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COP30: The usual suspects sound the alarm, but funding is diminishing
Belém, Brazil The CFACT crew has descended upon this year’s United Nations 30th Conference of the Parties, hosted by the nation of Brazil in the northern city of Belém. The adjacent and thought-to-be precious Amazon…
COP 30: Hey ho, fraud-ridden CORSIA has gotta go (too)!
As the International Air Transport Association (IATA) put it: “As you can imagine, with a commitment to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050,…CORSIA—the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation—…
Economics of Gratitude: What New Yorkers Forgot About Prosperity
If I were to sum up the mindset of New Yorkers who elected Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, it would be We want something for nothing, and we want the rich to pay for it. Instead, they will get nothing for something,…
Alarmists play long game at COP30
Climate alarmism has been seriously stalled by a combination of President Trump and unfavorable economic conditions. So, the diplomats laboring at COP30 are working on long-term issues, hoping for better “weather,” as it…
Scientists “surprised” that 200 year old corals are adapting to climate change just fine
Everyone was sure that corals would be degraded by our “increasingly acidic oceans” (a political-activist-term for “slightly less alkaline”). But when a team took cores from 200 year old corals in the ocean — instead of…
What the nuke bros can learn from the navy — and what they can’t
Every few weeks some deep tech influencer post on X something like this, “If the Navy can run hundreds of nuclear reactors safely and cheaply, why can’t the private sector?” or alternatively they ask “why can’t the navy run…
Was Tuesday A Referendum on Trump? Not So Fast.
By Manzanita Miller One of the major takeaways from Tuesday night’s Democrat victories in Virginia and New Jersey was the massive rise in voter turnout for the Democrat candidates, which ultimately propelled Abigail…
Trump Administration rejected the UN global shipping tax
Darren Brady Nelson is a CFACT Senior Economist. He is the inventor of applying CPI Minus X (CPI-X) to cutting and controlling state and federal government spending. Mr. Nelson is also a long-time senior adviser to the…
Why ‘Starving the Beast’ Feeds It Instead
In her excellent podcast, The Great Antidote, Juliette Sellgren often asks her guests to name one thing that they once believed to be true but no longer do. It’s a good question. Intelligent people are people who learn, and…
Section 1033: DC’s Quiet Takeover of Your Financial Data
Washington never misses a chance to promise “fairness” while tightening its grip on the financial system. For more than a decade, regulators and central bankers have stretched their authority far beyond the original intent of…
