US Turns to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Therefore Child Labor, For EV Ambitions

Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash The following is a guest article by Nick Pope. In order to facilitate electric vehicle (EV) production, the U.S. is seeking to spend taxpayer dollars to develop cobalt supply chains from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a country which is known for high prevalence of unsafe child labor

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Protecting ‘Sacred’ Lands As Part of ‘Managed Decline’

Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash It is increasingly clear that the Biden Administration’s minerals policy is designed to maximize China’s grip on America’s declining future. On August 8, Biden permanently banned new uranium mining claims on nearly a million acres of the nation’s largest deposits of uranium ore by creating the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response’

What was once tagged the “lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer” is now deemed “global boiling” by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. With such hyperbole, it looks like the United Nations is tagging another aphorism: “Make hay while the sun is shining.” The hot summer weather has increased the hysteria surrounding the global warming hypothesis to

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An Insider’s Prudent Advice to America’s Electric Power Industry

When in June of this year the Cornwall Alliance offered to send Robert Bryce’s book A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations free as our thanks when people donated, one donor, Thomas J. Myers, responded with a note we just had to share. He writes from experience within the electric power industry.

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Hot Summer Due to Many Factors—Carbon Dioxide Emissions Are Not One of Them

Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash Let’s state the obvious and get it out of the way. It’s hot out there. Yeah, it’s summer, and summer is typically hot, but it has, as a matter of fact, been “hotter than [usual in] July” (hat tip to Stevie Wonder) across much of the globe. Hundreds, if not

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Dishonest Climate Fear-Mongering Headlines

The Dishonest Climate Fear-mongering headline award goes to USA TODAY whose headline said: “Dramatic flooding was rare in Vermont’s capital. Expect it more amid climate change.“ Similar catastrophic claims were suggested throughout the click-bait media-verse from the NY Times, the Washington Post, CNN, etc., etc. Rarely does the media provide a scientific, historical context, preferring instead to weaponize

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Cobalt Carnage, Child Labor, and Ecological Destruction

Global cobalt demand soared with the advent of cell phones and laptop computers. It exploded with the arrival of electric vehicles and is now skyrocketing in tandem with government EV mandates and subsidies. Cobalt improves battery performance, extends driving range, and reduces fire risks. Demand will reach stratospheric heights if governments remain obsessed with climate change

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Bloomberg Finances and Coopts State Attorneys General

Image: Creative Commons under Unsplash When you’ve built a financial information and media empire and become the world’s seventh richest person, you get to say dumb things, like suggesting that farming is easy: “You dig a hole, put a seed in, put dirt on top, add water – and up comes the corn.” Being ultra-wealthy also shields

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