The Last COP-Out

For 26 futile years, the net-zero maniacs have wasted fuel, energy and taxpayer’s money to bite the hands that provide their food, energy, welfare and public sector jobs. Led by EU and AUKUS dreamers, they destroy reliable energy from coal, oil, nuclear, gas and hydro while forcing us to subsidise net-negative dreams like solar, wind, […]

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Global Warming Alarmism Threatens Era of Energy Poverty

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s call for aggressive action against a so-called climate crisis at the United Nations presages similar statements that surely will be made by the dangerously misinformed in the coming months and augurs disastrous energy policy. Humanity has to “grow up” and tackle climate change, the prime minister told world leaders assembled in New

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Coal Shortages Threaten Blackouts for 2.7 Billion Chinese and Indians

Coal shortages have struck two of the world’s biggest energy consumers, threatening power outages for 2.7 billion people and raising prices for the fossil fuel to unprecedented levels. In China, factories are shut, homes remain in darkness, and chaos ensues on roads where traffic lights fail. Coal plants that supply neighboring India with 70% of its electricity are on the brink

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The Perils of Idolizing Organic Farming in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is on a path to agricultural collapse. Its president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, declared an economic emergency on August 31, 2021. Why? One reason is a bizarre agricultural policy. In April, Sri Lanka’s cabinet “approved a ban on importation of chemical fertilizers and other agrochemicals in the bid to become the first country ever to

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A Brief History of the Cornwall Alliance—Part 4: We Come of Age

We ended Part 3 of this history with reference to An Examination of the Scientific, Ethical, and Theological Implications of Climate Change, produced by the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance—the original name of what became the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. I don’t think any of us involved in creating it could imagine all that

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Al Gore Offers Africa Electricity by the Spoonful

Guest column by Ken Braun An anecdote widely attributed to (but perhaps not originating with) Milton Friedman holds that the late, great Nobel Prize laureate was touring a developing nation and happened upon a public works project. To make way for the new road or canal or whatever, platoons of workers using hand shovels were laboriously

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Biden/Harris appointees to Department of Energy—Not a Bit of Energy Expertise

On August 20 the Biden/Harris Administration announced five new appointees to the federal Department of Energy. Here are their qualifications: progressive political activism degree in political science progressive political activism degree in environmental science progressive political activism degree in education and ethnic studies progressive political activism degree in what? progressive political activism degree in political

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