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American and Chinese Presidents Agree To Continue To Work Together To Raise U. S. Energy Prices
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Pope Francis Barely Mentions Climate Change in Speeches at the United Nations, Congress, and the White House
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Pope Francis Cools It on Climate Change Rhetoric
Pope Francis in his speeches at the White House on Wednesday morning and to a joint session of Congress on Thursday morning toned down his…
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California’s Path to Climate Nirvana Hits Some Snags
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Rep. Paul Gosar Will File Articles of Impeachment Against EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy
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Ten Major Energy Companies Support Paris Accord, But 18 Don’t
CDP—formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project—this week announced in a press release that: “Disclosures from thousands of the world’s largest listed companies reveal…
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UN Climate Negotiators Make Slow Progress in Bonn
Another week of UN climate negotiations ended in Bonn, Germany, on 4th September with expressions of mild optimism that progress was being made from negotiators…
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President Obama Uses Alaska as a Backdrop for Climate Agenda
President Barack Obama followed up his disgraceful speech in Las Vegas last week with an insulting tour of Alaska, which included another disgraceful speech,…
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Cooler Heads Coalition News
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EPA Reportedly Will Issue Final Rules on Power Plant Greenhouse Gas Emissions This Week
Mainstream media outlets reported this week that the Environmental Protection Agency will release its final rules for limiting greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing…
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Joel Kotkin’s Analysis of Pope Francis’s Encyclical
Joel Kotkin has written an outstanding analysis posted on the Daily Beast of Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’. I would quibble with certain details. For example, I think Francis…
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Vatican Downplays Political Involvement in Climate Debate While Joining Forces with Radical Leftist Naomi Klein
Kathryn Jean Lopez reports on NRO’s The Corner that Cardinal Peter Turkson downplayed the political intentions of Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’, when he spoke to…
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How to Improve the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill
The Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill for FY 2016 passed by the House Appropriations Committee spends too much, but does move some funding from…
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President Obama’s UN Climate Plan Ignores American People and Congress
Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute responded to the Obama Administration’s submission of its intended nationally-determined contribution (INDC) to the United Nations:…
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Obama’s Meaningless China Deal on Climate Change
It will be up to future Presidents and Congresses after he leaves office in January 2017 to decide whether to require the emissions reductions.
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Supreme Court Overwhelmingly Votes to Uphold Rights of Private Property Owners
The Supreme Court has decided an important property rights case in favor of the private property owners and against the claim of the federal government…
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MoveOn admits: “[I]f younger, healthier people don’t participate, then costs will skyrocket and Obamacare will fail.”
MoveOn.org yesterday sent me an appeal asking for $5 to help fund a $250,000 social media campaign supporting ObamaCare targeted to reach young adults. Here’s…
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Malcolm Wallop, Stand-Up Guy, R.I.P.
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Boehner and House Republicans Improve Their Debt Ceiling Bill
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An Alaskan Mining Project: One Example of How Environmental Regulations are Strangling the U.S. Economy
Rick Manning of Americans for Limited Government notes here that one of the reasons the American economy is stuck in neutral is that investors…
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Cap and Trade Takes a Big Hit in Australia
Breaking news: At a meeting of the Liberal Party’s Members of Parliament today, Malcolm Turnbull was turned out as Leader and replaced by Tony Abbott…
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Socialist International Meets, but Carol Browner Can’t Make It
The Socialist International’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society has sent an interesting account of their recent meeting and release of their report, “From…
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Senators Lindsey Graham and John Kerry: Yes We Can (Raise Your Energy Prices and Send Jobs Abroad)
Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) published a curious op-ed in Sunday’s New York Times titled, “Yes We Can (Pass Climate Legislation).” …
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Obama Speech to the UN
President Barack Obama’s speech on global warming to the United Nations today is based on fantasy. Here are some quotes from the speech followed by…
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The Washington Post discovers that poor people need more energy
The Washington Post has discovered that poor people in poor countries need access to modern energy. In an excellent article on today’s front page,…
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Robert Novak, RIP
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Mr. President, Time to call out the National Guard!
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Who’s a climate scientist? Depends on which side you’re on.
I was interested to read an item in today’s Climate Wire about a new report by “a prominent Australian scientist.” Andrew Macintosh of the…
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California here we come?
As McClintock writes, “Congress is well under way toward imposing the same policies on the rest of the nation. California is just a little further…
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Alarmism increasing twice as fast as predicted
The Independent in London this week ran with the latest claim about sea level rise. Their headline illustrated perfectly how ridiculous predictions quickly transform…
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Stars Come Out for House and Senate Hearings
The House and the Senate held competing A-list hearings on global warming on Wednesday at 10AM. Testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works…
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Obama Scores Zero on Econ 101
In his first address to Congress, President Obama said that the “stimulus” legislation and other short-term economic policies were necessary to prevent a decade-long…
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SOTU Watch: Energy Prices & Hidden Taxes
While President Obama focuses on short-term economic recovery, he proposes long-term energy and global warming policies that will lead to economic decline. Federal subsidies for…
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Public Lose Interest in Global Warming
Andrew Revkin of the New York Times has just posted a piece on Dot Earth that discusses a recent poll by the Pew…
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Land Grab Bill: Senators Check Principles at the Door
I have heard several Republican congressional leaders say that the party has learned its lesson from their disastrous losses in the past two elections. From…
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Paulson speaks
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Paul M. Weyrich, RIP
[Since I wrote this, Paul Weyrich’s last column was published the day of his death, “The Next Conservatism, A Serious Agenda for the Future”…
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If Only I’d Known
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Gore’s 10-Year Plan to Save the Planet
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The Biggest News of the Year
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Is this quote from Al Gore?
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Will the TXU buyout put Texas on a California energy diet?
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USA Today puts global warming in its place
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If it’s happening, it must be global warming
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More on Newsweek
Newsweek's cover story this week is a long opinion piece on "Global Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine," written by Sharon Begley with the assistance…
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Thieves Fall Out
My colleague Marlo Lewis testified at a painfully comic hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday on "examining global warming issues in…
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Waxman’s Inquisition Should Look at the UN IPCC
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The “scientific consensus” is no longer alarming enough for global warming alarmists
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Union of Concerned Scientists
The Union of Concerned Scientists has just released a 68-page report that claims that Exxon Mobil has funded a disinformation campaign on global warming…
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Advice on global warming policy to the EU: airline taxes for all.
The European Commission has turned its attention to the substantial greenhouse gas emissions produced by air travel. They want to tax all commercial airline flights…