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“Human Extinction” Climate Alarmist Debates Me

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 16, 2026

“… the outcome of doing nothing to combat climate change [is] simply horrific. That is why I find your phrase – We are winning the debate intellectual and politically for good reasons – somewhat alarming.” (- Martin Palmer, below)

All I have wanted in the climate policy arena is open debate. And on social media, LinkedIn has provided that to me. I now have nearly 13,000 followers who seem to enjoy my posts and ‘counterpunches’ against the omnipresent alarmists and apologists for wind, solar, and battery industrialization.

From time to time, I repost exchanges I have with the other side for the historical record. The future will be interested in what is to us the present. To this end, here is an exchange with an adversary, Martin Palmer, self-described as

Passionate about the Climate Threat of human extinction.

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‘Act to Allow for Consumer Regulated Electric Utilities’ (ALEC draft legislation)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 15, 2026

“Consumer Regulated Electric Utilities can act just like regulated utilities, but they cannot sell or supply power to residential consumers and they must be islanded from, or not connected to, regulated electric systems.”

The new year brings new opportunities to build upon the free market reforms of 2025 by scaling back statism. This is particularly important in the area of U.S. electricity policy, where the work of Travis Fisher and Glen Lyons (Advocates for Consumer Regulated Electricity) is particularly important. [1]

Draft legislation by the American Legislative Exchange Council–“America’s largest nonpartisan, voluntary membership organization of state legislators dedicated to the principles of limited government, free markets and federalism”–must be favorably voted on by ALEC’s board of directors before becoming model policy for state legislatures.

The draft Act to Allow for Consumer Regulated Electric Utilities, voted out of ALEC’s Task Force on Energy, Environment, and Agriculture (SNPA 2025), follows.…

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Rejecting Climatism: Trump Withdraws from UNFCCC and 66 International Organizations

By Steve Goreham -- January 14, 2026

“The US withdrawal from UN climate programs may signal a worldwide retreat from Climatism and the push for net zero energy policies. Leading political groups in Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom appear to be joining the US to move back to sensible energy policy and away from efforts to cut carbon dioxide emissions.”

The Trump administration has issued an executive order that withdraws the United States from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and other international bodies. The order pulls the US back from organizations pursuing climate policies and other efforts that the administration does not consider to be in the national interest. The US abandonment of world climate groups may accelerate a pushback against climate and net zero energy policies.

The Trump memorandum issued on January 6 was titled, “Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States.”…

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Climate Policy 2025: Much Good News

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 13, 2026
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‘Against All Rationality, the EU Persists in its Net-Zero Delusion’ (Clintel/IREF study)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 12, 2026
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Enron: From Rio to Kyoto to Paris

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 9, 2026
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Firing Globalism on Climate Alarm (EO 14199)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 8, 2026
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Energy Policy Exchange Lawsuit? (Milton R. Howard goes nuclear)

By Robert Bradley Jr. --
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“Should LCOE finally be retired from energy policy?”

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 7, 2026
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Venezuelan Oil: Statism to Liberation?

By -- January 6, 2026
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