Andrew Follett Environmentalists like to claim skeptics are making money off hampering global warming regulations, but those same activists are making a lot of money promoting global warming alarmism. A recent video from The Guardian claims that there is little money or power to be gained from environmental activism. The money behind activism pales in comparison to…
By Michael Bastasch Environmental economist Richard Tol wants the world to deal with global warming, but his data shows the past 25 years of climate policies in rich countries have done nothing to fundamentally tackle the issue. If anything, Tol argues, current and past climate policies have only served to make most people a little…
Whether or not global warming can be attributed to man’s actions is debatable. However, regardless of the reason, a warmer plant may mean a serious cool-down in your bedroom. Bloomberg reports: An extra “hot day” (the economists use quotation marks with the phrase) leads to a 0.4 percent drop in birth rates nine months later,…
From Hypeline.org By Stephen Rowe If you are talking to a person of the Left, they are quick to point out climate change yet will dismiss all economics behind their policies. They are quick to demand higher wages while forgetting the business owners. Our country doesn’t run on unicorns and pixie dust, it is powered…
Michael Bastasch The global warming debate on Capitol Hill is heating up. Government scientists refused to comply with lawmakers’ demands they turn over internal documents regarding a study that eliminated the “hiatus” in global warming from the temperature record. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officials argued such records are confidential and “essential to frank…
Andrew Follett writes The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently called for countries to start taxing carbon dioxide emissions to finance struggling governments. “It is just the right moment to introduce carbon taxes,” IMF’s Managing Director Christine Lagarde said at a conference [need to put what day this took place], because “finance ministers are looking for revenues.”…
Michael Bastasch on October 1, 2015 The EPA’s sweeping plan to tackle global warming is set to be published in the Federal Register by the end of the month, but critics are arguing the EPA’s Clean Power Plan is justified using “Volkswagen accounting.” In a recent Senate hearing, Wyoming Republican Sen. John Barrasso asked a…
Michael Bastasch on September 29, 2015 There must have been some major blowback against the scientists and researchers who recently sent a letter asking President Barack Obama to prosecute global warming skeptics, because the group’s letter to Obama has been quietly removed from their website. Canadian journalist Donna Laframboise posted on her blog NoFrakkingConsensus.com that the Institute of…
by Michael Bastasch The world has just missed its last chance to avoid “climate chaos,” if the prediction made by the French foreign minister holds up. It’s been 504 days since Laurent Fabius declared we had only 500 days to save the Earth from catastrophe. “We have 500 days to avoid climate chaos,” Fabius said…
By: Laura Meyers At the White House Champions of Change Faith Leaders for Climate event, Reverend Al Sharpton told his audience that climate change is a “civil rights issue” because it “disproportionately” affects African-Americans. “It [climate change] is an issue of justice, and it is an issue of human rights. African-Americans are at a higher…