Washington has issued what may be its final warning: energy and geopolitical realism or decline. The United States has made its choice. Europe must now decide whether it still has…
Category: Commentary
Trust the Experts? It’s a Bad Bet
Experts are often right, but they are also often wrong. We need credentialed authorities because their deep knowledge helps us make sense of complexity. But when it comes to prediction,…
Labour Peer: Net Zero is Fantastical and Incoherent and Must Be Abandoned
From THE DAILY SCEPTIC by Maurice Glasman This is the text of Lord Glasman’s recent speech to the Global Warming Policy Foundation (watch here). To understand the first part, you need to know that…
A Thanksgiving Tribute to Global Warming and CO2
So, Thanksgiving revelers, remember the simple truth: Much is owed to the warmth of the sun, the invisible work of carbon dioxide and the fossil fuels that power the dinner…
Thanksgiving Prices Fall Because the Green Agenda Lost
According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, the cost of a classic Thanksgiving dinner for ten people dropped about 5% this year, landing at $55.18. After years of grocery-store sticker…
Climate Change on Trial
COP30, promoted as The COP of Truth, is now underway in Belem, Brazil. So many delegates are attending that cruise ships have been chartered to accommodate them. What would the…
Consultant Class Belatedly Recognizes Energy Realities
For those who have repeated energy realities for years, the vindication is bittersweet. The satisfaction of being right is tempered by the knowledge that many have suffered because reality has…
Bill Gates’s Climate U-Turn: Real Epiphany or Expedient Pivot?
The climate alarmist establishment is in veritable disarray, as one of its most influential patrons appears to have defected from the faith. Last week, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates wrote a…
Bill Gates Walks It Back: Disaster Isn’t Imminent
Disaster isn’t imminent. It never was, at least not in the all-caps sense that justified the last round of grand designs. The world’s a messy, resilient place. The historical record…
Ted Nordhaus’s Epiphany
For that, Ted Nordhaus deserves genuine respect. He may not yet be a full skeptic, but he has done something rare in the climate priesthood: he has confessed that the…
Conventional Climate Science Threatens Civilization
Reason, empirical investigation and intellectual freedom have been undermined by a politically charged climate movement, which is a threat to science and civilization itself.
The Technocrats Are Falling as Their Ideology Fails
The story of Lysenkoism is a warning from history: when science serves ideology, catastrophe follows. The 20th century paid that price in blood and famine. The 21st has flirted with…
Angry Michael Mann Isolates Himself (climate exaggeration backfires)
“And yes, there is empirical, peer-reviewed support for the conclusion that climate deniers, in general, are truly awful human beings.” (- Michael Mann,..)
Rescinding the Endangerment Finding Was Overdue. But Where Do We Turn for Justice?
It is not outrageous or even unreasonable to demand an accounting of the human toll exacted by the climate cult, both in the U.S. and globally. What price tag can…
No Country for Climate Hawks
The climate hawks are facing extinction. And in their absence, something stronger is finally taking flight.
International Energy Agency Policies Hurt Africans
One of the most important developments this century has been a major increase in energy access across the globe: Billions of people have gained access to modern energy, a precondition…
Louisiana’s Leadership on Breaking America’s Decades-Long Energy Stagnation
The U.S. must adapt to the world we live in, and that starts with bills like HB692, which demonstrate how states can reclaim control over their energy destiny from federal…
Energy Independence Day: Freedom from the Climate Cult
This Independence Day, we celebrate not just the founding of a nation, but the restoration of its right to determine its own future—grounded in reason, powered by affordable energy, and…
Heartland UK/Europe: More Progress! (DeSmog confirms again)
For the Heartland Institute and its supporters, DeSmog’s reporting serves as a ringing endorsement of their effectiveness. Even in the UK, the exaggerated arguments for the green scam are being…
The Carbon Isotope Fingerprint Just Got Smudged – and I Owe Some of You an Apology
Carbon isotope ratios remain valuable tools, but they are no longer unimpeachable witnesses. They are part of a broader, far more uncertain picture of how carbon moves through the Earth…
The Culture War on Climate Is Over—And the Left Lost It the Day They Started Lying About Everything
That narrative structure—the breathless projection of catastrophe, the rigid insistence on compliance, the moral castigation of skeptics—is precisely what Americans no longer believe. Because they’ve seen the machinery behind it.…
From Manure Mountains to Train Terrors: 4 Bizarre Fears Humans Left Behind
Human beings are a panicky species – quick to fear and slow to understand. Over much of our evolutionary history, this ingrained alarm served us well, keeping us alive in…
Who Should Your Climate Speaker Be?
“Anyone with real climate anxiety who can make a living outside of the Climate Industrial Complex should take up the Alex Epstein challenge….”