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“We Don’t Have Time” (climate pity party)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 27, 2026

“The fatal conceit of ‘experts’ and ‘planners’ is promoting coercive social policy based on incomplete or wrong knowledge that the perpetrator thinks is God-like given and true. Ingmar Rentzhog is a danger, not prophet, in this regard.”

The Swedish website We Don’t Have Time declares itself to be “The World’s Largest Media Platform for Climate Action.” It is added: “We are democratizing knowledge about climate solutions to inspire and mobilize global action toward a prosperous, fossil-free future.”

A “prosperous, fossil-free future”? What is this group about? Start with the CEO and founder, Ingmar Rentzhog, who recently posted a sad plea, “The Biggest Lie Ever Told Is Only Four Words Long (August 20, 2026).

“After ten years, he began, “I mostly feel exhausted.”

I have spent ten years inside the climate crisis, more or less around the clock.

Peak Gas, Peak Demand? McKibben in Fantasy Land

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 26, 2026

It is factually correct and mainstream that both oil-and-gas production and energy demand are increasing. But here comes climate alarmist Bill McKibben, climate writer at the New York Times, promoting a false narrative of fossil fuels declining in supply and in demand.

It is a strange development. McKibben previously ranted about the lack of climate action in the face of a crisis. He seemed ready to throw in the towel if the political world would not get better. But what is a spent climate alarmist to do? Create a message of hope.

McKibben’s is an old page from the energy-subtraction Progressive Left. Remember what Amory Lovins stated nearly a half-century ago?

“The long-term prospects of selling more electricity are dismal.” [1]

“Prominent exploration experts have recently predicted that total world production of liquid oil will peak by about the end of this decade-or a few years later if production does not rise much-and will decline thereafter.”

Renewables: Energy Addition, not Substitution (a retreating narrative)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 25, 2026

“Upstream fossil fuel extraction productivity … gains are sufficient to outweigh much larger improvements in renewables generation. [R]enewables productivity gains must exceed fossil gains by approximately 4–5× for net emissions to break even: each 1% marginal productivity gain in fossil fuels requires 4–5% gains in renewables.” (Nature Portfolio, below) 

When the climate alarmists/forced energy transformationists bow to reality, it is worth noting. The latest example is a setback to the governmental push for wind, solar, and batteries in place of consumer-driven oil, gas, and coal. Instead of “energy transition” and “Net Zero,” the reality is, to use a term of Alex Epstein, fossil future.

AI-driven Productivity Gains Enable More CO Emissions than They Avoid in a Global Energy–Economy Model,” (Nature Portfolio: August 4, 2026) goes from climate alarmism to energy reality.…

AI: Peak Demand and Peak Supply Postponed (fossil future)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 24, 2026

The 1970s Oil Crisis: Never Forget

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 21, 2026

Psychedelics for Climate Action (12,000 cultists)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 20, 2026

Blue States. High Rates ($0.55/gallon premium)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 19, 2026

Energy & Environmental Review: August 17, 2026

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 17, 2026

CO2 is Winning (Mitigation fail)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 14, 2026

The Weak EV Narrative (fix is in with NYT essay)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 13, 2026