Back on March 1, President Trump fired a double-barrel shotgun at the long-held preservationist U.S. mantra that for nearly a century has dealt heavy blows to American forests, forest animals, and the humans whose homes abut government forest lands.The first addressed what the White House calls “the threat to national security from imports of timber and lumber.” Even though the U.S. has ample timber resources, the nation has been a net importer of lumber since 2016. Wood products, said the … [Read more...]
Fossil fuels and fertilizers: a pairing that feeds the world
Amid Earth Day’s impassioned calls to save the planet for future generations, a disquieting irony emerges: Efforts to eradicate fossil fuels – a linchpin of modern agro-industrial systems – risk severing the very supply chains that make global food security possible. From famine to abundance: green revolutionContemporary food production sustains a global populace of approximately 8 billion – and increasing – with a large percentage of individuals in wealthier countries consuming … [Read more...]
Congress needs to repeal the Biden EPA and California attack on gas-powered cars
The attack on gas-powered vehicles exists on multiple fronts, including through federal and state regulation.Regarding federal regulation, much of the attention has been focused on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) de facto electric vehicle mandate.However, there is another Biden EPA action that would likely lead to an even worse result. In its closing days, the Biden administration granted a waiver allowing California to move forward with its gas-powered car ban (Advanced Clean Cars … [Read more...]
Save a Tesla, Save the Planet
The 55th Earth Day arrived, and with it the usual fervor over “saving the planet.”In addition to mostly peaceful protests, traditional constructive activities are undertaken such as tree plantings, river cleanups, and wetland preservation.This year, though, a new planet-saving opportunity has presented itself: Saving a Tesla.Before Elon Musk became Public Enemy #2 to leftist activists (right behind President Trump as Public Enemy #1), Mr. Musk was an earth savior with his “non-polluting” … [Read more...]
We Must End Climate Religion’s Hijack of Earth Day
Every April, the world pauses to mark Earth Day — an occasion that once invited reflection on tangible environmental concerns, like cleaning polluted rivers, planting trees, and securing clean air for urban populations.But like so much of the modern environmental movement, Earth Day has been co-opted by a doomsday cult masquerading as science. What began as a reasonable appeal for local stewardship has transformed into an international campaign of fearmongering about earth’s complex climate … [Read more...]
Does the Air Force Own the Weather in 2025? Origins of the Chemtrail Theory
2025 isn’t just the current year, or a Heritage Foundation project of conservative principles for political action for the new Republican President. In the 1990s it was also the result of an Air Force directive to “examine the concepts, capabilities, and technologies the United States will require to remain the dominant air and space force in the future“.As a partial response to that directive, several students at the Air War College in 1996 produced a document, largely theoretical in … [Read more...]
No Climate Mayday in Madras: Reconsidering Doomsday Narratives
A decade ago, I was able to get away from a terrible flood that killed more than 500 people in the southern India city of Chennai (formerly known as Madras). The bus taking me from the city barely managed to avoid rising water slowly but inexorably engulfing the roads.My escape was only possible because I had been tracking the movement of a cyclone that had brought the deluge. That flood was not unusual. Once known for its light cotton fabric designs known by the Madras name and most popular in … [Read more...]
Western Green Mandates Push Africa Toward Moscow
African Energy Chamber founder and executive director NJ Ayuk is tired of European and American green energy pontificators demanding that Africa forgo developing its oil, coal, natural gas, and even nuclear resources. Maybe that’s why Ayuk has led a delegation to Moscow to secure energy partnerships.An AEC press release notes that the visit aligns with its goal of attracting diverse energy investments to meet Africa’s energy needs and augments ongoing efforts to increase Russian involvement in … [Read more...]
Jesus the Tekton
Timber Framing, Poetic Knowledge, and the Curse of SinWe stood at the ridge marking our property line, admiring our neighbor’s mature forest of mixed hardwoods and looking back with not a little distaste at the tangle of vines, thorns, and immature saplings on our side of the line — the mess from which we had just emerged. I counted fourteen holes in my shirt and more in my skin. We generally avoid this grim section of our otherwise beautiful farm but went that day to survey the forest and … [Read more...]
Reexamining the Obama Era Endangerment Finding
Reversing this faulty EPA finding will curtail climate alarmism and green energy griftingThe supposed climate cataclysm consensus is disintegrating under growing pressure from reality. Green energy subsidies, regulations and mandates are crumbling. Greenpeace has been hit with a $667-million judgment for conspiracy, defamation, trespass, and fostering arson and property destruction.Last year’s “Buy a Tesla – save the planet” placards have been exchanged for “mostly peaceful” protests based on … [Read more...]
