ASEAN Nations Return to Fossil Fuels, Back Away from Net Zero Plans

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For years, ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) governments faced pressure from international lenders and climate forums to announce fossil fuel phase-outs, moratoriums on new plants, and heavy bets on wind and solar. Indonesia and Vietnam secured decarbonization-inspired funding from the Just Energy Transition Partnership. Leaders spoke of achieving net-zero goals by 2050 and exiting […]

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Germany’s Nuclear Confession Is a Crack in Net‑Zero Pretense

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called the nuclear phaseout a “serious strategic mistake” that left Germany short of firm power that turned the Energiewende into the most expensive energy transition on the planet. This is an early marker for a developing worldwide retreat from policies that sidelined nuclear power and demonized coal, oil, and natural gas.  German and Japanese Nuclear Embarrassment Germany stubbornly closed its

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Climate Pseudoscience Debunked: Livestock Methane Fears are Baseless

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Policymakers are demanding that farmers scale back meat production, reengineer agricultural systems, and burden consumers with higher grocery bills to prevent a fabricated climate catastrophe. This is fearmongering based on false claims that methane emitted as a byproduct of livestock digestion contributes significantly to allegedly dangerous atmospheric warming.  Happily, the pseudoscience of this campaign against ruminants—mainly cattle and sheep—is refuted in a paper published by the CO2 Coalition,

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Wright and Burgum – Trump’s Energy Tiger Team

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Back in January 2025, during the confirmation process for President Trump’s Cabinet nominees, Wyoming Senator John Barrasso condemned the Biden Administration’s “regulatory rampage” that resulted in “painfully high prices for food and fuel.” Barrasso called energy “the master resource” and linked control of energy production the key to controlling the nation’s future. And then he said, “Governor

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South Korea’s Net Zero Boast Crumbles

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Just a few months ago, South Korean officials were busy boasting about extreme net zero targets. Fast forward to April 2026, and the country is scrambling to secure every vessel load of oil and natural gas available on the global market.  Last November, the Presidential Commission on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth formalized its 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution, pledging a sweeping 53–61%

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CFS CEO Pooh-Poohs Claim Fusion Is Not Worth the Money

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Just as Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a company spun off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018, was announcing that its mission to build a compact fusion power plant (the SPARC) based on the ARC tokamak design was nearing completion, a team of engineers from ETH Zurich (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) were throwing

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What About Earth’s Threatened and Endangered People?

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Another Earth Day has come and gone – number 57, like Heinz steak sauce. Once again, the media, activists and international agencies fed us pablum, exaggeration and alarmism. Our public lands, the Endangered Species Act, biodiversity and environmental justice are under threat, they raged. Oceans are filling with plastic waste. Big polluting corporations are getting away

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Why Undoing the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Rule Matters for Americans

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The following is a guest article by Thomas Savidge. The recent rescission of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding and Motor Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards Under the Clean Air Act marks one of the largest deregulation efforts in a generation. Among the 571,672 comments the EPA received on this issue last September,

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Open Letter to Federal Judicial Center Chair, Chief Justice John Roberts

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EN: In an unusual intervention aimed at the federal judiciary, three prominent physicists—Richard Lindzen, William Happer, and Steven Koonin—have issued an open letter to John G. Roberts Jr. raising concerns about the latest edition of the Federal Judicial Center’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. The manual, long regarded as a neutral guide for judges evaluating

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