Cobalt Carnage, Child Labor, and Ecological Destruction

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Global cobalt demand soared with the advent of cell phones and laptop computers. It exploded with the arrival of electric vehicles and is now skyrocketing in tandem with government EV mandates and subsidies. Cobalt improves battery performance, extends driving range, and reduces fire risks. Demand will reach stratospheric heights if governments remain obsessed with climate change […]

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Bloomberg Finances and Coopts State Attorneys General

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Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash When you’ve built a financial information and media empire and become the world’s seventh richest person, you get to say dumb things, like suggesting that farming is easy: “You dig a hole, put a seed in, put dirt on top, add water – and up comes the corn.” Being ultra-wealthy also shields

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Deadly Hawaii Fires Are Result of Political and Policy Failures—Not Climate Change

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Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Hawaii has suffered through one of the most devastating natural disasters in recent American history. Predictably, the left-wing political and media narrative-making machine has sought to turn the Hawaii fires into another lesson about climate change. The facts draw a drastically different picture. The extent of the damage on the

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Time to Cool Climate Panic Over Summer Heat

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There is some hysteria over recent declarations of worldwide, record-breaking heat based on woefully limited climate data. Perspective is badly needed to calm the air. Official proclamations cannot change the climate or alter the state of the atmosphere, but they can lead to undue panic. The assertion that the exceptionally voluminous quantity of air that

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Jurassic Mammoths?

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The following is an excerpt from an article by Heather Frank. Shaggy-coated and large-tusked, woolly mammoths once roamed the cold tundra of Europe, Asia, and North America. Mammoths became extinct thousands of years ago, but now Colossal, a biosciences and genetics company, wants to bring these pachyderms back to life. Using cutting-edge genetic engineering technology,

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The Disastrous Potential of The EPA’s Proposed Rule for Model Year 2027

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Comment to the Environmental Protection Agency: Proposed Rule on “Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Year 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles” Summary The benefit/cost analysis published by the Environmental Protection Agency in its proposed rule “Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Year 2027 and Later Light-Duty and Medium-Duty Vehicles” is fatally flawed; accordingly, the proposed

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Abandoning Fossil Fuels Without a Replacement Helps China

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Wind turbines and solar panels that can generate electricity intermittently are themselves totally dependent on fossil fuels for all their components. Renewables offer NO energy independence, as America has never imported electricity from foreign countries. Wind and solar just generate intermittent electricity.  Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Further, the raw materials that are essential for

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The Untold Story of Climate’s Holocene Gift to Humanity

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News reports of summer heatwaves often perversely misrepresent a modern climate favorable to human flourishing in order to fearmonger the false narrative of catastrophic global warming. The geological epoch of the Holocene, which roughly corresponds to the last 11,700 years, is a time of warmth that has been vital in fostering the diversity and adaptability

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Countering the World’s Rigged Conversation about Energy and Climate

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Today’s conversation about energy and climate is “rigged” with bad thinking methods, misleading terms, false assumptions, and anti-human values—all of which serve to promote deadly policies. Our rigged conversation about energy and climate Just as legal systems can be rigged, so can cultural conversations We are all familiar with the idea of a legal system that

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U.S. Nuclear Energy Policy: Stuck on Stupid!

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The gullibility of the human species is a sight to behold. Take these examples, from a list of superstitions. According to Joshua Partlow, Washington Post Mexico bureau chief, putting two mirrors in front of each other opens a threshold for the devil. In Lithuania, it is forbidden to whistle indoors, because the noise is believed to summon demons.

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