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No Tricks Zone By P Gosselin | 6. October 2020 Thanks to the Energiewende (transition to green energies), which is tantamount to a vegan energy diet, Germany’s electricity prices have soared 27% over the past decade to become the most expensive in Europe, if not the world, according to the STROM-REPORT. Source: Infografik “Strompreise in Europa 2020”, STROM-REPORT.de, Creative Commons License CC-BY-ND Taxes, surcharges and a catalogue of other fees make up 53.6% of Germany’s electricity price, only Denmark has a higher share at 67.8%. Only five European countries have seen electricity prices drop over the last 10 years. Soaring …

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs ban on gas-powered cars. Sept. 22, 2020 Foxla.com Sept. 23, 2020 SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed an executive order to ban gas-powered cars and trucks in California by 2035, a move he said would cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than a third. Plus, Newsom said he is directing the California Air Resources Board to establish regulations that require all new cars and passenger trucks be zero-emission vehicles by 2045 “where feasible.” “This is the most impactful step our state can take to fight climate change,” Newsom said while announcing the order. …

President Trump attends a briefing about wildfires in California at the McClellan Park outside Sacramento on Monday with Gov. Gavin Newsom, left. San Francisco Chronicle | Sep. 14, 2020 SACRAMENTO — President Trump resisted calls to confront the reality of climate change during a brief visit to California on Monday — a position that his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, signaled he may focus on as wildfires burn across the West. During a two-hour stop at an airfield near Sacramento, Trump met with state officials for a briefing on the fires. Gov. Gavin Newsom took the lead, urging the president to …

Official White House Photo of President Trump by Eric Worrall | Sept. 16, 2020 h/t Mike Maguire – The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a government body led by Republican appointee Heath Tarbert, has just recommended imposition of a carbon tax. Climate change is huge risk for the American financial system, a major new bipartisan report says Last Updated: Sept. 12, 2020 at 11:34 a.m. ETFirst Published: Sept. 9, 2020 at 2:34 p.m. ETBy Rachel Koning Beals A carbon tax features in CFTC report that aims to unite disparate federal efforts The U.S. financial system, including banks, agricultural and oil interests, …

By Charles Rotter | Sept. 12, 2020 Bloomberg News is reporting that the state of Delaware (like several other Democrat-controlled states) is filing climate suits against Exxon, Chevron and others. Willie Soon’s name has been repeatedly used and abused in nearly all the lawsuits by state Attorney Generals (the previous one was by the State of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, June 24, 2020). But this time, it is clear that the lawyers from San Francisco representing the state of Delaware did not bother to be more careful in doing their homework. The highlighted segment by the state of Delaware about Willie …

Senator Kamala Harris is interviewed after the U.S. Democratic presidential candidates debate at the Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. November 20, 2019. (Christopher Aluka Berry/Reuters) National Review By Kevin D. Williamson | August 11, 2020 Joe Biden has named his 2020 running mate: authoritarianism. American prosecutors wield awesome and terrible powers that lend themselves easily to abuse, and Senator Kamala Harris, formerly the attorney general of California, is an enthusiastic abuser of them. Harris was a leader in the junta of Democratic state attorneys general that attempted to criminalize dissent in the matter of global warming, using her …

Electroverse Aug. 3, 2020 July, 2020 was historically cold throughout Scandinavia–and across much of Europe for that matter. The Nordic nation of Norway’s average temperature came out at 0.6C below the norm, making for the country’s coldest July in 50 years. As reported by kommunikasjon.ntb.no, a staggering 23 weather stations measured their lowest-ever July temperature, mainly in Innlandet, Viken, and Vestland. To boot, 39 records were set for the lowest average July temperature. In addition, the bone-chilling low of -7.2C logged at Sognefjellhytta went down as Norway’s coldest July temperature ever recorded And one final impressive feat, the mercury didn’t …

New York Times By Katie Glueck and Lisa Friedman | July 14, 2020, Updated Feb. 1, 2021 Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. unveiled his $2 trillion climate plan for reducing fossil fuel use across the U.S. and creating jobs. Today, I’m here in Wilmington to talk about a second plan: How we could create millions of high-paying union jobs by building a modern infrastructure and a clean energy future. These are the most critical investments we can make for the long-term health and vitality of both the American economy, and the physical health and safety of the American …

Heartland Daily News H. Sterling Burnett | June 23, 2020 In another in a string of defeats of lawsuits in which youth plaintiffs are attempting to force governments to take action to fight climate change, Florida Circuit Court Judge Kevin Carroll dismissed a lawsuit brought by eight Florida youths against Gov. Ron DeSantis and Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried. This defeat tracks the history of cases brought by climate activist law firms on behalf youths in Alaska, Montana, Oregon, Washington state, and in a federal case dismissed earlier this year. In those cases, as in the Florida decision, the courts found …

WUWT Anthony Watts | July 1, 2020 From the Institute for Energy Research and the department of political sheep herding comes this review of a misguided mess done by a few members of the house who have bought into the “crisis” narrative- Anthony The House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis has released its Climate Crisis Action Plan. Speaking in front of the Capitol on Tuesday, June 30, Representative Kathy Castor of Florida’s 14th congressional district declared the plan a “transformative roadmap” that would build a “100 percent clean energy economy.” The 547-page document includes a wide range of policy planks, …