Jerry Brown, Oil Baron, Blasts ‘Highly Destructive’ Oil
California governor Jerry Brown, who owes much of his personal fortune to oil, blasted the oil industry Monday, saying it provides a “highly destructive” product.
Environment
Enron Environmentalism: The Carbon Credits Scam Pumps Millions of Tonnes More Greenhouse Gases Into The Atmosphere
A UN-endorsed carbon offset scheme designed to reduce emissions has actually increased them massively, a study by a green think tank has found. As well as pumping much as 600 million tonnes more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the carbon
Report: Harry Reid’s Wrong on Effects of Climate Change
As President Obama headed for Las Vegas on Monday to kick off an energy summit hosted by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), media reports are surfacing of a recent FactCheck.org report that challenges Reid’s record of
Animals That Aren’t Delicious or Useful Deserve to Be Extinct
Have you ever considered that there might be a good reason some animals are nearing extinction? And that it would be better if they just died off?
Oil Is Down. Gasoline Isn’t. What’s Up?
A little more than a year ago, oil prices reached above $100 a barrel. Gasoline averaged in the $3.50 range nationally. In late spring, oil appeared $60ish and the national average for gas remained around $2.70. The price of a barrel of oil has since plunged to $40 and below—yet, prices at the pump remain just slightly less than they were when oil was almost double what it is today.
The BBC Ending Its Contract With the Met Office is a Welcome, But Not Right-Wing Planned, Development
The BBC has severed its nine-decade relationship with the Met Office: The last bulletin presented by the Met Office will be broadcast in October 2016, 94 years after the first, in November 1922. Bill Giles, who led the Met Office’s
Hillary Clinton’s Latest Campaign Plan: Double Down on Green Lunacy
In a brilliantly suicidal move which might well drive the last nail into the coffin of her dreams of becoming the next U.S. president, Democrat contender Hillary Clinton is angling to position herself to the left of President Obama on
EPA Can’t Figure Out What to Do with 300 Million Tons of Animal Poop
When President Obama came into office, his appointees to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promised anti-farm activists and other environmental groups that a crackdown on animal waste was in the works. But nearly seven years later, no new rules have been proposed on how to further restrict about 300 million tons per year of animal waste, causing activists to cry foul.
Report: Burning Man Infested by Swarms of Bugs
Tens of thousands of festival-goers could risk exposure to a bug invasion at this year’s Burning Man festival, with smelly critters delivering stinging bites.
Bad News For Climate Alarmists: Deadly Methane Isn’t Going To Kill Us All
More bad news for climate alarmists: methane released by the thawing permafrost just isn’t looking like the deadly threat it was supposed to be. For years it has been an article of faith among climate doommongers that methane is the
California Drought: Central Valley Sinking Fast, Nasa Warns
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab has released new research revealing that huge swaths of the Central Valley are sinking at the rate of up to two inches per month due to accelerating groundwater pumping in the fourth year of the California drought.
Poll Reveals Most American Catholics Ignorant of Pope’s Views on Ecology
In their write-up on the poll, Associated Press journalists Rachel Zoll and Emily Swanson wondered aloud how American bishops and priests could be so negligent in carrying the Pope’s words to their flocks. The writers lament that early on “questions arose about whether American bishops and parishioners would embrace the message with any enthusiasm.”
How Obama’s Green Crony Capitalism is Reducing the US to a Banana Republic
Shadowy Big-Oil-funded forces are on a mission to blacken the name of billionaire eco-evangelist Tom Steyer. Or so his friends have told Bloomberg. “They are going to try to dirty him up,” said Court, a Steyer ally. “He is personally
Another Climate Alarmist Buys Another Coal Company
Bankrupt Patriot Coal is being purchased in a $400 million deal led by Tom Clarke, a prominent Virginia-based environmentalist. Clarke will sell his coal at a 10 percent premium. And why would any cash-strapped utility pay 10 percent more for Clarke’s coal? The coal will come with a carbon credit certificate (also called a “carbon offset”) worth 30 percent of the coal’s emissions.
Billionaire Tom Steyer’s Bogus ‘Green Jobs’ Referendum
California billionaire Tom Steyer–the biggest megadonor in the last election cycle–dumped $74 million of his personal fortune in 2014 to lose most of the elections in which he played. Now Steyer can chalk up yet another political failure: the disastrous implementation of the California “green jobs” initiative (Prop. 39) that he bankrolled with $30 million in 2012.
‘Entourage’ Star Adrian Grenier Calls Trump ‘Destructive’ on Climate Change
Former Entourage actor Adrian Grenier, who previously referred to capitalism as oppressive, is attacking Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump for his tweets on global warming.
Zimbabwe Prosecutors Charge Landowner for Cecil the Lion Hunt
Zimbabwe prosecutors have charged farmer Honest Ndlovu for allowing American dentist Walter James Palmer to illegally hunt Cecil the lion on his land.
El Niño: Party Time for California Almond Growers
The raging El Niño Southern Oscillation, a band of warm ocean water in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific, is about to cause droughts in southern Asia–and to bring enough rain to boost California almond production after years of drought-induced decline.
Mystery Foam Covers Tianjin Blast Site as China Announces Arrests
Residents of Tianjin, China are reporting on social media the emergence of a strange foam throughout its streets following the first rainfall since a massive chemical explosion destroyed much of the city. Chinese officials are claiming the foam is safe, while announcing that at least ten corporate executives are being “controlled” for an investigation into the blast.
The Agency That Contaminated the Animas River Looks to Regulate Water in Your Backyard
Unless a federal judge issues a preliminary injunction, the definition of the “Waters of the U.S.” will change on August 28—giving the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the authority to regulate the water in your backyard.
BBC Breaks Impartiality Rules On Climate And… Ooh Look! A Performing Dog!
The BBC has been caught red-handed breaking its own rules on impartiality by running a series of green propaganda documentaries funded by the United Nations on its BBC World News channel. But you’d never guess this from the way the
Expecting as Many as 10,000 People In Phoenix, Dr. Ben Carson Moves Tuesday Rally to Convention Center
PHOENIX, Arizona — As many as 10,000 people may come out this evening to see Dr. Ben Carson speak here in Phoenix, so his campaign told Breitbart News they needed to change venues to the Phoenix Convention Center to accommodate the large crowd.
California to Seize Farms for Jerry Brown’s Water Tunnels
The State of California is planning to use eminent domain law to acquire hundreds of farms in the Delta for a controversial, multi-billion-dollar underground water tunnel project proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
AP: ‘Clean Energy Jobs Act’ Did Little but Enrich Consultants
Voters in 2012 approved the Clean Energy Jobs Act by a large margin, closing a tax loophole for multistate corporations. The Legislature decided to send half the money to fund clean energy projects in schools, promising to generate more than 11,000 jobs each year.
Wind Blowing China Pollution to U.S. West Coast
Wind is blowing China’s air pollution over and across the Pacific and into the United States–and the West Coast is receiving the brunt of its smoggy emissions.
