Popular culture is full of gritty dramas about Norsemen shivering in fur pelts, launching raids on British monasteries, and navigating the icy fringes of the North Atlantic. Yet, while the Vikings were struggling to eke out a subsistence living on the thawing margins of Greenland, a far more sophisticated, wealthy, and powerful maritime colossus arose […]
Global Warming Sustained a Naval Power That Dwarfed Vikings Learn More »
In a last-gasp flurry of activity, the 119th House of Representatives in December moved forward a bevy of bills aimed at shortening the time frame and the costs required for federal permits for infrastructure projects, many of which are deemed vital to national security. That’s the good news. The bad news is that these bills
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At COP30, the United Nations Climate Conference, Governor Gavin Newsom praised California’s use of renewable energy and attacked the energy policies of the Trump administration. But from high prices to failing renewable systems, California has an energy affordability crisis. In fact, it is and affordability disaster. Last week at COP30 in Brazil, California Governor Gavin
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Environmental groups seek to halt data center construction in the United States. They warn that data centers consume enormous quantities of electricity and water and contribute to climate change. But environmentalists now oppose the artificial intelligence revolution (AI), the irresistible force that is transforming the US economy. On December 8, more than 230 environmental organizations
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In a companion explainer, “Understanding ‘the Grid’ that Powers Delaware,” I describe how the electric grid operates as a real-time, just-in-time system in which electricity must be produced and consumed almost instantaneously. That structure frames the challenges now confronting Delaware as electricity demand rises and state generation capacity continues to decline. PJM Interconnection, the regional
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Sometimes papers are published that overturn the conventional wisdom. Other times papers are retracted since what they purported to be true turned out to be false. Such is also the case in the climate change literature. In the last quarter of 2025, we have seen two important papers in each of these categories change the
Two Retractions Raise the Question: Is Climate Science Really Settled? Learn More »
For billions of people in the polluted and less-developed parts of the world, a new beginning may signify a day when they wake up and simply smell clean air; a morning when the commute to work does not involve dodging piles of garbage littered on the roads, and the water drawn for the family comes
This is the Daily Reality That Many Climate Debates Ignore Learn More »
Watch out, world — here comes the God-spin on climate change inspired by the UN’s 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30). COP30 wrapped up last month with an offering of the usual suspects: socialist solutions for acolytes to advocate. According to UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell, during the “high-level closing event at COP30 in Belém, Brazil,
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A federal rule mandating the use of certain refrigerants has substantially boosted the price of air conditioning and increased the risk of fire – only to reduce global temperature by an amount too small to measure. Imposed by the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), beginning this year, the rule forced the replacement of a
Chill Out: Refrigerants Are No Global Warming Threat Learn More »
The quietude of looking out the kitchen window on a December morning at a meadow dusted in snow is magical. A deer pauses at the edge of the wood, breath steaming in the cold air, grazing on whatever bits of green poke through the snow. It is a scene replicated on greeting cards and stamped
The Christmas Gift that Climate Grinches Can’t Abide Learn More »
