According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Ogallala Aquifer, which provides about 30 percent of the groundwater used for irrigation in the United States, is being drained faster than it can recharge. As with many above-ground lakes, that means it could one day run dry. The USGS has reported that groundwater levels in some areas of the Ogallala […]
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Much of the world was optimistic after a peace deal ended months of conflict in the Middle East that had disrupted the global oil trade. But peace in that region has long been a tenuous matter, and how long it lasts is anybody’s guess. Nonetheless, there are other reasons for optimism that are not subject to the vagaries of geopolitics. For the past two decades, the media have reported a “climate crisis” with a conviction that presumed dissent to be insane
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Happy July Fourth and America 250! We have much to celebrate, beginning with our Constitutional rights, equality, and liberties, and the prosperity they have bestowed. Indeed, living in this incredible, diverse, energized country, during this time in history, with our modern transportation, communication, healthcare, and AIR CONDITIONING technologies, is a true blessing. We can also be thankful if we aren’t in Europe this summer, with its 40˚C (104˚F) heat wave – and virtually no air conditioning. Europe
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When temperatures elevate in Europe, political rhetoric rises even faster. Within days of the June 2026 heat wave, familiar voices rushed to assign blame. John Kerry, speaking to the BBC, labeled the current U.S. administration “dangerous and reckless” on climate. U.N. climate chief Simon Stiell declared that “Europe’s savage heat wave has the fingerprints of the climate crisis all over
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The following is a guest article by Ronald Stein and Mike Ariza. With no pipelines over the Sierra Mountains, California is an energy island separated from the crude oil supply and the infrastructure of oil refineries within the other 49 States. Collectively, California, the 4th largest economy in the world, consumes a humongous 61 million gallons of ALL transportation fuels PER DAY (jet
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The following is a guest article by Frits Byron Soepyan. By reporting the sensational claims of UNICEF, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano joins in the fearmongering of climate alarmists whose credibility suffers from a lack of scientific facts. Drawing on UNICEF’s The Children’s Climate Risk Report 2026, the paper’s front-page, June 16 story, “Emergenze climatiche: Il cielo sopra i bam (Climate Emergencies: The Sky Above the Children),” claims that half of the world’s children are “threatened daily” by “extreme climate events.” The article lists the reduction
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The following is a guest article by Linnea Lueken. A recent article in the Times-Picayune and Nola.com, “Louisiana just made it illegal to sue oil companies over climate change. So have other states,” describes a recent bill passed in the Louisiana legislature and signed into law by Gov. Jeff Landry (R) which bars groups from suing oil
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I am a Christian. I am patriotic. As some people respond to a growing but ill-defined movement of “Christian nationalism,” they find themselves suspicious of all Christians who express patriotism. But one of the most influential Christian theologians of antiquity believed Christianity’s influence in the culture was the sine qua non of a prosperous and flourishing society.
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The following is a guest article by Tilak Doshi. Last week, I wrote about I wrote about Tessa Khan, funded by European and American philanthropists, who uses the courts to impose Net Zero policies voters have rejected at the ballot box. She spoke at an invitation-only gathering of politicians, journalists and policy figures assembled at Westminster
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Instability in the Middle East has disrupted oil and gas flows to India. However, India’s proposed plan to produce 30% ethanol-blended gasoline and diesel as a response to supply anxiety would be a costly error. To understand the pending disaster, you only need look to the United States. Failed American corn-ethanol For decades, the American government heavily subsidized and mandated corn ethanol in motor fuels. The National Center for Energy Analytics recently published a comprehensive
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