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Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time

The recycling industry—and the world at large—has yet to fully reckon with a bombshell study that dropped last year.

Frank Celia

17 Jun 2024 · 17 min read

Net Zero and the Law of Diminishing Returns

Civilisation has always been dependent on energy.

Noel Yaxley

6 Dec 2023 · 9 min read

The Energy Future Belongs to Nuclear

It remains the only proven technology capable of serving the energy needs of de-carbonized modern society.

Regis Nicoll

4 Nov 2022 · 6 min read

Green Dreams, Inflationary Realities

We must find ways to combat climate change without incurring devastating inflation, greater class division, the immiseration of the middle class, and the destitution of the poor.

Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger

27 Jul 2022 · 15 min read

California's Energy War on the Poor

California continues to implement policies on energy, housing, and transportation that are anti-poor and anti-working class.

Robert Bryce

11 Jul 2022 · 11 min read

Washington Post and NPR Ignore the Rural Backlash Against Renewables

During my three decades as a reporter, I’ve seen plenty of hype and poor news coverage about renewable energy. But two recent pieces—in the Washington Post and National Public Radio, respectively—are particularly egregious. These reports demonstrate, yet again, that some of the biggest media entities in the

Robert Bryce

7 Mar 2022 · 12 min read

Why Environmentalists Pose a Bigger Obstacle to Effective Climate Policy than Denialists

The opposition to nuclear energy is not the only way in which mainstream environmentalists have, with the best of intentions, hurt the cause of climate action.

Maarten Boudry

27 Jan 2022 · 10 min read

A Perfect Storm: The Chocolate, Coffee, and Climate Crises

The major food staples are essential to human survival. Chocolate and coffee are not essential, but try to imagine a world without them. One of the numerous concerns with climate change is that many species will lose their habitats. Scientists are projecting that, in the coming decades, this could lead

Randall Mayes

4 Nov 2021 · 10 min read

The Insect Apocalypse That Never Was

The recent hyper-focus on insects can be traced back to a 2017 study conducted by an obscure German entomological society, which claimed that flying insects in German nature reserves had decreased by 76 percent over just 26 years.

Jon Entine

25 Jul 2021 · 16 min read

Why Climate Science Is Like the Rest of Science

Recent White House initiatives suggest that addressing climate change has risen to the policy forefront of government at the presidential level for the first time in US history. Last week President Biden convened an online international meeting of heads of state on the issue and committed the US to a

Lawrence M. Krauss

1 May 2021 · 6 min read

Environmentalism, Trumpism, and the Working Class

As wide as the partisan gaps are concerning illegal immigration and free trade, none can compare to those on environmental protection and global warming.

William Murray

20 Feb 2021 · 12 min read

BirthStrike: The Movement to End All Movements

Is BirthStrike a luxury belief?

William Costello and Freya India

20 Jan 2021 · 8 min read

The End of the World as We Know It?

The scholars at Our World in Data add that this also holds for other natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcano activity, wildfire, and landslides.

Glenn T. Stanton

11 Dec 2020 · 15 min read

My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did

Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless.

Edie Wyatt

7 Dec 2020 · 12 min read

At Dalhousie University, Ideology Comes First, Science Comes Second

We are entering a strange and unsettling period in the life of universities, and in the sciences, in particular.

Jonathan Kay

4 Oct 2020 · 6 min read