Category Archives: Environment

Real Energy Transition Costs Could Spell Danger for EU

The EU is belatedly confronting the costs of their much-touted energy transition. Pols and voters are balking at the bill.

Climate Engineering Carries Serious National Security Risks − Countries Facing Extreme Heat May Try It Anyway, and the World Needs to be Prepared

Like it or not, climate engineering is coming. What are some of the implications?

A World Without Insurance: A Climate-Future Look at Property Values

Home insurance will become catastrophically expensive and may even vanish in some parts of the US. What happens then?

Yellen Trip to China: Biden Administration Presumption and Cluelessness on Display

The US is at it again with China, despite acting like it wants to repair fractured relations.

Book Review: Confronting the Slow Calamity of Climate Migration

In “On the Move,” Abrahm Lustgarten details how global warming could displace millions of Americans.

Yellen Plans To Confront China For ‘Unfair’ Clean Energy Subsidies

Treasury Secretary Yellen is complaining to China about allegedly improper green energy subsidies. But is her beef well founded?

Of Life and Lithium

A look at the implications of demand for lithium thanks to plans to increase electric vehicle sales.

Western Wind Turbine Manufacturers Struggle to Compete with Chinese Pricing

The US, UK and Europe fall behind China in a supposed priority area, wind turbines.

Here’s Why You Can’t Afford an Electric Car

The US is using complicated and limited-in-practical-effect programs to increase electric car sales rather than allow in cheap Chinese models

Texas Law Forces Pension Funds and Municipalities to Drop Use of Financial Firms that Support Net Zero

Texas is counter-sanctioning Big Finance firms over Net Zero initiatives designed to choke money flows to fossil fuel businesses.

Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now

The promise of artificial intelligence is eclipsed by its perils, which include our own annihilation.

What’s the Solution to Humanity’s Growing Ills?

Are space aliens the only creatures that might have a solution for the mess we are in? Any other deux ex machina candidates?

Industrial Policy, East or West, for Development or War?

The West has gone from disdaining industrial policy to becoming a true believer.

Young Voters, Victims of Neoliberalism, Pessimistic About the Future, Sour on Politics…As Officials Tell Them to Eat Statistics

A Wall Street Journal article about dispirited young voters reveals more than it intended to.

Global Warming Is Still Accelerating, in Three Graphs

While you were busy watching the wars, national elections or other distractions du jour, global warming keeps marching on.