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‘Clean Gulf: Beyond Oil Spills’ Conference: The Clean, Green Hydrocarbon Era

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 14, 2025

“BP ‘Beyond Petroleum’ is Out … real energy environmentalism is In. And while the redistributionists, the ‘experts’, the rent-seekers hash-and-trash it out in Belém, Brazil (COP 30), the real producers, the on-the-ground energy makers, are perfecting their craft. Here’s to a great conference!”

It is (past) time for the fossil fuel industries to unite with a message of clean and green. After all, oil, natural gas, and coal are now environmental products, and the density and reliability of each is a gift to the living space. In the words of the late Peter Huber:

The greenest fuels are the ones that contain the most energy per pound of material than must be mined, trucked, pumped, piped, and burnt. [In contrast], extracting comparable amounts of energy from the surface would entail truly monstrous environmental disruption….

Bari Weiss, Free Press, and Climate Reporting

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 13, 2025

“Someone is wrong in this clash of climate views. And it is far less Bari Weiss than it is Emily Atkin, a cultist figure (“when I take mushrooms, the last things I want to do is think about climate change“) in the fire of climate exaggeration and despair.”

“At The Free Press, Weiss consistently rebrands tired fossil fuel talking points as courageous, rebellious dissent,” states Emily Atkin at her website HEATED. But reviewing her examples, it is Atkin and not Bari Weiss who needs to rethink climate alarmism and forced energy transformation. The Climate Industrial Complex is nothing to be supported, much less proud of, by even the Progressive Left.

Here are 11 articles that Atkin does not like (reproduced verbatim). But each one has elements of truth to knock down the narrative that HEATED so vehemently wants to prop up.…

Argentinian Reform: Subsoil Privatization (Javier Milei, meet Guillermo Yeatts)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 12, 2025

Ed. Note: With COP30 under way, it is an opportune time consider the opportunity cost to climate statism. The alternative represents true social justice and energy plenty in a sea of freedom. This repost from two years ago outlines the most important global energy issue of our time.

“The case of Guillermo Yeatts for subsoil privatization should eclipse ‘climate change’ as the number one policy initiative of the 21st century. This friend of private property, free markets, the rule of law, and civil society, a successful entrepreneur in his own right, a thinker and doer, has set up an excellent opportunity for a new political era in his beloved Argentina.”

Give me liberty, not corruption and poverty! The recent election of Javier Milei of La Libertad Avanza (Liberty Advances) in Argentina was a resounding vote for freedom and prosperity.…

Trump vs. Global CO2 Tax: Shock-and-Awe Victory

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 11, 2025

Joe Romm: “Even Gates was fooled” (Doomism at Penn)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 6, 2025

Oklo’s Valuation: Nuclear on Welfare (joining wind, solar, batteries)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 5, 2025

Climate Alarmists Question Climate Exaggeration

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 4, 2025

When Bad News is Good: Ditching Net Zero (Google is out!)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 3, 2025

Land of the Living Dead: Paul Ehrlich this Halloween

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 30, 2025

When Edison Electric Institute Went Woke (Jim Rogers flipped the script)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 28, 2025