The U.S. and Japan are shedding the paralysis of irrational climate policies with a strategic pact covering rare-earth minerals, critical components for semiconductors and next-generation nuclear reactors.
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China Threat Calls for Ideologically Free Energy Policy
Ultimately, energy independence is not merely an economic issue; it is the bedrock of national sovereignty. A nation that cannot power its homes, fuel its industries, and move its military…
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.
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.
‘Green’ Antoinettes Preaching Austerity From Private Jets
Politicians, celebrities and billionaires who lecture about carbon footprints operate by a separate set of rules. Living in ostentatious opulence, they exude spectacular hypocrisy that is rarely challenged by media…
Net Zero Hobbits Encounter Realities Outside Middle-earth
We were promised a “green” utopia free of fossil fuels, powered by sunshine and breezes. However, the net zero hobbits living in this imaginary shire were blissfully ignorant of hard…
Time to Stop Endangerment of Developing Economies With CO2 Regulation
Now is the time for policymakers in developing economies to stop treating plant food as public enemy number one so that their societies can take advantage of energy resources that…
South American Cold Underscores Role of Oil and Gas
The Antarctic cold wave was a reminder of both nature’s unpredictability and the continent’s potential. With courage and clarity, the region can harness its oil and gas wealth to build…
Asian Forests Victims of Intolerable ‘Green’ Lie
In the modern climate debate, emotion and partisan allegiance replace critical thinking to smear carbon dioxide (CO2) as a dangerous pollutant. Well-crafted green advocacies steal the spotlight, while reason languishes…
The Ongoing Fiction of Cheap Wind and Solar
As energy analyst Alex Epstein testified in the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should “require solar and wind generators to bear the full costs of the backup,…
Poland’s Pragmatic Energy Approach Pays Off
By refusing to play by the EU’s restrictive climate rules, Poland has begun to build one of Europe’s most energy-secure economies. While much of the bloc marches in lockstep towards…
CO2 Sustains Greenhouse Farming Revolution
By Vijay Jayaraj The world would be safer if industrial emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) were stopped, according to the teachings of many schools, the regulatory schemes of some governments…
Decarbonization Myth Frays as Hydrocarbon Use Grows
Meanwhile, the digital battleground remains an arena for the ongoing tug-of-war between the realities of economics and physics and fanciful rhetoric about an energy transition. The growth in consumption of…
The Lethal Fog of Clean-Air Hypocrisy
For nations where uninterrupted electricity is still a distant dream, natural gas provides the reliable, scalable, affordable, and dramatically cleaner fuel for cooking and heating. Clean air should not be…
Big, Beautiful Coal Here for Many More Years Despite ‘Green’ Demonization
Coal is expected to dominate the energy sector for at least three more decades, barring a disruption by rapid innovation that would enable its economical displacement. Similarly, the mineral will…
Market Realities Continue to Mug Faddish ‘Energy Transitions’
Renewable has been the buzzword in the pop language of the energy sector. Two decades have passed since we were first told that weather-dependent wind turbines and solar panels would…
Climate-Obsesseds’ Infantile Reading of Polar Ice
Whenever “experts are shocked” they usually have marginalized or ignored altogether factors wrongly assumed to have no influence over their hypotheses, theories or beliefs.
Financials Shift from ‘Green’ Agenda to Greenbacks
In a slow but steady retreat, the world’s most powerful financial institutions are abandoning their once-lauded climate pledges in the beginning of a long-overdue correction.
Climate Dogma and the ‘Ignorance of Experts’
Only by embracing skepticism and open discussion can we craft resilient policies – ones that allow the world to flourish without mortgaging the future to a dogmatic march toward energy…
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…