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12.7.2023

Al Jaber Is Right: There Is No Science Showing a Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Will Achieve 1.5C

By Ron Barmby Sultan Al Jaber, president of the Conference of the Parties 28 (COP28), has injected some pragmatism into the meeting in Dubai this week with his statement “there is no science out there, or no scenario out there, that says the phase-out of fossil fuel is what’s going to achieve 1.5.” Science can… Continue Reading
12.4.2023

No Amount of Subsidies Will Ever Make a Wind/Solar Electricity System Economically Feasible

by Francis Menton The COP 28 climate confab opened today in Dubai. Some 70,000 true believers in the energy transition are said to be gathering. And not one of them appears to be either willing or able to do the simple arithmetic that shows that this can’t possibly work. So far, no country that has… Continue Reading
11.29.2023

Moving from CO2 Capture to CO2 Coalition

By Frits Byron Soepyan I am a chemical engineer who once did research on removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the emissions of industrial plants or directly from the atmosphere. But I now see CO2 as a critical plant food necessary for all of life on Earth. Frankly, the more the better. In my former career,… Continue Reading
11.28.2023

Economic Progress and Fossil Fuels: The Elephant in the Room at U.N. Climate Conference

The mainstream media are gearing up to bombard people with terms like “climate emergency,” “climate justice” and “climate equity” in anticipation of this week’s start of the 28th United Nations Conference of the Parties in Dubai. They might even introduce catchphrases and announce historic breakthroughs in emission-reduction diplomacy. The public relations messaging of climate politics, however, has… Continue Reading
11.28.2023

Jet-Set Hypocrites Want to Keep Billions in Poverty Around the World

by Vijay Jayaraj The United Nations Conference of the Parties, more commonly referred to as COP, is a yearly climate conference. This year’s COP, the 28th such event, is to be held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) city of Dubai between Nov. 30 and Dec. 12. The irony of the event’s location this year cannot… Continue Reading
11.27.2023

Three Graphs That Show There Is No ‘Climate Crisis’

By John Staddon As the West fitfully weakens industrial civilisation by trying to eliminate oil, coal and natural gas as energy sources, the scientific basis for Net Zero is based more on ‘general agreement’ than hard data. Climate scientists nevertheless sound optimistic about the progress that’s being made in destroying society’s carbon energy base. There are of… Continue Reading
11.26.2023

Climate Falsification: Pakistan Flooding and Media’s Hype

By Vijay Jayaraj Recurrent floods in Pakistan that cause widespread property damage have been used by mainstream media as a propaganda tool to shift blame from poor urban planning to purported anthropogenic climate change. Research indicates that excessive flooding is not a recent occurrence brought on by human activity; rather, it is a normal occurrence… Continue Reading
11.26.2023

Wyoming Governor Backs Down from CO2 Showdown

Wyoming Governor Backs Down from CO2 Showdown by Gregory Wrightstone    11/12/23 Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon was standing tall in the saddle when he accepted an invitation to debate publicly his so-called carbon-negative policy in a state heavily engaged in the production of fossil fuels. However, he ultimately backed down. As reported by the Cowboy State… Continue Reading
11.22.2023

Thanksgiving Bugs? No Thanks!

By Vijay Jayaraj Fox News host Lisa Kennedy Montgomery once made a special video segment on bug cuisine. The idea was to understand how bugs tasted. Why? Because the cuisine is increasingly termed environmentally friendly. The United Nations (UN) claims that a bug-based diet could help tackle climate change. But will giving up your Thanksgiving turkey… Continue Reading
11.20.2023

Beijing’s Coal Boom Is Here to Stay

By Vijay Jayaraj News of record installations of so-called renewable energy electric generation in China may have kindled the hopes of those supporting the “green” agenda and hostile to fossil fuels. However, China is in no position to give up hydrocarbons, particularly coal. During the first half of 2023, China approved 52 gigawatts (GW) of… Continue Reading
11.16.2023

Has 1984 Finally Arrived?

This Letter to the Editor, written by CO2 Coalition Member Euan Mearns, was published in The Press and Journal, November 16, 2023: Sir, Mike Hannan has referred to my view on climate change as Trumpian, and he calls into question my competence (letters 8th Nov). I have a BSc in geology (hons) and PhD in… Continue Reading
11.14.2023

‘Demographic Warming’: Humans Increasingly Choose to Live Where It’s Warmer

By Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D. The urban heat island (UHI) was first described by Luke Howard in 1833 for London, England. Urban area air temperatures are almost always warmer than their rural surroundings, especially at night. Thus, the average human experiences warmer temperatures than they would if they lived in wilderness conditions. This has nothing to do… Continue Reading
11.7.2023

EVs in Africa: No Place for Rich Boys Toys

By Vijay Jayaraj Electric vehicles (EVs) are a poster child for the so-called green transition. Even in some of the world’s poorest economies, an unquestioning embrace of all things “green” on the part of political elites powers a push for the adoption of electric vehicles. Africa — considered to be the least developed continent — is inundated… Continue Reading
11.6.2023

Africa Doesn’t Need Western Elites’ Meaningless Climate Policies

By Vijay Jayaraj African priorities differ from those of Europe and North America. Among the Dark Continent’s most daunting challenges are poverty, malnutrition, lack of healthcare and proper education, unemployment, inferior transportation infrastructure and underdeveloped technologies for energy, information and communications. Therefore, Africans do not have the option to adopt unscientific and unachievable climate policies… Continue Reading
11.1.2023

Thailand’s Tiger Turnaround Contradicts Climate Fearmongering

By Vijay Jayaraj Thailand’s protected forest areas are home to the Indochinese tiger, known by its biological name Panthera tigris corbetti. Recent population numbers suggest that the tiger is making a comeback. Tiger populations in two of Thailand’s wildlife sanctuaries grew from 42 in 2012 to about 100 in 2022. The resurgence is one more conservation success story… Continue Reading
10.31.2023

Weather-dependent Power Inefficient, Costly

This guest column written by CO2 Coalition Member Martin Cornell, originally published at TheFacts.com September 13, 2023, was written in response to the published article “A Shame: Stop treating solar, wind power as enemy.” Your enthusiasm for weather-dependent wind and solar power challenges reason. Over the last week in August and first week in September,… Continue Reading
10.31.2023

Preferred Carbon Capture Method is Uneconomic

This Letter to the Editor, written by CO2 Coalition Member Euan Mearns, was published in The Press and Journal, October 28, 2023: Sir, Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is viewed as an essential component of decarbonisation by many OECD governments and has been debated and considered in the UK for at least two decades. The… Continue Reading
10.31.2023

This Isn’t the First Time in Human History Our Winters Have Become Milder

This Letter to the Editor, written by CO2 Coalition Member Euan Mearns, was published in The Press and Journal, October 26, 2023: Sir, with reference to the letter from Ivan Reid, 18th October. He is of course totally correct; our winters have become less snowy and milder than during our youth. I recall the deep… Continue Reading
10.31.2023

CO2 Rocks!

CO2 Rocks! From Hot Rocks to Cool Rocks By Bob Hoye When reviewing the history of our atmosphere, it is fascinating that at first it was all atmosphere and no Earth. And it was mainly hydrogen. Then, due to the implacable nature of gravity, enough of it got together to form our hot Sun, while… Continue Reading
10.30.2023

Indonesia Shelves Decarbonization for Prosperity and Security

By Vijay Jayaraj Over the past few decades, Indonesia, an archipelagic nation made up of over 17,000 islands, has seen amazing economic progress. The strategic utilization of fossil fuels is a key factor at the center of this growth. Indonesia is a significant user of coal as well as the world’s third-largest producer of the… Continue Reading
10.27.2023

Scientific Method Restored to Science Education in North Carolina

By Gregory Wrightstone As a physicist, John Droz holds in high regard the Scientific Method, a 400-year-old approach to investigating reality. Rooted in Isaac Newton’s work, which included creation of the calculus, the Scientific Method has long underpinned examination of the physical world and technological advancement. Image: CK-12 Foundation, via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0 Quite understandable… Continue Reading
10.25.2023

History: Cold is Horrifically Bad for Humanity

By Gregory Wrightstone Before climate science became politicized, historians called warm periods “climate optima” because Earth’s ecosystems and humanity benefited from the blessed warmth. Conversely, during cold periods, the human condition declined. There is a strong correlation between the rise and fall of temperature and the fortunes of great civilizations. After centuries of beneficial warmth… Continue Reading
10.24.2023

Mass Production of White Elephants No Way to Ground Prosperous Economy

This Letter to the Editor, written by CO2 Coalition Member Euan Mearns, was published in The Press and Journal, October 18, 2023: Sir, On 4th October, the P&J carried an interesting editorial authored by Andrew Bowie MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine. He claimed that the Prime Minister was just starting a net-zero debate. That… Continue Reading
10.13.2023

Scotland’s Energy Needs Blown Off Course by Fantasy of Wind Power

By CO2 Coalition Member Dr. Euan Mearns Sir, In response to the article published by the Director of Communications at Scottish Renewables on 7th October. The article claimed that climate change was the greatest threat to our landscape. I enjoy walking in the Scottish hills and glens and can see no evidence for the change… Continue Reading
10.11.2023

Megadrought? What Megadrought?

The recent drought in the southwestern United States provided fodder for extreme reporting from the mainstream media consistently linking the so-called megadrought to man-made climate change. Now, after California experienced very wet weather during the winter of 2022 – 2023, the “worst drought in recorded history” has completely disappeared. There were no front-page headlines declaring… Continue Reading

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