A CNN journalist pens a fascinating insight into the left's dystopian worldview. On April 7, Bill Weir, CNN's Chief Climate Correspondent, had a son. Weir wrote an open letter to his son telling him that he was born into Hell on Earth, also known as the modern Western world. The letter perfectly encapsulates everything the left hates and wants to see destroyed. [...] Weir is a tragic figure because he has eyes but cannot see. The real tragedy, though, is that people like Weir, through the power of the media, drive too much of America's political agenda.

Dark Money Progressive Groups Spending Millions to Politicize Coronavirus, Spread Fear. Millions of Americans across the country are, day by day, adjusting their lives to better cope with the economic, social, and political impacts caused by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, as a dark money network simultaneously works overtime to further politicize the festering crisis. A Democrat-aligned Super PAC announced on Tuesday that it will spend $5 million on negative ads targeting President Trump's response to the coronavirus.

Kids Suffering Nightmares, Lost Sleep Over Climate Fears. British children have been so propagandized about the supposedly imminent climate apocalypse that nearly a fifth of them are losing sleep and having nightmares about it, according to a survey conducted by the BBC's Newsround, a television news program for children.

Eco-Nut Spits On Lyft Driver For Polluting Air With His Car. [Video clip]

Can the Coronavirus-Panic-Creating Media be Sued for Closed Businesses and Lost Jobs? The deliberate panic created over the coronavirus is not victimless. Far from it. When the radioactive dust settles from this orchestrated panic-strategy, potentially hundreds of billions will have been lost, thousands of businesses closed, and millions of employees fired. When the coronavirus first reared its ugly head, many in the media instantly saw it as a cheap and easy way to increase clicks, newspaper sales, viewers, listeners, and most especially Ad revenue. In the guise of "informing the public," they intended to run scare headlines and stories to spike attention to their sites.

Latest Climate Report Feeds into Alarmist Fearmongering. The latest National Climate Assessment, released just last week, aims to plant yet another seed of climate catastrophism into the mind of the public. Predictably, its worst-case scenarios got huge play in the media. After all, disaster sells. But the doomsday scenarios that animated talking heads throughout the weekend aren't just highly unlikely; they're close to impossible.

Denver Communist Official Says She Will Use Deadly Virus as Bio Weapon Against Trump Supporters. Denver Communist Councilwoman Candi Cdebaca is back in the news again. Back in April 2019 Candi promised to push communism "by any means necessary." [...] Now this: Cdebaca is getting blowback after she retweeted a call to send coronavirus victims to Trump rallies. Cdebaca reposted a tweet that said, "For the record, if I do get the coronavirus I'm attending every MAGA rally I can."

Leftist Denver councilwoman cheers idea of infecting Trump rallies with coronavirus. Denver city councilwoman Candi CdeBaca was hit with calls to resign Tuesday after she showed support for a tweet floating the idea of attending Make America Great Again rallies to infect Trump supporters with the coronavirus. Ms. CdeBaca tweeted "#solidarity Yaaas!!" in her Feb. 28 response to a Feb. 26 post from Susan Daniel, who tweeted, "For the record, if I do get the coronavirus I'm attending every MAGA rally I can." The councilwoman's office issued a statement saying her reply was "sarcastic" after she drew thousands of outraged responses on social media, as well as a call from the Colorado Republican Party to resign.

The Only Thing Dems Have to Offer Is Fear Itself. [T]he American Left is pushing fear as hard as they have ever pushed anything. We have had plenty of scares since the days of FDR, including the overpopulation, acid rain, and Y2K. Some scares have changed names, from global cooling in the 1970s, only to be replaced by global warming, climate change, and now extreme weather. Infectious diseases invoke fear as they are a frequent movie theme, from Andromeda Strain to Contagion. We were told to fear the bird flu, SARS, MERS, and Ebola. Now we are to fear Coronavirus. Every election year seems to have a disease outbreak [...] Academic researchers study how these disease outbreaks influence federal elections. Is the Coronavirus outbreak on the eve of an election just a random coincidence?

Pseudoscience doesn't get much more pretentious than this. A new report by a joint commission of the World Health Organization, the medical journal The Lancet and UNICEF has ranked the United States the 39th best country on Earth for raising children, behind virtually every country in Europe and also lots of other places. Scratch the surface and you'll discover what is driving the report: climate-change alarmism. In every way they can think of, elites are trying to make ordinary Americans desperate about climate change, so they can wheel their Trojan horse full of policy proposals into the United States. The Lancet study was rigged to deliver the desired outcome of a low finish for the United States. Our low ranking was mainly due to our coming in 151st out of 159 countries for "sustainability."

The Billionaire And The 'Moderates' Are Socialists Too. Socialism vs. centrism is a charade. The only choice among all these candidates is between Bernie and Bernie Lite. [...] Nothing empowers collectivists like a crisis, and what bigger emergency requiring massively-expanded government could be conceived than the planet itself being in peril? "The scientists are telling us that if we don't act incredibly boldly within the next six, seven years, there will be irreparable damage done ... to the entire world." With that, Bernie managed to halve the 12-year countdown to Armageddon announced a year ago by his most famed supporter, New York City Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

When 'Climate' Isn't About the Climate At All. The dirty secret of "climate" is that no one claims that any demanded "carbon" tax, cap-and-trade ration coupon scheme or windmill mandate would have a measurable impact on climate (or temperature). This is in fact a "consensus". [...] Twelve years, or the planet gets it!, per AOC. Which she then said was sarcasm that only a sea sponge would fall for. Like WaPo's Tom Toles. Anyway, Greta then said it was eight years. Standing next to Prince Charles who, eleven years earlier, had also given us eight years. It seems so long ago that the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, gave us fifty days. Wait, that was the same year Charles set the figure at eight years. The first time.

How will we know when the future is saved? What does that mean?

School strikes to continue until [the] future [is] saved, says Thunberg. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg said on Friday (February 14) that school strikes, now in their 78th week, would go on until those in power did what was required to "save our future". Hundreds of people took part in a school strike march near the Swedish parliament in Stockholm on Friday, the place where Thunberg started her school strike in August 2018 to protest against the lack of action on the climate crisis.

The rise of climate anxiety. Over the past few weeks Clover Hogan has found herself crying during the day and waking up at night gripped by panic. [...] Hogan said her lowest point came when she heard about the death of half a billion animals incinerated as the fires swept through the bush. "That was the moment where I felt my heart cleave into two pieces. I felt absolutely distraught." The physical impact of the climate crisis is impossible to ignore, but experts are becoming increasingly concerned about another, less obvious consequence of the escalating emergency — the strain it is putting on people's mental wellbeing, especially the young.

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Arson, not global warming, was the proximate cause of the Australia wildfires. Every proposed remedy for global warming involves anti-capitalism, regress to 18th century technology, and high taxes. It's all political. There is no climate emergency. There is no extraordinary global warming. Any panic you experience because of global warming is self-induced.

Climate Change Fears of Teen Activist Are Empirically Baseless. At a recent United Nations summit, 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg claimed that the Earth is on the brink of destruction and that older generations are betraying younger ones by not doing enough to stop climate change. The media has amplified these allegations by giving her speech broad, glowing coverage. However, the fears she expressed are not grounded in reality. Thunberg says that she is "one of the lucky ones" who are not already "dying" from global warming and claims that with "today's emissions levels our remaining CO2 budget will be gone in less than 8.5 years." [...] Thunberg says her fears are justified by "more than 30 years" of "crystal-clear" science, but as detailed below, just the opposite is true. Contrary to predictions made three decades ago, a broad range of environmental and human welfare indicators related to the effects of climate change have stayed level or improved.

Faulty Assumptions Lead to Fake News About Climate Change. Climate change soon will constitute "a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters," one government study predicted. By 2020, according to a report on the study in The Guardian, "abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies." That was 16 years ago. Now that the year 2020 is upon us, are any of these "doom and gloom" scenarios actually occurring? Far from it. Indeed, the planet has experienced a bit of lukewarming. However, claims of increases in extreme weather are vastly overstated.

Climate doomsayers keep putting sell-by dates on their credibility. I was slightly surprised when Greta Thunberg announced at Davos that we had eight years left to save the planet. As long as that? Admittedly, that's four years less than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who put it at 12, although, come to think of it, that was last January, so presumably she now thinks we've got 11 years left. But some doomsayers have been much less optimistic. According to Peter Wadhams, a Cambridge professor interviewed in the Guardian in 2013, Arctic ice would disappear by 2015 if we didn't mend our ways, while Gordon Brown announced in 2009 that we had just 50 days to save the Earth. Then again, playing the long game can also catch up with you. In 2004, Observer readers were told Britain would have a 'Siberian' climate in 16 years' time. We're supposed to be in the midst of that now. On the face of it, we should be grateful that these gloomsters make such oddly precise predictions. It's like putting a sell-by date on their credibility.

Suppose a Prepper.... Climate change activists behave exactly like the preppers do. "The earth will be doomed if the global temperature rises 2 degrees C. Not only that, this will happen in 10 years, 2 months and 5 days. After all, this is settled science (whatever that is!). [...] Human beings are the smartest of all life on earth. We live in all sorts of climates. We build shelters to survive and live comfortably when the outside temperature is -30 degrees F. Air conditioning we invented copes with extraordinarily warm temperatures. But somehow, human beings are not smart enough to be able to find adaptations needed to cope with a 2 degree C increase in the global surface temperature? That is just incomprehensibly silly!

Michael Moore: We're Done in Four Years if We Don't Fix Climate Change. Left-wing documentary filmmaker Michael Moore appeared on the [sic] Late Night with Seth Meyers Tuesday [1/21/2020] and said "if we don't fix climate change, like, now," then "we don't have four years," before we're all "done."

John Cusack at Bernie Sanders rally: World has '10-12-year window' to stop climate change, 'predatory capitalism'. Actor John Cusack sounded the alarm on climate change and "predatory capitalism" while introducing presidential primary contender Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., during a Saturday afternoon [1/18/2020] rally in Exeter, New Hampshire. The 53-year-old actor declared that billionaires were "getting nervous," while the corporate media were "confused" about Sanders' campaign. "And, it seems like every conceivable power structure on earth is trying to kill or derail our movement, but we're still here," he said.

Climate crisis is biggest threat to the planet, warn global elite. The climate crisis is the biggest threat to global stability, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has warned. WEF on Wednesday [1/16/2020] published its annual global risk report, highlighting what its members see as the biggest threats to economic and political stability. For the first time in the report's history, the top five longterm risks were all linked to the environment. "The planet is heating, the ice is melting, and we see that the library of species are on fire," Borge Brende, president of WEF, said at a press conference in London to launch the report. "It's really, really serious."

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There is no global warming, to speak of, above the normal year-to-year background noise. There is no planetary emergency. Global warming does not cause political or economic instability. Yes the planet is heating, on the side that faces the sun, but it's cooling on the other side. This effect is called day and night. If you'll just ignore these people, you'll be a lot happier.

Don't Panic, Just Worry. Simply put, we have become unable to rouse ourselves to take public problems seriously unless we can persuade ourselves that they present immediate and utterly apocalyptic dangers. [...] "The climate crisis is the existential crisis for our world," Elizabeth Warren said in one recent Democratic presidential debate. "It puts every living thing on this planet at risk." Not to be outdone, Pete Buttigieg put a deadline on the prophecy: "Science tells us we have 12 years before we reach the horizon of catastrophe when it comes to our climate." Andrew Yang thinks inequality is such a threat, too. "To me, without dramatic change, the best-case scenario is a hyper-stratified society like something out of The Hunger Games or Guatemala with the occasional mass shooting," he wrote in his 2019 book The War on Normal People. "The worst case is widespread despair, violence and the utter collapse of our society." [...] But most of the time, this rhetoric of cataclysm isn't even deployed in the service of particular policy priorities. It's simply a way of talking about the danger posed by the other party.

"I Don't Want To Die" — Schools Are Traumatizing Kids With Greta's Climate Apocalypse. "Mommy, they said that we're going to die in eight years." That's what Joylaea Blazevik, a distraught eight-year old, told her mother, Lejla Blazevik, following a presentation on global warming at her school, in Toronto, Canada. "They were terrified with the information," Mrs. Blazevik told the National Post, a major Canadian newspaper. Along with other seven- and eight-year-olds from second and third grade classes at her school, Joylaea had watched a video of Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen climate crusader, delivering her now-famous "How dare you!" tirade at the United Nations. [...] Following Thunberg's blistering diatribe, a large "carbon clock" appeared on the screen, counting down from eight years, the amount of time the global warming alarmists say we have until carbon-dioxide levels cause the earth's atmosphere to warm by 1.5 degrees Celsius. "I don't wanna die," one of Joylaea's classmates shouted out, which caused other children to join in, voicing the same horrible dread.

2004 climate-alarmist warning: Nuclear war, sunken major cities by 2020. According to experts, climate change will result in "millions" of deaths, major European cities being sunken, nuclear war and global environmental riots... all within the next 5 days. That's because they made the prediction back in 2004 and said all that would happen by 2020, which is just 5 days away. "Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters," reported left-wing newspaper the Guardian on February 22, 2004.

The Cartoonish Climate Crusade. So where are these "catastrophic" shortages of water and energy supply? Where water is in short supply, it is almost invariably because of "water socialism" (California specializes in this), while conventional energy is in such abundance at the moment that the biggest problem facing energy producers is how to enforce production cuts enough to keep prices up.

Climate change hysteria is the smokescreen for communism's advancement in America. Just as we are fully aware (at least we should be) that the Green New Deal is an economic plan clothed in the glossy robes of climate change, so too should we be realizing that the entire climate change movement is being driven by a desire for a communist near-future in America. I assume, or at least I hope, that most activists in the climate change movement do what they do because they sincerely believe the world is going to be uninhabitable in the near future if we don't act immediately. But just as these people willfully ignore actual scientific data in favor of the pseudo-science cited by their movement, so too have they willfully ignored the fact that the only possible "solution" to the climate change "problem" is giving up everything: Our property, our rights, and ability to act as individuals.

Climate Nags are Trying to Ruin Christmas. It all began on the much feared and anticipated "Black Friday," when around the world climate protestors attempted to block the entrances of retailers opening their doors to what is traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year. Based on sales figures, most holiday shoppers ignored the protestors. [...] Claiming, "We're in a climate emergency," various climate websites and institutes admonish Christmas shoppers to consider their "carbon footprint" when travelling and making purchases, directing people to change their holiday behavior to save the planet. Their directives include using public transit or shared rides and to stop online shopping altogether.

The Incredible Story Of How Climate Change Became Apocalyptic. It's true that apocalyptic narratives have always had a place in discussions of climate. In 1989 the United Nations warned that the world had "a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control." But the escalation of apocalyptic climate rhetoric in recent years is unprecedented. The drumbeat of doom has led some prominent figures to turn on the mainstream climate community, complaining that "climate scientists have been underestimating the rate of climate change and the severity of its effects." In reality, climate science has not just accurately anticipated unfolding climate change, but has done so consistently for the past 50 years. There is thus an inconsistency here. Discussions of climate change have become more apocalyptic, but climate science has not.

Emma Thompson Delivers End-Times Climate Prophecy: Foretells 'Pets Eaten, Crop Failures, and Ruined Lives'. Oscar-winning actress and climate activist Emma Thompson has seen the future and behold, it is grim. She warned Thursday [12/5/2019] the "climate crisis" means Britons must prepare for "crop failures" and the prospect of eating their own pets to survive a future of cataclysmic weather events, great suffering and injustice.

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[#1] Being an actress does not enhance the value of one's opinion about the weather. [#2] One degree of temperature change per century isn't enough to cause anything of this sort.

Republicans Will Live to Regret Joining Climate Alarmists. Anxiety about global warming is skyrocketing in the Western world to the point one psychiatrist says, "I believe that everyone now has some climate anxiety." It's no wonder. Western leaders stoke the fires. On November 28, 2019, the European parliament declared a global climate emergency. Its members were responding in part to a children's crusade to save the planet. In March 2019, millions of children in over 120 countries skipped school to embark on what has become a series of "climate strikes." [...] "Climate crisis" and "climate emergency" are replacing the neutral-sounding "climate change." Then there's the threatening "extreme weather," which has become a major focus as warming has stalled over the last two decades. [...] A spokesperson for the climate change activist organization Extinction Rebellion (XR) said the group makes unsubstantiated predictions of billions of deaths within just a few years because "alarmist language works."

Climate activists turn attention to Black Friday: 'Shoppers cannot ignore the climate emergency'. Black Friday is now a global tradition and, for climate activists, a global problem. Young people worldwide planned to hold thousands of demonstrations Friday to protest overconsumption and draw attention to climate change ahead of a United Nations climate conference Monday. In Chicago, demonstrators with the Sunrise Movement Chicago, the Illinois Youth Climate Strike, and other organizations planned to occupy Watertower Place, a major downtown shopping mall.

Climate protesters block stores, disrupt Black Friday shopping. Protesters around the world disrupted Black Friday shopping in order to draw attention to climate change days before the United Nations met to discuss the issue in Madrid. The retail holiday saw protests in a long list of countries — including France, Germany, the United States — with some activists entering stores and others holding mock funerals. Near Paris, climate demonstrators blocked a shopping mall and gathered in from of Amazon's headquarters to protest over-production they say is killing the planet. To many activists, Black Friday is the epitome of this shift, a purely commercial event designed to boost U.S. retailers ahead of the Christmas holidays, the symbol of capitalism run amok.

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"Capitalism run amok" in department stores is a lot more enjoyable than socialism run amok.

AOC reveals new level of hypocrisy after praising Harvard-Yale climate activists. The annual Harvard-Yale football game was interrupted by climate change activists shortly after halftime on Saturday [11/23/2019], which is a pretty good idea inasmuch as there's no group more amenable to guerilla activism on the environment than sports fans from two universities where anyone who doesn't believe in the tenets of the climate science movement would quickly find themselves out in intellectual Siberia. According to The Harvard Crimson, the incident occurred just before halftime at the annual game between the two Ivy League giants.

Environmentalist Killjoys Are Coming for Your Football. Some of the nation's supposedly best and brightest college students are employing theatrical protest tactics similar to [Greta] Thunberg's, with the message that ordinary life must be disrupted if we are to save the planet. At the Yale Bowl, the goal was to pressure the two universities to divest themselves of investments in fossil fuels. [...] The students made it clear that their political agenda is more important than allowing people to enjoy an annual entertainment. [...] The Harvard-Yale protest was very much in line with the Thunberg-style politics of angry and intolerant children. Such demonstrators pay little heed to democratic processes or any counterarguments to their climate catechism.

Climate Myths. Many people say that we're destroying the Earth. It all sounds so scary. But I've been a consumer reporter for years, and I've covered so many scares: plague, famine, overpopulation, SARS, West Nile virus, bird flu, radiation from cellphones, flesh-eating bacteria, killer bees, etc. The list of terrible things that were going to get us is very long. Yet we live longer than ever. Now I'm told global warming is different.

Climate Change Protesters Storm Field at Halftime of Harvard-Yale Football Game. The 136th edition of The Game between Harvard and Yale has been delayed at halftime after protesters took over the field. Students from both schools occupied midfield after the Yale band had finished performing. Some held banners asking their colleges to act on climate change and Puerto Rican debt relief.

Attenborough Tacitly Admits Netflix on 'Walrusgate' Tragedy Porn. It was one of the most heart-rending animal tragedy episodes ever shown on TV: hundreds of walruses shown plunging over a cliff to their deaths out of "desperation" caused by climate change. Or so the story originally went when Sir David Attenborough first told it last year on his Netflix documentary Our Planet, causing much upset to impressionable viewers.

Math is Hard for the Green-Minded. The best bid drama yet is from Extinction Rebellion, whose ferals were blocking traffic in Melbourne last week, as in other cities, and waving signs demanding "Zero emissions by 2025". Among the more respectable bidders are the Australian Academy of Science's 500 Fellows, who want net zero emissions by 2050. They've cheered on state governments pledging likewise. But here's the problem: the 2050 game can only be played by those willing to ignore maths and engineering. Do the sums and it's just pixie dust or, more accurately, fraud. What follows are some calculations and projections. [...] Street blockaders: Your zero-by-2025 goal would require Australia to create the equivalent of an emissions-free Turkey Point, Florida nuclear power plant — nearly the output of Hazelwood in Victoria — each 11 days from now to January 1, 2026. That's 33 nuclear plants per year.

The Elite Machine Behind Greta Thunberg. Behind Greta is a major machine, one that is controlled by major international actors and backed by major funds. This PR machine has allowed Greta to make the covers of magazines, become the subject of thousands of news articles while being photographed with world leaders and giving speeches at elite organizations such as the United Nations. Although Greta might very well be genuinely concerned with the fate of the planet, her message is carefully crafted by those who control her to generate a specific response from the youth. In short, Greta is the face of a major marketing scheme — a tightly coordinated international effort to sell global warming through a specific lens: Fear, panic, and urgency.

Flight shaming is gaining traction and could cost airlines billions. Consumers are paying more attention to their carbon footprint and it could cost airlines billions of dollars, Citi said in a note to clients Tuesday [10/22/2019]. The firm said that "flight shaming," which it defines as "the inherent guilt that an individual feels as a result of one's aviation-related carbon footprint" is causing consumers to explore alternative modes of transportation when possible and to look for ways to offset their carbon emissions. Citi estimates that over the next five years the cost of carbon offsetting economy flights will grow to $3.8 billion per year. It will either be absorbed by the consumer or the airline. But really the airline gets hit in both scenarios since if the price is absorbed by passengers the higher cost could lead to an overall slowdown in air travel.

New Report Reveals Climate Change Protesters Are Being Paid, May Be in Trouble Because of It. We've been bringing you some of the outrageous actions of the climate change gang, particularly Extinction Rebellion, the group that has been incredibly annoying to the general populace in London and who has flexed their ability to annoy in the United States as well. In San Francisco, they linked hands and blocked traffic on both sides of the intersection at Gates Avenue near the University of San Francisco. Ironically, their actions were causing more carbon emissions while antagonizing commuters. [...] Activists allegedly from the group got tossed out of a Long Beach, California In-N-Out Burger, screamed with bullhorns in the face of the poor employees and then found themselves in trouble with the police. But now, the Daily Mail has dropped a big report on the group. Turns out all that crazy is not free. And that could spell big trouble for them.

The Derangement Syndromes of Our Time. There was once a time when the lunatic screaming in the streets that the world was about to come to an end was the extremist, and those of us who believed the world was not about to come to an end were considered moderate and sane. No longer. Today, a lavishly financed, petulant teenage truant from Sweden can hector the intelligentsia of the world and receive adoring media coverage, while at the same time the patient logic of one of the preeminent economists of our time is scandalized as a "lukewarm" because he "denies" that the end of the world is nigh.

Scientists gone mad. The Extinction Rebellion is a criminal enterprise made up of quite clearly disturbed people. Members have been arrested for blocking the entrance of a London airport, and claiming ownership of it for the mob, while dancing in what appears to be a restricted area behind razor wire. One particularly childish and self-indulgent "protester" climbed atop a passenger jet to make his point. Firemen had to remove him with a cherry-picker. These "rebels" have also used a fire truck to spray fake blood, at one point losing "control of the hose, drenching a bystander and spraying several fellow activists" at the British Treasury building, "as 1,800 liters of an organic liquid containing beetroot spurted out wildly across the street," the Guardian has reported. Admittedly these are rather petty crimes, but they're gateways to the harder stuff.

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Fake blood has nothing to do with global warming. If someone is killed by a temperature change of one degree per century — which is what the loons are warning us about — they victims probably would not die in a pool of blood.

Environmentalists have a new target: Charmin toilet paper. Consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble faces pressure from environmentalists to clean up its act. More than 150 groups are pushing the maker of Charmin toiler paper and Bounty paper towels to use recycled materials in its products. Currently, neither of those products uses recycled paper, and about one-third of it is sourced from Canada's boreal forest — a large swath of virgin forest that rings the Arctic Circle and acts as a critical check on climate change.

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Oh, so that's the reason the climate isn't changing. One forest "acts as a critical check on climate change." It sure is working well, because there is no extraordinary climate change. SWRpb3RzIQ==

CNN Tries to Get Interior Department Official Fired for Opposing Jihad Violence. So it turns out that the acting director of the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management, William Perry Pendley, has denied the Left's "climate change" mythology, and opposes jihad violence and illegal immigration. CNN's Andrew Kaczynski is out for blood, trying to get Pendley for heresy, that is, for his dissent from Leftist orthodoxy. My first reaction to this was, so what? William Perry Pendley is in the Bureau of Land Management. What does that have to do with "global warming," unless Kaczynski thinks that the sea levels are going to rise and swallow whole cities, including Obama's new beachfront estate, and we're all going to be dead in 12 years? What do jihad violence and illegal immigration have to do with land management? Kaczynski here shows that he would have been a terrific Gestapo official: [...]

The climate alarmist cometh. "It's as simple as this. We have according to the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] 12 years, but that was a year ago," [Jane] Fonda told the Washington Post. "So according to their report we have 11 years left. Eleven years to do something that has never been done in human history. And if we don't do it, huge parts of the planet are going to be uninhabitable, by the way." The radical claim, though also touted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has been disputed by climate scientists. Nevertheless, rather than taking a less melodramatic approach to the problem of climate change, Fonda insists on telling us we're likely doomed. She admits that she still flies in planes and eats meat, popular objects of scorn for the climate activists of the day. So she says she's targeting the federal government, trying to get the United States to stop funding fossil fuels.

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Huge parts of the planet are already uninhabitable, thanks to socialists like Jane Fonda. For example, California. Beware of the urgency to do "something that has never been done in human history." If it (whatever "something" means) has never been done, there must be a good reason. We only have 11 years! Yeah, but how much has changed since we only had 12 years? Nothing. Let's just wait 11 years, do nothing, and watch the weather stay exactly the same as it has been all our lives.

Flight-Shaming Catching On In Europe. There are a number of things that climate activists don't want the rest of us to do, like eating meat and flying on airplanes. They seem to have decided that discouraging flying is a better bet than compulsory vegetarianism, so several European countries are moving in that direction. In Sweden, the government "is considering making it mandatory for travel companies to declare the climate impact of their long-haul trips."

Is Climate Change Doomsday Coming? [Scroll down] Unfortunately, the planet failed to warm up as predicted, so yet another climate theory was created called climate change. This all-encompassing label meant that incidents of heat waves, cold snaps, rain, drought, hurricanes, and so on could all be identified as problems resulting from man-caused climate change. In a 2005 Gallup poll asking people to identify America's biggest problem, global warming didn't even make it into the top ten concerns. Climate change adherents understood that if this lack of concern persisted, they would never achieve their goal of radically reducing fossil fuel use throughout the industrialized world. So marketing efforts to "sell" climate change to an unconcerned public ramped up, starting with Al Gore's 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which earned Gore an Oscar and Nobel Prize.



Dozens arrested as climate change activists snarl traffic in Times Square. Climate change activists blocked streets and snarled traffic in the heart of Times Square on Thursday [10/10/2019], resulting in the arrest of more than 60 people, police sources said. Dozens of demonstrators with the group Extinction Rebellion massed in the morning at the Crossroads of the World, where they plopped a green boat emblazoned with the words "Act Now" in the middle of the street at the intersection of West 44th Street and Broadway. Some protesters climbed onto the boat wearing life jackets, while several others affixed themselves to the vessel as more protesters surrounded it holding signs that read: "Tell Congress there is no room in government for climate deniers" and "Save our planet."

Idiotic Environmental Predictions. In May 2014, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius declared during a joint appearance with Secretary of State John Kerry that "we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos." Peter Gunter, professor at North Texas State University, predicted in the spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness: "Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions. ... By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine." Ecologist Kenneth Watt's 1970 prediction was, "If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000." He added, "This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age."

Going green is nothing but a scam. Corporations aren't actually using "green" electricity to power their businesses, they're just pretending they are because millennials want to believe the actions of others are making up for their own carbon footprint. NBC got seriously mocked recently for its "Confess Your Climate Sins" project. The self-proclaimed "climate warriors" apparently don't practice what they preach, despite a growing (and profitable) greenwashing epidemic that attempts to control society. Eating meat? That's bad all of a sudden, and not for the health reasons your doctor has been warning you about for decades. Eating meat is bad for the climate. Ditto plastic straws and single-service eating utensils. Save the planet, catch a hideous disease from poorly washed restaurant ware. Air conditioning is bad. Sweat away your carbon guilt instead. Honestly, how much of this is an actual problem, and how much is sheep-controlling propaganda pushing a political agenda?

Tourist-Shaming: A Snobby Way to Save the Planet. More people are pursuing new experiences, broadening their horizons, reveling in nature's splendor, and familiarizing themselves with the world's cultures than ever before. But to environmentalists, these figures bring displeasure. Emissions from aviation have spiked to an almost incomprehensible volume. Worldwide, flights produced 895 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2018. To the upper-crust jet set, these figures bring discomfort.

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Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Thousands of people have very good jobs in the airline industry. Thousands of others make a little money every month after having invested in airline stocks. Air travel does not wreck the earth.

The climate crusade marches across America!. This is a well-executed campaign, what John Robb calls an "open source insurgency" (in his 2008 books Brave New War). No central organization, just loosely organized organizations with common beliefs and goals. They produce swarms of doomster claims, a volume beyond critics' ability to refute, broadcast in every medium by their allied institutions. Here are examples of the different kinds of climate propaganda — the tropes — filling the media, slowly molding US public opinion.



The Tragedy of Greta Thunberg. We've finally convinced a generation of Americans to be Malthusians. According to Scott Rasmussen's polling, nearly 30% of voters now claim to believe that it's "at least somewhat likely" that the earth will become uninhabitable and humanity will be wiped out over the next 10-15 years. Half of voters under 35 believe it is likely we are on the edge of extinction. Is there any wonder why our youngest generation has a foreboding sense of doom? It's the fault of ideologues who obsess over every weather event as if it were Armageddon, ignoring the massive moral upside of carbon-fueled modernity. It's the fault of the politicians, too cowardly to tell voters that their utopian vision of a world run on solar panels and windmills is fairy tale.

Climate Hysteria Is Damaging Children. Climate activist Greta Thunberg's recent speech to the United Nations seemed to reveal a deeply troubled individual. She said her childhood was taken away from her by the looming threat of climate change, and she blamed world leaders for letting it happen. She has every reason to be upset, but she is directing her anger at the wrong people. The real culprit is the green catastrophe industry that manufactures crises out of nothing. The critical ingredient in Thunberg's climate anxiety is her youth. Had she been older, she would have lived through so many false alarms that she would have grown numb and wary of green catastrophists. [...] Green catastrophism is a never-ending story. Green activists try to scare people into submission, and the youngest and most ignorant are always the most vulnerable, as evidenced by Thunberg, who falsely believes that the world is heading for mass extinction.

'Dire famine' by 1975: Experts chart worst failures in 'eco-polcalyptic' predictions. While national leaders participate in Climate Week in New York City and elsewhere, one organization reveals the follies of some past ideas about environmental matters. "Wrong again: 50 years of failed eco-polcalyptic predictions," wrote Myron Ebell, director, of the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Energy and Environment, and Steven J. Milloy, a "junk science" expert, and climate scholar. "Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today. None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come true," the pair said in their analysis.

The Problem with the Climate Strike's Leaders. One of the key demands of the climate-strike movement is that people respect the science. But the manifesto for the climate-strike movement isn't just unscientific; it's actively anti-science, and hugely dangerous as a result. If you go to the Global Climate Strike website and look under "What are we asking for?" you'll find a demand that we "stop burning fossil fuels and ensure a rapid energy revolution with equity, reparations, and climate justice at its heart." Already, then, this isn't just about saving the planet. It's about "climate justice," including "reparations." [...] The phrase "climate justice" is the key to understanding their agenda. The website next leads you to the "People's Demands," the people in this case being a coalition of left-wing global-activist groups.

The danger of doomsday climate fears. Apocalyptic fears may be a feature rather than a bug of human psychology, but Americans under 25 have grown up under a singular cloud of doom. Their teachers, the media, and friends have beat their skulls like a drum with the message that climate change, as Joe Biden recently echoed, represents an "existential threat."

The Far Left Is Making Teens Miserable Over The Imminent Destruction Of The World. Everyone needs to wake up. And realize what the smartest among us — that would be, the teenagers — know. [...] At a climate forum this week in D.C., teen Alyssa Wiseman made things clear: "We no longer have the luxury of time." [...] I genuinely feel sorry for teens today. Many must be abjectly despondent, given all they're being taught. [...] Law enforcement is the Gestapo. The President is Hitler. Our fellow Americans are the Nazis. And there's a clock ticking on all of it.

Climate Activists Block D.C. Roads, Disrupt Morning Commute. Climate activist groups plan to "Shut Down D.C." early Monday morning [9/23/2019], aiming "to take action all over the district to disrupt business as usual." The protest follows a weekend of climate strikes across the country and coincides with the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York.

Only a Monster Would Afflict Children with 'Eco-Anxiety'. What kind of monster afflicts children with eco-anxiety by telling them they will be dead in 12 years? I'll tell you who: the child abusers in the establishment media, the environmental movement, and the Democrat Party — that's who. What's especially disturbing is that children are being taught the opposite of empathy. Empathy is the most important value an adult can impart to a child. But what these kids are being encouraged to become is nothing less than wild-eyed, religious fanatics where non-believers are fingered as the enemy, as heretics looking to destroy the world and kill everyone.

Climate 'Experts' Are 0-41 with Their Doomsday Predictions. For more than 50 years Climate Alarmists in the scientific community and environmental movement have not gotten even one prediction correct, but they do have a perfect record of getting 41 predictions wrong. In other words, on at least 41 occasions, these so-called experts have predicted some terrible environmental catastrophe was imminent ... and it never happened.

Mark Levin: Decades of failed 'eco-predictions' more about politics than climate. Radio host Mark Levin claimed activists and environmentalists have spent a half-century warning of the dangers of climate change, global warming and sometimes global cooling, but have seen none of their time-sensitive premonitions come true. The former Reagan White House official said Wednesday on "The Mark Levin Show" on Westwood One that these "eco-pocalyptic predictions" have often been used to advance a political agenda. "Fifty years of failed eco-predictions, eco-pocalyptic predictions," he said. "This climate change stuff — we're supposed to destroy our society — the media are now fully behind it."

Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions. Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today. None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come true. What follows is a collection of notably wild predictions from notable people in government and science. More than merely spotlighting the failed predictions, this collection shows that the makers of failed apocalyptic predictions often are individuals holding respected positions in government and science. While such predictions have been and continue to be enthusiastically reported by a media eager for sensational headlines, the failures are typically not revisited.

Climate protesters tell carmakers 'the party is over'. Thousands of protesters marched in front of Frankfurt's IAA car show on Saturday [9/14/2019] to demand a swift end to combustion engines and a shift to environmentally friendly vehicles as Chancellor Angela Merkel's government prepares to unveil climate protection measures.

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The protesters "demand a swift end to combustion engines," but I'll bet they all arrived on a bus, or in their own (non-electric) cars.

AOC: Miami Will Not Exist 'In a Few Years' Without Green New Deal. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) said Wednesday [9/11/2019] that Miami has only a few years left on this planet. At an NAACP forum, the democratic socialist touted the Green New Deal, her radical climate change plan many have criticized as unrealistic. Economists, investors, and energy industry experts have frequently noted the plan's astronomical costs and the unreliability of renewable energy, but Ocasio-Cortez said her critics are the ones who are "not realistic."

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If you really believe Miami will be submerged (in the next few years!) because of climate change, you've got bigger problems than just the weather.

Climate Activists Try to Shut Down Heathrow by Flying Drones in Front of Passenger Planes. Brain-dead climate activists came up with the scathingly brilliant scheme of protesting against airplanes at Heathrow Airport by flying drones in front of passenger planes to prevent them from taking off or landing. I guess the climate activists got it in their heads that making airplanes crash would be an excellent way to reduce the world's carbon footprint. Fortunately, British police foiled their plan by jamming drone frequencies. Several nutcases were arrested and, for the moment, plane passengers have been spared the ordeal of being grounded by idiots who think threatening to kill people is a legitimate way of battling global warming.

We've got to throw everything at the climate crisis. The climate crisis threatens global sea-level rises of well over half a metre if we fail to act, while tidal storm surges will reach many times that height. Fiercer and more frequent hurricanes will batter us, and millions of people who live in areas where crops have failed and wells run dry will be forced to flee their homes.

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That was just a brief excerpt. The article goes on at length in a hysterical recitation of dire predictions of certain doom that's almost completely avoidable, if we don't all spend trillions of dollars to stop climate change right now! But the writer offers no evidence to back up any of her assorted claims (the Amazon jungle is burning up, the polar ice caps are melting, people are fleeing their homes because of the climate, the sea level is rapidly rising, etc.) We are supposed to accept these claims, apparently, along with her expensive solutions — whether or not you can see any change in the weather for yourself.

The Climate-Change Depressives. For the past few years, climate-change activism has shifted its focus from the potential dangers of climate change to the present threat of "climate crisis." If the idea was to scare people into facing the problem squarely, it's working. But not in the way activists had hoped. Some on the left are so convinced by claims of flood, drought, and fire that they now deem the problem unsolvable. Of course, if all the doomsday tales were actually true, then these climate-change depressives would be dead right. Lucky for all of us, they've merely been taken in by a publicity campaign gone wild.

Greta Thunberg joins White House climate protest. After calling out politicians for climate inaction on "The Daily Show" this week, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is protesting Friday [9/13/2019] outside the White House to demand the U.S. government address the affects of climate change. The 16-year-old Swede is joined by youth activists in the protest, which marks the start of Thunberg's six-day stay in Washington, D.C. Along with dozens of other youth protesters, Thunberg chanted, "Hey hey, ho ho, climate change has got to go" as the activists marched outside the White House.

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"Climate inaction" is also known as normal behavior, because the weather can't be changed by legislation. Nor will marching and chanting stop the weather from changing. Also, please find something more original than "Hey hey ho ho [fill in the blank] has got to go."

Greenpeace activists suspended from Fred Hartman Bridge. Greenpeace activists are suspended from the Fred Hartman Bridge to protest the use of fossil fuels ahead of tonight's Democratic debate in Houston. Twenty-two protesters are on the bridge. Eleven trained climbers are suspended by ropes and harnesses over the Houston Ship Channel. Eleven "anchors" are standing on the bridge itself.

Greenpeace protesters arrested after rappelling from Fred Hartman Bridge. The Coast Guard has reopened the Houston Ship Channel after an hours-long Greenpeace USA protest that ended with the demonstrators being arrested. The final protester was lowered to safety from the Fred Hartman Bridge overnight.

Houston Ship Channel shut down after 11 Greenpeace activists dangled off bridge ahead of 3rd Dem debate. Twenty-two Greenpeace USA activists created a blockade on the Fred Hartman Bridge in Baytown, Texas early Thursday ahead of the third Democratic primary debate in Houston. Eleven of those climbers are dangling over the side of the bridge, an activist said in a Facebook Live video. The climbers held colorful ribbons and streamers to block traffic under the bridge. The group aims to "shut down the largest oil export channel in the U.S." for 24 hours.

More than 900 Amazon employees plan strike over climate change inaction. Nearly 950 Amazon employees who work at its Seattle headquarters and other locations plan to strike on Sept. 20 to convince the company to demonstrate "real climate leadership," they announced Monday morning [9/9/2019]. "As employees at one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world, our role in facing the climate crisis is to ensure our company is leading on climate, not following," Amazon Employees for Climate Justice wrote in a Medium post. "We have to take responsibility for the impact that our business has on the planet and on people."

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Please show me incontrovertible, courtroom-quality proof that Amazon has any impact on the entire planet. And then get back to work! Where's that bird seed I ordered last week?

Armstrong: Climate Change Has Been A Routine Scare Tactic Since The 1930s. [Scroll down] They have been touting this scenario since the 1930s when there was the Dust Bowl. It resurfaced after World War II when they were trying to stop rebuilding industry and the housing market which had been destroyed. The same argument appeared again in the 1960s when there was a great expansion in housing. However, during the 1970s when things got colder, everything flipped upside down and then it was global cooling that would destroy civilization.

More fake five-alarm crises from the IPCC. [Scroll down] Instead of beef, humans must switch to "nutritious and environmentally sound" alternatives like green pepper, soy, asparagus and squash, says the IPCC. Instead of the full package of beef, pork and poultry, we should eat buckwheat, soy, pears and kidney beans — or other "globally optimal plant replacements." Of course, locusts, grasshoppers, grubs and other insects are also excellent protein sources, it notes. The 20,000-some activists, bureaucrats and politicians heading to Salt Lake City for the August 26-28 UN climate change and sustainability conference will no doubt be following that sage advice.

The Amazon Scam. Emmanuel Macron may not technically be a celebrity, but he tweets like one. Prior to the G-7 summit, the French president declared on Twitter, "The Amazon rain forest — the lungs which produce 20% of our planet's oxygen — is on fire." He added that "our house is burning," and called the fires an "international crisis." [...] The Amazon fires are catnip for proponents of radical action on the climate. They pine for a mediagenic, easy-to-understand planetary emergency and are happy to manufacture one as necessary. [...] Is the Amazon the lungs of the world? No. This is drivel based on an erroneous understanding of how the atmosphere gets its oxygen.

Alarmists Fanned the Flames Of Amazon Fires Only to Get Burned. The world was at a standstill last week when news broke out over fires engulfing the Amazon Rainforest in and around Brazil. Guess who was first blamed for the blaze? The newly-elected Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro — who media have dubbed the "Trump of the Tropics." Is that any surprise? It turns out, however, farmers were responsible for starting the fires.

Cory Booker: 'Climate Change Must be the Lens Through Which We View Everything'. "Climate change must be the lens through which we view everything — it's the existential crisis of our lifetime and the only way we're going to deal with this threat is if the United States leads," Booker said in his Tweet.

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I've heard some alarmist claims about global warming in the last 20 years, but "the existential crisis of our lifetime" is a bit much.

Protests erupt after DNC committee votes down 2020 climate debate. Sparking immediate protests at the Democratic National Committee's summer meeting in San Francisco Thursday, the organization's Resolutions Committee voted down a resolution that called for a climate-focused debate among 2020 presidential primary candidates. The committee's 8-17 vote on the resolution outraged members of the youth-led Sunrise Movement in attendance, who stood on their seats and sang the union protest song "Which Side Are You On?" before walking out.

From not having kids to battling anxiety: Climate change is shaping life choices and affecting mental health. Revelle Mast wanted to be an architect when she was a kid. She changed course in high school, deciding to pursue chemical engineering to address the threat of climate change. But, last year, she made another life decision: to go into politics. "I realized about a year ago that was not feasible on the time scale that climate change is happening," Mast said. "Nine months ago, I quit my engineering job and went full time into political work." As global warming — the gradual increase in temperature of the Earth's atmosphere — accelerates, people are grappling with the idea that disastrous conditions may appear as soon as 2040. The reality of this potentially existential crisis greatly impacts the way some people, especially those who have dedicated their lives to stopping climate change, make life decisions — whether that's going vegan, living in a certain part of the country or deciding against having children. It even impacts their mental health.

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There is no climate crisis. Global warming is not accelerating; In fact, global warming may have already stopped, all by itself. Going into politics will not change the weather. The weather outside does not depend on what you eat. If the weather gets one degree warmer, and that is enough to affect your mental health or force you to move to another part of the country, you are hypersensitive, so please do not move to Texas.

Steyer: A 'State Of Emergency' Over Climate Change On Day One. Democratic billionaire Tom Steyer of California has big plans for his first day as president. "I will declare a state of emergency on day one," he said, referring to the need to take on the effects of climate change. "We are faced with something that will affect the health and safety of every single American, and every single American in the future."

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There is no climate emergency. If you turn off your television, you won't see anybody who thinks there is a climate crisis. The weather this year is just like last year's weather.

We're All Going to Starve to Death, Again. The "experts" insist that deserts are expanding, extreme weather is destroying crops, and 10 percent of the Earth's people are already going without food. Soon mankind as a whole will be short of food, millions will starve, and nations will be plunged into chaos as populations engage in warfare and mass migration in search of food. [...] Unlike [Thomas] Malthus, who felt that mass starvation was inevitable (and that it would "solve" the problem of overpopulation, albeit at a tremendous cost), the IPCC experts appear to have a kinder, gentler solution: put all the Earth's resources and industries under the control of the world climate commissars. Call in the experts to regulate land use, food distribution, and energy production. Give up our freedom to live as we wish, travel as we wish, and dine as we wish, and the experts will save us.

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Bureaucrats can't grow food, raise cattle, mine coal, or drill for oil.

The Well-Funded Environmental Extremists Of The Sunrise Movement Are Gaining Within The Left. Photos recently popped up on Twitter of young activists supergluing themselves across passageways within the U.S. Capitol in the hopes of prompting Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrats to declare a "climate emergency." These fresh-faced, khaki-wearing rapscallions belong to a group called Extinction Rebellion, or XR, one of several organizations the Momentum Community and its parent, the Boston-based Ayni Institute, "incubated." Founded in the United Kingdom, Extinction Rebellion now has more than 50 chapters across the United States and hundreds more around the world. Like XR, the Sunrise Movement is dedicated to advancing climate change legislation worldwide, including declaring climate emergencies. In fact, its use of terms such as "climate emergency," "climate justice," and similar inventions has been underway since at least the mid-2000s.

Young people blame climate change for their small 401(k) balances. Mental-health issues affecting young adults and adolescents in the U.S. have increased significantly in the past decade, a study published in March in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology found. The number of individuals between the ages of 18 and 25 reporting symptoms of major depression increased 52% from 2005 to 2017, while older adults did not experience any increase in psychological stress at this time, and some age groups even saw decreases. Study author Jean Twenge says this may be attributed to the increased use of digital media, which has changed modes of interaction enough to impact social lives and communication. Millennials are also said to suffer from "eco-anxiety," according to a 2018 report from the American Psychological Association, with 72% saying their emotional well-being is affected by the inevitability of climate change, compared with just 57% of people over the age of 45.

Pseudo scientific hysteria is the wrong answer to climate change. A year ahead of the US presidential election, exaggeration about global warming is greater than ever. While some politicians continue (incorrectly) to insist it's made up, far more insist (also incorrectly) that we face an imminent climate crisis threatening civilization. During this week's Democratic debates, Pete Buttigieg called 2030 a "point of no return," Beto O'Rourke warned we don't have "more than 10 years to get this right" and Andrew Yang claimed climate change has already moved beyond a tipping point: "We are 10 years too late," he said. Using climate to energize the base may make short-term political sense, but adding to polarization on the topic just makes it impossible to engage in sensible policy discussion.

Socialists' Weapon of Choice: Climate Alarmism. In 1988, just two decades following alarming news headlines about the coming of the next Ice Age, the United Nations rapidly established a Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) to organize conferences, along with an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to conduct scientific studies regarding a brand new impending catastrophe. This reverse climate crisis, a global warming calamity, was assuredly even worse than the previous opposite one. And right from the git-go, IPCC had already attributed its causes to human CO2 emissions and underlying carbon-fueled excesses of capitalist prosperity.

Why Should We Subsidise Tomorrow's Rich in the Name of the Climate? It is a matter of concern to us that Indian governments have been dumping scarce taxpayer resources into renewable energy and other inefficient technologies in the name of "climate change". Instead of acting as the voice of reason, governments world-wide are having a picnic, feasting on our panic. When people are scared, it is much easier to raid their pockets. We are the only party in India (and possibly in the world) that stands for reason. We believe that everything must be questioned. In this case, IPCC's own analysis shows there is no harm from climate change. Yes, you've read correctly: the IPCC itself has said that there is no harm from climate change. Of course, you won't be told about this unless you dig deep.

Why Climate Activists Threaten Endangered Species With Extinction. Last Saturday [6/22/2019], police in New York arrested 70 people protesting the lack of attention to climate change. They unfurled a banner that read, "climate change = mass murder" with the word "change" crossed out and replaced by the word "emergency." It was just the latest in a series of high-profile protests organized by an exciting new environmental group, Extinction Rebellion. In April, police in London arrested more than 1,000 people committing civil disobedience during a week of protests. As police arrested Extinction Rebellion protesters on Waterloo Bridge, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke to activists at nearby Hyde Park. "We are now facing an existential crisis, the climate crisis and ecological crisis, which have never been treated as crises before," said the 16-year-old.

Repeating the climate change hoax: The force-feeding of myopia. According to our governor, Jay Inslee, Western Washington is already in the middle of a drought. Meaning that, in normal Seattle-speak, it hasn't rained for three days. In Jay's panicked opinion, we're locked in a heatwave so intense that it might be given disaster status. This wild-eyed proclamation has come about because our normal average temperature for late spring is between 68 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit. It has rocketed up to 71.4 degrees over the past month.

ABC's '08 Prediction: NYC Under Water from Climate Change By June 2015. New York City underwater? Gas over $9 a gallon? A carton of milk costs almost $13? Remember when that happened on June 12, 2015? No? This was the wildly-inaccurate world of 2015 predicted by ABC News 11 years ago this week. Appearing on Good Morning America in 2008, Bob Woodruff hyped Earth 2100, a special that pushed apocalyptic predictions of the then-futuristic 2015. The segment included supposedly prophetic videos, such as a teenager declaring, "It's June 8th, 2015. One carton of milk is $12.99." (On the actual June 8, 2015, a gallon of milk cost, on average, $3.39.) Another clip featured this prediction for 2015 "Gas reached over $9 a gallon." (In reality, gas cost an average of $2.75 four years ago.)

It may be too late to save the natural world, says Prince Charles. Prince Charles fears the natural world may be doomed as efforts to counter climate change are 'coming too late'. The lifelong environmental campaigner, 70, admitted the loss of biodiversity 'terrifies me' and said 'the really difficult thing' is presenting acceptable alternatives for people. He said a key issue is the 'untold damage' done to the world's water cycle, in a nod to the fact that 'we seem to have forgotten that everything in nature is interconnected'.

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If you are terrified by "the loss of biodiversity," whatever that means, then you are a snowflake who watches too much television.

Climate change scare stories reach the point of psychological terrorism. The corporate media cartels have become hubs of hatred and "journo-terrorism" that targets the psyche of the masses. The quack science hoax of so-called "climate change" is used to terrorize the public into believing that their planet will somehow be destroyed by carbon dioxide — the very molecule that has been rapidly re-greening the Earth over the past four decades, according to NASA. Now, a new round of "science" has been studying the mental stress of the victims of this psychological terrorism pushed by the dishonest media, and they've reached an even more bizarre conclusion. Scientists now claim that climate change is causing "mental anguish" among humans. Seriously. Of course, the real source of the mental anguish is the lies and panic propaganda of the corporate media and the pathetic scientific establishment which has figured out that if you want more government grant money, you have to conduct "research" that identifies some new crisis to be blamed on climate change. In fact, the very phrase "climate change" isn't scary enough yet to achieve the desired goal of mass mental terrorism, so media outlets around the world are now ordering their obedient writers to start using the phrase "climate crisis."

Calling climate change 'catastrophic' makes it harder to find real answers. Ever notice how, in the last decade or so, we quietly stopped just having storms and started having "extreme weather events"? It feels like no temperature drop or seasonal downpour is too small for the media to slap a scary name on it and issue minute-by-minute warnings. Well, now some news outlets and campaigners are trying to do the exact same thing for climate change itself. "Global warming" isn't scary enough to push through the expensive bills campaigners want. Instead of "climate change," The Guardian has now decided to call it "climate emergency." And the British newspaper isn't alone: Democratic presidential candidates including Beto O'Rourke and Kamala Harris use similar language, as does Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Climate hysteria. The UK Guardian Newspaper decided that you're not sufficiently alarmed about climate doom. Climate change is no longer the term of choice with the Guardian and other news outlets. Get ready to hear the newly invented terms, "climate emergency," "climate crisis," "climate breakdown," and "global heating." By the way, when did it become the job of a news organization to hype public concern over an issue instead of just reporting the facts?

Don't You Know It's the End of the World? The annual United Nations Global Environment Outlook is just out, and it goes way beyond anything previously "reported." Environmentalists are desperate to eliminate fossil fuels and shift energy production to their favored industries, so they've discovered that the climate is not just worsening. Rather, it's the end of the world. The report was the product of an organization that calls itself "the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda." I thought individual countries set their own agendas, not a bunch of bureaucrats with headquarters in Nairobi, but the U.N. begs to differ.

Everything has been 'DIRE' for years: A history of 'dire' environmental & climate warnings. Every prediction is "dire." And every climate summit is the 'last chance. [Numerous examples.]

Children Have to Listen to Fake News, Too, and It's Not Good for Them. [Scroll down] Then there are the children who live each day in the certain knowledge that climate change means they'll never live through their twenties. The youth-based Sunrise Movement describes its adherents as "ordinary young people who are scared about what the climate crisis means for the people and places we love." Can you name any other organization that identifies it members as "people who are scared"? When a group of Sunrise kids showed up outside Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office demanding she vote for the Green New Deal, they were pleading, "We have come to a point where our Earth is dying, literally," and "[s]cientists have said that we have 12 years to turn this around."

MSNBC Reporter Compares Climate Change to Alien Invasion. On MSNBC Monday afternoon [5/6/2019], NBC News technology correspondent Jacob Ward was so concerned about a new United Nations climate change report that he compared the issue to an alien invasion and feared that humanity was failing to confront an "existential threat." Even liberal anchor Stephanie Ruhle thought he was going too far.

The Brainwashing of a Nation. Since the Left still lacks total control over the United States, it relies on repetition, itself a form of control and stress, to create fear and panic. It makes up for its lack of physical control by bombarding Americans with messages meant to inspire fear, love, hate and guilt through the media, through the educational system, through entertainment and through every possible messaging channel. Global Warming panic is one of a succession of manufactured leftist crises in America that began with a class crisis. transitioned to a racial crisis, and then to an environmental crisis.

Gore's activist group demands broadcasters push 'climate crisis' in their coverage. The Climate Reality Project, an activist group founded by Al Gore in 2006, is now demanding that major broadcast news organizations refer to climate change as a "crisis" — and have launched a public petition to entreat ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News and MSNBC to change their ways. [...] They claim that "less than 4% of news segments" categorize climate matters as a crisis or emergency. The group wants the networks to categorize such factors as weather events and temperature as an "urgent, existential threat," among other things. "The words your reporters and anchors use matter. What they call something shapes how millions see it — and how entire nations act," the new petition states.

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There are many who confuse journalism with activism. News reports are not supposed to be laden with editorial opinion. Weather reports are supposed to include factual observations and educated guesses about the conditions we can expect in the next few days. There is no point in screaming about a climate "crisis" when there is none. If the national news media are not calling global warming an "emergency," it's because global warming isn't an emergency if it exists at all. The weather changes seasonally, and there is nothing to be done about it, but to prepare and adapt.

Activists superglue themselves to the globe at Universal Studios to demand climate change action. Two activists have reportedly glued themselves to the globe at Universal Studios in California to demand action on climate change. It's the latest in a trend of superglue activism fomented by a group calling itself Extinction Rebellion. Members have been gluing themselves to various buildings, monuments, truck and other places in London in recent weeks, according to Reuters in The Globe and Mail.

Pete Buttigieg: Just another climate alarmist extraordinaire. Mayor Pete — as Pete Buttigieg, the Democratic presidential hopeful from the city of South Bend, Indiana, has been affectionately dubbed by his fawning following in the media — called out climate change as the "greatest security issue of our time" during his recent announcement speech. And if we don't fix it, we'll all die. He's yet the latest from the left to use climate change for political advantage by claiming the same.

Al Gore says climate change can 'bring about the end of civilization' during talk in Atlanta: report. Former Vice President Al Gore turned up the rhetorical heat during a conference in Atlanta on Thursday, where he warned that climate change could bring about the end of civilization. "What is going on in the public square right now is more important than any time since the Civil War," Gore said before an audience of nearly 2,000 people. "We are facing an ecological crisis that can bring about the end of civilization."

Debunking Decades of Climate Alarmism. As The Daily Signal's Jarrett Stepman reminds us, "Panics over looming environmental and climate apocalypse have been with us for a long time." The rise of environmental and climate alarmism began in earnest during the 1960s and '70s, but the path began long before that. As Stepman explains, "Thomas Malthus famously predicted in his 1798 book 'An Essay on the Principle of Population' that population growth would overtake food supply and mass starvation would result unless population controls were implemented." Subsequent centuries have featured similar trepidation. There are five notable examples, says Stepman, beginning with the inaugural 1970 Earth Day. At the time, North Texas State University professor Peter Gunter ominously predicted, "By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine." Conversely, undernourishment has plummeted worldwide.

Our Planet Is Not Fragile. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims that "the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change." The people at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change agree, saying that to avoid some of the most devastating impacts of climate change, the world must slash carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030 and completely decarbonize by 2050. Such dire warnings are not new. In 1970, Harvard University biology professor George Wald, a Nobel laureate, predicted, "Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind." Also in 1970, Paul Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist, predicted in an article for The Progressive, "The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years." The year before, he had warned, "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000." Despite such harebrained predictions, Ehrlich has won no fewer than 16 awards, including the 1990 Crafoord Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' highest award.

The Five Top Arguments Against Climate Alarmism. [#1] Climate alarmism is based mainly around fear of extreme weather. This concept is deeply rooted in human nature, and has its roots in ancient stories of giant floods, famines and plagues — caused (of course) by man's sins. Climate alarmists are tapping into that primal fear, and pushing the same idea of extreme weather and floods caused by mankind's carbon sins. The reality is that there is no legitimate evidence extreme weather is increasing or sea level rise is accelerating. The fears are baseless. [#2] Only a small handful of people whom the press and politicians quote over and over again are allowed to state an opinion, and they are claimed to represent 97% of the world's millions of scientists. [... #4] Climate alarmism is completely dependent on graphs and useless climate models generated by a small handful of people. The graphs are generated through scientifically corrupt processes of data tampering and hiding data.

Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'. The world's insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a "catastrophic collapse of nature's ecosystems", according to the first global scientific review. More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, the analysis found. The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles. The total mass of insects is falling by a precipitous 2.5% a year, according to the best data available, suggesting they could vanish within a century.

An example of news media sensationalism:

It Could Take Joshua Tree 300 Years to Recover From the Government Shutdown. Though the government shutdown may have ended last Friday [1/25/2019], Joshua Tree National Park will be feeling the ruinous effects of it for hundreds of years. Throughout the duration of the shutdown, which lasted a record-long 35 days, national parks greatly suffered: human waste piled up, lands were littered with trash, and some campgrounds and other public areas even closed to visitors, as the parks weren't adequately staffed to stay open. It wasn't until after Joshua Tree closed on January 2, though, that humans became excessively reckless, during which they off-roaded, graffittied rocks, started campfires in illegal areas, and cut down protected trees.

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Sounds like a wee bit of an exaggeration. Human waste does not stick around for 300 years. Neither does litter. Neither do tire tracks. But aside from that, the obvious solution is to privatize the park. (By the way, graffiti is not a verb. Neither is off-road.) But this whole story seems very far-fetched. Were a bunch of anarchist maniacs taking advantage the government shutdown, during which they could enter the unattended national parks and spread garbage and feces everywhere? Sounds like a false flag to me: Somebody went into the park and trashed it, in order to make the "government shutdown" as ghastly as possible — something that must be avoided at all cost — when in reality very few people outside of a 200-mile radius from Washington DC even noticed the five-week shutdown.

Ocasio-Cortez Preaches The End Of The World In 12 Years Due To Climate Change, Calls It Millennial's WW2. According to Fox News, the fresh-faced democratic socialist New York congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has joined the doom and gloom ranks of Bill Nye and Al Gore in her prophesying the end times via climate change. She even compared it to fighting the Nazis: [...] Of course, Ocasio-Cortez didn't explain how the world would end in 12 years, as she's not typically inclined to explain everything. Just trust her. We're going to see the world end in 12 years because corporations are producing things and generating waste.

Global Warming Crop Apocalypse Is Just Media Fear-Mongering. Global warming alarmists and their media allies launched a new scare last week, claiming that global warming is causing crop failures and food shortages around the globe. In one of their biggest whoppers ever, the media are claiming that global warming has displaced "millions" of farmers in India and is causing — or will soon cause — similar devastation to farmers and crops in Bangladesh, Syria, and Honduras. Objective evidence, however, decimates the assertion and shows that crop yields continue to set annual records as growing seasons lengthen, frost events become less frequent, soil moisture improves, and more atmospheric carbon dioxide fertilizes crops and plant life.

An example of environmental hysteria:

What's after banning straws? Going after rising plastic production. Dozens of U.S. cities made 2018 the year of the plastic straw ban. But if we really want to reduce the plastic pollution rapidly amassing in our oceans, 2019 must be the year we challenge the fossil fuel industry's plan to aggressively expand plastic production. Yes, those straw bans help. Straws contribute to ocean plastic pollution that's expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050.

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[#1] The weight of the fish in the sea must be zero; otherwise, the fish would have to constantly struggle to stay off the ocean floor. I doubt if the opinion writer at The Hill knows the total mass of the fish in the sea, nor does he or she know what that total mass will be in 2050, or 2150, or 3050. [#2] Only about one percent of plastics in the ocean are from the United States. 60 percent of the plastic trash flowing into the sea originates from China, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand. [ Source ]

Jerry Brown: Climate change challenges as serious as those faced in World War II. California Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown warned that America and the rest of the world are falling behind in the fight against climate change and likened the challenge to fighting the Nazis in World War II. [...] "We've got to get those zero-emission cars on the road. We have to figure out new ways of making cement. We've got to clean up our ships, which are creating more pollution than California and Texas put together. The technology, the investment, the lifestyle changes, the land-use changes, this is a revolutionary threat."

Pelosi: 'The Existential Threat of the Climate Crisis' Threatens 'The Whole of God's Creation'. While vacationing in Hawaii on Friday [12/28/2018], House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) announced in a statement that she will be naming Rep. Kathy Castor (D.-Fla.) to chair a new committee the incoming Democrat-controlled House of Representatives will create to deal with "the climate crisis." Pelosi described the "climate crisis" as an "existential threat" that threatens "the whole of God's creation." "The American people have demanded action to combat the climate crisis, which threatens our public health, our economy, our national security and the whole of God's creation," said Pelosi.

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According to Gallup, only five percent of Americans consider "Environment-Pollution" to be this country's top problem. And that category is broad enough to include smoke from wildfires (caused by Democrat mismanagement), bad drinking water in Detroit (ditto), plastic straws in the ocean (a non-problem), styrofoam cups (ditto), light pollution (ditto), carbon dioxide in the air (which is not pollution at all), needles and feces in the streets (caused by Democrat politics), and many other minor issues that have been caused or amplified by people like Nancy Pelosi. Hardly anyone, according to Gallup, is demanding action to "combat the climate crisis," since there is no crisis. Minor problems here and there, in Democrat-controlled states and cities, but no crises, and certainly nothing that threatens our national security. To say that climate problems threaten "the whole of God's creation" is a meaningless emotional outburst intended only to generate headlines and sound bites. Baby-killing Democrats only mention God when it is politically expedient.

NYT's Editorial Board Claims That 'Trump Imperils The Planet'. The New York Times editorial board says that President Donald Trump is literally endangering the entire planet with his rolling back of the Obama administration's climate agenda. The Times' editorial, titled "Trump Imperils the Planet," comes as the print edition published a 12-page special section on the "far-reaching and potentially devastating" consequences of Trump's environmental policies.

Yellowstone Volcano: Eruption could trigger devastating GLOBAL volcanic WINTER. A Yellowstone volcano eruption could trigger a volcanic winter, which would plunge the globe into freezing conditions and threaten to cut off food supplies, experts have warned.

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All kinds of things could happen in the next hundred years, or the next thousand. So what? Beware of tabloid news sources in which alarming headlines are beefed up with all-caps exclamations.

Climate Change Alarmism Is The World's Leading Cause Of Hot Gas. Even as anti-gas tax riots raged in France this week, the naturalist David Attenborough warned a crowd at a United Nations climate change summit in Poland that the "collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon." UN General Assembly President Maria Espinosa told the media that "mankind" was "in danger of disappearing" if climate change is allowed to progress at its current rate. Speakers, who flew in to swap doomsday stories and partake of the meat-heavy menu, advocated for radical changes to avoid this imminent environmental apocalypse. These days, "the point of no return" is almost always in view, yet always just out of reach.

An example of global warming hysteria:

9 effects of climate change that will make your life a living hell. Climate change is no longer something to fear in the distant future — it's already here. [...] Earth's temperature has already risen 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit since the start of the Industrial Revolution around 1750, and we're already on track for warming 2.7 degrees as soon as 2030, according to a recent report released by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). That 2.7-degree increase is the thin red line that scientists have drawn, above which Earth descends into an uninhabitable hellscape that bears little resemblance to the planet we currently call home.

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At last, "scientists" (who have no names) have specified the Goldilocks temperature, above which the entire world is uninhabitable!

California Gov. Jerry Brown Issues Another Bogus Global Warming Prediction. Mark your calendars. In five years, everyone will believe the global warming doomsday scenarios repeated ad nauseam by environmentalists. That's according to California Gov. Jerry Brown. More likely, it be another in a long line of climate change "tipping points" that never arrive.

The UN's Terrifying, But Ever-Receding, Human-Caused Climate Catastrophe. For years I assigned statistics students to pick any apocalyptic climate claim in the media and trace it back through the UN reports to its genesis in a scientific study. I knew they would discover that these reports are not scientific documents based on the peer review process, but political documents "approved by governments" and intended to scare the public into supporting constraints on the production and use of energy. A powerful publicity machine magnifies the alarm, bombarding citizens with exaggerations and claims of certainty that are proven wrong as you dig down to their underlying scientific studies.

Gore: Jet Stream 'Getting Loopier and Wavier,' So 'We Have a Global Emergency'. Former Vice President Al Gore declared that scientists predicted hurricane "consequences" of climate change and warned "they're going to get a lot worse still until we stop using the Earth's atmosphere as an open sewer." Gore was reacting to this week's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in which 91 authors and editors from 40 countries concluded there's currently a 12-year window to make "far-reaching and unprecedented changes" to avert dramatic effects of global warming. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report should be an "ear-splitting wake-up call to the world" as "it confirms that climate change is running faster than we are — and we are running out of time."

The world has just over a decade to get climate change under control, U.N. scientists say. The world stands on the brink of failure when it comes to holding global warming to moderate levels, and nations will need to take "unprecedented" actions to cut their carbon emissions over the next decade, according to a landmark report by the top scientific body studying climate change. With global emissions showing few signs of slowing and the United States — the world's second-largest emitter of carbon dioxide — rolling back a suite of Obama-era climate measures, the prospects for meeting the most ambitious goals of the 2015 Paris agreement look increasingly slim. To avoid racing past warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) over preindustrial levels would require a "rapid and far-reaching" transformation of human civilization at a magnitude that has never happened before, the group found.

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What was so great about "preindustrial" temperatures, or "preindustrial" life?

Terrifying climate change warning: 12 years until we're doomed. Earth is on track to face devastating consequences of climate change — extreme drought, food shortages and deadly flooding — unless there's an "unprecedented" effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, a new United Nations report warns. The planet's surface has already warmed by 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) and could see a catastrophic 1.5 C (2.7 F) increase between 2030 and 2052, scientists say. "This is concerning because we know there are so many more problems if we exceed 1.5 degrees C global warming, including more heat waves and hot summers, greater sea level rise, and, for many parts of the world, worse droughts and rainfall extremes," Andrew King, a climate science academic at the University of Melbourne, said in a statement to CNN.

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Here's your first clue: It's CNN. Doomsday predictions of this sort, in which irreversible disaster is just 10 or 12 years away, have popped up before, and the deadlines have come and gone, and the false prophets are still around, and the news media still falls for it every time. Also notice that the professor says, "we know there are so many more problems" ahead, but do we really know this? More problems? Were ANY problems caused by 20th century global warming?

Exxon takes AG lawsuit to the Supreme Court. Exxon Mobil is taking its fight against Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey to the U.S. Supreme Court, appealing a decision from the state's highest court that greenlighted a probe into whether the oil giant hid from the public knowledge of climate change risks. The $345 billion Texas company argues Healey's use of a long-arm statute to force it to respond to her office's civil investigation is unconstitutional because Exxon doesn't have a significant connection to Massachusetts.

One-sided environmental alarmism in USA Today:

Hothouse Earth: Runaway global warming threatens 'habitability of the planet for humans'. Runaway global warming on our planet remains a distinct possibility in the decades and centuries ahead, scientists reported Monday [8/6/2018] in a new study, warning that a "hothouse Earth" threatens the very "habitability of the planet for human beings." Such a hothouse Earth climate would see global average temperatures some 6 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit higher than they are now, with sea levels 30 to 200 feet higher than today, the paper said. In addition, even if the carbon emission reductions called for in the Paris Agreement are met — meaning a rise of no more than 3.6 degrees above preindustrial levels — that still may not be enough.

New Claim: Global Warming Will Knock Out the Internet in 15 Years. A government-funded study predicts rising sea levels will likely submerge over 4,000 miles of internet cables and more than 1,000 data centers in the next 15 years. But even the study's authors admit their results are based on the "most extreme" sea level rise scenario of 6 feet by the end of the century. The study's dire predictions are based on future sea level rise that's worse than even the most "extreme" scenario in the latest National Climate Assessment Special report released by the Trump administration in 2017.

Carbon emissions could throw Europe back to tropical climate last seen 50 million years ago, scientist warn. Spiralling carbon dioxide emissions could give parts of Europe the kind of tropical climate that it has not experienced for millions of years. Under these conditions, temperatures comparable to those seen during the recent heatwave are likely to become the norm by the end of the century.

Walsh: Mankind Will Be Extinct Within 50 Years If We Do Not Abolish Plastic Straws. The Board of Supervisors in San Francisco passed an ordinance yesterday banning straws from restaurants and bars in the city. San Francisco, like Seattle, will now be a straw-free safe haven. The refugee fleeing straw persecution can come to the city and live in paradise and contract hepatitis when he steps on a used heroin needle. But even then he will rejoice, for he is liberated from straws. Many cities and corporations are following suit. Another city in California will now hand out possible jail sentences to straw dealers. 15 seconds ago nobody worried about straws. Now there is a straw crisis and an anti-straw movement to answer it. Ordinances are being passed. Laws are being written.

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If plastic straws were made of Polonium-210 or Strontium-90, I could see how he might be right. But really, it's just plastic!

Pope calls on oil execs to convert to clean fuels. Pope Francis warned that climate change risked destroying humanity on Saturday [6/9/2018] and called on energy leaders to help the world to convert to clean fuels to avert catastrophe. "Civilization requires energy but energy use must not destroy civilization," the pope told top oil company executives at the end of a two-day conference in the Vatican. Climate change was a challenge of "epochal proportions", he said, adding that the world needed an energy mix that combated pollution, eliminated poverty and promoted social justice.

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Anyone who believes man-made climate change might "destroy civilization" is a person with no faith in God and no knowledge of the Bible.

The Parade of Impending Catastrophes. There are organizations whose purpose is to save us from impending catastrophes. I'm not talking about the Federal Emergency Management Agency or the Red Cross. I'm thinking of the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the World Wildlife Fund, the National Geographic Society, The National Audubon Society, The Environmental Defense Fund, The Population Connection, and many more. These organizations depend on impending catastrophes for their lifeblood, to say nothing of their revenue. So a shortage of real impending catastrophes is a problem. The solution has been to manufacture impending catastrophes.

The Left's All-or-Nothing Mentality. These days we've almost become immune to the stunts that members of the left in this country pull to get attention. Nothing liberals do seems far-fetched anymore. That's what made the suicide by immolation of LGBT attorney David Buckelso shocking. Buckel set himself on fire and ended his life not over the issue of gay rights but as an environmental protest.

'Global warming' claims a victim. [Scroll down] Reportedly, [David] Buckel recently "turned his attention" to apocalyptic predictions of climate disaster, which he fully bought into, presumably based on the phony scientific consensus propagated by the fraudsters who have to "adjust" real data in order to make their hypothesis slightly plausible. The fraudsters know well that the human mind is vulnerable to predictions of apocalypse, and that encouraging panic is a great way to generate money. Buckel was taken in by the panic, and, having vanquished his opponents in the marriage and transgenderism arenas, was convinced that he had a mission to save humanity that could be advanced by a dramatic self-immolation. The Daily News account states that he likened himself to the Tibetan monks who self-immolated to protest China's occupation of their country.

David Buckel, prominent gay rights lawyer, burns himself to death in New York to protest global warming. A "green" activist who was a pioneering lawyer for gay and transgender rights — including in the notorious "Boys Don't Cry" rape murder case — committed suicide by setting himself on fire Saturday morning [4/14/2018] in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in a grisly act of protest against the ecological destruction of the Earth. David Buckel, 60, left behind a charred corpse and a typed suicide note that said he was burning himself to death using "fossil fuel" to reflect how mankind was likewise killing itself, police sources said.

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If only he had turned off his television and just looked around, he could have seen the truth: There is no "ecological destruction of the Earth" resulting from the production and use of fossil fuels. Mr. Buckel's situation was pretty bad when he set himself on fire. Now it is probably much worse.

Even the wrappers for fast food are bad for you. Fast-food wrappers contain chemicals known as perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs for short) — and exposure to them appears to slow down the metabolism, according to new research out of Harvard's School of Public Health. Slow metabolism can lead to weight gain — and can also get in the way of weight loss. PFASs are used in everything from clothing fabrics to cookware surfaces.

Warmists foiled again: Answer to what's causing frog populations to decline is just plain embarrassing. You know the drill because we've seen the same story so many times. Reports come in that scientists have discovered declining populations of a species of some sort somewhere. Scientists study. For quite some time, they come up with no good answer. Concern grows. For maximum publicity and popular hand-wringing, it helps to be cuddly, cute, exotic, beautiful, or funny critters. But even if they are repulsive, sooner or later, global warming is blamed. Conclusion: We're doomed!

Claim: Microwave[ oven]s are as damaging to the environment as cars. Microwaves are as damaging to the environment as cars and users must be taught how to cook more efficiently, scientists say. The ovens are responsible for 7.7 million tons of the carbon dioxide pumped out from the EU each year — the equivalent of 6.8 million cars. Researchers say they are fueling global warming with consumers overcooking food to blame. Microwaves account for the largest percentage of sales of all types of oven in the EU, with numbers set to reach 135 million by 2020. But scientists at the University of Manchester — the first to assess the environmental impact — say efforts to cut energy consumption should focus on manufacturers offering better education on microwave use.

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To be alarmed by this report, as the authors probably intended, one must first concede that carbon dioxide is a pollutant. It is not. If the discussion must continue past this point, first consider how man