When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, he had four years to assess what went right and wrong in his first term before it was sabotaged by COVID-19. To counter the true “China virus” (hegemony over critical minerals), Trump promptly began imposing tariffs with a goal of taking away China’s pricing
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Half a century ago, raw emotion drove an anti-nuclear energy campaign that still stifles clean energy development in the U.S. Today, that same fear-driven playbook is being deployed in a campaign to shut down data centers. Between 1970 and 1990, America built 95 nuclear power plants that still supply nearly a fifth of the nation’s
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During the Eastern heatwave in early July, I stumbled across an article on CNN entitled, “This heat wave would be ‘virtually impossible’ if not for fossil fuel pollution, study says.” (If you click on that, you’ll be redirected to a different article. I’ll tell you why in a moment.) The use of the term ‘virtually impossible’ together with the
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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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Few documentaries have captured the internet’s attention quite like The Plastic Detox. But what makes it so compelling is not just its subject matter. It is the moral confusion at its core. In trying to diagnose a crisis of human fertility, the film inadvertently exposes something deeper: a culture that increasingly treats children as objects of adult entitlement rather
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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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In the volatile waters of the Strait of Hormuz, maritime traffic has slowed to an agonizing crawl. Roughly a fifth of global oil trade passes through this narrow passage. Nearly half of the crude headed toward Asia must cross these waters. As the Iran war escalated, insurance firms raised premiums sharply, ship operators slowed departures,
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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
A little while back, I did a podcast on the greenhouse effect. It seems that the most controversial thing I have ever said is “Carbon Dioxide contributes very little to the Greenhouse Effect.” That singular statement usually gets me labelled as either a scientific illiterate or a stooge of climate alarmists. And those are the
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Changes that occur in the atmosphere occur in three dimensions. That should come as no surprise, even with the wrap-up last week of Climate Week NYC. Yet so much thinking on climate change happens on a two-dimensional level. Certainly, academic and government studies delve into the dimensional complexity of the airy environment, but the study
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