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A Climate Wedding?

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 19, 2026

Call it fringism on display–or a dodge from conspicuous consumption.

Sam Harrington authored the following for Yale Climate Connections, which reports on all-things-climate-alarmism with a staff of twenty-four (23 writers and one cartoonist). The highlights of her Six Ways to Throw a Climate-Friendly Wedding—and Save Money follow.

“When my fiancée and I got engaged, we knew we wanted to celebrate our relationship in the company of our loved ones,” she begins. “As a climate journalist and a scientist interested in sustainability, we also knew we didn’t want our wedding to cause a lot of harm to the environment and climate.” She continues:

The average U.S. wedding generates roughly 56 tons of carbon pollution. That’s over three times the amount the average American produces in a year and almost nine times more than the global average per person.

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Climate Media’s Problem? Guess Again

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 18, 2026

“Climate alarmism and forced energy transformation is a losing argument now that the dust has settled. Exaggeration backfires, and here-and-now issues matter, not wasteful climate policies that do not and will not have any effect on climate for decades, if at all. As painful as it might be, it is time for Amy Westervelt (et al.) to check their premises. The Climate Industrial Complex is a beast just like, in her head, Big Oil.”

Amy Westervelt is in denial at DRILLED, a climate alarmist website. She gives four major reasons for “Climate Media’s Philanthropy Problem” (June 2, 2026).

“We’ve talked before about the massive bloodletting in climate media this year,” she begins:

even amidst the general demise of journalism, climate reporting stands out as having been hit particularly hard.

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Lee R. Raymond: Guilty as Charged (Desmog backfires again)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 17, 2026

Ed. Note: Today’s post concludes a three-part lookback at Lee R. Raymond (1938–2026), the no-nonsense value-creator at Exxon Mobil (also see Part I and Part II).

The large, ever-growing list of climate “deniers” at Desmog Blog documents a growing consensus against climate exaggeration and “green” energy inferiority. MasterResource has long documented this “backfire” at this Progressive Left, anti-fossil-fuel UK website.

The energy and climate views of Lee R. Raymond are presented by DeSmog below. Read and decide for yourself; was Exxon/Exxon-Mobil’s leader (1993–2005) correct in his time and today? Many scientific, economic, and political trends, in fact, are moving in the direction that his thinking would support.

Credentials

  • Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Minnesota (May 16, 2011).1
  • PhD, chemical engineering, University of Minnesota (1963).2
  • BSc, chemical engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison (1960).
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Lee Raymond: Victor over BP’s Browne and Enron’s Lay (Kevin Mooney still correct)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 16, 2026
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Lee R. Raymond (1938–2026)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 15, 2026
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Travis Fisher: An Appreciation

By Stephen Heins -- June 11, 2026
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Sierra Club Floods the Climate Zone (alarmism or bust!)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 10, 2026
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Biased Seth Borenstein (AP) Award Night

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 9, 2026
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Energy & Environmental Review: June 8, 2026

By -- June 8, 2026
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Solar Thieving: Another Cost of DG (Distributed Generation)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- June 5, 2026
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