“Energy is Prosperity” (Claire Coutinho speaks to the UK people)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 3, 2026Ed. Note: This manifesto by Claire Coutinho from last year is reprinted in light of the raging UK debate over “Net Zero” policies pursuant to the Climate Change Act of 2008. A former Cabinet member as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, and currently an elected member of the Conservative Pary, she has changed views to trenchantly oppose Net Zero.
“I can promise you this. When it comes to energy policy, our priority won’t be ideology, it won’t be vested interests, it won’t be fake promises we can’t deliver. It will be cheap, reliable, abundant energy.”
In the last few decades, we’ve lost sight of a simple truth. Energy is a good thing.
Conservatives know that great eras of British growth and prosperity happen when we have an abundance of cheap, reliable energy.…
Continue ReadingCleaned-up Coal: Part of Fossil Fuel Sustainability
By Stephen Heins -- November 2, 2026“The climate conversation rarely pauses to ask why the scrubber success is treated as invisible. One reason is rhetorical convenience: once the entire fuel is defined as the problem, partial technological answers become unwelcome.”
In the climate debate, coal is treated as if it still belches the same smoke it did in 1970. This is a major error. Modern coal plants combine a variety of technologies before and after combustion, as well as monitoring systems to verify compliance with today’s environmental laws with criteria pollutants (see Appendix A). As with petroleum, coal today is an environmental product, part of the increasing sustainability of fossil fuels.
Scrubbers, selective catalytic reduction, and the rest of the air-pollution control suite (see Appendix B) are rarely mentioned. That silence is not neutral. It erases one of the clearest engineering successes of the past thirty years and flattens a complicated fuel into a single villain.…
Continue ReadingJohn ‘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.…
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