Breitbart Business Digest: Saving the Gas-Powered Car and Making Money on Carbon
Breitbart’s Jim Pinkerton believes there is a profitable and practical solution to the issue of carbon emissions that doesn’t involve banning gas-powered vehicles.
Breitbart’s Jim Pinkerton believes there is a profitable and practical solution to the issue of carbon emissions that doesn’t involve banning gas-powered vehicles.
Taylor Swift once called global warming a “horrific situation.” But it was apparently not horrific enough to stop her from flying her private jet during her recent “Eras” tour.
The U.N. weather agency warned Tuesday that the climate crisis is “the defining challenge” of our age, urging immediate action to curb global warming.
Over 100 pizzerias could shut down in New York City due to the government’s new green rule forcing shops that use coal and wood-fired stoves to cut carbon emissions by 75 percent.
John Kerry said people may “feel better” about Russia if it invests as much effort into fighting climate change as fighting Ukraine.
Reuters reported on Tuesday that major Indian firms are interested in building at least ten gigawatts of coal-fired power generation over the next decade, expanding some existing plants and reviving projects that stalled out when coal power fell into environmentalist disfavor.
China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday eagerly touted a report from two climate alarmist think tanks, Common Wealth in the United Kingdom and the Climate and Community Project in the United States, that claimed the British and American militaries “owe” $111 billion in “climate reparations” to communities supposedly threatened by their carbon emissions.
Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) are defying the urging of green lobbyists and government diktat with just a quarter making up new purchases for 2023, data reveals.
The Chinese Communist Party assured citizens on Sunday that it had prepared for the record-low temperatures hitting the country this weekend by stockpiling hundreds of millions of tons of coal, defying calls from climate change alarmists to replace coal capacity with “renewable” energy.
COP28 concluded Sunday with minimal chatter on carbon emissions and a slew of new commitments to reduce methane emissions.
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy criticized carbon capture and storage companies’s ability to use eminent domain to take land from Iowa farmers for carbon emission pipelines as “arguably unconstitutional” in an interview with Breitbart News. Ramaswamy released a video Tuesday
The U.N.’s COP28 climate summit begins on Thursday, hosted by one of the world’s great oil powers, the United Arab Emirates.
Danish toymaker Lego has halted its initiative to create its iconic bricks from recycled plastic bottles, citing the failure of the prototype to reduce carbon emissions.
Non-profit news agencies Mongabay and the New Humanitarian published a joint report on Wednesday that debunked the United Nations’ extravagant claims of “climate neutrality.”
China’s mad dash for coal power continues, even as Western governments tell their citizens to make more sacrifices for “climate change.”
Climate activists projected a “Climate Clock” on the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over the weekend, claiming that the world has “less than six years left” to stop climate change and avoid “catastrophic scenarios.”
Top Chinese diplomat and Politburo member Wang Yi demanded America “uphold mutual respect” and “properly handle the Taiwan question” during talks with John Kerry on Tuesday, the White House’s special envoy for climate alarmism.
New York City has told pizzerias that use coal or wood-burning ovens to slice their carbon emissions by 75 percent or else face hefty fines.
The “live in the pod, eat the bugs” ideology is coming for video games, with a leading tech publication, CNET, attacking gamers who use high-powered gaming PCs as a threat to the climate, while praising developers who deliberately restrict the quality of their games in order to save resources.
Europe’s green agenda could “blow up” the continent’s economy if things do not change, the deputy leader of Italy’s central bank has warned.
The Biden administration’s “climate envoy,” former senator and failed presidential candidate John Kerry, said on Wednesday that China invited him to visit “in the near term” for talks on climate change.
Just a third of Londoners think Khan is doing well, but any challenger will have a struggle to unseat him in the left-leaning city.
If you live in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams will track your food consumption in the name of fighting climate change.
Forget solar, wind, hydro, and wave power. The capacity to burn coal for electricity generation rose in 2022 despite global promises to phase out the fuel with a defiant China leading the way, a report Wednesday set out.
Germany moved to protect its huge automobile industry from the EU’s new green rules which otherwise ban new petrol and diesel cars from 2035.
Around 20 per cent of Germans reportedly fear for their jobs over the country’s green agenda push, research has reportedly found.
An individual carbon dioxide limit should be applied to everyone to establish a “planetary guardrail”, a German scientist has argued.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and British-American influencer Andrew Tate have clashed on social media over car emissions and which one of them has a small penis.
The Cabinet Office has had to report a spike in carbon emissions – much of it a result of jet use associated with climate-focused summits.
Britain’s National Grid has announced it is firing up two coal-fired reserve power plants as a winter snap and lack of wind leave the country facing blackouts amid a general energy crisis.
Leftist government plans to see Germany go green have been utterly destroyed by ongoing Russian energy shortages.
A report released by Peking University this week found that China is at least five years behind its ostensible goal of reaching “peak carbon emissions” by 2030. In other words, it will be at least 2035 before China’s emissions stop increasing.
With thousands of elites descending upon Sharm El Sheikh for COP27 climate summit, 400 private jets have been seen landing in the Egypt.
Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, said from the sidelines of the COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on Friday that his country is being heavily targeted by activists for its leading role in oil production. “The world is hoping to crucify us,” he lamented.
Chinese government officials used the United Nations climate conference, COP27, on Wednesday to promote the idea of climate “compensation” from developed countries to poorer nations, but balked at the idea of China being among those compensating.
China’s already prodigious coal output will be increased even further to brace for the coming winter, without the slightest concern for what climate change activists think about all that dirty carbon burning, according to a report by the state-run Global Times on Wednesday.
Mark Zuckerberg’s private jet emits 17 times more carbon emissions in two months than the average American does in a year, according to flight tracking data.
U.S. President Joe Biden arrived at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II in a massive motorcade while other leaders and foreign royalty were forced to take the bus.
President Joe Biden will travel to the Queen’s funeral in his own private car, despite his supposed climate concerns, while the Japanese Emperor and other world leaders take a bus.
Heavy industry experts have warned the European Commission that the EU faces the danger of “permanent deindustrialisation” should Brussels not act now to save the sector.