Among the preachers of climate apocalypse, Roger Pielke Jr. is a heretic. Pielke’s sin: refusing to fall in line and accept the claims that climate chaos is upon us and that the only solution to the pending catastrophe is to implement immediate and drastic cuts to carbon dioxide emissions in every country in the world, including the impoverished ones.
Read moreWith the collapse in global oil prices, members of Congress are once again pushing to raise the federal gasoline tax, with the proceeds going to new roads, bridges and other infrastructure projects.
Read moreOf the myriad claims being made about energy, the one most in need of debunking is this: The U.S. is losing out to countries such as China and Germany when it comes to “clean energy.”
Read moreNuclear energy is suddenly fashionable — as new companies are looking to supplant the world’s large, uranium-fueled nuclear reactors with kinds that use different fuels and coolants or perhaps even replace fission with fusion.
Read moreOil prices are falling, OPEC is in shambles, and the latest round of climate-change talks (the ones in Lima) once again failed to achieve much of anything.
Read moreAmid the many explanations offered by New York governor Andrew Cuomo and his various lieutenants about their reasons for imposing a permanent ban on hydraulic fracturing in the state, one of them made me laugh out loud.
Read moreIf anyone needed proof that subsidy-dependent businesses will always seek more subsidies, look no further than the U.S. wind industry.
Read moreTomorrow in Vienna, the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will meet once again to jawbone about oil prices.
Read moreForget about the fight in Washington—the pipeline might not make economic sense anymore.
Read moreRajendra Pachauri, the Indian academic who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, recently declared that we have “the means to limit climate change” and that “all we need is the will to change.”
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