Infusion of green taxpayer cash to buy votes! Politico: ‘Can climate cash help Harris hold onto Pennsylvania?’ – Asks ‘Will voters notice?’

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2024/08/08/can-climate-cash-help-democrats-hold-onto-pennsylvania-00173200 By BENJAMIN STORROW If a battery factory gets built in a critical swing state, will voters notice? That’s the question at the heart of the story I wrote about a battery plant that took over a previously vacant factory outside Pittsburgh. … As we wrote back in May, when a team of E&E News and POLITICO reporters […]

Degrowth Means Certain Death for Humanity: ‘Nature is by far the greatest threat to humanity’ – ‘Addressing these threats requires advancing technology & wealth’

Degrowth Means Certain Death for Humanity By Marian L. Tupy Summary: falsely thinking of Earth as reliably habitable, proponents of degrowth ignore the numerous natural threats that could end human civilization. The planet faces potential dangers ranging from asteroid impacts, to supernova explosions, to gamma-ray bursts. Addressing these threats requires advancing technology and wealth, as […]

LA Times: L.A. Mayor Karen Bass outlines vision for (almost) ‘car-free’ 2028 Olympics – ‘A no-car Games’ –

https://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/story/2024-08-10/la28-transportation-plans-olympics By David Wharton – Staff Writer Excerpt: PARIS — Rush hour all but disappeared. There was less traffic on the freeways and not as much stop-and-go on surface streets. Longtime residents of Southern California remember that, in terms of driving, the 1984 Summer Olympics felt something like heaven. Businesses switched to staggered schedules. Lots of people left […]

Kamala flips on fracking: 2019: ‘No question; she was ‘in favor of banning fracking’ – 2024: Pro-fracking – ‘How can we trust that what she is now saying is true?’

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/08/kamala_and_fracking.html By Tim Benson Back during her first run for the presidency in 2020 — an effort that went so poorly her campaign didn’t even make it to the calendar year 2020, then-senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) said in a CNN Climate Crisis Town Hall that she was in favor of banning the practice of hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking.” […]

The claim of ‘world’s hottest day’ since 1940 eliminates from consideration more than 99.99999% of Earth’s history’ – Climate Fact-Check of ‘biggest false claims made in media in July, 2024’

Climate Fact-Check July 2024 Edition By Steve Milloy By: The Competitive Enterprise Institute, The Heartland Institute, the Energy & Environmental Legal Institute, the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and the International Climate Science Coalition, and Truth in Energy and Climate. Editor’s note: This summary serves as a fact check on the biggest false claims made […]