Thatcher & UK Politics: Up from Alarmism
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 3, 2025Ed. Note: The UK is again at a crossroads with climate policy. Reformers want to severely weaken, if not repeal, the Climate Change Act of 2008. With UK media posts mentioning Margaret Thatcher’s original (alarmist) position (here), but not her reversal (below), the record should be set straight.
“Government interventions are problematic, so intervene only when the case is fully proven.”
– Margaret Thatcher, Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World. New York: HarperCollins, 2002, p. 453.
“An Inconvenient Truth About Margaret Thatcher: She Was a Climate Hawk,” declares Will Oremus in Slate. In “The Iron Lady’s Strong Stance on Climate Change” (Daily Climate, reposted at Climate Progress), author Douglas Fischer notes “how seriously [Margaret Thatcher] viewed the threat of climate change and the robustness, more than 20 years ago, of climate science and United Nations body tasked with assessing state of that science.”…
Continue ReadingNRDC in Climate Denial (forced smiles at ‘Climate Week’)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 2, 2025“Dilute, intermittent, fragile, land-intensive, transmission-intensive, and government-enabled energies have had their chance since the 1970s and the 1990s. It is time to move on to consumer-chosen, taxpayer-neutral superiors.”
Their only option was to put a happy face on climate activism at the just-ended Climate Week in New York City. But how things have changed. Consider, 11 years ago, a lone Alex Epstein challenging climate alarm and forced energy transformation at the People’s Climate March in New York City (below). Now, Epstein’s “human betterment” human philosophy is ensconced in the halls of power in Washington, including the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
But the narrative and jobs of the Climate Industrial Complex, thousands of rent-seekers and grifters strong, must keep their Deep Ecology faith. Manish Bapna, President and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), wrote on social media:
… Continue ReadingWhat a lively way to start the day.
Finance vs. “Climate Finance” (Lisa Sachs’s Problem)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 1, 2025“… the doctrine of ‘social responsibility’ involves the acceptance of the socialist view that political mechanisms, not market mechanisms, are the appropriate way to determine the allocation of scarce resources to alternative uses.” (- Milton Friedman, 1970)
Lisa Sachs, director of the Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment, is all-in with climate alarmism and forced energy transformation. No debate allowed about fundamental premises, despite my best efforts to persuade her otherwise.
Today, she is tangled up in the subjectivity and contradictions of “socially responsible” investing. Business is the process of winning profits and avoiding losses, with distractions such as “socially responsible” minimized. Yes, ethical norms should be respected, as Milton Friedman clearly stated in his seminal essay, “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits.” But business is not government or a charity.…
Continue Reading