By Vijay Jayaraj Amsterdam just became the world’s first capital to outlaw public ads for both meat and fossil fuels. Starting May 1, city officials scrubbed billboards, tram stops, and metro stations of promotions for gasoline cars, airlines, cruises, and distant vacations, along with beef, chicken, pork, and fish. In place of the now illegal… Continue Reading
By John Whitmore Jenkins indoctrinating? I graduated from both schools. Ironically, the one with government oversight is the one with academic freedom. When I was a student at Texas A&M University in a long-forgotten era, I viewed Harvard University as the pinnacle of academic excellence. My A&M mentor encouraged me, along with others he described… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj Just a few months ago, South Korean officials were busy boasting about extreme net zero targets. Fast forward to April 2026, and the country is scrambling to secure every vessel load of oil and natural gas available on the global market. Last November, the Presidential Commission on Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth… Continue Reading
by Vijay Jayaraj 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… Continue Reading
By Tilak Doshi In a commentary article in the Financial Post on Tuesday, Bjørn Lomborg argues that Net Zero is “on its way out”, as politicians across the world face up to the high cost and tiny climate returns of raising energy prices. With voters “weary of soaring energy bills and annoyed by increasingly hysteric… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj Political powers in the United Nations and European Union have spent decades lecturing Africa on climate “virtue.” Net-zero pledges, renewable targets, ESG frameworks, and more make up the ever-growing list of prescriptions for “healing the planet.” Having already industrialized through the use of fossil fuels and enjoying full bellies, stable power grids,… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj Europe stands as the self-proclaimed cathedral of the “green” transition. Bureaucrats in Brussels and politicians in Berlin have spent decades lecturing the world on the moral necessity to abandon hydrocarbons. They have constructed a narrative of the European Union as a shining city powered by the breeze and sun, modeling a net-zero… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj While the rest of Europe shivers under the self-imposed austerity of net zero mandates, Norway in the frozen north is keeping the lights on and the bank vaults full as it avoids the “green” ideological quicksand that has defined the continent’s energy policy. Despite pressures to decarbonize, Norway has increased efforts to… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj The collapse of the Paris Agreement and the unmasking of the net zero illusion were never hard to predict for anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty. It didn’t take a fancy research title or an advanced degree. The writing was carved deep into the stone of energy reality, which no press… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj Australia’s green energy experiment has left millions of its citizens with a shaky power grid, serving as a case study on how blind allegiance to climate dogma leads to economic and social turmoil. The once sacred “net zero” pledge has been exposed as a curse producing public anger, stark warnings from industry… Continue Reading
By Steve Goreham COP30, the United Nations climate conference, is underway in Belem, Brazil. Thousands of representatives from all over the world have journeyed to discuss how to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to try to fight human-caused climate change. But ten years after the Paris Climate Agreement, the global consensus on climate change is… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj We were promised a “green” utopia free of fossil fuels, powered by sunshine and breezes. However, the net zero hobbits living in this imaginary shire were blissfully ignorant of hard realities dictated by physics, engineering and economics. Once trumpeted by corporate giants and governments alike, the vision of a world without greenhouse… Continue Reading
By Steve Goreham This year, European nations announced plans to pursue artificial intelligence. National leaders announced AI spending goals totaling hundreds of billions of euros in efforts to catch up to the United States. But AI requires huge amounts of electrical power, conflicting with Europe’s commitment to achieve a Net Zero power grid. Since ChatGPT… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj Through ESG – Environmental, Social and Governance – mandates, the titans of global finance positioned themselves as the arbiters of corporate virtue. They pressured companies to divest from fossil fuels. They built an entire moral and financial architecture around the concept of decarbonization. But this June, two major events confirmed the slow… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj The grand vision of “Net Zero” initiatives – by which emissions of carbon dioxide magically balance with expensive and futile capture and storage systems – have long been sold as the redemption arc for humanity’s profligate modern ways. Yet, like a poorly scripted dystopian thriller, the holes in this plot are glaring.… Continue Reading
By Vijay Jayaraj Nations once relegated to the margins of economic discourse are now sprinting toward prosperity, their trajectories propelled by a single, unifying force: energy. Energy is indispensable. From the huge AI data centers in the U.S. to the mega-scale manufacturing factories in China, affordable and dependable energy supplies make all the difference between… 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 Vijay Jayaraj Though touted as next generation energy sources, solar and wind technologies have been shoe-horned into electricity grids only through government fiat and subsidies. Their failure to be adopted freely by investors and consumers lies in the pathetic energy density of solar panels and wind turbines. Energy density is defined as the amount… Continue Reading
7.12.2024
World’s Most Populous Nation Has Put Solar Out To Pasture. Other Countries Should Follow Suit
By Vijay Jayaraj During his debate with former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden claimed: “The only existential threat to humanity is climate change.” What if I told you that it is not climate change but climate policies that are the real existential threat to billions across our planet? The allure of a green utopia masks… Continue Reading
by John Staddon Despite North Carolina slowly injuring itself by trying to eliminate oil, coal, and natural gas as energy sources, the scientific basis for “net zero” (the complete elimination of fossil-fuel usage) is based more on “general agreement” than hard data. Climate scientists nevertheless sound optimistic about the progress that is being made in destroying… Continue Reading
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
By Steve Goreham Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking the world by storm. New AI applications are announced daily. Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and many companies tout plans for artificial intelligence capabilities. But the AI revolution is bad news for global efforts to achieve net-zero emissions. The AI revolution is based on high-performance AI chips,… Continue Reading
By Gregory Wrightstone I traveled to Oregon last week at the invitation of a CO2 Coalition supporter. Besides being completely off the grid at a lodge on the scenic Rogue River, I gave a presentation to about 50 people from southern Oregon after returning from the wilderness. As you can imagine, the climate zealots are in… Continue Reading
by Gordon Tomb Implementing net zero will depress the global economy more than the atmospheric warming that the campaign against carbon dioxide emissions is supposed to prevent, according to a comparison of research by recognized experts. In other words, abandoning efforts to eliminate the greenhouse gas emissions of fossil fuels likely would make virtually everybody… Continue Reading
12.9.2022
“All-the-Above” Energy Policy Is a Compromise That Reverses Human and Environmental Progress
by Dr. Indur Goklany The Net Zero energy policy pursued by the current administration would essentially, sooner or later, phase out fossil fuels. That would roll back much of the progress America and the world has witnessed since the 19th century in economic and human well-being while increasing pressures on the rest of nature. An… Continue Reading