Michael Bastasch on January 9, 2019 President Donald Trump said that unless California improved its forest management he would order the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to “send no more money” to the state. “Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that, with proper Forest Management, would never happen,”…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jordan LaPorta On Thursday, President Donald Trump honored his campaign pledge and officially announced that the United States will leave the Paris Climate Agreement to cap carbon emissions. Libertarians and true conservatives heralded the move as one of Trump’s best to date, but liberals and big business leaders have…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: Chris White Displayed with permission from Daily Caller News Foundation The cost of emitting carbon dioxide must increase much more than previously expected if countries in the Paris climate deal are to meet their obligations, according to a report published Monday. Costs associated with emitting carbon dioxide will have to…
By Andrew Follett Scientists disagree on the effects of global warming on American agriculture, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology study published Friday. The research used climate and agricultural computer models to conclude that global warming would have numerous positive impacts on US farming, including fewer frosts, a longer growing season and an earlier start…
Political propagandists will tell you the science on global warming is settled. However, 16 scientists felt the need to speak up for the growing segment of distinguished scientists who think it’s much to do about nothing. The scientists co-authored and signed an editorial for the Wall Street Journal that opens: A candidate for public office…
In California, legislators and attorneys general are attempting to abrogate the First Amendment and gain the power to prosecute those who engage in rational policy debate regarding climate change. Under the auspices of fraud, California bill SB 1161, titled “California Climate Science Truth and Accountability Act of 2016,” would contort having a dissenting scientific opinion…
By Michael Bastasch Christiana Figueres, the outgoing head of the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, has put out a video asking people to buy UN carbon offsets to help fight global warming — it’s so easy, she says, she’s bought offsets for herself and her family. “I’ve offset all my emissions for myself and my…
By Andrew Follett Conservatives should “call the left’s bluff” on global warming by asking why environmentalists oppose using proven technologies like nuclear power or hydraulic fracturing to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, according to an article published Thursday in Forbes. James Taylor points out in the piece that if conservatives pressure the left to accept natural gas and…
By Andrew Follett Scientists have found that global warming is helping Canadian trees recover from a devastating insect infestation, according to research published Tuesday by the University of Victoria. The research focuses on the forest of the Canadian province of British Columbia and found that warmer, wetter and more carbon dioxide (CO2) rich conditions caused by global warming are…
Andrew Follett Environmentalists have warned global warming would mean more people being killed by natural disasters, but new United Nations data shows deaths from natural disasters declined by 70 percent in 2015 relative to the average number of deaths of the previous 10 years. “The U.N. reports that environmental disasters affected fewer people last year than…