Two Surprising Voices on Climate Change and Renewable Energy

Stereotyping is easy. One can predict people’s worldviews and policy positions based on their social and political identities. That generally holds true for people’s views about climate change and climate and energy policy—among the hottest issues in the world today. Yet some people prioritize the pursuit of truth over how they wish things were. Two […]

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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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New UN Report on Looming Mass Extinctions Exposed in US House Testimony

A new UN report warns that “around 1 million species already face extinction, many within decades.” That allegation was contained within the 1,800-page Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) “Summary for Policy Makers,” released on May 6. If “decades” means 30 to 40 years, then the IPBES estimates an extinction rate of about 25,000

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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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