For decades growth strategies in poorer countries of the Global South – Asia, Africa and South America – leaned heavily on energy-intensive industries powered by fossil fuels and, in a handful of cases, by nuclear power. Cities grew, factories rose, exports surged, poverty declined. This growth slowed under the weight of decarbonization dogma and financial […]
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Whether China’s threat to restrict export of rare earth minerals materializes or is resolved through trade negotiations, the episode underscores the fragility of U.S. supply chains and the importance of developing domestic sources. Nowhere is this more evident than in the energy sector where climate policies have made dozens of countries more reliant on imports than
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The following is a guest article by Paul McDonnold. Despite having brains that weigh less than a paperclip, bees seem to understand Economics 101. A single worker, beating its wings hundreds of times per second, can visit thousands of flowers per day to gather scarce resources of pollen and nectar for conversion into a valuable
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The last two decades should have been a period of accelerating economic development for Africa, South America and much of Asia. Discoveries of abundant oil and gas supplies offered a rescue from poverty, industrial stagnation and poor access to electricity and other basic services. Instead, they got a man-made disaster, a deliberate slowdown of
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President Trump was not a happy camper when he stepped off a faulty escalator on his way to address the United Nations General Assembly recently. By the time he had finished speaking, many in that self-important assemblage were in an even worse mood. Trump was not the only world leader firing bullets into the UN’s
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Politicians, celebrities and billionaires who lecture about carbon footprints operate by a separate set of rules. Living in ostentatious opulence, they exude spectacular hypocrisy that is rarely challenged by media outlets amplifying their climate warnings. Even scientists fly thousands of miles to United Nations climate conferences, adding to emissions of greenhouse gases they claim are destroying
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The following is a guest article by Ronald Stein and Sid Abma. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data centers are coming, and so are the natural gas power plants that will be required to provide continuous, uninterruptible electricity to power many of these facilities. These power plants today can operate at well over 90% energy efficiency.
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The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for September, 2025 was +0.53 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, up from the August, 2025 anomaly of +0.39 deg. C. The Version 6.1 global area-averaged linear temperature trend (January 1979 through September 2025) remains at +0.16 deg/ C/decade (+0.22 C/decade over land, +0.13
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During his address at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 23, President Trump called out UN-promoted climate alarm as the “greatest con job ever perpetrated,” referred to renewable energy policies as a “stupid,” and characterized carbon footprint fetishes as a “hoax.” Trump cited big windmills as a particularly “pathetic” source, emphasizing that they are
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We were promised a “green” utopia free of fossil fuels, powered by sunshine and breezes. However, the net zero hobbits living in this imaginary shire were blissfully ignorant of hard realities dictated by physics, engineering and economics. Once trumpeted by corporate giants and governments alike, the vision of a world without greenhouse gas emissions is
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