Four years after TotalEnergies vacated its Afungi site in northern Mozambique amid civil unrest, the company restarted its $20 billion liquefied natural gas project. The gas had not moved. The geology had not improved. What changed sat 8,000 miles away at the U.S. Export-Import Bank, where a newly appointed board reauthorized a $4.7 billion loan
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Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam is now within several feet of the lowest level at which turbine power generation must be greatly curtailed. Recent news articles often blame the cause on a “millennium drought” being experienced in the West. Of course, much of the western U.S. experiences drought conditions every summer, which is part of
[Editor’s note: The theory of major climate and weather changes brought about by relatively minor perturbations has always troubled me as inconsistent with the Biblical teaching that what God made—including Earth’s climate system—was “very good”(Genesis 1:31). This article explores the likelihood that the “butterfly effect” occurs only in computer models, not in the real world.—ECB]
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The following is a guest article by Dick Storm and Ronald Stein. Most California politicians have opposed zero-emissions electricity generated by nuclear power since 1976, when they passed the moratorium on new nuclear power plants. Nuclear is the cleanest, safest, most proven, and lowest-emitting energy source, yet most California politicians oppose it. California once had
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The following is a guest article by Angela Wheeler. Rather than a serious assessment of the connection between extreme weather and climate change, a recent National Academies of Sciences (NAS) webinar presented a 253-page report engineered to reinforce the shopworn claim that emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) threaten a climate crisis. The hour-long presentation was as thin on real science as the self-congratulations were
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Sometimes a story gets buried not because editors conspire against it, but because the news cycle has room for only one crisis at a time. This year the big news has been the Iran war. But even accounting for competing headlines, the silence around a genuinely consequential development is telling. And that is the story of India’s explicit rejection of
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The distributed energy hydrogen revolution is here — bringing worksite-ready hydrogen-powered electricity without any connection to the electric grid. VIVIFY Technology founder and CEO Jason Herring says that “Talk is the cheapest thing the energy industry produces. So I did not brag about our systems until they were production ready.” That’s why his staff began
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The United States Global Change Research Program, or the USGCRP, was disbanded early last year. Created by an act of Congress in 1990, the goal of the USGCRP was to coordinate federal research and investments across fifteen federal member agencies to present a whole-of-government face to the federal government’s position on global environmental change. Now
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An Energy Institute report reveals a Europe clinging to the pretense of leading an “energy transition” as the continent declines under the weight of climate policies whose quixotically utopian objectives are negated elsewhere by fossil fuel-supported economic growth. Data from the 75th edition of the annual “Statistical Review of World Energy” will surprise only those ignoring the facts: The world continues to depend massively on fossil fuels. Solar and wind technologies, while
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The following is a guest article by Xandra Grieme. As I held the coffee leaf in my hands, I felt useless. After long days of trekking through the Honduran jungles, I was tired. My feet had carried me to places that only ATVs or horses could reach—to the remotest mountain villages of the region. I was there to meet
