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Patrick Moore - Carbon and Climate Catastrophe Steamboat Institute

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Carbon and Climate Catastrophe Dr. Patrick Moore-- Co-Founder and former President of Greenpeace, Director of the CO2 Coalition, Senior Fellow of The Heartland Institute, and author of "Fake Invisible Catastrophes and THreats of Doom" The Dinner Keynote Address at The Steamboat Institute Energy and Climate Summit, The Nexus of U.S. Energy Policy, Climate Science, Freedom and Prosperity by Dr. Patrick Moore on March 12, 2022 at the Steamboat Grand in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

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Bjorn Lomborg-- The Cost of Climate Alarmism Steamboat Institute

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The Cost of Climate Alarmism Bjorn Lomborg is the President of the Copenhagen Center, Visiting Fellow of The Hoover Institution and Stanford University. Author of "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet" The Luncheon Address at The Steamboat Institute Energy and Climate Summit, The Nexus of U.S. Energy Policy, Climate Science, Freedom and Prosperity by Bjorn Lomborg. on March 12, 2022 at the Steamboat Grand in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/30/conservative-conference-cancels-book-signings-afte/

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Conservative conference cancels book sales after bookseller balks at ‘Green Fraud’

STEAMBOAT INSTITUTE

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Monday, August 30, 2021

BEAVER CREEK, Colorado — The Steamboat Institute canceled its book sales at last weekend’s annual Freedom Conference after a bookseller refused to offer a title critical of the Green New Deal.

At the center of the dispute was “Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal is Even Worse Than You Think,” released in March and written by Marc Morano, publisher of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow’s Climate Depot website.

Steamboat Institute CEO and Chairwoman Jennifer Schubert-Akin said organizers concluded that “either you’re going to sell all of our books, or you’re going to sell none of our books.”

“Steamboat Institute is traditionally proud to partner with local bookstores to sell the latest compelling books by Freedom Conference speakers at the event,” she said in a statement. “Yet we will never allow partner bookstores to censor by picking and choosing which speaker books they sell based on their political preferences. We look forward to working with local bookstores committed to robust and open debate at our future events.”

Conference attendees who brought their own books were still able to have them signed by authors featured at the event.

Off the Beaten Path, the Steamboat Springs bookstore, declined to comment on its refusal to offer “Green Fraud,” but Mr. Bruneau cited an email from the company saying it was unwilling to be “associated with a title that disputes the reality of climate change.”

“They said, ‘Look, Colorado’s wildfires, we can’t sell this, we can’t give credence to this belief,’” Mr. Bruneau said. “So Jennifer said, ‘We don’t support censorship, we can’t accept your services.’ They still wanted to come but they wouldn’t sell that one book.”

He added that it was “disappointing in the sense that it missed out on an opportunity to make some profit, and for the attendees.”

Ironically, censorship was one of the topics at the 13th annual conference, which included panels and speakers discussing the battles over conservative content in social media, publishing and academia.

Mr. Morano, who spoke at the conference, said the flap over his book was “no surprise.”

“Climate activists have been gunning for me for years,” said Mr. Morano. “Any dissent is seen as an assault on their messaging. A one-party state view must be imposed!”

He said that activists have pressured Amazon to remove the book from its website, so far without success, prompting an offer from conservative author and pundit Mark Steyn, who wrote the book’s introduction.

“Mark Steyn has offered to sign any copy of ‘Green Fraud’ that you buy on steynonline.com,” Mr. Morano said. “This is literally about free speech.”

Kicking off our morning session with @ClimateDepot talking about the hypocrisy of the #climatechange movement. #Freedomconference pic.twitter.com/mK20r0sV4Q

— The Steamboat Institute (@Steamboat_Inst) August 28, 2021

Mr. Morano is not the first to lock horns with progressive booksellers.

Earlier this year, Powell’s Books in Portland drew headlines for refusing to stock “Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy” by local journalist Andy Ngo. Even so, the bookstore was beset by protesters upset with its decision to offer the title online.

Mr. Bruneau said that other bookstores contacted by the institute were unable to staff the conference due to labor shortages.

“There were a couple we contacted that wouldn’t make a staff member available to be here because of the expanded unemployment benefits,” he said. “Everyone’s going through staffing shortages right now. That was another hurdle we had. We hope next year we can get a bookseller back.”

The Steamboat conference, held at the Park Hyatt in Beaver Creek, Colorado, drew 370 attendees, the largest in its history.

The Steamboat Institute promotes “limited taxation and fiscal responsibility; limited government; free market capitalism; individual rights and responsibilities, and strong national defense.”

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BOOK REVIEW

It’s Here: Morano’s New book: ‘Green Fraud: Why The Green New Deal Is Even Worse Than You Think’ – Foreword By Mark Steyn – Arrives March 23

8 months ago Charles Rotter

Reposted from Climate Depot

Foreword by Mark Steyn!

By: Admin – Climate Depot March 21, 2021 3:10 PM

Book release date is March 23rd: Green Fraud: Why The Green New Deal Is Even Worse Than You Think.Here is a promotional video from the publisher on the book: https://twitter.com/Regnery/status/1370512451322716160

“If you care about America’s future, read this book.”—Mark Levin

“A must-read book that shows how the Green New Deal is dangerous, impractical, misguided, and guaranteed to fail with disastrous results for the American people.”—Sean Hannity

A New Lockdown to “Save” the Climate

That’s what’s in store for us if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Democrats pass their radical climate plan—the Green New Deal.

It is packed with guarantees so completely irrelevant to the problem it purports to “solve” (like “free college” and incomes for everyone “unable or unwilling to work”) that even its boosters have admitted it’s not really about the climate.

The intrepid Marc Morano, author of the bestselling Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change, breaks down the science and the politics to expose the truth about the Green New Deal:

The science is settled: copious evidence—and prominent defections from the “climate consensus”—make clear we are not facing a man-made climate disaster

• “Climate change” is the perfect Trojan horse for the socialist agenda of the Left

• Fossil fuels lifted the West out of poverty—but our elites now want to deny them to the world’s poor

• The Green New Deal is on a collision course with self-government and our fundamental rights

Climate change has already been “solved” multiple times over the past two decades—with highly touted international agreements—and yet it never goes away as an excuse for leftist policies that will cripple our economy, impoverish the world, and take away our freedoms.

Packed with telling statistics, damning quotations, and real science, Green Fraud is your source for all the facts you need to understand—and resist—the threat.

Review

“Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal Is Even Worse Than You Think is the ultimate guidebook to exposing and fighting this Marxist plan masquerading as environmental policy. . . . If you care about America’s future, read this book.” —Mark R. Levin, author and nationally syndicated TV and radio broadcaster

“This is a must-read book that shows how the Green New Deal is dangerous, impractical, misguided, and guaranteed to fail with disastrous results for the American people.” —Sean Hannity,host of Hannity on Fox News and of the nationally syndicated radio program The Sean Hannity Show

“In Green Fraud, Morano shows that the growing movement from the Left isn’t about the climate at all—it’s about controlling every aspect of American lives and implementing broad, socialist policies.” —Senator James Inhofe

“The Green New Deal is one of the gravest threats facing America. This indispensable book is the most comprehensive takedown of the plan you will ever read.” —Brent Bozell, founder of the Media Research Center

“Don’t be climate hustled, read this book.” —Kevin Sorbo, actor and narrator of the film Climate Hustle 2

“Marc Morano’s book Green Fraud provides a factual scientific and political account of the Green New Deal and other misanthropic and self-serving schemes of the global elite and their opportunistic or deluded acolytes.” —Will Happer,Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics emeritus, Princeton University

“Morano is truly the Pete Rose and Hank Aaron of climate contrarians.” —Steven Hayward of Power Line

“Morano’s probably single-handedly, in a civilian sense, the guy (other than me, of course) doing a better job of ringing the bells alarming people of what’s going on here.” —Rush Limbaugh, nationally syndicated radio host and bestselling author

About the Author

MARC MORANO is a former senior staff member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, publisher of ClimateDepot.com, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change, and producer of Climate Hustle (2016) and Climate Hustle 2: Rise of the Climate Monarchy (2020).

Product details

Publisher : Regnery Publishing (March 23, 2021)

Language : English

Hardcover : 256 pages

ISBN-10 : 1684510856

ISBN-13 : 978-1684510856

Physicist Dr. Lubos Motl’s book review of Morano’s Green Fraud: ‘Amazing…entertained…sourced in a perfectionist way’

Former Harvard University Physicist Dr. Lubos Motl: “There is a lot to be learned from this new Morano’s book, you will be often entertained as well, and you will also find this book to be a great source of arguments and quotes – a fountain that is sourced in a perfectionist way.”

“Morano really is the world’s #1 consequential climate skeptic from many perspectives.”

“So you can really find out where various pieces of information and quotes came from. He is amazing in this stuff and I actually believe that he really remembers many of these things, too.”

“I surely recommend you to pre-order and read the book, especially if you think that you depend on the political decisions shaped by the climate arguments.”

Morano’s upcoming book ‘Green Fraud’ on Green New Deal is#1 in “Amazon Hot New Releases” in U.S. National Govt category- With foreword by Mark Steyn

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by Climate Denier Roundup

Which perhaps is why they appear to be setting their sights a little closer to home, attempting to run the denial playbook at the state level.

For example, Pennsylvania has been moving towards joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a carbon market that’s driving down emissions and power bills across the Northeast. In response, industry has set up a web of front groups, and over the summer, even brought in the big guns of career deniers like Steve Milloy and Marc Morano to speak at a House committee meeting.

The state’s Republican party has been working hard on behalf of its fossil fuel benefactors to try and prevent the Democratic governor Tom Wolfe from joining RGGI, and even national-level professional denial lackey Kevin Mooney wrote up the situation for the Daily Signal, theKoch/Mercer/tobacco/polluters-funded Heritage Foundation’s fake news website.

While RGGI started as a Northeast and Mid-Atlantic initiative, in 2020 Virginia announced that it would be the first southern state to join. And like its northern counterparts, the state’s seen an influx of disinfo carpetbaggers. For example, the industry-fundedCFACT’s Collister Johnson Jr. recently bragged in Koch-funded RealClearEnergy that Republicans in Virginia oppose the Virginia Clean Economy Act thanks to CFACT’s hard work and dedication of publishing “a series of articles” starting in 2021. VCEA passed with only Democratic support the year before, but thanks to CFACT’s lobbying on a bill that had already passed, Johnson wonders to what extent the 2021 Virginia state elections will be influenced by their “Repeal VCEA” message.

(Given that the only other big thing Collister has to brag about in life besides being frequently wrong on purpose is that he was given a seat on the board of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation by his Yale roommate, George W. Bush, we’ll forgive his eagerness to brag about the amazing feat of turning Republicans in 2021 against climate action passed in 2020.)

Across the country, but just a click away at the organized denial clearinghouse RealClear, Duggan Flanakin, also working for CFACT, describes the effort in Washington state to oppose a Spokane city council ban on new methane gas hookups.

Now, what Flanakin definitely won’t tell you is that, like it is across the country, the gas industry in Washington is pouring at least a million of dollars into opposing these individually small but collectively mighty moves to kick the fossil fuel addiction, with Washington being home to at least one of the trade groups working nationally to fight electrification.

So if you’re looking at the reconciliation fight, and wondering where the climate deniers vocal opposition is, you might want to check a little closer to home!

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https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Steamboat_Institute

the Steamboat Institute is a right wing 501(c)(3) non profit that calls itself a "think tank". The organization's homepage reads "Here at The Steamboat Institute, we are Defenders of Freedom and Advocates of Liberty. We are admirers of the bravery and rugged individualism that has made this country great. We are admirers of the greatness and wisdom that resides in every individual."^[1]

The group is listed as an associate member of the State Policy Network.^[2]

State Policy Network

SPN is a web of right-wing “think tanks” and tax-exempt organizations in 50 states, Washington, D.C., Canada, and the United Kingdom. As of January 2021, SPN's membership totals 163. Today's SPN is the tip of the spear of far-right, nationally funded policy agenda in the states that undergirds extremists in the Republican Party. SPN Executive Director Tracie Sharp told the Wall Street Journal in 2017 that the revenue of the combined groups was some $80 million, but a 2019 analysis of SPN's main members IRS filings by the Center for Media and Democracy shows that the combined revenue is over $120 million.^[3] Although SPN's member organizations claim to be nonpartisan and independent, the Center for Media and Democracy's in-depth investigation, "EXPOSED: The State Policy Network -- The Powerful Right-Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government," reveals that SPN and its member think tanks are major drivers of the right-wing, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-backed corporate agenda in state houses nationwide, with deep ties to the Koch brothers and the national right-wing network of funders.^[4]

In response to CMD's report, SPN Executive Director Tracie Sharp told national and statehouse reporters that SPN affiliates are "fiercely independent." Later the same week, however, The New Yorker's Jane Mayer caught Sharp in a contradiction. In her article, "Is IKEA the New Model for the Conservative Movement?," the Pulitzer-nominated reporter revealed that, in a recent meeting behind closed doors with the heads of SPN affiliates around the country, Sharp "compared the organization’s model to that of the giant global chain IKEA." She reportedly said that SPN "would provide 'the raw materials,' along with the 'services' needed to assemble the products. Rather than acting like passive customers who buy finished products, she wanted each state group to show the enterprise and creativity needed to assemble the parts in their home states. 'Pick what you need,' she said, 'and customize it for what works best for you.'" Not only that, but Sharp "also acknowledged privately to the members that the organization's often anonymous donors frequently shape the agenda. 'The grants are driven by donor intent,' she told the gathered think-tank heads. She added that, often, 'the donors have a very specific idea of what they want to happen.'"^[5]

A set of coordinated fundraising proposals obtained and released by The Guardian in early December 2013 confirm many of these SPN members' intent to change state laws and policies, referring to "advancing model legislation" and "candidate briefings." These activities "arguably cross the line into lobbying," The Guardian notes.^[6]

Core Financials

2014^[7]

Total Revenue: $248,753
Total Expenses: $264,916
Net Assets: $37,089

2013^[8]

Total Revenue: $216,407
Total Expenses: $190,709
Net Assets: $53,252

2012^[9]

Total Revenue: $158,329
Total Expenses: $131,766
Net Assets: $27,554

Personnel

As of September 28, 2016:^[10]

Jennifer Schubert-Akin, CEO
Angela Lieurance, Senior Development Consultant
Kelly Seim, Special Events Coordinator
Erica Arguello, Special Events Coordinator
Amanda Cordsen, Graphic Designer
Ericka Andersen, Senior Digital Consultant'
Antonette DeLauro Smith

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors as of September 28, 2016:^[11]

Jennifer L. Schubert-Akin, Chair
Rick Akin, Vice-Chair
Gary Hofmeister, Treasurer
Anne A. Lowe
Bob Beauprez
Allen Fuller
Ron Lazof
Jean Pierre Sagouspe
Matthew Spalding
Cheri Carsten

Contact

Employer Identification Number (EIN): 26-2096621

Steamboat Institute

P.O. Box 883037

Steamboat Springs, Colorado 80488

Website: www.steamboatinstitute.org

Phone: (970).846.6013

Email: info@steamboatinstitute.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/steamboatinstitute/

Twitter: @Steamboat_Inst

References

↑ Steamboat Institute, Home, organizational website, accessed September 28, 2016.
↑ State Policy Network, Directory, organizational website, accessed September 28, 2016.
↑ David Armiak, Revenue for State Policy Network and State Affiliates Tops $120 Million, ExposedbyCMD, November 13, 2019.
↑ Rebekah Wilce, Center for Media and Democracy, EXPOSED: The State Policy Network -- The Powerful Right-Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government, organizational report, November 13, 2013.
↑ Jane Mayer, Is IKEA the New Model for the Conservative Movement?, The New Yorker, November 15, 2013.
↑ Ed Pilkington and Suzanne Goldenberg, State conservative groups plan US-wide assault on education, health and tax, The Guardian, December 5, 2013.
↑ Steamboat Institute, 2014 IRS Form 990, Internal Revenue Service, August 4, 2015.
↑ Steamboat Institute, 2013 IRS Form 990, Internal Revenue Service, August 15, 2014.
↑ Steamboat Institute, 2012 IRS Form 990, Internal Revenue Service, July 19, 2013.
↑ Steamboat Institute, Meet Our Team, organizational website, accessed September 28, 2016.
↑ Steamboat Institute, Board of Directors, organizational website, accessed September 28, 2016.

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last week, President Biden signed an Executive Order encouraging U.S. leadership in the clean car sector with a goal of half of all new car sales in the U.S. being zero-emission by 2030. It took them a few days, but deniers seem to have assembled their response by cobbling together a mix of old lies, new misrepresentations, and bizarre logical fallacies.

For example, a response that in any sane outlet might be praise for Biden’s plan was published in the Koch-funded RealClearEnergy as an attack: President Biden’s Electric Car Future is Union Made. Bruce Yandle, a fellow at the Koch-funded Mercatus Center at George Mason University, is upset that Biden invited three major U.S. car companies to attend the announcement because they were the largest employers of workers in the United Auto Workers union, and didn’t invite non-American companies with non-union workers to his event promoting good American jobs.}:

By Climate Denier Roundup

Obviously, it’s no surprise that a Koch crony is anti-union and anti-EV, unless you confuse organized labor with organized denial.

Speaking of organized denial, while the once-Koch-funded Daily Caller has since basically given up on regular climate denial reporting, and its IPCC story was a straightforward rip-off of the AP’s “code red” coverage (sans any Koch-network denial quote, because no-pay, no-play, we assume). The Caller still occasionally publishes guest opinion pieces and ran one from Charlotte Whelan of the (pro-Covid) Independent Women’s Forum andSteamboat Institute (which is hosting Marc Morano and a slate of other rightwing pseudostars at an upcoming festival).

Whelan is also upset the White House invited union workers to its pro-union-jobs event, and adds (with a deliberately misleading citation) the claim that “it could take more than 15 years to recoup the upfront extra costs in fuel savings. The average American certainly can’t wait that long to ‘make back’ the additional upfront cost” But the work cited (an NRDC post based on a peer-reviewed study) doesn’t even measure how long it would take to recoup the upfront cost of an EV with cheaper charging and a more efficient propulsion system. The study did, however, use 15 years as the unit of measurement for a car’s life. So the calculations show that over an average 15-year lifespan of ownership, it can be almost $15,000 cheaper to go with an electric car.

Over at theKoch-funded Heritage foundation’s media arm, their policy analyst Katie Tubb makes a similar claim about EVs being for rich people, which we’ve addressed before as part of their propaganda campaigns, as well as the old racist dog whistle about China.

Finally, we get to a new name to us, Diana Furchtgott-Roth, who wrote that Biden’s move was “costly and counterproductive” in the industry-funded Manhattan Institute’s City Journal.

After a column defending the auto industry from 5G in January, and another in March with the phrase “nothing beats personal vehicles for social distancing.” Furchtgott-Roth makes similar points to the other professional disinformers in her most recent City Journal piece, but she also a:{dds a particularly baffling claim:(style="background-color:#ffff33;"):}: that because “the United States has achieved energy security by becoming a net exporter of oil and natural gas,” then “mandating sales of electric vehicles would weaken that security.”

But if exporting oil makes us stronger (by her logic) then wouldn’t having more of it to export because our own cars are using less of it be a good thing, that would make us stronger?

Why would someone write something so inane and illogical, despite a byline that includes “former deputy assistant secretary for research and technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation” and “adjunct professor of economics at George Washington University?” Those are both legitimate organizations, not industry-funded disinformation operations!

Well it turns out that the DOT appointment was made by notoriously-bad-hiring-manager Donald Trump, and prior to that, Furchtgott-Roth was an economist for the American Petroleum Institute, proving once again that when someone says something stupid about EVs, it’s probably on purpose.

(Originally appeared at DailyKos.)

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OPINION

WHELAN: President Biden Wants You To Listen To The Science, Just Not When It Comes To Electric Vehicles

CHARLOTTE WHELAN

INDEPENDENT WOMEN'S FORUM

August 10, 2021

Americans may rejectradical climate policies like the Green New Deal, but President Biden continues to use his office to advance that vision and toappease powerful allies like the unions. Most recently, he signed yet another executive order, this time targeting vehicle emissions and supporting the increased production of electric, hydrogen-fuel cell and plug-in hybrid vehicles. The new order sets the ambitious goal of these vehicles making up half of U.S. sales in 2030.

The order doesn’t mention unions, instead generically promising, “This will allow us to boost jobs — with good pay and benefits — across the United States” but a pro-union message was made clear by who the president invited to the signing.Elon Musk, the founder of the most American-made electric vehicle (EV) company, was not invited to the White House event. According to some sly implications by the White House press secretary, Musk was snubbed because Tesla’s workforce is not union-represented,unlike those of General Motors Co, Ford Motor Co, and Stellantis, the three companies represented at the event and the three largest employers of the United Auto Workers Union.

With characteristic broad claims that ignore real-life financial issues, the White House announced that this order “kicks off development of long-term fuel efficiency and emissions standards to save consumers money, cut pollution, boost public health, advance environmental justice, and tackle the climate crisis.” But the real story is the increased upfront cost per vehicle that will be forced upon American consumers and the proposals’ dubious environmental benefits.

Instead of saving Americans money, the average electric vehicle costs about $20,000 more than the average gas-powered vehicle. While EV proponents argue that electric vehicles save money down the road in reduced fuel and maintenance costs, some studies have shown that, depending on your regional gas and electricity prices, it could take more than 15 years to recoup the upfront extra costs in fuel savings. The average American certainly can’t wait that long to “make back” the additional upfront cost, especially as they’ll already be paying through the nose in taxes to support the charging stations that the government has promised to provide.

And what the White House doesn’t tell you is that electric vehicles aren’t as “zero-emissions” as they would like you to believe. Electric cars still need to be charged from the local electricity grid — which may be using any variety of energy sources with varying amounts of carbon emissions. For example, if an electric vehicle is charging on a coal-based power grid, then it is increasing the demand for electricity in that grid, leading to increased emissions from the coal power plant. And the batteries for these vehicles require minerals like lithium and cobalt which are largely found outside of the U.S., in places such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chile, which have little consideration for their own environmental impact, not to mention the human rights abuses associated with the mining of these minerals.

After all this, however, the real question remains: is this all worth it?

According to a 2018 Manhattan Institute report, the answer is no. The report found that if there was widespread adoption of electric vehicles “the overall reduction [in CO2 emissions] would be less than 1% of total forecast energy-related U.S. CO2 emissions through 2050.” Traditional gas-powered vehicles have become more efficient over the years and produce less emissions, thus lessening the impact of any widespread shift to electric vehicles.

We should work to reduce our nation’s emissions, but forcing unaffordable vehicles with negligible effects on emissions on Americans is not the way to do it. As outlined in this new report, the better approach to reasonably and meaningfully reduce emissions is to encourage innovation in the energy sector and deploy technology we already have, such as carbon capture and advanced nuclear generation. We can also maintain our existing nuclear reactors instead of shutting them down, a trend that is counterproductive to reducing emissions.

Innovation, not government subsidies, is the path forward.

In this era of COVID-19, we’ve often heard the phrase, “listen to the science.” President Biden and his administration should do just that and stop forcing expensive and ineffective ways to reduce carbon emissions on the American people. The U.S. has a long history of rising to the challenge and finding innovative solutions to our problems. We have already made great progress in developing clean energy solutions and will continue to find new ways to reduce emissions without forcing Americans to rely on technologies that have shown to have little environmental upside and come at great cost to the American people.

Charlotte Whelan is a policy analyst at Independent Women’s Forum and a member of the Steamboat Institute’s Emerging Leaders Council.

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Who should be the next FBI Director? Jim Reese.

Never heard of him? In part, that’s why Reese is the right leader for the job. Unlike others now jockeying for the prestigious Pennsylvania Avenue position, Reese has spent his life outside the headlines.

Over the hills and far away — risking life, limb, and mind, in service of the United States.

A 25-year veteran of the Army, Lt. Col. Reese is a retired Delta Force operator. The military’s most elite special mission unit, Delta is tasked with the riskiest, most important missions. Reese has fought these battles on the ground and in the operations center.

During the Iraq War, he commanded a task force that hunted down al Qaeda and other terrorists. And within the special operations community, Reese’s reputation is legendary. Distinguished former Delta operator Dalton Fury once argued that Reese “quite possibly would have made Ulysses S. Grant appear wanting when it came to working through chaos, calming nerves, and demanding the best out of subordinates.”

I have the fortune of knowing Reese personally. And I fully concur with that tribute of his individual leadership skills. He is not just any mentor. Reese has no qualms issuing challenge alongside praise. He tells you when he believes you’re wrong. He believes that success requires a fidelity to introspection and durable outcomes.

That characteristic of fidelity offers the first reason why Reese would be a great pick for the FBI. He is a leader who would not buckle under political pressure, nor yield to public expectation. He would use his office to advance the FBI’s mission rather than his own persona.

He would not, for example, follow the tradition of some senior military and government leaders who spend their evenings attending lavish dinner parties at Washington embassies and hotels. And he would not waver in supporting FBI agents and analysts as they performed their necessary duties. Whether Trump or Pelosi, no politician could import political pressure onto a Director Reese.

But Reese would also innovate. Like any big organization, the FBI is ripe for reform. Establishing a successful global company after leaving the military, Reese would bring a blend of public and private sector thinking to bear. He could make the bureau more efficient and forward looking. That will be necessary in the years ahead.

For one, facing growing mistrust of our political system, the FBI should probably increase its staffing of political corruption details. The bureau might do well to transfer more lower-level counter-terrorism duties away from agents and towards local police-dominated Joint Terrorism Task Forces. Regardless, Reese despises static thinking. His is an open-door, if-in-doubt-innovate philosophy of two parts: “No. 1: Strive to be a good listener. You have to be a good listener and an active listener. No. 2, if in charge, take charge.”

The next FBI director needs to be able to inspire the trust of the organization and the American people. Reese is the man for the job. He might not be a political celebrity, but he is an intellectual warrior. He deserves an interview with the Department of Justice.

Tom Rogan (@TomRtweets) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog. He is a foreign policy columnist for National Review, a domestic policy columnist for Opportunity Lives, a former panelist on The McLaughlin Group and a senior fellow at the Steamboat Institute.

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The Courage in Education award is granted each year to an institution or member of academia who demonstrates a commitment to open inquiry, free speech, and intellectual diversity – traditional ideals of higher education that have been usurped in recent years in favor of identity politics and free speech restrictions.

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2021

Jameson Broggi, Second Lieutenant United States Marine Corps

Jameson C. Broggi is Steamboat Institute’s 2021-22 Courage in Education Award winner. He worked tirelessly to get South Carolina to pass the Reinforcing College Education on America’s Constitutional Heritage (REACH) Act, which requires all first-year students at public colleges in South Carolina toreceive a mandatory course in the American Founding principles. Jameson is also a member of Steamboat Institute’s Emerging Leaders Council.

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Hillsdale College — Larry Arnn, President

The Steamboat Institute is proud to award the 2020 Courage in Education award to Hillsdale College in recognition of the courage and leadership displayed by the College in educating students on America’s founding principles and in standing strong for justice and equality. Hillsdale’s recent statement on the principles of equity and justice, upon which the College was founded, is an example for other universities to follow. Rather than cave to public demands for cheap virtue-signaling, Hillsdale College has set a standard for staying true to its principles, which provide the best opportunity for solving the grave problems facing our nation.

2019

Samuel Abrams, Professor, Sarah Lawrence College

Professor Samuel Abrams, professor of politics and social science at Sarah Lawrence College, visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and faculty fellow with New York University’s Center for Advanced Social Science Research, was awarded Steamboat Institute’s 2019 Courage in Education Award for his brave efforts to protect viewpoint diversity on campus by calling out the unbalanced growth of progressive events sanctioned by the university administration.

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Wallace Loh, President of the University of Maryland

The Steamboat Institute awarded University of Maryland President Wallace Loh with its Courage in Education award for 2018. President Loh has been a staunch defender of free speech on campus throughout his career. He gave an impassioned and articulate defense of the Steamboat Institute’s Campus Liberty Tour, which protesters wanted canceled because they disagreed with its message. In 2018, following the recommendation of the university’s Joint President/Senate Inclusion and Respect Task Force, President Loh approved the adoption of a university-wide Statement on Free Speech Values.

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Brandon Van Dyck, Assistant Professor of Government and Law, Lafayette College

In honor of his efforts to promote political and intellectual diversity at Lafayette, the Steamboat Institute presented Brandon Van Dyck, assistant professor of government and law, with its 2017 Courage in Education award. The Steamboat Institute awarded Professor Van Dyck with this prize for his work on The Mill Series, which brings to Lafayette speakers who challenge mainstream campus opinion.

2016

Bruce D. Benson, President of the University of Colorado

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