CO2 is Winning (Mitigation fail)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 14, 2026“The future of rational climate policy is adaptation, not mitigation that works against adaptation. Social justice demands that climate policy not increase energy prices and restrict consumer sovereignty.”
Want to prosper in the energy/climate arena? Avoid wasteful, futile climate ‘mitigation’ policy. Want to ruin your economy for no effect on climate? Rush ahead with wind, solar, batteries, EVs, and forced conservation. The UK/EU experience speaks for itself.
Examine the graph below, and ask yourself which economies are prospering and which are retrogressing. The jumps between 2014 and 2024 would be magnified today.
The future of rational climate policy is adaptation, not mitigation that works against adaptation. Social justice demands that climate policy not increase energy prices and restrict consumer sovereignty.
Appendix: Prior Adaptation Articles
Adaptation Momentum, Mitigation Fatigue (August 5, 2026)
Global Air Conditioning: Adaptation in Action (July 21, 2026)
Adaptation: Think about It (July 2, 2026)
The Argument for Adaptation and Resilience (Part I: Theory) July 14, 2025
Examples of Adaptation and Resilience (Part II: Examples) July 15, 2025
Continue ReadingThe Weak EV Narrative (fix is in with NYT essay)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 13, 2026“
Matthew Shaer’s 5,500-word New York Times essay, “The American E.V. Has Been Crushed. Will It Take the U.S. Auto Industry with It?” (July 15, 2026), documents the U.S. electric vehicle (EV) bust. Very useful. But then he spins a false narrative. And for credibility, the article comes with a statement: “Matthew Shaer spoke with dozens of auto industry analysts and academics for this article” … but not anyone who challenges the EV narrative in light of the failed domestic policy.
Shaer’s essay is a Malthusian masterpiece: doom-and-gloom with a prediction waiting to be refuted. It’s subtitle:
The largest U.S. automakers have backed away from electric vehicles, even as global sales are booming. The decision may make them obsolete.
The first sentence is factual and correct. The second sentence is wrong–and missing the other side of the story.…
Continue Reading“Cheap” Solar Does Not Need Subsidies, Right? (wrong)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 12, 2026The wind/solar narrative shifts as the polls do. The latest message is that wind and solar are cost-effective and the natural choice for energy affordability. Yet the renewable industry pleads for evergreen help with the outsized subsidies of the Production Tax Credit (PTC) and Investment Tax Credit (ITC), which are on track to end at the end of next year for any new project.
As the free world turns toward natural gas in the new era, consider the following narrative quotations, aspirational and wrong.
“Some critics of solar facilities have falsely claimed that they are expensive and inefficient….” – Maxine Joselow, “As Trump Obliterates Climate Efforts, States Try to Fill the Gap,” New York Times (February 19, 2026)
… Continue Reading“Solar is now the cheapest energy source in human history, yet rollbacks are spreading from California to Virginia as officials blame high costs and a hostile Trump administration.” –