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.

Barking Up the Wrong Tree? Warming-Obsessed UK Independent Goes to the Dogs

It is not uncommon for the mainstream media to use eye-catching news as bait to draw people believe in climate change. Not the climate change that’s happened throughout geologic history, mind you. No, the climate change that’s allegedly manmade and driving the world to catastrophe. Case in point: Three years ago, the UK Independent claimed

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Is Germany the First Developed Nation Headed Towards Energy Suicide?

Ever since Germany’s announcement that it will go coal-free by 2022, one question keeps popping up in my head: Will mighty Germany be the first developed economy to commit energy suicide? Earlier this year, Germany announced that it will close all of its 84 coal-fired power plants by 2038. Ronald Pofalla, chairman of the government

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Will My Carbon Footprint Benefit or Harm the Environment?

My cousin in California is excited about buying a Tesla. “It is environmentally friendly” he says. Maybe you agree. My friends in India, too, are excited about buying electric cars. They think doing so will help them prevent global warming. But the evidence suggests otherwise. Almost every environmental policy now makes reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions,

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The Pop Culture Transition from Population Growth to Global Warming

For many of us Millennials, especially in densely populated developing countries like India and China, it was a no-brainer. Population growth was the world’s biggest problem. At least, so we learned in our schools. But as we grew into our 20s, the focus of the world turned more toward climate change. Was population growth really

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The Environmental Marvel that Even Avengers Could Not Have Dreamt of

                                            Why aren’t you seeing or hearing good news about the environment on your news apps and primetime news? If you think it’s because there isn’t any, think again. There’s lots. But environmentalists and the mainstream media (MSM) constantly focus on whatever bad news they can find—even if they have to exaggerate or manufacture it.

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The Global Nuclear Push: Pathway to a Bright and Secure Energy Future

I believe the future of energy is nuclear. Many others do, too. Despite the unfounded fears surrounding their safety, almost all major economies in the world have embraced nuclear technology with both arms. Here is a look at the current nuclear energy scenario and recent developments that offer a hope of a bright and secure

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Mother’s Day and Abortion: Hope for the Living and the Lost

I was born through a mother. So were you. But even as I was wishing a happy Mother’s Day to folks yesterday, a primetime news headline on CNN’s international website caught my eyes: “There was no hope.” CNN’s Attack on Mother’s Day The article talked of the difficulty in getting an abortion in Italy. CNN followed that with an article reporting on

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Air Pollution: Why There’s Hope for a Brighter Future

For many people today, humanity’s biggest moral failure is that we are destroying our environment. Nations that took part in the Industrial Revolution (those that conquered poverty long before others) get the lion’s share of the blame. High on the list of their crimes is air pollution. Soot- and smog-filled skies are an affront to

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