“Energy is Prosperity” (Claire Coutinho speaks to the UK people)

Ed. 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 of 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.…

John ‘Halloween’ Holdren Remembered (exaggeration, failed prognostications should not be forgotten)

Ed. 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.”

– John Holdren and Paul Ehrlich[1]

Doom and gloom—and subsequent real-world falsification—hallmark the long career of John P.…

Climate Anxiety? Just Teach Both Sides (a cure in waiting)

“More and more of us are directly experiencing climate impacts, which can cause stress, trauma, lingering anxiety and depression, and even heightened suicide risk.” (- Moms Clean Air Force)

“Smiling faces. Good intentions. Confirmation bias. None of this is enough. There is another alternative, a very different path, to defuse a wasteful, futile crusade: climate and energy realism.” ( – Bradley, below)

The Environmental Defense Fund is grasping at straws with their recent pitch, “Dealing with Climate Anxiety?”. EDF cites a Mental Health site by Moms Clean Air Force.

Moms Clean Air Force is very active in the climate mental health space. Climate distress can be deeply painful. If you’ve ever felt the mental health impacts of climate change or environmental issues, you are not alone. In recent years, there has been a growing focus on learning how to navigate the mental and emotional terrain of living in a changing climate.

‘Green’ Energy Tradeoffs

Washington Post on Natural Gas: No Plan = Best Plan (channeling F. A. Hayek)

Greenhushing (climate loses its message)

‘The Future of CCS Can No Longer Be Assumed’ (a supporter rethinks …)

U.S. EPA’s Energy Exceptionalism (CO2 freedom)

Free Market Electricity: BYOP Update

Emily Atkin (Heated): Inside the Climate Fringe