March 20, 2025

Every Dollar Spent on Solar Energy is Wasted

Solar electricity has big problems. Solar is intermittent. It stops working if clouds obscure the sun. It does not work at night. Solar works much better in the summer than in the winter. Solar is peaky. Electricity delivery peaks in the middle of th...

October 11, 2024

Solar Delusions

Most people think that solar electricity is an excellent choice for powering the electric grid.  Most people are delusional due to overwhelming propaganda. Solar can work for houses too isolated to be connected to a power line. ...

January 27, 2024

An Environmentalist Drifts RIght

Michael Shellenberger is a very talented environmentalist/journalist. For years his ideological outlook has been drifting right. The bedrock of current day environmentalism is climate change -- the belief that increasing the concentration of CO2 i...

January 1, 2024

Junk Climate Science

A popular saying is that those that don’t believe in God will believe in anything. Global warming provides and excellent reason for making an effort to believe in God, or at least in Judeo-Christian ideology that is the basis of our civilizatio...

August 4, 2023

The Problem with Modelling

The book, The Plague of Models: How Computer Modeling Corrupted Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulations by Kenneth Green, is banned by Amazon. I don’t think Amazon bans many books. They don’t have time to read them all. The boo...

July 13, 2023

Britney Griner and Hilton Hotels

This Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Las Vegas, part of the Hilton chain, has decided to decorate its hotel with a picture of Brittney Griner. Griner is a black, female basketball star married to another female woman.  As such she qualifies as especial...

November 15, 2022

GOP candidates need a bloody fight

Trump lately has been attacking DeSantis.  For example, Trump called DeSantis an "average REPUBLICAN Governor with great Public Relations."  He suggested that another potential opponent, Glenn Youngkin, governor of Virgi...

October 28, 2022

The Warmists Cop a Plea

When the golden god Gives their light; drowns the Earth We the people go blind Steven Koonin, a prominent scientist, has written a book critical of global warming with the title Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t...

September 28, 2022

The Climate Crisis Lie

In the early 1970s I was a disaffected youth. I began working at the nonprofit Zero Population Growth. We promoted the idea that exploding human population would soon make the world uninhabitable. The president of our organization went on the John...

July 12, 2022

The Global Warming Golden Goose

Climate science was an obscure and unimportant corner of academia until the professors lucked out with global warming.  The global warming idea apparently struck a spark with the government and media establishments and caught fire.  Money a...

February 1, 2022

Stanford Professor’s Plan to Save the World

Let’s start off by making it clear that everything in this article is my opinion. The professor in question, Mark Jacobson, has previously sued critics for $10 million. There is justice (in my opinion) because the lawsuit was dismissed and...

January 22, 2022

The Corruption of Science by Money and Marxism

There are many shady methods for making money. There are frauds like Ponzi schemes or pump and dump stock schemes. A more subtle scheme is convincing naïve students to take out large loans to pay inflated tuition so that colleges can milk the ta...

January 7, 2022

Cowering Corporations and Gross Government

In order to appease the left, corporations are supposed to support fighting the fictitious climate catastrophe and similar environmental causes.  They are supposed to have quotas on their board of directors and in their management for women...

January 3, 2022

Yet Another Solar Scam

What follows is my educated opinion. The Heliogen company is a provider of “artificial intelligence enabled” solar power. They just received an award from the Department of Energy to build a prototype plant that generates electricity. ...

December 6, 2021

Are Big Oil executives shrewd or just cowardly?

The price of oil is inelastic.  A shortage causes the price to soar, and excess production creates ruinously low prices.  Naturally, the producers want to limit production when necessary to protect the price and their profitabilit...

November 27, 2021

The Profound Junk Science of Climate

Climate change prophecy hangs its hat on computer climate models. The models have gigantic problems. According to Kevin Trenberth, once in charge of modeling at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, “[None of the] models correspond...

October 20, 2021

The Real Cost of Government Mandated Wind and Solar

The government and big financial institutions promote a fraudulent analysis of the cost of solar and wind electricity. Their narrative is that wind and solar are competitive with traditional fossil fuels and that the cost of wind and solar is rapidly...

September 25, 2021

The ‘Science’ of Climate Change

The science surrounding COVID has been hijacked for political purposes. People who recovered from the disease are pushed to get vaccinated, even though they have a natural immunity that is stronger than vaccine immunity. People are required to wear m...

June 22, 2021

Fake Science: COVID and Global Warming

The scientists guiding our COVID response have been exposed as driven by politics, not science. Dr. Fauci says that attacks on him are attacks on science. We are supposed to believe that persons that cloak themselves with science are infallible and h...

May 20, 2021

Smart People Say Dumb Things: Bill Gates Edition

Bill Gates has written a book: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. Unfortunately, the book is a disaster. He doesn’t get past the introduction before making mistakes that negate the rest of the book. He claims Carbon Dioxide emissions must be redu...

May 5, 2021

Our Quasi-Soviet States of America

American leftists use the same tactics as their Soviet and Chinese comrades.  The law has the same outward form as in civilized countries, but it is subverted to political ends.  Common criminals, according to Solzhenitsyn in The ...

April 5, 2021

The report 'Rethinking Energy' pegs the BS meter

"Rethinking Energy" is a report published by RethinkX, a San Francisco think-tank.  The report has great pretensions but little competence. The authors are Tony Seba and Adam Dorr.  They are extreme futurist...

November 9, 2020

How to Destroy China's Bribery Hold on the West

We face the horrible situation where, if Biden becomes president, we will have a president bought by the Chinese.  The evidence is overwhelming that the Chinese Communist Party has provided millions of dollars to Biden's family and effe...

November 6, 2020

Time for do-over elections?

Massive evidence that Joe Biden and his family have been corrupted by Chinese bribes emerged shortly before the election.  This evidence was blacked out by the Information Monopoly: Big Tech (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) and the mainstream news...

October 25, 2020

China’s Communist Party is backing the left’s revolution, seeking our downfall and subjugation

See also: Forget the Hunter Biden sex tapes. The real news is much bigger than that. Communism is very much alive and well in China. The tactics of concentration camps and big lies sponsored by a corrupt nomenklatura killing each other for politic...

October 17, 2020

The Rooftop Solar Scam and How to Get Rid of It

  According to the conventional wisdom, if you install solar panels on your roof you can zero out your electric bill and save pot loads of money. This is actually true if you live in certain states, particularly California. The catch is that ...

October 8, 2020

Jeff Bezos and Amazon Join the Religion of Green

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the world’s richest man, likes to depict himself as rising from difficult circumstances. His mother was still in high school when she became pregnant and his biological father left early on.  Bezos as ...

October 3, 2020

Biden's Energy Plan: Sacrificing Goats to the Sun Gods

A number of documents  have been published by the Biden campaign and the Democratic Party: Biden's energy plan, the Biden-Saunders unity manifesto and the party platform.  A lot of the goals in these documents are general...

September 29, 2020

The Real Cost of Wind and Solar

The main problem with either wind or solar is that they generate electricity erratically, depending on the wind or sunshine. In contrast, a fossil-fuel plant can generate electricity predictably upon request. Blackouts are very expensive for society,...

August 28, 2020

The Plague of Renewable Portfolio Standards

There are few commodities that are more perishable than electricity.  If it is not consumed at the moment it is produced, there are not very good options.  Yes, it is possible to store electricity via a reversible hydroelectric sc...

August 13, 2020

Nuclear to Replace Wind and Solar

In the words of James Hansen, the scientist most responsible for promoting global warming, wind and solar are “grotesque” solutions for reducing CO2 emissions. Michael Shellenberger, a prominent activist, has the same opinion. Hansen and ...

August 11, 2020

Human Challenge Trials and Hydroxychloroquine

Stage III vaccine testing is being done by administrating the vaccine or a placebo to around 30,000 people.  Then the number taking the vaccine or the placebo who develop COVID-19 are counted.  If the vaccine is good, statisticall...

May 29, 2020

Experts, media, and the left do us wrong

Recently Twila Brase of the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom suggested two videos to me concerning the problems with the lockdown “solution” to COVID-19. One video features the Nobel Prize winner, Professor Michael Levitt. He di...

May 22, 2020

Green Electricity Delusions

With global warming the alleged science is so complicated that nobody, including the global warming scientists, can really understand what is going on. Green electricity, mostly solar and wind, is different. It’s relatively clear cut. No superc...

April 26, 2020

The Plan to Completely Destroy Nevada’s Economy

Nevada, like no other state, is totally dependent on tourism. If tourism dies, the state will die. The Democrat governor, Steve Sisolak, is doing his best to kill Nevada.  Sisolak seems to be driven more by a lack of clear thinking rather than m...

April 15, 2020

Climate Models and COVID-19 Models

Computer models are seductive even though they are very often completely wrong. The more complicated they are the greater chance that they are wrong. Like children, they copy their parents -- the model architects. Confirmation bias involves cherry pi...

March 4, 2020

The Collapse of Intellectual Standards in Science

Each year, approximately $25 billion is wasted paying for so-called renewable energy, overwhelmingly wind and solar.  This is the excess cost of the renewable energy versus what it would cost to generate the same amount of electricity in ex...

February 22, 2020

Michael Bloomberg, Arrogant Elitist

There is a YouTube video featuring Michael Bloomberg speaking at the University of Oxford on the verge of Trump’s inauguration in December 2016. The video reveals much about Bloomberg’s beliefs and thinking: He is dismissive of ...

February 13, 2020

Renewable Power Theatre of the Absurd

Along with many other states, California, Arizona and Nevada all have “renewable portfolio laws.” California requires that 60% of its electric power be from renewable sources by 2030. Nevada requires 50% by 2030. Arizona requires 15% by 2...

February 5, 2020

Renewable Energy Fairy Tales

The very wrong energy policy being pursued in the U.S. and even more so in Europe has its roots in a 1987 report from the United Nations. The report called Our Common Future is normally referred to as the Brundtland Report after Harlem Brundtland, a ...

January 8, 2020

Another Expensive Solar Scheme Bites the Dust

The purveyors of solar energy are working overtime to spin the now official failure of the Crescent Dunes thermal solar plant in central Nevada.  The contracts to purchase the electricity from the constantly broken plant will be voided....

November 30, 2019

Why Joe Biden seems so different

When I lived in Chicago in 2011, I encountered "Frank" on Michigan Avenue (the Magnificent Mile) a number of times.  My reaction was to assume, even though he seemed completely sane, that he had a mental problem.  Now I...

November 27, 2019

Green Energy Studies: Consulting, or Advertising?

Wind and solar aren’t remotely competitive with traditional fossil fuels and cannot replace them. They would scarcely exist if it weren’t for massive federal subsidies, and state laws establishing quotas for renewable energ...

November 13, 2019

Fake Wealth and Income Statistics

Tendentious statistics are constantly put forth by various neo-Marxists trying to prove that American society is unjust and that confiscatory taxes should therefore be imposed on the wealthy. The advocates of a wealth tax don’t seem to be ...

November 4, 2019

Has Elizabeth Warren Really Thought about Her Tax Plan?

Elizabeth Warren says her plan will result in "everyone get[ting] the care they need, when they need it, and nobody goes broke."  It appears that senators, such as Ms. Warren, are excused from the worst effects of Medicare. I h...

October 28, 2019

Scientocracy Busts Open the Motivation behind Global Warming Politics

The title of this new book is a play on aristocracy.  The science aristocracy is living off its former reputation as honest investigators of the natural world.  But now they are largely mean-spirited bureaucrats who don't hesi...

August 17, 2019

Renewable Energy Hits the Wall

If the official definitions of renewable energy were logical, renewable energy would be defined as energy that does not emit CO2 and that is not using a resource in danger of running out anytime soon.  But the definitions written into the l...

July 29, 2019

Apple Could Help the USA and Help Itself

The CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, is failing Apple and is distracted by political issues.  Cook challenged stockholders to get out of Apple stock if they disagree with the company's stance on sustainability and climate change. ...

July 19, 2019

Sustainability and Global Warming Give Birth to Renewable Energy

The 1987 Brundtland Report from the United Nations defined sustainability: “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” ...

July 16, 2019

Why Planting Flowers under Solar Panels Won't Make Solar Work

The journal Nature Sustainability published an article this month: "Techo-ecological synergies of solar energy for global sustainability."  The first author of 16 is Rebecca Hernandez, a professor at the University of California, ...

July 9, 2019

What It Will Take for the Wind and Solar Industries to Collapse

The solar electricity industry is dependent on federal government subsidies for building new capacity.  The subsidy consists of a 30% tax credit and the use of a tax scheme called tax equity finance.  These subsidies are delivered...

July 1, 2019

Disentangling the Renewable Energy Scam

The solar energy industry is telling its pals in Congress that it is willing to lose most of its subsidies.  The current subsidy for solar is 30% of the construction cost.  To that subsidy, an additional 10% subsidy is availa...

June 24, 2019

The Energy Solution That Should Make Everyone Happy

Fake science is a plague that inhibits the advance of the economy and causes vast sums to be wasted going up blind alleys.  Fake science is promoted not solely by crackpots.  Scientists are in the game, too.  If I went through the long...

June 18, 2019

Solar Power to Hit the Wall in Nevada

Solar power and wind power are the dominant methods of generating electricity that are acceptable to the extreme left. The left calls its acceptable methods of generating electricity “renewable energy.” The definition of renewable energy,...

May 11, 2019

Trump, Pareto, and the Fall of the Elites

The Italian sociologist and economist Vilfredo Pareto died in 1923.  He saw men's beliefs and actions as motivated by sentiment and self-interest.  The ostensible motivations given for certain beliefs and actions, such as help...

May 5, 2019

The Solar Energy Racket

If solar energy were not propped up by various government policies and subsidies, no utility would buy it.  Not only does solar not work at night, but it does not work if it is cloudy or if a cloud passes in front of the sun. Utility-sca...

April 9, 2019

Battery Foolishness in Florida

The largest electric utility in Florida is proposing building the world’s largest battery to smooth the output of solar energy installations. Wind and solar energy are erratic. Output depends on when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing...

April 2, 2019

Does General Electric Know What It Is Doing?

General Electric, a giant company with 280,000 employees and $120 billion in revenue, has run into extreme problems during the last few years. The price of its stock has crashed and the dividend has been reduced to practically nothing. This is, I thi...

February 24, 2019

Climate Science, Red in Tooth and Claw: Yapping Hyenas Attack a Lion

William Happer is one of the most important scientists in the United States.  He is an emeritus professor of physics at Princeton and a long-serving adviser to the federal government.  His scientific discoveries and inventions are...

February 14, 2019

The Green New Deal

Apparently, the inmates have taken over the asylum, led by the former barmaid Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, now a member of Congress. The Green New Deal is a bizarre plan to create a cultural revolution in the United States. The role of Mao’s littl...

January 29, 2019

Quartz: The Elite Talk to Themselves

Recently, I discovered the journalistic site Quartz. The articles are well-written and quirky. Many of the articles are career and business focused. Quartz’s mission statement includes this: “Our highest work is bringing rigor, insight...

January 12, 2019

New York State and Renewables

New York State's population is shrinking.  In the year ending on July 1, 2018, New York lost more than 48,000 people.  People leave New York State to avoid high taxes.  In the case of upstate New York, they leave to ...

January 1, 2019

‘Meet The Press’ Preaches Climate Change

On Sunday morning, December 30, ‘Meet the Press’ had a gala service preaching the climate-change religion. Famous climate preachers like Michael Bloomberg and Jerry Brown were featured speakers. they missed some opportunities and some old...

November 27, 2018

Latest Global Warming Lies from US Global Change Research Program

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has released its latest doomsday climate report. This organization, part of the federal government, has been in business for a long time, releasing nonsense reports concerning the supposed global warmi...

November 12, 2018

Green Energy is the Perfect Scam

Green energy is an incredible money-making scam. The promoters of green energy make billions of dollars promoting dumb energy schemes that are completely useless. What makes the scam extremely clever is that the scammers have convinced the public tha...

November 4, 2018

Global Warming and Fake Science

November 6, 2018 (American Thinker) – About 10 years ago, the brand name global warming was changed to climate change.  The reason was simple: the Earth was failing to warm.  An additional benefit of the clima...

September 24, 2018

Dumb Energy Advances in Colorado

Xcel Energy is the dominant electric utility in Colorado. In cooperation with various organizations promoting green energy, Xcel released what it calls the Colorado Energy Plan. The plan proposes building nearly two billion dollars of wind and solar ...

August 11, 2018

Wind and Solar Energy: Good for Nothing

The defenders of wind and solar claim that subsidies are a minor help to get a new industry going.  These defenders counter critics with the fallacious claim that fossil fuels receive huge subsidies.  Actually, the fossil fuel ind...

July 6, 2018

The Incredible Scam of Rooftop Solar

A modest proposal: We've all heard about "shop local" and "get your food from local farmers, not distant corporate farms."  Lots of people have apple trees in their backyards.  Often they can't begin...

June 30, 2018

Wind and Solar Require Massive Subsidies

It is difficult to fully itemize the subsidies provided for wind and solar energy. Many subsidies are hidden in the tax code or are an indirect consequence of the privileged treatment given these sources of electricity. A fundamental difference be...

June 17, 2018

Dumb Energy

Wind and solar electricity are renewable energy.  How nice to pluck energy out of the air and the sky. It's a scam.  Big money men and screwball dreamers, otherwise called environmentalists, are behind the scam. Apparent...

May 25, 2018

Is 100 Percent Renewable Energy Possible?

The people who are best described as members of a renewable energy cult are lately promoting the idea that we should run the country on 100% renewable energy, whatever that is.  I say "whatever that is" because different branches ...

May 11, 2018

Is Kim Jong-un seeking to change sides?

We hear that Kim Jong-un executed people who were too close to China.  When Kim had discussions with Xi Jinping, he humbly took notes as Xi lectured.  Kim cannot be happy being subservient to and completely dependent on China. ...

April 11, 2018

The Parade of Impending Catastrophes

There are organizations whose purpose is to save us from impending catastrophes.  I'm not talking about the Federal Emergency Management Agency or the Red Cross.  I'm thinking of the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, the Union of C...

March 18, 2018

Chasing Sunbeams: Taming the Sun and Solar Energy

A new book, Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet, is available from MIT Press.  The book touts the wonders of solar energy and tells us that there is an urgent need to invest trillions in more s...

November 11, 2017

Tell a Big Lie and Keep Repeating It

If you want to tell a big lie, a good vehicle is “science.” Like a wolf hiding in a sheep’s skin, lies hide in lab coats worn by liars with Ph.Ds. We are gullible because science and scientists have a positive image. The positive im...

October 18, 2017

The New York Times Embraces Fake Science, Fake Engineering, and Fake Economics

The Oct. 16, 2017 New York Times devotes most of a full page to an editorial promoting “5 Climate Truths Mr. Trump Doesn’t Get.” They even have graphs to supposedly illustrate their five truths. As someone who has studied climate ch...

October 8, 2017

How to Survive: Lessons from Puerto Rico

The takedown of the Puerto Rican power grid by Hurricane Irma will, we hope, provide a teaching moment.  The United States power grid is vulnerable, and the consequences of a widespread failure, especially if lengthy, will be a disaster of monum...

September 29, 2017

Big Brother's Cashless Scheme

The Wall Street Journal recently ran pro and con articles on the idea of abolishing cash -- that is, paper currency. If that were done, all transactions would have to be carried out electronically via means such as credit and debit cards or other ele...

August 15, 2017

The Drawdown cult

Well educated people are sometimes drawn into apocalyptic cults.  Lyndon LaRouche's followers often sported Ph.D.s.  The Communist Party U.S.A was filled with well-educated intellectuals.  The followers of Scientology don't lac...

August 14, 2017

The Solar Energy Fraud

Solar energy is not always a fraud. If you live off the electric grid, and you have a reasonable amount of sunshine, solar power, backed up by batteries, can be a good option for getting a modest amount of electricity. It will not be cheap electricit...

July 31, 2017

Green Delusions and the Wind Bully

Green ideology is a collection of beliefs and superstitions that have been elevated into a religious cult.  The green cult is rife with contradictions and dogma.  For example, people in Wisconsin must eat fresh natural food, grown locally.....

July 8, 2017

Just Say No to Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein has made a career giving guidance to the dumbest segment of the juvenile left.  Each new generation brings a new crop of kids susceptible to the siren song of Marxism.  With movie-star looks and a fake humble act, Klein repackag...

June 17, 2017

The Coal-Asthma Connection

The organized enemies of coal are at bottom enemies of carbon dioxide (CO2). Enemies of CO2 are believers in the greenhouse gas catastrophic global warming hypothesis. That hypothesis is and always has been poorly supported by evidence. The “ev...

June 9, 2017

California's Bogus 'Renewable Energy'

California has declared that 50% of electricity in the state must come from renewable sources by 2030. California’s definition of renewable sources is bizarre and heavily influenced by the ideas of the green left. For example, most hydro electr...

May 25, 2017

The Popes of Global Warming Religion Write a Book

Michael Bloomberg, according to Forbes, is the 10th richest man in the world, with a net worth of $47.5 billion. Bloomberg graduated from the Harvard Business School, and built a huge busines...

May 13, 2017

Academic Global Warming Advocates and the Power of Incoherent Jargon

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. -- George Orwell...

April 25, 2017

Academics Play the Global Warming Card

Philip Kitcher of Columbia and Evelyn Fox Keller of MIT are professors specializing in the philosophy and history of science. The philosophy and history of science is pretty boring, so people in that academic field try to write about controversial su...

February 14, 2017

Demon Coal

Coal is a gift that we have in abundance.  The vast reserves of coal guarantee the United States energy for hundreds of years.  Coal is efficient.  No fuel, other than uranium, is cheaper.  Coal burns clean in modern plants. ...

February 10, 2017

Establishment Politicians Using ‘Carbon Tax’ to Foil Trump

A number of mostly elderly very important persons have been compromised by the global warming hoax. The following wise men signed a tract: “The Conservative Case for Carbon Dividends.” George Shultz - 96 James A Baker - 86 Mart...

January 22, 2017

Nationwide shortage of pink yarn handicaps Women’s March

The Women's march on Washington took place on January 21, the day after Donald Trump's inauguration.  A group of women invented the Pussy Hat, knitted from pink yarn.  They have ears like a cat but symbolize the more salacious meani...

January 16, 2017

The Global Warming Smoking Gun

The global warming narrative is straightforward. Carbon dioxide, (CO2), released by burning coal, oil and natural gas, is increasing in the atmosphere. The increased concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere will cause the globe to warm. The warming wil...

December 3, 2016

Columbia University's Climate: A Visit to an Alternate Universe

The subway stop at 116th Street in Manhattan is for Columbia University.  Is this subway stop a wormhole to an alternate universe, where people look like everyone else but are possessed by strange ideas and incomprehensible ways of thinking? ...

June 30, 2016

The Long Arm of the European Community

For 25 years I managed a small electronics manufacturing firm. I had uniformly bad experiences with both U.S. regulators and, surprisingly, European regulators. Government regulators respond to political forces. Science and economics comes second and...

May 16, 2016

The Greens and Nature Worship

The Biblical view of the relationship between man and nature is set out clearly in Genesis 1:28: God blessed them [mankind] and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea ...

April 8, 2016

Fighting Junk Science

Dictionary.com defines junk science as: “faulty scientific information or research, especially when used to advance special interests.” Junk science is going strong. Many junk science enterprises are deeply embedded in universities, the f...

March 8, 2016

Yet Another Hottest Year on Record?

The people selling global warming have been at it for more than 20 years.  For the last 18 years, on good authority, the Earth hasn't warmed.  It doesn't seem to matter.  The promoters of global warming are defending their turf...

December 17, 2015

Yes, We Can Deport 12 Million

Every year the 89,000 employees of the Internal Revenue Service attempt to enforce the tax laws for well over 200 million taxpayers. Obviously this is impossible and taxpayers could ignore the law with near impunity. Yet, they don’t. Someh...

December 8, 2015

The Economist's Hot Air on Climate Change

The November 28, 2015 issue of The Economist magazine has a 14 page special report on climate change. It is a pathetic example of how the media intellectual elite can get science wrong. It is apparently very easy for the self-interested and crony cap...

November 21, 2015

Ted Koppel and the Electric Grid

Ted Koppel was the anchor for 25 years of the long-running ABC news program Nightline.  Koppel’s new book is titled Lights Out.  Koppel worries that the electric grid is vulnerable to terrorists.  The consequences of a long perio...

October 10, 2015

Global Warming: Making the Ruling Class into the Crackpot Class

What links global warming and the ruling class?  A fervent belief in the former seems to have a powerful inverse correlation with the impressiveness of the latter. The ruling class is made up of people from privileged backgrounds.  They ...

September 29, 2015

Free Trade Illusions

Free trade is supported by enlightened thinkers and academic economists.  Those who are opposed to free trade are seen as special interests trying to shelter uneconomic industries that can’t stand up to foreign competition.  It is a t...

September 18, 2015

EMP versus AGW - Is There a National Death Wish?

EMP or ElectroMagnetic Pulse is a disturbance that affects and sometimes destroys electrical and electronic devices. There are two kinds of EMP. A natural EMP is created by a storm on the sun that causes a cloud of particles to be ejected at high spe...

September 3, 2015

Survival in the Age of EMP

There are only a few things that could paralyze the entire country.  An all-out atomic attack from Russia would kill half the population or more and destroy much of the infrastructure.  The remaining population would be in far suburbs, smal...

August 29, 2015

Energy Delusions

The 8th annual Clean Energy Summit was held on the 24th of August in Las Vegas. Harry Reid, the outgoing United States senator from Nevada and Democrat minority leader, gave an introductory talk. Reid’s long political apprenticeship took place ...

July 20, 2015

Let's Worry about a Real Threat

The electric grid is a stellar achievement of civilization.  Without the grid, modern civilization would collapse.  In the U.S., thousands of electric generating plants are interconnected by thousands of miles of transmission lines.  E...

June 29, 2015

Climate Compulsions

Do people suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) worry a lot about global warming/climate change? We don’t have to speculate because Mr. M.K. Jones took a survey of OCD patients and wrote it up for the Australia New Zealand Journal ...

June 18, 2015

Environmentalist Shipwreck

The prissy and pompous protectors of the Earth have, like bureaucratic pirates, infiltrated the decks and engine rooms of the world’s ships. These humorless empty suits wave not the Jolly Roger, but the flag of contrived pseudo science. No matt...

June 12, 2015

Where is All the CO2 Going?

When fossil fuels -- coal, oil and natural gas -- burn, the major combustion products are carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor. Water doesn’t matter since it is already everywhere and adding a little bit more to the Earth won’t tip any ba...

June 5, 2015

A Scientist Gets With the Program

Political appointees say nice things about the person who appointed them. Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, often mentions President Obama’s programs in a favorable, even worshipful, way. If he has any doubts about the administration’s p...

June 3, 2015

The Iranian and Russian Strategy: A Counter-Strategy

The Iranian regime desires to humiliate the United States and dominate the Persian Gulf and its oil reserves.  The Iranians undoubtedly understand us better than we understand them.  Many Iranians were educated at American univers...

May 15, 2015

Should the Death Tax Die?

Most discussions of the estate tax, better known as the death tax, ignore the green monster in the room. Obviously, envy is involved. Since a legislative compromise in 2013, the death tax is 40% on the amount of the estate over $5 million dollars....

May 14, 2015

How to Fix Higher Education: Bring on Creative Destruction

The economist Joseph Schumpeter coined the phrase “creative destruction” to describe the working of capitalism: the old and obsolete is destroyed by changing technology and changing tastes.  The merciless operation of the market dest...

April 28, 2015

Renewable and Sustainable Crony Capitalism

I recently attended a conference sponsored by the American Council on Renewable Energy or ACORE. Although ACORE is set up as an educational organization under the Internal Revenue Code, it mostly behaves as a trade association promoting the financial...

April 14, 2015

Environmentalism and Envy

Envy is among the least admirable of human emotions. It is not an emotion that we publicly acknowledge or often even acknowledge privately to ourselves. Entire ideological movements are based on envy, Marxism being the prime example. The obsession wi...

March 27, 2015

Pareto Speaks to Us About Environmentalism

Vilfredo Pareto, who died in 1923, was an Italian economist and sociologist. In the spirit of Machiavelli, he developed theories concerning human belief and the rise and fall of elites. His insights can be applied to explain much about contemporary A...

March 22, 2015

Global Warming: A Flop at the Box Office

Naomi Oreskes’s career is an excellent example of how academics benefit from the global warming scare.  She managed to be promoted from the University of California to a position at Harvard.  Her main claim to fame is the book Merchan...

March 18, 2015

Political Correctness: The Progressive Political Strategy

Is there a bigger collection conformist drones than the tenured professorate of American universities? Tenured professors have lifetime guarantees of employment granted for the specific reason of protecting them from retaliation when they speak out o...

February 12, 2015

TIm Cook, Enough Already

TIm Cook is the CEO of Apple. Apple is wildly successful, but we don’t know how much of the credit should go to Cook and how much to the legendary Steve Jobs, who died 3-1/2 years ago. Cook has become a sort of Silicon Valley philosopher, using...

September 28, 2014

Apple, Google, and Greenwashing

I love Apple products. I have and use an extravagant number of Apple devices. I own Apple stock. Apple is a great company. But, Apple has a dark, pandering side. Like many companies, Apple swears allegiance to green dogma. The allegiance is mostly li...

September 12, 2014

A Government-subsidized Desert Death Ray

The Ivanpah solar generating plant is located in California about 50 miles from Las Vegas near the California-Nevada border.  173,000 mirrors are used to concentrate the sun on 3 boiler-towers where water is turned into steam to drive turbines a...

August 9, 2014

Inside the Global Warming Skeptics Conference

The Ninth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC9) was held on July 7th to July 9th, 2014, at the Mandalay Bay hotel and conference center in Las Vegas. Of the nine conferences, I’ve been to eight, in various locations, missing only t...

July 21, 2014

Bamboozled Billionaires

Many prominent persons have adopted a cause, using their prominence and money to support their chosen cause. For example, Bill Gates created a foundation that works to improve the lives of the world’s poorest persons. Sometimes prominent person...

May 24, 2014

The Corruption of Science

Eisenhower in his farewell address warned that a “scientific-technological elite” dependent on government money would exert undue influence on government policy. Now, as Eisenhower predicted, scientific advice is contaminated by p...

April 18, 2014

Ripoff Tech

Renewable energy is the latest scheme politicians and special interests have devised for extracting money from the public to enrich themselves and their supporters. The renewable energy mafia consists of opportunistic investors, ideological crackpots...

December 30, 2013

The Solar Swindle

Solar electricity is growing, promoted, and most importantly, heavily subsidized.  The promoters of solar electricity claim that it is close to being competitive with conventional sources of electricity.  That is a fantasy. Sola...

December 2, 2013

Jeffrey Sachs: Socialism and Sanctimony

Jeffrey Sachs is a famous Columbia University Professor. In his book, The Price of Civilization, Sachs shows that he has a real grudge against the rich.  He doesn't like "unaffordable tax cuts ... tax cuts for the rich ...tax cuts on higher inco...

November 16, 2013

William Nordhaus and Climate Delusions

William Nordhaus is a prominent professor of economics at Yale University. He writes extensively on climate change and its supposed economic consequences. His point of view is that of an economist who accepts official global warming theory. Nordhaus ...

October 17, 2013

Computer Games and Global Warming

Pioneers of science like Pythagoras, Galileo, Copernicus, and Newton had beliefs that were mystical in nature.  The Christian God was very much on the minds of 18th- and 19th-century scientists.  Now it is a faux pas to mention God, but the...

September 27, 2013

The Climate-Industrial Complex

Endorsements by various scientific organizations provide much of the muscle promoters of global warming exert.  For example, The American Geophysical Union, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, The American Meteorological Soc...

August 8, 2013

Climate Realism and Socialist Realism

Louis Fischer, born in 1896 in Philadelphia, was a journalist who became a supporter and believer in the Soviet Union and world communism. He lived in Moscow for many years. In an essay in The God That Failed Fischer describes how in the middle 1930'...

August 6, 2013

Global Warming as Faith

Global warming is a scientific theory, but is mostly about faith. Faith plays a bigger role in science than we care to admit. Allegedly well-meaning intellectuals of the 1930s believed in and defended Stalin's Russia in the face of massive and access...

August 4, 2013

The Post Office is Sitting on a Gold Mine

The United States Postal Service is operating according to a paradigm set up 100 years ago.  In spite of protected monopolies and immunity from paying taxes or even parking tickets, the USPS is losing business and losing money.  The problem...

June 29, 2013

American Geophysical Union Scraps Science, Now Faith Based

I recently attended a 3-day science policy conference sponsored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).  The AGU is an association of 62,000 scientists who study the Earth.  Although the conference was allegedly about science policy, it re...

May 31, 2013

Science in the Service of Ideology: The National Climate Assessment

As far as I know, there are no Ph.D.s offered in the study of junk science.  Maybe there should be.  There are numerous instances of credentialed scientists pursuing faulty theories against evidence and common sense.  Irving Langmuir's...

May 8, 2013

Is Roy Spencer the world's most important scientist?

Roy Spencer is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama Huntsville who may be the world's most important scientist.   He has discovered scientific insights and theories that cast great doubt on global warming doctrine.  That do...

April 9, 2013

Subverting Bowdoin

The National Association of Scholars has released a detailed and scholarly examination of Bowdoin College. Bowdoin, located in Maine, is a small and elite liberal arts college. For the study, Bowdoin is a target of convenience. It is meant to be a ty...

March 24, 2013

Apple's Disappearing Cursor and Corporate Arrogance

I am an Apple Mac believer. I switched from Windows in 2005. I liked the Mac computer so much that I bought stock in Apple. Apple is a very successful company with $137 billion in the bank. But, success contains the seeds of destruction and success b...

February 19, 2013

Global Warming Believers March in D.C.

On, February 17th, a very chilly and windy Sunday afternoon, the big guns of global warming activism gathered with their true believer followers in a park adjacent to the Washington Monument.  Several speakers estimated the crowd at 35,000 to 40...

February 3, 2013

Al Gore, Futurist

Al Gore's new book is a partisan screed that pretends to be objective and thoughtful. Corporations, Wall Street money, and right wing Republicans are the villains. Problems created by the left are never mentioned or downplayed. For example the bankru...

January 10, 2013

How to Destroy Science: Cast Self-Interest as Public Interest

Bruce Alberts is the editor of Science magazine, though it's not exactly clear what the 75-year-old Alberts actually does there.  The magazine is headquartered in New York, but Alberts is apparently headquartered in San Francisco. Alberts is ob...

December 10, 2012

The American Geophysical Union and Climate Hysteria

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is an important scientific society. It includes many earth science disciplines and publishes numerous journals. Unfortunately the organization has been co-opted by global warming extremists. The great majority of ...

November 23, 2012

Wind Power Fiasco: Call Your Congressman

Wind power is a joke.  It makes no sense -- none, nada. The wind power lobbyists say it creates jobs.  Well I have a better way to make jobs based on the same principles: let's train dogs to walk on treadmills to generate electricity. ...

July 6, 2012

Forbidden Science: Low Level Radiation and Cancer

Some things are hard to believe.  What you've been told about low-level radiation by the people who are supposed to be responsible authorities is very wrong.  The evidence that the official story is wrong is overwhelming.  They know ab...

May 21, 2012

Militant Nurses March for Something

Trade unionism of the clenched fist variety is a stretch for the feminine half of the population, but they do try on occasion.  Since nurses are overwhelmingly women and it would be clearly sexist to use the minority of male nurses to provide th...

May 6, 2012

Marin County: Garden of Delusion

Marin County, California is connected to San Francisco by the Golden Gate Bridge.   The natural gifts of geography and weather are special.  Mountains provide expansive views, often decorated by redwood trees, creeping fog, sailboats, bridg...

April 25, 2012

Why Israel Should, and Probably Will, Attack Iran

The Holocaust weighs heavily on Israel and its leaders.  Everyone knows the story of Jewish organizations pleading for help but helpless before the indifference of those in a position to make a difference.  This history discourages looking ...

April 15, 2012

Global Warming Dogma and the New Iron Triangle

The typical doomsday cult believes that an apocalyptic disaster is imminent.  When the disaster fails to arrive, the cult faces a psychological disaster from which it may or may not recover by announcing a new and later date for doom to arrive....

March 13, 2012

Apple, Get Your Carbon Footprint Off My Neck

I love Apple.  I have several Apple computers, an iPad and an iPhone.  I'm a long time stockholder and I've always made money investing in Apple.  Steve Jobs was obviously a terrific visionary but he spent 9 months after being diagnose...

December 7, 2011

Occupy San Francisco, a Photo Essay

San Francisco is a medium sized city famed for its hills, views and left wing politics. The mild climate attracts tourists, but also homeless people.  It is a bit difficult to tell if the members of Occupy San Francisco are political activists o...

November 20, 2011

Post-Normal Claws, Teeth, and Slime

As the memories of the Soviet Union and Mao's China fade, a new generation of Marxists has materialized.  Still-living members of the old generation are keeping the faith.  How can anyone be a Marxist given the Marxist horrors of the 20th c...

November 8, 2011

Sierra Club at the Metropolitan Club

My dirty secret is that I'm a member of the Sierra Club.  I joined at the $15 rate for retired senior citizens and received a bonus shoulder bag.  The Sierra Club idolizes nature and demonizes man.  It glorifies economic parasitism and...

October 24, 2011

OWS in Chicago (a photo essay)

The Occupy Chicago people hang out most of the time at their sidewalk headquarters at the corner of LaSalle Street and Jackson Boulevard.  At this corner is the Chicago Board of Trade, The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Bank of America ...

October 20, 2011

The Bizarre World of Radical Climate Science

Imagine that you are a climate scientist and the Earth is threatened with a climate disaster.  You need to warn the people of Earth and lobby Earth's governments.  If you are tired of poring over boring computer printouts, you may be only t...

July 28, 2011

Climate Witchcraft and Post-Normal Science

French philosophers invented deconstructionism and postmodernism, or the theory that nothing means what it says.  Followers of these ideas are adept at finding hidden messages of capitalist oppression in the most unexpected places.  A relat...

June 7, 2011

Naomi Oreskes, Conspiracy Queen

Naomi Oreskes is the environmentalist Noam Chomsky.  She thinks that anyone who questions environmentalist doctrine is evil.  Her crusade is to expose the presumed ulterior motives of the critics.   According to Oreskes, if you qu...

May 1, 2011

Adventures in the Climate Trade

Global warming, now called climate change, is a big industry with academic and commercial branches.  One way or another the government provides the money to keep it in business.  The academic side supports thousands of scientific workers ch...

January 29, 2011

Greenland Is Going to Be OK

According to the government's Global Change Research Program, the oceans will rise three to four feet [i] by the year 2100.  Ice-covered Greenland is the top candidate to supply the water.  The big ice sheets in Antarctica are too cold, and...

January 12, 2011

Scientists Challenged to Become Better Global Warming Propagandists

Can scientists become "Deadly Ninjas of Science Communication"?  That was proposed by Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War Against Science," and a member of the board of directors of the American Geophysical Union.  Moo...

August 27, 2009

Global Warming Blues

I spent my working life as a computer engineer and entrepreneur. I have a long history of tilting at windmills having been involved in numerous causes and crusades during my life. So when my retirement started it was natural for me to look for someth...