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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,…
by Ken Braun on July 27, 2023

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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…
by Ken Braun on July 27, 2023

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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…
by Ken Braun on July 27, 2023

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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),…
by Ken Braun on July 27, 2023

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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…
by Ken Braun on July 27, 2023

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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…
by Ken Braun on February 13, 2023

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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…
by Ken Braun on February 13, 2023

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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…
by Ken Braun on February 13, 2023

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Al Gore’s 30 Years of Climate Errors: Bridge Fuel to Nowhere
The end of An Inconvenient Truth features the former vice president in solutions mode, previewing the policy recommendations that have become his agenda ever since. “Are we going to be…
by Ken Braun on February 13, 2023

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Al Gore’s 30 Years of Climate Errors: Favoring Failure
Understanding Al Gore’s energy agenda requires harnessing the power of doublethink. In a 2020 TED Talk he dismissed nuclear energy as a “crushing disappointment.” Months later, the U.S. Department of…
by Ken Braun on February 13, 2023