Ron Clutz: Why Climate Alarmism?
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 5, 2026“… if you make a living doing left of center climate and energy policy, there are strong social, political, and professional incentives to get climate risk wrong…. There is little tolerance on the Left for any expression of materialist politics that challenge foundational claims of the environmental movement.”
Ron Clutz of Science Matters [1] is one of many “talented amateurs” who has worked to correct climate exaggeration and check the excesses of the United Nations’ IPCC/COP process. His post, Why Climate Alarmists Can’t Recant, is an example of his work. Clutz’s recent comment at MasterResource is worth publishing here, after which I add my observations on the reasons for the futile, wasteful crusade.
Ted Nordhaus explained why, unlike Gates, doomsters can’t recant [in his] paper:
Why I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist….…
Trump II’s ‘Nuclear Renaissance”: A Government Play
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 4, 2026On January 26, the U.S. Department of Energy released the Fact Sheet, “The Energy Department Is Delivering on Accelerating the Deployment of Nuclear Power, subtitled “President Trump is Unleashing America’s Next Nuclear Renaissance.”
Nuclear Renaissance? Like that of Joe Biden? George W. Bush? Here is a summary of federal subsidies/initiatives for commercial nuclear power from the US Department of Energy (to date).
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS WORKING TO MAKE ENERGY MORE AFFORDABLE AND RELIABLE INCLUDING ADVANCING NUCLEAR POWER
- The Trump administration is reversing the previous administration’s energy subtraction policies which made energy more expensive, and the grid less reliable.
- Under the Biden administration, electricity prices increased by 30%—13 times faster than the previous seven years.
- More than 100 gigawatts (GW) of firm reliable power were projected to retire by 2030.
“All renewable energy—driven by Climate Change Madness—has done for us is to make electricity more expensive. One example of that is the $318 billion in federal renewable subsidies taxpayers have paid for over the last 16 years.”
On May 26, 1285, Edward I of England commissioned Roger de Northwode, John de Cobbeham, and Henry le Galeys to investigate the use of “sea-coal” in lime kilns in London and its suburbs. The commission was driven by complaints “that whereas formerly the lime used to be burnt with wood, it is now burnt with sea-coal, whereby the air is infected and corrupted to the peril of those frequenting and dwelling in those parts” (Edward I, 1285, 207).
This was not the first time Edward and his family had dealt with what we know today simply as coal.…
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