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Which Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Is Correct On Climate?
by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Caller
The two most outspoken Nobel physics prize winners when it comes to the climate controversy are 1997 winner Steven Chu and 2022 winner John Clauser. Which one makes the better case?
Only in California: New Bill Claims Climate Change Impacts Gender
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow, as appearing in the California Globe
Climate change now impacts genders? According to State Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego), Climate change impacts gender. And according to Dr. Nancy L. Cohen of the Gender Equity Policy Institute, “Women bear the brunt of climate change. “Climate emergencies don’t affect everyone equally,” said Senator Padilla.His Senate Bill 10 would require the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and the Natural Resources Agency to conduct an assessment of the disparate and differentiated gendered impacts and risks of extreme heat.
Where money meets environmental power
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Sentinel
I follow ups and downs of the environmental industry almost like a part-time hobby, for several reasons. For one, many environmental groups pretend to be local, grassroots activists, when in fact many are nationally organized and funded as part of a larger network. But also, their growth, influence, finances, and occasional declines offer fascinating insights into Americans’ interest in the environment, and their perceptions of groups who presume to speak for them.
The planet is still doing great. It’s the climate cult that’s broken
by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, and Jason Isaac, CEO of AEI, as appearing on The Washington Examiner
Every April, like clockwork, a predictable ritual unfolds. Earth Day rolls around with the same tired apocalyptic sermon from the climate catastrophe cult. The routine never changes: The planet is dying, humans are to blame, and only surrendering your freedom, your car, and your paycheck to the green elites will save it. Fifty-six years later, they’re still wrong.
Climate future not what it used to be
by Greg Walcher, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Daily Sentinel
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is revising and editing its “Seventh IPCC Report,” due out next year, and we have already learned that it has “adjusted its modeling framework.” That means IPCC will no longer defend its primary scenarios, known as SSP5-8.5 and SSP1-1.9, published in 2017, and upon which most of the world’s climate change policies were based — they were cited more than 45,000 times in academic papers and government studies.
Interior Sec. Doug Burgum Annihilates Gov. Newsom for Whining About Energy Prices Yet Purposefully DESTROYING Refineries
by Katy Grimes, Senior Media Fellow, as appearing in the California Globe
[Interior Sec. Doug] Burgum said if you care about the environment, you should want to have the energy produced here in the U.S. “But California’s policies do one thing for sure. They raise the price of energy, including gasoline for every single Californian,” Burgum said. “Everybody needs to know in California the reason you’re paying more for gasoline than anybody else in the world. And the lower 48, more for diesel, is because of the state policies. It’s not because of some war overseas.”
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