Norway’s Supreme Court has stripped two wind farms of their operating licenses for wrecking the lives of Sami reindeer herders.

Life in the frozen North was never meant to be easy – sub-zero temperatures and stark isolation are tough enough, but Sami reindeer herders have drawn the line at the adverse effect the visual and auditory cacophony these things generate has on their livestock.

Giant 260m turbines with 60m blades generate shadow flicker and pulsing, thumping low-frequency noise – a well-known source of disturbance for grazing (and other) animals; reindeer apparently no exception.

For centuries, the nomadic Sami have herded their reindeer across northern Europe’s frozen tundra, ranging across the north of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula. And have done so untouched by industry and urbanization. Until now.

Over the last decade or so, hundreds of these things have been speared across their grazing rangelands.

Not afraid…

By David Wojick, Ph.D. ~

A hugely funny thing happened on the outskirts of COP 26. The press seems to have missed this huge news, but the Paris Accord’s goal of keeping global warming below 2 degrees has now been met. Well okay, it has just been promised by politicians. But if you take political promises seriously, as they do in COP-world, the end is here.

Specifically, several independent green analyses find that the various commitments made at COP 26 would limit global warming to just 1.8 or so degrees. The Paris target is “less than 2 degrees” so there you have it. Target met!

Where are the green headlines screaming “Planet saved”? Where are the green marches of celebration instead of protest?

The funny part is that this paper success raises big problems for the climate activist movement. All that remains is to makes sure the promises are kept…

By Jarrett Stepman ~

President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for private employers often is described as requiring employees of large companies either to be vaccinated or be tested weekly.

But when you dig into the details, the mandate is far more invasive than that.

Nonvaccinated employees must wear masks, even if they are being tested weekly. Employers must maintain records of employees’ vaccination status.

Employees who lie about their vaccination status could face up to five years imprisonment and employers face fines of $13,653 per violation, under the vaccine mandate ordered by President Joe Biden, pictured Wednesday as he departs the White House. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Employees who lie to their employers about their vaccination status could face up to five years imprisonment, while employers who do not comply with the mandate face fines of $13,653 per violation.

The Biden administration is trying to make noncompliance with the federal…

By Roger Helle ~

I still believe when things look the bleakest, the next generation of “giants” will rise up.

By Craig Rucker ~

Barack Obama may have served as the 44th President of the United States, but he is just as wrong as anyone else who approaches global warming from deep roving left field.

“For those listening back home in the U.S., let me say this,” Obama told UN COP 26, “It doesn’t matter if you’re a Republican or a Democrat if your Florida house is flooded by rising seas, or your crops fail in the Dakotas or your California house is burning down.”

Sorry to inform you, Mister President, all those things are WEATHER, NOT CLIMATE. It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor, short or tall, crop production is setting records, California fires are historically normal, and sea level has risen at the same minuscule pace since before the industrial revolution.

“It’s not just that we can’t afford to go backward,” Obama said. “We can’t afford to…

Mainstream media tell us that net-zero carbon dioxide emissions targets are the only path to peace and prosperity. Never troubled by the facts that surround them, the mainstream journo ignores every shred of evidence to the contrary and appear to live in a fantasy land disconnected from logic and reason.

At the heart of the new ‘green’ narrative, there’s a cynical disdain for the productive sectors of the economy, be they miners, manufacturers or mineral processors. This is the crowd that parrots support for a raft of destructive policies that drive up energy costs; policies that inevitably destroy thousands of well-paid jobs in those industries, but never theirs.

Untroubled by lost opportunities and falling wages, the virtue signallers that pass themselves off as reporters, journalists and commentators have lost all touch with their countrymen. Which explains why they were so rattled by the Brexit referendum result in June 2016, all…

By Tim Graham ~

A British socialist group calling itself the Center for Countering Digital Hate has issued a report on what it calls the “Toxic Ten” – so-called “fringe” websites spreading “climate change denial.” The ten include our group, the Media Research Center, as well as Breitbart, the Daily Wire, Townhall Media, Newsmax, The Washington Times, and The Western Journal.

So any challenge to Greenpeace climate-crackdown orthodoxy is now classified as “toxic” and “digital hate.”

Their solution? To press Facebook and Google to “stop monetizing” these conservative sites, stop allowing them to buy ads, and to “comprehensively label” their climate reporting as misinformation. You don’t have to prove conservatives wrong. Just “comprehensively label” them as false.

Once again, the Left wants to win debates by stopping any debate from happening. The founder of this “Digital Hate” squad is a  man named Imran Ahmed, who previously co-authored the book The…