Can the World Solve an Energy Problem Especially in Africa?

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Those are two very different questions and need to be separated. But unfortunately, too many Europeans and their European cultural heirs prefer to conflate the two for cultural and economic advantages. Focus first on Africa. Africa needs electricity, affordable, reliable, and continuous energy to break the industrialization barrier. That means that coal must be the […]

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More Snow Hits the Fan this Week: Climate Change Alarmists Still Want it Both Ways

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As I predicted, climate change has been blamed for the recent New England blizzard (e.g. from Bloomberg here). During that storm, Boston tied its 24-hr snowfall record at 23.6 inches. Yet, as recently as January 6, we were told by USAToday that Boston’s lengthy 316-day streak *without* one inch of snowfall as of January 1st was caused by global

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UAH Global Temperature Update for January 2022: +0.03 deg. C.

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The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for January 2022 was +0.03 deg. C, down from the December 2021 value of +0.21 deg. C. The linear warming trend since January 1979 now stands at +0.13 C/decade (+0.12 C/decade over the global-averaged oceans, and +0.18 C/decade over global-averaged land). Various regional LT departures

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Global Agency Sows Fear With Misinformation

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A recent report by the World Meteorological Organization claims that there has been a dramatic increase in the number of natural disasters over the last 50 years. According to the WMO Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes (1970 – 2019), there were more than 11,000 reported disasters attributed to these hazards globally,

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Environmental regulations can sometimes do more harm than good

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Contrary to popular perceptions, all around the world, environmental conditions have improved dramatically in recent decades. There is less air pollution and more widespread access to clean water than ever before. Anyone who wants to learn more about this astounding progress should read Stephen Pinker’s Enlightenment Now and Hans Rosling’s Factfulness. These environmental performance gains

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China Surges Ahead While the West Self-Destructs

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As China builds more and more coal-fired power plants, consolidates its stranglehold on rare-earth metals vital for 21st-century economies, and extends its influence into America’s backyard, “woke” Westerners are marching like lemmings toward the energy poverty cliff. CNBC reports that climate activists and campaign groups are demanding an immediate end to the burning of fossil

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Science is in Trouble

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Will 2022 be another year when scientists lament the public’s continued lack of trust in science? Editorials abound about the pushback scientists are experiencing when it comes to proposed science-oriented solutions to serious societal challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. Yet, science communicators can be their own worst enemy when they go

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