Pollster Frank Luntz: GOP Could Lose Young Voters Due to Inaction on Climate Change
GOP pollster Frank Luntz is warning that the GOP could lose young voters in 2020 due to inaction on climate change.
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Pete Buttigieg Serious about Carbon Tax to Fight Climate Change
Mayor Pete Buttigieg wants the country to take climate change seriously, proposing a nationwide carbon tax to help reduce emissions.
Greenpeace Founder: Fossil Fuel Use ‘Saved’ Life on Earth ‘from an Early Demise’
Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore explained how burning of fossil fuels saved life by returning previously trapped CO2 to the atmosphere.
Green New Deal: ‘Not Ruling a Carbon Tax Out, but a Carbon Tax Would Be a Tiny Part’
The masterminds of the Green New Deal say a carbon tax would only make up a sliver of funding for the progressive Democrats’ proposal.
Macron Hits a New Low, December Approval Figures Worst of Presidency
The approval ratings of Emmanuel Macron continue to be in freefall, according to new polling figures which showed support for the French president has plunged to a new low this month.
Not Enough: Yellow Vests to Reject Temporary Suspension of Fuel Tax Rises in France
Representatives from the Yellow Vest movement have said that a temporary suspension of a further tax increase by the government does not go far enough, maintaining the taxes should be cut altogether.
Columnist: Oil, Climate Change Cause Natural Disasters, Murders, Riots
A columnist at a Philadelphia newspaper believes climate change is responsible for natural disasters, murder and riots in Paris.
Delingpole: Donald Trump Has Broken the Climate Spell
“Donald Trump has broken the climate spell,” says a must-read article by Rupert Darwall. [Rather surprisingly, it’s in the NeverTrump Weekly Standard].
Bill Nye: Taxing Cow Farts a ‘Fantastic Thing for the World’
Netflix host “Science Guy” Bill Nye has a new solution for the world’s environmental problems: taxing cow farts.
France’s Macron: ‘U.S. Has Turned its Back on the World’ by Dumping Paris Accord
France’s new president, Emmanuel Macron, has criticized President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, stating that the United States “has turned its back on the world.”
California Court Denies Lucrative ‘Cap-and-Trade’ Program Is ‘Illegal Tax’
A California appeals court denied a challenge to the state’s lucrative cap-and-trade program by California business owners on Thursday—who argued the program constituted an illegal tax.
Conservative Groups Request Meeting With White House About Carbon Tax Proposal
Americans for Tax Reform, American Energy Alliance, and other conservative groups requested a meeting with Gary Cohn to discourage the idea of a carbon tax.
Virgil: The Washington Post’s Carbon Tax Put-On
What do you call it when The Washington Post, which hates Republicans, seeks to advise them on what to do? That is, when the Post pretends to be offering honest constructive advice to the GOP? As in, do this, and it will be good for you. Maybe we could call it the Post Pretense, or the Post Ponzi, or the Post Prevarication. Or maybe we should just keep it simple and call it the Post Put-On.
Study: Carbon Tax Would Lower Income, GDP but Not Global Temperature
Former White House Chief of Staff James Baker and other Republican insiders are lobbying the White House to enact a carbon tax, much to the dismay of conservatives.
DELINGPOLE: Would You Buy a Used Carbon Tax From Hank Paulson?
“I screwed up the economy, your jobs and your mortgages so – hey – I’m just the guy you can trust to tell you what to do about climate change!”
Republican Insiders Push for a Carbon Tax at White House Meeting
Beltway Republicans, including former Treasury Secretary James Baker, lobby National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn to enact a carbon tax at the White House today. Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, and Trump’s Chief of Staff Reince Priebus are also expected to attend.
DELINGPOLE: Ronald Reagan Would Have Hated this Stupid ‘Conservative’ Carbon Tax Idea
Donald Trump should pursue a regressive, counterproductive, pointless tax policy to deal with a non-existent problem because it’s “what the Gipper would have wanted.”
Carbon Tax, Climate, Trade, Education Policy Concerns Arise with Trump’s Likely Secretary of State Selection Tillerson
President-elect Donald Trump may have demonstrated another instance of veering from his core campaign policy platforms with a major cabinet selection in his likely Secretary of State pick, ExxonMobil CEO and chairman Rex Tillerson.
Senators Warn Lynch: Witch Hunt of Obama Energy Opponents is Abuse of Power
Five U.S. Republican Senators sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch demanding that she end the Department of Justice (DOJ) witch hunt against political opponents of President Obama’s energy agenda. They warn her that any improper assertion of federal investigatory or prosecutorial power is an abuse of power.
The Dirty Story Behind Hillary Clinton’s ‘Clean Cookstoves’
On September 21, 2010, the Secretary of State announced the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (Alliance) at the Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (GCI)—with the Clinton Foundation being one of the “Strategic Partnerships and Alliances.” By November 2014, more than $400 million had been raised for the project.
Jerry Brown Tries to Flog a New Carbon Tax
Jerry Brown tried to introduce the concept of implementing a “revenue-neutral carbon tax.”
Alberta Oil Companies Hemorrhage Cash After NDP Tax Hike
President Obama is not alone in wielding governmental power to clamp down on carbon-emitting energy. While he weaponizes the Environmental Protection Agency to take on coal-powered energy, potentially shutting down hundreds of coal-fired power plants, Alberta’s new socialist NDP government is pushing ostensibly environmentally-minded policies against oil on shared premises of combating “climate change.”
Selling Global Warming Mythology and Carbon Taxes As ‘The Reagan Way’
The American economy is sick with government control. Ronald Reagan would want to deal with that problem before he’d be willing to consider any fresh taxes aimed at providing “insurance” against “climate change” — which, in any event, hasn’t proven to be a threat in decades.
