Stop worshipping the sun: Biden’s solar power enthusiasm is unmoored from reality

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On September 13, the New York Daily News ran my piece on the Biden Administration’s recent report which claimed the US could be getting 45 percent of its electricity from solar by 2050. (Never mind that Biden has said he wants to decarbonize the electric grid by 2035). In any case, I began the piece:  Hyping solar energy […]

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Climate Lockdowns, CO2 Social Credits, Carbon Footprint Tracking by Credit Card—Big Brother Is Growing!

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Climate Lockdowns: New CO2 monitoring credit card enables tracking of ‘carbon footprint on every purchase’ – ‘Monitors & cuts off spending when we hit our carbon max’ – Mastercard & UN join forces Get ready for a Chinese-style social credit system scoring when it comes to your personal spending habits and how they impact “climate change.” A

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A Simple Explanation of Why Climate Models “Run Hot”

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The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR6) has been released, much to the excitement of and fanfare from the mainstream media.  It was expected that gloom and despair would permeate the document – unless, of course, we adopt a draconian carbon-dioxide-reduction strategy – and the IPCC did not fail

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One Overhyped Crisis Deserves Another

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Anthropogenic climate change is real. It is not a an existential threat—pace Greenpeace, the Climate Action Network, and the world’s most famous climate scientist, 18-year-old Greta Thunberg, who demand a hundred-trillion-dollar makeover of the global energy infrastructure to achieve a fraction of a degree of global temperature reduction at the end of this century. COVID-19

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Ida, Like Camille in 1969, Packed a One-Two Punch

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But was it unprecedented and attributable to manmade global warming? Guest column by Joe D’Aleo Hurricane Ida came ashore in Louisiana as a strong CAT4 hurricane. It produced major flooding and wind damage and widespread lengthy power outages in Louisiana where at least 6 people have died. [Editor’s note: Louisiana death toll from Ida had

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A Brief History of the Cornwall Alliance—Part 4: We Come of Age

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We ended Part 3 of this history with reference to An Examination of the Scientific, Ethical, and Theological Implications of Climate Change, produced by the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance—the original name of what became the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. I don’t think any of us involved in creating it could imagine all that

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Al Gore Offers Africa Electricity by the Spoonful

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Guest column by Ken Braun An anecdote widely attributed to (but perhaps not originating with) Milton Friedman holds that the late, great Nobel Prize laureate was touring a developing nation and happened upon a public works project. To make way for the new road or canal or whatever, platoons of workers using hand shovels were laboriously

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