In this issue: Obama Administration physicist explains why climate catastrophism is unscientific Adam Anderson illustrates that being a courageous CEO is moral and practical Earth Day talking points Quick notes Obama Administration physicist explains why climate catastrophism is unscientific I was very excited this week to interview Steve Koonin, the physicist whose new excellent new book “Unsettled” has, I believe, the potential …
China’s Power Play
In this issue: China’s Power Play New talking points on China Quick notes China’s Power Play Lately I’ve been writing a lot about the national security threats posed by the anti-fossil movement—particularly how it plays into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party’s dangerous ambitions. (See my Energy Security talking points at EnergyTalkingPoints.com.) I saw an excellent video recently on this subject, The Red-Green …
NBC reports on my energy influence
In this issue: NBC reports on my energy influence Why “the armchair economist” is “not an environmentalist” New talking points Quick Updates NBC reports on my energy influence The first major public story about Energy Talking Points was run by NBC. This is good news: my messages are getting attention, and, as you’ll see if you read the article, the reporter is …
The roots of the Green New Deal
In this issue: The gap filled by EnergyTalkingPoints.com The roots of the Green New Deal Divesting from the Divesters Quick updates The gap filled by EnergyTalkingPoints.com In the prominent new book, Green Fraud by Marc Morano (my guest on this week’s Power Hour) he uses over a dozen points from EnergyTalkingPoints.com. On this week’s Power Hour, he explained why he finds the resource so …
Confident Energy Champions
In this issue: Confident energy champions — political Confident energy champions — corporate Confident energy champions — individual Arming confident champions at EnergyTalkingPoints.com How Defunding Reliable Energy Caused the Texas Blackouts Confident energy champions — political As the current administration pursues truly disastrous energy policies–see my talking points on the proposed CLEAN Future Act–a growing group of confident energy champions is rising in …
Why we fall for “fake invisible catastrophes”
In this issue: Why we fall for “fake invisible catastrophes” New talking points Updates Why we fall for “fake invisible catastrophes” My longtime ally Patrick Moore, pro-human ecologist and cofounder of Greenpeace, has a new book that I highly recommend: Fake Invisible Catastrophe and Threats of Doom. I interviewed him about the book on this week’s Power Hour. Here’s the description. …
A nuclear decriminalization platform
In this issue: Decriminalizing nuclear Steps toward decriminalizing nuclear with Robert Hargraves Talking points Fact checking PolitiFact Some Cool Stuff Decriminalizing nuclear energy For the last year or two I’ve been advocating the policy of “decriminalizing nuclear.” Recently I’ve started working on a comprehensive “nuclear decriminalization platform,” identifying what policies need to be eliminated and what policies need to be …
Manuscript completed!
In this issue: Manuscript completed! New Talking Points The fallacious “Social Cost of Carbon” with David Kreutzer Manuscript completed! I wanted to delay this newsletter until I could write the following words: I just sent the manuscript of my new book on fossil fuels to Penguin Random House (my publisher). The working title is Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More …
More on the Texas blackouts, refuting the “Texas needs Federal regulation” claim
In this issue: Some recent media on the Texas blackouts A tale of two places Refuting the “Texas needs Federal regulation” claim Impressive guest on this week’s Power Hour Changing the narrative about the Texas blackouts Some recent media on the Texas blackouts Ben Shapiro shared some of my viral Twitter thread plus one of my graphs on his wildly popular …
Texas Electricity Crisis — the big picture
In this issue: Texas Electricity Crisis, continued The Big Picture in Six Pictures Two New Power Hours Texas Electricity Crisis, continued Let me start off by saying that I am thinking about all of you in Texas and I hope you are coping with the (very preventable) problems your grid is experiencing right now. As I wrote yesterday, I think …