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Climate Censorship? (CAAD pushing on a string)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 27, 2025

“Sounds like the alarmists are losing when they call in the thought police. And they are losing.”

A new international group, Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD), advertises itself as the policer against “climate change misinformation and disinformation.”

We are a global coalition of over 50 prominent climate and anti-disinformation organisations, calling for decisive, unified action against widespread climate misinformation and disinformation.

Why? CAAD continues:

Climate change misinformation and disinformation create a distorted perception of climate science and solutions; meanwhile they weaken the public mandate for effective domestic and international policies aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Nothing subjective about it. CAAD’s “Universal definition” is stated:

Climate disinformation and misinformation refers to deceptive or misleading content that:

Undermines the existence or impacts of climate change, the unequivocal human influence on climate change, and the need for corresponding urgent action according to the IPCC scientific consensus and in line with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement;

Misrepresents scientific data, including by omission or cherry-picking, in order to erode trust in climate science, climate-focused institutions, experts, and solutions; or

Falsely publicises efforts as supportive of climate goals that in fact contribute to climate warming or contravene the scientific consensus on mitigation or adaptation.

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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.

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Former 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.…

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The Great Texas Blackout (2021): When the Free Market Electricity Debate Began

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 24, 2025
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Zwolinski Doubles Down (Left-libertarian in action)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 21, 2025
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Denialism? Zwolinski Punts on Climate Science, Policy (statism on parade)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 20, 2025
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Adler on Climate Policy: More Vague, Weak Argumentation

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 19, 2025
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Hydrogen Energy: Not Clean, Green, Cheap

By David R. Legates -- February 18, 2025
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Energy & Environmental Review: February 17, 2025

By -- February 17, 2025
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The Great Texas Blackout Revisited: Market Failure Not

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 14, 2025
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