Climate change

U.S. 09/24/20, 02:27

A Democrat responsible for signing bills passed by the California state Legislature used an environmental theory to ban new gasoline-powered cars. Gov. Gavin Newsom has instructed the California Air Resources Board to start phasing out new passenger vehicles that run on fossil fuels to help stop climate change. The executive order states ...

New York 04/24/20, 05:21

A controversial Democrat from the epicenter of the nation's deadly pandemic wants Americans to continue isolating themselves after the lockdown officially ends. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has urged all U.S. residents to continue living in isolation, even if Congress decides to lift social distancing rules used to contain the Chinese Communist ...

2020 Campaign 03/06/20, 05:02

Earth could face annihilation if the incumbent president is returned to public office at the next election, a horror and paranormal film actress has said. Patricia Arquette is worried about the likelihood of President Donald Trump winning another four years in the Oval Office at the general election on Nov. 3. The ...

U.S. 12/20/19, 09:34

Former vice president and 2020 election candidate Joe Biden said he is willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of oil and gas workers' jobs to combat climate change. He made the statement Thursday, Dec. 19 during the Democratic debate, after one of the moderators told him that for decades the United ...

Politics 12/19/19, 18:00

The Latest on the Democratic presidential debate (all times local): It came at the tail end, but the fieriest back-and-forth at Thursday's Democratic presidential debate came in the form of former Vice President Joe Biden's renewed criticism of the estimated costs of the “Medicare for All” health care proposals of some ...

Politics 12/10/19, 18:01

New York billionaire and presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg contradicted President Donald Trump’s climate policies Tuesday, Dec. 10, assuring the world that the United States will rejoin the Paris accord. Bloomberg, who launched his 2020 campaign less than three weeks ago, spoke during a trip to the U.N. global climate conference in ...

U.S. 12/03/19, 10:02

A delegation of 15 Democratic representatives and senators led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) flew to Spain this week to participate in the UN COP25 climate change conference in Madrid. Journalist Brittany Hughes of the Media Research Center (MRC) ironically highlighted in a video the hypocrisy of Democrats who live ...

Politics 12/01/19, 05:01

A delegation of 15 U.S. lawmakers, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), will join the 2019 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Madrid next week, the speaker’s office confirmed Saturday, Nov. 30. All the delegates are congressional Democrats, from both the House and the Senate. They include: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Sen. ...

Opinion 11/20/19, 19:42

“How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood!” insisted teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg at the United Nations. “We are in the beginning of a mass extinction!” Many people say that we’re destroying the Earth. It all sounds so scary. But I’ve been a consumer reporter for years, and I’ve ...

U.S. 11/02/19, 06:58

Jane Fonda will have to spend a night in the slammer after being arrested for the fourth time for unlawfully protesting over climate change. This time, "Hanoi Jane" (as people called her) was among 45 people arrested by U.S. Capitol Police on Friday, Nov. 1, inside the Hart Senate Building after ...

U.S. 11/01/19, 16:42

California Democrats hoped they would finally bask in the attention of presidential candidates when they moved their primary to the front of the calendar. But as the state battles the twin disasters of wildfires and mass power outages, White House hopefuls are nowhere to be found. In a field of nearly ...

U.S. 10/18/19, 15:46

Holding the sign which said "Green New Deal Now," Jane Fonda and her "Grace and Frankie" costar and "Law & Order" legend, Sam Waterston were demonstrating outside the U.S. Capitol building in D.C. again on Oct. 18.  The protest this time seemed to follow the vow she made last week that ...

U.S. 10/13/19, 14:35

Jane Fonda, the 81-year-old who is an Oscar-winning actress and Vietnam War objector, was among 16 people who were arrested in Washington, on Friday, Oct. 12, for unlawfully protesting over climate change at the U.S. Capitol building. Accordingly, Fonda and the other 15 people were arrested for unlawfully demonstrating”and were charged ...

Opinion 09/30/19, 11:35

Judging from the much-hyped and widely mocked speech by Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg at the United Nations earlier this week, it’s clear that some young people are convinced that the world will soon end unless we do something drastic. “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty ...

Politics 09/29/19, 06:29

An appeal was made by hundreds of professionals in various fields to world leaders in a signed declaration to the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York on Sept. 23. These professionals implored leaders at the summit to study the facts more thoroughly on climate change before resorting to ...

U.S. 09/24/19, 04:37

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi implicitly criticized U.S. President Donald Trump at the U.N. climate action summit on Monday, Sept. 23. During the summit, Wang claimed that the "withdrawal of certain parties" from the global Paris climate agreement "will not shake the collective will of the international community, nor will it ...

D.C. 09/23/19, 14:12

Activists for climate change gathered in Washington on Monday morning, Sept. 22, to protest in the name of Shut Down D.C., blocking key intersections across the city to disrupt traffic. The protesters are rallying to pressure U.S. lawmakers and other world leaders to establish legislation related to climate change. Shut Down ...

2020 Campaign 09/21/19, 12:18

U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III formally declared his candidacy for the U.S. Senate on Saturday, becoming the first member of the Kennedy political dynasty to run for the upper chamber of Congress from Massachusetts since Edward M. Kennedy in 1962. The Democrat spoke to supporters gathered in a community center during ...

Science 09/09/19, 15:14

The head of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Sept. 6 that the alarmist narrative on climate change resembles "religious extremism." In an interview with the Finnish magazine Talouselämä, Petteri Taalas said that he does not accept the alarmist arguments that the end of the world is near. "It's not going ...

Politics 08/27/19, 04:38

The G-7 summit turned into G-6 leaders’ meeting on Monday, Aug. 26, as U.S. President Donald Trump left his chair empty in a session focusing on climate change that he has once claimed as a “hoax” invented by China. Even as French President Emmanuel Macron, the summit host, announced that President ...