“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.…
Continue ReadingEd. Note: With COP30 under way, it is an opportune time consider the opportunity cost to climate statism. The alternative represents true social justice and energy plenty in a sea of freedom. This repost from two years ago outlines the most important global energy issue of our time.
“The case of Guillermo Yeatts for subsoil privatization should eclipse ‘climate change’ as the number one policy initiative of the 21st century. This friend of private property, free markets, the rule of law, and civil society, a successful entrepreneur in his own right, a thinker and doer, has set up an excellent opportunity for a new political era in his beloved Argentina.”
Give me liberty, not corruption and poverty! The recent election of Javier Milei of La Libertad Avanza (Liberty Advances) in Argentina was a resounding vote for freedom and prosperity.…
Continue Reading“It was like a bunch of gangsters coming into the neighborhood and smashing windows and threatening shop owners … a shock-and-awe thuggery approach.” – Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D, Rhode Island)
The recent New York Times article, “Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure” (Lisa Friedman et al.: November 6, 2025) somehow forgets that politics is messy and confrontational. It did not start with Trump, and climate politics has long been a contact sport for the Progressive Left.
“Nations were poised to approve the first fee on pollution from ships. That’s when the Trump administration began the threats,” the article begins. Trump’s intervention was “extraordinary, even by the standards of the Trump administration’s combativeness, according to nine diplomats on its receiving end.”
The global climate taxers were nonplussed.…
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