Andrew Follett Bernie Sanders stated on Twitter Monday that “nobody can recall” 65-degree temperatures on Christmas Eve, only to be “berned” by an engineering professor, who promptly listed six prior occasions. The warm Christmas weather on the East Coast wasn’t an anomaly by historic standards, as shown by the professor. The National Weather Service backs up the professor’s claim by…
Michael Bastasch United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised former Republican President George W. Bush for kickstarting efforts to put together a global agreement to fight global warming. “That was the beginning of our success,” Ban told The Associated Press Saturday, referring to Bush’s attendance of U.N. global warming talks in 2007. After refusing to ratify…
Andrew Follett Environmentalists are increasingly claiming that global warming is a “women’s issue” and that the world needs “eco-feminism” as a path forward. “We know that the world’s poor feel the effects of climate change most acutely, but it turns out there is an even more vulnerable subset to that population: women” reads the article…
Andrew Follett Yahoo News allowed “social justice” warriors to take over its climate coverage Friday by publishing an article claiming global warming is making the day a microsecond longer. Yahoo News got the article from the “social justice” website TakePart.com. According to its website, TakePart.com “is the digital division of Participant Media,” the company behind the left-wing “documentaries” “CITIZENFOUR,” “An…
Andrew Follett Secretary of State John Kerry admitted that reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. and developed world will not help the environment or even slow down global warming at the United Nations Paris summit Wednesday. “If all the industrial nations went down to zero [carbon dioxide] emissions, it wouldn’t be enough. Not when more…
Andrew Follett Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Tuesday he wants to fight global warming using the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, but doing so will hurt the very people he claims to champion: everyday working Americans. The Clean Power Plan is expected to cost a staggering $41 billion annually. The plan will eliminate most cheap coal and natural…
Michael Bastasch Decades before Sen. Bernie Sanders warned that global warming was driving terrorism, U.S. intelligence officials warned that global cooling would cause massive crop failures, destabilize government and drive violent conflict. A Central Intelligence Agency report from 1974 warned Earth’s “climate is returning to that of the neo-boreal era… an era of drought, famine,…
Michael Bastasch For those who claim there’s no money in global warming, a new report by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) shows the private sector and governments spent $391 billion in 2014 on “low-carbon and climate-resilient growth.” Governments — mostly in Western Europe, East Asia and the U.S. — spent $148 billion backing green energy and leveraging…
Andrew Follett Scientists and lawmakers are placing the blame for recent wildfires on President Barack Obama’s policies, not global warming. “Our nation’s forests are sick and flammable, but they don’t have to be. Proper management would increase their resilience to wildfires.” said Julia Slingsby, Press Secretary of the House Committee on Natural Resources to the…
After slow-walking the decision for years, President Barack Obama came out today against the Keystone pipeline, a project that would have linked Canada’s pipeline network to deliver heavy crude from the Alberta oil sands to the United States’ network of refineries. Obama linked his rejection of the energy agreement to his final year push to enact…