CFACT: Stop Offshore Wind!
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 13, 2025Ed note: One of the nation’s leading environmental organizations, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, has done their homework on the ecological harms of offshore wind turbines. This letter to Secretary Burgum of the U.S. Department of the Interior from David Wojick (CFACT) and David Stevenson (Center for Energy & Environment, Caesar Rodney Institute) follows.
A previous post, Whales and Offshore Wind: Trump Time (Wojick has built a case), detailed the forty-one (!) posts of David Wojick on this issue. The latest is to put the evidence into political action now that look-the-other-way Podesta-Biden-Harris (and a lot of hypocritical ‘environmental’ groups) has been replaced by a new Administration. The letter and accompanying information follow.
RE: Reviewing legitimacy of Offshore Wind Project approvals
Dear Secretary Burgum,
It is with a sense of real urgency we are writing to you today.…
Continue ReadingClimate Gobbledygook: ‘Experts’ Pontificating Mitigation Failure
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 12, 2025Ed. note: With the US-led demise of Net Zero and “energy transformation,” prior attempts to come to grips with climate futility and energy reality are worth revisiting. This article, “Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven’t We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?” (Annual Review of Environment and Resources: Vol. 46, 2021), is an example of a faulty worldview, a vastly overbuilt academic climate network (23 authors), and an inability to seriously deal with critical views of climate alarm/forced energy transformation.
“The globalizing formations of industrial modernity … are, arguably, most distinctively driven by an array of fallacies, fictions, and fantasies of control.” [1]
This post presents the article’s Abstract, Summary Points, Future Issues, and Conclusion followed by my critical comment.
Despite three decades of political efforts and a wealth of research on the causes and catastrophic impacts of climate change, global carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise and are 60% higher today than they were in 1990.…
Continue ReadingPeak Air Pollution: The Increasing Sustainability of Fossil Fuels
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 11, 2025Earlier this year, Our World in Data published a Daily Data on global air pollution. Hannah Ritchie, deputy director and science outreach lead, wrote:
Global emissions of local air pollutants have probably passed their peak. The chart [below] shows estimates of global emissions of pollutants such as sulphur dioxide (which causes acid rain), nitrogen oxides, and black and organic carbon. These pollutants are harmful to human health and can also damage ecosystems.
It looks like emissions have peaked for almost all of these pollutants. Global air pollution is now falling, and we can save many lives by accelerating this decline. The exception is ammonia, which is mainly produced by agriculture. Its emissions are still rising.
Source: Community Emissions Data System (CEDS).
Hannah Ritchie notes that some countries are lagging, getting worse.…
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