KATOWICE — The United Nations gave its blessing to a massive climate protest during the Trump administration’s proenergy event today at the climate summit (COP24) in Poland, according to the U.S. delegation. The UN pre-authorized and preplanned the wide-scale interruption that shut down the Trump White House’s pro-fossil fuel event. Officials from the U.S. delegation…
Tim Ball, Tom Harris
Geo-engineering: Ignoring the consequences
Governments charge ahead on engineering Earth’s climate, ignoring possible harmful effects The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report said we have only 12 years left to save the planet. It triggered the usual frantic and ridiculous reactions. NBC News offered this gem: “A last-ditch global warming fix? A man-made ‘volcanic’ eruption” to cool the…
Government Circus, Viv Forbes
Stop Wasting our Dam Water
The Saltbush Club today accused state and federal governments of wasting water often desperately needed everywhere west of Australia’s Great Dividing Range. The “Saltbush Water Watch” has been established to monitor government action and inaction and report on priorities. The Executive Director of the fastgrowing Saltbush Club, Mr Viv Forbes, said “From Adelaide to Longreach…
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Reform Federal Disability Insurance to Help Address Wisconsin’s Labor Shortage
The Problem: With unemployment at record lows, Wisconsin’s central economic challenge is a labor shortage. 76% of Wisconsin business leaders report trouble finding workers. At the same time, more than 10 million Americans, 160,000 Wisconsinites, receive Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. Almost all SSDI beneficiaries are permanently out of the workforce. The WILL Solution:…
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Give Thanks That We No Longer Live On The Precipice
By Paul Driessen Thanksgiving is a good time to express our sincere gratitude that we no longer “enjoy” the “simpler life of yesteryear.” As my grandmother said, “The only good thing about the good old days is that they’re gone.” For countless millennia, mankind lived on a precipice, in hunter-gatherer, subsistence farmer and primitive urban…
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Protesting Carbon Taxes with the Gilets Jaunes
Reflections on CFACT’s Katowice delegation coverage of Yellow Vests protest in MarseillesBy Craig Rucker The Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) represent a broad cross section of French rural, working and middle classes. They are butchers, bakers and automobile makers. They are the folks who grow the food, drive the trucks, build the buildings and fix what…