The “affordability crisis” is all over the news lately. It figures into predictions of how the next elections are going to turn out. It comes up on TV and radio talk shows, podcasts, and friendly—or not so friendly—conversations among friends and family members. Millions of Americans believe pretty much everything is unaffordable today—from burritos to
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A recent Friends of the Earth email wailed that URGENT ACTION is needed to prevent MASSIVE data centers from DESTROYING communities, the environment and property values, while tech billionaires get even richer! Other opponents say artificial intelligence (AI) and data centers (DCs) gobble up rivers of water and terawatts of electricity, sprawl across landscapes, raise
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In a recent article, I compared today’s hue and cry against AI and data centers to the anti-nuclear campaigns that halted U.S. nuclear energy development four decades ago. Now others are picking that theme, most recently Michael Waller in National Review. Meanwhile, the anti-nuclear crowd continues to use the threat of nuclear war as a
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Every age offers the believer a rival account of history. Ours says the planet is dying, humanity is to blame, and only a total reordering of how you eat, travel, build, and power your home can delay the sentence. For three decades, newsrooms, universities, and government agencies have repeated this account with remarkable discipline. Many
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At the recently concluded United Nations General Assembly in New York, India spoke for the Global South, stating that the low- and middle-income nations must have a just and rightful opportunity to industrialize, just like the West did in the 20th century. This echoes what rational Christian environmentalists like me having been saying for the
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The following is a guest article by Angela Wheeler. Nepal’s Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal’s request for a foreign response to his country’s disastrous Himalayan flood would be better made as an appeal to the charitable instincts of people than as a demand for compensation from climate sinners. Khanal connects the August 26 flood to the
The predictions of climate doomsayers reveal an embarrassing ignorance of a capricious geological history shaped by natural forces too powerful for human control and too complex to allow for meaningful forecasts. What can be said is that we are living in the warmth of an interglacial period known as the Holocene Epoch, which began about
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Politics, they say, makes strange bedfellows. Even a month ago, hardly anyone would have foreseen that Saudi Arabia would sit down with Israel, the United States, and other Arab nations to discuss a joint military strategy against Iran and its Houthi proxies. Reportedly, at the secret conference in early September, Israeli officials offered to provide
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In recent months, Climate Change Weekly has extensively covered the twists and turns of the saga of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) efforts to bias the nation’s judiciary in climate lawsuits filed by dozens of cities and counties against fossil fuel producers for “climate damages” (here, here, here, and here, for
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For two decades, the poorest half of humanity had its energy choices dictated by computer-generated climate predictions now considered to be implausible by the people who made them. Developing countries that are home to the impoverished should be following U.S. actions to abandon these flawed forecasts, which have driven destructive climate policies. In August, the
