Blow the Truth

CLINTEL has produced a very interesting trio of open letters, with one each to heads of government, young people and climate scientists . Most open letters that challenge alarmism are focused on their content, so are written for a general audience. Others are to a specific person, regarding a specific issue.   In contrast, these CLINTEL letters speak to specific groups that play important roles in the climate debate. Nominally each letter is to members of these groups that attended COP 26 , where each group was prominent, but each message is valid for the entire group, worldwide. Each calls out for action.   How to address the members of these key groups is something we need to think more about. These letters are in that sense important precedents.   In particular I do not think I have ever seen a letter like this to young people. Have heard a great many complaints about how alarmism is terrorizing children, making them hate the past and afraid of their future. But actua...

COP26 T he  radical alarmists proposed a fistful of bad stuff during COP 26. A lot was in the surprise COP President’s proposed decision document on the last Wednesday, with just three days to go.  Other ridiculous stuff was proposed by various country groups. None of it make it whole into the final decision. Most just disappeared and what was left was rendered harmless. Among the crazy proposals that happily went missing in action: 1. Halving emissions by 2030 . Developing countries rightly called this carbon colonialism . 2. Developed countries paying reparations for developing countries’ bad weather losses and damages. 3. Aid payments to developing countries of $1.3 trillion a year beginning in 2025. This is up from the already promised $100 billion a year beginning 2020, which gas yet to appear. 4. Net zero emissions by mid-century . 5. A tax on the sale of emission indulgences, the proceeds to go to (no surprise) developing countries. Most of the issues are about transfer...

ExxonMobil took it on the chin as it suffered stinging defeats at the hand's of radical climate activists during its annual shareholder's meeting yesterday. Efforts by the green hedge fund “ Engine No. 1 ” to infiltrate Exxon’s Board of Directors succeeded when two of the outfit’s activist candidates, Gregory Goff and Kaisa Hietala , defeated standing Exxon board members . The hedge has been haranguing Exxon to get on board the “ green energy ” bandwagon and away from fossil fuels to fight global warming . Of the 10 resolutions put forward at the meeting, nearly half had at least tangentially to do with climate, including ones to force the company to report on lobbying, and on “ environmental lobbying ” in particular. Most of these passed despite leadership opposition. For its part, CFACT had a front-row seat to the Exxon theatrics. Committee representatives participated in the annual shareholders meeting along with its allies from the National Center for Public Policy R...

 Joe Biden last week removed sanctions against Russian companies to allow completion of the massive Nord Stream 2 wind turbine and solar energy project so that Russia can supply this renewable energy abundance to U.S.-allied nations in western Europe. Gotta fight global warming and reverse climate change, don’t ya know!! Oh, wait. Let me rephrase that paragraph: President Joe Biden recently  removed  economic sanctions against Russian companies to allow completion of a massive Nord Stream 2  wind turbine and solar energy  GAS PIPELINE project so that Russia can supply this  renewable  FOSSIL FUEL energy abundance to U.S.-allied nations in western Europe.  Gotta fight global warming and reverse climate change, don’t ya know!! The opening paragraph, of course, is incorrect; the latter paragraph above is the accurate account of what occurred. This incident reveals so much about the political and media class in America, it is hard to know where to be...

Cows  Image by  ❤️A life without animals is not worth living❤️  from  Pixabay   America’s farmers and ranchers are under attack. While they tirelessly work to provide food for millions, the Green Left has demonized them as so-called “Destroyers of the Earth.” The EPA, DOI, and UN repeatedly identify meat producers as devourers of wildlife habitat in an attempt to punish them through regulation. And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has even raised alarm over excessive cattle farts she believes are contributing to a climate apocalypse. Yet the narrative that the Left is trying to spin is not the real story. In actuality, cattle ranchers and farmers play an important role in both protecting the environment and feeding the world. CFACT’s Gabriella Hoffman showcases this real story behind cattle ranching and farming in her latest episode of the Conservation Nation series, titled “Cows Keep Florida Green.” YouTube Cows Keep FL Green! Conservation Nation Hoffman interview...

Texas is experiencing a serious deep freeze which is causing people to lose power. Texas investors larded their state with solar panels and wind turbines to rake in federal subsidies and tax credits. CFACT’s Marc Morano discussed the Texas freeze with Tucker Carlson on Fox News last night: Fox News Marc Monro and Tucker Carlson “Warren Buffett famously said years ago that there’s no reason to build windmills without the tax breaks and without the subsidies… the same thing’s happening in Germany by the way right now Tucker. Their solar panels are covered in snow and Germans are freezing through winter much the way Texans are.  Who would have thought this would have happened in Texas?  But this is what we’re dealing with. And Biden now wants to nationalize this plan of the less than four percent that comes from solar and wind and make it our chief go-to energy source.” After generations of striving, America at last achieved energy independence.  Forcing America to abandon e...

Bill Gates was listed in 2019 as the number one carbon footprint of all the celebrities. He beat Liar Al Gore , Jennifer Lopez . He beat Bernie Sanders and a bunch of others [including] Hollywood Harrison Ford . He came out number one, Bill Gates. He has a new book coming out about the climate crisis; what we can all do. He spoke to the World Economic Forum and claimed we have to change every aspect of our lives to fight global warming but Bill Gates is not willing to do it. The last estimate in 2010 he paid $30,000 a month in his electricity bill at his home. Since he...recently bought a 43 million-dollar oceanfront property , [he's] not very worried about sea-level rise apparently." Marc reports that Gates and the rest of the climate elite want us to refrain from flying unless we can come up with a "morally justifiable" reason to do so.  Of course they expect their moral justification travel visas to be permanently stamped.  "Gates just said we need to c...

The large social media and search companies, a.k.a., “Big Tech,” have long been out of the closet when it comes to censorship, as CFACT has  documented . I first  wrote  about this 19 months ago, and it well  predated  my analysis. Big Tech is now abandoning any masquerade of standards or objectivity when they  censor  those with whom they dislike or disagree. In fact, they are blaring it with the increased backing of many politicians who swore an oath to the Constitution; the document that guarantees free speech as an inalienable right. The names of Big Tech moguls are increasingly familiar, including Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg of  Facebook  (which owns Instagram), Jeff  Bezos  of Amazon, and Sundar Pichai of  Google  (which owns YouTube). None of these individuals has yet reached the comparative wealth of 19 th  century “robber barons,” John D. Rockefeller (oil), Andrew Carnegie (steel) or J.P. Morgan (...

There is a revolution coming in geothermal energy. How big it will be and how fast it can grow remains to be seen, but the revolutionary technology is here now. We already know about the new technology by name — fracking. But that is fracking for oil and gas, the energy revolution we are already living on, that the greens hate. The geothermal revolution is fracking for heat. Here is the technical bit. The Earth’s crust we live on is just a thin film wrapped around an 8,000 mile diameter molten ball. In some places under the deep ocean this crust is estimated to be just 3 miles or so thick. It is somewhat thicker under the continents but the point remains; it gets hot fast as you drill down into the crust. That heat is geothermal energy. We have used geothermal energy to make electricity for a long time, but only in tiny amounts. California does the most in the US and its entire generating capacity is about the size of a single large coal fired power plant, about 3000 MW. The whole worl...