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    LinkedIn Bans Geologist for Climate Change Posts: ‘This Type of Content Is Not Allowed’

    Greg Wrightstone, a geologist and expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has posted content on LinkedIn for years. It would often spark discussions and debates among his followers—and the occasional trolls. That changed last month. Wrightstone, who serves as executive director of the CO2 Coalition, says he was banned from LinkedIn for…
    Rob Bluey
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    Costly Energy, Climate Policies in Democrats’ Spending Bill Lack Transparency

    Unprecedented is an understatement to describe what’s happening in Congress right now. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., are driving Congress to pass a $3.5 trillion spending package to go along with the more than $1 trillion infrastructure bill that passed the Senate in August. Transparency and debate are…
    Katie Tubb
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    Climate Change Is Not a Crisis

    President Joe Biden contends that the recent hurricanes that hit the United States prove we’re in a “climate crisis.” It’s a “code red” for the world, the president warns. White House national climate adviser Gina McCarthy added that climate is now a “health emergency.” It is, no doubt, quite convenient for politicians to treat every…
    David Harsanyi
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    Free Trade and Clean Energy Go Together

    “Clean energy” has become a shorthand term for the broad policy debate on how to achieve environmentally safe economic growth and enhance America’s energy security. A joint study recently published by the World Trade Organization and the International Renewable Energy Agency looks at how policies that promote open trade can support cost reductions, product development,…
    Anthony B. Kim
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    Climate Change Report Isn’t a Blank Check for Green Policies

    The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently published the first major installment of its Sixth Assessment Report. It’s a big deal, but it’s not the last word in climate science. Two more sections of the report will be published in the coming year. Taken together, they attempt to define the consensus, scientific view of…
    Katie Tubb
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    High Gasoline Prices and Biden’s Confusing OPEC Request on Oil Production

    In the face of persistently high U.S. gasoline prices this summer, national security adviser Jake Sullivan announced last week that the Biden administration was “engaging with relevant OPEC+ members” to increase oil production. Not only is this confusing because OPEC+ is a cartel of nations competing against private American companies and includes political adversaries of…
    Katie Tubb
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    Pegasus Spyware Revelations a Cautionary Tale of Digital Authoritarianism

    As cybersecurity technology becomes more powerful, so has the technology that is used to hack phones, computers, and other devices. When this technology falls into the wrong hands—for example, a totalitarian government—it can be exploited to create a nightmare scenario for millions of people. Unfortunately, such a scenario recently occurred in multiple countries using Pegasus,…
    Annelise Butler
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    Tough Questions About Electric Vehicles Unasked, Unanswered by Green Left

    “We need plug-in hybrids!” a young leftie once chirped at me after I addressed students on his college campus. “OK,” I asked. “When you go home and plug your car into the electric socket in the garage, where do you think that electricity comes from?” He stood there in silence for a couple of seconds,…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Facebook Censored My Video Questioning Climate Change Alarmists

    Whom does Facebook trust to censor content posted on its platform? A Ph.D. graduate from France. Really. The Frenchman, Emmanuel Vincent, started a fact-checking group he calls “Climate Feedback.” It does “a new kind of fact-checking.” It sure is new—and wrong. I released a video in which some climate scientists argue that climate change is…
    John Stossel
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    Federal Spending Alone Can’t Buy Energy Innovation

    Committees in the House and Senate are scheduled Thursday to hold hearings on energy innovation. The hearings come in the wake of the American Jobs Plan and the Biden administration’s budget, including massive proposals for taxpayer-backed research, development, demonstration, and commercialization, particularly for energy technologies.     While there is a role for the federal government,…
    Katie Tubb
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    Tax Incentives Are No Way to Drive Energy Innovation. Here’s Why.

    The best ways to tame environmentally harmful emissions is to allow the private sector to innovate cleaner and more efficient ways to produce, distribute, and use energy. Unfortunately, government subsidies, mandates, and other regulations largely fail to spur such developments, and instead bolster government-favored technologies. The latest example of this is a  recent proposal from…
    Adam Michel
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    First Woman to Lead House Energy and Commerce Panel Now Fights Left’s Job-Killing Agenda

    Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., was the first woman ever elected chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. And now, as the ranking Republican on the panel, McMorris Rodgers is pushing back on the far left’s harmful climate policies and fighting to protect American jobs.  McMorris Rodgers joins the show to talk about that and to discuss…
    Virginia Allen
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    Meet George Gascón, the Rogue Prosecutor Whose Policies Are Wreaking Havoc in Los Angeles

    This commentary is part of a series on the rogue prosecutors around the country who have been backed by liberal billionaires such as George Soros and Cari Tuna, and the threat those prosecutors pose to crime victims and others alike. Previous entries in the series focused on prosecutors in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, and Fairfax County, Virginia, and potential U.S….
    Cully Stimson
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    The Dangers of Climate Change Activists

    What is it about people who are successful in one field and believe that gives them credence to serve as an expert in a totally unrelated field? Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and reportedly the fourth-richest person on the planet, now self-identifies as a climate expert, and not only an expert, but a fervent…
    Cal Thomas
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    Green Energy Leaves Americans Out in the Cold in More Ways Than One

    February gave Texas the cold shoulder this weekend as an extreme winter storm pounded the entire state. As of this morning, power had not been restored to more than 4 million Texans. Hundreds of thousands have also lost water after the water treatment plants in Fort Worth, Abilene, and elsewhere suffered power outages. A handful of…
    Tony Perkins
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    New York Times Reviews Book Advocating Blowing Up Pipelines to Combat Climate Change

    If the name Tatiana Schlossberg sounds like a brand for white privilege, you would be right. She’s not a top chef or fashion designer. She’s the 30-year-old daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy. Like Maria Shriver at NBC News, Tatiana Schlossberg became an “objective journalist” for…
    Tim Graham
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    Biden’s Energy Nominee Divvied Taxpayers’ Millions to Alternative Startups That Went Bankrupt

    President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Department of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, divvied out millions in taxpayer funds during her two terms as Michigan governor to alternative energy companies that eventually went bankrupt. In one instance, Granholm’s administration provided a $9.1 million refundable tax credit to a renewable energy company registered to the address of…
    Andrew Kerr
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    Biden to Sign Multiple Climate Change Orders, Reversing Trump Policies

    President Joe Biden is expected to sign multiple executive orders aimed at combating climate change on his first day in office. The orders—which block construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, rejoin the Paris climate accords, and temporarily halt oil and gas leasing in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—would directly reverse policies implemented by former President…
    Andrew Trunsky
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    Biden’s Climate Change Litmus Test

    From the looks of former Vice President Joe Biden’s selections for Cabinet positions and other high offices, it seems belief in “climate change” has become a litmus test. Biden appears to have raised climate change to the level of a religious doctrine. In naming John Kerry a climate “czar,” Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., to head…
    Cal Thomas
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    When Climate Change Distracts the US Military

    Climate change is an urgent national security threat? Here we go again. Leaving aside the debate over the causes of climate change—and the pace of that change—promoters of the argument that changes in the global climate are a “security threat” to the U.S. muddle our understanding of the term and jeopardize our ability to confront…
    Dakota Wood
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