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When the NYT Fairly Reported on Global Warming (December 13, 1989)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 30, 2025

Ed note: The current debate regarding the 2009 EPA Endangerment Finding can be enriched by a historical review of climate alarmism and its critics. This repost on fair reporting on the climate issue, a rarity for the New York Times, is relevant in this regard.

“The skeptics contend that forecasts of global warming are flawed and overstated and that the future might even hold no significant warming at all. Some say that if the warming is modest, as they believe likely, it could bring benefits like longer growing seasons in temperate zones, more rain in dry areas and an enrichment of crops and plant life.”

”’The expense [of climate policy] is patently obvious,’ said one of the most outspoken skeptics, Patrick Michaels, a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and a former president of the American Meteorological Society.

Energy & Environmental Review: September 29, 2025

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- September 29, 2025

This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.

Greed Energy Economics:
*** Why Are Green Activists Suddenly Outraged at the Billions Wasted Paying Wind Projects to Switch Off When it’s Too Windy?

Unreliables (General):
*** How to end the “100% renewable” fraud
*** The transition to renewables is a globalist suicide pact for the rest of us!
Breaking Down How Energy Prices Will End Up Affecting the Midterm Elections
Public Should Receive Earlier Notification of Solar or Wind Projects

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** All Republicans Must Stop The Wind Scam
*** Court filings claim Revolution Wind developers didn’t answer Fed questions
UK Offshore Wind Project receives $2.5+ Billion (US) in just Six Years

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Wind Turbine Radar Interference
Upstate NY Wind Project demolition

Nuclear Energy:
*** Introducing SMR Intelligence US
OKLO SMR

Miscellaneous  Energy News:
*** AlexAI on why European electricity is so expensive, “energy efficiency,” and the limitations of batteries
*** Alex Epstein: Talking points roundup: rising electricity prices, the National Academies’ climate “report,” China’s new coal plants, and more
60 Hours: Berlin Suffers Longest Power Cut Since WW2 after Ultra-Leftist Sabotage
It makes more sense to produce hydrogen with nuclear, not renewables

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** The Consensed and the Realist
*** Teaching Children about Climate Misinformation Caused by Averaging
Media’s Psyop Against Climate Scientists
Three Climate Lawsuits in Montana
Trump to UN: Climate change ‘the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world’

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** The National Academies’ perversion of science

Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous:
*** GAO submits Comments on EPA Reconsideration of 2009 “Endangerment Finding”
Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered
Geoengineering?

“Climate Pragmatism”: The New Retreat

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 26, 2025

“I’ve yet to meet a blue-collar worker at a cleantech conference, nor have I met one at cleantech dinner tables. The industry needs to ditch its self-righteous virtue signaling and stop relying on handouts.” (- a Cleantech veteran, below)

“Is this really the climate movement’s next chapter?” asked Stephen Lacey, cofounder and executive editor of Latitude Media, a publication “covering the new frontiers of the energy transition.”

If so, it will end in nothing more than further alienating voters. The progressive approach to climate mobilization has largely failed to build durable coalitions and policies. The election of Trump clearly showed that kitchen table issues matter most. We are in an extraordinary moment where people are struggling to pay their energy bills — and this is the answer? I agree with Michael Liebreich that we need a deep, pragmatic climate reset.

Fisher on the NASEM Climate Report

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 25, 2025

The Fallacy of ‘Exxon Knew” (Part II)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 24, 2025

“Exxon Knew” as Historical Fallacy (Part I)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 23, 2025

Comments: DOE Climate Science Study

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 22, 2025

Solar Books to Skip

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 19, 2025

Lisa Sachs (Columbia University): Assume, Don’t Debate, Premises

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 17, 2025

National Clean Energy Week: Re-education Please

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 16, 2025