“Addressing climate change” is the wrong target; we want to reduce climate danger—and that requires liberating, not eliminating, fossil fuel use.
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Why You Shouldn’t Be Alarmed About Unusually Warm Temperatures
Even with recent temperatures, which are a temporary anomaly, not the new normal, cold is a bigger problem than heat and fossil fuels keep us safer from both.
Solving America’s Critical Minerals Problem Requires a Radical, Pro-Development Policy
Liberate domestic industry to mine and process them cost-effectively; encourage friendly trading partners to do the same; and stop artificially driving up demand before supply chains are ready.
Instant Stone, Just Add Water: The Pure Magic of Cement
We start with rock, crush and burn it to extract its essence in powdered form, and then reconstitute it at a place and time and in a shape of our choosing. Like coffee or pancake mix, it is “instant stone—just add water!” And with it, we make skyscrapers that reach hundreds of stories high, tunnels that go under the English channel and the Swiss Alps, and bridges that stretch a hundred miles.
The Fossil Fuel Industry Should Defend Itself Against Congressional Smears
Fossil fuel companies should say two things when threatened for expressing pro-fossil-fuel opinions: 1) We have a 1st Amendment right to our opinions on energy and climate, and 2) We are now going to talk a lot more about the benefits, including climate benefits, of our industry.
Should We Panic Over Excessively Low Global Temperatures?
Cold weather kills about ten times the number of people who are killed by hot weather,
Scientists Acquit Fossil Fuels of Global Warming
Climate activists, government officials, and the United Nations claim that fossil fuel emissions caused global warming. Now scientists have disproved that claim.
The Real Meaning of Earth Hour
The lights of our cities and monuments are a symbol of human achievement, of what mankind has accomplished in rising from the cave to the skyscraper. Earth Hour presents the disturbing spectacle of people celebrating those lights being extinguished. Earth Hour symbolizes the renunciation of industrial civilization.
A Landmark Energy Freedom Resolution from the RNC
The Republican National Committee has passed an unprecedented resolution that powerfully advocates for energy freedom in America.
Capitalists on the Moon
The essence of Jacobin Magazine’s argument is that it isn’t fair that some get to enjoy things most of us can’t afford. If everyone can’t enjoy luxuries, then nobody should be allowed to. This is an example of what Ayn Rand called “hatred of the good for being the good.”
Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto
The Techno-optimist Manifesto does not fully recognize the necessity of freedom.
Politicians Talk; Entrepreneurs and Scientists Do
What has long troubled climate policy deliberations also contains within itself its own public-choice solution.
Buy Any Car You Like As Long As It’s an EV
Governments are banning fossil-fueled vehicles, but not to save humanity.
Property Rights in Space
A truly moral justification for property rights in space.
The Case Against Net Zero 2050
Fossil fuels expert Alex Epstein shares everything you need to know about fossil fuels and what the world would really look like if we were “net zero” by 2050.
Why America Is Going Green
America is replacing fossil energy with green energy, but not to save the planet.
Hawaii Invests in Renewable Energy Rather Than Wildfire Prevention
Instead of spending millions of dollars on fire prevention as was recommended, Hawaii’s Public Utility Commission spent that money and more on complying with a state law that insists by 2045, the state will be 100 percent renewable energy.
Climate Science and the Crisis of Pseudoscience
“I can confidently say there is no real climate crisis” – John Clauser,
‘Caught-Red-Handed’: Scientists Call for Full Retraction of Nature’s Proximal Origin SARS-CoV-2 Paper, as Fraud Accusations Mount
“[The] main thing still in my mind is that the lab escape version of this is so friggin’ likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario,” Andersen said to his colleagues, according to a report from Public, which published a series of Slack messages between the authors.
How To Answer Loaded Climate Questions
Answers to: “Do you believe in climate change?” “Are you a climate denier?” “Will you listen to the scientists on climate change?” And more!
“Green Energy” is Neither Energy nor Green
“Green energy” has 2 problems: 1) It’s not really energy: It doesn’t provide reliable energy. 2) It’s not really green: It has a huge “environmental impact.”
An Open Letter to Lawmakers: The Green Energy Agenda Has Failed
Lawmakers and their constituents don’t need to be climate scientists to understand why.
End Government Preferences, Subsidies & Mandates for Unreliable Electricity
America can stop the decline of our grid and move toward low-cost, reliable, and cleaner electricity by ending all preferences for unreliable electricity.
20 Myths About Fossil Fuels
In Fossil Future, Alex Epstein refutes literally hundreds of myths about fossil fuels. Here are 20 myths that 11,000,000 people heard on Joe Rogan’s podcast this year, refuted.
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