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It’s Coal To The Rescue As Wind And Solar Fail To Keep German Lights On

May 1, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ In Germany they call it the “Energiewende,” meaning energy transition, and it doesn’t work.Germans have been forced to come to grips with sober energy reality after binging on more than half a trillion Euros of so-called “alternative” energy, such as wind turbines and solar panels. This dramatically increased the price of electricity and created a serious […]

Reporters Cash In Spinning Climate Hype

March 15, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ As the U.S. worked to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of scientists signed the Great Barrington Declaration, which called for “focused protection” for older adults, people with medical conditions, and other high-risk populations rather than near-total lockdowns.That rankled Dr. Anthony Fauci and then-National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins so much […]

Why California’s Climate Disclosure Law Should Doom Green Energy

February 24, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ California prides itself for being a leader with respect to tackling climate change. This is because they believe, albeit on shaky scientific grounds, that their citizens “already” face devastating consequences inflicted on them by manmade global warming – including wildfires, sea level rise, drought, climate refugees, and other impacts that “threaten […]

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 […]

Offshore Wind And The Stress On Commercial Fishermen

January 27, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ Congressional Republicans are sounding the Mayday alarm this weekend to the grave challenges commercial fishermen face resulting from the Biden administration’s offshore wind agenda.Offshore wind development is placing enormous stress on the American commercial fishing fleet, which may not survive these challenges. A trio of coastal lawmakers, Reps. Andy. Harris (R-Md.), […]

COP 28: Climate Campaigners Freaking Out

December 13, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ Climate campaigners from Al Gore and John Kerry, down to the oddest imported student radical, are freaking out over the draft final text as the climate talks in Dubai near their conclusion.At issue is whether the “outcome” will call for the “phase out” of fossil fuels, or merely call for fossil […]

COP 28: Climate Colonialism And Anti-Semitism

December 9, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ Left unchecked, UN climate politics will trap the poor in poverty and drag down millions of others to join them.They would destroy the democratic state of Israel as well. These are not exaggerations. I am at the UN conference in Dubai and have seen and heard these dangerous pronouncements and more […]

Offshore Wind Energy Is Sinking Like A Stone

November 22, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ With respect to energy policy, President Biden has been nothing but consistent. From day one, he set out to end fossil fuel use in America and replace it with wind and solar power — even if green energy drives up costs and fails to deliver reliable electricity when needed. One of […]

Gavin Newsom Scapegoats Fossil Fuels To Cover His Own Failures

November 4, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ California recently joined other states in suing oil companies for purportedly misleading the public about alleged risks from fossil-fuel-driven climate change, extreme weather, and other dangers. “Big Oil has been lying to us,” Governor Gavin Newsom asserted, “covering up” facts about “wildfires wiping out entire communities, toxic smoke clogging our air […]

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 […]

Are The Greens Overplaying Their Hand?

August 19, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ The Green movement has a long history of rubbing people the wrong way. In some cases, it was perhaps for the public good, like starting campaigns to stop littering and save whales. In other cases, it was just plain patronizing, like telling parents to ditch disposable diapers and keep their thermostats […]

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 […]

The Climate War On Food

May 29, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ Then they came for our food supply. CFACT senior policy analyst Bonner Cohen reports at CFACT.org on “climate czar” John Kerry’s recent pronouncements at a Department of Agriculture summit. “We can’t get to net-zero,” Kerry said, “we can’t get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of […]

CFACT To Feds: Wind Turbine Survey Cuts Off Whale Migration Corridor

May 3, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ The Biden Administration is preparing to rush approval for the Atlantic Shores offshore wind project, which is located approximately 10-20 miles off the coast of New Jersey between Atlantic City and Barnegat Light, despite the risk it poses to marine mammals — particularly the severely endangered right whale. They are poised […]

Biden Administration Partially Approves Alaska’s Willow Gas And Oil Project

March 16, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ The Biden Administration approved three out of five Alaskan drilling sites applied for by Conoco Philips. Alaska’s Willow project will bring urgently needed gas and oil to the American energy market which is essential to recapturing energy independence and security. However, the vacillating President, fearful of offending the climate change campaigners […]

The Exorbitant Cost Of ‘Net Zero’

February 23, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ Many were surprised and angered when a member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Richard Trumka Jr., floated the idea of phasing out new gas stoves and ovens. To many, it seemed random at the time. The Biden Administration, for its part, withdrew the idea immediately, maintaining they were never planning […]

Climate Extremists’ Hideous Wind Farms Coming To Your Backyard

January 28, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ If all goes according to plan, Magic Valley Energy will soon be installing up to 400, 740-foot-tall wind turbines, 485 miles of new roads, miles and miles of transmission lines, and buildings filled with half-ton battery modules on upwards of 197,000 acres at Lava Ridge in southwestern Idaho. The company is […]

Dr. Jay Lehr

January 17, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ On Tuesday, CFACT lost another friend, Dr. Jay Lehr. What a man he was! CFACT’s friends and readers have been treated to a brilliant weekly science update from Jay. He has served as a Senior Policy Advisor to CFACT since 2020. The day before we lost him, we published a fantastic […]

The Climate Cabal Has Plans For You

January 9, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ Coal, oil and natural gas – in conjunction with innovative free-enterprise capitalism — have lifted billions out of drudgery and poverty and brought unprecedented prosperity to billions of people. They’ve blessed humanity with pharmaceuticals, plastics, cell phones, sanitation and countless other benefits that wouldn’t have otherwise existed. For example, thanks to […]

Harnessing The Power Of The Stars A Step Closer

December 19, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ Nuclear fusion is the promising technology that could solve our energy needs, but it is always a decade off. Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California have taken a big step forward. Adam Houser reports at CFACT.org citing Fox Business: “Scientists have been struggling since the 1950s to harness the […]

Biden And Kerry Cave — UN Climate Reparations Are Here

November 24, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ UN climate negotiators have been talking about “loss and damage,” a concept that would make you liable when bad weather strikes developing nations, since the Bali action plan in 2007. This amounts to developed nations accepting liability for extreme weather they did not cause. Naturally developing nations, the hard climate Left, […]

Climate Extremism Is Making America Mentally Ill

October 26, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ America is floundering in an epidemic of anxiety, depression and drug use. One in six Americans takes some kind of psychiatric drug, mostly antidepressants, a medical study concluded, and some of them (Prozac and Paxil) are linked to acts of violence. A third of high school students cannot shake feelings of […]

Let’s Talk About Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Looming Gas Pains

September 5, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ Like other leftist politicians and activists, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser rarely ponders even easily foreseeable consequences of her actions and demands solutions implemented and paid for by someone else. The District of Columbia is about to inflict an enormous new set of roosting chicken realities on its residents — and […]

Biden And Manchin – Building America Backward

August 5, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ Say it ain’t so, Joes! In 2010, when it looked like Senator Manchin could lose reelection to Republican John Raese, Manchin released a famous ad in which he literally shoots a hole in a climate cap and trade bill. As a Senator from the energy producing state of West Virginia, he […]