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End the EPA’s Endangerment Finding June 17, 2025
H. Sterling Burnett
In December 2009, the Endangerment Finding was born when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under then-president Obama ruled carbon dioxide (CO2) endangered human health and thus could be regulated as a pollutant.
New York recycling plant spews ‘noxious fumes’ leaving local residents literally gagging June 16, 2025
Olivia Murray
Nothing says “green” policy like poisonous air!
Where is the former concern for the safety and quality of food? June 11, 2025
Anthony J. DeBlasi
For those old enough to remember the taste of food, growing up, the difference between the quality then and now is not a fantasy.
The U.S. needs to be domed … or it might be doomed June 7, 2025
Eric Utter
How about a dome to protect against Canadian wildfire smoke, too?
Canadian wildfires still raging: Should Americans’ anger be raging, too? June 3, 2025
Eric Utter
Canada can fix this, but they just won't do it.
Here comes the smoke from Canadian wildfires … again! May 31, 2025
Eric Utter
Why can’t the second-largest nation on earth ever get control of its wildfires?
Dire temperature forecasts are a dime a dozen, and facts are almost non-existent May 30, 2025
Jack Hellner
The reporting on climate change or global warming is as dishonest as the reporting on Russian Collusion, COVID, the Hunter laptop, and Joe Biden’s competence.
Greenie Oregon is at the bottom of the barrel in green energy production May 22, 2025
John Woods
What it shows is that green energy is a scam.
Growth of wind ‘farms’ put Golden Eagle on ‘path to possible extinction’ May 19, 2025
Olivia Murray
Just a thought: Maybe if the environment and nature matter, we reconsider the towering slaughter machines killing all our birds?
The border wall is going up, and all of a sudden, the open borders crowd is concerned about the environment again May 19, 2025
Monica Showalter
Lefty environmental hypocrisy at its finest.
After woman is savagely mauled by a bear in the Sierras, environmental wackos argue bears wouldn't dream of doing such a thing May 18, 2025
Monica Showalter
The bear ripped the bars off a home's windows, punched in the glass, jumped in, and attacked a woman in her kitchen. But don't try to present those facts to a so-called conservationist.
The Achilles Heel of Wind and Solar May 13, 2025
Guy K. Mitchell, Jr.
That heel got hit in Spain and Portugal recently. There were massive blackouts.
Whom Are Public Lands Actually For? May 9, 2025
Josh First
You’d think they’re for the public. But the federal government seems to think otherwise.
Chinese crabs infiltrating the U.S.? May 4, 2025
Eric Utter
Why are the invasive species always the strongest? Why did we get the weak flora and fauna?
Damage Claims and Clawback are Needed to Stop the Climate Modeling Fraud May 2, 2025
Roy Clark
Where did all this bad science come from?
Time to End the Tyranny of the California Coastal Commission April 29, 2025
Janet Levy
It’s high time this body of unelected bureaucrats, who put politics and junk science above property rights and citizens’ welfare, and even extract bribes, is disbanded.
EPA chief Lee Zeldin comes to see the Tijuana sewage fouling San Diego April 24, 2025
Monica Showalter
Once again, we didn't need new laws -- we needed new leaders.
Summertime reality twisted into climate exasperation April 21, 2025
Vijay Jayaraj
Summers are hot, and there is nothing the climate-industrial complex can, or should, do about it.
Man's Best Friend or Environmental Villains? April 16, 2025
Jessica Curtis
The Greens go to the dogs.
Junk science and air pollution April 13, 2025
S. Stanley Young
The discourse about small particles causing health impacts is highly debatable.
Junk science and air pollution April 13, 2025
Warren B. Kindzierski
The discourse about small particles causing health impacts is highly debatable.
The idealized past April 10, 2025
Bill Ponton
Mythologizing the early years of the leftist crusades masks their latent potential for destruction.
In San Diego, Supervisor Jim Desmond sounds the alarm about Tijuana sewage fouling the county's beaches April 4, 2025
Monica Showalter
His videos show how gross it is.
Trump Makes Coal Great Again March 25, 2025
Chris Talgo
President Trump and his energy advisors understand that coal must play a key role in the nation’s energy portfolio.
Greenpeace takes a hit March 20, 2025
Bill Ponton
A decision from a North Dakota may just bankrupt the leftist brats at Greenpeace.
Near-death experiences, reliance on oil, and more cataclysmic failures—it’s all just part and parcel of ‘green’ energy March 17, 2025
Olivia Murray
It was a tough week for the wind turbine industry.
UN climate change conference to be held in Amazon rainforest, trees sacrificed March 14, 2025
Eric Utter
Deforesting the rainforest to hold a conference.
Trump’s Timber Triumph: An America First Blueprint for Prosperity March 3, 2025
Ronald Beaty
America’s vast landscape can support timber plantations without destroying the environment.
EPA's Lee Zeldin gets wise to the Tijuana sewage fouling San Diego's beaches March 9, 2025
Monica Showalter
Mexican sewage has made San Diego's beaches a health hazard.
Misplaced green energy March 4, 2025
Viv Forbes
For Australia, “Net Zero” is a negative sum game -- an economic suicide pact.
Has Big Oil stopped bowing to the Greens? March 5, 2025
Linnea Lueken
It has been constantly irritating to see these companies toe the line for Big Green, a trillion-dollar industry itself that is costing the rest of us rather than helping.
NOAA meet DOGE March 4, 2025
Bill Ponton
Could the NOAA be enough wasting tax dollars to rival USAID?
Unfixable cars? Enough already! February 21, 2025
Jonathan Colvin
When people always need an I.T. expert plus a mechanic to repair their cars, it only hurts the poor.
High Electric Bills Are the Tip of the Iceberg February 12, 2025
Jessica Marie Baumgartner
A look at who owns our electric companies — and what they fund globally — will make you recoil.
'Throwing gold bars off the Titanic' -- EPA chief Zeldin finds $20b slush fund that mysteriously began emptying after Biden's July debate February 14, 2025
Monica Showalter
Corruption that could be beyond what goes on in the third world.
Schadenfreude: Pampered greenie princelings set to jet into Brazil's COP30 rainforest summit advised to 'sleep under the stars' February 14, 2025
Monica Showalter
They are in for a surprise.
All you need to know about atmospheric physics February 13, 2025
Bill Ponton
Since Al Gore first opened his mouth in a Congressional hearing in 1976 on the subject of climate, it was obvious that he was full of it.
Is the climate doomsday cult finally losing power? January 30, 2025
Vijay Jayaraj
It seems the public has higher priorities.
Maybe we can learn.... January 28, 2025
John Woods
Are the catastrophic failures of government in California the catalyst for a progressive awakening?
Biden’s government ignored disaster-struck Americans because of political affiliation, Trump shows up and works for LA Democrats January 28, 2025
Olivia Murray
Galvanizing his reputation as a man of all Americans.
UK losing wind gamble A warning for world January 28, 2025
Vijay Jayaraj
Brits have sown the windmill, and here is what they’re reaping.
After the Fire January 18, 2025
Fay Voshell
Los Angeles reminds us that fire is a teacher. Will Americans learn?
A Town Cut in Half January 15, 2025
Richard Dean Young
You’ll hear many news reports of the California fires...but here, you can get the testimony of someone who’s lived there.
Environmental Marxism January 14, 2025
Steve McCann
It is not a coincidence that the current environmental or “green” movement is the driving philosophical force animating the Democrat Party.
A Cascade of Failures in California January 11, 2025
Kevin Finn
If government officials had intentionally set out to orchestrate this catastrophe, I don’t see how their actions would have been different.
Ideology-Schmideology January 10, 2025
Mark C. Ross
Ideologies are the products of wannabe tyrants also known as social engineers.
Punishment for the people of California January 11, 2025
Warren Beatty
Gavin Newsom has always valued California’s fish over its residents.
Los Angeles burns, and Lex Luthor was right January 10, 2025
Byron Lafayette
The fires in California are not just some unavoidable act of God. People are responsible, and they need to pay.
Who’s to blame for the LA fires? January 10, 2025
D. Parker
Ask the mainstream media. If you have two guesses, both will probably be right.
As Los Angeles burns January 9, 2025
Bill Ponton
One side understands that fire hydrants failing to deliver the water needed to fight fires is a result of municipal incompetence, the other side engages in a rite of self-flagellation proclaiming that our sacrifice has not been sufficient to placate nature’s god.
Why are we studying the sun, if the science is settled? January 6, 2025
John Green
One can only conclude that when highly educated people — who should know better — claim climate science is settled, they’re lying.
A ‘greening’ Earth is bad for plant-eating animals January 1, 2025
Jack Hellner
Huh? More pure idiocy from green pushers spread by the complicit media.
The 2050 Net Zero Climate Scam December 28, 2024
William Levin
Twenty fifty is the official date for net zero emissions. According to the experts, it is the last chance to stop a catastrophe.
Environmentalism isn’t just ‘pro-Nature.’ It’s also anti-human. December 29, 2024
Andrea Widburg
Today’s news provides two perfect examples.
The fire suppression paradox December 28, 2024
Kevin Finn
Wildfires will continue as long as we obsess over climate change instead of letting forestry professors do their job.
A Cold Christmas December 21, 2024
Jeffrey Folks
At this time, global warming is about the farthest thing from Americans’ minds.
Barreling toward a shutdown, KJP announces $1 billion for… rainforests in South America December 20, 2024
Olivia Murray
Don’t forget, 10% goes to the Big Guy.
Richard Levine wants to dump ‘climate change’ terminology before Trump comes in and cracks down on leftist fantasies and $cience December 16, 2024
Olivia Murray
Levine says adopting new language doesn’t signal “retreat” — but it does signal deceit.
Taxpayer-funded recycling wastes money without producing an environmental benefit December 13, 2024
Andrea Widburg
John Stossel’s latest exposes the scam.
Destroying the Climate Change Myth December 10, 2024
Jim Davis
It’s time to discuss how the left’s climate mythology arose and why it needs to be replaced with the truth.
Climate ‘scientists’ discover they’ve been underestimating a major factor, and all their climate models are in fact wrong December 10, 2024
Olivia Murray
This begs the question: What else are they missing?
Let’s say man is changing the climate. So what? November 25, 2024
Selwyn Duke
If anthropogenic climate change is occurring, why should we assume it wouldn’t be beneficial?
Globalists present their newest plan for us: Beer crafted from raw sewage November 24, 2024
Monica Showalter
Seems it's not enough to try to coax us into eating bugs ...
Oh, that pesky carbon dioxide! November 23, 2024
Mark C. Ross
WARNING: The following is forbidden knowledge for committed climate activists.
Who is more dangerous: RFK Jr. or Bill Gates? November 19, 2024
Jack Hellner
One wants healthier food. The other wants to block out the sun.
One theory for the Democrats’ catastrophic loss November 16, 2024
Mark C. Ross
People just couldn’t put up with this issue anymore.
Fear plus ignorance equals climate change October 26, 2024
Mark C. Ross
Weather is inherently mysterious. It’s also inherently useful for fear-mongering Democrats.
Environmentalist California is not doing enough! October 16, 2024
Bill Guild
Banning plastic bags in grocery stores? Not good enough!
No Hurricane Help from the Feds October 8, 2024
J.B. Shurk
Alejandro Mayorkas’s sub-department is too busy resettling foreign nationals.
FEMA broke, impotent, or disgustingly biased? October 7, 2024
Eric Utter
There needs to be an entity charged with responding to disasters and emergencies created by the federal government, particularly the current one allegedly headed by Biden and Harris.
Plain truth: Carbon credits are worthless October 1, 2024
Jack Hellner
Reducing carbon is a government policy created in search of a solution, when the problem hasn’t been identified.
The real cause of weather-related deaths September 29, 2024
Vijay Jayaraj
Weather-related deaths have dropped dramatically over the past few decades. And the ones that remain can’t be attributed to leftist fear-mongering.
The conservative approach to water management September 7, 2024
Ronald Beaty
Conservatives are tarred as careless about the environment. But in fact, conservative solutions work better for environmental problems.
The Cold, Hard, Kamala-Repelling Truth about Electric Vehicles August 31, 2024
Warren Beatty
Whatever Kamala Harris’s ‘values’ are, they can’t trump the laws of nature.
Green foods fail the Olympics...and everyone else August 23, 2024
Viv Forbes
Soon enough, hospitals and care homes will be overwhelmed by unhealthy aging vegans.
Kamala made a fool of herself? Time for more climate hysteria! August 17, 2024
Mark C. Ross
Leftists can always resort to global warming when they’re in a pinch.
Little Debbie August 7, 2024
Jeffrey Folks
We hear constantly about ‘above average’ hurricanes and global warming–induced disasters. I lived through one just recently. Here’s how it went.
Greenhouse Gases Are a Scientific Myth August 6, 2024
James T. Moodey
Wait until you see how bad the original experiment justifying global warming was.
Welcome the warmth! July 31, 2024
Viv Forbes
It takes mind-boggling stupidity to think it’s heat that will kill us.
To save the planet, Bill Gates declares war on butter July 27, 2024
Jack Hellner
What stupid, arrogant, rich people do when they push a scam on the world.
Now climate change is ruining the Earth’s rotation! July 25, 2024
Jack Hellner
I don’t know how we can offset the devastation.
A pilot plant for net zero July 23, 2024
Viv Forbes
Before we all jump into net zero, why not have an experimental program in a major world city?
Did the world's largest car company just make the world's biggest blunder? July 20, 2024
Gerald McGlothlin
Imagine a world where huge auto makers didn’t double down on inefficient, wasteful technology.
Climate, Marxism, and other fads July 13, 2024
Mark C. Ross
These things come and go...but sometimes it takes a while.
No, solar panels are not farmland July 13, 2024
John Klar
But calling them farmland, as one government agricultural study did, is good for masking how disruptive and destructive they are.
Some real (and real pathetic) green solutions to green problems July 12, 2024
Viv Forbes
Wind and solar energy have a fatal flaw. Here are some ridiculous government-proposed fixes.
Priorities: New York Times puts Elon Musk's bird nests ahead of Biden, France stories on front page July 10, 2024
Monica Showalter
Who put them up to this, or are they really that batty?
Pope Francis's plastic 'emergency' September 2, 2018
Monica Showalter
The Church is in the middle of a massive pedophilia, pederasty and coverup crisis. And now the pope tells us plastic trash in the ocean is the 'emergency.' Somehow, we're the bad guys again...
How the Free Market Heals the Environment July 28, 2017
Dan Dagget
Environmentalism has revealed itself to be guilty of the very sin it was created to expiate.
More stringent environmental policies correlate with slower economic growth January 19, 2015
Sierra Rayne
OECD attempts to blur the facts don't stand up to scrutiny.
How Environmental Regulations Hurt the Economy in One Graph June 6, 2014
Sierra Rayne
Dude, where's my standard of living?
Godwin's Law and the Real Green Nazis April 22, 2014
Mark Musser
As of late, the most consistent violators of Godwin’s Law have come from environmentalists. This is especially ironic considering Naziism's commitment to environmentalism.
Doomsters foiled by new study of ocean fish March 5, 2014
Thomas Lifson
Oops! Scientists have just discovered that they didn’t know about the existence of most of the fish in the oceans – 95% of the biomass
Climate Parasites: The Answer to 'Climate Change Deniers' February 19, 2014
William A. Levinson
The charlatans pushing ripoff climate change schemes and scams need a name of their own.
Mass Destruction of Science February 18, 2014
Charles Battig
Secretary of State John Kerry is now calling climate change a "weapon of mass destruction."
Climate Consensus Con Game February 17, 2014
S. Fred Singer
With no observed climate warming for more than 15 years, the contentious debate about a 'scientific consensus' on Global Warming looks increasingly ridiculous.
The High Cost of Fracking Regulation February 12, 2014
Jeffrey Folks
Make no mistake: Barack Obama's war on fracking will drive energy prices up, and 240% will be just the beginning.
Global Warming: Don't Confuse Us with the Facts February 9, 2014
Timothy Birdnow
How has the Obama administration done on making sure we have the proper instruments and technology to measure global warming?
How Global Warming Makes it Warmer and Colder January 26, 2014
Thomas Lifson
How much better to slip the surly bonds of honesty
Obama, the Ingrate January 23, 2014
Jeffrey Folks
Taking personal credit where none is due, with nary a word of thanks.
More global warming pseudo-science January 17, 2014
Henry Percy
When everything is proof of climate change, warmists enlist even dinosaurs in their cause.
It's Colder? Hotter? Blame Climate Change January 9, 2014
Robert Babcock
And you can bet your hockey stick that when our climate continues to consistently behave inconsistently, it is mankind's fault.
Al Gore's Nightmare Intensifies January 7, 2014
Thomas Lifson
It's been a tough week for warmists, and it is getting worse.
How Leftists (Badly) Explain Climate Stability January 6, 2014
Chet Richards
If global warming alarmists' reasoning worked, the Earth would be dead already.
A Few Easy Tests to Debunk Global Warming Hysteria January 1, 2014
Chet Richards
You don't have to be a physicist -- though I am one -- to figure this stuff out.
The Solar Swindle December 30, 2013
Norman Rogers
The promoters of solar electricity claim that it is close to being competitive with conventional sources of electricity. That is a fantasy.
Global Warming Gone AWOL December 20, 2013
Jeffrey Folks
The evidence may be missing, but the purpose behind the environmentalists' clamoring isn't going anywhere.
Arctic ice cap grows 29% in one year December 2, 2013
Thomas Lifson
Global warming hysterics at the BBC warned us in 2007 that by summer 2013 the Arctic would be ice-free. Now, more than 20 yachts that believed them are ice-bound
How Many Times Can Putin Screw Up before the Olympics? November 27, 2013
Kim Zigfeld
At least two more, it seems.
Socialist Science in the Climate Science Neighborhood September 7, 2013
Anthony J. Sadar
Blatant dishonesty stemming from arrogance -- a hallmark of socialism -- and its offshoot, a sense of supreme superiority.
Who's Afraid of a Bit of Warmth? July 27, 2013
Viv Forbes
Earth's climate history shows that it is cold, not warmth, that destroys life.
China Questions Climate Consensus July 11, 2013
S. Fred Singer
The world's most populous nation is officially openly debating whether fears of anthropogenic global warming are justified by science.
Carbon Credit Farming July 11, 2013
Viv Forbes
The road to biocide; but that seems to be what the Deep Greens want.
Sunset for Solar Subsidies June 11, 2013
Viv Forbes
Green energy policies have destroyed the reliability and economics of power in Europe for zero benefits for the climate or the environment
Warmist criminal honored with 'lifetime achievement award' March 25, 2013
Thomas Lifson
What's a little fraud if it helps sell a power grab?
Deepwater Horizon: the Government on Trial? February 26, 2013
Bruce Thompson
Too many cooks spoiled the Gulf of Mexico.
Memo to Beijing: Carbon Dioxide Doesn't Cause Smog January 16, 2013
Peter Wilson
Last weekend's air pollution in Beijing was 5 to 7 times the worst reading in the United States.
Global Warming? Yeah, Right! January 15, 2013
W.A. Beatty
It seems that the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) crowd do some picking and choosing of data in order to try to support their position(s). Why don't we set the record straight?
Prairie chickens come home to roost for greenies January 14, 2013
David Paulin
This little bird, a grouse known as the prairie chicken, may stand in the way of Obama's wind power dreams
Professor Calls for Death Penalty for Climate Change 'Deniers' December 31, 2012
Timothy Birdnow
It is as inevitable as the rising of the sun; the Left, when thwarted in their quest for power, suggests the use of lethal force to compel those who disagree.
Climate Science vs Politics: The Road Ahead December 27, 2012
S. Fred Singer
The good news is that science evidence has made it quite clear that the human contribution to a possible global warming is minor; in fact it cannot even be identified in the data record. The bad news is that the media and politicians pay no attention whatsoever to the science
A Tax on Carbon is a Tax on Life November 27, 2012
Viv Forbes
Carbon is the essential building block for all living things. But life cannot exist without energy.
Obama's EPA Plans for 2013 October 25, 2012
S. Fred Singer
A guide to the slew of environmental regulations that the Obama Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has delayed or punted on before the election while President Obama is trying to earn votes.
Climate Realism September 26, 2012
S. Fred Singer
Two crucial points may have been overlooked in the debate.
Questionable Solar Math at the Wall Street Journal September 17, 2012
Peter Wilson
Solar advocates have overstated the promise of solar power for decades. It is disappointing when a reputable paper like the Wall Street Journal participates in this deception.
Winning the AGW Science Debate: Here's How August 30, 2012
S. Fred Singer
The upcoming election battles may be unique in offering for the first time a debate about global warming. Paul Ryan is an assertive skeptic. Here are the questions to ask.
Retreat to the Past August 28, 2012
Viv Forbes
The deaths of Steve Jobs and Neil Armstrong could signal the end of a remarkable era of scientific and engineering achievement that started about 200 years ago
Climatists on Water Vapor August 27, 2012
Viv Forbes
Therefore, if man-made CO2 causes dangerous global warming, (a dubious proposition anyway), then man-made water vapor is far more dangerous.
Models, Not Climate, Are Hypersensitive to Carbon Dioxide August 24, 2012
Steve Milloy
Unfortunately for modelers (and their alarmist backers), the world doesn't believe them. The world is not warming in response to increasing atmospheric CO2
Paul Ryan, the Perfect Anti-Gore August 20, 2012
S. Fred Singer
Vice-president hopeful Paul D. Ryan is the polar opposite to former VP Al Gore. Mitt Romney is obviously comfortable with that stance and is using Ryan to reposition himself on the issue of global warming and energy.
Greens Re-discover Hydrogen Car August 19, 2012
Viv Forbes
Hydrogen is just an expensive way of transferring hydro-carbon energy from a power station in the country-side to a car in the city.
Obama's Hungry Children August 15, 2012
Jeffrey Folks
Death by starvation is not a pretty sight. But that's what the president's ethanol mandate means for children in the world's poorest countries. One word from Obama could end this madness.
You call this 'compromise'? August 8, 2012
Craig D. Idso
Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, issued an appeal in the Wall Street Journal calling for a new climate-change consensus/
Obama Campaign Video Touts Dubious Green Energy 'Success' Story August 6, 2012
Peter Wilson
The Obama-Biden campaign's model manufacturing company does not manufacture wind turbines. It has a moratorium on its one commercial project, and has been struggling for over eight years to get a couple lousy windmills built.
Green power regulators trip over each other in Illinois July 17, 2012
Thomas Lifson
When governments try to micromanage business via regulation, ineptness is to be expected as the norm. Why do liberals have to learn this simple lesson over and over again?
Is the Current Heat wave Caused by Global Cooling? July 15, 2012
Timothy Birdnow
If global warming leads to cold weather, can it not be argued global cooling leads to warm weather? Apparently it can!
Only 43.7 Percent of Gulf 'Oil Spill' Was Actually Oil June 29, 2012
Bruce Thompson
The man who stands between the Obama administration and billions of dollars in a slush fund.
Doing the Math on Solar Water Heaters June 26, 2012
Peter Wilson
An $8,000 investment with savings of $55 on a $100 annual gas bill would take 145 years to recoup.
Virginia Is Sinking June 15, 2012
Charles Battig
Warmists say the sea level is rising due to global warming, but ignore the geological subsidence of Chesapeake Bay, causing the shore to sink relative to the sea level.
Top Gun's Tough on Lizards Too June 14, 2012
Russ Vaughn
The Obama administration gets an endangered species decision right. What's up?
Burying the Bishop June 13, 2012
Thomas Lifson
This might be the smartest, funniest, and most effective putdown of a green mush head yet written.
'Cap and Trade' For CO2 Needs a Stake through the Heart June 11, 2012
S. Fred Singer
Global Carbon Market trading (practically all EU) climbed to $176 billion in 2011, which makes it makes it about the same value as total global wheat production -- which supplies about 20% of the calories consumed by the 7 billion people on planet Earth.
Obama believes the most important issue of second term is 'climate change' June 11, 2012
Ed Lasky
Obama doubles down on a losing hand
Obama Stonewalling Gulf Oil Spill Disclosure June 7, 2012
Bruce Thompson
The Obama administration is desperately trying to avoid coming clean about its role in delaying capping the Gulf Oil Spill.
Scientific Truth Unbound by Credentials or Consensus June 2, 2012
Jerome J. Schmitt
Some reminders for Al Gore
Newton (MA) saves money by going green. Sort of. Not really. May 25, 2012
Peter Wilson
In the Alice in Wonderland world of green preening, Newton, Massachusetts levies a hidden tax through the electric bill to purchase cow farts and to fund a middle school Hip to Habitat program and calls it green energy.
Lisa Jackson Must Go May 2, 2012
Jeffrey Folks
Al Armendariz, crucifier-wannabe, has resigned his post as regional director of the Environmental Protection Agency. Now it's time for his boss, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, to accept responsibility as well.
The Last Days of Global Warming Theory? April 24, 2012
Timothy Birdnow
The next few years should be fun, as Alarmist scientists, desperate to disassociate themselves from this failed theory, run for the tall grass. The Alpha Male of the pack has just retreated.
Celebrate Earth Day: Buy This Book April 22, 2012
Thomas Lifson
Eco-Tyranny exposes the biggest con in the history of mankind.
The Green Nazi Tycoon Alfred Toepfer April 22, 2012
Mark Musser
A profile of yet another notorious Nazi to embrace environmentalism.
Help GAIA Save the Planet April 22, 2012
Anthony J. Sadar and Susan T. Cammarata
Earth Day has been celebrated with reverence and fervency since 1970. And as the saying goes, "We started out to 'do good' and ended up 'doing well.'"
The Deepwater Horizon Two Years Later April 20, 2012
Bruce Thompson
Things have settled down since the BP oil spill in 2010, but now the Obama administration has some potentially embarrassing work to do.
The Answer Really Isn't Blowing in the Wind April 18, 2012
William Sullivan
In no other floundering green energy sub-sector is that failure so strikingly apparent as in wind energy.
Global Warming's Reckless Rhetoric April 17, 2012
Brian Sussman
Green scare-mongering is a common practice amongst those in the environmental movement; and such comments have the potential to incite societal panic.
The Decline of Greenism April 16, 2012
Bruce Walker
Americans are waking up to the green con game pushed by prissy and nasty radicals
Fracking Vindicated April 14, 2012
Gary Jason
The enviros have run a massive and effective propaganda campaign against fracking, but the forces of Enlightenment are fighting back.
Myth-spinning greenies alienate the greatest myth-maker of our time April 11, 2012
Thomas Lifson
George Lucas is the newest victim of the green religion to recognize that there is no reasoning with religious fanatics intent on saving the world (and you), no matter what you want.
Cheap Natural Gas Heralds an Energy Revolution April 11, 2012
S. Fred Singer
All bets are off for the future of energy in the United States and, indeed, the world.
A Strategy to Stop EPA Science Abuse April 11, 2012
John Dale Dunn and Steve Milloy
There is a way to stop the EPA's abuse of science and prevent their continued aggressive regulatory activity.
Is the EPA Just Sloppy, or Cooking the Books? April 10, 2012
Jeffrey Folks
After issuing a hastily compiled report last year claiming a direct link between groundwater contamination and hydraulic fracturing at Pavillion, Wyoming, the EPA now admits that it may be wrong.
Climategate Heads to Court April 5, 2012
S. Fred Singer
One way or another, the truth will come out. And when it does, we will witness a major earthquake that will encompass IPCC scientists, politicians in America and Europe, and the U.N.
Climate Change, Act Three April 4, 2012
Jeffrey Folks
The American people are wising up to the climate change fraud. But climate change is a vast enterprise with trillions of dollars at stake. So what is a global warming alarmist to do?
Fracknation Documentary Film Raises Production Money Through Kickstarter April 3, 2012
Peter Wilson
A worthy project: a documentary that extols the benefits of fracking, called "Fracknation." The producers are currently raising money through Kickstarter
Was $10 million government prize competition corrupted? April 3, 2012
Thomas Lifson
Something smells very bad in the Department of Energy's awarding of a ten million dollar prize to Philips Lighting.
Have a Little Faith, Just Trust Me! April 1, 2012
Jim Yardley
Environmental extremists on the left treat their belief system as a religion, something that has not been proven and might not even be capable of proof. That's the definition of a religion, isn't it?
The Science of Half-Baked Ideas March 28, 2012
Christopher Chantrill
The more we learn about climate science, the more we learn what a shabby, back-of-the-envelope business it is. It's déjà vu all over again.
Holding the EPA to Account March 24, 2012
John Dunn and Steve Milloy
A congressman's dressing down of EPA and its administrator was a first step in the right direction.
Carbon War erupts in Europe March 19, 2012
Viv Forbes
A battle of world significance has started quietly in Europe. Like all battles it is about energy, resources and ideology.
Global Warming and National Suicide March 16, 2012
Rael Jean Isaac
Beginning in 1856, the Xhosa tribe in today's South Africa destroyed its own economy, leading to subjugation and penury. We appear to be following in their footsteps.
Apple, Get Your Carbon Footprint Off My Neck March 13, 2012
Norman Rogers
What is going on here? Surely there is plenty of arrogance at Apple. This is very worrying to some of us stockholders. Arrogance leads to mistakes.
EPA Endangers Human Health and Welfare March 7, 2012
S. Fred Singer
The lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's regulation of greenhouse gas emissions using the Clean Air Act demonstrates the harm to human welfare from regulating carbon dioxide.
Europe's Airline Tax Lacks Science Support March 4, 2012
S. Fred Singer
The initial tax burden is tiny but is bound to rise as the EU lowers the cap on emissions. Is a trade war in the offing?
Climate Deniers Are Giving Us Skeptics a Bad Name February 29, 2012
S. Fred Singer
On the one side are the "warmistas," with fixed views about apocalyptic man-made global warming; at the other extreme are the "deniers." Somewhere in the middle are climate skeptics.
Obama's Environmental Justice Announcement February 27, 2012
Brian Sussman
An "important announcement" regarding "the Obama administration's commitment to environmental justice."
The Heartland Institute Flap February 20, 2012
S. Fred Singer
Opponents of the free-market think-tank use fraud to extract private documents but are tripped up when they forge a Confidential Planning Memorandum
No Warming for Fifteen Years. But Does It Even Matter? February 11, 2012
Vaughan Starr
The most quotidian data can make for revelations when scientists become priests.
America's worst regulatory agency outdoes itself January 29, 2012
Lee DeCovnick
New regulations reflect a decision process heavily influenced by three primary sources: Joseph Stalin, Al Gore and Pee-Wee Herman.
Green Lebensraum: The Nazi Roots of Sustainable Development January 27, 2012
Mark Musser
Environmental planners just exchanged brown paint with red paint -- all the while keeping the interior green. Nazi spatial planners played an early critical role in the development of the EU's sustainable development policies.
Obama's Head-Fake on U.S. Energy Development January 22, 2012
Gary Jason
The "insanity" of Obama's Keystone XL pipeline decision is only the latest of the administration's actions to block American fossil fuel production to attract notice.
Europe's Unfriendly Skies January 10, 2012
Brian Sussman
Flying to and from Europe just became more expensive thanks to the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
Solar Sagging January 9, 2012
Viv Forbes
It is no surprise that makers of solar panels are going broke all over the world. But the key problem is not just a flood of cheap Chinese panels or the slashing of "feed-in" bribes.
The EPA's Unconscionable War on Fracking December 21, 2011
Jeffrey Folks
The bias against fossil fuels that exists at the agency would be bad enough, but the fact that the EPA may have employed illegal and unconstitutional tactics in support of its green agenda is far worse.
NY Times draws the wrong lessons from Deepwater Horizon December 20, 2011
Bruce Thompson
The New York Times has come out with an editorial whitewash of governemnt incompetence, "Lessons of the Deepwater Horizon."
Harvard's Deep Green Pockets December 19, 2011
Peter Wilson
When elitism, environmentalism, and careerism hook up with the largest academic endowment in the world, the results are unintentionally hilarious.
A Not-So-Bright Idea Placed on Hold December 18, 2011
Scott Mayer
It is encouraging that the ridiculous incandescent light bulb ban has been placed on temporary hold. But that is just part of the story when it comes to the government's social engineering of energy usage.
British Police Raid Climategate Blogger's Home December 17, 2011
Timothy Birdnow
The leftists, the ruling class, the environmentalists pinned all of their hopes on Global Warming, and these leaked e-mails are finishing it. We are now seeing acts of desperation.
COPing with Climate-Change Misinformation December 2, 2011
Anthony J. Sadar
Right now, a climate-confab party is being held on the beaches of the Indian Ocean by the U.N.'s 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17).
Prominent Dem: Dems need to 'get real' on energy November 30, 2011
Thomas Lifson
Another defection from the gospel of renewable energy, and it's a biggie: no less than the head of the Brookings Institution's energy initiative.
Global Warming Bubble is Popping November 28, 2011
James Lewis
In math-physics this is called a "phase change, "and it doesn't just happen with water molecules locking together to make ice crystals
Durban Climate Conference: The Dream Fades November 28, 2011
S. Fred Singer
Things don't look promising for the perennial climate confab which convenes in Durban, South Africa today.
Another blow for warmist fraud: Canada pulling out of Kyoto Protocols November 28, 2011
Thomas Lifson
The global warming emperor has no clothes, and now a member of the G-8 is going to be saying so
Prince Charles' latest eco-fantasy November 28, 2011
Thomas Lifson
The man who has done more to destroy the British monarchy than anyone since Oliver Cromwell has a new playground and a new eco-fantasy.
UN Official Questions Biofuel Commitment November 27, 2011
Thomas Lifson
The warmist fraud continues to unravel, with the impracticality of the biofuels program impressing even an important United Nations official.
Obama's Green War Continues November 26, 2011
Gary Jason
Two recent stories highlight the Obama Regime's Green religious crusade on energy policy.
The Inconvenient Truth about Species Extinction November 21, 2011
James D. Agresti
Debunking one of Al Gore's more ridiculous claims regarding humans' effect on the demise of animal species.
Post-Normal Claws, Teeth, and Slime November 20, 2011
Norman Rogers
The promoters of trendy Post-Normal Science present it as a necessity for dealing with the greater complexity and the higher stakes that science allegedly faces in the modern world.
White House Involved in Warmist Smear Campaign November 18, 2011
Russell Cook
Alinsky would be proud.
Why BEST Will Not Settle the Climate Debate November 17, 2011
S. Fred Singer
There's quite a buzz surrounding the release of warming results from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project. The reaction of the "warmistas" has been jubilant, yet hilariously wrong.
Sierra Club at the Metropolitan Club November 8, 2011
Norman Rogers
My dirty secret is that I'm a member of the Sierra Club.
The Greens, Religion, and Science October 23, 2011
Mark Musser
On the one hand, Western Christianity has allegedly created the scientific revolution that has raided the ecology of the planet. On the other hand, since many Christians refuse to bow to Darwinism, Christianity is also considered anti-science.
Fisker fiasco in the making October 22, 2011
Ed Lasky
A modern-day Edsel with the losers this time including American taxpayers.
The Corps of Engineers Doubles Down on Flood Folly October 22, 2011
Joe Herring
If something doesn't change soon, Americans in the Missouri River valley are going to be left to fend for themselves in the midst of dangerous flood waters once again.
The Bizarre World of Radical Climate Science October 20, 2011
Norman Rogers
Imagine that you are a climate scientist and the Earth is threatened with a climate disaster. You need to warn the people of Earth and lobby Earth's governments. On the other hand, maybe you have lost touch with reality.
EPA's CO2 Endangerment Finding is Endangered October 15, 2011
S. Fred Singer
The US Supreme Court authorized the EPA to consider the greenhouse gas CO2 as a 'pollutant' under the terms of the Clean Air Act -- provided EPA could demonstrate that CO2 posed a threat to human health and welfare. Turns out, they can't.
Obama Ethics: Safer to Be a Golden-Winged Warbler than a Baby Human October 9, 2011
Peter Heck
Word has emerged that President Obama is finally taking steps to protect the melodic golden-winged warbler. It appears that he was the one that we'd been waiting for after all.
Questions for the Co-Chairmen of the Joint Coast Guard - Minerals Management Service Investigation Team October 6, 2011
Bruce Thompson
The Gulf oil spill may have been contained, but the fallout from the Obama administration's subsequent conduct continues to raise eyebrows.
Warren Buffett, the Keystone Pipeline, and Crony Capitalism October 6, 2011
Joe Herring
How the sage of Omaha could prosper by the blocking of a big new pipeline expanding America's supply of North American oil.
Harry Reid's Solyndra October 3, 2011
Ed Lasky
Here we go again: another gigantic taxpayer-funded loser, courtesy of President Obama's administration -- and this one seems to have helped friends of Harry Reid.
Science, Lies, and Videotape October 2, 2011
Clarice Feldman
It's been brutal lately for climate change advocates.
Green Twilight September 26, 2011
J.R. Dunn
There's something satisfyingly symbolic about the unfolding Solyndra scandal.
Science for Stupid Idiots September 22, 2011
Randall Hoven
You might be a stupid idiot, like me. At least I must be a stupid idiot, since I'm called that quite often. You see, I have doubts about some things. Things like catastrophic, man-caused global warming.
More evidence warmists wrong September 21, 2011
Timothy Birdnow
The IPCC and other warmist promoters have dismissed the role of the sun as negligible based on calculations of total solar irradiance (TSI). Oops!
Obama's solar energy Betamax bet September 20, 2011
Ed Lasky
Our "visionary" president backs the loser in the solar technology competition
Warmists have new excuse September 19, 2011
James Lewis
Oh, ye of little faith! Do you doubt Global Warming? Just because world temps haven't followed the computer models for, ummm, a decade or so?
The New Deniers September 17, 2011
Richard Haddad
A characteristic of newspaper editorials advocating more attention to catastrophic global warming is that they rarely offer any evidence in support of the cause.
Sweeping the Oil under the Rug: More Chicanery on the BP Spill September 17, 2011
Bruce Thompson
Amid a cloud of controversy, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) has just released its final report on the Deepwater Horizon accident.
Nobel laureate resigns in global warming protest September 15, 2011
Thomas Lifson
So much for the "scientific consensus"
Solyndra is just the tip of the iceberg September 15, 2011
Ed Lasky
Obama's Green Tech 38.6 billion dollar boondoggle has created only a few thousand jobs.
The Watermelon Regime's Pay-to-Play Way September 8, 2011
Gary Jason
Green on the outside, red on the inside, and rewarding its friends.
Energy Sec. Chu's office declares Solyndra a success September 7, 2011
Thomas Lifson
A powerful argument for keeping academics out of policy positions.
Obama Green Jobs Con Job and the Ill Wind That Blows from Spain September 7, 2011
Ed Lasky
Those green jobs we have been promised have been a mirage. They are often temporary in nature and come at an extraordinary high price.
Environmentalists self-destructing September 7, 2011
Rosslyn Smith
When your political movement conjures up images of trendy, self absorbed people spending obscene amounts of money on exotic produce, you should know that you are going to lose influence with people trying to make ends meet
Solyndra insiders get a second bite out of the taxpayers September 7, 2011
Ed Lasky
The friends of Barry O get a return on their investment. Obama's newest crony: a Walton.
On Being Governed By Scientific Frauds September 5, 2011
James Lewis
Two centuries after Jefferson, Franklin, and Benjamin Rush, we are now governed by science frauds.
Fortunately, Dr. Salk's Attempt to Eradicate the Scourge of Polio Has Failed September 5, 2011
Tony Kondaks
Where is the "fortune" in proving your opponent wrong if it means the suffering of millions?
Pope Albert Issues a Bull September 3, 2011
Robert Morrison
Only if you're the son of a prominent and powerful racist do you get to throw about bulls like that.
Solyndra scandal only the beginning September 2, 2011
Ed Lasky
The Obama administration has made a number of huge bets with our money on more green schemes like the recently bankrupt Solyndra
The Hot-Air Car September 2, 2011
Henry Percy
Compressed air is a fantasist's dream. Zero emissions! Big Oil can't patent the air, can they?
Actresses and Professors Protest the Pipeline September 1, 2011
Jeffrey Folks
No planes, trains, or cars. No heating or air conditioning. No manufacturing or transport. Only green vistas of land returned to wilderness, and lots of yoga.
A Warmer Planet Is a More Peaceful Planet August 31, 2011
Craig D. Idso
A new report published August 24 by Nature magazine claims that "global climate is a major factor in organized patterns of violence" around the world. One problem: the study is 180 degrees away from reality.
Climate Science and Corruption August 30, 2011
Russell Cook
Do personal and financial ties corrupt views on global warming? The warmists thinks so, but only when skeptical scientists are involved.
Has Progressivism Ruined Environmental Science? August 22, 2011
Anthony J. Sadar
In my thirty years of work in the science arena, as a government scientist, an industry consultant, and an academician, I have witnessed an increasingly adverse influence of progressivism on the practice of science.
USEPA: Hell-Bent on Over-Control August 20, 2011
Harvey M. Sheldon
The USEPA's new rules on the horizon may be the most expensive ever issued. Yet they are not needed, and they are ill-advised from a policy and program viewpoint.
AP crams three misleading assertions about global warming into a single paragraph August 19, 2011
James D. Agresti
Reporting upon presidential candidate Rick Perry's skepticism about man-made global warming
PBS and Global Warming Skeptics' Lockout August 18, 2011
Russell Cook
Adventures in getting the PBS NewHour to live up to its standards, up the food chain to Jim Lehrer.
Nobody to blame in green jobs fiasco August 18, 2011
Henry Percy
Like his president, this federal bureaucrat is assigning fault everywhere but to himself in squandering so much and accomplishing so little.
Green Ideology Trumps Flood Control August 17, 2011
Joe Herring
A behemoth arm of the federal government so enraptured by ecological fantasy that neighborhoods in towns that predated the dams themselves now lie beneath the surface of the water, victims of a river "reconnected to its floodplain."
Strange Friends of the New EPA Trucking Regulations August 15, 2011
Melody Himel Scalley
It is a rare government regulation that receives universal high marks, and when it happens, that's a sign something is up.
Enlightened Activist Scientists Dim Society August 5, 2011
Anthony J. Sadar
Progressive activism is making its mark and taking its toll on the U.S. science.
Shocking poll on global warming August 4, 2011
Randy Fardal
Finally, a real consensus on global warming: It's a lie.
First Anniversary of the Killing of the Deepwater Horizon Macondo Well August 4, 2011
Bruce Thompson
There are 230,000 workers looking for high paying jobs waiting for the government to do its job. If President Obama is still looking for an ass to kick, he ought to look at his own cabinet first.
Humans to Blame for Mass Extinction August 1, 2011
J. Robert Smith
It seems that those discredited, zany, and extremely well-funded climatologists have no corner on conceit or hokum.
Climate Witchcraft and Post-Normal Science July 28, 2011
Norman Rogers
If it weren't for the prophecies of doom, climate science would be an obscure academic niche. Global warming has made everyone in the field rich, at least in academic currency if not dollars.
Little Green Tyrannists July 23, 2011
Jason Ivey
The little green tyrannists in our midst are invading our most personal spaces, from our kitchens to our bathrooms, to the very light with which we view our world.
The Global Warming Hoax: How Soon We Forget July 16, 2011
F. Swemson
We can't afford to let our guard down about this scam.
Green Living Through Conservatism July 16, 2011
Bruce Walker
If the left truly cares about preserving the environment, reducing carbon emissions, saving the planet, and all that glop, then it should wholeheartedly embrace conservative social values.
Warmers Go Harold Camping On Us July 13, 2011
Peter Heck
As the entire country finds itself mired in the grip of heat patterns associated with a bizarre and unpredictable weather phenomenon known as "summer," the global warming crowd has launched yet another media offensive.
A World Food Crisis? July 11, 2011
S. Fred Singer
The latest disaster forecast comes to us from climate alarmists who focus on a world food crisis, supposedly as a consequence of global warming (GW). They are dead wrong.
Wind Farm Madness July 4, 2011
Steve McCann
The futility of squandering money on wind farms laid bare
'Rabid dogs' at the EPA July 3, 2011
Joesph Smith
Health benefits of a $1.6 billion boondoggle would be 'essentially nil'...
Hurricanes? What Hurricanes? July 1, 2011
Ken Jorgensen
Do you remember the predictions of more hurricanes and more powerful hurricanes and tropical cyclones predicted by Al Gore?
Let's have a Light Bulb Party! June 30, 2011
Mark J. Fitzgibbons
Yesterday I was talking with a colleague about the federal ban on incandescent light bulbs. A light went off in my head (if you'll excuse the term).
A Nutshell History of Climate-Change Hysteria June 30, 2011
Anthony J. Sadar
A brief look at progressive airy predictions of the past.
Warmist Cargo Cult Science Returns June 28, 2011
Timothy Birdnow
This is in no way, shape, or form science; it is advocacy in costume. It's a play with sets, props, actors pretending to be a work of science.
Obama's Mickey Mouse Administration June 28, 2011
Bruce Thompson
Given the well-established Disney empire of theme parks, it might be forgotten why the term "Mickey Mouse" first entered the public mind as a dysphemism.
With libertarians like this, who needs statists June 25, 2011
Randall Hoven
Libertarian advocating worldwide taxes?
James Hansen, Government Employee, Climate Scientist on the Take June 23, 2011
Henry Percy
$1.2 million from groups advocating the global warming religion, with no disclosure forms filed.
Deepwater Horizon Update: Transocean's Investigation June 22, 2011
Bruce Thompson
More than 14 months after the blowout and explosion aboard Transocean's Deepwater Horizon drill rig, the company has come forth with their public investigative report
The Purposeful Flooding of America's Heartland June 22, 2011
Joe Herring
Environmentalists strike again.
Science and Smear Merchants June 21, 2011
S. Fred Singer
With billions at stake in scientific scare-mongering, opponents of the panic merchants are subject to smear campaigns.
Republicans Flicker On Light Bulb Ban Repeal June 20, 2011
Geoffrey P. Hunt
The Republican House is flinching on passing the simplest and most symbolic piece of legislation this term: repeal of the incandescent light bulb phase out.
Blogs busting open AGW 'science' frauds June 20, 2011
Jerry Shenk
Scientific group and peer review process have been hijacked, so blogs now play the role of critical examination of faulty hypothesis.
There is a Cancer Growing on the IPCC and Al Gore June 19, 2011
Russell Cook
Most of us expect an intergovernmental agency not to have enviro-advocacy people influencing its reports.
More UN IPCC Climate Nonsense June 19, 2011
Steve McCann
While the world teeters on the brink of financial catastrophe, the UN ponders science fiction schemes to fight imaginary global warming
Checklist Climate $cience June 15, 2011
Anthony J. Sadar and Susan T. Cammarata
Science for hire produces dubious results
Naomi Oreskes, Conspiracy Queen June 7, 2011
Norman Rogers
Naomi Oreskes, of the University of California, is the environmentalist Noam Chomsky.
Mitt Romney's global warming blunder June 5, 2011
Jack Rudd
Mitt Romney panders again, while another climate scientist rediscovers his own integrity