President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> delivered a series of flubs along with his Tuesday <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-2023-unga-us-leadership-trump-04b25cd42d03caf194def2862f6eb8d5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> before the United Nations, saying at one point that he planned to pursue a partnership with China aimed at &#8220;accelerating the climate crisis.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s speech before the General Assembly was designed to rally the world to support Ukraine against Russia&#8217;s continuing onslaught &#8212; and to rally some in Congress who have grown audibly weary of sending money to Ukraine without assurances detailing where those funds are being spent &#8212; but a series of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-january-6-flub-caps-a-week-of-gaffes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gaffes and flubs</a> dogged him throughout.
In one such instance, the president struggled to get through a sentence: &#8220;Simply put, the 21st century – 21st century results &#8230; are badly needed &#8230; to move us along. That starts with the United Nations.&#8221;
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Biden later hinted at the United States&#8217; relationship with China going forward, suggesting that deference to Beijing would be the prevailing policy position.
&#8220;When it comes to China, let me be clear and consistent. We seek to responsibly manage competition between our countries so it does not tip into conflict. I’ve said we are for de-risking — not decoupling — with China,&#8221; he said.
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BIDEN: &quot;I&#39;ve said we are for de-risking, not decoupling with China&quot; <a href="https://t.co/e5NZpHZqXz">pic.twitter.com/e5NZpHZqXz</a>
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Biden went on to say that an ongoing relationship with the communist-controlled nation was necessary, particularly with regard to climate change.
Promising to &#8220;work together with China on issues where progress hinges on our common efforts,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Nowhere is that more critical than accelerating the climate crisis – than the accelerating climate crisis.&#8221;
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As Biden continued to speak, however, there were times when it simply appeared that his teleprompter got the best of him.
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In addition to his focus on climate and on continued aid for Ukraine, President Biden touted democracy as the basis from which he believed those and other global problems could be addressed.
&#8220;We will not retreat from the values that make us strong. We will defend democracy — our best tool to meet the challenges that we face around the world,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And we’re working to show how democracy can deliver in ways that matter to people’s lives.&#8221;

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Biden Promises China Partnership Aimed At 'Accelerating The Climate Crisis' — And Other U.N. Flubs

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Amidst duel crises of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/massachusetts-activates-the-national-guard-to-deal-with-influx-of-illegal-aliens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal immigration</a> and rising <a href="https://www.mass.gov/news/massachusetts-opioid-related-overdose-deaths-rose-25-percent-in-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drug overdoses</a>, Massachusetts Democratic Governor Maura Healey has decided to crack down on the real culprit of the Bay State&#8217;s problems: Single-use plastic bottles.
Monday morning, the governor announced at The Clinton Global Initiative in New York City that she will be banning state agencies from purchasing single-use plastic bottles because climate change demands it.
&#8220;We know that plastic waste, plastic production are among the leading threats to our oceans, our climate, and environmental justice. In government, we have an obligation — we also have an opportunity — to not only stop contributing to this damage but to chart a better path forward,&#8221; Healey <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/gov-healey-to-ban-all-state-agencies-from-purchasing-single-use-plastic-bottles/3138580/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
There are some buzzwords in that statement that should be broken down before moving on to a parting thought about Healey and her ilk&#8217;s &#8220;concern&#8221; about the planet.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-climate-endgame-a-50-trillion-bridge-to-racial-equity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously discussed</a>, climate or environmental &#8220;justice&#8221; can commonly be taken to mean the race-based redistribution of wealth. Indeed, just last month Healey announced millions in taxpayer funding toward green energy projects and jobs in &#8220;environmental justice&#8221; communities. What does that mean? Well, here are the criteria to <a href="https://www.mass.gov/info-details/environmental-justice-populations-in-massachusetts#what-is-an-environmental-justice-population?-" target="_blank" rel="noopener">qualify</a> as an &#8220;EJ&#8221; in Massachusetts, per the state government:
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<li>the annual median household income is 65 percent or less of the statewide annual median household income</li>
<li>minorities make up 40 percent or more of the population</li>
<li>25 percent or more of households identify as speaking English less than &#8220;very well&#8221;</li>
<li>minorities make up 25 percent or more of the population and the annual median household income of the municipality in which the neighborhood is located does not exceed 150 percent of the statewide annual median household income</li>
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So, as readers can see, green energy funding is, to reiterate, often just a vehicle for the mass redistribution of wealth along racial and ethnic lines. It&#8217;s no different in the Bay State.
On Monday, Healey also told the crowd at CGI, &#8220;In our coastal state, we know climate change is our biggest threat. We also believe that taking action is our greatest opportunity, an opportunity to secure a safe, prosperous, and sustainable future.&#8221;
One has to wonder how many folks flew on private jets to that meeting in New York City. Something tells me that Healey won&#8217;t be banning state travel via gas-guzzling modes of transportation anytime soon. Nor does it seem that she offered her worldly peers any chastisement for their use of fossil fuels to gallivant around the globe.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Boston, MA – August 8: Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey held a morning press conference announcing significant action related to the state’s emergency shelter system.

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President Joe Biden spent part of his overseas trip wringing his hands over the possibility that global temperatures could rise by 1.5°, calling the prospect &#8220;more frightening than nuclear war.&#8221;
Biden made the comments from a Hanoi, Vietnam, press conference – during which he also referred to those who didn&#8217;t buy into climate alarmism as &#8220;lying dog-faced pony soldiers&#8221; and claimed that he&#8217;d borrowed the line (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-joe-biden-calls-a-female-voter-a-lying-dog-faced-pony-soldier" target="_blank" rel="noopener">which he&#8217;s used before</a>) from an old John Wayne movie.
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Biden first called on his Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry, who he said had forgotten more about emissions than most could ever learn.
&#8220;Correct me if I get this wrong, John, but I&#8217;m quite sure I&#8217;m right,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And that is that there&#8217;s more carbon absorbed from the air into the Amazon region, into the ground — the ground — than emitted in the entire United States on the same basis.&#8221;
&#8220;Now imagine if people go in and do what we did, 150-200 years ago — and cut down the forest and start farming in that area,&#8221; Biden continued, going on to say that the larger and wealthier nations should be doing what they could to prevent developing nations from employing those same strategies.
&#8220;In addition to helping the environment overall — and the only existential threat humanity faces, even more frightening than a  — than a nuclear war, is global warming going above 1.5° in the next 20, ten years,&#8221; Biden added. &#8220;It would be real trouble, There&#8217;s no way back from that.&#8221;
During the same press conference, Biden referred to &#8220;climate deniers&#8221; as &#8220;lying, dog-faced pony soldiers&#8221; — a line he&#8217;s used before and claims he picked up from a John Wayne film.
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&#8220;My brother loves having these famous lines from movies, famous quotes,&#8221; Biden prefaced, adding, &#8220;And one of them is there&#8217;s a movie about John Wayne, he&#8217;s an Indian scout, and they&#8217;re trying — I think it was Apache or one of the great tribes of America back on a reservation.&#8221;
The president went on to say something about the headdresses and Union soldiers who were apparently trying to get the Native Americans to go with them somewhere, promising them they&#8217;d be taken care of.
&#8220;And the Indian scout points to the Union soldier and says, &#8216;He&#8217;s a lying, dog-faced pony soldier,'&#8221; Biden continued. &#8220;Well there&#8217;s a lot of lying, dog-faced pony soldiers out there about — about global warming.&#8221;
But despite Biden&#8217;s insistence that he stole the line from the Duke, TMZ <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2023/09/10/president-biden-john-wayne-dog-faced-pony-soldier-again/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the quote — as Biden delivered it — does not actually exist. Instead, it appears to be a strange mash-up of John Wayne lines crossed with a 1952 Tyrone Power film titled &#8220;Pony Soldier.&#8221;

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A top scientist revealed he intentionally left out key information disputing the climate change narrative pushed by the Left so that his paper would get published.
Patrick T. Brown, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University and doctor of earth and climate sciences, published an article titled, “<a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published</a>.”
“I just got published in Nature because I stuck to a narrative I knew the editors would like,” he commenced the article. “That’s not the way science should work.”
Brown pointed out that news articles about wildfires across the world this summer declared they were the result of climate change. He surmised that the media parrots that narrative because “it fits a simple storyline that rewards the person telling it.”
Citing his paper “<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06444-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California</a>,” he added, “I knew not to try to quantify key aspects other than climate change in my research because it would dilute the story that prestigious journals like Nature and its rival, Science, want to tell.”
“The biases of the editors (and the reviewers they call upon to evaluate submissions) exert a major influence on the collective output of entire fields,” Brown attested. “They select what gets published from a large pool of entries, and in doing so, they also shape how research is conducted more broadly. Savvy researchers tailor their studies to maximize the likelihood that their work is accepted.”
Brown listed ways in which a researcher should tailor their piece in order to get published: ignore practical adaptation measures, ignore other factors that could cause wildfires, such as poor forest management; ignore statistics that might run counter to the climate change narrative, such as the fact that over 80 percent of wildfires in the US are started by people.
Brown also explained how using metrics that “will generate the most eye-popping numbers” was also advantageous in getting a paper published.
“Another way to get the kind of big numbers that will justify the importance of your research—and impress editors, reviewers, and the media—is to always assess the magnitude of climate change over centuries, even if that timescale is irrelevant to the impact you are studying,” he noted.
“When I began the research for this paper in 2020, I was a new assistant professor needing to maximize my prospects for a successful career,” Brown recalled. “When I had previously attempted to deviate from the formula, my papers were rejected out of hand by the editors of distinguished journals, and I had to settle for <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0239520" target="_blank" rel="noopener">less prestigious outlets</a>. To put it another way, I sacrificed contributing the most valuable knowledge for society in order for the research to be compatible with the confirmation bias of the editors and reviewers of the journals I was targeting.”
After revealing he left academia over a year ago, he stated, “Climate scientists shouldn’t have to exile themselves from academia to publish the most useful versions of their research. We need a culture change across academia and elite media that allows for a much broader conversation on societal resilience to climate.”
He turned to the media: “The media, for instance, should stop accepting these papers at face value and do some digging on what’s been left out. The editors of the prominent journals need to expand beyond a narrow focus that pushes the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. And the researchers themselves need to start standing up to editors, or find other places to publish.”

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‘That’s Not The Way Science Should Work’: Scientist Bashes Academia For Suppressing Anti-Climate Change Narrative

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Joy Behar claimed that former President Donald Trump — and the entire Republican Party — were to blame for the disastrous flooding that left tens of thousands <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/1-dead-70000-stranded-after-flash-flooding-interrupts-burning-man-festival-in-nevada-desert" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stranded</a> at the Burning Man festival in Nevada&#8217;s Black Rock Desert.
Behar made the comments during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast of the ABC midday talk show &#8220;The View&#8221; — the first episode to air since their summer break that ended on Labor Day.
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Behar and her co-hosts attributed the heavy rains — which resulted in flash flooding, a shelter-in-place order, and ankle-deep mud that left vehicles and many pedestrians unable to leave the temporary &#8220;Black Rock City.&#8221;
&#8220;This is one of the many tragedies this summer due to climate change,&#8221; Behar began, and her co-hosts voiced their agreement. &#8220;This is the one — the number one existential problem —&#8221;
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&#8220;It rained three months&#8217; worth over 24 hours,&#8221; co-host Sunny Hostin interjected.
&#8220;I hear Republicans say, &#8216;Oh, it&#8217;s not manmade, it&#8217;s not about fossil fuels,&#8221; Behar continued. &#8220;You know, when Trump was president, all of that went up, the fossil fuel usage went up. Menace to the planet. Please don&#8217;t vote for him, I&#8217;m begging you. Get him out of here, he&#8217;s so dangerous.&#8221;
Co-host Ana Navarro jumped into the conversation then, claiming that two other recent events — the devastating <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/abc-news-changes-headline-amid-backlash-saying-climate-change-cant-be-blamed-maui-wildfires" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wildfires in Maui</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meteorologist-dumps-cold-water-on-cnns-idalia-fueled-climate-hysteria" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hurricane Idalia</a> — were also directly tied to climate change.
&#8220;There were fires in Greece, there were fires in Italy, Phoenix had 116-degree temperature, Palm Springs must have been over 100,&#8221; Behar added, claiming, &#8220;They have to stop denying and stop with the fossil fuels and whatever else is causing this, I&#8217;m begging you, don&#8217;t vote for him.&#8221;
Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) was quick to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-slams-climate-alarmists-saying-that-adopting-leftist-policies-will-stop-hurricanes-is-a-lie" target="_blank" rel="noopener">call out</a> those who were using Hurricane Idalia to promote climate hysteria, saying, &#8220;So, I think the notion that somehow hurricanes are something new, that’s just false. And we’ve got to stop politicizing the weather and stop politicizing natural disasters. We know from history there’s been times when it’s very busy in Florida, late ‘40s, early ‘50s, you had a lot of hits of significant hurricanes.&#8221;
&#8220;The notion that somehow if we just adopt, you know, very left-wing policies at the federal level that somehow we will not have hurricanes, that is a lie,&#8221; he added.
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Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis</a> slammed left-wing climate alarmists over the weekend for trying to advance their policy agenda in the wake of Hurricane Idalia.
DeSantis made the remarks during a press conference on Sunday while giving an update on the status of recovery operations in the state.
His remarks come after President Joe Biden visited the state on Saturday and declared that &#8220;nobody can deny the impact of climate crises — at least nobody intelligent can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore.&#8221;
DeSantis referenced past storms from well over 100 years ago that had the same path as Hurricane Idalia and hit Florida with similar destructive wind speeds of approximately 125 mph.
&#8220;So, I think the notion that somehow hurricanes are something new, that’s just false,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;And we’ve got to stop politicizing the weather and stop politicizing natural disasters. We know from history there’s been times when it’s very busy in Florida, late ‘40s, early ‘50s, you had a lot of hits of significant hurricanes.&#8221;
&#8220;So, I think sometimes people need to take a breath and get a little bit of perspective here,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But the notion that somehow if we just adopt, you know, very left-wing policies at the federal level that somehow we will not have hurricanes, that is a lie. And that is people trying to take what happened with different types of storms and use that as a pretext to advance their agenda on the backs of people that are suffering. And that’s wrong, and we’re not going to do that in the state of Florida.&#8221;
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Airport workers backed by one of the biggest labor unions in the nation protested at LAX Airport this week for stricter airline emissions regulations to combat “environmental racism.”
The protesters are members of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/service-employees-international-union-seiu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Service Employees International Union</a> United Service Workers West (SEIU-USWW) organization, Airport Workers United (AWU).
The protest occurred in front of a departures terminal at the airport. Protestors used the phrase, “No justice, no peace,” a popular chant in Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests and riots, as well as the environmentalist alternative, “No clean air, no peace.”
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No justice! NO PEACE! No clean air! NO PEACE! Standing up to hold the airlines accountable for their emissions’ impacts on black and brown communities. <a href="https://twitter.com/GoodAirports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GoodAirports</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SenHenryStern?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenHenryStern</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/LAANE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LAANE</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/LN4S?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LN4S</a> <a href="https://t.co/IILT080Sfo">pic.twitter.com/IILT080Sfo</a>
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The protestors called on the California Air Resources Board (CARB) — which approved California’s gas-powered car <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-regulators-approve-banning-new-gas-car-sales" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ban</a> — to regulate airline industry emissions like other industry emissions during their next <a href="https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/ma091423" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meeting</a> on Sept. 14. CARB will consider increased regulations on the airline industry by adding jet fuel into the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).
LCFS regulation currently doesn’t <a href="https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2020-09/basics-notes.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apply</a> to conventional jet fuel, aviation gasoline, deficit-generating fuel used in military tactical vehicles, and certain credit-generating fossil compressed natural gas or fossil propane fuels.
In a press release, SEIU-UWW said that the airline industry is the fourth-largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, causing “extreme heat” and disproportionate levels of respiratory disease among minorities.
“Airline emissions also contain various particles and chemicals that contribute to drastically increased levels of asthma and other respiratory diseases in airport workers and the predominantly black and brown communities surrounding LAX,” stated the press release.
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Featured speakers at Thursday’s protest included workers JoVann Houston and Oscar Antonio, as well as Democratic California State Senator Henry Stern.
Houston <a href="https://www.facebook.com/UnitedServiceWorkersWest/videos/260444366886187" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that environmental racism was to blame for her chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an inflammatory disease which causes breathing issues.
“Environmental racism is a disproportionate impact of environmental hazards of people of color,” said Houston. “Communities of color are more likely to live in polluted neighborhoods, and as a result we suffer the highest rates of asthma, cancer, and heart disease.”
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Airline emissions are killing black and brown communities! So airport workers are standing up against the powerful airlines to HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE!<a href="https://twitter.com/LAANE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LAANE</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/LN4S?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LN4S</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/HenrySternCA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HenrySternCA</a> <a href="https://t.co/OXAOec9Yan">pic.twitter.com/OXAOec9Yan</a>
&mdash; SEIU USWW (@seiuusww) <a href="https://twitter.com/seiuusww/status/1697316838307410067?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Houston has been a featured face of SEIU advocacy for stricter emissions regulations since March 2020, as well as <a href="https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/06/california-minimum-wage-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increasing</a> the minimum wage to $25 or more an hour.
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Cities like Los Angeles are run by hard working airport Black workers like Jovan Houston. Listen to her speak about the harmful impact of an expansion at LAX 
If you care about Jovan, sign our petition now: <a href="https://t.co/w1Kr8PZbMK">https://t.co/w1Kr8PZbMK</a> <a href="https://t.co/0iLRenBXrW">pic.twitter.com/0iLRenBXrW</a>
&mdash; SEIU USWW (@seiuusww) <a href="https://twitter.com/seiuusww/status/1457840034875248646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&quot;Our health is impacted at LAX by airline emissions. LAX is trying to add 2 more terminals, meaning more planes int he air, dumping fuel and pollution. We are not allowing airlines to this expansion without US in mind.&quot; &#8211; Jovan Houston of <a href="https://twitter.com/seiuusww?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@seiuusww</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FireDrillFriday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FireDrillFriday</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Solidarity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Solidarity</a> <a href="https://t.co/Ec6TBlBGYd">pic.twitter.com/Ec6TBlBGYd</a>
&mdash; STAND-LA (@STAND_LA) <a href="https://twitter.com/STAND_LA/status/1236017847907676160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In June, Houston was invited to testify on behalf of the SEIU before the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the Biden administration’s <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-proposes-new-carbon-pollution-standards-fossil-fuel-fired-power-plants-tackle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> changes to carbon pollution standards.
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Jovan Houston, an airport worker in Los Angeles and member of <a href="https://twitter.com/seiuusww?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@seiuusww</a>, testified on the second day of hearings about how climate pollution disproportionately affects Black and Brown communities, and worsens both her COPD and her son&#39;s asthma. Thank you for testifying, Jovan! <a href="https://t.co/Qcleom31a8">pic.twitter.com/Qcleom31a8</a>
&mdash; Climate Action Campaign (@actonclimateUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/actonclimateUS/status/1671617172425125888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Antonio claimed that he and his co-workers developed various breathing ailments due to working at LAX. He echoed the union’s advocacy for airlines to lower the carbon content of the jet fuel they use.
“Since working at LAX, I developed pneumonia. My coworkers have developed chronic respiratory diseases,” said Antonio.
Featured in the protest was a poster that read: “Airline Emissions Are Killing Black and Brown Communities.”
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“Since working at LAX I developed pneumonia. My coworkers have developed chronic respiratory diseases. Let’s show the world what we can do when we fight together!” &#8211; USWW member Oscar Antonio <a href="https://twitter.com/LAANE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LAANE</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SenHenryStern?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenHenryStern</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/LN4S?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LN4S</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/GoodAirports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GoodAirports</a> <a href="https://t.co/Sdy0didtMe">pic.twitter.com/Sdy0didtMe</a>
&mdash; SEIU USWW (@seiuusww) <a href="https://twitter.com/seiuusww/status/1697317914003779972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Stern said that airlines have too much of an emission impact under their present practices that even a drastic measure like shutting down every Los Angeles highway wouldn’t make a difference. Stern fully <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/not-all-environmentalists-pleased-with-push-to-ban-gas-powered-cars-in-california/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supported</a> California’s total vehicle electrification through its ban of new gas-powered cars. The EPA <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-epa-gives-california-special-authority-to-phase-out-heavy-duty-gas-trucks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave</a> California special permissions for the ban in March.
“We have to hold jet fuel to the same standard that we hold all other fuels to,” said Stern. “If we have to clean up, they have to clean up.”
A month after approving California’s gas car ban, the EPA <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-unveils-proposal-for-landmark-nationwide-crackdown-on-gas-cars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> a similar crackdown nationwide.
Regulations of the airline industry in the name of combating climate change have resulted in drastic policy changes with outsized economic impacts.
Last October, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) pledged during its <a href="https://www.icao.int/Meetings/a41/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">annual assembly</a> to reach net zero emissions by 2050; during that same assembly, the United States was <a href="https://www.icao.int/about-icao/Council/CouncilStates/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">elected</a> to join ICAO’s Member Governing Council as one of 10 states of chief importance in air transport. W. Brent Christensen serves as the nation’s representative on the council; Christensen formerly served as the director of the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto embassy from 2018 to 2021.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-kerry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Kerry</a>, the nation’s first Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, applauded the ICAO pledge. Kerry, a member of the Forbes family, was former President Barack Obama’s secretary of state, and the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee.
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Thrilled to see international aviation commit at <a href="https://twitter.com/icao?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@icao</a> 41st Assembly to a sustainable future with a long-term climate goal and an ambitious CORSIA to help put aviation on the path to net zero by 2050.
&mdash; Special Presidential Envoy John Kerry (@ClimateEnvoy) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClimateEnvoy/status/1578406843566755840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In April, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) director general <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-19/aviation-s-near-term-carbon-fix-to-pass-price-hikes-to-consumers%23xj4y7vzkg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> Bloomberg panelists that proposed “sustainable” aviation fuel would result in steep airline ticket prices. In May, France <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/european-nation-bans-short-domestic-flights-over-climate-worries-private-jet-flights-still-allowed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> short-haul domestic flights to make headway on its goal of carbon neutrality. Like the U.S., France was <a href="https://www.icao.int/about-icao/Council/CouncilStates/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">elected</a> one of the ICAO Member Governing Council states of chief importance in air transport last year.

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Airport Workers Backed By Major Labor Union Protest At LAX To Combat ‘Environmental Racism’

Airport Workers Backed By Major Labor Union Protest At LAX For Stricter Airline Emissions Regulations To Combat ‘Environmental Racism’

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Here&#8217;s a stat that will blow your mind: New research shows that just 12% of the U.S. population is responsible for 50% of all <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/food" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meat</a> consumed daily in the country. Most of that group are men between the ages of 50 and 65.
The study was published in the journal &#8220;Nutrients&#8221; and its ultimate purpose is to assist in &#8220;educational&#8221; efforts on the dangers of eating meat — particularly for the planet, according to the researchers. So, these academics want to convince you to give up meat to combat climate change.
“We focused on beef because of its impact on the environment, and because it’s high in saturated fat, which is not good for your health,” the study’s corresponding and senior author Diego Rose, professor and nutrition program director at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/999770">said</a> in a statement.
As reported by the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/31/50-of-us-beef-is-eaten-by-just-12-of-americans-mostly-men-study/">New York Post</a>, Americans ate roughly 30 billion pounds of beef in 2021. The team behind the study thinks they might have a tough time trying to convince the 12% to change their ways.
&#8220;On one hand, if it’s only 12% accounting for half the beef consumption, you could make some big gains if you get those 12% on board,” Rose said. “On the other hand, those 12% may be most resistant to change.&#8221;
Interestingly enough, the authors of the study speculated men ate more red meat because of cultural norms — not because it tastes delicious.
“This may be because meat, especially red meat, is associated with masculinity, strength and power in Western culture,” they added.
One has to wonder whether or not the authors asked any red-blooded American male why he eats meat. There&#8217;s an obvious answer: Again, it&#8217;s delicious.
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To reiterate, part of the goal of this study is for others to use it to try and convince you to sacrifice your ribeyes, beef hamburgers, and more to combat global warming.
So how about a trade-off: We&#8217;ll give up all that glorious food when John Kerry, Al Gore, and every other climate warrior gives up fossil fuels.
Deal?

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Republican presidential candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vivek Ramaswamy</a> has been making the legacy media rounds slamming the &#8220;climate change&#8221; narrative, deeming the latest pundit talking point a &#8220;hoax&#8221; after hitting the issue during last week&#8217;s GOP debate.
Ramaswamay argued during an interview with MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell that technology powered by fossil fuels significantly reduced climate-related deaths after Mitchell attempted to corner him for claiming during the debate that &#8220;more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.&#8221;
Mitchell cited a recent <a href="https://turkiye.un.org/en/232828-extreme-weather-caused-two-million-deaths-cost-4-trillion-over-last-50-years">U.N. agency report</a> that said extreme weather events compounded by climate change caused the death of two million people in the last 50 years. The GOP presidential hopeful countered the claim, citing &#8220;evidence that the number of climate disaster-related deaths is down by 98% over the last century.&#8221;
&#8220;The number of people who died of hurricanes, tornadoes, heatwaves, and other weather-related events in 1920 — for every 100 that died then, two die today,&#8221; he said, appearing to reference recent data on climate disaster-related deaths published by the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-activists-disasters-fire-storms-deaths-change-cop26-glasgow-global-warming-11635973538">Wall Street Journal</a> and the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/04/30/deaths-in-climate-disasters-declined-99-from-a-century-ago/">New York Post</a>.
&#8220;And the reason why is more plentiful, abundant access to fossil fuels and technology powered by fossil fuels,&#8221; Ramaswamy said. &#8220;Eight times as many people die of cold temperatures than die of warm ones. The right answer to all temperature-related deaths is more plentiful abundant access to fossil fuels.&#8221;
As highlighted by <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2023/07/19/excessive-summer-heat-can-kill-but-extreme-cold-causes-more-fatalities/?sh=388800c31d88">Forbes</a>, a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/hot-cold-extreme-temperature-deaths/">2021 study</a> published in The Lancet Planetary Health found that &#8220;for every death linked to heat, nine are connected to cold.&#8221;
Mitchell then pointed to Hurricane Idalia as an example, citing former St. Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster, who <a href="https://www.kcra.com/article/tampa-bay-serious-idalia-flooding-dodges-direct-hit/44965120#:~:text=from%20flooded%20homes.-,%22Make%20no%20mistake%2C%20this%20hurricane%20left%20its%20mark%2C%22,could%20have%20been%20much%20worse." target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> said he&#8217;s never seen anything like the natural disaster. Before Mitchell could move forward in her interview with Ramaswamy, the 38-year-old Republican interjected.
&#8220;If someone on the other side or an uneducated person from Arkansas who didn&#8217;t go to college and offered one weather event as an end of one anecdote to help support a theory of global climate change, you&#8217;d laugh them off the stage as a rube for saying they don&#8217;t follow data,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The same shoe has to fit the other foot. Follow the actual data.&#8221;
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Mitchell said, &#8220;I&#8217;m not talking about one person&#8217;s opinion — we talk to professors, academics, industry people…&#8221;
&#8220;You literally just quoted one person&#8217;s opinion,&#8221; Ramaswamy interjected again. &#8220;With due respect, that&#8217;s exactly what you just quoted. And I think that that&#8217;s what&#8217;s driving this kind of false narrative as opposed to the facts that I&#8217;m citing.&#8221;
After he made similar arguments in the first GOP primary debate, left-leaning fact-checkers took aim at Ramaswamy&#8217;s claims. <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/aug/24/vivek-ramaswamy/vivek-ramsaswamys-misleading-gop-debate-claim-abou/">PolitiFact</a>, which gave a &#8220;Pants on Fire&#8221; rating to his primary argument, did acknowledge, however, that deaths from climate disasters are down. &#8220;Although historical <a href="https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/weather-related-disasters-increase-over-past-50-years-causing-more-damage-fewer" rel="noopener">data</a> does show deaths from weather disasters have declined since the 1900s, experts said that’s largely attributable to better disaster warning systems.&#8221; PolitiFact went on to assert that &#8220;such data does not undermine evidence that extreme weather worsened by a warming planet has taken millions of lives.&#8221;
During an interview with TMZ, Ramaswamy similarly challenged hosts Harvey Levin and Charles Latibeaudiere&#8217;s climate change arguments by pointing out variables relating to deaths and survival rates in the climate narrative.
&#8220;We&#8217;re in Los Angeles, and we just had this crazy tropical storm, and I&#8217;m an old dog, and I&#8217;ve never seen anything like that in my lifetime,&#8221; Levin said. &#8220;Maui burned up, at least Lahaina did, and the country is experiencing temperatures that we&#8217;ve never seen before, as is the world. And I heard what you said during the debate where you brushed aside climate change. What do you think is causing all this?&#8221;
After reiterating similar talking points he&#8217;d given on MSNBC less than 48 hours earlier, Ramaswamy said, &#8220;The right answer to all temperature-related deaths is more abundant fossil fuels. The earth is covered by <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/greening-of-the-earth-mitigates-surface-warming">more green surface area</a> today than it was half a century or a century ago because carbon dioxide is plant food. These are the hard facts, not theories, that you don&#8217;t hear from the climate agenda.&#8221;
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The Earth’s surface area is covered with more plant life today than 50 years ago &#8211; because, yes, carbon is plant food and surface temperatures are a little higher. I’m pro-environment. Clean air. Clean water. Preserving national parks. Ironically these things are put on the back… <a href="https://t.co/bmGDQg7Guo">pic.twitter.com/bmGDQg7Guo</a>
&mdash; Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) <a href="https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1697253067316760691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Ramaswamy Makes Legacy Media Rounds Blasting Climate Change

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Meteorologist Ryan Maue dumped cold water on CNN&#8217;s climate hysteria amid <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hurricane" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hurricane Idalia&#8217;s</a> brutal assault on Florida&#8217;s Gulf Coast early on Wednesday morning.
Maue was responding to a report from CNN&#8217;s Bill Weir, who claimed that the continued use of fossil fuels was to blame for the increasing intensity of major storms, and argued that states like Florida — where parts of the economy are dependent on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico — would just have to learn to balance financial interests with climate mitigation efforts.
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.⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/BillWeirCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillWeirCNN</a>⁩: “The cost of [using fossil fuels] is becoming bigger with every storm. Science has been warning about this for a very long time, in many ways it has been predicted. It is the speed that we’re seeing these changes that has taken most folks by surprise.” <a href="https://t.co/m6uvy7rUum">pic.twitter.com/m6uvy7rUum</a>
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&#8220;That&#8217;s the biggest sort of trillion dollar question about how you adapt communities like this to the world that we&#8217;re already now living in, at the same time trying to mitigate further — more wicked storms down the road with more fossil fuel pollution,&#8221; Weir began, noting that President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration was planning to open up the Gulf to more oil and gas lease sales.
&#8220;The cost of [using fossil fuels] is becoming bigger with every storm. Science has been warning about this for a very long time, in many ways it has been predicted. It is the speed that we’re seeing these changes that has taken most folks by surprise,&#8221; he continued.
Maue pushed back, however, saying that while Idalia was certainly a force to be reckoned with, a hurricane with winds of that strength was not unprecedented in that area.
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&#8220;CNN went full &#8216;climate crisis&#8217; with their top climate expert Dr. Bill Weir so early in the morning with Idalia. Except, the landfall of Idalia is only strongest along coastal area since 1896 Cedar Keys hurricane (125 mph) 125-years ago, well prior to modern fossil fuel usage,&#8221; he said.
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CNN went full &quot;climate crisis&quot; with their top climate expert Dr. Bill Weir so early in the morning with Idalia. 
Except, the landfall of Idalia is only strongest along coastal area since 1896 Cedar Keys hurricane (125 mph) 125-years ago, well prior to modern fossil fuel usage. <a href="https://t.co/MFKD0e5qbF">https://t.co/MFKD0e5qbF</a>
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Maue also shared a graphic with additional details, adding, &#8220;1896 Cedar Keys hurricane also made landfall in Florida&#8217;s Big Bend with 125 mph winds[.] Climate context: this is a 0 mph landfall maximum wind increase from 1896-2023 or 0 mph/century for the worst 2 storms.&#8221;
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1896 Cedar Keys hurricane also made landfall in Florida&#39;s Big Bend with 125 mph winds
Climate context: this is a 0 mph landfall maximum wind increase from 1896-2023 or 0 mph/century for the worst 2 storms. <a href="https://t.co/y82ZEBxHqa">pic.twitter.com/y82ZEBxHqa</a>
&mdash; Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1696855764365648193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Maue also responded to critics who argued that no one could ignore just how rapidly Idalia had gained strength — and attributing that to climate change — saying, &#8220;How much stronger was Idalia made because of climate change? Why didn&#8217;t Idalia rapidly intensify during the 3 days it sat over the NW Caribbean? Did someone forget to push a button or turn a knob?&#8221;
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How much stronger was Idalia made because of climate change?
Why didn&#39;t Idalia rapidly intensify during the 3 days it sat over the NW Caribbean? Did someone forget to push a button or turn a knob?
&mdash; Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1696869145948643794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Hurricane Idalia Slams Into Florida’s Gulf Coast

Meteorologist Dumps Cold Water On CNN’s Idalia-Fueled Climate Hysteria

Meteorologist Dumps Cold Water On CNN's Idalia-Fueled Climate Hysteria

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/martha-stewart">Martha Stewart</a> is in hot water over a social media post she shared referencing an “iceberg” in her cocktail.
Earlier this week, the 82-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">television personality</a> posted photos of herself on a cruise, including a snapshot of herself holding a beverage while smiling and another of a huge chunk of ice sitting on a cart. 
“End of the first zodiac cruise from @swanhelleniccruises into a very beautiful fjord on the east coast of greenland (sic). We actually captured a small iceberg for our cocktails tonight,” Stewart wrote in the image caption.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Climate change</a> alarmists expressed outrage in the comments, calling Stewart’s joke about icebergs “tone deaf,” among other things.
&#8220;Martha the ice caps are melting don’t put them in your drink,&#8221; one account posted.
&#8220;I generally love Martha and the excesses of her life because she&#8217;s about beautiful gardens, homes, and food, but wealthy white people drinking their iceberg cocktails while the planet is in flames is a bit tone deaf,&#8221; another social media user fumed.
&#8220;Martha I love ya. But weren’t you just talking about climate change with your wash out on your driveway in NY? Melting icebergs for a cocktail surely won’t help. I’m not even going to talk about the boat you’re on and how that can’t be good for climate change either,&#8221; a third echoed. 
“So tone deaf. The rich do not care that people have been burned out of homes and the ocean is boiling. More yachts and private jets huh?” another said.
There were also many followers mocking Stewart’s critics. 
“Use that ice in some whiskey!! Screw the naysayers and drink it what way you like!” one account posted.
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“Absolutely LOVE this! People who are freaking out need to get a GRIP!” another wrote in their reaction.
Stewart also made headlines and drew mixed reviews in May when she became the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/martha-stewart-becomes-oldest-model-in-si-swimsuit-history-with-latest-cover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">oldest cover model</a> to appear on the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. 
“Usually I’m motivated by pay. But this time I was motivated by showing people that a woman my age could still look good, feel good, be good,” Stewart said of agreeing to the photo shoot. “I thought that this is kind of historic and that I better look really good.”
“That’s one of my mottos, when you’re through changing, you’re through,” she continued. “Change is very good. Evolution is very good, just trying new things.”

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Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of Nations” was published in 1776, the same year as the Declaration of Independence, and it was just as revolutionary. The work explains that in a free enterprise system the free choice of the consumer, like the corollary free vote of the citizen, would determine what products would be produced in the marketplace. Everyone in such a marketplace was free to produce, free to choose, and free to purchase for the benefit of the consumer and to the general benefit and prosperity of the whole society. Smith’s revolutionary work did away with the feudal system of having to have a tyrant’s favor to produce goods in the tyrant’s marketplace, for the despot’s “subjects.” There was no choice.
When Joe Biden took office in January 2021, he <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/biden-suspends-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-series-of.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">immediately attacked</a> our economy’s energy sector via executive orders, administrative regulations, and cutting off federal land leases for energy exploration and development. The effects of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/27/joe-biden-climate-change-executive-orders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">such an onslaught</a> were predictable. When you make energy costs higher, every product that is shipped from point A to point B will cost more. Every product produced in a plant that uses electricity will cost more. Every service facility, such as hospitals and schools, will cost more to operate.
So, it was predictable that the price of a barrel of oil, a gallon of gas, and home heating oil would all increase. Each of these costs rippled through the whole economy, creating a national rise in inflation of 12.7% in the first two years of Biden’s presidency.
It was equally predictable that the Democratic Party would blame the increases in costs on “evil” energy companies, and that they would generate a “Climate Bill” to finish the job of taking command and control of the energy sector to save our economy, having first imperiled it. However, there was one sensible Democratic Senator, who knew the bill would increase inflation further, so the original “Climate Bill” was sidelined.
In the original Climate Bill’s stead, just one year ago, came a Trojan horse called “The Inflation Reduction Act,” refashioned as a “gift” that would reduce costs across the economy for hard-working families. In fact, just as the Greeks fashioned a horse to get through the walls of Troy, which they could not breach by other means, the Democrats offered this act as a sales pitch, a fashionable vessel, that contained the same regulatory armies that created the country’s runaway inflation in the first place.
Why would one of America’s political parties do such a thing?
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admits-inflation-reduction-act-less-inflation-originally-sold-americans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not passed to reduce inflation</a> nor was it written to reduce global warming. Its real function is to take control of America’s most vital economic sector, one that is literally at the crossroads of the wealth and prosperity of our country. The IRA functions as a means of transferring power through control of the energy sector to the administrative state, and it functions as a means of transferring wealth to the Democratic Party and their friends and business associates, through taxpayer-funded, stock market-supported, alternative energy business start-ups.
So, how do you do that?
You use the administrative state to regulate, tax, fine, and persecute the fossil fuels industry out of business while using taxpayer wealth to fund its alternative – the companies the administrative state and the Democratic Party favor – with regulations, grants, subsidies, and tax breaks.
Though sold as a simple bill designed to contain inflation, in reality, the IRA is a textbook example of how to perform a socialist takeover of an economic sector. And do note the diversionary title of the Inflation Reduction Act. If the real intent of the IRA had been written into the bill and had to gain the public’s approval to pass Congress, it would never have passed. Titled and sold as a means of curing the problem of inflation the Democratic Party itself created – it did pass.
So, what does it mean?
It means that, like the walls of Troy, the fossil fuel industry is under siege from a disguised, internal enemy. It means taxpayers will be looted of more wealth than the Trojans ever dreamed of, to the tune of $1.4 trillion and counting. It also means another kind of plundering – with government command and control comes higher consumer prices for everything. It means one political party in alliance with the administrative state will dictate which companies can produce what products. What is produced that is in any way related to the energy sector will need the favor of a new tyrant: The Democratic Party.
It means that the American consumer will have no choice in what materials are used to build their homes or what type of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ford-gets-9-2-billion-loan-from-biden-admin-for-ev-battery-factories-biggest-check-since-2009-bailouts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">car</a> they can buy, or what type of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-official-who-supports-gas-stove-crackdown-has-a-gas-stove-in-his-own-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stove</a> to use or what light bulb to choose. The American consumer will have as much choice as the Trojan slaves had after the war, when their masters dictated what they consumed.
But they say the world’s going to die! The planet’s burning and there is no way off! We must do something!
When choosing whether to believe a myth or follow the money – follow the money.
<a href="http://richardclyons.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Richard C. Lyons</a>, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/DNA-Democracy-Richard-C-Lyons/dp/0960072330/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2YMZDE1WJACY&amp;keywords=dna+of+democracy&amp;qid=1682820028&amp;sprefix=dna+of+democracy,aps,147&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The DNA of Democracy: Volume I</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Acropolis-Richard-C-Lyons/dp/0997346299/ref=pd_bxgy_vft_none_img_sccl_1/133-3675306-0445253?pd_rd_w=2AzPK&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&amp;pf_rd_p=26a5c67f-1a30-486b-bb90-b523ad38d5a0&amp;pf_rd_r=CXEQVEV308YHMA6RN7V2&amp;pd_rd_wg=Tfgw1&amp;pd_rd_r=5df3aa2a-5ee5-469c-99f9-21d371581b3f&amp;pd_rd_i=0997346299&amp;psc=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shadows of the Acropolis: Volume II</a>  is a third generation printer, whose early career centered on religious and special education publishing. Lyons has since engaged in literary pursuits as a poet, essayist, screenwriter and indie publisher.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Daily Wire.

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