April 25, 2012
On Monday, the newly started CFACT chapter at St. Olaf College hosted a debate on campus. The topic of the debate was Fracking. The pro-fracking position was made by CFACT chapter president Pawel Benedykcinski while the anti-fracking position was taken by a liberal “green” group. Over 3 dozen college students attended with both sides garnering [...]
April 19, 2012
CFACT Representatives at Texas Tech recently hosted a discussion group on the subject of ”anthropogenic global warming.” Students were curious about things like why so many scientists claim man-caused “global warming” is true and what evidence supports or conflicts with their claims. CFACT National Field Director, Ryan Sorba highlighted the fact that, in the words [...]
April 19, 2012
Aaron Clarey, author of Worthless Degrees spoke to CFACT students at the University of North Texas on Wednesday, April 11th. The lecture centered around the subject of Aaron Clarey’s book, Worthless Degrees which highlights the poor economic prospects for many of todays college grads. Not only does the book discuss which degrees you should and [...]
April 19, 2012
Recently, CFACT Cal State San Bernardino handed out about 30 free books to conservative students interested in CFACT Collegians on campus. “The event was fun and we recruited a lot of new members -which was the goal,” stated Alfredo Watkins, the group chairman. ”Next we want to educate these new members on energy issues by hosting [...]
April 10, 2012
Recently, Lord Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley sold out a lecture hall at the University of Syracuse! Lord Monckton highlighted the truth behind the headlines in relation to the so-called “global warming” movement. Specifically, the Lord discussed that according to current data, the Earth’s temperature may vary by only one degree celsius over [...]
April 7, 2012
Recently, CFACT University of Arkansas, Fayetteville took some time off from their studies to spend the day on a river in Missouri canoeing. Larami Burge, the group chair decided to organize the adventure in order to get her executive board some quality time in the great outdoors. The group’s 6 hour voyage began with a [...]
April 4, 2012
The Young Conservatives of Texas were out in force last weekend in Dallas for their 32nd Annual State Convention! The convention was heavily attended. CFACT was invited to make a 40 minute presentation on the subject of, “Energy Now and In the Future.” The presentation was a great success! Many YCT students and several YCT [...]
March 27, 2012
On Monday March 26, 2012 CFACT Abilene Christian University students toured the site Tenaska Energy has purchased for their brand new state of the art Trailblazer Clean Coal Power Plant! The first fully operational power plant of it’s size in the nation, Trailblazer has been so named because it will capture and sell carbon emissions [...]
March 14, 2012
Recently Alex Epstein, the founder of the Center for Industrial Progress in Irvine, California delivered a one hour presentation to CFACT at Loyola Marymount University. The topic of the lecture was “Energy and Elections.” Epstein discussed how energy issues such as the price of oil affect elections in America and around the world. The event [...]
March 12, 2012
Recently, Lord Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley delivered a lecture at Union College in Schenectady, New York. The event was a great success. More than 80 people were present, mostly students and some faculty members. A number of greens were also present and gave Lord Monckton quite a hard time. After the event, the “greens” hosted their [...]