Richard McCann (Ph.D), co-founder and senior consultant in energy, water, and environmental policy at M.Cubed, is a regular critic of my posts and comments on social media. Here is an exchange that flushes out Malthusianism (really neo-Malthusianism) in the climate debate for the record.
Bradley: Failure: Kyoto Protocol to Paris Accord. End the futile, wasteful anti-CO2 crusade.
McCann: Here’s why we can’t let this rest: https://mcubedecon.com/2025/10/15/modern-climate-change-is-now-18-times-faster-than-historic-global-warming-mass-extinction-events/
Bradley: So tired, so wrong. Malthusian studies are garbage in-garbage out. Statism is the problem, not CO2 enrichment.
McCann: Please show how its wrong. This is no more “Malthusian” than the air pollution studies of the 1960s that has led to much improved air quality across the county and even the world. Even Churchill agreed in the 1950s that coal burning needed to end in London because of the consequences.…
Continue ReadingThis post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.
Unreliables (General):
*** Wind & Solar: You Can’t Subsidize Them Enough
*** Here’s Proof That Environmentalism Doesn’t Motivate the ‘Green Energy’ Industry
*** Sweden Issues CHILLING Alert on Renewables
Wind Energy — Other:
Wind Turbines Set To Come Down, Threatening Hawaii Renewable Energy Goals
Lawsuit Against Arkwright Wind Turbines Adds Plaintiffs
Discarded wind energy increases by 91% in 2024
Solar Energy:
*** Appeals Court upholds NC County’s rejection of 2,300-acre solar facility
Nuclear Energy:
*** Nuclear Waste could be the game-changer to Unlimited Electricity
Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** New NYS bill that will charge oil and gas firms $75B, but critics say customers will really foot the tab
America’s Big Natural-Gas Footprint is About to Get Even Bigger
German Greens advocate for coal
Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** New: Alex Epstein’s Energy AI
Trump’s Going Places With Energy, but Biden’s the Backseat Driver
$10 billion reasons New Mexico can’t afford to abandon oil and gas
U.S.…