“My goal this year is to get my first dog. I have to fight for a better planet for my dog.” – Emily Atkin, below
Good intentions are not enough. Billions of people have chosen, are choosing, and will choose the best energies for their personal benefit.
These two points are worth remembering when reading an interview of Emily Atkin, founder and writer of the climate-alarm publication Heated, by Future Earth Catalog. Emily herself introduced the published interview, titled Emily Atkin is Not an Optimist,” as follows.
…One of the most common questions I’m asked as a climate journalist is whether I’m “optimistic” or “hopeful” about the future. And after more than a decade of answering it, I think I’ve finally figured out my answer. Unfortunately, no—I’m not especially optimistic or full of glittery hope.
Kim Rogalin posted on social media (Facebook) about the controversy concerning the (now removed) Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (fourth edition) of the National Academy of Sciences Federal Judicial Center (FJC). Her post (August 28, 2026) summarized a Federalist article, “After Climate Activism Scandal, 25 State AGs Push Feds to Suspend Grants to National Science Org,” where author Shown Fleetwood wrote:
…The problem with that chapter centered on the fact it was not neutral or unbiased, as the science manual is supposed to be, but was written by activist lawyers and academics actively involved in climate lawsuits filed across the nation, plus plaintiffs, advisors, and climate experts participating in those trials. Being written by public advocates of climate lawsuits, while citing materials and using whole sections written by attorneys and academics testifying for the plaintiffs in those lawsuits, doesn’t just tiptoe along the line of the appearance of impropriety.
“Bipartisan support for commercial fission in Congress and the White House has opened the subsidy floodgates and, to an extent, reined-in overregulation. But the information of a free market where government is neutral is needed for the first time in the history of the industry.”
Free-market energy adherents are warned to not make commercial nuclear power (fission) the new government darling in place of wind, solar, and batteries. Instead, a free-market framework needs to be established to let the market decide with government neutral.
Special government favor created this peacetime industry in the 1950s, and its heralded promise never eventualized since. At the same time, turbine technology to generate electricity put fuel oil and natural gas into the game, providing much needed (fossil fuel) competition to coal. Wind and solar as grid electricity were nowhere through the 1960s and into the 1970s.…