NRDC in Climate Denial (forced smiles at ‘Climate Week’)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 2, 2025“Dilute, intermittent, fragile, land-intensive, transmission-intensive, and government-enabled energies have had their chance since the 1970s and the 1990s. It is time to move on to consumer-chosen, taxpayer-neutral superiors.”
Their only option was to put a happy face on climate activism at the just-ended Climate Week in New York City. But how things have changed. Consider, 11 years ago, a lone Alex Epstein challenging climate alarm and forced energy transformation at the People’s Climate March in New York City (below). Now, Epstein’s “human betterment” human philosophy is ensconced in the halls of power in Washington, including the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
But the narrative and jobs of the Climate Industrial Complex, thousands of rent-seekers and grifters strong, must keep their Deep Ecology faith. Manish Bapna, President and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), wrote on social media:
… Continue ReadingWhat a lively way to start the day.
Finance vs. “Climate Finance” (Lisa Sachs’s Problem)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 1, 2025“… the doctrine of ‘social responsibility’ involves the acceptance of the socialist view that political mechanisms, not market mechanisms, are the appropriate way to determine the allocation of scarce resources to alternative uses.” (- Milton Friedman, 1970)
Lisa Sachs, director of the Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment, is all-in with climate alarmism and forced energy transformation. No debate allowed about fundamental premises, despite my best efforts to persuade her otherwise.
Today, she is tangled up in the subjectivity and contradictions of “socially responsible” investing. Business is the process of winning profits and avoiding losses, with distractions such as “socially responsible” minimized. Yes, ethical norms should be respected, as Milton Friedman clearly stated in his seminal essay, “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits.” But business is not government or a charity.…
Continue ReadingWhen the NYT Fairly Reported on Global Warming (December 13, 1989)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 30, 2025Ed note: The current debate regarding the 2009 EPA Endangerment Finding can be enriched by a historical review of climate alarmism and its critics. This repost on fair reporting on the climate issue, a rarity for the New York Times, is relevant in this regard.
“The skeptics contend that forecasts of global warming are flawed and overstated and that the future might even hold no significant warming at all. Some say that if the warming is modest, as they believe likely, it could bring benefits like longer growing seasons in temperate zones, more rain in dry areas and an enrichment of crops and plant life.”
… Continue Reading”’The expense [of climate policy] is patently obvious,’ said one of the most outspoken skeptics, Patrick Michaels, a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and a former president of the American Meteorological Society.