Glyphosate, Agricultural Productivity, and Food Security: A Risk Based Policy Assessment in the Context of Modern Food Systems 

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Executive Summary  Glyphosate is among the most consequential agricultural technologies introduced in the past halfcentury. Its widespread adoption has reshaped weed management, reduced tillage, stabilized yields, and lowered production costs across much of global agriculture. At the same time, glyphosate has become a focal point of public controversy, driven by hazardbased classifications, litigation, and advocacy campaigns that often

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America’s Irreversible Goodbye to Climate Governance

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On January 7, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from 66 international organizations deemed “redundant, poorly managed, unnecessary, costly, ineffective,” or instruments of America’s adversaries. Among them are various United Nations agencies and, most significantly, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the backbone of global climate governance.  During his first term, President Trump removed the U.S. from the Paris

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Why Climate Science Is Not Settled

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The repeated claim that climate science is “settled” overlooks myriad uncertainties, competing mechanisms and computer models that miss the mark when tested against reality. Declaring finality in such a field reflects political confidence – even arrogance – not scientific maturity.  The model-reality divergence  Computer models – based on faulty premises – are the bible for the modern climate movement. This despite the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) describing climate as a “coupled,

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Will the US Senate Stall Much-Needed Permitting Reforms?

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In a last-gasp flurry of activity, the 119th House of Representatives in December moved forward a bevy of bills aimed at shortening the time frame and the costs required for federal permits for infrastructure projects, many of which are deemed vital to national security. That’s the good news. The bad news is that these bills

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As the Warming Scare Dissipates, Rationality Returns to Australia

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Australia’s green energy experiment has left millions of its citizens with a shaky power grid, serving as a case study on how blind allegiance to climate dogma leads to economic and social turmoil.  The once sacred “net zero” pledge has been exposed as a curse producing public anger, stark warnings from industry and a rethinking

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A Religious Spin on Climate Change

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Watch out, world — here comes the God-spin on climate change inspired by the UN’s 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30). COP30 wrapped up last month with an offering of the usual suspects: socialist solutions for acolytes to advocate. According to UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell, during the “high-level closing event at COP30 in Belém, Brazil,

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A Nuclear Resurgence, But Major Obstacles Remain

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The first commercial nuclear plant started operation at Calder Hall in England in 1956. By 1970, reactors were in construction around the world. Many predicted that atomic energy would generate most of the world’s power by 2000. In 1973, President Richard Nixon stated, “It is estimated that nuclear power will provide more than one-quarter of the

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Bees Expose Flaw in Socialism, Whether Autocratic or Democratic

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The following is a guest article by Paul McDonnold. Despite having brains that weigh less than a paperclip, bees seem to understand Economics 101. A single worker, beating its wings hundreds of times per second, can visit thousands of flowers per day to gather scarce resources of pollen and nectar for conversion into a valuable

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Japan’s Offshore Wind Setback: A Lesson in the Full Cost of Energy

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The following is a guest article by Yoshihiro Muronaka. In August 2025, Japanese media revealed that Mitsubishi Corporation was preparing to withdraw from three offshore wind projects off the coasts of Chiba and Akita prefectures. In 2021, Mitsubishi had won these sites with remarkably low bids of 8-11 cents/kilowatt-hour (kWh), hailed as proof of Japan’s

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