The Science
Climate Change
The original climate overview: public claims, scientific quotations, development priorities, and the role of fear.
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Energy & Industry
Energy systems, climate, oil & gas, nuclear, minerals, electricity, infrastructure, industrial policy, resource development.
Start with the concepts. Five explainers bring together the original charts, quotations, and source material, alongside an introduction to energy and human flourishing.
The Science
Drought & Flooding
The distinctions among meteorological, hydrological, agricultural, and ecological drought, alongside food security and flooding.
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Hurricanes
The original hurricane explainer, with historical observations, quotations, and source material.
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Sea Level Rise
Sea-level measurements, longer historical context, ice melt, and the charts behind the discussion.
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Tornadoes
How detection, storm intensity, and the historical record affect the interpretation of tornado counts.
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Energy, Climate & Human Flourishing
The broader introduction: influences, global development, energy poverty, and four videos for further exploration.
Explore →29 pieces of writing
Why Data Centers Are Not the Primary Driver of Rising Electricity Prices
States with the largest concentrations of hyperscale data centers—such as Virginia and Texas—do not exhibit electricity price behavior consistent with the claim that data center load is a primary driver of rate increases.
Climate & Energy: The Case for Realism
A wonderful new book is about to drop that should be on your radar if interested in Climate and Energy. I inform you selfishly, though, because I'm one of the co-authors alongside about a dozen Ph.D.s in various climate-related disciplines.
Book Review: Shorting the Grid
Meredith Angwin pens what might possibly be the most important work so far this decade.
Europe’s Record Heat Wave That Wasn’t
In what ZERO outlets are reporting, London’s maximum temperature the day-after was 81 degrees, a more than 20% drop in a single day.
Book Review: Fossil Future
Instead of trying to convince people with the facts, Epstein has taken an entirely different tact altogether.
We Must Nationalize Big Oil
The competition between socialism and democracy is alive and well.
Subsidies Series: Part II
The inundation of half-truths and outright lies have harmed the national consciousness.
Subsidies Series: Part I
No fish are caught in clear waters. – Chinese proverb
DOJ Sentences NextEra Energy for “Blatant Disregard”, Killing 150 Eagles
Should the United States revisit the way we are incentivizing these wind (and solar) companies towards “blatant disregard” for American conservation laws?
How Fracking saved America from Europe’s Fate and Improved Energy Security for Both
In the 1960s, John F. Kennedy warned Europe not to tie their energy security to adversarial Russia.
How Much Is A Barrel of Oil Worth?
$50, $100, $250, $500, $1,000? Find out, and why it matters.
We need leaders who prioritize people over molecules
They seem to have portrayed the problem in such an extremist way that they’ve convinced a growing army of climate warriors that terrorism is justified.
Letter to the Editor
My Letter to the Editor, in response to Don't Blame Climate Activists for the Global Energy Crisis
The Economist Butchers Reality in Favor of Narrative
This morning’s Lexington was America’s green energy industry takes on the fossil-fuel lobby. It is fraught with lies, to the level of liar-liar pants on fire. It is also riddled with half-truths, the sleight of hand that magicians are known
Climate as a Public Health Issue
How Biden's Secretary of Health & Human Services, Xavier Bacerra, might deliver a crippling blow to renewables in the United States.
Book Review: Apocalypse Never
Michael Shellenbeger is a low-carbon advocate and environmentalist from Berekely, California. You don’t get much more hippie than that.
Book Review: Unsettled by Steven Koonin
Unsettled is a book about scientific integrity.
When the British Risked It All
The critical moment in history that changed the war.
Letter to the Editor (USA Today)
The USA Today refused to print it. I’ll post it here anyway.
The Global Carbon Project
The question facing society today is whether the one atmosphere we live in should be governed by percentages or absolute values?
Renewable Energy’s China Problem
Breaking down the reality of renewable energy that their leaders would prefer you ignore.
Book Review: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates
Gates is to be admired.
A Different Take on ERCOT’s Failures
A week after the ERCOT failures, some data has emerged. Why natural gas is NOT to blame.
The Failures of (ERCOT) Power
We have been preparing for Global Warming. Why oil and gas companies and utilities should have instead been preparing for record-setting demand and Siberian cold.
Biden’s Inner Energy Circle
Biden claims Trump is lying about his intentions on fracking. I dive deep into those influencing Biden’s Climate Policy.
Why America Will Reject Environmental Extremism
Presumptive Presidential nominee Joe Biden released what he’s calling his “Clean Power Plan.” This plan is drastically more aggressive than anything he previously agreed to, including $2 Trillion in new taxes — as proposed, raising the corp
Why America Will Reject Environmental Extremism
The notion that we are facing an EXISTENTIAL THREAT (language used in Mr. Biden’s stance on climate as well as countless others) is causing humanity to act like the do-dos of Ice Age.
How Energy ‘Subsidizes’ the World
Why does Forbes write what feels like one article per month on the topic of Energy Subsidies?
How Traditional Fuels 'Subsidize' the World
Subsidies. A mundane yet often published subject, like that of the article published November 14th, 2019 by Forbes titled Fossil Fuel Subsidies And Impact Greenwashing Are Stalling The Energy Transition . It’s an often used, yet thoroughly