“There is no evidence that UN COP meetings and more than $10 trillion spent on renewables over the last 30 years have affected the climate. The average atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration,…
Tag: ESG
Critics Fear Financial Titans Have Found Trojan Horse For ‘Climate Mandates’
“BlackRock has backpedaled on its ESG messaging and its aggressive, unapologetic imposition of ESG on everything they touch. But the leopard hasn’t changed its spots,” President of the Heartland Institute…
Decline of the Great North American Decarbonization Charade
The Net Zero facade has collapsed massively, undeniably, irreversibly – because no policy survives violations of the laws of physics and market demand. Despite trillions spent on “renewables,” their contribution…
Trump Admin Backs Red States’ Antitrust Suit Against Financial Titans To ‘Protect Coal’
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) threw their weight behind an antitrust lawsuit against major asset managers that alleges the firms colluded to tank coal production…
Net Zero Fades As the Deluded Cling to Its Fantasy
Perhaps the fundamental failure of Net Zero was political. Permission was never sought from taxpayers and consumers who would pay the costs and suffer the consequences of an always ill-fated…
Driving a Stake Through Stakeholder Capitalism
E, S, G does not cover core financial risks. We’re looking to assess financially-relevant environmental, social and governance factors, not financially-relevant financial factors.” Got that? Yup. It’s total hogwash.
The “Clean Energy” Collapse: Hedge Fund Manager Declares the Obvious
As investors pull their money from failing clean energy ventures, the only question left is how much taxpayer money will be wasted before the political class admits defeat.
The Tennessee-BlackRock Settlement: A Win for Transparency and Investor Interests
While no settlement is perfect, this agreement represents a significant victory for transparency, accountability, and the integrity of financial markets. For Tennessee investors—and indeed, all investors across the country—it’s a…
AI Lions and Renewable Straw
The promotion of renewables by AI-owning investment firms is similarly confused. Either AI thrives in a world powered by the proven, reliable bounty of fossil fuels and nuclear fission, or it…
Buy Woke, Go Broke: The Failure of ESG Investing
ESG investment momentum has slowed on both sides of the Atlantic since 2022. In 2022, for the first time in more than a decade, investors pulled more money from funds…
The SEC’s Risky Plan to Decarbonize the U.S. Financial Markets
Most egregiously, with these climate disclosure rules, the SEC will no longer be an objective market referee, at least when it comes to the ESG factor of climate change. The…
Energy Truths Will Set Us Free
Climate science has become too political. Climate policies have become insufficiently scientific. And financial products ostensibly designed to reverse climate change now broadly exacerbate it.
Climate Change Weekly #511: Illegal ESG Collusion Behind Decarbonization Efforts
From Heartland Daily News H. Sterling Burnett YOU SHOULD SUBSCRIBE TO CLIMATE CHANGE WEEKLY. IN THIS ISSUE: Watch ALL the Presentations by the ALL-STARS of Climate Realism at the Archive of Heartland’s 15 Climate Conferences…
Five Questions Congress Should’ve Asked the Climate Cartel
SG investing promises nebulous profits in some far-off future, but my friends and family whose retirements rely on CalPERS need it to perform better today instead of doubling down on…
ESG and Stakeholder Capitalism: A Necessary Deconstruction
ESG is “just a ragtag collection of liberal policy wants” sponsored by the United Nations—diversity, union power, gender pay equality, executive compensation, and “fair” corporate taxes.
Oklahoma’s Anti-ESG Law Is Not Hurting Sooner State Taxpayers or Retirees
Oklahoma now stands on the front line of this anti-anti-ESG legal fight.
Business Roundtable Does a 180 on Stakeholder Capitalism in ExxonMobil Lawsuit
But now the tables have turned. Exxon, fresh off a couple of the most profitable years in its history, is taking the fight to the ESG activists.
Unattainable Sustainability
It is no exaggeration to say that the realities of solar silicon fabrication mean that solar subsidies and mandates have induced eager Californians to festoon their roofs with transmuted coal…
Profits of Doom
And if one can peddle misinformation on behalf of oil barons, one can peddle great big fat lies for green billionaires too.