Image: Creative Commons under UnsplashIn Europe, at the turn of the twentieth century, great advances were being made in atomic theory. In 1904, the British physicist and Nobel laureate Sir Joseph John Thomson, who had discovered the electron, proposed his “Plum Pudding Model” of the atom, characterizing it as a smear of positive and negative charges much like pudding with embedded raisins (which the British called plums).Five years later, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, working under the … [Read more...]
Floods Are Nothing New
This is a guest article by Viv Forbes.There is nothing unusual about floods, fires, droughts, homelessness, and hunger – they have always been part of the human story. But satellite technology allows us to track them better and our worldwide media revels in disaster reporting, bringing tearfully tragic scenes into every living room, every night.Population growth means that more people are affected by weather events, but there is no evidence that floods and droughts are getting worse.Written … [Read more...]
Vietnam’s U-Turn on Coal Reflects Inevitable Energy Reality
Ever since signing the Paris climate agreement, Vietnam has shown interest in reducing its dependency on fossil fuels, introducing in recent years a slew of measures to cut consumption. However, in what is considered to be a major U-turn, Vietnam’s government announced last month that it will increase coal imports for the next 13 years. Critics of fossil fuels, including most mainstream media, are out of sync with the world’s energy realities. They are consistently … [Read more...]
Joe Biden’s Ad Hoc Use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Notwithstanding vociferous criticism of the politicized use of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve by the Biden administration, such drawdowns have been employed for decades by Democratic and Republican administrations alike as an ad hoc and futile response to short-run increases in fuel prices. Unlike the case for all previous administrations, which viewed the domestic production of fossil fuels as a positive or at least … [Read more...]
With Winter Coming, Europe Is Walking Off a Cliff
The following is a guest article by Brenda Shaffer.Facing the worst energy crisis since World War II as the cold-weather heating season starts, Europe continues to dither. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has presented a series of new European Union energy policies, including planned price caps, additional taxes on energy producers, the establishment of a new European hydrogen bank, and new support for electric vehicles. European Union member states, meanwhile, … [Read more...]
Hawaii’s Axis Deer Mismanagement is Causing an Ecological Disaster
The History of Axis Deer in HawaiiAs the 8-seat Mokulele Airlines plane approached the Molokai airport, I noticed the very overgrazed Molokai Ranch below. Surely, the ranch owners know better than to let their cattle overgraze like this. And besides, don’t they know cattle produce catastrophic levels of greenhouse gases? Why do they have so many cows? But wait, Molokai Ranch ceased most of its ranching operations back in 2008. The overgrazing was not from cattle, but deer. Thousands … [Read more...]
Here’s the Latest Climate Change Projection That Was Totally Wrong
This is a guest article by Matt Vespa.As if this is shocking news, the global warming Armageddon peddlers were wrong again. How many times have we heard that we’re all going to die if we don’t sacrifice economic growth to reduce global temperatures by an indiscernible amount? Democrats had a full-blown meltdown over the haggling about the latest spending bill when it seemed as if it were on life support. If we don’t pass the inflation reduction act, which quickly became a climate change … [Read more...]
Fossil Fuels are the Greenest Energy Sources
This is a guest article by Indur M. GoklanyContrary to the claims of proponents of the Green New Deal and Net Zero, fossil fuels are the greenest fuels.First, uniquely among energy sources, fossil fuel use emits CO2, which is the ultimate source of the elemental building block, carbon, found in all carbon-based life, i.e., virtually all life on Earth.The increased amplitude of the seasonal cycle in atmospheric CO2 and satellite-borne instrumentation to measure solar-induced chlorophyll … [Read more...]
What on Earth is Happening in Germany?
In this post, I will break down what is happening to Germany today, what I think will happen over the next year or so, and what we should do to prevent economic collapse of the EU.Germany: 80 Million people, 350.000km2, (former) export champion of the world, the global heaven for car enthusiasts, an industrial power house with a stellar reputation abroad for “clean”, “efficient”, “straight”, “knowing how to do it.” Today, Germany is struggling. Just this year, Germany became a … [Read more...]
Biden Energy Policies: Incoherent, Incompetent, Intolerable
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in West Virginia v. EPA is truly a landmark ruling. It decisively rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to use vague, “previously little-used” language in the Clean Air Act to shutter America’s remaining coal-fired power plants and force the nation to switch to pseudo-renewable energy, in the name of ending the “manmade climate crisis.” But the decision goes much further. The Court made it clear that federal agencies may not … [Read more...]
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