Anti-fossil-fuel politicians, like Rep. Cori Bush, tried to discredit Alex Epstein’s Congressional testimony on energy security using 100% false personal attacks. They failed, and all such future attempts will fail.
SCIENCE
The Real Meaning of Earth Hour
The lights of our cities and monuments are a symbol of human achievement, of what mankind has accomplished in rising from the cave to the skyscraper. Earth Hour presents the disturbing spectacle of people celebrating those lights being extinguished. Earth Hour symbolizes the renunciation of industrial civilization.
Doom is Still Coming: Three Errors Paul Ehrlich Keeps Making
In Ehrlich’s worldview, humanity only transgresses and can only cause harm. In Simon’s view, humanity takes primacy and the sources of its enrichment also repair many harms done to the environment, and eventually allows improvements.
Thankyou Elon Musk!
Elon Musk’s mistakes should be viewed in the context of his achievements. Musk has contributed to human flourishing not only by developing Tesla and SpaceX and co-founding Open AI. By taking over Twitter and shaking it up, he has exposed the government’s violations of free speech.
The Malthusian Contradiction
Specific resources are limited. There’s only so much oil, land and water. But resources, in general, are unlimited — or rather, limited only by human ingenuity.
Climate Change Activism as a Pretext to Abolishing Capitalism
To Anti-Capitalists, Climate Change Activism is Just a Pretext for an Authoritarian “Planned” Economy
The Case Against America’s Green Energy Policies
Compelling evidence of a better way to manage climate change.
President Biden Threatens Oil Companies with a Windfall Profits Tax—Again
Increasing taxes on oil company profits will just discourage investment in new production and raise prices higher, hurting American consumers even more.
Good News, the World Is Getting Better
We are incessantly told about disasters, whether the latest heat wave, flood, wildfire or storm. Yet, the data overwhelmingly show that over the last century, people have become much safer from all these weather events.
How Green Energy Will Become No Energy
America’s reckless green energy policies evaluated.
1970s Oil Shortages Not Caused By Oil Companies
The oil shortage was “manufactured” by the government, through price controls, not by the oil companies and their perfectly natural and praiseworthy desire to earn profits.
Biden Is Grasping at Straws to Counter OPEC Plus Oil Production Cuts
Biden is continuing with his anti-oil and gas policies that he began on his first day in office.
California Gasoline Prices Skyrocket Due to Gavin Newsom’s Policies
Gasoline prices in California are at record highs and more than $2.50 a gallon higher than the national average.
OPEC Plus Oil Production Cuts Larger than Expected
The Biden administration is worried that OPEC+’s action will be a detriment to Democrats during the mid-term election and is likely to counter with more SPR releases, putting the United States in severe jeopardy of a national emergency with the Strategic Petroleum Reserve so decimated.
Facts on Hurricanes and Climate are Blowing in the Wind
The best long-term data on hurricanes hitting the United States shows a decline, even for strong hurricanes.
California Does Not Have Enough Power to Deal with Its Heat Wave, How Will It Meet Its New Rules for Electric Vehicles?
California is having trouble keeping the lights on during the upcoming heat wave. So, it is unclear how the state intends to find reliable electricity to fuel the massive numbers of electric vehicles being forced on California’s new vehicle sales.
How to Alleviate the Looming Global Hunger Crisis
Synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, mostly made with natural gas, are a modern miracle, crucial for feeding the world.
When Will Biden Administration Realize That Net Zero Does Not Work?
The fact that Western Europe decided to rely on solar and wind power and Russia to supply natural gas, rather than producing their own is causing severe economic pain that is expected to last several winters.
The Fuzzy Math Behind U.N. Report on Global Disasters
Climate-related disasters killed 99 percent fewer people than 100 years earlier.
Energy and Labor Day
For much of human history, the ability to do work was limited by human and animal muscle.
The Ominous Parallels Between Climate and COVID ‘Science’
The ominous parallels between the mainstream narrative on the climate and the mainstream narrative on covid.
Climate and Tax Bill: Biden Will Continue to Use Regulation to Meet His Climate Goals
The Inflation Reduction Act is now the climate and tax bill because politicians no longer can claim that it reduces inflation.
Obsession With Climate Change Distorts our Priorities
Global climate damage in percent of GDP keeps declining and climate disaster deaths have dropped 99 percent in a century.
Energy Hypocrisy as Rich Countries Denying the Poor the Power to Develop
While the wealthy G7 countries admonish the world’s poor to use only renewables because of climate concerns, Europe and the United States are begging Arab nations to expand oil production.
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