Michael Shellenberger

In the name of fighting climate change, powerful organizations, including Sierra Club and Greenpeace, have forced World Bank and others to divert lending from cheap and reliable energy sources to expensive and unreliable ones.

The challenge is in making our favorite lower-carbon energy sources less weather-dependent.

America’s leading climate and environmental groups including Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Energy Foundation, and Environmental Defense Fund have not responded to repeated queries about evidence that China is forcing Uyghur Muslims to make solar panels.

White House climate envoy John Kerry says the Biden Administration may have to sanction Chinese solar panels, threatening solar growth and pointing to the bad physics, economics, and ethics of renewables.

China is still the cheap labor leader, though increasingly it looks like forced labor helps keep costs down.

Deaths and financial damage from flooding in Europe have declined, even as the area flooded has increased.

German emissions increased in the first half of 2021 by one-quarter, showing limits of weather-dependent renewables, and the perils of letting guilt drive energy policy.

Nations are coming to grips with their overdependence on renewables, and reconsidering their closure of nuclear plants

Over the last decade, the World Economic Forum (WEF), the United Nations’ International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank have all urged poor nations to stop subsidizing fossil fuels.

NATO’s Secretary-General says sabotage caused the leaks in two natural gas pipelines from Russia to Germany, and a debate has erupted over who caused it.