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.

Dismantlement of South Africa’s Ferrochrome Industry

South Africa’s once dominant ferrochrome industry is on the brink of collapse and requires a government bailout. That decline is not because the world no longer needs ferrochrome. It is because South Africa’s leaders tied their industrial policy to a “green” agenda that undermines reliable, affordable energy and sacrifices economic strength.  What is happening in […]

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Energy Transition Meltdown Could Mean Global Bifurcation 

History will likely remember 2025 as the year energy corporatists finally stopped pretending there is a climate crisis. For a decade, a bizarre theater of the absurd played out as titans of the oil and gas industry apologized for their core business while pledging allegiance to a “green transition” that existed mostly in the imaginations

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As the Warming Scare Dissipates, Rationality Returns to Australia

Australia’s green energy experiment has left millions of its citizens with a shaky power grid, serving as a case study on how blind allegiance to climate dogma leads to economic and social turmoil.  The once sacred “net zero” pledge has been exposed as a curse producing public anger, stark warnings from industry and a rethinking

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Europe’s ‘Green’ Emperor Is Naked and Cold

Europe stands as the self-proclaimed cathedral of the “green” transition. Bureaucrats in Brussels and politicians in Berlin have spent decades lecturing the world on the moral necessity to abandon hydrocarbons. They have constructed a narrative of the European Union as a shining city powered by the breeze and sun, modeling a net-zero utopia. Yet, when

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Soil, Souls, and Salvation: A Christmas Reflection on What Matters

Time itself bowed two millennia ago. History pivots at the birth of Jesus Christ. Seven centuries before, the Prophet Isaiah pierced the veil of time to describe a Messiah who would conquer not with a sword, but with sacrifice. “Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows,” Isaiah wrote, foreseeing the substitutionary work

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Climate Faithful Admit Need for Fossil Fuels

For years, sensible voices outside the climate establishment warned that a future free of fossil fuels was physically impossible. As energy sources and as feedstocks, oil, natural gas, and coal are the foundation of modern civilization. Hardly any product – whether the fertilizer that makes possible food for billions or the plastics for medical devices,

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