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The Climate Road to Serfdom in One Graph

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 8, 2024

Dr. Faig S Askerov, (self-described as the Former Regulatory Compliance and Environment Director, BP Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey Region, PhD in Petrochemistry Scientist, Lecturer) has presented a graph and definitions that can be used as “Exhibit A” against the climate road to serfdom. At a time of political change against climate alarmism/forced energy transformation, even deep ecologists should question whether CO2 greening is better than wind, solar, battery industrialization.

Greenhouse gas (GHG) calculations

1. Gross GHG Emissions

• Definition: Total emissions generated by an entity (such as a country, company, or individual) without accounting for any offsets or sequestration efforts.
• Example: A factory emits 100,000 tons of CO₂ annually.

2. Net GHG Emissions

• Definition: Emissions after accounting for offsets, carbon removal, or carbon sequestration (e.g., planting trees, carbon capture technologies).…

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President-Elect Trump’s Climate/Energy Policy: 100-Day Action Plan a Good Start

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 7, 2024

Ed. Note: This post was originally posted on January 19, 2017, with Donald Trump on deck to take the Presidency.

“Good news indeed! Energy cuts are easy cuts compared to the hard budget choices that lie ahead in the transition from statism and stagnation to a vibrant, coordinated, expanding entrepreneurial economy.”

Rome is not burning, but Joe Romm at Climate Progress is. “Will Trump go down in history as the man who pulled the plug on a livable climate?” he writes, with the subtitle, “The fate of humanity is in the hands of a denier who pledged to kill domestic and global climate action and all clean energy research.”

Really, Joe?

But Romm goes on to (usefully) report:

The Australian journalist Graham Readfearn notes that while you can’t find Trump’s original “100 day action plan” for energy and climate on the campaign website anymore, “it was archived by Wayback Machine”.

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Fossil Fuel Political Backfire (AEI’s Teixeira explains)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 6, 2024

In his Free Press article “How Progressives Blew It,” Ruy Teixeira of the American Enterprise Institute, explained how the anti-fossil-fuel narrative of the Left backfired.

“Telling people fossil fuels are evil and they must stop using them was a terrible idea, and voters hate it,” he began

Since the days of Barack Obama and an “all of the above” approach to energy production, progressives have embraced a radical approach to energy issues. They promulgated the view that climate change is not gradually advancing, but is already a crisis evident in extreme weather events. It threatens the existence of the planet without immediate, drastic action. That action must include the immediate replacement of fossil fuels by renewables, which are cheap and can be introduced right now with sufficient resources. 

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Climate: Losing Politics (time to end the futile, wasteful crusade?)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 5, 2024
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Will “Green New Deal” Failures Elect Trump?

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 4, 2024
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Trump for President: AEA Endorsement

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 31, 2024
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Rising Electricity Rates under Biden (Texas wholesale up 200%)

By -- October 30, 2024
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Libertarian Party Platform: Energy and Climate

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 29, 2024
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Energy & Environmental Review: October 28, 2024

By -- October 28, 2024
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Industrial Wind Turbine Noise: A Summary

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 25, 2024
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