An Imperfect World That Is Better Than Ever 

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Much of the world was optimistic after a peace deal ended months of conflict in the Middle East that had disrupted the global oil trade. But peace in that region has long been a tenuous matter, and how long it lasts is anybody’s guess. Nonetheless, there are other reasons for optimism that are not subject to the vagaries of geopolitics.  For the past two decades, the media have reported a “climate crisis” with a conviction that presumed dissent to be insane […]

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Climate Pseudoscience Debunked: Livestock Methane Fears are Baseless

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Policymakers are demanding that farmers scale back meat production, reengineer agricultural systems, and burden consumers with higher grocery bills to prevent a fabricated climate catastrophe. This is fearmongering based on false claims that methane emitted as a byproduct of livestock digestion contributes significantly to allegedly dangerous atmospheric warming.  Happily, the pseudoscience of this campaign against ruminants—mainly cattle and sheep—is refuted in a paper published by the CO2 Coalition,

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CFS CEO Pooh-Poohs Claim Fusion Is Not Worth the Money

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Just as Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a company spun off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018, was announcing that its mission to build a compact fusion power plant (the SPARC) based on the ARC tokamak design was nearing completion, a team of engineers from ETH Zurich (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) were throwing

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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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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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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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Africans Are Regaining Control Over Their Mineral Wealth

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The announcement of the inaugural African Mining Week (AMW 2025), to be celebrated in Cape Town alongside Africa Energy Week (AEW 2025) in early October, is a clear signal that Africans are exercising new muscle toward regaining control of the continent’s vast mineral resources. The event, sponsored by the Africa-focused global investment platform Energy Capital & Power,

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EU Farmers Protest Green Policies’ Threat to Greenest Lands

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Europe’s picturesque landscapes, adorned with sprawling croplands and pastures, have long been part of the continent’s agrarian identity. However, a wave of farmer protests has intruded on this peaceful scene and extended into cities.   From the rolling hills of France to the windswept plains of Poland, farmers have driven their tractors onto the streets,

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