ASEAN Nations Return to Fossil Fuels, Back Away from Net Zero Plans

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For years, ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) governments faced pressure from international lenders and climate forums to announce fossil fuel phase-outs, moratoriums on new plants, and heavy bets on wind and solar. Indonesia and Vietnam secured decarbonization-inspired funding from the Just Energy Transition Partnership. Leaders spoke of achieving net-zero goals by 2050 and exiting

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Germany’s Nuclear Confession Is a Crack in Net‑Zero Pretense

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called the nuclear phaseout a “serious strategic mistake” that left Germany short of firm power that turned the Energiewende into the most expensive energy transition on the planet. This is an early marker for a developing worldwide retreat from policies that sidelined nuclear power and demonized coal, oil, and natural gas.  German and Japanese Nuclear Embarrassment Germany stubbornly closed its

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Climate Pseudoscience Debunked: Livestock Methane Fears are Baseless

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Policymakers are demanding that farmers scale back meat production, reengineer agricultural systems, and burden consumers with higher grocery bills to prevent a fabricated climate catastrophe. This is fearmongering based on false claims that methane emitted as a byproduct of livestock digestion contributes significantly to allegedly dangerous atmospheric warming.  Happily, the pseudoscience of this campaign against ruminants—mainly cattle and sheep—is refuted in a paper published by the CO2 Coalition,

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South Korea’s Net Zero Boast Crumbles

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Just a few months ago, South Korean officials were busy boasting about extreme net zero targets. Fast forward to April 2026, and the country is scrambling to secure every vessel load of oil and natural gas available on the global market.  Last November, the Presidential Commission on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth formalized its 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution, pledging a sweeping 53–61%

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CFS CEO Pooh-Poohs Claim Fusion Is Not Worth the Money

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Just as Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a company spun off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018, was announcing that its mission to build a compact fusion power plant (the SPARC) based on the ARC tokamak design was nearing completion, a team of engineers from ETH Zurich (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) were throwing

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What About Earth’s Threatened and Endangered People?

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Another Earth Day has come and gone – number 57, like Heinz steak sauce. Once again, the media, activists and international agencies fed us pablum, exaggeration and alarmism. Our public lands, the Endangered Species Act, biodiversity and environmental justice are under threat, they raged. Oceans are filling with plastic waste. Big polluting corporations are getting away

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Open Letter to Federal Judicial Center Chair, Chief Justice John Roberts

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EN: In an unusual intervention aimed at the federal judiciary, three prominent physicists—Richard Lindzen, William Happer, and Steven Koonin—have issued an open letter to John G. Roberts Jr. raising concerns about the latest edition of the Federal Judicial Center’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. The manual, long regarded as a neutral guide for judges evaluating

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Wastewater Maintenance Fails the Smell Test

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Imagine holding fragile assets worth a trillion dollars and letting them deteriorate to a point where their actual value is vastly diminished. America’s sewers — including nearly 17,500 wastewater treatment plants — are overall not being properly maintained. Over the past decade alone, the renewal and replacement rate for large capital wastewater projects decreased from

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Misguided ‘Repair the World’ Climate Philanthropy  

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The Bronfman family built the Seagram Company into the fabulously successful Canadian real estate, beverage and entertainment conglomerate. After selling Seagram to Vivendi in 2000, it deepened its commitment to Birthright Israel and other Jewish philanthropies.   Like his father, Stephen Bronfman has long been active in Liberal Party of Canada politics. He recently launched the Jewish Climate Trust, published the Jewish Guide to Climate Philanthropy and explained why he believes “climate action is the next great Jewish

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Australia’s ‘Renewable’ Obsession Decimates Industry 

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Australia’s “green energy” experiment has turned one of the most energy-rich countries into a high‑cost outlier that guts businesses that once anchored its prosperity. The claim that “renewables are cheaper” is a slogan for the propaganda of politicians and the marketing of green grifters who betray families and employers burdened by the bills.  Fall from Economic Stardom  Australia once held a competitive advantage that was the envy of the world, with power

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