By Vijay Jayaraj Through ESG – Environmental, Social and Governance – mandates, the titans of global finance positioned themselves as the arbiters of corporate virtue. They pressured companies to divest from fossil fuels. They built an entire moral and financial architecture around the concept of decarbonization. But this June, two major events confirmed the slow…
Category: Climate
Quiet Archipelago’s Embrace of Hydrocarbons Speaks Loudly
By Vijay Jayaraj While Western leaders and climate activists obsess over the smokestacks of India and China, they ignore the quiet giant of Southeast Asia: Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation and an economic powerhouse, is making grand moves in securing sources for fossil fuels. With an economy expected to expand annually by more than…
CO2 Sustains Greenhouse Farming Revolution
By Vijay Jayaraj The world would be safer if industrial emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) were stopped, according to the teachings of many schools, the regulatory schemes of some governments and the hyperbolic public relations campaigns of a climate industrial complex. But the truth is happier: CO2 is an irreplaceable plant food that is increasing. Carbon…
It’s Hot Weather, But Not Man-Made
By Steve Goreham This week the United States experienced the first major heat wave of 2025. Over 160 million people in the Midwest, the South, and the East Coast experienced temperatures approaching 100oF. Many in the media claim that the soaring temperatures are due to human-caused global warming. But a look at history shows that…
Under-Reported “Old” Carbon is Not the Source of Increases in Atmospheric CO2
Introduction A recent paper published in the Journal Nature by Dean et al. provides an interesting and compelling argument that a significant source of atmospheric CO2 has been underestimated by carbon budget models. The study, Old carbon routed from land to the atmosphere by global river systems looks at the origin of the CO2 released…
Global Turmoil Proves Urgency of Energy Independence
By Vijay Jayaraj The world is on fire, and not in the way climate alarmists would have you believe. For years, governments of wealthy democracies sold the fantasy that wind turbines and solar panels could replace coal, oil and natural gas. Now, with war in Eastern Europe, explosions in the Middle East, and the global…
Gregory Wrightstone’s Response to Scientific Article on Glacier Preservation
Response by Gregory Wrightstone to Science: Glacier Preservation Doubled by Limiting Warming to 1.5°C Versus 2.7°C Zekollari et al (2025) ignores historical records of 100-plus years of glacial retreat at low levels of atmospheric CO2. This study arrives at the quite unremarkable conclusion that warmer temperatures cause glaciers to recede. The main assumption in the…
Big, Beautiful Coal Here for Many More Years Despite ‘Green’ Demonization
By Vijay Jayaraj As a boy growing up beside India’s railway lines, I found magic in the metallic thunder of passing trains. Now and then, freight cars piled high with black coal would roll by. That same evening, our lights would flicker out. There, I’d sit still in the hush of a powerless night, staring…
‘Net Zero’ Is Collapsing in U.S. States
From Steve Goreham, originally published by MasterResource: From New York to California, state renewable electrical power dreams are collapsing. Power demands soar, while the federal government cuts funding and support for wind, solar, and grid batteries. Renewables cannot provide enough power to support the artificial intelligence revolution. The Net Zero electricity transition is failing in…
Market Realities Continue to Mug Faddish ‘Energy Transitions’
By Vijay Jayaraj Renewable has been the buzzword in the pop language of the energy sector. Two decades have passed since we were first told that weather-dependent wind turbines and solar panels would eclipse long-dependable and readily available coal, oil and natural gas as primary energy sources. But the global market tells a different story….
