climate negotiation excursion for nearly 25,000 government diplomats, bureaucrats, and environmentalists in Bonn, Germany ended on November 17.

On June 6, Science Director Jay Lehr was a guest on AG Wired’s podcast ZimmCast to discuss the impact that Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord will have on the agricultural industry and farmers as a whole.

Research Fellow H. Sterling Burnett discussing Trump leaving Paris and how it will benefit the American worker.

During the Obama administration, the federal government put into place a series of regulations designed to reduce and ultimately eliminate fossil fuels, and the Paris agreement was meant to continue Obama’s anti-fossil-fuel legacy in the future.

The so-called Paris “Treaty” has all sorts of grounds for complicated lawsuits to restrict America’s new found energy independence and growing massive natural-gas production.

Heartland Institute research fellow Isaac Orr discusses why the Paris Climate Treaty is a bad deal for Americans.

As Earth Day passes, there is a game of tug-of-war going on in the White House.

President Barack Obama is expected to make a big show of “ratifying” the COP-21 Paris Climate Agreement in a signing ceremony with Chinese President Xi Jinping before the G20 Summit begins on September 4.

It was Clinton advisor Paul Begala who once said: “Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.” Not any more … at least for now in this case.

Tune in to our live-stream at 6 pm CT on Wednesday, December 16 to learn all about our adventures in Paris, where we brought climate truth to a COP-21 that sorely needed it.

In the end, what we apparently got out of Paris is voluntary emission caps, voluntary progress reviews, no international oversight of any voluntary progress, and voluntary contributions to the Fund.

PARIS — Global warming activist and former U.S. vice president Al Gore called for shutting down all natural resource production in the Arctic Circle, which would outlaw continued operation of the Alaska pipeline.