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.

Not for Thee, But for Me: The Twin Life of Climate Hypocrites

Certain politicians are known for their proclivity for being hypocritical. An infiltration of this hypocrisy into climate change governance was all but inevitable when the global efforts to understand climate change morphed into a pseudo-scientific political movement. Unlike the scaremongering that dominates our headlines, most of these hypocritical lifestyles of the elitists never make the

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A Burning Golden Globe: Climate Hypocrisy Unraveled in Style

By now practically everybody’s heard how Ricky Gervais roasted celebrities at the 2020 Golden Globe awards. To say he called them out as hypocrites would be putting it mildly. Among his illustrious critical remarks were some about climate-change hypocrisy that celebrities display every year. What’s so special about that? Well, right-wing media and climate realists often point

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Record Heat and Cold Expose Climate Alarmists’ Bias

Australia was literally on fire in December. Record heat made headlines in global media. So did the extreme rainfall in east Africa.

 You and everybody else on earth can guess what climate alarmists blamed for both: man-made global warming, a.k.a. climate change.

 But record cold in northern India at the same time didn’t make headlines

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India’s Fossil-Fuel-First Policy Unyielding to Paris Climate Deal Pressure

The Indian government has adopted a fossil-fuel-first attitude and has made clear it will not compromise India’s developmental goals to fight climate change. The Paris agreement is the United Nation’s flagship climate treaty aimed at reducing global CO2 emissions. India’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), the country’s official commitment to the Paris agreement, states that the

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Isn’t Gene Editing a Better Form of Crossbreeding?

Last month the Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety committee (ENVI) of the European Parliament voted to oppose the European Union’s plan to approve four crops—varieties of cotton, soybeans, and maize (corn)—genetically modified to resist herbicides. Their vote exemplifies the mistaken belief that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are unsafe. No one would be sadder than

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