March 3, 2025

Intellectual elites’ false pretense of energy transition

While listing many of the barriers to abandoning fossil fuels for “green” energy, three writers in Foreign Affairs magazine skip over an important truth: The once ballyhooed but now moribund “energy transition” was and remains...

April 9, 2021

An anti–global warming hysteria book is driving Norwegian warming hysterics nuts

Other than by misspelling "fjord," how would an American geologist draw the ire of a pair of Norwegian politicians?  Answer: Write a book that counters the notion that human activity is causing the globe to warm with catastrophic ...

February 6, 2021

Why Disagreeing with Sheldon Whitehouse is Criminal

In western Pennsylvania of mid-20th century, large numbers of people earned livings by mining, transporting, and burning coal. Coal was converted to coke to make steel and shoveled into home furnaces for heat. My father worked at a coal-fired powe...