Philanthropic Captains, Progressive Crews
Jeffrey E. Paul’s fine Winning America’s Second Civil War: Progressivism’s Authoritarian Threat, Where It Came From, and How to Defeat It, new from Encounter Books, begins by tracing the harmful…
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Household Names Helping Ban Gas Stoves: Patient Zero
the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is one of the nation’s most radical anti-energy, left-wing nonprofits. Yet General Motors, Fed Ex, United Airlines, Amazon, Bank of America, and dozens of billionaires,…
Household Names Helping Ban Gas Stoves: War on Energy
Of the main hydrocarbon energy sources that we use—coal, natural gas, and oil—natural gas is by far the lowest emitter of carbon dioxide. If cutting carbon emissions were RMI’s highest…
Household Names Helping Ban Gas Stoves: Personal Awards and Foundation Rewards
In 2016, Lovins was awarded the German Order of Merit, the German government’s highest honor, because of his influence on Germany’s energy policy. Another ironic decoration came in 1993, when…
Household Names Helping Ban Gas Stoves: Humanity Hating Benefactor
The radical agenda of one RMI donor towers above the others. Since 2005 the Rocky Mountain Institute has received at least $76.9 million from the Foundation for the Carolinas (FFTC),…
Household Names Helping Ban Gas Stoves: Giving Away the Rope
Environmental journalist Michael Shellenberger reported that big oil and gas firms have never been the natural enemy of radical climate groups such as RMI. The hypocritical hostility to zero-carbon nuclear…
Al Gore’s 30 Years of Climate Errors: Glacial Recount
It has been 30 years since Al Gore was transformed from forgettable U.S. senator and presidential also-ran into an influential and enduring climate alarmist cultural icon. He has won an…
Al Gore’s 30 Years of Climate Errors: Snow Job
Gore’s prophecy regarding Kilimanjaro National Park in Tanzania was more precise, and just as wrong his prophecy about Glacier National Park. Going on seven years past the day when Gore…
Al Gore’s 30 Years of Climate Errors: The Scary Seas
NASA has an online tracker of ocean levels that shows monthly changes back to January 1993. (Perhaps not coincidentally, this was Gore’s first month as vice president). NASA shows the…