John ‘Halloween’ Holdren Remembered (exaggeration, failed prognostications should not be forgotten)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 30, 2026Ed. Note: John Holdren is a fading name in the climate/energy debate. But he was Paul Ehrlich’s protégé and coauthor in the 1970s, and he had a two-term (eight year) appointment (2009–2017) as President Obama’s top science advisor. Holdren infamously politicized the third U.S. National Climate Assessment (2014), the sixth assessment of which promises to be more balanced under new authorship. Holdren dismissed Robert L. Bradley Jr. in a 2003 email exchange as “lacking both discernible qualifications in the real world and the ability to tell a good argument from a bad one,” perhaps an example of expert failure.
“Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the [twentieth] century.”
Doom and gloom—and subsequent real-world falsification—hallmark the long career of John P.…
Continue ReadingData Centers Soar Despite Opposition
By Steve Goreham -- October 29, 2026“The data center hyperscalers, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and others, are spending over $750 billion this year constructing data center infrastructure, with spending expected to approach $1 trillion next year. This amount equals the total U.S. annual spending on kindergarten through twelfth-grade education.”
Headlines ring daily about data center protests. Cities and states pass bans on data center construction. News outlets warn that the data center boom, driven by artificial intelligence, must come to a halt. But data center construction continues to soar with demand exceeding supply. But location matters; physical proximity to end-users reduces data travel time for real-time applications such as video streaming, online gaming, financial trading, and autonomous systems.
Protests Mount …
On July 18, 142 data center protests across 42 states were held, organized by HumansFirst. The Data Center Rejection Database of journalist Robert Bryce counts over 300 data center rejections in 2026.…
Continue ReadingClimate Anxiety? Just Teach Both Sides (a cure in waiting)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 28, 2026“More and more of us are directly experiencing climate impacts, which can cause stress, trauma, lingering anxiety and depression, and even heightened suicide risk.” (- Moms Clean Air Force)
“Smiling faces. Good intentions. Confirmation bias. None of this is enough. There is another alternative, a very different path, to defuse a wasteful, futile crusade: climate and energy realism.” ( – Bradley, below)
The Environmental Defense Fund is grasping at straws with their recent pitch, “Dealing with Climate Anxiety?”. EDF cites a Mental Health site by Moms Clean Air Force.
… Continue ReadingMoms Clean Air Force is very active in the climate mental health space. Climate distress can be deeply painful. If you’ve ever felt the mental health impacts of climate change or environmental issues, you are not alone. In recent years, there has been a growing focus on learning how to navigate the mental and emotional terrain of living in a changing climate.