<a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/29/world-news/paris-official-blames-americans-and-their-air-conditioning-for-europe-heat-wave-that-has-killed-1300-people/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social">There were more than 1,200 deaths in France last Wednesday. 1,400 more on Thursday. Another 1,400 on Friday.</a> For context, the country&#8217;s normal daily death toll runs around 900. The body count is climbing so fast that Paris’s <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/29/world-news/europes-record-heat-has-overwhelmed-paris-mortuaries-and-left-families-in-distress/">mortuaries</a> are turning away the dead because they’re full.
And what’s to blame for this sudden mort spike? A lack of air conditioning. Because, apparently, keeping your home below 90 degrees is a vice.
While acknowledging that this is a horrible situation — elderly French citizens kicking the bucket too soon because their government seemingly cares more about virtue-signaling on climate than keeping them alive — Americans can still make light of it all. It&#8217;s what we do.
Thousands of journalists, influencers, and hysterical posters have taken to social media to mock European governments for their abysmal handling of la canicule plaguing the land across the pond.
Americans have every right to do this because those deaths were entirely preventable. It just so happens that in the 20th century, some of the brightest human minds discovered a way to not die from heat. Europe is still, inexplicably, opting out.
In France, only one in four homes has air conditioning, and that&#8217;s been true through a parade of &#8220;once in a generation&#8221; heat waves: <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/extremism-in-the-defense-of-air-conditioning-is-no-vice-b74489b3">2025, 2003, 1993, 1911, 1865,</a> and onward. In the old days, presumably, they just blamed Mother Nature for going through menopause.
<a href="https://archive.ph/Szz5O#selection-3521.0-3521.273">Today, however, Parisians are blaming, wait for it, America.</a>
<a href="https://x.com/nypost/status/2071682128476000262">Paris&#8217;s Deputy Mayor Audrey Pulvar</a> took to Instagram this week to angrily declare that the U.S. bears a &#8220;significant amount of responsibility&#8221; for grandmère dying of a heat-induced stroke.
She says it’s just “rich” that we would dare mock the French, because it&#8217;s America&#8217;s use of air conditioning that contributed to their summer oven.
Well, chérie, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but there is this country called China… and even if the United States zeroed out its entire 11-ish percent share of global emissions tomorrow, shuttered every factory, blacked out every city, it would do roughly nothing to the planet&#8217;s thermostat. It would, however, gut American manufacturing, torch the energy sector, and raise the cost of literally everything for actual American families. Meanwhile, the CCP, which accounts for north of 30 percent of global CO2 emissions on its own, would keep chugging along, industrializing, polluting, and burning coal like there’s no tomorrow.
If every American simply flipped off their AC tomorrow in penance, thousands more of us would die of heat every year, our summers would get considerably more pungent, and the planet would not notice. Residential cooling is something like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-lasted-nine-days-without-ac-europeans-dont-have-a-choice?author=Chloe+Trapanotto&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=I+Lasted+Nine+Days+Without+AC.+Europeans+Don%E2%80%99t+Have+A+Choice.">3%</a> of total U.S. emissions. China alone outpaces our entire economy&#8217;s output by more than double. So if you&#8217;re looking for the country actually moving the needle on global temperature, Madame Pulvar, you&#8217;re pointing your finger at the wrong continent.
Meanwhile, back home, France isn&#8217;t just under-equipped for the heat — it&#8217;s <a href="https://www.connexionfrance.com/practical/what-are-the-rules-on-fitting-air-conditioning-in-french-homes/666489">actively legislated against fixing it.</a> Because of strict rules on exterior units, historic-preservation restrictions in cities like Paris that make installing AC a bureaucratic nightmare, and a cultural campaign treating air conditioning as an indulgence have left people with one real option: public fountains. Videos of <a href="https://x.com/tirajnews/status/2071700235051565147/video/1">Parisians</a> <a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/man-cools-off-warsaw-fountain-132113565.jpg?resize=683,1024&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all">wading</a> into them fully clothed have been circulating all week, which is delightful content and a genuinely bleak admission that &#8220;go stand in the Trocadéro&#8221; is the national heat plan.
So no, Madame Pulvar, we will not be powering down. We&#8217;ll keep feeling that glorious blast of cold air on a 100-degree day, and we&#8217;ll keep mocking a government that would rather let its elderly undergo a sweatocide than admit a window unit might have saved them.
Of course, <a href="https://www.climatebonds.net/news-events/blog/frances-green-budget-2026-good-start">Paris could fix this tomorrow.</a> Outfitting every household in France with a basic in-window AC unit would cost an estimated 4 billion dollars, which is nothing compared to the 41 billion euros France has earmarked for “green” spending in 2026 alone, or against the country&#8217;s actual climate adaptation fund, the one built specifically to help France survive disasters like this exact heat wave, which just got <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DaLrzSZGT0i/">slashed from 1.5 billion euros to 837</a> million in this year&#8217;s budget.
They have the money. They are just choosing not to spend it on the living.
It&#8217;s hard not to suspect the French government doesn&#8217;t actually want this problem solved. Dead pensioners stop drawing on the state&#8217;s beloved socialized medicine, and a rising body count is a far more useful prop for &#8220;global warming is happening&#8221; than a budget line about window units would ever be. Mais peut-être que je me trompe.
I love you, Paris. I really do. But you are making yourself very hard to defend lately. Strip away the gorgeous men, the breathtaking architecture, and sassy disdain for tourists, and what&#8217;s left is a government that would rather let its people cook than turn on the AC.
Maybe try the window unit. Until then, the mocking continues.

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I&#8217;m on day nine of no air conditioning in my Washington, D.C. apartment. The building decided to upgrade the HVAC systems in the dead of June. In one of the swampiest cities in America.
I feel like a European.
And I hate it.
The silver lining (if you can call slow-roasting inside your own home a silver lining) is that I now have some sympathy for the people forced to endure this reality year in and year out. Not because of broken buildings or bad timing, but because their governments decided that sweating to death is a form of environmental virtue.
They are wrong. Catastrophically and lethally wrong.
Europe&#8217;s anti-AC policies are doing almost nothing to stop climate change. They are, however, killing people. According to the <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-heat-and-health">WHO</a>, Europe averages more than 175,000 heat-related deaths every single year. In 2024 alone, a peer-reviewed study <a href="https://www.isglobal.org/en/-/62.700-muertes-asociadas-con-el-calor-del-verano-de-2024">published</a> in Nature Medicine put the summer death toll at nearly 63,000, compared to roughly <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2822854">2,400</a> in the United States that same year.
So Europe, with a population just 40% larger than ours, is losing tens of thousands of people to heat every summer, while we lose thousands. The difference isn&#8217;t climate, it’s ideology. The EU&#8217;s Green Deal and its accompanying &#8220;degrowth&#8221; ideology — the belief that every kilowatt of energy consumed is a sin against the planet — have spent decades actively discouraging AC installation, mandating carbon-neutral buildings, and pushing &#8220;passive cooling solutions&#8221; like fans and open windows. The result is not a greener planet, but a deadlier one.
The European heat death toll is <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/28/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-us/">twelve times</a> America&#8217;s gun homicide rate. Liberals will go on and on about &#8220;genocides&#8221; in their favorite third-world countries, yet never say a peep about the grim-heater knocking on thousands of their neighbors&#8217; doors every single summer. No marches. No hashtags. No candlelight vigils.
Just grandma dying because a bureaucrat decided a thermostat was too carbon-heavy.
And right now, it&#8217;s happening again. France is currently in the grip of a historic June heatwave. Fifty-four of its 96 departments are under red alert as of this week. Schools are closed, trains are canceled – the whole catastrophe is being compared to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heatwave">2003 heat wave</a> that killed an estimated 15,000 people. Already, 40 people have drowned in rivers and lakes, jumping in to escape the heat. Only about <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/world/europe/heat-waves-france-air-conditioning.html">20%</a> of French homes have air conditioning.
According to <a href="https://www.leparisien.fr/meteo/il-mest-arrive-de-tomber-a-cause-des-etourdissements-le-calvaire-dune-retraitee-dans-sa-bouilloire-thermique-17-06-2026-NZIFJMZBO5DZBB6FK56QNHKD4M.php?at_medium=email&amp;at_emailtype=acquisition&amp;at_campaign=Newsletter&amp;at_creation=75-Paris">Le Parisien</a>, one 67-year-old woman is enduring 90-degree temperatures inside her home, so dizzy she can barely stand. Her survival strategy: three to four cold showers a day and hosing down her house with a garden hose.
The garden hose.
Meanwhile, the French ecological transition agency advises that even the elderly shouldn&#8217;t set their AC below 79 degrees Fahrenheit. For everyone else — the pregnant, the chronically ill, the merely human — the French public health agency has assembled a truly heroic list of <a href="https://www.ameli.fr/assure/sante/themes/canicule-chaleur/que-faire">tips</a>: &#8220;Wear a hat.&#8221; &#8220;Bend your legs regularly.&#8221; Eat &#8220;water-rich foods like cold soups.&#8221; Avoid using &#8220;your oven, computer, hairdryer.&#8221; “Dim the lights.”
They might as well hand out paper-free pamphlets on how to write a will and what to wear at your own funeral.
Dying because European governments won&#8217;t permit a box that sucks heat out of your living room. Welcome to the third world, Europe.
The climate scolds&#8217; math doesn&#8217;t even work. Cooling accounts for roughly <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/air-conditioning-causes-around-greenhouse-gas-emissions-will-change-future">3%</a> of global greenhouse gas emissions. If every European turned on an air conditioner tomorrow, models project it might add <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69393-1">0.05</a> degrees Celsius to global temperatures by 2050. That&#8217;s not saving the planet. That&#8217;s a rounding error.
Meanwhile, the bodies keep piling up from actual heat exhaustion. Studies show proper air conditioning slashes the risk of dying on brutally hot days by <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/how-can-the-world-reduce-deaths-from-extreme-heat">75%</a>. The U.S. figured this out decades ago and now has near-universal AC with a tiny fraction of Europe’s heat-death toll despite plenty of nasty summers.
In fact, cold-related deaths across the globe still <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/part-one-how-many-people-die-from-extreme-temperatures-and-how-could-this-change-in-the-future">substantially</a> outnumber heat-related deaths. Over time, moderate warming could actually reduce net temperature-attributable mortality in many regions by cutting cold deaths faster than it raises heat deaths. So the entire premise that keeping Europeans sweltering indoors is some heroic act of planetary sacrifice falls apart on its own terms. They&#8217;re not preventing deaths. They&#8217;re just redistributing them.
Get Europe some air conditioning. Cut the heat deaths. And maybe even reduce cold deaths down the road. Bingo.
Because grand-mère isn&#8217;t dying from climate change. She&#8217;s dying because some bureaucrat in Paris decided sweltering until she’s six feet under was virtuous.
And I&#8217;m dying because my building decided June was a great time to upgrade the HVAC.
But at least I know it&#8217;s coming back. For far too many Europeans, it was never there at all.

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President Donald Trump commented on the record cold forecast to hit more than 35 states following a massive winter storm over the next few days, asking on Friday, &#8220;WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???&#8221;
The massive storm is <a href="https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/rare-potentially-historic-major-winter-storm-wallop-millions-from-south-east-coast">expected</a> to sweep through much of the Great Plains, Southeast, Midwest, and most of the Eastern part of the United States on Saturday and Sunday. Following the storm, a polar vortex will bring Arctic air to many states, according to the forecast.
&#8220;Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 States. Rarely seen anything like it before,&#8221; Trump wrote on Truth Social. &#8220;Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain — WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???&#8221;
Environmental activists argue that global warming is a continuing problem and point to recent <a href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature">increases</a> in the average global surface temperature. Many climate alarmists will also point to major weather events, such as hurricanes and floods, as evidence that global warming is the single biggest threat facing the world.
Unusually cold weather has also been tied to climate change. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration <a href="https://cpo.noaa.gov/research-links-extreme-cold-weather-in-the-united-states-to-arctic-warming/#:~:text=Accelerated%20Arctic%20warming%2C%20known%20as,cold%20air%20can%20dip%20south.">cited</a> a 2021 study that found climate change increases Arctic polar vortices, which can bring record cold temperatures to the southern United States.
Trump has blasted the climate change and global warming narrative on numerous occasions. Last year, while speaking at the United Nations, Trump called the climate change narrative &#8220;the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, it used to be global cooling. If you look back years ago in the 1920s and the 1930s they said global cooling will kill the world. We have to do something,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Y8_0zAzXc">said</a>. &#8220;Then, they said global warming will kill the world, but then it started getting cooler, so now they just call it climate change &#8230; because if it goes higher or lower, whatever the hell happens there&#8217;s climate change.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion,&#8221; he added.
The global average surface temperature has risen by about 2.32 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average. Worldwide temperature records began around 1850, making comparisons to worldwide temperatures before the mid-19th century nearly impossible.
At least 14 states have declared emergencies ahead of the weekend&#8217;s winter storm, fearing that large accumulations of ice could knock out power and heat for millions of people. States that have declared emergencies include Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

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The vast majority of Americans are no longer willing to pay a $1 monthly fee to supposedly help combat climate change, signaling a major shift in attitude from just years ago.
A poll <a href="https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/EPIC-AP-NORC-Press-Release-FINAL-10.22-1.pdf">released</a> on Thursday from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) found that only 38% of Americans are on board with paying a $1 monthly carbon fee.
Back in 2021, 52% of Americans were willing to pay the supposed climate-fighting fee.
Unsurprisingly, as the hypothetical fee goes up from $1 monthly to $10 or $20, only 3 in 10 Americans are okay with paying up. And only 2 in 10 said they would pay $75 or $100 monthly.
Climate activism has become a key issue for Democrats in recent years. High-profile politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NYC), for example, famously said back in 2019 that the world would end in 12 years if we don&#8217;t drastically address climate change.
“Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'&#8221; AOC said.
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&#8220;Millennials, and Gen z, and all these folks that come after us, are looking up and we&#8217;re like &#8216;the world will end in 12 years if we don&#8217;t address climate change, and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MLKNow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MLKNow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MLK2019?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MLK2019</a> <a href="https://t.co/fbUxr2C0tJ">pic.twitter.com/fbUxr2C0tJ</a>
— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) <a href="https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1087443780565782528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
Failed 2024 Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris was also a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2023/presidential-candidates-2024-policies-issues/kamala-harris-climate-change/">climate alarmist</a>, calling climate change an existential threat and releasing a $10 trillion climate plan during her 2019 presidential run.
While an increasing number of young Americans now believe that climate change is mostly man-made, Americans in general are just not okay with personally paying any tax or fee to help combat the apparent threat. They are, however, willing to shift payment to energy companies, according to the AP-NORC/EPIC poll.
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&#8220;While less than half of Americans support paying a monthly carbon fee on their energy use, 56% support taxing companies for the carbon they emit,&#8221; a press release outlined.
&#8220;About six in 10 Americans say oil and gas companies (62%), the federal government (60%), and large businesses and corporations (58%) bear a great deal or a lot of responsibility. By contrast, 31% say the same about individuals, a drop of 19 percentage points from 50% in 2019,&#8221; the poll found.
Old-school environmental activism, like protecting conservation lands and wildlife, was, however, supported by a vast majority of Americans, at 70%.

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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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The Honorable Jason Isaac is the Founder and CEO of the American Energy Institute, a trade organization that unapologetically champions free markets and American energy. Previously, he served four terms in the Texas House of Representatives.
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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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🥫 BREAKING: 3 YEARS 8 MONTHS COMBINED IN PRISON FOR THROWING SOUP
⛓️ 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>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1456610771186634757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2021</a></blockquote>
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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.
This is a fight for our generation&#39;s survival. Her reaction is why young people desperately want new leadership in Congress. <a href="https://t.co/0zAkaxruMI">pic.twitter.com/0zAkaxruMI</a>
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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>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.
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