By Vijay Jayaraj Carbon dioxide (CO₂) has been predominantly portrayed as the chief culprit driving global warming. For decades, this misconception has guided international policies, prompted ambitious targets for reducing CO2 emissions and driven a shift from reliable and affordable energy resources like coal, oil, and natural gas toward problematic wind and solar sources. However,… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj A few hundred years ago, coffee was almost an unknown commodity with hardly a handful of countries consuming it at a commercial scale. But today, it is a sought-after drink that drives multiple companies to compete for the world’s best beans. An estimated 21 billion pounds of green coffee are produced annually across more… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj The winter of 2025 has been brutal for Europe, exposing the severe flaws of its over-reliance on wind and solar energy. As temperatures plummeted, countries grappled with electricity shortages, soaring energy prices, and the grim specter of blackouts. In the United Kingdom and Germany, two countries that have positioned themselves as global… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj Fanciful dreams of green hydrogen powering the future have met reality. The cost of producing this much-hyped fuel will remain prohibitively high for decades to come, crushing hopes of its rapid adoption across industries. Green hydrogen start-ups are shuttering operations, major projects are being shelved, and investors are retreating from what was… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration is only the second in modern American history that dangerous Arctic temperatures have forced indoors. The last was Ronald Reagan’s second one in 1985, when wind chills plunged to below zero. However, this winter’s unstoppable, ferocious cold isn’t confined to the U.S. In the Eastern Hemisphere, temperatures… Continue Reading
Facebook “Fact Checks” Prof. Will Happer By Angela Wheeler The only way to combat censorship is to shine a light on it whenever we see it. In censoring material that contradicts the popular – though increasingly feeble – fiction of a climate crisis, Facebook is quick to discount the credentials of one of the world’s… Continue Reading
By Brian C. Joondeph What’s the difference between weather and climate? Let’s ask the expert class, the governmental National Weather Service. Weather is defined as the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind speed and direction, and barometric pressure. Climate is defined as the expected frequency of… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj With mist-shrouded peaks of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and a sun-drenched Caribbean coastline, Colombia’s landscape is as diverse as its people. However, decades of internal conflict and economic uncertainty demonstrated that incredible natural beauty alone are not sufficient for a civilized society. A transformation from more than 50 years of… Continue Reading
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By Vijay Jayaraj Scientific advancement and agricultural technology have revolutionized food production, enabling humanity to feed more readily a ballooning population. And working behind these celebrated innovations is an unacknowledged but indispensable contributor to the world’s growing food security: rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). The very molecule that has been wrongly branded as a doomsday… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj Modern warming of the climate, contrary to the popular – though waning – narrative, has contributed to the flourishing of human civilization to unprecedented levels. About 10,000 years ago at the end of the last glacial advance, our relatively warm Holocene era began and allowed for the development of agriculture and ever… Continue Reading
12.2.2024
November’s Energy Earthquake: A World Reshaped by Politics, Power, and Pragmatism
By Vijay Jayaraj As the global energy landscape pivots in the shadow of November 2024’s seismic political developments, the world finds itself navigating a complex web of geopolitics, market maneuvers and environmental debates. In recent weeks, we have seen the return to world leadership chief climate skeptic Donald Trump and the conspicuous absences of key… Continue Reading
By Tilak Doshi Terrence Keeley is a long-time ESG practitioner who until recently headed the official institutions group in the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock advising sovereign wealth funds, central banks, finance ministries, and public pension funds. He claimed in 2022 that “ESG investing could well be the biggest thing in finance since the Dutch East India… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj The archipelago nation of Indonesia represents just 1% of Earth’s land area, but it has set the stage for global geopolitics surrounding fossil fuels and climate policies. As a part of climate negotiations between G-7 nations, Indonesia was expected to be the first among developing countries to announce early closures of coal… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj As we gaze at the verdant fields of Saskatchewan or the salmon-rich waters of British Columbia, it’s easy to forget that merely 12,000 years ago much of Canada lay under miles of ice. The Canada we know today—a mosaic of thriving ecosystems and bountiful farmlands—is the product of a remarkable transformation that… Continue Reading
by Gregory Wrightstone As executive director of the CO2 Coalition, I quite often present the facts of a prospering planet and the lack of an increase in extreme weather. The Coalition sticks to the science, facts and data that show a slight decline in landfalling hurricanes, no increase in hurricane intensity and a significant decline… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj The electric vehicle (EV) is heralded as a cornerstone of the fight against climate change, with promises of a cleaner, greener future. As recently as July, the Biden-Harris administration announced billions of dollars of government support for EV manufacturing. However, a growing concern lies beneath the shiny surface of electric cars and… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj In a move opposite the direction of the global climate change agenda, India’s newly elected government has announced contracts for an additional 12,800 megawatts (MW) of thermal power capacity (coal and natural gas). The announcement stands in stark contrast to India’s previous commitments to transition away from fossil fuels and towards wind… Continue Reading
By Gregory Wrightstone The media has been working overtime linking the latest hurricanes to man-made warming from increasing CO2. During last week’s U.S. Vice Presidential debate, moderator Norah O’Donnell said, “Scientists say climate change makes these hurricanes larger, stronger, and more deadly because of the historic rainfall.” Fortunately, I was provided an opportunity to present the facts… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj The West’s grand crusade for a carbon-neutral future is turning into a colossal case of useless sacrifice. While Olympic athletes were asked to forego air conditioning in Paris it save the planet and American factories face crippling electricity costs, a stark reality continues to unfold in Asia. China and India, the world’s… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj We have reached the end of the Olympic summer in Paris, comprising of the Olympics and the Paralympics. Though the U.S. finished at the top in the Olympics and in the top three at Paralympics, much of the world’s attention was on the Olympics’ obscene mockery of Christianity in its opening ceremony… Continue Reading
by Norman Rogers We are often told that wind and solar, if not cheaper, are at least cost competitive with fossil fuels. Dead wrong! Wind or solar costs around five times more per megawatt hour compared to, for example, natural gas. We are told that wind and solar will save us from a climate catastrophe.… Continue Reading
By John Whitmore Jenkins Beginning around 1760 at the end of the Little Ice Age, the Earth’s temperatures began increasing which has continued to the present. A century after this warming cycle began, the Industrial Revolution began generating energy by burning fossil fuels which emitted increasing levels of CO2 into the atmosphere. Some scientists and… Continue Reading
By Gregory Wrightstone Smearing coal has become a marketing strategy of a natural gas industry that embraces pseudoscientific views of coal combustion as being hazardous. In so doing, gas supporters give credence to a fallacious regulatory regime of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which erroneously classifies carbon dioxide as a pollutant and assigns health effects… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj Iron deficiency — and the anemia it causes — remains a persistent global health issue that can only be exacerbated by a war on meat waged by climate alarmists, whose hostility to animal protein is a manifestation of an anti-human ideology. Growing up in South Asia, I observed a dietary practice in… Continue Reading