The Yuxi Circle holds 4.3 billion people and no illusions about how modern life works. Fossil fuels still power the path out of poverty. The ruling class trades in carbon outrage like it’s gold. Sanctimony fuels its crusade against oil, gas, and coal — never mind that those very fuels built the modern world. The […]
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A colleague of mine, Chris Talgo, recently penned an op-ed titled “Windmills and Solar Panels Aren’t Ready for Prime Time,” a title similar to my own from CCW 462, “Green Technologies Are Dangerous, Not Ready for Prime Time.” Both articles, and others I have written periodically across the past couple of decades, make the point
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The following is a guest article by Russell Cook. From all the news of ‘raging wildfires’ / ‘melting glaciers / ‘increasingly extreme weather’ / ‘hottest month ever recorded,’ it’s no surprise how that morphs into news of ‘climate anxiety’ affecting youths ranging from children to young college students. Supposedly well-intentioned journalists then add articles to their repertoire about ‘coping with the climate crisis.’ On top of
Less than two weeks after President Trump signed a series of executive orders intended to “usher in a nuclear energy renaissance” in the United States, major nuclear energy projects have suddenly moved forward. The bureaucracies at the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, long known for stalling nuclear projects, seem to have undergone
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As a boy growing up beside India’s railway lines, I found magic in the metallic thunder of passing trains. Now and then, freight cars piled high with black coal would roll by. That same evening, our lights would flicker out. There, I’d sit still in the hush of a powerless night, staring into the warm
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This week the United States experienced the first major heat wave of 2025. Over 160 million people in the Midwest, the South, and the East Coast experienced temperatures approaching 100oF. Many in the media claim that the soaring temperatures are due to human-caused global warming. But a look at history shows that such high temperatures
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One cannot peruse the morning headlines or scroll through the digital ether without being assailed by the global media’s solemn decree: Society is gracefully, unequivocally and inexorably decoupling from the deathly embrace of fossil fuels. Many in the “enlightened” professional classes, forgoing independent scrutiny of the issue, regurgitate the declaration with the vigorous conviction of
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The following is a guest article by Frits Byron Soepyan As Canadians host the 50th annual G7 Summit this week in Kananaskis, Alberta, they can expect a deluge of “climate-saving” proclamations — rhetoric divorced from scientific evidence and economic reality. This elite gathering of the world’s leading economies, along with the European Union, plans to spotlight climate
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From New York to California, state renewable electrical power dreams are collapsing. Power demands soar while the federal government cuts funding and support for wind, solar, and grid batteries. Renewables cannot provide enough power to support the artificial intelligence revolution. The Net Zero electricity transition is failing in the United States. For the last two
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Al Gore is redirecting his efforts to Africa, benefiting the Climate Cabal but hurting its poor Al Gore recently announced that he is refocusing his climate and energy efforts from the United States to the international arena, especially Africa. Like President Obama, he wants Africa to “leapfrog dirty fossil fuels” and have wind and solar
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