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Biden’s EPA Will Raise Prices And Harm Crops And The Environment, In Name Of Saving Species

July 28, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Paul Driessen ~ In just seven decades, America’s conventional (non-organic) farmers increased per-acre corn yields by an incredible 500% – while using steadily less water, fuel, fertilizer and pesticides – feeding millions more people. Among the many reasons for this miracle is their ability to control weeds that would otherwise steal moisture and nutrients […]

NY Times Flatters Young, Disruptive Enviro-Nuts Getting In Face Of World Leaders

June 23, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Clay Waters ~ In “New Brand of Activist Takes Aim at Ukraine War and Climate Crisis, Together,” New York Times’ international correspondent Jeffrey Gettleman allowed undereducated youth to spout socialist nonsense, while cheering them as they confronted world leaders face to face, acts that would be condemned if performed by, say, anti-vaccine mandate activists. […]

How Environmentalists Help Putin

March 9, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Dennis Prager ~ For more than 40 years, the environmentalist movement has been warning that global warming is the result of mankind’s burning of fossil fuels and poses an “existential threat” to human and other biological life. This is one of the many grandiose lies the left uses to reshape, if not destroy, Western […]

Hydraulic Fracturing Strengthened America. Banning It Would Weaken Us

October 6, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Dr. Jay Lehr ~ Will the new Governor of New York uphold former Governor Cuomo’s moratorium on hydraulic fracturing? There are all kinds of motivations regarding these kinds of moratoriums, and they are all illegal because they violate private property rights. How can you take the property right of the minerals in the ground […]

Review: Don’t Waste Time Or Money On ‘Silent Earth’

October 4, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Paul Driessen ~ Book reviews usually tell people, buy this new hardback. This article advises, don’t bother reading Silent Earth, much less purchasing a copy; it’s mostly a junk-science, anti-technology screed. Dave Goulson’s book expands on Silent Spring, Rachel Carson’s polemic against pesticides that helped rid Europe and the USA of deadly malaria, and […]

Nevada Lithium Mine, Key To “Green” Energy, Opposed By Greens

September 29, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ In a drama involving two conflicting goals of the environmental movement and the Biden administration – “saving” the planet from climate change and “saving” an endangered species — a proposed lithium mine on federal land in western Nevada may be brought low by – of all things — buckwheat. Two […]

Oregon Activists Ramp Up War Against Meat, Dairy

August 7, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ People laughed back in May when citizens in five mostly rural eastern Oregon counties voted to join two others in an effort to secede from Oregon and become part of a greater Idaho. The city slickers in Portland and Eugene have the votes to keep them hostage forever, or so it seems. […]

REAL Threats To Planet And People

July 7, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Paul Driessen ~ Environmental activism was already nasty and lethal when I wrote Eco-Imperialism: Green Power – Black Death 18 years ago. It’s gotten steadily worse since then, especially with hysteria about the “looming manmade climate apocalypse” driving ever more extreme demands that we rid the world of fossil fuels and prohibit or roll […]

Breaching Snake River Dams Riles Pacific Northwest

March 3, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ An Idaho congressman’s push to win congressional and Biden White House approval for removing four dams in the Lower Snake River in order to save dwindling stocks of salmon has ignited a firestorm in the Pacific Northwest. Idaho Republican Congressman Mike Simpson’s dam-removal proposal is part of a $33.5 billion […]

Green Politics

August 24, 2020 by PA Pundits - International

By Mark Hendrickson, Ph.D. ~ You can debate the details, but for my generation (the baby boomers who went to college in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s) the modern environmental is a half-century old. The movement was a twinkle in Rachel Carson’s eye when she published in Silent Spring 1962. Its embryonic stage included […]

Alaska’s Pebble Mine No Threat To Salmon

July 28, 2020 by PA Pundits - International

By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ The nearly two-decades-old controversy surrounding a proposed gold and copper mine in Southwest Alaska entered a new phase July 24, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), reversing an Obama-era finding, and concluded that the project “would not be expected to have a measurable effect on fish numbers” in […]

Greenpeace Abandons Science And Attacks Golden Rice

February 9, 2020 by PA Pundits - International

By Dr. Jay Lehr ~ Join me in a story that traveled two decades from 1999 to early this year, when efforts to reduce premature death and childhood blindness in the developing world may finally reach fruition. This can occur through the use of a special grain called Golden Rice. It’s daffodil like color occurs […]

Hydropower Works

October 7, 2019 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ The Australia-based ScienceAlert.com, in an article by publisher Carly Cassella, has a bright new idea. Since dams are bad anyway, why not knock all of them down (at least the ones that generate electricity), drain the reservoirs, and install solar panels in their stead. Cassella admits that, at least for now, the […]

Showering With Soap … Made From Straw?

October 5, 2019 by PA Pundits - International

From the team at CFACT ~ Every time you lather up and take a shower, the soap or shampoo you use is filled with a variety of chemicals. Of course, the levels at which they exist in your bubbles are not toxic to your health, nevertheless, scientists are always looking for better ways to reduce […]

The Left’s Abuse Of Children

September 25, 2019 by PA Pundits - International

By Dennis Prager ~ The entire American left—the mainstream media, the environmentalist movement, and Democratic politicians in particular—are celebrating the involvement of teenagers and even younger children in protesting the world’s “inaction” with regard to global warming. And not just the American left, of course. The left throughout the world is celebrating. A 16-year-old Swedish […]

Green Signaling

April 15, 2019 by PA Pundits - International

From the team at CFACT ~ Have you been cajoled into doing things that show you are in compliance with the Green agenda, yet do no actual good? The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) defends the environment and human welfare through facts, news, and analysis. Read more excellent articles at CFACT http://www.cfact.org/

Green Land Grabs On Steroids

March 4, 2019 by PA Pundits - International

By Paul Driessen ~ Special interest environmental groups got stung recently by an 8-0 U.S. Supreme Court opinion that held private landowners cannot be compelled to forego future economic uses of their property and at their own expense convert their land into suitable habitat for an endangered frog. Now radical greens are eyeing even bigger […]

Climate Change Australia – Anti Adani Coal Mine Activists Take Over The Queensland Government

March 1, 2019 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt ~ What chance of Adani ever getting a fair go for their planned coal mine in Central Queensland? This explains a lot about the Queensland Government’s last minute excuses for delaying a project that has passed every test for eight years: A senior climate change adviser to Queensland’s Labor government is also […]

Fighting For Energy And Human Rights Equality In Africa

February 28, 2019 by PA Pundits - International

By Paul Driessen ~ “She has gone to the Lord,” her sister Diana told me a few days ago. And with Fiona Kobusingye’s passing, after a courageous battle with cancer, the Congress of Racial Equality Uganda lost another leader. However, their legacy remains, the battles they began rage on – and Uganda and Africa are […]

New York Eco-Extremists Versus The Middle Class

February 3, 2019 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ It’s getting harder to be an environmental extremist these days. Just ask New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. The governor of the nation’s fourth most populace state is under intense pressure from Green activists in recent months. They are impatient about what they consider his lackluster timetable in forcing the Empire state […]

Good News: The UN’s Global Green Law Is Going Nowhere For Now

January 25, 2019 by PA Pundits - International

By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ The first major meeting of the UN’s (take a breath) “Ad hoc Open-ended Working Group towards a Global Pact for the Environment” or simply OEWG, convened on Monday, 14 January 2019 at the United Nations Environment Program offices in Nairobi, Kenya. During the week-long session, delegates considered the report of […]

Nature Conservancy Deal Shows Threat Of Conservation Fund

January 2, 2019 by PA Pundits - International

By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ By flipping 300 acres of private land in Montana to the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the Nature Conservancy (TNC) has solidified its reputation as “the feds’ real estate agent.” In this case, Arlington, Va.-based TNC teamed up with the head of a high-flying California tech company to […]

The Wild And Weird World Of COP24

December 13, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Adam Houser ~ The United Nations’ annual climate change conference, COP24 (Conference of the Parties), is being held in Katowice, Poland. This long-anticipated event has already seen a mix of bizarre and eyebrow-raising incidents. Time travel typhoon demonstration A group of young demonstrators engaged in an organized bit of silly street theater, where they […]

WIRED Glorifies Environmental Crimes As ‘Climate Activism’

November 15, 2018 by PA Pundits - International

By Julia A Seymour ~ The left loves political theater and judicial activism. So does WIRED magazine, apparently, given its promotion of “pipeline vandals” and other crimes committed in order to try to persuade a jury about climate change. WIRED published “Pipeline Vandals are Reinventing Climate Activism” on Nov. 9, a glowing 4,483-word feature story promoting […]