Climate change activists are now arguing that simply owning a dog can increase a person’s carbon footprint.
A <a href="https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/6/pgaf191/8159053?login=false">finding</a> published in PNAS Nexus says that, supposedly, people overestimate the climate benefits of activities like recycling or switching light bulbs. At the same time, they underestimate other beneficial impacts, such as taking fewer flights.
“We think, ‘I have to recycle this and it will help the planet,’” Madalina Vlasceanu, an assistant professor of environmental social sciences at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, <a href="https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_climate_messaging_can_backfire_and_how_to_improve_it">told</a> the Greater Good Magazine. “It’s less likely you will hear that if you fly less, that’s the best you can possibly do, lifestyle-wise.”
Another “underestimated” benefit is cutting back on beef intake. According to <a href="https://earth.org/environmental-impact-of-pets/">Earth.org</a>, pets’ meat consumption accounts for 64 million tons of annual carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. That adds up to 25-30% of the environmental impact of meat intake.
In a list of ideas on how to reduce one’s carbon footprint that includes switching to public transport and eating poultry instead of beef, Greater Good Magazine suggested people “opt out of getting a dog.”
Man’s best friend is just the latest victim of climate activists’ propaganda. To them, owning a dog is an activity even dedicated climate change sympathizers engage in without realizing it, and they blame people who aren’t fully dedicated to the cause for furthering these issues.
“People will engage in lifestyle changes when they think it’s easy to do. It’s less important to them if it’s effective,” Vlasceanu said. “For collective action, it is more important to people that the action they engage in will actually result in a meaningful change.”
Though it seems like a lost cause to try and convince people to radically change their lifestyle so it fits a fear-based narrative, activists are not letting up.
“In order to meaningfully address climate change, experts have agreed that we will need lifestyle change and collective action,” Vlasceanu said. “Both of these have to work together. This is a critical part of the pathway to net zero.&#8221;

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A recent <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08751-3__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!2LALwW8yKFqPNNaA4xXEG09tMo1LJOZHia3Jgm7nU6ZE2ryt10HNdFNWxTyNT2EeduoQsiTJDKD96FyneHnhD7cM$">study</a> published in the academic journal Nature has been making headlines, claiming that if it were not for major oil and gas companies producing energy between 1991 and 2020, the world would be $28 trillion richer.
Study authors Christopher Callahan, a Stanford University postdoctoral scientist, and Justin Mankin, a Dartmouth College geography professor, authored the study, which was never peer-reviewed and uses a laughably absurd methodology developed by activists whose goal is to do the pseudo-science grunt work for climate change lawsuits against energy producers.
Single events <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/chapter/chapter-11/__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!2LALwW8yKFqPNNaA4xXEG09tMo1LJOZHia3Jgm7nU6ZE2ryt10HNdFNWxTyNT2EeduoQsiTJDKD96FyneCyPoFvO$">cannot</a> be attributed to climate change. Nevertheless, the study goes far beyond the ridiculous in its attempt not only to pin blame solely on individual energy producers but to attach a specific dollar amount to each company. Using dubious assumptions and their unsound “end-to-end” methodology, the authors cooked up an implausible correlation between individual companies and singular weather events alleged to have been caused or exacerbated by global warming. The bogus conclusions are then broken up into specific price tags and assigned to various energy producers.
Chevron, for example, is accused of being responsible for “heat-related losses” totaling $3.6 trillion from 1991 to 2020. Damages assigned to ExxonMobil amounted to $1.91 trillion during the same period, while the tally for Saudi Aramco came to $2.05 trillion. Together, the study blames the world’s energy producers for $28 trillion in damages. It would be an understatement to say that neither the study, nor its underlying assumptions, nor its conclusions should be accorded any credibility.
Given the elaborate contortions necessary to arrive at the study’s obviously preconceived conclusions, one might wonder what the motivation was to concoct it in the first place. The authors leave an enormous clue in their acknowledgements, in which they lavish <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08751-3*Ack1__;Iw!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!2LALwW8yKFqPNNaA4xXEG09tMo1LJOZHia3Jgm7nU6ZE2ryt10HNdFNWxTyNT2EeduoQsiTJDKD96FyneHYs_i-c$">praise</a> upon individuals associated with the notorious law firm Sher Edling LLP for their help with the study. Sher Edling was created for the sole purpose of waging lawfare with the intent to financially destroy energy companies. While Sher Edling has worked with states and municipalities in initiating dozens of lawsuits attempting to set climate policy in courtrooms, none to date have been successful.
If just one of the firm’s lawsuits succeeds, it is expected to take up to a 30% chunk of an award estimated to be in the billions of dollars. Because the firm is <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024.10.07-Sher-Edling-Memo.pdf__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!2LALwW8yKFqPNNaA4xXEG09tMo1LJOZHia3Jgm7nU6ZE2ryt10HNdFNWxTyNT2EeduoQsiTJDKD96FyneMLb-kWH$">bankrolled</a> by millions of dollars in dark money funneled through far-Left organizations, its attacks are limitless — and so is its ability to buy studies supporting its conclusions and the fat payday they covet. Sher Edling has acknowledged commissioning made-for-litigation studies before. Named partner Vic Sher described working with scientist-for-hire Richard Heede during a 2017 talk at UCLA. That study, much like the new Nature research, purports to connect major energy providers with specific emissions activity.
A more honest study would have acknowledged the truly beneficial role that energy plays in our economy and everyday lives. We depend on fossil fuel energy for everything from the quality of our lives to our national security. It is so dependable that we rarely even consider that everything we eat, wear, buy, or sell depends on energy. It’s there to take us places and to cool and heat our homes. Smart devices, paint, asphalt, and plastic containers are just a few objects in our daily lives made from petroleum. The study would be more credible if it concluded the truth: that fossil fuels have contributed trillions of dollars in value and made human flourishing possible.
Several legacy news outlets — many of which <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/media-provide-no-scrutiny-study-claiming-oil-companies-made-world-28__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!2LALwW8yKFqPNNaA4xXEG09tMo1LJOZHia3Jgm7nU6ZE2ryt10HNdFNWxTyNT2EeduoQsiTJDKD96FyneDRJ0tH9$">accept funds from anti-fossil fuel advocacy organizations</a> to write about global warming — reported on the Nature study while failing to note its utterly discrediting connection to Sher Edling. As we move into the warmer summer weather, we can expect more such studies and uncritical news stories.
Studies lacking basic integrity like the one published in Nature are why President Trump’s recent executive order “<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/restoring-gold-standard-science/__;!!PxibshUo2Yr_Ta5B!2LALwW8yKFqPNNaA4xXEG09tMo1LJOZHia3Jgm7nU6ZE2ryt10HNdFNWxTyNT2EeduoQsiTJDKD96FyneCG8TS0c$">Restoring Gold Standard Science</a>” is so timely and important. That standard holds that reproducibility, rigor, and unbiased peer review must be maintained. It demands that federal decisions be informed by only the most credible, reliable, and impartial scientific evidence available. Absolutely nothing about the Nature study meets the gold standard of science.
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Two <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">global warming</a> protesters who threw cans of tomato soup over the glass frame of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflower&#8221; painting have been sentenced to time in prison for their actions.
On Friday, a London court sentenced Anna Holland, 22, and Phoebe Plummer, 23, from the activist group Just Stop Oil, to two years and 20 months in prison for their so-called protest against fossil fuels at a museum in London in 2022, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/27/climate/just-stop-oil-climate-activists-prison-van-gough-soup-intl/index.html">CNN</a> reported.
Both Holland and Plummer were found guilty of criminal damage to the pieces of art&#8217;s gold-colored frame.  Judge Christopher Hehir blasted the two for their actions against the “cultural treasure,” which he said could have been “seriously damaged or even destroyed” by them by throwing soup on the paintings and then glueing their hands to the museum wall. The “Sunflowers” painting is valued at nearly $85 million.
“Soup might have seeped through the glass. You couldn’t have cared less if the painting was damaged or not,” Hehir said in court. “You had no right to do what you did to ‘Sunflowers.’”
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⛓️ Phoebe and Anna have just been sentenced to 2 years and 20 months in prison respectively after throwing soup over the glass frame of Van Gogh&#8217;s &#8216;Sunflowers&#8217;.
🚔 Phoebe received a further 3 months for… <a href="https://t.co/JBjCgObiic">pic.twitter.com/JBjCgObiic</a>
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Plummer was also sentenced to an additional 3 months in prison for her part in a “slow march” in the road in October 2023 in London.
“You clearly think your beliefs give you the right to commit crimes when you feel like it,” Hehir said. “You do not.”
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Shortly after the sentences were handed down, more vandals from the same protest group shared a clip of three peeople  throwing cans of soup over the glass on not one but two Vincent Van Gogh paintings “in the &#8216;Poets and Lovers&#8217; exhibition at the National Gallery,” per the post on <a href="https://x.com/JustStop_Oil/status/1839670072530317423">X</a>.
The London judge is the same person who handed down sentences in July to five other so-called climate activists in the U.K. from Just Stop Oil or its allied group, Extinction Rebellion.
The court found the vandals guilty of “conspiring intentionally to cause a public nuisance,” after it had recruited people to climb structures along the M25 — a major traffic route around London — in November 2022, the outlet noted.
Hehir sentenced four out of five of the activists to four-year jail terms, while the group’s co-founder, Roger Hallam, was handed a five year sentence.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-global-warming-protesters-vandalize-one-of-worlds-most-iconic-art-masterpieces" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: Global Warming Protesters Vandalize One Of World’s Most Iconic Art Masterpieces</a>

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Former Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) died Tuesday morning after a long career in government, becoming one of the most vocal critics of heavy-handed environmental regulation.
The Oklahoma Republican is perhaps best remembered for the time he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E0a_60PMR8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brought</a> a snowball onto the Senate floor to mock global warming.
&#8220;In case we have forgotten, because we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record, I ask the chair, you know what this is?&#8221; Inhofe said during a floor speech in February 2015 as he produced a snowball from a bag beside his podium.
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Senator James Inhofe famously throws a snowball in the Senate to discredit &quot;climate change&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JamesInhofe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JamesInhofe</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Inhofe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Inhofe</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JimInhofe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JimInhofe</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Snowball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Snowball</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimageChange?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ClimageChange</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimageChangeHoax?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ClimageChangeHoax</a> <a href="https://t.co/sta5G4gFgi">pic.twitter.com/sta5G4gFgi</a>
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&#8220;It&#8217;s a snowball,&#8221; he said. &#8220;From outside here. So it&#8217;s very, very cold out. Very unseasonable.&#8221;
&#8220;So here, Mr. President, catch this,&#8221; Inhofe added as he tossed the snowball.
At the time, temperatures in the nation’s capital had sunk below freezing.
Inhofe called climate change a “hoax” and frequently sounded off against the global warming narrative, arguing that human activity does not cause major temperature changes.
He chaired the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee for two years, during which time he challenged the climate change narrative in favor of what he called &#8220;sound science.&#8221;
Inhofe fiercely criticized the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), at one point <a href="https://archive.ph/20110505010803/http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comparing</a> the agency to a &#8220;Gestapo bureaucracy.&#8221;
During a floor speech in 2003, Inhofe promised to &#8220;expose the most powerful, most highly financed lobby in Washington, the far left environmental extremists.&#8221;
&#8220;Wake up, America. With all the hysteria, all the fear, all the phony science, could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? I believe it is,&#8221; Inhofe <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2003-07-28/html/CREC-2003-07-28-pt1-PgS10012.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during his remarks, which lasted for two hours.
&#8220;And if we allow these detractors of everything that has made America great, those ranging from the liberal Hollywood elitists to those who are in it for the money, if we allow them to destroy the foundation, the greatness of the most highly industrialized nation in the history of the world, then we don&#8217;t deserve to live in this one nation under God,&#8221; he said.
Some of Inhofe&#8217;s staffers went on to serve in the EPA during the Trump administration, where they continued to work to roll back excessive environmental regulations.
Inhofe was reviled by climate change activists and others, many of whom celebrated his death on social media on Tuesday, making jokes about snowballs in hell.
&#8220;I hope he has fun finding out how fast snowballs melt in hell,&#8221; one X user <a href="https://x.com/kendallybrown/status/1810692474177794198" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
&#8220;Jim Inhofe is dead. Hope he kept that snowball for where he&#8217;s going,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/uMadeThis/status/1810688699153154095" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> another.
Inhofe was the longest-serving senator from Oklahoma and was in office for 29 years from 1994 until he retired last year.

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On Friday, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> announced its latest move to weaken U.S. energy independence as the Department of Interior announced that it will propose a plan that will generate &#8220;the fewest oil and gas lease sales in history&#8221; for offshore drilling over the next five years or so.
Why? Well, to protect us from climate change, the Biden administration claims.
&#8220;The Proposed Final Program includes a maximum of three potential oil and gas lease sales – the fewest oil and gas lease sales in history – in the Gulf of Mexico Program Area scheduled in 2025, 2027, and 2029,&#8221; DOI <a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/reflecting-americas-rapid-and-accelerating-shift-clean-energy-interior-department" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press release. &#8220;In compliance with the terms of the [Inflation Reduction Act], these three proposed lease sales are the minimum number that will enable the Interior Department to continue to expand its offshore wind leasing program through 2030.&#8221;
According to the DOI, this move is &#8220;reflecting America’s rapid and accelerating shift to clean energy.&#8221; Of course, it&#8217;s not really &#8220;reflecting&#8221; anything. It&#8217;s more evidence that the Biden administration is forcing green energy down the American people&#8217;s throats — no matter what it costs.
In reaction to the news, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) blasted the president.
Biden &#8220;is caving to radical enviros, helping Russia &amp; Venezuela, &amp; destroying our energy security,&#8221; he posted on X.
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This is the smallest offshore energy program in U.S. history. Only holding 3 lease sales over 5 years in the Gulf of Mexico isn&#39;t even bare minimum effort. <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> is caving to radical enviros, helping Russia &amp; Venezuela, &amp; destroying our energy security. <a href="https://t.co/v9GB6CJVuO">https://t.co/v9GB6CJVuO</a>
&mdash; U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (@SenBillCassidy) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenBillCassidy/status/1707783298536071172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Indeed, last fall the president relaxed sanctions on Venezuela, allowing Chevron to pump oil in the socialist state. Neither he nor his Climate Czar John Kerry have done anything of substance to stop China&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-devastating-blow-to-john-kerrys-green-energy-utopia-china-to-start-increasing-coal-production?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">carbon emissions output either</a>.
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In other words, over the last year, the Biden administration has contrived ways to shrink America&#8217;s fossil fuel production while allowing America&#8217;s enemies to run hog wild. This is par for the course.
In fact, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm once laughed out loud at the very idea of increasing U.S. gas production to lower costs:
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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm laughs when asked about Biden&#39;s plans to bring gas prices down.
&quot;Ha ha ha. That is hilarious!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/0V0XCsVqDc">pic.twitter.com/0V0XCsVqDc</a>
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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/07/kamala-harris-pete-buttigieg-slammed-amid-high-gas-prices/">once cheekily remarked</a> that if Americans simply bought an electric vehicle, they would not have to worry about high gas prices — as if working moms and dads have an extra $50,000 lying around to do so.
Ultimately, the Biden administration seeks a green energy utopia that will never come.
They are content with using federal power to squash &#8220;bad&#8221; industries, as they see it, and using taxpayer money to prop up &#8220;good&#8221; industries.
Companies with connections to Biden advisor John Podesta — tasked with allocating billions toward green energy — will benefit greatly. The &#8220;rapid and accelerating shift&#8221; to clean energy will reportedly cost $1 trillion. In turn, the American people will suffer. It&#8217;s all so dirty.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sen-dianne-feinstein-dies-at-90" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed away</a>, and while there is plenty in her decades-long senatorial career to scrutinize, there’s one shining moment that deserves special attention: The time she put a bunch of global warming-indoctrinated kids in their place. 
In <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-far-left-group-uses-kids-pressure-feinstein-ryan-saavedra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February of 2019</a>, the far-Left Sunrise Movement paid a visit to Feinstein’s office in hopes of convincing California’s senior senator to support Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey’s Green New Deal. It didn’t quite go the way the group expected. 
While protesting to Feinstein that only 12 years remained to take bold action against climate change, the group of youngsters demanded that she vote according to their wishes. Feinstein stood with her arms crossed and gave those kids a wake-up call. 
“You know what’s interesting about this group?” Feinstein said to them while standing defiant. “I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I know what I’m doing. You come in here and you say it has to be my way or the highway. I don’t respond to that.”
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This is how <a href="https://twitter.com/SenFeinstein?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenFeinstein</a> reacted to children asking her to support the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreenNewDeal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GreenNewDeal</a> resolution &#8212; with smugness + disrespect.
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You can see the kids’ faces change from a look of exuberance to melancholy as they realize that Feinstein won’t budge. 
At one point, a teenager said, &#8220;I hear what you are saying, but we&#8217;re the people who voted for you. You&#8217;re supposed to listen to us.&#8221;
“How old are you?” Feinstein calmly said back.
“Sixteen, I can’t vote,” the teenager replied.
“Well, you didn’t vote for me,” the elected official responded. 
An older woman in the group tried to appeal to Feinstein’s position as a grandmother in a whiny monologue claiming that Feinstein’s alternative to the Green New Deal didn’t go far enough in protecting future generations.
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“You know better than I do, so I think one day you should run for the Senate and then you do it your way,” Feinstein said. 
In watching the video, it seems that this was the first time many of these kids had ever heard the word “no” before. Indeed, Feinstein provided a master class on how to deal with leftists. May she rest in peace.
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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>
</ol>
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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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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JOE BIDEN: “The Indian looks at John Wayne and points to the Union soldier and says, &#39;He&#39;s a lying, dog-faced pony soldier!&#39; Well there&#39;s a lot of lying, dog-faced pony soldiers out there about global warming..”
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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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&#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/global-warming" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Global warming</a>&#8221; is out, &#8220;global boiling&#8221; is in, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced Thursday.
“Humanity is in the hot seat,” Guterres <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/27/scientists-july-world-hottest-month-record-climate-temperatures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at a press conference. “For vast parts of North America, Asia, Africa and Europe, it is a cruel summer. For the entire planet, it is a disaster. And for scientists, it is unequivocal – humans are to blame.&#8221;
The science is settled, according to Guterres, but it would seem the fear-based propaganda hasn&#8217;t worked in scaring enough of the world into submission. And so, Guterres and his team have changed the talking points.
“All this is entirely consistent with predictions and repeated warnings. The only surprise is the speed of the change. Climate change is here, it is terrifying, and it is just the beginning,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.&#8221;
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The words &quot;global warming&quot; didn&#39;t work.
The words &quot;climate change&quot; didn&#39;t work.
So now the UN Chief is using the words &quot;global boiling&quot; to push his radical green agenda. <a href="https://t.co/rzYZJSZgzI">pic.twitter.com/rzYZJSZgzI</a>
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It&#8217;s easy to imagine that Guterres and the gang at the UN have a yellow notepad that looks something like this:
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<del datetime="2023-07-27T23:03:02+00:00">Climate Change</del>
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Global boiling?</blockquote>
Would it surprise you to find out that Guterres is the former president of the Socialist International and a firm believer that the planet can only be saved by a team of &#8220;experts&#8221; and government control?
No, it probably wouldn&#8217;t surprise you; you&#8217;re a Daily Wire reader equipped with critical thinking skills. It&#8217;s easy to draw those conclusions if you pay attention.
Yet, it&#8217;s worth <a href="https://www.socialistinternational.org/fileadmin/uploads/si/Documents/Congresses/Paris_1999/AG_Address_Paris_1999.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reviewing</a> anyway that in 1999, Guterres gave an address outlining his desire for global socialism, and how his vision for the world would depend upon international organizations like the UN, global regulations, and cooperation between non-government actors.
He ended his speech, saying, &#8220;Dear friends and dear comrades &#8230;&#8217;We must not abandon utopia because the antagonism between ideas and reality is both the major dilemma of democratic socialism and its fascinating driving force.'&#8221;
Guterres is still pursuing that &#8220;utopia&#8221; and is using &#8220;global boiling&#8221; to enact it — with a sense of urgency, too. Don&#8217;t think, just do it, Guterres seems to be saying.
&#8220;It is still possible to limit global temperature rise to 1.5C and avoid the very worst of climate change but only with dramatic, immediate climate action,&#8221; he said Thursday. &#8220;We have seen some progress &#8212; a robust rollout of renewables and some positive steps from sectors such as shipping &#8212; but none of this is going far enough or fast enough. Accelerating temperatures demand accelerated action.&#8221;
Yet Guterres is wrong. The experts are not all-seeing Gods who can predict the future, much less the weather. As best-selling author George Gilder has long touted, the sort of central planning supported by Guterres cannot account for &#8220;human creativity, which always comes as a surprise to us. If creativity didn’t come as a surprise, we wouldn’t need it, and socialism would work.&#8221;
What can work?
Gilder is out with a new book, titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Life-after-Capitalism-George-Gilder/dp/1684512247" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Life After Capitalism</a>.&#8221; The book isn&#8217;t against capitalism — rather it argues that its critics and many of its defenders get capitalism wrong. The driving force of capitalism is not greed, rather it&#8217;s &#8220;creativity and faith in the future.&#8221;
In the book, which casts doubts on global <del datetime="2023-07-27T23:03:02+00:00">warming</del> boiling, Gilder writes, &#8220;Let&#8217;s assume, hypothetically, that Co2 somehow becomes a problem. Capitalism deals with problems by pursuing opportunities.&#8221;
Socialism deals with problems through more government control.
&#8220;Government mandates and directorates and global resets will not shape the future,&#8221; Gilder predicted in &#8220;Life After Capitalism.&#8221;
&#8220;They can only retard progress, and only so far as we let them, if we live in democratic countries. What will really shape the future is human creativity, and a new wave of technological entrepreneurs,&#8221; he added.
Gilder also warned, &#8220;More than ever in America, we face the prospect of a life after capitalism in its most negative sense: a life of scarcity, deprivation, and fear.&#8221;
And that is exactly what Guterres has to offer: Our time left to save the planet is scarce — so is clean air. So we must deprive ourselves of modern technologies, conveniences, and abundant resources of energy. If you don&#8217;t, everybody you know will die from &#8220;global boiling.&#8221; The experts will save the day.
What a load of bunk. Socialists never change, but the words they use to sell their ideology does.
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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President Joe Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-wants-credit-for-bidens-green-energy-agenda-let-her-have-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">green energy boondoggle</a> keeps getting bigger by the hundreds of billions of dollars, according to a new study.
On Friday, Just The News <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/bidens-green-agenda-cost-least-600-billion-more-projected-analysis-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that a new University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business model predicts that the cost of Biden&#8217;s oft-touted climate change bill — the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hey-neat-spend-1000-on-green-energy-and-the-feds-will-give-you-a-300-tax-credit-to-reduce-inflation-thanks-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inflation Reduction Act</a> — will now cost the U.S. taxpayers more than $1 trillion.
&#8220;The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) contained a range of climate and energy provisions that <a class="link" href="https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2022/8/12/senate-passed-inflation-reduction-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PWBM previously estimated</a> to cost $384.9 billion over 10 years,&#8221; Penn <a href="https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/estimates/2023/4/27/update-cost-climate-and-energy-inflation-reduction-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press release. &#8220;Since that estimate, newer implementation details have emerged, and the fiscal year calendar has moved to start at FY2023. Our updated estimate for over 10 years (FY2023 – 2032) for just the climate and energy provisions is now $1,045 billion.&#8221;
Much of that comes from subsidizing the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shocker-new-york-would-ban-gas-stoves-in-new-buildings-under-potential-budget-deal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">electrification of everything</a>,&#8221; as some have called it. Here&#8217;s exactly what that money will be going toward over the next 10 years:
<ul>
<li>Clean electricity/energy ($263 billion)</li>
<li>Clean Hydrogen ($49 billion)</li>
<li>Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage ($23 billion)</li>
<li>Advanced Manufacturing ($183 billion)</li>
<li>Clean vehicles ($393 billion)</li>
<li>Biofuels ($43 billion)</li>
<li>Energy efficiency ($28 billion)</li>
<li>Agriculture and forestry ($3 billion)</li>
<li>Energy grants and loans ($37 billion)</li>
<li>Air pollution ($22 billion)</li>
</ul>
Who will be in charge of doling that money out? Democratic lackey John Podesta. Will Podesta make sure that all of that money goes toward American companies? It doesn&#8217;t look likely. In March, he said that Chinese companies will have a big part to play in America&#8217;s energy future.
Even Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) took issue with Podesta over the comments.
&#8220;It is beyond irresponsible for someone speaking on behalf of the White House to not only condone but also advocate for sending American tax dollars to Chinese companies,&#8221; Manchin told Fox News. &#8220;That is not consistent with either the IRA or the CHIPS + Science Act, which had widespread bipartisan support due to concerns about Chinese supply chains.&#8221;
That Podesta would want to funnel U.S. tax dollars overseas to the Chinese Communist Party shouldn&#8217;t come as much of a surprise. Podesta is good friends with at least one CCP official, Fox News also <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-new-clean-energy-czar-highest-regard-ccp-official-called-friend" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in September 2022.
Other Democratic allies are lining up to make sure they take advantage of the government spending over the next decade. Twice-failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stacey-abrams-now-throwing-her-weight-around-with-group-advocating-gas-stove-regulations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now working with Rewiring America</a>, a group that advocates the heavy regulation of gas stoves, arguing instead for electric appliances.
The founders of Rewiring America — Alex Laskey, Saul Griffith, and Ari Matusiak — have made significant money off government funding in the green energy sphere while advocating for policies that benefit their bottom dollar via the non-profit group.
“It’s a shocking amount of money that they’re hauling in with this scheme of theirs,” Tom Pyle, the president of the Institute for Energy Research, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stacey-abrams-now-throwing-her-weight-around-with-group-advocating-gas-stove-regulations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News. “I call it Big Green Inc. It is literally a business for these guys and they cloak themselves in the mantra of trying to save the planet. But, really, this is just very sophisticated self-dealing.”
It appears that the scheme now has more than a trillion reasons to continue, thanks to the seemingly never-ending price increase of the Inflation Reduction Act.
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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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/major-league-baseball" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Major League Baseball</a> is trying to make <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/baseball" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the sport</a> more exciting, but global warming might be doing the league&#8217;s job for it.
A <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/637331028/Global-warming-home-runs-and-the-future-of-America-s-pastime#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> from Ivy-League Dartmouth University found that global warming has led to an increase in home runs hit across the league. More than 500 home runs in the past decade were due to climate change, it found.
&#8220;Home runs in baseball &#8230; have risen since 1980, driving strategic shifts in gameplay,&#8221; the study&#8217;s abstract states. &#8220;Myriad factors likely account for these trends, with some speculating that global warming has contributed via a reduction in ballpark air density &#8230; We isolate human caused warming with climate models, finding that &gt;500 home runs since 2010 are attributable to historical warming.&#8221;
The study begins by establishing its fundamentals. In physics, the ideal gas law states that air density is inversely proportional to temperature: at high temperatures, air is less dense, and vice versa. Furthermore, the laws of ballistics state that air density affects the trajectory of a batted ball; in principle, a batted ball will fly farther in less dense, warmer air. With these in mind, the study analyzed more than 100,000 games between 1962-2019 and more than 200,000 individual batted balls tracked by Statcast cameras between 2015-2019, and estimated the number of home runs as a function of temperature.
The study notes other factors that may have influenced the increase in home runs over the years, including different ball construction, the use of performance-enhancing drugs, technological advances, the rise of analytics and data on pitcher tendencies, and changes in training, all of which have coincided with the global warming trend. But the study isolates these factors out of its data, as well as the well-noted variable field dimensions and geography of individual ballparks, and the fact that baseball season happens mostly during spring and summer, when temperatures rise on average anyway. It also excluded domed stadiums, which were not affected by ambient temperatures.
The study found that a temperature increase of 1 degree Celsius during a game increased the number of home runs by 1.96%. The effect was higher for early afternoon games, a 2.4% increase, and lower during night games, an increase of just 1.7%. The effect was the same for both home and away teams. The results were unaffected by controls for wind speed, though it may have been because there is no effective measurement for wind speed and direction in the parks; they were similarly unaffected by humidity, which has only a minor effect on air density; or by precipitation, since games are called off in inclement weather. The study also controlled for other impacts of temperature, like heat stress on pitchers; those control models found that temperature&#8217;s effect on home runs is mostly from the effect on air density.
In summation, the study concluded that climate change resulted in a decrease in home runs between 1962 and 1995, then an increase from 1995-2019. Between 2010-2019, global warming led to 58 additional home runs per season, and 577 over the decade. The change was driven by policies meant to curb pollution, leaving greenhouse gas emissions as the primary driver of climate change, accelerating home runs.
However, the impact was small. &#8220;Other factors such as changes in the height of the stitches on the baseball appear to have been more important in driving recent home run trends,&#8221; the study says.
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Despite this, the study projected that home runs will increase with future global warming: for every degree increase in global temperature, it projected an average of 95 more home runs per season. By 2050, that number would increase to 192 more home runs per year, and 467 by 2100. &#8220;Strong climate mitigation&#8221; keeps the increase to just 130 per year by 2100.
Absent climate mitigation, the study recommends playing all MLB games at night, or adding domes to stadiums, to reduce the effects of global warming. It also recommends altering pitching strategies, game management, and bat composition.

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