Blackouts are Good (?)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 16, 2025“The Progressive Left is being pillared to stop pushing 20 percent issues (80 percent nonsupport). Blackouts might be a 2 percent issue. The working class deserves the Democrat Party to ditch climate alarm and forced energy transformation–for all the right reasons.”
Now that solar itself got the blame for the recent European blackout, what is the argument from the Deep Ecology, anti-modernism cult?
LA-based climate campaigner Michael Mezzatesta, self-described economics and climate educator, has a new one for the climate debate: blackouts are good, bringing us together! He states:
… Continue ReadingThe mainstream economic narrative in the USA would have us believe that power blackouts are always a bad thing – just think of all that lost productivity! Think of the effect on the GDP!
So I was curious to see this video about the recent blackouts in Spain rack up millions of views on Instagram 👇
I think it resonated with people because it points towards a *new* narrative for society and the economy – one where joy & connection are prioritized over economic productivity.
Green Retreat: The Early Trump Effect
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 15, 2025It never should have happened. Politics, magical thinking, and corporate rent-seeking tried to reverse the physics of energy density to transition away from consumer-chosen, taxpayer-neutral hydrocarbons.
After decades of waste, the politics have changed. So much for not-so-green energy in the U.S.
Renewable advocate George Lawrence reported on LinkedIn, quoting Canary Media:
Trump is killing the country’s clean-energy manufacturing momentum.” This is all about momentum indeed, + the few yrs we have to turn things around.
“In the first three months of this year, firms have already abandoned plans to build nearly $8 billion worth of clean energy projects—mostly factories that would have produced everything from grid batteries to electric vehicles, per new data from E2 [consulting engineers].”
This draconian reversal contrasts with the Biden era, where from 2022 to 2024 only a cumulative $2.1 billion in investments was canceled.…
Continue ReadingAm I a Stooge of the Climate Alarmist Left?
By David R. Legates -- May 14, 2025Science does show us that more carbon dioxide leads to a little bit of warming and that both that little warming and the fertilizing effect of the carbon dioxide are likely to be beneficial. Carbon dioxide will not, however, become an existential threat to the planet. (below)
“Mister Legates, I am a big fan of the Cornwall Alliance. However, you, sir, are merely a stooge for the climate alarmist Left, which has an obvious agenda to destroy our economy with its NetZero and its ban on natural gas appliances and its electric vehicle mandates. Anyone who has even a rudimentary understanding of science would clearly know that ….”
Okay, so, nobody really sent that first paragraph to me. But the gist accurately combines views that various people have said.
Background
Over the years, even before I joined the Cornwall Alliance, I received numerous complaints from people sending me emails—who, I believe, are well-meaning—that take issue with my position on carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, as a pollutant, and as the single most existential threat to the planet as a whole.…
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