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Brenda Shafer Central to President Biden’s agenda is a government-led effort to dramatically reduce fossil fuel production and consumption. One of Biden's key policies to achieve this goal is to end public financing of fossil fuel programs. The policy has attracted little public attention or scrutiny because it has had little impact on Americans. The policy primarily affects the global poor, particularly those in Africa, who lose the funds to develop electricity capabilities. While ending public financing of fossil fuels provides a feel-good moment for the Biden administration and ruling elites in other rich countries, it hurts the world's poorest…

An Exxon Mobil executive said on Tuesday that oil companies are unlikely to significantly increase production in line with President-elect Trump's “drill, baby, drill” energy agenda laid out at a conference in London. [emphasis, links added] Trump repeatedly promised on the campaign trail to unleash U.S. oil production to lower energy costs and assert American will in global markets.He has assembled a group of energy-focused officials in his Cabinet to help lead the effort through January 2025. However, Liam Mallon, head of ExxonMobil’s upstream division, told Energy Intelligence Forum attendees: Production surge may not make financial sense for energy companiesReuters…

Article by Eric Worrell “…It can be said that self-destruction has been integrated into the “process” from the beginning. …” Climate conferences are dying. How to save the world now? This year’s United Nations climate change summit exposed its contradictions and failures and stoked existential angst. go through Karl MathiesonLocated in Baku, Azerbaijan … The atmosphere on the plane was grim, and more than one person on board must have been wondering: Are these UN climate summits doomed to fail? … at the beginning It can be said that self-destruction is built into the “process” from the beginning. In 1991,…

COP29, the United Nations' annual climate alarmist summit, ended in extra time this weekend with an agreement that would obligate rich countries to invest $300 billion a year in “climate finance” over the next decade – angering environmental campaigners who say the amount is small. Ridiculously so. [emphasis, links added] By the time the summit is expected to end on Friday, the $300 billion agreement is $50 billion more than what wealthy participants have proposed. despite this, Some extreme climate activists want to see rich countries redistribute up to $1 trillion of wealth to “developing countries” Invest in mitigating the…

During Donald Trump's first successful campaign for president, he pledged to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement. [emphasis, links added] He wasn't able to do so until the day after he lost the 2020 election, and the reprieve lasted just over two months as Joe Biden rejoined the agreement the day he was inaugurated. This is one of many Biden messes that Trump must clean up. The United States should not be part of the Paris Agreement at all. It would be foolish for our country to commit to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which means reducing the use…

Carbon Brief (TCB) recently posted an interactive page online titled: Mapping: How climate change is affecting extreme weather around the world. However, the webpage gives the false impression that TCB is using actual data showing how climate change affects severe weather. It's not. Instead, TCB relies heavily on so-called “attribution studies,” which use climate model simulations and estimates. The climate model output is not the same as the actual data, which exposes the TCB web page as a lie. TCB's interactive feature page on attribution research provides a comprehensive overview of “attribution” research linking climate change to extreme weather events.…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he would make Californians pay new credits if President-elect Donald Trump ends a $7,500 electric vehicle rebate program. [emphasis, links added] However, Those points don't include Tesla, the state's most popular electric vehicle company and the only electric vehicle manufacturer. A few weeks ago, Newsom and his administration passed new refinery and carbon credit regulations, It would add $1.15 per gallon and require Californians with gasoline-powered cars to earn up to an additional $1,000 a year in pre-tax income to afford it. “If the Trump administration eliminates federal tax credits, we will intervene to double…

Oh look, The Guardian Here we go again, a hot dish of climate hysteria laced with precocious child activism. This time, they rescued a 17-year-old surfer from Brazil to teach us all at COP29 how the ocean is allegedly “warming.” [emphasis, links added] Because who needs thermometers, satellite data, or rigorous ocean temperature reconstructions when you have a kid paddling around on a surfboard who can tell us about planetary ocean temperatures? “As a surfer, I'm always in the ocean, and I can definitely feel the ocean getting warmer,” said Catarina Lorenzo, a 17-year-old professional surfer from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.…

The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) stretches from the U.S.-Mexico border to the Canadian border, traversing more than 2,600 miles of desert, mountains, and forests. For many people, hiking from start to finish is a lifetime goal. But this year, wildfires disrupted hikers’ journeys. Rylee: “This July, from north to south, everywhere along the way was hit by hurricanes. It seems that no area is immune to fires this year. Chris Rylee is a member of the Pacific Crest Trail Association. Wildfires have closed more than 600 miles of trails, forcing hikers off trails, he said. Some fires directly burned parts…

Billions of people living in developing countries do not benefit from government subsidies. Guest post co-author Ronald, Oliver Hermes, and Steve Curtis When the government goes about its business, citizens begin to suffer. Citizens prosper when government supports laws that promote an economic playing field for all in a free enterprise system. The United States is a good example. Under a free enterprise system, this small alliance of a little over 13 different colonies grew into the world's greatest industrial power in just over 100 years. Under the current system, where government spending picks winners and losers in business and…