This week Alex Epstein will be speaking at St. Olaf College on Feb. 21st at 7pm in Regents Hall of Natural Sciences, room 290, , at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities on Feb. 22nd at 7pm in Wiley Hall, room 125, and the University of Minnesota Duluth on Feb. 23rd at 7pm.  Alex Epstein is the Founder and Director of the Center for Industrial Progress.  An increasingly prominent commentator on energy and industrial policy, Epstein specializes in the underlying philosophical ideas that shape the energy debate.  His writings on energy and energy policy have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, and dozens of other prominent publications.

Ryan Sorba and Fred Singer Make News!

On February 14th 2012 KUSI’s Good Morning San Diego hosted Dr. Singer at the 8 o’clock hour to discuss his findings with the locals. The segment can be viewed here:

Dr. Fred Singer

Over the past decade the left has gone berserk about so-called “global warming” -even though the globe has not shown any signs of warming in at least twelve years!

In an effort to put a stop to the insanity, CFACT has unleashed long-time physicist, mapping expert, and one of the pioneers of global positioning systems (GPS) in California -Dr. Fred Singer.

Singer’s California salvo started with UCLA, where CFACT students and faculty where treated to a slide show highlighting how faulty data is used by “global warming” alarmists to create computer models with dooms-day scenarios, none of them true of course.

Dr. Singer highlighted that ocean and atmospheric thermometers show that no warming is taking place. Only the land thermometers show isolated warming. Upon investigation into the conflicting data Dr. Singer noticed that all the land thermometers were located in urban areas -that weren’t so urbanized just twenty years ago. Twenty years ago, many of these thermometers were surroundED by trees or in very open areas, in sharp contrast, today they are surrounded by blacktop cement which emanates heat, jet engines, and sky-scrapers -all of which block wind, shade from trees, and other localized cooling factors.

Dr. Singer further noted in his lecture that the “EPA” has classified carbon dioxide as a “pollutant.” “How could this be?” he pondered, “Carbon dioxide is a natural constituent of the earth’s atmosphere! Carbon dioxide only makes up one-tenth of one percent of the earth’s atmosphere! Carbon dioxide is not significant! Water vapor is a more significant green-house gas. But do you know why the EPA doesn’t call water a pollutant? Because they can’t regulate and tax it yet of course!”

Singer continued, “You know why the intercollegiate left is on board with this hoax don’t you? Because they want tenure! In order to obtain tenure young faculty members must be published. In order to be published they must obtain federal grants for research. In order to obtain federal grants they must placate the powers that be! One professor received $1.5 million dollars to investigate the effects of “global warming” on children’s brains. I can answer that one in a minute! It scares them!” Singer was greeted with thunderous laughter.

Aside from UCLA Singer gave similar lectures at Chapman over lunch, and at UCLA. He also appeared on channel 9 news in San Diego, twice.

Dr. Singer, an 88 year-young physicist, had an outstanding trip to California and everyone is looking forward to having him back again next year!

Alex Epstein Speaks at UConn

Recently Alex Epstein, founder of the Center for Industrial Progress, delivered a one hour lecture on the subject of Green Energy Myths at the University of Connecticut. Epstein highlighted the high costs of solar, hydro, and wind energy and compared those high costs with the low costs of natural gas, coal, and nuclear.

“We learned that green policies are very expensive. Many third-word individuals cannot afford ‘green’ energy. Far cheaper and more efficient sources of energy like natural gas, coal, and nuclear have life saving potential in many regions. We also learned that supposedly ‘green’ energy sources like solar, hydro, and wind can actually be just as bad for the environment,” commented CFACT Uconn member Nick Toumbilides.

Epstein further noted that so-called “electric” cars are usually actually coal cars, since most of the electricity which the cars absorb is generated by coal.

After the speech most students agreed that the greens have a lot of explaining to do.

CSU San Marcos Passes Out 200 Pocket Constitutions

CFACT California State University, San Marcos passed out 200 U.S. pocket Constitutions on Tuesday November 8th. The group spent about three hours passing the document out to passers by. Many students were happy to receive the document. Several students who stopped by considered themselves constitutionalists and were very happy to see the effort on campus.

Several students asked about CFACT and after learning what we are about, decided to sign up! The event was a great success. A CFACT staffer was on hand for the effort. The group went out for lunch after the event and discussed the importance of restoring a knowledge of the constitution.

Similarly, on Wednesday, November 9th CFACT California State University, Fullerton distributed 200 pocket constitutions to students and faculty. Many of the schools College Republicans stopped by and expressed support. College Democrats took the document but didn’t seem supportive. Several faculty members walked by and sneered at the group. The general student population seemed thankful and supportive. The group is now fundraising to purchase more constitutions. They would like to pass out thousands more. The group chair Michael Lytton indicated that he didn’t feel 200 was enough, considering that there are thousands of students on campus.

CFACT CSU Fullerton Passes Out 200 Pocket Constitutions

Alex Epstein Speaks to CFACT Syracuse!

Recently, CFACT University of Syracuse hosted a lecture by Alex Epstein, the founder of the Center for Industrial Progress on the subject of fracking, a method by which to extract large amounts of natural gas or coal by fracturing existing rock with pressurized liquid.

“The event was extremely informative, everyone was really impressed!” stated CFACT Syracuse chairman Zachary Weiss. “We would love to host Alex again for another lecture if time permits this year.” he continued.

This year five CFACT chapters in Texas and the Northeast hosted lectures by Mr. Epstein. Each event turned out a large crowd and each was considered a huge success! CFACT plans to host Mr. Epstein at several more campuses in Southern California in the near future.

On Friday, Nov. 11^th CFACT – UMN Chapter ended its successful week long, Conservative Awareness Week, by helping organize a “right to bear arms” trip to a local gun range.  The CFACT chapter teamed up with MN-GOCRA firearms instructors who observed and instructed some students who had never been on a gun range before.  Students were able to shoot AR-15’s, .22 Revolver’s, .45, .40, and 9mm pistols, with ammo being donated by some local manufactures.

Last week, the CFACT – UMN chapter successfully held its 5th annual “Conservative Awareness Week”.  During the week, CFACT hosted multiple events including a bbq and conservation river clean-up, capitalism poker tournament, and a civic minded presidential debate watching party.  Each event CFACT joined with other groups on campus to bring conservatives and other right-minded students together.  At the river clean-up and bbq, over 100lbs of trash was picked up.  For the capitalism poker tournament three dozen students showed up for their chance to be in the top eight to win a variety of prizes including the grand prize of a 22″ LCD TV.  Lastly, for the debate watching event over forty students came together to cheer and jeer the candidates they liked and did not like while getting a chance to mingle with like-minded students.

At the CFACT University of Minnesota chapter, today is the kick-off to their 5th annual “Conservative Awareness Week”.   The week signifies a public declaration that contrary to conventional wisdom, conservatism is alive and well on college campuses.   They have collaborated with other right of center groups on campus and have a slate of fun events throughout the week that celebrate conservative principles of free-markets, freedom, patriotism, and activism on campus.   Here is a list of the great events we have for the week. All events will have food provided for attendees. Everyone is invited!

Monday: Mississippi River clean-up and BBQ

3:30pm-6:00pm at East River Flats (behind Coffman)

Tuesday: Poker Tournament (GREAT prizes like a 24″ T.V., 2 TB external hard drive, and more)

6:00pm Coffman President’s room

Wednesday: Watch the presidential candidates debate

Campus Club in Coffman (4th floor) at 7:00pm

Thursday: Dinesh D’Souza lecture

8:00pm in Smith 100 (East Bank)

Friday: Issues and Policy Workshop

12:15pm-1:20pm in Mondale Hall 50

Visit the facebook event and RSVP at:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=223017151097445