Congressmen unveil bipartisan measure to slash carbon emissions from power plants
by Abby Smith
Washington Examiner
Republicans join Democrats on Climate Change gravy train by teaming up to increase subsidies for so-called green energy.
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Gun-buying activity shatters records in 2020 amid lockdowns, riots, presidential election
by Daniel Payne
Just The News
Nearly 230 years after the ratification of the Bill of Rights, 2020 saw the biggest surge in first-time gun ownership in recent history. The framers of the constitution were obviously right to hold ownership of arms in such high regard.
Keep calm, and keep drilling for oil and gas
Washington Examiner
“It is not worth arguing whether the world has a lower-carbon or carbon-neutral future ahead of it. It certainly does, even without any central planning effort. The United States, without any grand plan or signed treaty, has seen its carbon emissions decline dramatically over the last 15 years. Fracking, by allowing natural gas to replace coal on a large scale, has already reduced U.S. greenhouse emissions more than all of the environmental activism in the history of man combined,” according to the Washington Examiner.
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Trump EPA locks in smog limits at current levels ahead of Biden
Abby Smith
Washington Examiner
” ‘This decision comes after careful review of the most current scientific evidence, risk, and exposure information, and after consultation with the agency’s independent science advisers,’ Wheeler told reporters Wednesday of the decision to keep national air quality limits for ozone at their current levels,” according to the Washington Examiner.
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No free climate lunch
American Energy Institute
China accounted for 74 percent of the 2019 increase in “greenhouse” gases while the U.S. had a significant decrease.
Now We’re Cooking With Gas. But Tomorrow?
by Allysia Finley
The Wall Street Journal
“Cooking with gas” was a pop phrase in the last century for really getting down to business, doing a job fast, quickly and efficiently. That phrase, and the very idea of cooking with gas, one of the most economical ways to cook, will be coming to an end in California if the Sierra Club has its way.
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GOP group claims its carbon tax is better for the economy than climate mandates
by Josh Siegel
Washington Examiner
Republicans join Democrats on climate scare by claiming their carbon tax is better than the Democrat’s regulation. Now both sides fail to grasp the reality that anthropogenic climate variation is no threat.
Foundation Chief Andrew Delbanco Wants All Students to Wrestle With Great Books
by Emily Bobrow
The Watt Street Journal
Humanities were once required by nearly all universities and colleges. The lack of this vital education is what is wrong with American public schools today — and what is essential for American education now.
Toyota’s Chief Says Electric Vehicles Are Overhyped
by Peter Landers
The Wall Street Journal
“Akio Toyoda says converting entirely to EVs could cost hundreds of billions of dollars and make cars unaffordable for average people,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Your New Climate 401(k)
by The Editorial Board
The Wall Street Journal
Democrats aim to artificially make energy investments riskier so banks will be more reluctant to invest in them.
California’s Natural Gas Bans Are Drawing Fire From Black And Latino Leaders
by Robert Bryce
Forbes
California’s regressive energy policies hit minorities hardest.
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Here’s the other global climate deal Joe Biden plans to implement in his first days
by Abby Smith
Washington Examiner
Joe Biden’s team now plans to “one-up” the Paris climate change agreements by signing on to the lesser-known Kigali Amendment. This would ban hydrofluorocarbons, better known as HFCs, which make your refrigerators and air conditioners work.
Surprise! Automobile tires, not climate change – is killing west coast salmon
by Anthony Watts
Climate Realism
“New research from the University of Washington published December 3 in the journal Science, exonerates ‘climate change’ in the salmon killing caper and finds a surprise villain: an additive to automobile tires, not ‘climate change,’” according to Climate Realism.
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Energy issues rule allowing companies to develop own efficiency tests for products
by Rebecca Beitsch
The Hill
Ever wonder why big business and big government work together? It serves the purposes of both of them…while it ill serves the people.
Biden’s Neoliberal Climate Cronyism
by Jordan McGillis
The American Spectator
“Team Biden has already run afoul of the Democratic Party’s environmentalists. Because instead of rallying around the Green New Dealers and climate strikers, the Biden camp has turned instead toward the party’s climate neoliberals,” according to The American Spectator.
Prices Of Chinese Rare Earths Are Soaring
by Mining.com
Oilprice.com
Relying on China for rare earth metals could be disastrous. The Trump Administration has pursued other sources.
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Get Ready for Nationwide Blackouts Under Biden
by Jay Lehr and Tom Harris
The Heartland Institute
“The power disaster unfolding in California will soon occur across the country, if Joe Biden gets his way. The Golden State has been sweeping away the forms of energy that have provided reliable electricity for decades, under the same agenda the former Vice-President is planning for America as a whole,” according to The Heartland Institute.
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Biden’s ‘Climate Czar’ Says under Biden, Great Reset ‘Will Happen’ and with ‘Greater Intensity’ Than People Think
by Chris Talgo
The Heartland Institute
JOHN KERRY IS BACK. Biden’s new climate czar vows to put phony scares ahead of the American people.
Science Rebuts New Claims that Warming Is Destroying Coral Reefs
by H. Sterling Burnett
Climate Realism
“The Associated Press and many other corporate news outlets are promoting a new report by an environmental activist group claiming climate change is threatening the Great Barrier Reef and other reef systems with irreversible bleaching and death.”
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Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions Are On The Brink Of A Long Plateau
by Roger Pielke
Forbes
Why do global-warming alarmists continue to fret when the International Energy Agency forecasts we have reached the peak of man-made carbon dioxide emissions?
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