The Jacki Daily Show

Good news: Corrupted climate data of the past has led us to believe that climate change is far more severe than the actuals show. It’s happening, we’re contributing, but it is not time to panic. - - - - - America’s largest power grid is at risk. - - - - - For your entertainment: Don’t miss Reason’s series “Great Moments in Unintended Consequences!” This is a greatest hits of environmental policies gone wrong. Don’t worry. There are solutions. - - - - - We know that seemingly spontaneous electric vehicle fires pose a threat inside parking garages. Now, stories emerge of the same danger and even death for crew on cargo ships carrying these vehicles. Jacki shares the true story of a cargo ship with 3,000 vehicles set ablaze in the North Sea. Elon, please get on this! - - - - - Jacki’s common ground with RFK Jr. on “forever chemicals.”

Jacki is joined by Bill Peacock, the Policy Director of Energy Alliance, to critically examine media claims that the country’s leading producer of unreliable, “renewable” energy - Texas – has wind energy to thank for surviving extreme weather. Peacock blows this nonsense out of the water. - - - - - Susan Daniels joins Jacki to talk about the power of just one human being to make a difference in the national conversation. In her book, “The Rubbish Hauler’s Wife vs. Barack Obama,” Daniels reveals her extremely difficult life, being widowed at age thirty with seven children after a serious criminal killed her husband. She testified against a notorious criminal and became a private investigator. Years later, she broke one of the biggest stories of the Barack Obama presidential run and courageously revealed her findings regardless of the cost. - - - - - Socialism works in Norway? It would work in any population of under 5 million with an endless flow of oil to finance fiscal irresponsibility. Texas gets its own $32 billion boost (bailout?) with the state’s oil revenues. - - - - - Climate change is real, and we are contributing, but does this explain flooding in Vermont? Are the floods “historic”? Are these the hottest days ever? Jacki unpacks these claims.

We examined Robert Kennedy Jr.’s article, “Jailing Climate Deniers,” and what he has to say for himself now that we’ve noticed it. - - - - - Electric buses cost five times as much as traditional buses, and break down significantly more, so why do we use them? And did you know that our Energy Secretary made over a million dollars investing in them? And aren’t they deployed heavily in the state where she used to be Governor? (Michigan). The more you know. - - - - - “Sultry American blondes” with impressive environmental bona fides promote UN Climate Summit, praising host country that lives of off of oil & gas revenues. Yep, they’re fake…bots. - - - - - White House announces it is considering solar geoengineering (blocking out the sun) to stop climate change. Other countries rush to host a conference to stop us! - - - - - Going green will kneecap America’s ability to support Ukraine, or anyone else, in a major war. The U.S. provided nearly 70% of the oil needed to win the first two world wars. Not this time.

Psychologists have developed a new term for those who harness extreme political causes to feed narcissism and psychopathy: the “Dark Ego Vehicle Principle.” A new study in the peer-reviewed journal Current Psychology shows that those who support authoritarianism report higher levels of psychopathic traits. What might motivate a person to blow up a pipeline, endangering entire communities? Perhaps it has more to do with a perceived display of moral superiority, social status, the desire to dominate others, or aggression that satisfies thrill seeking than the actual “cause.” Those from privileged backgrounds are especially concerning as they can use their means to hijack movements, making the activism solely about themselves instead of social justice. - - - - - As the undisputed leader in renewable energy investment - with 66 billion invested - Texas is now seriously rethinking its approach to powering the state. If renewable energy is so cheap and competitive, why should Texas taxpayers continue to subsidize the unreliable energy at more than 40 times the benefit that fossil fuels or nuclear receive? After the Texas freeze of 2021 and ever-increasing demand and outages, Texas is shifting into reverse and the rest of the country should learn why. Jacki explains.

Why are electric vehicles sales not surging faster, as predicted? “Range anxiety” – the concern that the EV will not have sufficient range on longer trips or be able to make it to a charging station – is often listed as a top reason for hesitation. Jacki shares the latest: The American Automobile Association (AAA) confirms that an electric vehicle range can fall nearly 25% when carrying a significant weight load. Combine this with the loss of up to 35% of range in colder weather (Recurrent Research, Dec. 2022) and we begin to see why “range anxiety” is a well-founded concern for those Americans wealthy enough to afford an electric vehicle. - - - - - Update: Whales continue to wash up along the eastern seaboard. Why?

Can carbon capture technology moot the climate debate? Jacki is joined by Jason Isaac, Director of Life:Powered, a national initiative of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, who shares why his group is opposed to carbon capture technology. Though it focuses on home-produced American energy (coal and natural gas), Isaac claims that requiring carbon capture would force many of the country’s most reliable energy producers out of business at a time when our fragile electric grid needs them the most. Also, he explains why it would not impact the climate meaningfully. - - - - - James O’Keefe released an explosive undercover video featuring an employee of the world’s largest money manager that champions ESG (financing contingent upon wokeness scores for corporations or investments). Supposedly, ESG exists to make the world a better place through emphasizing Environmental, Social Justice, and ethical Governance standards. What were the confessions from this employee of the money manager? (1) Banks rule the world; (2) war is good for business (“we don’t want the conflict to end”); and (3) a U.S. Senator can be bought for the bottom basement low price of only $10,000.00. Suddenly, the news of BlackRock as a contender for a ½ trillion-dollar Ukraine rebuilding deal looks very different. Jacki gives her take.

RKF Jr. is a complex man. One day he is writing an op-Ed in the WSJ to fight against a “boondoggle” offshore wind farm in Nantucket and flying private jets. The next he might be fighting against fossil fuels and nuclear energy – over 90% of American energy!...And our only means for manufacturing electronics, pharmaceuticals, and all that we need for modern sanitation. We examine his record. Jacki concludes that if a Republican wins the White House, they should offer to make RFK Jr. the “Pharma Tzar,” where his energies can be channeled productively. - - - - - Elon Musk refers to ESG (“Environmental, Social and Governance”) wokeness scores for corporations as “The Devil” after more than one tobacco company received sky high ESG scores and Tesla scored near the bottom. (See the June 7 episode of The Jacki Daily Show in which we learn why a low Tesla ESG score might actually make sense, assuming child or slave labor is a factor). We take a look at several new studies proving out that when an investor or corporation puts political causes above returns…this results in …lower returns.

Canadian wildfires by numbers: Important context for the ongoing, raging fires from The North Country. Caution: The type of air pollution caused by wildfires (particulate matter or “PM”) is serious, particularly for the vulnerable with cardio/pulmonary issues. The World Health Organization claims it kills millions annually...unlike carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas, but *not* a pollutant. - - - - - Will American taxpayers continue to hemorrhage hundreds of billions to big business and foreign corporations to convert the country to wind / solar energy - that produce power only 30% of the time? Texas “leads” the country in renewable (unreliable) energy but just threw on the proverbial emergency break. Texas just moved to cut its renewable mandates, the many billions of taxpayer funds given as freebies to prop up the renewable CREZ Initiative (power lines/distribution) developers and will even mandate that wind and solar provide reliable, fossil fuel backup to meet demand during the 70% of the time when they do not produce. Dr. Brent Bennett at Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Life:Powered Initiative gives the update. - - - - -RFK Jr. is taking the country by storm. Though he once said that those who disagree with him on climate policy should be thrown into a cage (prison cell…curtains for The Jacki Daily Show), he seems to have moderated his tone, and even is opposing a wind farm in Massachusetts (next episode) and shamelessly defending his private jet air travel, explaining “I’m not *that* kind of environmentalist!” He has frequently commented on the ease of election hacking and takes several interesting policy positions that we explore this episode.

Jacki is joined by Donna Jackson of Project21, the black leadership network of the National Center for Public Policy Research. Ms. Jackson shares her recent testimony before the U.S. Congress to oppose regulation on for new vehicles, because “the proposed EPA rule has the distinction of harming black people on two continents, in the African nation of Congo as well as the U.S.” The regulation will boost car prices and “remove private car ownership from …most black Americans.” - - - - - “Mineral security”: Electric vehicles are expected to be only 10% of the national fleet by 2050 due to a lack of critical minerals and materials needed, mostly controlled by foreign adversaries. Jacki recommends “Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives” for insight into how modern slavery and child labor are central to the production of materials that power our smart phones, PCs, electric vehicles, and renewable energy. The “moral clock is dialed back to colonial times,” yet there is no organized resistance to the use of these products of slavery: the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign supply chains for critical minerals. Where are the human rights activists? - - - - - Electric vehicle makers and Ford Motor Company have made the business decision to manufacture vehicles without AM radio, a serious problem for the nation’s emergency communications and preparedness. Congress appears ready to intervene. - - - - - Anarchist’s anti-Capitalist “pay-as-you-go” coffee shop goes belly up after one year. What did they learn? If only the patriarchy (Sumerians) had not invented the oppressive discipline of math, the café might still be flying high.

Confronting youth fears about the climate - - - - - How to prepare for electric grid failure or an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) - - - - - Mission creep: Teacher's unions have moved from compensation negotiations to striking for "climate justice" - - - - - 50 years of failed environmental prophecies: In 1970, scientists predicted an ice age by 2000, and in 2005 Manhattan was expected to be underwater by 2015. We dispel fear with facts. - - - - - Renewable energy powerhouse pivots to hydrogen as feds gush tax credits and renewable supply chains are in jeopardy.