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House Votes To Stop Biden’s Green ‘Slush Fund’

March 23, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Fred Lucas ~ By a vote of 209-204, the House passed legislation Friday to eliminate what critics call a green energy slush fund. The Daily Signal first reported last year on the bill, called the Cutting Green Corruption and Taxes Act and sponsored by Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., chairman of the Republican Policy Committee. “This […]

Can The Government Create A “Green” Hydrogen Fuel Industry?

February 15, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Steve Goreham ~ World leaders promote hydrogen as a possible low-emissions fuel for transportation and industry, and several nations have announced hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to support the development and supply of hydrogen. But will governments be able to create a new green hydrogen fuel industry?When hydrogen burns, the only combustion product is […]

Why Taylor Swift, Super Bowl, And Mark Zuckerberg Get A Shoutout In This Election Reform Hearing

February 8, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Fred Lucas ~ Impartial referees are just as important in the big election in November as in the big game this Sunday, a lawmaker argued Wednesday during a congressional hearing on private funding for administering elections. “The millions of private dollars being funneled to local offices raises serious questions about the conditions placed on their […]

Biden’s Offshore Wind Initiative Is Set To Join The Titanic

February 7, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ President Biden’s plan to install 30 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2030 appears headed into the same dark Atlantic waters as the Titanic before it.Last fall, Orstead scuttled plans to build its Ocean Wind 1 and Ocean Wind 2 installations off the New Jersey coast. The projects could have generated […]

Agricultural Officials Raise Concerns Over Big Banks’ ESG And Climate Agendas

February 6, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ Recent setbacks in the fortunes of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) investing have not kept a bloc of deep-pocketed financial institutions from adopting policies fundamentally at odds with farmers’ ability to grow food, a coalition of state agricultural officials said in a Jan. 29 letter to six big banks.The banks […]

A New Year Brings A New Start For Crypto Regulations

February 5, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ “For cryptocurrencies,” says Forbes staff writer Maria Gracia Santilana Linares, “2023 was neither the best nor the worst of times.” On the one hand, the overall crypto market, which fell hard in 2022 after reaching $3 trillion in 2021, rebounded to $1.7 trillion. On the other hand, the industry “found itself in the […]

Oregon Decriminalized Hard Drugs In 2020. You Won’t Believe What Happened Next.

February 2, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Jarrett Stepman ~ Editor’s note: Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, and other Oregon leaders declared a state of emergency for downtown Portland on Tuesday owing to an explosion of fentanyl use in the city. The state of emergency will last at least 90 days. According to The Associated Press, city, county, and […]

Happy Ending: Chile Will No Longer Have A Climate Constitution … For Now

December 24, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Douglas Pollock ~ Against all odds, on December 17, Chile was once again saved from having a new Constitution that would have been covered with “progressive” footprints and soaked with DNA from the UN’s “Agenda 2030”, which included a chapter on climate change. The 1980 Constitution thus remains in force.The likelihood that the new […]

Facts Versus The Church And Self-Serving Scientists

December 15, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Dr. John Happs ~ Only a few hundred years ago the majority of people, including scientists, accepted that the Earth was very young and such a belief was essentially driven by the church. In 1541 Martin Luther (1483-1546) argued that the creation of the Earth occurred in 3,961 BCE, whilst Archbishop Ussher (1581-1656), used […]

Old Glory Bank Co-Founder Responds To ESG Threats

December 15, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Tom Olohan ~ Old Glory Bank Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Eric Ohlhausen responded to a Bloomberg article on net-zero banks in an exclusive interview, saying that both U.S. and foreign banks are working to clamp down on farmers in the name of lower emissions.Following a disturbing statement by an executive from Dutch bank […]

COP 28: The Radicals Lose Again

December 15, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ As I pointed out several years ago, the climate alarmists have a civil war going on between radicals and moderates. Radical leader Greta Thunberg’s famous “How dare you” was addressed to moderate COP negotiators, not skeptics. In recent years, every COP had been dominated by an angry motion from the radicals, which was […]

Undercurrent At The UN Climate Summit – Green Colonialism

December 7, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Peter Murphy ~ Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reducing carbon emissions is the theme at the UN Climate Summit this week, so it’s Déjà vu all over again from past summits, as baseball Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra famously said. But the underlying, more sinister theme to reduce emissions worldwide is tantamount to modern-day […]

Biden Admin’s Woke, Wasteful Infrastructure Add-Ons Inflate Costs

December 6, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By David Ditch ~ This holiday season, millions of American families are still struggling to make ends meet due to the ravages of inflation. The cost of basics, such as food and family homes, have spiked since January 2021, meaning that real wages have dropped by thousands of dollars per year. At a time when […]

Say NO! To So-Called “Smart” Meters

November 26, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

From the team at CFACT ~ CFACT grassroots coordinator Tom Deweese presented testimony on “smart” electric meters in Virginia. Smart electric meters enable governments and utilities to throttle down or shut off your power. Shutting off your power is one tactic utilities are developing to keep the grid running when intermittent wind and solar stop […]

Offshore Wind Cannot Be Justified

November 23, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Paul Driessen and I just finished a study on the impact of offshore wind developments on CO2 emissions, since emission reduction is their primary justification. Turns out global emissions from mining, processing, manufacturing and transportation offset any reductions from power production. The full study report is published by CFACT’s NetZero Reality Coalition: How […]

Offshore Wind Is Neither Clean, Nor Green And Doesn’t Cut CO2 Emissions

August 21, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ America is preparing to spend trillions of taxpayer and ratepayer dollars to install thousands of offshore wind turbines – for illusory benefits. Advocates claim offshore wind energy is clean and sustainable. Wind itself certainly is, but that doesn’t mean getting energy from wind is. A single 12 MW (megawatts) offshore wind […]

Dominion Hides Huge Offshore Wind Cost Risk

August 1, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ The offshore wind industry is suffering a runaway cost crisis, but Dominion Energy says the cost of its monster project will not go up. Apparently, there is not even a risk of it going up. This preposterous claim is worth exploring. On the crisis side, I recently wrote about it in general terms. […]

Are We Finally Heading Toward ESG Sanity?

July 10, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ For years, insurance companies, banks, financial institutions, and asset management firms have championed the climate change cause and ostracized fossil fuels to “accelerate the transition” from oil, natural gas, and coal to wind and solar energy. They formed alliances, signed pledges, steered investments into “green” energy companies, and denied fossil fuel […]

Offshore Wind Costs Bound To Go Up

June 21, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ If reducing CO2 emissions is the justification for industrializing the ocean with offshore wind, then we need to know what the cost per ton of CO2 reduction is. This number is likely to be ridiculously large, on the order of thousands of dollars a ton. We have already discussed the […]

IPC Official: Fake Paralympians Destroying Integrity Of Disabled Sports

April 6, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Jay Maxson ~ Sadly, we live in an era of cheating in sports. Girly men fraudulently compete in women’s sports. Athletes use performance enhancing drugs. College athletes accept under-the-table money. And in a mind-blowing story this week, it’s been alleged that some paralympic athletes are faking the severity of their disabilities in order to win […]

21 State AGs Warn Top Asset Management Firms About Woke Investing

April 2, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Fred Lucas ~ Pushing back against politicized investing, 21 state attorneys general signed onto a letter late Thursday warning 53 top asset management companies about the legal perils of focusing on environmental, social, and governance standards, known as ESG. The attorneys general’s letter is addressed to financial management firms—including BlackRock, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs—that […]

Legalized Climate Grifting

March 22, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Paul Driessen ~ Grifters have long fascinated us. Operating outside accepted moral standards, they excel at persuading their “marks” to hand valuables over willingly. If they ever represented a “distinctly American ethos,” they’ve been supplanted by con artists seeking bank accounts for funds abandoned by Nigerian princes. Their artful dodging is epitomized by Frank […]

Greens Refuse To Discuss Recycling Renewables And Restoring Mining Locations To Pristine Condition

March 20, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Ronald Stein ~ The reality is that all the mineral products and metals needed to make wind turbines, solar panels, and EV batteries are mined and processed in places like Baotou, Inner Mongolia, Bolivia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, mostly under Chinese control. Decommissioning and restoration of those mining landscapes back to their […]

The Silly Giant Scale Of U.S. Offshore Wind Development

January 8, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ The world’s biggest offshore wind array is Hornsea 2, which is 1,386 MW with a turbine size of 8.4 MW. Operational in 2022 it is the state of the OSW art. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms But Virginia’s phase 1 array is a whopping 2,600 MW, with huge 15 MW turbines. Clearly it […]