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Gov. Glenn Youngkin Aims To Save Virginia From California-Style Energy Policies

January 31, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Kevin Mooney ~ Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, is drawing a sharp contrast between his energy initiatives and those of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, saying he remains committed to withdrawing Virginia from a multistate climate pact and pulling away from California’s vehicle emission goals. Youngkin’s executive order calling on Virginia to “reevaluate” […]

The Fed’s Jay Powell Is Trying To Have It Both Ways On Climate

January 19, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Rupert Darwall ~ Fed-speak, Alan Greenspan once explained, was about practicing the art of constructive ambiguity. Testifying to Congress as Fed chairman, Greenspan would resolve a sentence in a deliberately obscure way that made it incomprehensible, “but nobody was quite sure I wasn’t saying something profound when I wasn’t.” Speaking on Tuesday at a symposium on […]

The False Assumptions Behind Climate Regulations In Pennsylvania

December 12, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Kevin Mooney ~ While they were in the majority, Pennsylvania House Republicans spent their political capital to advance American energy independence, free speech rights, and scientific integrity. Unlike too many their counterparts in Washington D.C., they were not cowed by hostile press coverage or well-funded pressure groups that have a stake in undermining sound science. […]

Escaping From The COP-27 Insane Asylum

November 14, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Paul Driessen ~ “Show us the money!” climate activists demand, and rich countries are expected to pony up. Do I hear $100 billion? Would you give $1 trillion? Now, then, would you give $2 trillion? The climate reparations bidding war is on. What began at $100-billion-a-year at COP-21 in Paris rapidly ballooned to $1.3-trillion […]

Crusading Hypocrites Look Forward To The Next (COP27) Junket In Egypt

September 16, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Dr. John Happs ~ Much criticism has rightly been levelled at the many Conferences of the Parties (COPS) that have seen politicians, celebrities, royals and green activists travel to 26 annual climate conferences, with more to come. No doubt, those self-opinionated people will always want to meet at expensive locations around the world, dining […]

Net-Zero Is The Real Climate Catastrophe

September 2, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ Maybe Vladimir Putin SHOULD get the Nobel Peace Prize after all. To be sure, Putin’s bloody invasion of Ukraine is an affront to humanity, given his targeting of civilians. Russia even fired upon medical and humanitarian aid convoys and is using a nuclear power plant as a shield for his military operations. […]

What Is Really Behind The Climate Agenda?

August 28, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. and Dr. Jay Lehr ~ Noah Harari, a futurist advisor to the World Economic Forum (WEF), told the forum that they must become the majority and leave the rest behind. He was saying we don’t need regular folks. We don’t need carpenters, plumbers, hairdressers, mechanics automobile workers, farmers and ranchers. They […]

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 […]

NY Times Page One: ‘Delay Is The New Denial’ Latest GOP Tactic To Block Climate Action

July 24, 2022 by PA Pundits - International

By Clay Waters ~ The New York Times stopped attacking centrist Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin long enough to recalibrate usual attacks on Republicans. Reporters Lisa Friedman and Jonathan Weisman front-page story Thursday coined a new pro-Democratic phrase in its online headline to portray the Republican Party as dangerously ignorant on climate change: “Delay as the New […]

Is COP26 On Life Support And Could The 2022 Elections Pull The Plug?

December 23, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

From the team at CFACT ~ By Larry Goldstein and Michael Lynch: Now that COP26 is over, it is time to take a critical look at the future direction of climate change policies, as opposed to the headlines and commentary. The conference is probably the new definition of cognitive dissonance, as leaders called for dramatic […]

The Real Climate And Health Crisis

December 16, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Paul Driessen ~ Climate policies promoted and imposed by Team Biden and Democrats are based on junk science, headline-grabbing scare stories, and computer models that create far-fetched “scenarios” asserting that fossil fuel use and emissions will cause Earth to warm by 4 degrees C (7 F) over the next 80 years, and cause Arctic […]

EPA Proposes To Hammer Oil And Natural Gas With Crazy New Climate Rules

December 11, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ EPA has posted a massive proposed rule making targeting the oil and natural gas industry, calling it a “climate review”. The full title is “Standards of Performance for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources and Emissions Guidelines for Existing Sources: Oil and Natural Gas Sector Climate Review” The URL for commenting […]

The Rise Of Climate Terrorism

December 10, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

From the team at CFACT ~ By Robert Hefner: As I wrote in We Need Leaders Who Prioritize People Over Molecules, climate alarmists “seem to have portrayed the problem [of climate change] in such an extremist way that they have convinced a growing army of climate warriors that terrorism is justified.” Consider that Tracy Stone-Manning, Biden’s […]

COP 26: India’s Net Zero Pledge – Does It Really Mean Anything?

December 2, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

From the team at CFACT ~ By Tilak K. Doshi: As the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) came to an end last week, India became something of a whipping boy in the mass media, accused of being the “last-minute spoiler” by forcing the summit […]

Biden’s Climate Power Grab Via Trillions Of Dollars In Annual Federal Procurement

November 27, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Spending by federal agencies is governed by the extensive Federal Acquisition Regulations or FAR for short. In response to a Biden executive order the FAR Council is conducting a silly public inquiry as to how climate change should be factored into federal spending. The Federal Government spends over $6 trillion […]

COP 26: With Biden’s Help The COP Goes Wild

November 13, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Radical alarmists are running COP 26 and Biden is right there with them. What was supposed to be a finishing up of the Paris Accord rules has turned into a bid to write a whole new treaty. Huge fight to follow. Where radical stuff like this comes from is often […]

COP 26: Obama And AOC Fly In

November 10, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Craig Rucker ~ Barack Obama may have served as the 44th President of the United States, but he is just as wrong as anyone else who approaches global warming from deep roving left field. “For those listening back home in the U.S., let me say this,” Obama told UN COP 26, “It doesn’t matter […]

COP 26: Armageddon Awaits At The UN Climate Conference

November 4, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Peter Murphy ~ Glasgow, Scotland U.K. Gloom and doom pervade the United Nations 26th Climate Summit here in Glasgow, Scotland. But CFACT is here to push back with some doses of reality. Prince Charles Windsor, the Duke of (nearby) Edinburgh, spoke this week at the Conference, which he referred to as “the last-chance saloon.” […]

UN Climate Road Trip! (And $hakedown)

October 26, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Peter Murphy ~ Everyone who matters from the Biden administration wants to be seen as ‘caring about the planet and doing something about climate change. They are now tripping all over themselves to head to the upcoming United Nations climate conference. Nearly everyone else attending this conference will be looking for—actually, demanding—a handout from […]

Climate Change Humor

October 20, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

Commentary by Geoff Derrick ~ As we speak, the Nationals (Ed adds – The National Party of Australia, one of the two major parties from the Conservative side of politics here in Australia) are trying to decide what to do in light of the shameful reversal of policy in October 2021 by Australian Prime Minister […]

A Mad Rush For Coal As China And India Suspend Climate Correctness

October 15, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Vijay Raj Jayaraj ~ During the first week of October 2021, both India and China made desperate attempts to buy the stranded Australian coal shipments in China’s port warehouses. The coal shipments, which were originally intended to be imported into China, were left stranded at the port after China banned the import of Australian […]

Harm From War On Hydrocarbons Exceeds Harm From Climate Change

October 8, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Ronald Stein ~ We are being told of the world’s forthcoming demise with continued use of fossil fuels, and the need to commit to a reduction in emissions to keeping temperature rise below 1.5C, but we have nothing to compare potential fatalities with or without fossil fuels. History tells us that four of the […]

Biden And Boris: The Bad News Bears

October 3, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is comfortable working with Joe Biden on climate change issues. At the United Nations Johnson days ago praised Biden’s promise to double the U.S. contribution to imposing climate rules on developing nations, remarking that, “It’s fantastic to see the United States really stepping up and […]

Why Climate Activists And Environmentalists Should Support Nuclear Power

August 7, 2021 by PA Pundits - International

By Katie Tubb and Mary Riordan ~ For environmentalists and climate activists who are serious about realistic energy options to reduce pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions, nuclear power is a compelling option. A feisty Twitter exchange between Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, brought the issue to the fore. Sanders, a sponsor […]