Watch: Physical confrontation ensues after climate change protesters storm stage at gala honoring Sen. Lisa Murkowski
There was a physical confrontation when climate change protesters stormed the stage at a gala honoring Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
Murkowski was giving a speech at the Bryce Harlow Foundation’s awards ceremony on Thursday in Washington, D.C.
Suddenly, about a dozen climate change activists stormed the stage. The climate change protesters were fought off by people on the stage. The protesters are seen on video tumbling off the stage. Murkowski is seen slowly walking away as the physical confrontation ensues.
The protesters are part of a climate crisis alarmist group called Climate Defiance.
Climate Defiance declared on social media, "We just shut down a gala honoring U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski. Murkowski is a murderer. She incinerates us to enrich her cronies. As Chevron's top lobbyist gave her an award, we stepped in and stopped the ceremony. Respect us or expect us."
The group added, "Murkowski brands herself as a moderate but in truth she is an ecocidal pyromaniac. She fought tooth and nail to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to big oil. Is nothing sacred?”
Murkowski finished her speech after the protesters were removed from the event.
The video of the climate crisis activists storming the stage has been viewed more than 4 million times.
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The D.C.-based climate change organization declares: "We do not do petitions. We do direct action. If people in power will not save us we will save ourselves. There is no choice."
The group believes that "conventional tactics will not suffice."
Climate Defiance has a mission of ending fossil fuel extraction on federal lands, deploying "disruptive direct action to compel politicians," and standing in solidarity with "sister-struggles for racial and economic justice."
Climate Defiance protesters have disrupted events involving Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
The Biden administration rewarded the antagonist group by inviting them to the White House to meet with President Joe Biden's senior clean energy czar John Podesta in December.
Climate Defiance said of the meeting, "Thank you for taking the time to meet with us today. We appreciate your willingness to heed our deeply-held concerns. Echoing the voices of millions of Americans, we write to you in the eleventh hour of the greatest threat that humanity has ever faced: planetary and societal collapse due to the continued burning of fossil fuels."
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The Guardian asks people to share how the 'climate crisis' has impacted their relationships
The Guardian is inviting people to detail how the "climate crisis" has impacted their relationships.
"As the climate crisis increases the frequency and severity of extreme weather events like floods, heatwaves and storms in Europe, it is also having an emotional impact on people," the outlet claimed. "We would like to hear how climate change has affected your relationships – with romantic partners, family or friends."
"Perhaps the stress of fleeing extreme weather events like wildfires or floods has impacted your budget and put strains on your relationships. Or perhaps different ideas about carbon footprints and child-rearing have caused tension in your relationships," the outlet suggested.
The climate alarmism-promoting outlet provided a form on which people can describe how their relationships have supposedly been impacted.
Over on X, one response to the Guardian read, "My wife of 35 years joins me in uproarious laughter when we envision these young mental lemmings experiencing an event like the Blizzard of 1978. We hug, kiss, and thank God we are rational adults who know giving more power and money to a government will not change the weather."
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"My wife and I agreed to buy a hybrid SUV last year. (Sorry I don't have anything more dramatic to report.)," another account wrote.
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The Biden administration and Democrats have been beating the climate alarmism drum. The president has referred to the supposed "climate crisis" as "the existential threat of our time."
Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island has claimed in a tweet, "Republicans blame inflation on Joe Biden, but in fact it’s Republicans’ fossil-fuel-funded climate denial that is driving this key inflation measure. Insurance is skyrocketing because climate disasters are worse and more unpredictable."
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Scientists now say you should eat snakes to 'save the planet' from climate change
For more than a decade, people have been told to eat bugs to combat climate change. The hot new food source to reportedly reduce one's carbon footprint is snakes, according to scientists.
New research advocates for humans to increase consumption of snakes as a food alternative to reduce greenhouse gases.
Research published in Scientific Reports last week noted that "python farming appears to offer tangible benefits for sustainability and food systems resilience."
The authors of the study claim that python farming "can not only complement existing livestock systems, but may offer better returns in terms of production efficiencies."
“This is an alternative livestock system that needs to be taken seriously," said the paper's lead author – Dr. Daniel Natusch. "We’re not necessarily saying everyone should stop eating beef and turn to pythons, but there needs to be a conversation about them having a more prominent place in the agricultural mix."
"Climate change, disease, and diminishing natural resources are all ramping up pressure on conventional livestock and plant crops, with dire effects on many people in low-income countries already suffering acute protein deficiency," said Natusch – an honorary research fellow in Macquarie’s School of Natural Sciences.
Natusch added, "No other livestock species studied to date possesses the same credentials or rates of production as pythons."
The research found that pythons that fasted for up to 4.2 months only lost an average of 0.004% of their body mass per day, but "resumed rapid growth as soon as feeding recommenced."
The researchers argued that since pythons can go months without foo, they offer worthwhile "food security" in a world with "global food insecurity."
The scientists pointed out that pythons on farms most commonly eat wild-caught rodents and "waste protein from agri-food supply chains (e.g., pork, chicken, fish)." The paper added that python farms control rodent populations, which is also beneficial to humans.
“Livestock fed on plant protein sourced from a crop monoculture where a natural habitat once stood… is far less sustainable than capturing rodent pests or using waste protein to feed pythons," Natusch added.
The paper's lead author noted that pythons rapidly grew to "slaughter weight" within their first year. He also stated that pythons produce far fewer greenhouse gases than traditional livestock.
New Scientist pointed out, "A key thing missing from the study’s comparison is the fact that as carnivores, snakes are eating animals that ate plants, whereas other farm animals eat mostly plants. If the total mass of plant material required per kilogram of carcass was compared, snakes might not look nearly so efficient."
Natusch rebutted that pythons on farms are fed rodents and waste meat, so it is not about efficiency since the snakes are consuming unwanted food sources that would generally be unutilized.
Natusch even contends that python farming is more sustainable than many plant-based foods.
"For the vegans out there, in my experience, there would likely be more animals suffering from sowing crops into the soil each year than are killed to feed a python," he declared.
Natusch contends that snake tastes like chicken, explaining, "If prepared well, it’s great."
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Radical climate change activists hurl soup at Mona Lisa painting in Louvre, critics demand police 'lock them up'
Radical climate change activists hurled soup at the Mona Lisa painting inside the Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday.
Video shows the moment that two women approach the Mona Lisa painting and then douse Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece with soup.
The women reportedly shouted, "What’s the most important thing? Art, or right to a healthy and sustainable food?"
Louvre employees were seen on video placing black panels in front of the Italian Renaissance masterpiece and asking visitors to evacuate the room.
No damage was done to the classic piece of art since it rests behind bulletproof glass.
"Two activists from the environmental movement ‘Riposte Alimentaire’ sprayed pumpkin soup on the armored glass protecting the Mona Lisa, this Sunday, January 28, 2024, around 10 a.m. (4 a.m. ET)," the Louvre Museum said in a statement. "The Louvre’s security staff immediately intervened."
Paris police said two individuals were arrested following the incident.
The radical environmental group Riposte Alimentaire – which roughly translates to "Food Response" – took credit for the soup attack on the Mona Lisa painting and demanded "the integration of food into the general social security system."
The climate change group said on the X social media platform, "Our agricultural and food system also has extremely worrying environmental consequences."
"This violence weighing on our food and on those who allow it has clear causes: the agri-food industry increased its margins to 48% last year, and its excessive profits are estimated to be responsible for two-thirds of inflation," the ecological group claimed. "Agriculture is responsible for 21% of national greenhouse gas emissions and contributes greatly to the deterioration of our biodiversity and the impoverishment of soils, due to the massive use of inputs."
The group identified the women as 24-year-old Sasha and 63-year-old Marie-Juliette.
The Mona Lisa is arguably one of the most famous and iconic paintings in the world – drawing millions of visitors every year. Leonardo da Vinci created the artwork between 1503 and 1506.
Numerous online commentators were outraged at the attempted vandalism of the iconic painting and called on authorities to throw the book at the radical climate change activists.
The Libs of TikTok account: "Climate activists threw soup at the Mona Lisa in the Louvre Museum today. Employees responded by holding up curtains to block visitors from seeing. These climate t*rr*rists need to be arrested and given long prison sentences. This needs to stop."
Journalist Tom Fitton: "Left-wing terrorists (or, as media calls them, "climate activists") attack the "Mona Lisa." Another reminder the Left are enemies of history, memory, and beauty.
Women's sports activist Riley Gaines: "Ah, yes. Defacing the Mona Lisa with soup will immediately make everyone stop burning & developing fossil fuels. Great idea Lock them up."
The Culture Critic account: "Soup being thrown at the Mona Lisa by climate zealots. Security just sits idly and watches. Once again, the sad truth is that this is being ALLOWED to happen by the gallery. This has happened enough times now for there to be a rapid response protocol – yet nothing ever stops them. These institutions are no longer fit to be custodians of these masterpieces."
Journalist Rita Panahi: "How are these climate cultists getting so close to masterpieces armed with paint, soup, hammers, etc? This time they’ve attacked the Mona Lisa. Jail."
Writer Andrew Doyle: "Environmental activists at the Louvre have sprayed the Mona Lisa with soup. It’s no coincidence that those who are disgusted by humanity wish to desecrate its greatest achievements."
The @Amuse account: "Destroying the Mona Lisa will have no impact on the global average temperature."
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COP28 blames colonial powers and white supremacy for climate crisis
The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai was about as serious as any sane person would think: not serious at all.
One of the panelists used her moment in the spotlight to blame white supremacy and the patriarchy for the ongoing “climate crisis” around the world.
“We cannot continue business as usual. We cannot continue this extractive economy. Our call to action for gender justice, racial justice, upholding indigenous rights, rights of nature, calling for just transition, and immediately phasing out fossil fuels is an ongoing agenda,” she began.
“It’s an urgent call for our very survival,” she continued.
“False solutions, white supremacy, colonization, and patriarchy have no place in any climate action plan.”
Pat Gray and Keith Malinak call this obscene performance what it actually is.
“The climate change hoax has now been lumped in with white supremacy, environmental justice, gender justice stuff,” Malinak explains.
Another panelist at the conference took her turn in the spotlight to repeat similar talking points.
“I can tell you that 100% of this is a product of colonization. It is a product of the fossil fuel companies in our territory that are virtually killing us. It is genocide,” she tells the audience.
“Wow, is that bad stuff,” Gray comments.
“That’s ugliness right there.”
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UN's COP28 climate summit offers burgers and ribs while United Nations lectures against eating meat
The United Nations has been lecturing everyone not to eat meat for years and is expected to soon release a report calling for reduced meat consumption. Yet in a hypocritical development, meat is prominently featured on the menu at the United Nations' COP28 climate summit.
Fox News reported, "Among the food options offered for attendees are The Hungry Hub, which offers beef and meat; Philly Jawn by Ghostburger, which offers burgers and Philly cheesesteaks; Swaggers, which offers smoked ribs and smoked wagyu burgers; and Mattar Farm Live Cooking, which serves 'unbelievable smoked meats' and 'melt-in-your-mouth BBQ.'"
Despite offering a bevy of meat options at the United Nations climate summit, the U.N.'s Food & Agriculture Organization is set to publish its first-ever global food systems’ road map during an upcoming COP28 session, which will demand countries like the United States to eat less meat.
The Business Standard reported, "The global food systems' road map to 1.5C is expected to be published by the United Nations' Food & Agriculture Organization during the COP28 summit next month. Nations that over-consume meat will be advised to limit their intake, while developing countries — where under-consumption of meat adds to a prevalent nutrition challenge — will need to improve their livestock farming, according to the FAO."
The FAO told Fox News, "FAO emphasizes the critical need for an innovative plan and a concrete package of solutions to overhaul agrifood systems. The Global Roadmap is positioned as a strategic tool to demonstrate that accelerated climate actions can transform agrifood systems, simultaneously addressing food security and nutrition challenges today and in the future without breaching the 1.5 degrees threshold. In this roadmap, FAO is urging for good food for today and tomorrow."
On the United Nations website, the organization advises people to ditch meat for a "healthy planet."
"Eating more vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, and less meat and dairy, can significantly lower your environmental impact," the U.N. declares. "Producing plant-based foods generally results in fewer greenhouse gas emissions and requires less energy, land, and water. Shifting from a mixed to a vegetarian diet can reduce your carbon footprint by up to 500 kilograms of CO2e per year (or up to 900 kilograms for a vegan diet). "
The United Nations also demands people eat less meat in a post titled: "Food and Climate Change: Healthy diets for a healthier planet."
"Animal-based foods, especially red meat, dairy, and farmed shrimp, are generally associated with the highest greenhouse gas emissions," the article reads.
"Meat production often requires extensive grasslands, which is often created by cutting down trees, releasing carbon dioxide stored in forests," the U.N. warns. "Cows and sheep emit methane as they digest grass and plants. The cattle’s waste on pastures and chemical fertilizers used on crops for cattle feed emit nitrous oxide, another powerful greenhouse gas."
In yet another post, the U.N. calls on "high-income countries" to eat less meat.
"Meat and dairy can be important sources of protein and micronutrients, particularly in lower-income countries where diets lack diversity," the article states. "But in most high-income countries, shifting to more plant-based foods promotes better health and significantly lowers your environmental impact compared to the average meat-based diet."
Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) blasted the "global elites" for their "hypocrisy."
"The hypocrisy of the global elites never ceases to amaze," Flood began. "They’re the same ones who want working people to swear off flying at all while they get to travel to glitzy conferences on private jets to push a radical green agenda."
"COP28 putting meat on the menu just proves that we need beef and all kinds of meat to help feed the world," said Flood – a member of the Congressional Beef Caucus. "And that’s why I’ll keep fighting the U.N. and the global elites who are trying to kill meat production, which would only shatter the world’s food security and end an age-old way of life for millions of farmers and ranchers around the world."
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This is the most EPIC takedown of climate activists you’ve EVER seen
Climate change activists aren’t exactly known for their logic. Many of them seem to think lying in front of cars, gluing themselves to various objects, and vandalizing art will magically tip the scale toward a greener future.
That was certainly the mentality the “Seven Circles,” an anti-capitalist climate activist group, had at this year’s Burning Man festival in Nevada.
The group set up in the middle of the road leading to the festival, refusing to let traffic pass, but little did they know, they were in for what Sara Gonzales calls “the greatest takedown [she] can remember.”
Sara plays the video of rangers plowing over the group’s signs and trailer with their truck before forcing every member to lie on the ground. One woman refuses to comply and is yanked to the ground by an officer.
Another group member can be heard shrieking, “We’re not violent!” in the background, as their entire setup is obliterated.
“If you are blocking my right to travel freely, that is an act of aggression; that is not peaceful,” says Sara, who is reveling in the epic takedown.
“You've convinced literally zero people – nobody has been convinced by any of [this] stupid sh**,” she rails.
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BBC host tries to shame Guyana president about climate change and gets utterly STEAMROLLED
Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali didn’t hesitate to shut down BBC journalist Stephen Sackur when he attempted to bait the head of state into climate change apologetics.
“Over the next decade, two decades, it is expected that there will be $150 billion worth of oil and gas extracted off your coast,” Sackur began. “That means, according to many experts, more than two billion tons of carbon emissions will come from your seabed from those reserves and be released into the atmosphere. I don’t know if you, as a head of state, went to the …”
But Ali interjected before he could finish.
“Let me stop you right there,” he fired back. “Do you know that Guyana has [had] a forest forever that is the size of England and Scotland combined – a forest that stores 19.5 gigatons of carbon, a forest that we have kept alive?”
“Does that give you the right to release all of this carbon?” Sackur asked.
“Does that give you the right to lecture us on climate change?” Ali said, finger pointed directly at the interviewer. “I’m going to lecture you on climate change because we have kept this forest alive that stores 19.5 gigatons of carbon that you enjoy, that the world enjoys, that you don't pay us for, that you don't value.”
“Guess what: We have the lowest deforestation rate in the world. And guess what: Even with our greatest exploration of the oil and gas resource we have now, we will still be net zero,” he continued.
“This is the hypocrisy that exists in the world. The world in the last 50 years has lost 65% of all its biodiversity; we have kept our biodiversity. Are you valuing it? Are you ready to pay for it? When is the developed world going to pay for it? … Or are you in the pockets of those who have damaged the environment … of those who destroyed the environment through the Industrial Revolution and are now lecturing us?”
Pat Gray relishes Ali’s tirade.
“He just beat the crap out of [Sackur],” he says. “What do you suggest we do for energy in Guyana? Are we going to switch our economy to solar and wind here in a developing nation? Is that what you want, Mr. BBC broadcaster – you want our people to starve? ... What do you want here from the third world?”
“That guy was awesome – spitting fire,” adds Keith Malinak.
To hear President Ali make mincemeat of yet another climate apologist, watch the clip below.
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