New York’s New Solar Religion Is Absolutely Devastating to Wildlife, Farmland 

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Drive from Buffalo into Genesee County and you will pass fields that have grown corn and soybeans for generations. Soon, thousands of those acres will be covered by steel and glass. New York state is forcing industrial-scale solar plants onto rural communities that never asked for them, and the people who live there are discovering

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Fauci Didn’t Create Faucism. He Exposed It

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[We reprint this article because its lessons are equally applicable to how Americans have responded to self-proclaimed experts about climate change over the last two decades and more.—ECB] The following is a guest article by Barry Brownstein. In a 2021 AIER essay, “Liberating Yourself from Faucism,” I wrote: “The issue isn’t Anthony Fauci’s failings. The

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The Climate Crusade Against Prosperity

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Swedish activist Greta Thunberg earned her moniker Doom Pixie because of her diminutive height and shrill accusations of human and planetary doom allegedly due to fossil-fuel-fueled climate change.   Her most famous tirade was directed at world leaders for allegedly doing too little to stop it.   “How dare you?” she fiercely scowled at United Nations Secretary-General

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Hoping for an Energy-Intensive Future 

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For campaigners of the net zero agenda, “climate action” must come first, even if it means throttling the energy lifelines for billions of the poor. The data say something very different. A sweeping analysis by Kevin Dayaratna and Kat Miller, “Energy Abundance and Human Flourishing: A Data‑Driven Global Analysis,” shows what history has already taught

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Climate Alarmists go Silent: Turns Out Fossil Fuels are Earth’s ‘Miracle-Gro’ 

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Climate alarmists treat fossil fuels as the producer of soot and environmental damage, yet the record is more complicated and quite positive. New research shows nitrogen deposition from the burning of hydrocarbons has helped to expand plant growth and the greening of large parts of the planet.  A Nutrient Hidden in Emissions  A 2026 global

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Washington Lit the Fuse for Africa’s Energy Explosion  

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Four years after TotalEnergies vacated its Afungi site in northern Mozambique amid civil unrest, the company restarted its $20 billion liquefied natural gas project. The gas had not moved. The geology had not improved. What changed sat 8,000 miles away at the U.S. Export-Import Bank, where a newly appointed board reauthorized a $4.7 billion loan

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Record Low Lake Mead: “Millennium Drought” or Inevitable Result of Demand Exceeding Supply?

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Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam is now within several feet of the lowest level at which turbine power generation must be greatly curtailed. Recent news articles often blame the cause on a “millennium drought” being experienced in the West. Of course, much of the western U.S. experiences drought conditions every summer, which is part of

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