Rise of the Eco-Right
The “eco-Right” is the few dozen lobbying, litigation, and activist nonprofits that identify themselves as free market or broadly right-of-center and yet are attempting to rebrand environmentalism and global warming…
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Al Gore Offers Africa Electricity by the Spoonful
The Africa branch of Climate Reality Project issued a report in November 2016 condemning nuclear energy as “bad for the environment,” suggesting instead that the often desperately poor people of…
The Galileo Code
(December 2009)
If we wanted to add a twentieth-century name to the list of prophets, I would nominate Robert Nisbet (1914-1996), who would not be surprised by recent revelations that an elite…
Creatures of the Green Lagoon: Paris Rises from the Dead
San Francisco is awash in five things: Homeless people, discarded needles, garbage, human feces, and virtually unlimited cash for the environmental Left. This once great city by the bay is…
Creatures of the Green Lagoon: Tom Steyer
After Al Gore, Thomas Fahr Steyer is one of the best-known ultra-wealthy sages of the environmentalist movement. Since diving headfirst into electoral politics—signaling his interest in running for California governor…
Creatures of the Green Lagoon: Sea Change Foundation
On the more moderate end of the San Francisco “green” lagoon is Nathaniel “Nat” Simons, a Bay Area billionaire who made his fortune brilliantly managing hedge funds. Simons is the…
Creatures of the Green Lagoon: Energy Foundation
The Energy Foundation is unique as a massive pass-through funder endowed by liberal mega-donors to provide a new source of perpetual funding for the environmental Left. As its name suggests,…
Creatures of the Green Lagoon: ClimateWorks Foundation
The ClimateWorks Foundation was conceived in 2006 as a joint pass-through project of multiple major grantmaking foundations: the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the…
The “Dark Money” Behind the Effort to “Decarbonize” Every House in America
Arabella Advisors’ $731 million “dark money” nonprofit network is behind a campaign to cut off every house in America from natural gas and make them dependent on electric-only appliances, part…
National Climate Emergency Act: America Declares War on Itself
Democrats have introduced a bill intended to give President Joseph Biden sweeping powers to halt global warming, using wartime measures to declare war on nature itself. The National Climate Emergency…