Unsettled Science: The Alarmists Want More Money (nope, time’s up)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 26, 2025“The multi-decade distraction of ‘the climate crisis’ is now being cut down to size. The Climategate emails revealed the professional rot 15 years ago, and more and more money spent on climate alarm has been wasted since. It is time to stop throwing good money after bad to, alas, quieten the issue.”
The mid-course correction of U.S. policy to reign-in the out-of-control Climate Science Complex is front-page news at home and abroad. Such reform is long overdue. The bloated 25,000 registrations for the last American Geophysical Society meeting indicate how big a government-subsidized sub-industry has become. Maybe next year’s climate confab will be half as much, or less.
More Tax Dollars, Please
Is more taxpayer money needed to understand global climate change since, alas, less is known than thought? Such a plea came from climatologists Gavin Schmidt and Zeke Hausfather in the New York Times, We Study Climate Change.…
Continue ReadingFormer DOE Secretary Granholm’s Goodbye
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 25, 2025“The opportunity now is to dismantle the US Department of Energy department by department, with the military nuclear functions transferred away. And the dissolution should be done in such a way as to not have the agency reappear. Reagan promised to do so but did not. Secretary Wright should do so.”
Spending other people’s money like a drunken sailor. Touting inferior energies as if they were good for consumers, investors and the environment. Creating artificial, wasteful political jobs in light of the $36 trillion deficit. And in the end, throwing gold bricks off the Titanic. In short, creating the mess that your successor has to now clean up, and hurting numerous people in the process.
But Jennifer Granholm, the former Secretary of Energy, is sad. She recently wrote on LinkedIn:
To my DOE colleagues:
Like many of you, I’ve been sick about the news of the past month.…
The Great Texas Blackout (2021): When the Free Market Electricity Debate Began
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 24, 2025Ed. note: The Great Texas Blackout four years ago triggered a social media debate that reconfirmed ‘classical liberal’ Lynne Kiesling as an advocate of centrally planned, highly regulated electricity. It also revealed a cadre of electricity planners who bristled at the argument that government failed, including Eric Schubert and Robert Borlick. The exchanges began a debate that led the author to write a free-market primer, Free Market Electricity, to resurrect the 1960s tradition of such names as Harold Demsetz, George Stigler, Milton Friedman, and Walter Primeaux.
Lynne Kiesling (above) came roaring out the gate on Blackout Day February 16, 2021. But ‘the queen of power markets‘ was wrong. The Electric Reliability Commission of Texas (ERCOT) was government–and at the center of the worst electricity crisis in history.…
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