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    Obama’s Ridiculous History Lessons on Climate Change

    President Barack Obama last week tried to give us a history lesson on climate change. “As human beings are placed under strain, then bad things happen,” he said. “And, you know, if you look at world history, whenever people are desperate, when people start lacking food, when people are not able to make a living…
    Kim Holmes
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    It’s Time to Lift the Ban on Exporting Crude Oil

    The House of Representatives recently voted to the lift a decades-long ban on exporting crude oil. Bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate would do the same. Lifting the ban would generate more jobs for Americans, supply the United States and the world with more affordable energy, and provide important geopolitical benefits for Washington and its…
    Nicolas Loris
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    5 Facts the Left Isn’t Trumpeting About Paris and Climate Change

    Politicians and bureaucrats from nearly 200 nations are gathered in Paris for an international global warming agreement. In his opening statements, President Barack Obama claimed that “there is such a thing as being too late. And when it comes to climate change, that hour is almost upon us.” In the midst of such self-induced high-pressure…
    Katie Tubb
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    How Senate Republicans Plan to Use Budget Process to Block Obama’s International Climate Change Pact

    Senate Republicans, girding for another budget battle in early December, are vowing to use the process to undercut President Barack Obama’s chances of brokering an international climate pact expected to emerge from negotiations in Paris. The GOP lawmakers want to leverage their appropriations power to block $3 billion pledged by the Obama administration to help developing countries manage…
    Natalie Johnson
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    Report: New EPA Rules Could Raise Energy Prices in 47 States

    Critics of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan say the new regulation will cost up to $292 billion and potentially raise electricity prices in 47 states. “States should be braced to pay higher costs,” said Laura Sheehan, senior vice president for communications for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. “Consumers only lose in the Clean…
    Rob Nikolewski
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    New York Attorney General Tries to Criminalize Scientific Dissent on Climate Change

    Everyone reading this should do the attorney general of New York, Eric T. Schneiderman, a big favor: buy a copy of the U.S. Constitution, highlight the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights with a bright yellow or orange Sharpie, and mail him a copy. Schneiderman obviously needs a remedial lesson in the fact that…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    The Cozy Relationship Between Big Business and Climate Change Activists

    Polls bear it out: When it comes to climate change, the world isn’t much interested in taking action. Most folks, it seems, are reluctant to embrace expensive, lifestyle-changing, ineffective “solutions” to a non-evident problem. But some big companies are gung-ho about “fighting” climate change. Well, at least they’ve jumped on the Obama administration’s climate-treaty bandwagon,…
    Nicolas Loris
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    Sen. Mike Lee: Congress Must Have a Say Before Obama Commits to ‘Unilateral’ International Climate Change Plan

    Sen. Mike Lee warned the Obama administration on Wednesday that it should reconsider its plan to not submit for congressional approval an international climate change agreement that could be signed later next month. To avoid the inevitable objection of congressional Republicans, the Obama administration has indicated it plans to work-around the constitutional requirement that a…
    Josh Siegel
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    Two Reasons to Reject Obama’s ‘Clean Power Plan’ for Climate Change

    It is difficult to see how a U.S. envoy to Paris for the climate deal will convince the United Nations that Americans support President Obama’s promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions. The cornerstone of Obama’s promise to the U.N. is called the “Clean Power Plan.” Developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the plan is a…
    Katie Tubb
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    How a Green Climate Change Fund Would Transfer the Wealth of Nations

    Delegates from around the world will meet in Paris in December to negotiate an international climate treaty with the goal of reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. Some countries will push a “green” agenda to increase use of energy resources such as wind and solar, and decrease the use of more affordable, reliable,…
    Nicolas Loris
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    Lawmakers Probe Taxpayer-Funded Academic Who Wants Obama to Prosecute Climate Change Skeptics

    Taxpayer-funded college professors and researchers who cite climate change to advocate regulations that would raise energy costs for consumers have some explaining to do, congressional investigators say. A House committee wants to know more about the relationship between taxpayer money received by the academics and their urging of President Obama to use federal racketeering law…
    Kevin Mooney
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    Climate Change True Believers Want to Silence Other Viewpoints

    Debate. It’s the hallmark of an open society. We may hold different points of view on a certain topic, but we can express those views freely, without fear of repercussions. Unless, that is, you dare to question the idea of man-made global warming. That, apparently, puts you beyond the pale. You can insist that the…
    Ed Feulner
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    Skeptical Climate Change Is Real? These 20 Academics Think You Should Be Prosecuted.

    Are you skeptical of human-caused global warming or climate change like many respected scientists and climate experts? Then you should be prosecuted like a Mafia mob boss, according to 20 academics at ivory towers like Columbia, Rutgers, and the University of Washington. Apparently, these professors either don’t believe in the First Amendment or are profoundly ignorant…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    How Obama Is Planning to Bypass Congress on International Climate Change Regulations

    It’s almost winter in Paris, and soon the City of Lights will be blanketed beneath a heavy layer of foreign bureaucrats and climate change negotiators. On November 30, hundreds of unelected representatives of international powers will descend under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). According to recent press reports,…
    Rachel Bovard
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    Climate Change Is Not a National Security Issue

    On Monday, Oct. 5, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change released its most recent draft of a global climate change agreement ahead of the 2015 Paris World Climate Summit to “support the global response to the urgent threat of climate change by further addressing its causes and by further increasing resilience and the ability…
    Aaron Strickland
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    California Governor Vows to Override Democrat-Led Legislature on Climate Change Regulations

    Jerry Brown isn’t used to losing in the California Legislature. And even though defections from a raft of fellow Democrats in Sacramento forced the second-term governor to abandon two sweeping anti-carbon measures, Brown vows to implement them anyway—through executive order. “I’d say oil has won a skirmish, but they’ve lost the bigger battle, because I am…
    Rob Nikolewski
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    Why Democrats Are Wrong to Use the Crude Oil Export Ban as a Bargaining Tactic

    The House Energy and Commerce Committee has passed a bill to lift America’s decades-long ban on crude oil. Three Democrats joined all of the Republicans in passing the bill out of committee, 31-19. The bill now goes to the full House for passage. The White House opposes the bill, with spokesman Josh Earnest saying: This…
    Nicolas Loris
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    Lowest Gas Prices for Labor Day Weekend in 11 Years

    Good news for those loading up the Tahoe to get out of town this Labor Day weekend: Gas prices are at a record low. The national average for gasoline prices dropped to $2.44 on Thursday, according to gas-pricing site GasBuddy.com. Friday’s national average sits at $2.42 per gallon. This marks the lowest price at the…
    Leah Jessen
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    Obama Is Ignoring the Science on Climate Change

    President Obama gave a doom and gloom speech yesterday at the Global Leadership in the Arctic (GLACIER) conference in Alaska to build momentum for the U.N. climate deal in Paris this December. So far less than one third of countries have submitted plans to cut carbon dioxide emissions by the Wall Street Journal’s count. According…
    Katie Tubb
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    Jim Inhofe on What the Left Gets Wrong About Climate Change

    Sen. Jim Inhofe is no stranger to the climate change debate. The Oklahoma Republican, who leads the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, believes that government and regulation are a big problem. In an interview with The Daily Signal, Inhofe explained why people should care about the climate debate and what prompted him to bring…
    Jamie Jackson
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