Rethinking the Affordability Crisis

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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We must embrace AI and data centers, not pause them  

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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The False Burden of Climate Doom that Christians Should Not Carry

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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Biting the Hand that Feeds: Nepal Demands Climate Cash While Blaming us for its Disaster

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

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Climate’s Past Performance Uncertain Predictor of Future

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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US-Saudi Nuclear Deal Signals a Greater Policy Shift

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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Fantasy Climate Models Effectively Denied Energy to the Poor: The White House Just Set the Stage for Change

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

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Big Dairy’s Climate Agenda Puts Independent Farmers at Risk

Two advocacy groups have called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to withdraw all support for the Pathways to Dairy Net Zero (P2DNZ), a United Nations initiative to reduce methane and other greenhouse gases from the dairy industry supply chain. Launched during Climate Week in September of 2021, P2DNZ counts as members the largest

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