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Biden Admin Could Bring Its Net-Zero Emissions Fantasy To Another Key Sector

March 13, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ Residential and commercial buildings throughout the United States are in the bull’s eye of a White House plan “intended to help move the building sector to net-zero emissions.”A “pre-decisional” draft released with little fanfare in January outlines the vast scope of an initiative aimed at nothing less than the decarbonization […]

Courts Slap Down Climate Policies – Again

February 28, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Peter Murphy ~ Last week, there were more victories for the rule of law over the rule of climate bureaucrats and activists when the judiciary reversed a lower court ruling on a federal coal moratorium and rejected a bogus class-action lawsuit on emissions.These were encouraging steps, but the larger threat from extra-legal climate actions […]

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 […]

Newsom Has Been “Leaking” Emissions To The Developing World

February 16, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Ronald Stein ~ In California, Governor Gavin Newsom has been vocal about his commitment to reducing in-state greenhouse gas emissions, but much of his “success” has been accomplished by “leaking” those emissions to offshore locations with miniscule environmental regulations compared to California.The state also has the highest poverty rate in the nation, the highest […]

Congress And The Courts Enable Climate And Energy Fantasies And Government Expansion

February 13, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Paul Driessen ~ The left end of the political spectrum is relentlessly pursuing the transformation of America’s society, history, economy, speech, borders, governing systems, healthcare, energy, and living standards. What it cannot secure via the ballot box and alliances with the legacy media and academic institutions, it works to impose through rule by unelected, […]

Climate And Energy Fantasy And Tyranny

January 28, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Paul Driessen ~ It’s mystifying and terrifying that our lives, livelihoods, and living standards are increasingly dictated by activist, political, bureaucratic, academic, and media ruling elites, who disseminate theoretical nonsense, calculated myths, and outright disinformation.Not only on pronouns, gender and immigration – but on climate change … and energy, the foundation of modern civilization […]

CONFLICT OF INTEREST? Climate-Obsessed AP Reveals Wacky Eco-Extremist Donor

January 4, 2024 by PA Pundits - International

By Joseph Vazquez ~ How The Associated Press could admit to being financed by eco-extremist donors and yet still claim to be neutral when it comes to its climate change reporting defies common sense.The AP website lists as one of its “current philanthropic supporters” the “KR Foundation,” which boasts of how it’s “[s]upporting a rapid […]

Was COP 28 Climate Imperialism’s Last Gasp?

December 30, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ The horde has left Dubai, many in their private jets. Next stop in the champagne and caviar COPcon is Baku, Azerbaijan, which, at 92 feet below sea level, seems an appropriate place to bury Net Zero. The award came on the heels of an historic agreement between Azerbaijan and next-door Armenia, which both […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Frozen Chosen Got Stuck In Munich

December 14, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ On their way to sunny Dubai, the private jets of those pretending to care about planetary warming were frozen on glaciated runways.The planet had to be laughing. It seems the Earth knows it is being used as a fall guy. Just to prove a point – that they are NOT in charge – […]

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 […]

Dubious Climate Change Solutions On Display At COP28

December 12, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Peter Murphy ~ Dubai, United Arab Emirates Week two of the UN climate summit in Dubai is here.A climate alarmist letter initially with 800 (now 1,400) signatories from business and government, “celebrities,” faith leaders, and others was just released with familiar cliches (“we are at a tipping point”). They call for an “orderly phase-out […]

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 […]

COP 28 Is A Really Big Fossil Fuel Trade Show

December 8, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ What was supposed to be a big deal climate treaty negotiation has morphed into an enormous trade fair. Even funnier, the focus is on fossil fuel production, which the UN treaty is supposed to curb.COP 28 has an astounding number of attendees, with over 100,000 official registrants, more than twice the previous record. […]

Climate Conference Ignores Energy’s Role In Reducing Poverty And Preserving The Environment

December 8, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Miles Pollard ~ As the international climate conference known as the Conference of the Parties, or COP28, starts the first Global Stocktake—a methodology for countries to measure their compliance with the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate—the participating governments would do well to remember that energy is more than a mere commodity; it’s the backbone […]

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 […]

Vice President Harris Plays Santa Claus As Christmas Comes Early At COP28

December 6, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Peter Murphy ~ Dubai, UAE She came bearing gifts, or at least promises, early in the Christmas season here at the UN climate summit, though not a few attendees would view her as the Grinch.Of course, we are referring to the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, who flew in and out […]

National Elections Threaten The UN Climate Agenda

December 3, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ The jet-setters gathered in Dubai have been hit with blow after blow of bad election news.It is clear that “global warming” (now “climate change”) has, from the beginning, been a smokescreen for replacing free market capitalism and, with it, human freedom and prosperity — even the freedom of nations and individuals to choose […]

UN COP 28 Is Not A Democracy

November 30, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~ Reading the breathless Green coverage of the soon-to-be COP 28, the UN conference on climate change (CFACT is on the way!), I noticed a fundamental fallacy occurring endlessly. The analysts seem to assume that decision-making is democratic, such that what you need to pass a rule is a majority vote along the lines […]

Showdown At The UN COP 28 Corral

November 29, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Duggan Flanakin ~ “It ain’t over till it’s over.” – Yogi Berra Or is it?According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the world has maybe five years to avoid “potentially irreversible effects on the global climate system.” The British bearer of bad news, The Guardian, warns that “the window is closing.” [It may well be on […]

Court Derails Keystone State’s Membership In RGGI

November 7, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ A plan by former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf (D) to circumvent the legislative process and force the state to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was thwarted Nov. 1, when Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court ruled the move violated the state’s constitution. The court ruled that Wolf’s unilateral move from 2019, […]

Washington, DC, ‘Energy Efficiency’ Program Forcing Locals To Reduce Energy Use By 20%

November 4, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Jack Spencer ~ Everyone wants to pay lower electricity bills, and construction companies can insulate newer residential and commercial buildings to lower heating and cooling costs while those in existing structures may choose to install upgrades to create greater energy efficiency. So, why is it then that local Washington, D.C., officials are imposing draconian […]

Biden’s Climate Corps Resurrection Garners Congressional Pushback

October 20, 2023 by PA Pundits - International

By Bonner Cohen, Ph.D. ~ Two leading House Republicans have launched an investigation into the Biden White House’s unilateral creation of the American Climate Corps, saying the administration’s move is taking place without congressional authorization. First rejected by Congress during the Obama administration, and then excluded from last year’s Inflation Reduction Act, the Climate Corps […]