Environment

The island’s demise was a human and Little Ice Age tragedy, not “ecological suicide” In a recent New York Times column, Nicholas Kristof misleads us about the awful history of Easter Island (2,300 miles west of Chile), whose vegetation…

Winter Storm Riley is being labeled as 'Bombogenesis' as it slams the East Coast with 60 mph winds and 4 ft surges that left at least 1 million without power and over 3,000 flights cancelled. Boston and parts of coastal Massachusetts were…

2017 featured incredibly intense, damaging wildfires in California: First the Wine Country fires of October, and later the massive Thomas Fire in December. Each destroyed hundreds of homes, the latter in many of the affluent suburbs and…

Residents in New England for years voted for the liberal Obama policies that supported the 'global warming hoax' and created the 'war on coal'. Now, it seems, because of their past support for Obama's policies they have found themselves in…

Some of us certainly used to love it when Dean Martin would sing 'Baby it's cold outside'! But SERIOUSLY! When the song became a reality....Well let's just say that tune turned into more Lena Horne's 'Stormy Weather' and it's not pretty.…

As you may or may not know, Autism is a developmental disorder found in children. Children with autism usually have trouble with social interaction and communication with others. They also tend to have restrictive and repetitive behavior.…

Acting on recommendations by Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, on December 4 President Trump significantly reduced the size of two enormous areas in Utah that Presidents Clinton and Obama had set aside as limited-access,…

I express my deepest sympathies to the people in the Caribbean and United States who have been impacted by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. The loss of life was tragic but has thankfully been much lower than in many previous storms.…

The radical environmentalist war on fossil fuels has opened a new front: a war on pipelines. For years, activist zealots claimed the world was rapidly depleting its oil and natural gas supplies. The fracking revolution (horizontal…

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma brought out the best in us. Millions of Americans are giving money, toil and sweat to help victims rebuild. Unfortunately, the storms also highlighted some people’s baser instincts. Some advanced ideological…

President Trump promised to bring fresh ideas and policies to Washington. Now Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue are doing exactly that in a critically important area: forest management and conflagration…

“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight,” English essayist Samuel Johnson observed 240 years ago, “it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” That’s certainly true in the climate change arena. After ending US participation in the…

If you live in Florida and haven't gotten out...get out NOW, especially if you are in Southwest Florida! Otherwise, I hope you have a nice 'Plan B' in mind because Hurricane Irma is going to be a doozy. Irma is projected to hit Florida…

Sadly, as thousands of Texans are still reeling from the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, another hurricane, Irma threatens Florida. Governor Scott has already declarated a state of emergency as Floridians brace for the upcoming and…

It’s amazing, though hardly surprising, how quickly some used Hurricane Harvey’s devastation to claim that fossil fuel emissions are driving catastrophic climate change and weather. Their proffered solution, of course, is to replace those…

There is something about a natural disaster like Hurricane Harvey, that tends to remind people to put aside all our political differences and come together as Americans. Whether we are Republicans or Democrats, we all want to help those in…

Al Gore’s new movie, a New York Times article on the final Obama Era “manmade climate disaster” report, and a piece saying wrathful people twelve years from now will hang hundreds of “climate deniers” are a tiny sample of Climate Hysteria…

Before I could enjoy a movie last week, I was forced to endure five minutes of climate and weather fear-mongering, when the theater previewed Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Sequel.” His attempt to pin every weather disaster of the past decade on…

New York City is a very liberal city. Why wouldn't they be, especially with Comrad DeBlasio in charge who would rather protect illegal immigrants in a 'sanctuary', than put the safety of New Yorkers first. I wonder if all those same…

The Wall Street Journal called it the energy shortage “no one saw coming.” Actually, a lot of people did see it coming. But intent on pursuing their “dangerous manmade climate change” and “renewable energy will save the planet” agendas, the…

Demands that the world replace fossil fuels with wind, solar and biofuel energy – to prevent supposed catastrophes caused by manmade global warming and climate change – ignore three fundamental flaws. 1) In the Real World outside the…

President Trump’s budget guidance sought to cut $1.6 billion from the Environmental Protection Agency’s $8.1 billion expectation. Shrieks of looming Armageddon prompted Congress to fund EPA in full until September 2017, when the battle will…

Second Lady Karen Pence and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue recently teamed up to install a honeybee hive on the grounds of the Vice President’s residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. This will serve as a “great…

In the wake of President Trump’s exit from the Paris climate treaty, reactions from other quarters were predictably swift, nasty, sanctimonious and hypocritical. Al Gore paused near one of the private jets he takes to hector lesser…

President Trump’s proposal to reduce the Environmental Protection Agency’s $8.1-billion budget by $1.6 billion was cut to an $80-million trim in the omnibus spending bill. However, the EPA funding and staff controversy will undoubtedly…

Recent science and climate marches demonstrated how misinformed, indoctrinated, politicized and anti-Trump these activists are – and how indifferent about condemning millions in industrialized nations and billions in developing countries to…