Ireland has long been seen as a bastion of the Catholic Church, but its May 25 vote to end national ban on abortion is evidence that the nation is taking a secular turn. Interestingly, Pope Francis was silent during the campaigns on...

In a move that has enraged green justice warriors across the globe, A $10 million per year National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) program to track key global warming contributors carbon and methane has been canceled.

The program called the Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) was cut due to ‘budget constraints and higher...

There are few issues which bring out the left’s holy inquisition more than climate change.

The Washington Examiner reports:

Cornell to teach climate deniers are ‘Deranged Authority’ in new course

Students at Cornell University can sign up for a course on “Deranged Authority” for the fall semester, where they will be taught that a...

Two new studies have been published that completely frost the claims made by green justice warriors.

One of the most cherished tenets of eco-activists is they do more to “save the planet”. However, the first report indicates that it is, in fact, climate change skeptics that are leading the way to a ...

A prominent LGBT rights attorney, David Buckel, committed suicide by setting himself on fire in New York’s Prospect Park.  Buckel, who was involved in the Brandon Teena murder case made famous by the film Boys Don’t Cry, left suicide notes and mailed copies to various media outlets.

Buckel wrote that his final...

The only law that California’s politicians follow is the one involving unintended consequences.

Today’s example in progressive civil engineering comes from Los Angeles, where city officials have ordered streets to be painted white in an effort to combat climate change.
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Last week I noted that U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California is overseeing the lawsuit that the cities of Oakland and San Francisco filed last fall against six fossil fuel giants. The two cities are seeking to hold the oil companies liable for the cost of...

This is of course, just another left wing call for the school to divest from fossil fuels.

The College Fix reports:

Harvard board member: Time for Harvard to ‘stop funding climate change’

A departing member of the Harvard Board of Overseers has called for the university to “stop funding climate change,” arguing that “the...

The last time we reported on ExxonMobil, the Big Oil giant was counter-suing municipalities that had sued iy for suppressing climate change impact data.

At the time, the company noted that though these same cities and counties claim that they are seriously threatened by floods and other environmental problems because of “climate...

At South by Southwest, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his big plans to sue the oil and gas industry.

Schwarzenegger claims the oil and gas industry intentionally caused climate change and “knowingly killing people all over the world.”

To date, no complaint has been filed, but Schwarzenegger said he is currently working with several...

The US Navy under President Donald Trump is reversing course on Obama-era climate change policies imposed on the nation’s military.

Today’s rollback hits plans to hybridize naval destroyers.

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While following climate change news for the past year, I have marveled at the lack of attention given scientific specialties outside of “climate science”, despite the fact the foci of those studies could significantly impact global weather patterns.

Take, for example, heliology (the study of the Sun). A new study rele...

Legal Insurrection readers may recall that last fall, San Francisco and Oakland filed separate lawsuits against five oil companies, asking for billions of dollars to protect against rising sea levels they blamed on climate change.

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Legal Insurrection readers will recall that several California cities and counties sued a number of gas companies, asking for billions of dollars to protect against rising sea levels they blamed on climate change.

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For the left, climate change is one issue that can be coupled with almost anything.

The College Fix reports:

Scholars: Recent protests in Iran partly due to … climate change

Much like racism, virtually anything can somehow be attributed to global warming/climate change. According to various scholars, the latest example is the recent anti-government...

The new year has certainly started with a blast…of arctic air.

From Maine to Florida, Americans are trying to fight off the effects of a “bomb cyclone”. The term has an interesting history, originating in the era of World War II meteorology.

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