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Paris Agreement: Dead at Ten (James Hansen was right)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 17, 2025

“[The Paris agreement] is a fraud really, a fake…. It’s just worthless words.” ( – James Hansen, below)

COP30, a CO2-fest of sorts, is failing. Major emitters have not shown up. Virtually all nations and regions are in serious noncompliance with their Paris Agreement goals according to Climate Tracker, and the gap is widening. The new pitch is less about emissions as about the fantasy of cheap wind and solar and batteries heralding a new energy era. Yet the energy transition has been demoted to energy addition (Daniel Yergin) and now energy duplication. Think rising energy prices from climate policy….

Hansen on Paris

James Hansen is a realist when it comes to the United Nations’ global warming negotiations; wind and solar energies; and the lobbying frenzy surrounding the issue.…

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‘Clean Gulf: Beyond Oil Spills’ Conference: The Clean, Green Hydrocarbon Era

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 14, 2025

“BP ‘Beyond Petroleum’ is Out … real energy environmentalism is In. And while the redistributionists, the ‘experts’, the rent-seekers hash-and-trash it out in Belém, Brazil (COP 30), the real producers, the on-the-ground energy makers, are perfecting their craft. Here’s to a great conference!”

It is (past) time for the fossil fuel industries to unite with a message of clean and green. After all, oil, natural gas, and coal are now environmental products, and the density and reliability of each is a gift to the living space. In the words of the late Peter Huber:

The greenest fuels are the ones that contain the most energy per pound of material than must be mined, trucked, pumped, piped, and burnt. [In contrast], extracting comparable amounts of energy from the surface would entail truly monstrous environmental disruption….

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Bari Weiss, Free Press, and Climate Reporting

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 13, 2025

“Someone is wrong in this clash of climate views. And it is far less Bari Weiss than it is Emily Atkin, a cultist figure (“when I take mushrooms, the last things I want to do is think about climate change“) in the fire of climate exaggeration and despair.”

“At The Free Press, Weiss consistently rebrands tired fossil fuel talking points as courageous, rebellious dissent,” states Emily Atkin at her website HEATED. But reviewing her examples, it is Atkin and not Bari Weiss who needs to rethink climate alarmism and forced energy transformation. The Climate Industrial Complex is nothing to be supported, much less proud of, by even the Progressive Left.

Here are 11 articles that Atkin does not like (reproduced verbatim). But each one has elements of truth to knock down the narrative that HEATED so vehemently wants to prop up.…

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Argentinian Reform: Subsoil Privatization (Javier Milei, meet Guillermo Yeatts)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 12, 2025
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Trump vs. Global CO2 Tax: Shock-and-Awe Victory

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 11, 2025
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Energy & Environmental Review: November 10, 2025

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Joe Romm: “Even Gates was fooled” (Doomism at Penn)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 6, 2025
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Oklo’s Valuation: Nuclear on Welfare (joining wind, solar, batteries)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 5, 2025
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Climate Alarmists Question Climate Exaggeration

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 4, 2025
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When Bad News is Good: Ditching Net Zero (Google is out!)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 3, 2025
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