How Thick Is Pope Francis’s Bubble?
I have started Laudato Si, Pope Francis’s newly release papal encyclical on global warming, and it’s something of a slog. As one of my colleagues put it, popes never seem to use one word when 500 will...
View ArticleThank Goodness Encyclicals Aren’t Binding On Catholics
Pope Francis has released his much-anticipated encyclical on the environment and “care for our common home” (it is not just about climate change). Things are going about as well as politically...
View ArticleA Roundtable On ‘Laudato Si’
Samuel Gregg Given that I’ve already written elsewhere about the lamentable understanding of economics, and free markets more specifically, that permeates “Laudato Si,” I’d like to underscore another...
View ArticlePope Francis’s Encyclical Is About Much More Than Climate Change
Yes, the pope believes there’s solid scientific consensus supporting the theory of climate change. In his new encyclical, “Laudato Si,” he covers that in a few terse paragraphs. But the encyclical is...
View ArticleClimate Change Alarmists Appear Immunized Against Reality
So Ars Technica sent a young man who bills himself as an “educator” and hydrologist to the 10th International Conference on Climate Change sponsored by the Heartland Institute, that was held last month...
View ArticleObama Wasn’t Kidding About Wanting To Spike Your Electricity Bill
We have all seen the YouTube video of then-candidate Barack Obama saying his energy goals would make electricity rates “necessarily skyrocket.” That was 2008. Well, with his term less than a year and a...
View ArticleLachlan Markay Reports On the Controversial Regulatory Strategy of the Green...
The White House has shifted its climate strategy to push controversial new regulation on the states. Lachlan Markay of the Washington Free Beacon joins the Federalist Radio Hour to report. According to...
View ArticleAlaska’s Biggest Economic Threat Isn’t Climate Change, It’s President Obama
President Obama is touring Alaska this week to talk about climate change. He’ll be visiting some retreating glaciers near the southern coast and some Alaska Native towns in the western and northwestern...
View ArticleHave We Finally Reached Peak Environmental Doom?
The Centrist Position Is Correct But Can’t Win Gregg Easterbrook Outside your window, living standards are rising, crime is declining, pollution is down, and longevity is increasing. But in pop...
View ArticlePope Francis, Fossil Fuels Won’t Cause Armageddon
In an historic event next week, Pope Francis will make his first visit to the United States. It is expected to generate as much political interest as it will religious concerns. On Thursday, he will...
View ArticlePope Francis Should Stop Washing His Robes
In a speech to a joint session of Congress Thursday, Pope Francis is expected to echo his favorite theme of late: fighting climate change to ostensibly help the poor. Francis has been banging this drum...
View ArticlePope Francis Never Mentioned Jesus In His Speech To Congress
Although he referenced multiple hot-button political issues in his speech to Congress, Pope Francis didn’t mention Jesus Christ even a single time. During his remarks, which were regularly interrupted...
View ArticleNo, Seth MacFarlane, Climate Change Is Not Our Greatest National Security Threat
Last night, Hollywood celebrity Seth MacFarlane introduced Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at a fundraiser. He explained his support of the spry 74-year-old democratic socialist who is giving Hillary...
View ArticleThe Climate Change Inquisition Begins
New York’s attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, has started an investigation of Exxon Mobil “to determine whether the company lied to the public about the risks of climate change or to investors about...
View ArticleHow Moon Gas Could Solve Climate Change
News of billionaires funding their own space projects has become so commonplace that Infospace founder Naveen Jain’s recently announced target date of 2017 for landing the first of three robot rovers...
View ArticleThe First Amendment Is Dying
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;Unless we’re talking about a white chocolate-paneled cake for a gay wedding or perpetual...
View ArticleGreat News! Americans Don’t Really Care About Climate Change
There is a preventable calamity out there, purportedly the root cause of nearly all wars, refugee crises, sickness, misogyny, terrorism, hunger, poverty, and everything else troubling mankind these...
View ArticleObama Says He’ll Rebuke ISIS By Talking About Climate Change
President Barack Obama said during a press conference on Tuesday that his plans to attend a climate change summit in December will serve as a “powerful rebuke” to ISIS, which took credit for brutal...
View ArticleCarly Fiorina Rips ‘Delusional’ Obama For Thinking Climate Talks Will Stop ISIS
Carly Fiorina slammed President Obama on Sunday for saying that attending a climate change summit would be a “powerful rebuke” to ISIS. “It is delusional for President Obama and Hillary Clinton and...
View ArticleClimate Talks Show Us Progressivism’s True Hypocrisy
What do you call it when elites fly their private jets to an international climate change conference to forge a deal with despots that caps American prosperity without our consent? You call it...
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