Vijay Jayaraj

Vijay Jayaraj is a Research Associate at the CO2 Coalition, Arlington, VA and writes frequently for the Cornwall Alliance. He holds a master’s degree in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia, UK, and resides in India.

Big, Beautiful Coal

As a boy growing up beside India’s railway lines, I found magic in the metallic thunder of passing trains. Now and then, freight cars piled high with black coal would roll by. That same evening, our lights would flicker out.  There, I’d sit still in the hush of a powerless night, staring into the warm […]

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Decarbonization Myth Frays as Hydrocarbon Use Grows

One cannot peruse the morning headlines or scroll through the digital ether without being assailed by the global media’s solemn decree: Society is gracefully, unequivocally and inexorably decoupling from the deathly embrace of fossil fuels.  Many in the “enlightened” professional classes, forgoing independent scrutiny of the issue, regurgitate the declaration with the vigorous conviction of

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Climate-obsessives’ 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. Nowhere is this more evident than in climate science where changes in geophysical phenomenon continue to defy assumptions and forecasts presented by some of the most highly paid and influential scientists

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India Spurns Carbon Tax Threat, Promotes Trade and Fossil Fuels

Like many developing economies, India faces coercion from the United Nations and Europe to conform to climate policies, especially through the imposition of carbon taxes on imports into their countries. But Delhi is not about to bend to such tactics.  “If they (EU and U.K.) put in a carbon tax, we’ll retaliate,” said India’s Union

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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. From BlackRock’s quiet exit to the mass defection of U.S. banking giants, the climate bandwagon is losing passengers. And what replaces it could finally bring a necessary focus on real-world

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India-US Deal Signals Energy Sovereignty and Climate Cult’s Demise

U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Namaste Trump rally in Ahmedabad, India, February 24, 2020.. Photo by the Executive Office of the President, public domain. In a landmark move that may well redefine the future of U.S.-India trade relations and global energy geopolitics, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance announced the

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Traditional Media Turn Complex Science Into Impending Catastrophe

Having abandoned objective reporting, the mainstream media’s refusal to adopt a neutral stance on climate change has transformed a complex scientific debate into a monolithic narrative of impending catastrophe. Far from being impartial arbiters, media outlets are enthusiastic propagandists recycling doomsday predictions that consistently fail to materialize while ignoring a wealth of scientific research that

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Trump’s Example to the World: Cull Activists to Achieve Energy Abundance

Simply by following the lead of U.S. President Donald J. Trump, national leaders of developing countries can clear away obstacles to rational energy policy that have been erected by climate activists. On April 8, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Protecting American Energy from State Overreach,” a bold step to counter what he described

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Summertime Reality Twisted Into Climate Exasperation

Growing up in the sun-scorched plains of Southern India, where summer temperatures often flirt with 104 degrees Fahrenheit, I learned early that extreme heat is not an anomaly but a seasonal reality to be expected. Yet, all of us confront the metaphorical heat of relentless rhetoric from climate alarmists who insist our planet is overheating

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Fossil fuels and fertilizers: a pairing that feeds the world

Amid Earth Day’s impassioned calls to save the planet for future generations, a disquieting irony emerges: Efforts to eradicate fossil fuels – a linchpin of modern agro-industrial systems – risk severing the very supply chains that make global food security possible.  From famine to abundance: green revolution Contemporary food production sustains a global populace of approximately

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