The ongoing come-uppance of the mainstream media needs to reach business reporting. In a new political climate, that time is now at the Wall Street Journal.
Category: Commentary
The ‘Climate Change’ Bottom Line
Climate-related disaster deaths have declined 97.5% over the century (1920-2025). Richer, smarter, and more resilient societies reduce disaster deaths. This swamps any potential climate signal.
Earth Day 2026: “Our Power, Our PlanetTM, Our Propaganda” Redux
One would think that after all these years since 1970 the Earth Day proponents would engage in some soul searching about the fact that their endless apocalyptic assertions about environmental…
The End of EPA’s Endangerment Finding Is a Bigger Deal Than the Iran War
The fact that neither the ARC-ES nor the Endangerment Finding’s reversal of fortune is anywhere in the news tells you everything you need to know about the current state of…
Breakthrough! Houston Chronicle Publishes Non-alarmist Climate Op-ed
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.
Despite the Liberal Media’s Insistence, Americans Must Judge ‘Experts’ With Caution
The moral of the story is that consumers need to constantly question, a, the gravitas afforded to “experts” as it relates to political initiatives, b, the criteria used by the…
Mocked, Dismissed… and Right: The Problem With ‘Trust the Experts
When a person with the right background and the right software can meaningfully engage with complex problems, the old lines start to blur.
The Strait of Hormuz Crisis Shows the World Still Runs on Fossil Fuels
The world will remain vulnerable to disruptions in oil and gas supply. And few places embody that vulnerability more clearly than the Strait of Hormuz. A sliver of water in…
Is Public Stupidity Behind Climate Change Apathy?
Maybe its climate messaging. We’ve been attempting to scare or shame people into caring, and it’s not effective. Is it time to completely rethink how we talk about climate and…
Climate Alarmists Indifferent to Geopolitical Realities and Human Suffering
True reason consists in admitting that there are realities greater, more urgent, and more sacred than the planet’s thermostat. War forces us to look horror in the face. Let us…
What the Climate Issue Is All About
Compliance to climate mitigation will be enforced through court action. The fossil fuel industry will be sued into complete capitulation, and the “intuitive feelers” will control what energy sources the…
A New Way to Measure U.S. Energy Security
Given our current weak position in global mineral markets, shortages of copper, nickel, and neodymium that undermine the entire U.S. energy system may replace the oil embargos of the 1970s…
Hormuz Choke Point Displays ‘Green’ Vulnerabilities and US Power
The crisis also showcases America’s capacity to support allies and the poor. Long‑term LNG contracts with Asian and European partners, coupled with support for reasonable financing of oil and gas…
“These People are Crazy:” Climate Science and the Cult of Self-Loathing
There was a time when environmental stewardship meant conservation grounded in gratitude rather than condemnation. It reflected a belief that a prosperous and confident society could protect its natural inheritance…
Another Confusing Story Highlights Why Climate Hysteria and Far-Left Media Are Reaching Their End
It never occurs to the far-left (formerly mainstream) media that its demise might be attributable to more than economic factors or the rise of the internet. Just as important is…
We Didn’t Just Get Expensive Electricity. We Built a System That Makes It Inevitable.
Electricity is not a luxury. It is a necessity that underpins economic growth, public safety, and household stability. Ensuring its affordability requires more than promises. It requires policies that encourage…
The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 Part 8: Financialization of Climate Risk and Systemic Consequences
Complex systems demand humility. Restructuring global finance on the basis of uncertain nonlinear thresholds may prove to be its own form of tipping experiment.
The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 Part 7: Climate as Legal Imperative and the Judicialization of Policy
This installment addresses one of the most consequential shifts embedded in the report: the transformation of climate policy from a legislative choice into a legal obligation. Once climate stability is…
The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 Part 6: The Scientific Core — How Solid Are the Tipping Thresholds?
The strength of the case for rapid systemic transformation ultimately depends on the solidity of the tipping thresholds themselves. If those thresholds remain deeply uncertain in timing and probability, the…
What about Earth’s Threatened and Endangered PEOPLE?
These global zealots want power over poor countries – not power for the countries’ destitute and desperate people. Their morally depraved policies and practices bring death to millions every year.…