October 22, 2024

The victory speech you do not want to hear

As a member of the San Francisco media, I’ve been watching Kamala Harris since 2003 when she ran for district attorney against the incumbent DA, Terrence Hallinan. First, she was accused of being tactless for running against the man who hired h...

October 10, 2024

Hurricane facts vs. climate fiction

Following two back-to-back hurricanes that severely pummeled the Southeastern United States, climate activists have swooped in like vultures, blaming political conservatives for the destruction wrought by Helene and Milton. At MSNBC, Chris Hayes spou...

June 24, 2024

Hurricane godfather puts record-breaking forecast into perspective

The 2024 hurricane season is forecast to be a record-breaker and climate provocateurs are crowing that it’s all your fault. Your carbon-intense lifestyle is warming the global atmosphere and now the biggest storms on earth are about to intensif...

June 14, 2024

Climate BS from the Wall Street Journal

My publisher contacted me this week, drawing attention to a Wall Street Journal article claiming climate change is producing  shortages of “the finer things in life,” like wine, coffee, cocoa, and olive oil. The implication was clear...

May 28, 2024

Green college degrees and phony climate calamities

Last week an Associated Press headline declared, “Graduating seniors seek degrees in climate change and more US universities deliver.”   Keep in mind the AP, which feeds stories to news publications around the world, was given an $8 ...

May 20, 2024

‘Green Playgrounds’ to save our schools?

This past weekend, a news article in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Mercury News warned, “As summer approaches and temperatures soar, one of the most dangerous places for Bay Area students might actually be the playground.” The rep...

May 6, 2024

Climate lockdowns next?

Since the COVID scare worked so well for the left, could a climate lockdown be next? We all vividly recall the absurd COVID lockdowns. While they had no effect on the spread of illness, the imposed restrictions certainly proved that a large segmen...

April 22, 2024

Earth Day’s radical history

On April 22, 1970, a trio of radical schemers established the first Earth Day, an event cleverly crafted to assault capitalism, free-markets, and humankind. The plot was conceived by Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WS).  You think AOC and "The...

November 28, 2012

Obama's Next Move: the Global Warming Tax

This week the United Nations begins two weeks of climate talks in Doha, Qatar. The primary goal of these meetings is to draw President Obama into accepting a redistribution plan designed extract money from the U.S. economy in the form of a global war...

June 5, 2012

When Eco-Thugs Knock

Larry Keller had no idea the Environmental Protection Agency employed agents fortified with deadly force until two such men showed up at his home, unannounced, to "question" him. Keller runs a computer consulting business from his Asheville, North Ca...

April 24, 2012

Big Brother's Next Target: Your Car

Many are quite concerned about Senate Bill 1813, a massive piece of legislation supposedly devoted to transportation issues.  Besides including a provision allowing the IRS the power to revoke passports belonging to those who are delinquent with...

April 17, 2012

Global Warming's Reckless Rhetoric

An acclaimed environmental studies professor contends that those who do not believe that humans are causing global warming are mentally ill and need to be "treated," according to a recent story at American Thinker. Keri Norgaard teaches at the Univer...

February 27, 2012

Obama's Environmental Justice Announcement

I just got off a conference call with the Environmental Protection Agency (I do this regularly just to try stay in the loop as to what these seditious bureaucrats are up to). The call featured EPA chief Lisa Jackson who shared an "important announcem...

January 10, 2012

Europe's Unfriendly Skies

Flying to and from Europe just became more expensive thanks to the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).  The ETS was instituted in January 2005, in an attempt to control greenhouse gas emissions, specifically carbon dioxide.  In...

November 4, 2011

Occupying the Minds of Our Youth

 A friend of mine is employed by a public elementary school in Santa Cruz, California.  In the teacher's lounge he found some troubling materials stacked on a table dedicated to the California Teachers Association. "Considering Democracy in...

December 8, 2010

Cancun's Climate Crock

It began with a prayer to the Mayan moon goddess, and it has quickly devolved into a junk science circus.Delegates to the United Nation's Framework Convention on Climate Change in Cancun, Mexico were greeted by the Convention's Executive Secretary, C...

September 2, 2010

Al Gore's Poison

On Wednesday, a gun-wielding, bomb-toting eco-terrorist -- who claimed to have been "awakened" by Al Gore's Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth -- was shot and killed by police after holding several people hostage inside the Discovery...

August 2, 2010

Poison Pill: The New Senate Energy Bill

The latest Senate energy bill, quietly unveiled last week, looks like sweet compromise on radical measures like cap and trade, but buried within is a bitter poison pill that will could be swallowed in a vote that may come this week.Unlike the 1,200-p...

July 29, 2010

Carbon Cronyism: Why Cap-and-Trade Is Not Dead Yet

This past weekend, while addressing the Netroots convention in Las Vegas, Senator Harry Reid gave the gathering of lefties a promise regarding U.S. health care. "We're going to have a public option," Reid said. "It's just a question of...

July 15, 2010

Hold Your Nose: I Smell Cap-And-Trade

We're receiving word that the next three weeks -- prior to Congress' summer recess -- represents the Democrats' best chance at getting a climate change bill passed this year. Senate leaders are working overtime on this contentious issue to try to cob...

June 2, 2010

Team Obama's 'Real Time' Bureaucracy

Yesterday, the White House director of Energy and Climate Change Policy, Carol Browner, assured "Fox and Friends" host Gretchen Carlson that the Obama administration was "making decisions in real time" regarding the Gulf of Mexico...

May 25, 2010

Nonpartisan Proof: Cap-and-Trade Is an Economy-Killer

Last week, in what the National Academy of Sciences declared "the most comprehensive report ever on climate change," three studies requested by Congress were unfurled, providing sweeping proposals for an aggressive federally based strategy ...

May 10, 2010

Cap-and-Trade Is Back

On Wednesday, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) plan to introduce legislation designed to inflate the cost of energy, strain family budgets, and decimate America's manufacturing sector -- all in the name of supposedly saving the cli...

May 4, 2010

Taking Advantage of an Oil Crisis

Days after being elected in November 2008, President-Elect Barack Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, spoke to a Wall Street Journal gathering of business leaders and stated that the economic crisis facing the United States is "an opportunity ...

April 22, 2010

Earth Day: An Assault on Man

In recent weeks while addressing Tea Party rallies here on the left coast, I ask the assembled patriots what appears to be an odd question: "Would all those from the former Soviet Union please raise your hands?"A notable number of hands are...

February 1, 2010

It's Not Blowing in the Wind

A push in the U.S. Senate for an alternative to proposed "cap-and-trade" legislation began in earnest on the day of the Massachusetts special election, when Senator Byron Dorgan, (D-ND) said that a kinder, gentler energy bill had better pro...

January 31, 2010

Obama's Nuclear Lie

The president's pants were smoldering during his State of the Union address. One fib in particular that he offered was deviously cloaked beneath a thin veneer of truth. In order to create clean energy jobs, Mr. Obama said that America needs to be ...

October 14, 2009

Gore On The Grill

Last Friday, global warming's poster boy, Al Gore, spoke to the Society of Environmental Journalists' convention in Madison, Wisconsin.  After his speech to this flock of propagandists, there was a rare Q and A session.  Among those asking ...

October 3, 2009

If I told You, Would You Have Believed?

Recently while driving from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, some 80 miles down the coast (kind of like leaving Marxatopia for Stalinsville), I tuned into 10,000 watts of soothing radio sanity, KSCO-AM.  Similar to the radio station I work for in Sa...

October 1, 2009

Gore and Google: Pants on Fire

Earth's self-anointed global warming czar, Al Gore, has teamed up with his business partners at Google (he's an Advisory Board member) to make the latest pitch for a planet that is about to burst into a bag of Flamin' Hot Cheetos.  Together they...

July 2, 2009

Cap-and-Trade Means Regulate and Subsidize

Last week, prior to voting for the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, House Republican Leader John Boehner spent the better part of an hour reading from the 1201-page bill and the associated 300-page addendum, which had been dumped on Co...

April 22, 2009

Sinking Islands or Stinking Islands?

The headline on Monday read, "Climate refugees in Pacific flee rising seas". Boy did the editors get this one wrong.  A more accurate caption would have been, "Jesse Jackson-like shake-down gets tribe taken off tropical trash heap...

March 13, 2009

California's Wet Dream

I live in a state managed by a pack of damned lunatics.  Not only have the spendaholics who comprise the California legislature submerged us with an unsustainable budget deficit and then swamped us with the largest combined tax increase in ...

December 16, 2008

The Real Climate Deniers

Last week, soon-to-be President Barack Obama met with former Vice President Al Gore to discuss global warming.  In a brief presser following their closed-door rendezvous, Obama proclaimed, "the time for denial is over." Ironically, as ...

August 21, 2008

Obama to Immigrant South Asians in San Francisco: "I'm a homeboy"

For those of us who continue to be suspicious of what Barack Obama is not telling us about himself, those suspicions were heightened Sunday.Obama held a mega-fundraiser in San Francisco that was said to have raised over $7 million dollars.  The ...

June 24, 2008

James Hansen: Abusing the Public Trust

Monday, James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), addressed Congress and brought a new twist to his tired global warming song and dance routine.  Hansen now seems to be calling for the chief executives of Big O...

June 23, 2008

Well Oiled Fear Tactics

Recently, in defending his lack of military and foreign policy experience, Barack Obama said of Republicans, "what they're doing is what they've done every election cycle, which is to use terrorism as a club to make the American people afraid....

June 6, 2008

Global Whining vs. the Truth

"105° tomorrow?  We'll be sending you out live," the television producer informed me.Like most TV Meteorologists, I loathed the heat wave live-remotes.  I would much rather work in a controlled environment, complete with air c...