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April 16, 2026 6:08 am
Well, it is Houston. If you can’t get published in the local press, you won’t get it anywhere. Glad to see you’ve broken through to the other side. 🙂
Now, let’s see if you can get published in the NYT and the like- such as the Boston Globe! If you get an article in the Globe, I’ll make sure everyone in this rotten, corrupt, green wannabe state knows about it. If I just told people here about an article in the Houston Chronicle, no way they’d read it.
New, er, England?
Where MIT is being slowly taken over by the humanities.
Democratic Socialists of America Honor the MIT Election Lab – BB
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If conservative newspaper writers retired at about 65 in 1995, they were bearers of WW2-era sensibilities.
If today’s prevailing liberal newspaper writers are bearers of Vietnam-era sensibilities, they are now at retirement age.
Those two US media generations had different characteristics defined by political events. What exemplifies the next US media generation’s sensibilities? The next sensebility might be emerging now as the 1970’s enviro-globalists recede.
If media were still male-dominated I think it would reflect a lot of hours logged on Atari, Nintendo and Sega. Instead I have to wonder “What world view was formative to the thought processes of college-bound young ladies around 2010?” Now those young ladies are middle-aged editors deciding what gets published in “the media”.
April 16, 2026 6:15 am
On the online version, I see a photo of oil pumps and wind machines. Under the photo it says, “Pumpjacks operate next to large wind turbines Friday, July 8, 2022, near Midland.” I wonder if the wind machines are providing all the necessary energy to run the pumpjacks? Or maybe the other way around. 🙂
April 16, 2026 6:19 am
I would say that Bill Gates did his bit to break the ice – no pun intended. How they wailed and gnashed their teeth at the apparent betrayal of the [Mannian] cause. CNN were, in their own words, stunned…
In a stunning and significant pushback to the “doomsday” climate activist community, Bill Gates, a leading proponent for carbon emissions reductions, published a remarkable essay Tuesday that argued resources must be shifted away from the battle against climate change.
Instead, Gates argues, the world’s philanthropists must increase their investment in other efforts aimed at preventing disease and hunger. – CNN
Maybe there is some kind of domino effect?
April 16, 2026 7:06 am
It’s all the doomster tipping points that’s getting to them-
Time to end the biomass scam: Drax, Britain’s largest carbon emitter, received £1bn in subsidies
Why are my treclicity bills so high and they’re getting all the tips?
Drax get waste wood from the southern US for making wood pellets which are shipped to the UK in cargo ships with big marine engines. The pellets actually have a large carbon foot print because much heavy machinery is used in forestry operations. After the pellets arrive in the UK, they to transported to power plant by trucks with big Diesel engines.
Media companies get bought and spout propaganda LEFT and RIGHT.
It doesn’t matter what your actual point of view about anything actually is.
Then there is the issue of those who have the cash to play both teams and withdraw the funds the moment it threatens to upend the desired direction. You know fine well who i’m talking about here, right?
If you only criticize one side you are by definition heavily biased. I can spot it from a mile away. All the flags are there.
Well, F U, i’m going to be on team sensible.
Follow the money is STILL the sensible approach. In the US that corruption is systemic. Im not naming names here for otherwise the loons will start hammering ( again).It is enough to realise how the game is played and who gets the spoils.
It is not you and me.
April 16, 2026 8:02 am
Is Master Resource blocking my comment?? Can’t tell.
Earth is cooler with the atmosphere/water vapor/30% albedo not warmer. Near Earth outer space is 394 K, 121 C, 250 F. 288 K w – 255 K w/o = 33 C cooler -18 C Earth is just flat wrong. Dividing 1,368 by 4 to average 342 over Spherical ToA is wrong.
Ubiquitous GHE heat balance graphics don’t balance and violate LoT. Refer to TFK_bams09.
Solar balance 1: 160 in = 17 + 80 + 63 out. Balance complete.
Calculated balance 2: 396 S-B BB at 16 C / 333 “back” radiation cold to warm w/o work violates Lot 2. 63 LWIR net duplicates balance 1 violating GAAP.
Kinetic heat transfer processes of contiguous atmospheric molecules render surface BB impossible. By definition all energy entering and leaving a BB must do so by radiation. Entering: 30% albedo = not BB. OLR: 17sensible & 80 latent = not BB. TFK_bams09: 97 out of 160 leave by kinetic processes, 63 by LWIR = not BB. As demonstrated by experiment, the gold standard of classical science.
For the experimental write up see:
https://principia-scientific.org/debunking-the-greenhouse-gas-theory-with-a-boiling-water-pot/
Search: Bruges group “boiling water pot” Schroeder
RGHE theory is as much a failure as caloric, phlogiston, luminiferous ether, spontaneous generation and several others.
When GHE fails the entire CAGW house of cards implodes like the Titan submersible.
April 16, 2026 8:09 am
We first moved to Houston in 1984, when the USAF had plans for a West-coast launched ‘Blue Shuttle.” We’ve had 40+ years (with intervals spent in other climes) of watching Houston get bluer, dumber (e.g., the state took over Houston Independent School District [HISD] in 2023 due to so many schools failing standardized assessment tests, and won’t restore local control until at least 2027), and woker. The Chronicle wasn’t the leader in that decay, they mostly reflected it. Most recently, they reported on City Council’s new ordinance to “limit” coordination with ICE. As is the case with most blue-run cities, the Dems in charge prefer illegal gimmiegrant criminals on the street to coordinating with anything even remotely related to Trump policies. The Chronicle actually reported on that accurately without the usual editorial insertions about abuses, violence, ICE-is-criminal, etc.
While I have not been watching closely, I can say that this editorial is a sign that the ice may be breaking up (multiple puns intended)..
Finally, while I agree this is an encouraging sign, remember you can draw an infinite number of lines thru a single point. I’ll wait for a few more data points before getting actually hopeful.
Breakthrough! Houston Chronicle Publishes Non-alarmist Climate Op-ed
From MasterResource
By Robert Bradley Jr.
Ed. Note: Today’s post provides the background and significance of Robert Bradley’s recent op-ed in The Houston Chronicle, “World Should be Optimistic About Our Fossil Fuel Future.”
For more than a decade, my once regular site for climate/energy opinion-page editorials has been off limits, with only a few letters-to-the-editor published. Examples from the good-old-days:
That changed completely when the well-monied Progressive Left captured the Chronicle, probably via grants from Big Green nonprofits that ensured that pro-wind, pro-solar, pro-“energy transformation” reporting was the regular fare–and contrary articles such as my mine kept out (with nary an explanation, much less simple acknowledgement of receipt and/or consideration).
Perhaps I should thank energy reality and Donald Trump’s energy/climate policy for bringing me back from the graveyard of the politically incorrect.
The Blackout
My banishment began soon after the Trump was first elected where “Resist” seemed to be the order of the day. I emailed the-then-editor asking for an editorial-board meeting where I could explain and defend free-market energy/climate policy (I had done such before). First came no answer. I sent it again only to receive the reply that “we cannot accommodate all comers.” Insult me twice, sir.
I had reason to both request and to be invited. I had had previous editorial board meetings–three to my recollection. I had energy tomes to my credit. And I was a lifelong Houstonian who founded the Institute for Energy Research, and IER’s president Tom Pyle had been chosen as the transition leader for Trump’s U.S. Department of Energy. Houstonians should hear my views, right?
At MasterResource, I brought attention to the extreme bias of the Chronicle in fossil-fuel-capital Houston, Texas. I particularly criticized business editorialist Chris Tomlinson, whose rants against fossil fuels doubled as PR for his wife’s multi-million-dollar income as an originator of renewable energy projects. Tomlinson statements (here and here) such as
Published!
My Houston Chronicle op-ed came out in the Print edition last Sunday. This breaks a decade-plus-long drought when the Progressive Left Chronicle ignored my submissions.
A new editor with a more inclusive editorial policy (thank you Trump Nation), Evan Mintz, reached out to me after seeing my MasterResource posts critical of the paper’s bias and my documentation of the conflicted business editorialist Chris Tomlison (see Appendix B). In any case, I was published online and in print.
I plan to write future opinion-page editorials for the Houston Chronicle–stay tuned.
Appendix A: Houston Chronicle Energy/Climate Bias
Remembering Fair Reporting on Climate: Houston Chronicle (circa 2010) (September 23, 2020)
Houston Chronicle vs. Petroleum: The Latest (May 6, 2020)
On the Houston Chronicle’s Editorial Crusade Against Fossil Fuels (September 10, 2019)
Appendix B: Chris Tomlinson Conflict/Bias
CERA Misreport: Chris Tomlinson Goes Sarcastic (March 20, 2025)
Tomlinson’s Narrative on the (Wounded) Texas Grid: More Misdirection from the Houston Chronicle (July 13, 2023)
Chris Tomlinson Confesses Conflict of Interest (June 2, 2023)
Tomlinson on Texas Electricity: Houston Chronicle Editorialist in the Wrong Paradigm (May 25, 2023)
Chris Tomlinson in the Church of Climate (February 23, 2023)
Chris Tomlinson Gets Ugly against Petroleum (December 9, 2021)
Business Columnist vs. Fossil Fuels & Capitalism (Charles Battig: March 5, 2019)
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