Last week’s announcement that China and Russia had signed a 30-year, $400 billion gas deal posed a striking contrast to the Obama administration’s dithering on the Keystone XL pipeline. If two rival, backward powers are able to agree to share
Going Green? Check. Cutting middle-class entitlements? Check. Submerging democracy under a layer of technocracy? Check. Subordinating American patriotism by imagining a new kind of crisis that only international institutions can manage? Check. And all this on Memorial Day! That’s The New
Billionaire hedge fund tycoon Tom Steyer is single-handedly creating a resurgence for true believers in global warming, using his great fortune to push greenism. Now, for the 2014 elections, Steyer is promising to throw $100 million into an attack on
Many of America’s most iconic monuments and breakfast cereals are threatened by climate change, according to two new reports produced by “experts.” According to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), an advocacy group, no fewer than 30 heritage sites across
Despite the fact that the Holy See has recently been excoriated by two U.N. Committees for its beliefs about sexuality and abortion, the U.N. is finding use for the Catholic Church in Pope Francis’ expression of support for global awareness
On Wednesday, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh called out CNN for not even pretending to be objective or do news. After CNN boss Jeff Zucker said that he would try to push more climate change stories on viewers who
US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned students that if they don’t take climate more seriously they will be jeopardising the future of the planet. Speaking at the graduation ceremony of his alma mater Boston College, he said: “If
In her coverage of “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak’s tweet about climate change and Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) recent comments on climate change, “CNN Newsroom” host Carol Costello declared “climate change is real.” Costello expressed exasperation that “some people
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CNN boss Jeff Zucker conceded that his audience is not interested in the network’s global warming agenda, but he indicated that he will try to find more creative ways to make them care. “Climate change is one of those stories
LOS ANGELES, May 20 (UPI) — Pat Sajak is unhappy with… someone. The 67-year-old Wheel of Fortune host tweeted a strange accusation Monday night that declares global warming activists are “unpatriotic racists.” I now believe global warming alarmists are unpatriotic
As far as I can tell, this UK Guardian piece on the bold climate-change leadership of North Korea is not meant as satire. And really, there’s nothing funny about this. The Norks really do present the ultimate extension of everything
Just three per cent of Americans consider “the environment” the most important problem, according to the latest Gallup poll. (In Britain, too, people appear to be decreasingly worried about climate change). This surely represents, by some margin, the biggest PR
Miles O’Brien, a former CNN science correspondent and anchor, and a science correspondent for PBS told StarTalk host Neil DeGrasse Tyson that while he was with CNN, he lobbied people in the newsroom in an attempt to convince them that
The blow-back from Stanford University‘s May 6 decision to become the first major university endowment to divest of the stocks of coal-mining companies may hurt the general election prospects of Kentucky Democratic Senate hopeful Alison Lundergan Grimes, who has a one-point
WASHINGTON (AP) — Organizing for Action, the advocacy group supporting President Barack Obama’s agenda, is scaling back its fundraising efforts and cutting its paid staff in half as focus shifts to the approaching midterm elections, three Democratic officials said. Formed
The inconvenient truth President Obama denies about climate change is that China’s refusal to cooperate in international efforts to address the problem makes U.S. efforts to slow its pace futile. Moreover, his policies severely handicap America’s ability to mitigate its consequences.
The German Ministry of Environment has falsified the conclusions of a UN climate change report in the German-language version released last week, in an attempt to hide the fact that the country’s ‘green policies’ are useless. The ministry’s four-page summary
The Center for Naval Analyses has released a report warning that climate change is a threat that, “much like terrorism or cyber-attacks,” is not limited by political boundaries and requires similar attention. The study also attributes major political events to
The first man to claim asylum based on climate change has lost his latest appeal against deportation from New Zealand. Ioane Teitiota, 37, does not want to return to Kiribati as he claims his right to life is threatened by
Monday at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, former Vice President Al Gore hammered recent comments questioning theories on anthropogenic climate change by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). He told moderator David Axelrod that when
A group of scientists have written to Britain’s Energy Secretary Ed Davey to protest American forests being cut down and pulped to provide biomass for UK power plants. Under the government’s biomass scheme, power stations are asked to stop using
Himalayan glaciers – for years one of the poster children of the “man-made global warming is real and we’re all doomed” movement – are in no imminent danger whatsoever, a new study has found. (h/t GWPF and Watts Up With
On HBO’s Sunday broadcast of “Last Week Tonight,” host John Oliver took on President Barack Obama’s latest pivot to the so-called climate change issue. Oliver, who aligned himself with the global warming alarmist side of the debate, showed he was
