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Are climate activists victims of the Dunning–Kruger effect? Many scientists say uncertainty is vast, CO₂ impacts are limited, and costly climate alarmism is dangerously overconfident.
A world of eight billion people still depends on oil, gas, and coal for the very materials that make electricity possible. Until that changes, energy policy must balance reliability, affordability - and reality.
The COP30 attendees in Brazil do not comprehend that just electricity generated from wind and solar, will negatively impact humanity's demands for the products based on fossil fuels.
We’ve spent $5 trillion chasing the wind, when slightly used nuclear fuel could power the world for a cent per kilowatt-hour - if government stopped smothering free enterprise.
In our brave new AI world, academics pretend to teach, students pretend to learn and administrators pretend it all adds up to something called higher education.
Conversion of underground hydrocarbon resources of coal, crude oil, and natural gas to meet the supply chain of products demanded by society will be stagnated with net-zero emission ideologies.