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.

A Burning Golden Globe: Climate Hypocrisy Unraveled in Style

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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

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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

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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?

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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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When Winter Knocks Early: Don’t Let Climate Madness Trick You

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Winter arrived early this year for many parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Winter has arrived early this year for many parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Much of the U.S. is forecasted to experience record cold temperatures this week. Reports indicate that most states have a high chance of experiencing below-freezing temperatures in this week, as

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When Wolves Infiltrate the Sheepfold: Discerning Climate Truth From Falsehood in Churches

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In recent decades, environmental issues have emerged as a major source of concern for our society. Churches, except for a small percentage, have largely remained silent on how Christians should approach and even help overcome the environmental challenges. As a result, Christians have remained susceptible to being deceived by unbiblical principles that demand subscription to

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Developing Countries Must Bail out of the Climate Game

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As obvious as it may sound, developing countries need more fast-paced development, not moral policing on matters of energy, development, and environment. The onset of the twenty-first century saw the international community coerce developing nations into adopting economy-choking environmental policies. Earlier environmental laws focused on more tangible and empirically verifiable environmental problems, like deforestation and

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Dark, Dusty, and Developing: Climate Control Is the Last Thing We Want

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This article was originally published on the Patriot Post on September 30, 2019. Despite decades of rapid economic growth, parts of India (where I live) remain severely underdeveloped. Though India has achieved energy surplus — producing more electricity than it consumes — it has yet to fix the country’s dodgy transmission network. Houses in villages

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Rainfall Trends in India Show No Climate Fatigue

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Climate is particularly important to farmers in agrarian countries. Drought could mean the difference between life and death. India, for example, is predominantly agrarian. Of the country’s 1.3 billion people, 300 million, nearly a fourth, are poor even by Indian standards, and millions of others are on the borderline. So, agriculture is a big deal.

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When Christians get Entangled in Climate Idolatry

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The climate school strike movement grabbed the spotlight lately, with students across the world protesting against inaction towards the “climate crisis.” The movement’s leader, Greta Thunberg, has found supporters even in the global church leadership. However, in recent years, the church’s support for the climate movement seems to be morphing into a social justice issue that

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