South African leaders must pivot to an energy agenda that accepts the present reality: Coal and natural gas are indispensable for industrial competitiveness – at least until affordable, reliable, on-demand…
Tag: Africa
African Energy Chamber to G20: Fossil Fuel Future
“The time has come to ‘drill, baby, drill’ – responsibly, strategically and to meet the energy needs of hundreds of millions of Africans who still live in darkness.” (- African…
Nonprofits Cruelly Normalize Poverty for Climate Virtue
The truth: Climate policy that ignores needs of people and contributes to generational poverty is cruel, even when presented with the gloss of environmental virtue.
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…
Small Modular Reactors are a game-changer for Africa and the world
Forcing Africa into a renewable-only path risks perpetuating electricity poverty, a form of hypocrisy that is bullying the world’s poor. Small Modular Reactors: A Game-Changer for Africa
Africa’s Renewable Leapfrog Is a Mirage—A Dangerous One
Africa is not an anthropological museum for Western virtue, and the energy “leapfrogging” myth is a neo-colonial fable dressed in technobabble. Africa should climb the same energy ladder that raised…
G-7: Africans Deserve Real Electricity
Those that aspire to net-zero are condemning Africa to extreme poverty. Those that promote African access to fossil fuels, want Africans to have the chance to rise up.
The world needs People Day more than Earth Day
Al Gore recently announced that he is refocusing his climate and energy efforts from the United States to the international arena, especially Africa. Like President Obama, he wants Africa to…
Trump’s Energy Secretary Offers Africa Freedom from Biden’s Climate Imperialism
“It’s a paternalistic post-colonial attitude that I just can’t stand,” Wright said of the climate evangelism that sought to force others to abandon fossil fuels and adopt largely useless technologies…
Study: “Wealthier … African nations … show lower levels of climate ambition”
Do you think there might be a connection?
Climate Colonialism’s Stranglehold on Africa’s Energy Starved
European colonialism that methodically extracted wealth from Africa until the system’s collapse in the last century has been replaced by a climate colonialism that stifles the economic development that the…
Stick to the Weather, World Meteorological Organization, Africa’s GDP Is Not Declining
…it might behoove the AP to do some simple fact checking (it takes just a few minutes through the magic of the internet), looking at existing hard data on trends…
Climate change is already forcing millions of people to migrate – Bill Gates’ Telegraph Says
More Bill Gates funded propaganda:
444,000 semi-loads of food? Just another day on planet earth
Heathrow airport in London uses more energy than the whole African nation of Sierra Leone [population ~8.5 million
No, BNN, Climate Change Will Not Leave 200 Million Africans Hungry by 2050
From CLIMATE REALISM By Anthony Watts and H. Sterling Burnett An article published in BNN Breaking News by author Aqsa Younas Rana, titled “Climate Change to Plunge 200 Million Africans…
Wrong, Washington Post, Warming Hasn’t Harmed African Crop Production
Ethiopian cereal production increased 467 percent; Yields increased 112 percent; All-time production records were broken 9 times between 2011-2021.
Electric Vehicles and Africa: No Place for Rich Boys Toys
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the push for electric vehicles is a diversion from the region’s more urgent problems.
Africa Doesn’t Need Western Elites’ Meaningless Climate Policies
The economic benefits of fossil fuel production are obvious and badly needed.
Wrong, Media and COP-27, Africa Is Not De-Carbonizing, Oil Exploration Is Expanding
African countries appear to be going forward with new oil and gas projects, including pipeline infrastructure, to take advantage of the bounty of natural resources the continent is blessed with.
Attention Poor People, Step Away from The Fuel. It’s Not for You. And Stop Using It Anyway. Thank You
the correct take that there are ways to make progress while feeding everyone, to make “the environment” cleaner and stronger while building a lot of necessary stuff – but it…