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.

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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We Must End Climate Religion’s Hijack of Earth Day

Every April, the world pauses to mark Earth Day — an occasion that once invited reflection on tangible environmental concerns, like cleaning polluted rivers, planting trees, and securing clean air for urban populations. But like so much of the modern environmental movement, Earth Day has been co-opted by a doomsday cult masquerading as science. What

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Media’s Green Pandering Lures Developing World Into Disaster

Most, if not all, individuals encountered daily in my native country of India appear to have adopted the media’s narrative of a climate crisis. Of course, individuals with demanding schedules often lack the time or energy to research climate science and sort through conflicting assertions in the news. Ideologues, in collaboration with much of the

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Hydrocarbon-friendly Trump a match for energy-hungry India

With 1.4 billion energy-hungry citizens, India stands at the epicenter of the geopolitics of energy and climate policy. As the world’s third-largest energy consumer and projected to have the fastest growth in demand over the next two decades, the subcontinent’s choices reverberate far beyond its borders. The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that India will

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Trump energy choices saving America from economic disaster

Having discerned the Green New Deal as fraudulent, President Trump’s shift to maximize proven energy technologies may very well be America’s salvation from an economic disaster that climate policies were sure to deliver. The forced “transition” to alternative energy – relentlessly evangelized by policymakers, environmentalists, and corporate titans – promised to save humanity from purported

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U.S. Energy Secretary Offers Africa Freedom from Climate Imperialism

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has signaled a change that could mean the difference between life and death for millions in Africa. Speaking at the “Powering Africa Summit” in Washington, D.C., Wright told leaders of a continent of 1.5 billion people that the Trump administration “has no desire to tell you what to do with

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Could U.S. Federal Reserve’s Exit from Climate Group Trigger Global Exodus?

For many across the world, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s decision to exit the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) is a sign that central banks can refocus on their primary mandates: stabilizing economies, controlling inflation and fostering growth. Developing nations that need financial backing for the development of fossil fuel projects to advance economic

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