Hydrocarbon-friendly Trump a match for energy-hungry India

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With 1.4 billion energy-hungry citizens, India stands at the epicenter of the geopolitics of energy and climate policy. As the world’s third-largest energy consumer and projected to have the fastest growth in demand over the next two decades, the subcontinent’s choices reverberate far beyond its borders. The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that India will […]

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Climate Agendas and Alarmism Reek of Activism, Flawed Science, and Corporate Rent Seeking

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Although a favorite attack on those — including me — who challenge alarmist predictions of global warming doom is to brand them as “climate change deniers,” no one I know has ever denied that climate changes and has done so for billions of years. On the other hand, I’m also unaware of any respected climate

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U.S. Energy Secretary Offers Africa Freedom from Climate Imperialism

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U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has signaled a change that could mean the difference between life and death for millions in Africa. Speaking at the “Powering Africa Summit” in Washington, D.C., Wright told leaders of a continent of 1.5 billion people that the Trump administration “has no desire to tell you what to do with

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Could U.S. Federal Reserve’s Exit from Climate Group Trigger Global Exodus?

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For many across the world, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s decision to exit the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) is a sign that central banks can refocus on their primary mandates: stabilizing economies, controlling inflation and fostering growth. Developing nations that need financial backing for the development of fossil fuel projects to advance economic

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Underestimating Clouds: A Climate Mistake We Cannot Afford

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Carbon dioxide (CO₂) has been predominantly portrayed as the chief culprit driving global warming. For decades, this misconception has guided international policies, prompted ambitious targets for reducing CO2 emissions and driven a shift from reliable and affordable energy resources like coal, oil, and natural gas toward problematic wind and solar sources. However, this theory overlooks

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Illinois Electricity: Subsidies, Mandates, Inflation

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“If Illinois wants an affordable and reliable grid, the answer is to end subsidies and mandates for all forms of generation. And to eliminate regulations that are taking the most affordable and reliable fuels out of the generation mix. Nothing else will work.” Electricity prices are climbing in Illinois. As is the public’s concern about

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Some Suggestions on Climate and Environmental Policy for the New Sheriff in Town 

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President-elect Donald Trump’s overwhelming electoral victory and his winning of the popular vote gives him a mandate to move forward with his agenda, not the least of which on the climate and energy deregulatory agenda he promoted during his campaign. In anticipation of Trump’s victory, a coalition of groups—among them the Heartland Institute, E&E Legal

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Climate Journalism, Increasingly Bought and Paid For

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I have written a couple of times previously about the mainstream media’s outside-funded collaboration to promote climate alarm. For example, the Associated Press took millions of dollars from left-wing foundations specifically to cover climate change. Journalistic creed and ethics be damned, media outlets collaborated to suppress voices of dissent, first about climate change, then about

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