We have a load of headlines and sound bites about how “the end of the fossil fuel era” and Paris has put oil decisively on “the wrong side of history” – which is, not coincidentally, the same term our effete ruling class and inept President Obama use to describe ISIS terrorism. Meanwhile, as New York magazine noted, many proponents of the Paris plan “agree that its value is more about symbolism and hoped-for gains than near-term substance, and critics are zooming in on the agreement’s lack of legal teeth, as well as how optimistic it seems to be about future international cooperation, technological advancement, and the sustained domestic will within each country.”
by John Hayward14 Dec 2015, 12:11 PM PST0
Casual observers sometimes treat the Black Lives Matter movement as just another series of semi-random, anti-cop protests that happen in cities from time to time.
by Lee Stranahan13 Dec 2015, 10:07 PM PST0
The UN climate change deal reached last week between nearly 200 countries is a direct attack on U.S. sovereignty. It was crafted explicitly to evade the U.S. Constitution’s requirement that treaties must be ratified by a two-thirds majority of the Senate to take effect.
by Joel B. Pollak13 Dec 2015, 12:06 PM PST0
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) says America is acting like “Daddy Warbucks” at the Paris Climate Summit, by giving away tons of hard earned taxpayer dollars to other countries to supposedly fight climate change.
by Michelle Fields12 Dec 2015, 12:57 PM PST0
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) successfully pushed legislation through the House that prevents the Obama administration from negotiating immigration and climate change provisions with trade deals.
by Alex Swoyer11 Dec 2015, 3:11 PM PST0
Former MP Tim Yeo thinks that Britain is showing insufficient zeal in its worship of the green goddess. The former Tory environment minister Tim Yeo said that taken in combination, the changes to domestic green policies “raise serious doubts about
by James Delingpole11 Dec 2015, 1:36 AM PST0
Leonardo DiCaprio has spoken movingly about how he witnessed at first hand the horrors of climate change during the filming of his Oscar-tipped movie “The Revenant” in Alberta, Canada. There’s only one problem with his thesis.
by James Delingpole10 Dec 2015, 12:35 PM PST0
On Wednesday night, Governor Jerry Brown, in a hyperbolic rant, informed students and faculty at the Ecole Normale Superieure University in Paris that climate change could be compared to nuclear war.
by William Bigelow10 Dec 2015, 11:21 AM PST0
California Gov. Jerry Brown may think he has staked a position on the environment that will please the left, but he hasn’t gone far enough: groups that oppose fracking are targeting him in Paris on Wednesday afternoon with a protest at the Le Bourget conference site.
by William Bigelow9 Dec 2015, 8:08 AM PST0
Actor Robert Redford joined world leaders, legislators, and a handful of celebrities at the Cop21 international climate change conference in Paris over the weekend, where he urged attendees to “change the momentum” to halt global warming and declared that “people are feeling climate change in their own backyard, seeing climate change from their homes.”
by Daniel Nussbaum8 Dec 2015, 6:17 PM PST0
Speaking at the UN Paris Climate Change Conference this week, “Terminator” star Arnold Schwarzenegger recommended cutting meat consumption to save the environment from greenhouse gases.
by Kipp Jones8 Dec 2015, 2:04 PM PST0
Patrick Moore has reported Greenpeace–the charity he co-founded in the 1970s–to the FBI for what he claims are a series of offences, including “outright breach of the RICO, wire-fraud, witness-tampering and obstruction-of-committee statutes.”
by James Delingpole8 Dec 2015, 2:02 PM PST0
Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he “hears” the concerns of those who question the “science of climate change”–but he still “doesn’t give a ***” if you agree with him.
by Daniel Nussbaum8 Dec 2015, 5:06 AM PST0
Cinema du Pantheon, Sorbonne, Paris, France – World Premiere of Climate Hustle “Ooh look, it’s James Delingpole, the most hateful man in Britain. No I WON’T pose for a photograph with you, you piece of filth. Go away don’t touch me,” snarled
by James Delingpole8 Dec 2015, 2:55 AM PST0
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) argued, “we have to look at this as if we’re fighting a war, and we are fighting a war, and the war is against climate change” during an interview broadcast on Monday’s “All
by Ian Hanchett7 Dec 2015, 7:08 PM PST0
Paris, the City of Light, which earned its moniker by early on adapting natural gas to light its public spaces, hosts COP21 (the 21st Conference of the Parties)—often referred to as the UN Climate Change Conference—that aims to end the use of fossil fuels. There, more than 150 world leaders gathered under the guise of, supposedly, slowing the warming of the planet.
by Marita Noon7 Dec 2015, 1:14 PM PST0
Governor Moonbeam (Jerry Brown) and The Governator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) united in Paris for an interview during the climate change summit, advising the world on helpful climate-saving tips–like unscrewing children’s light bulbs.
by William Bigelow7 Dec 2015, 10:54 AM PST0
In a video for UNICEF, pop superstar Katy Perry poses as a weatherwoman to deliver a report calling for climate change action “to change the forecast for children.”
by Daniel Nussbaum7 Dec 2015, 9:58 AM PST0
California Gov. Jerry Brown has now left California, still reeling from the San Bernardino terror attack, and has joined the United Nations in Paris to battle what President Barack Obama and others regard as possibly the real cause of terrorism: global climate change.
by Chriss W. Street7 Dec 2015, 6:03 AM PST0
In a televised speech from the Oval Office, President Obama tried to reassure Americans that he was properly handling terrorism and national security in the wake of the attacks in Paris and California.
by Charlie Spiering6 Dec 2015, 6:10 PM PST0
Macy Gray is out with an updated version of “All I Want for Christmas” just in time for the holiday season—but the singer’s Christmas wish list may be too much for Santa to handle.
by Daniel Nussbaum6 Dec 2015, 5:36 PM PST0
California Gov. Jerry Brown is “playing president” at the UN climate change conference in Paris, according to veteran political prognosticator Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia.
by Joel B. Pollak6 Dec 2015, 5:29 AM PST0
Beneath all the furious arguments and billion-dollar politics of the climate change debate lies a core assertion: human industry is pumping more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which is raising the temperature of the Earth, in a way that will harm all living things.
by John Hayward4 Dec 2015, 1:34 PM PST0
Earlier this week President Obama and other world leaders addressed participants of the latest United Nations conference on climate change in Paris (COP21), where they lent their support for a new legally-binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
by Dr. Craig D. Idso4 Dec 2015, 1:30 PM PST0
President Obama defended his assertion that climate change was the biggest threat to humanity, connecting global warming to growing radicalism around the world.
by Charlie Spiering4 Dec 2015, 1:27 PM PST0
