Climate ‘Overshoot’? Let’s Go!

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 3, 2026

“CO2/climate optimism is merited, not more recalibration by falsified merchants of doom.”

David Carlin must be a worried guy outside of his smiling photos. This “policy, sustainability, and finance expert” has a firm (D. A. Carlin Company) ready to assess your climate/ecology risks for a nice fee. He has the knowledge and answers to the ‘problem’… Or maybe not.

Here is his New Year’s post:

With 2026 beginning, what date would we overshoot the planet’s resources if everyone lived your lifestyle?

Great visualization showing when 100+ countries would exceed a sustainable balance based on the resource use and consumption habits of different nations.

The U.S. and Canada hit their sustainability threshold in March, so maybe North America should just hibernate for three-fourths of the year.

Carlin ends:

It’s the mirror image of how many earths we would need.

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Storm Ferm: Remember Uri (centrally planned electricity ‘transition’ in Texas)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 30, 2026

Ed. note: The current cold snap (“where is global warming when you need it?”) makes timely a review of the Texas electricity debacle of February 2021. This post by Robert Bradley, “Wind, Solar, and the Great Texas Blackout: Guilty as Charged,” was originally published by the Institute for Energy Research. As of 5 pm yesterday, natural gas and coal supplied about 75 percent of Texas’s electricity (ERCOT scoreboard) and wind/solar 17 percent (versus 50 percent of rated capacity).

“Central planning for a forced energy transformation produced the debacle of debacles two years ago in Texas. It is time for a new era for U.S. electricity policy premised on market entrepreneurship.”

Electricity specialists at the University of Texas at Austin recently revisited the Great Texas Blackout of February 2021.…

Celebrating Paris Climate Agreement at Ten? (postmodernism in action)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 29, 2026

“[The Paris agreement] is a fraud really, a fake. It’s just bullshit for them to say: ‘We’ll have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years.’ It’s just worthless words…. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.” (James Hansen, The Guardian, December 12, 2015)

Jean Boissinot is one disagreeable French fellow. My exchanges with him on social media (see here and here) are less than polite on his side, mixing sarcasm and insults (I might have dementia, he says) amid his (debatable) points. But when he argues success in the face of failure (as predicted by the father of climate alarmism above), perhaps it is time to rest my case.…