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Norman Rogers
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March 20, 2025
Every Dollar Spent on Solar Energy is WastedSolar energy survives due to a web of ignorance, financial opportunism, and promotion by interested parties.
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October 11, 2024
Solar DelusionsMost people think solar electricity is an excellent choice for powering the electric grid. Most people are delusional.
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January 27, 2024
An Environmentalist Drifts RIghtIdeological conversions from Left to Right or from atheist to believer are common. Michael Shellenberger has taken both roads.
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January 1, 2024
Junk Climate ScienceThe scientific basis of climate change theory is junk science made to seem authoritative by dressing it up with lengthy reports based on dubious computer models.
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August 4, 2023
The Problem with ModellingThe Plague of Models is a wide-ranging attack on a broad spectrum of government regulation and policy. It has been banned by Amazon.
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July 13, 2023
Britney Griner and Hilton HotelsThis Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Las Vegas, part of the Hilton chain, has decided to decorate its hotel with a questionable picture. A much better alternative exists.
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November 15, 2022
GOP candidates need a bloody fightTrump's behavior is not because he is a helpless narcissist, but because he is the political genius of the century.
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October 28, 2022
The Warmists Cop a PleaGlobal warming is being taken seriously. As a result, trillions are being budgeted for completely impractical wind and solar energy.
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September 28, 2022
The Climate Crisis LieToday’s climate crisis is a modern example of public policy being ruined by a self-interested scientific-technological elite.
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July 12, 2022
The Global Warming Golden GooseGlobal warming provided the professors and academic administrators with a junk science golden goose.
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February 1, 2022
Stanford Professor’s Plan to Save the WorldThe goal of 100% elimination of CO2 emissions makes no sense, not even for true believers in global warming.
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January 22, 2022
The Corruption of Science by Money and MarxismIndividual scientists are often well meaning and honest. But they are caught up in a system where conformity is enforced.
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January 7, 2022
Cowering Corporations and Gross GovernmentMost large corporations are amoral, timid, and easily bullied. And a coercive leftist government like what we have likes that just fine.
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January 3, 2022
Yet Another Solar ScamConcentrated solar power is not new and has never been remotely practical.
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December 6, 2021
Are Big Oil executives shrewd or just cowardly?The global warming believers and the oil companies both favor higher prices for oil.
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November 27, 2021
The Profound Junk Science of ClimateOnce money and status started flowing into climate science because of the disaster its denizens were predicting, there was no going back.
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October 20, 2021
The Real Cost of Government Mandated Wind and SolarA proper comparison reveals that wind or solar is five or even ten times more expensive than natural gas or coal electricity.
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September 25, 2021
The ‘Science’ of Climate ChangeWhy do politicians want to hype a nonexistent climate crisis? In a word: power.
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June 22, 2021
Fake Science: COVID and Global WarmingGiven the COVID example, it is now not so incredible to think that the scientists promoting global warming have ulterior motives.
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May 20, 2021
Smart People Say Dumb Things: Bill Gates EditionBill Gates has written a book: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. Unfortunately, the book is a disaster.
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May 5, 2021
Our Quasi-Soviet States of AmericaAmerican leftists use the same tactics as their Soviet and Chinese comrades — and now they're ascendant.
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April 5, 2021
The report 'Rethinking Energy' pegs the BS meterLots of nonsensical claims about the glories of solar and wind energy.
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November 9, 2020
How to Destroy China's Bribery Hold on the WestThe Chinese government, like U.S. Big Tech and the mainstream media, is an information monopoly. There are ways to bring it down.
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October 25, 2020
China’s Communist Party is backing the left’s revolution, seeking our downfall and subjugationI pray that I’m being unnecessarily alarmist, but the evidence is mounting.
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October 8, 2020
Jeff Bezos and Amazon Join the Religion of GreenMost likely, Amazon has jumped on the green train to deflect from the criticism it is getting for being a monopoly and stepping on toes of other interests.
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October 3, 2020
Biden's Energy Plan: Sacrificing Goats to the Sun GodsA collection of impracticable solutions for fake catastrophes thought up by the environmental left over the years.
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September 29, 2020
The Real Cost of Wind and SolarThe entire renewable electricity industry is actually a government boondoggle.
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August 28, 2020
The Plague of Renewable Portfolio StandardsState legislatures have enacted renewable portfolio standards because they have accepted the lie that wind and solar are competitive.
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August 13, 2020
Nuclear to Replace Wind and SolarIf you still believe in the global warming hysteria movement, you should face reality and dump wind and solar for nuclear.
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August 11, 2020
Human Challenge Trials and HydroxychloroquineShould we deliberately infect volunteers with COVID-19 to expedite the development of a vaccine?
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May 29, 2020
Experts, media, and the left do us wrongPronouncements from academic experts predicting medical or ecological catastrophes, often involving computer models, enjoy undeserved credibility.
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May 22, 2020
Green Electricity DelusionsWind and solar energy are uneconomic methods for generating electricity but sound convincing to the naïve.
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April 26, 2020
The Plan to Completely Destroy Nevada’s EconomyGovernor Steve Sisolak, seemingly driven more by a lack of clear thinking rather than malicious intent, is doing his best to kill Nevada.
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April 15, 2020
Climate Models and COVID-19 ModelsComputer models are seductive even though they are very often completely wrong.
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March 4, 2020
The Collapse of Intellectual Standards in ScienceEach year, approximately $25 billion is wasted paying for so-called renewable energy, overwhelmingly wind and solar.
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February 22, 2020
Michael Bloomberg, Arrogant ElitistOn greenie climate claims and matters of race, Bloomberg sees himself as a member of an intellectual elite.
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February 13, 2020
Renewable Power Theatre of the AbsurdCalifornia pays Nevada and Arizona to accept unwanted solar power and other absurdities of the Renewable Power Certificate Game.
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February 5, 2020
Renewable Energy Fairy TalesThe very wrong energy policy being pursued in the U.S. and even more so in Europe has its roots in a 1987 report from the United Nations.
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January 8, 2020
Another Expensive Solar Scheme Bites the DustThe purveyors of solar energy are working overtime to spin the now official failure of the Crescent Dunes thermal solar plant.
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November 27, 2019
Green Energy Studies: Consulting, or Advertising?What consultants say about green energy has a lot to do with who their clients are. But that's not always the impression they want to give.
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November 13, 2019
Fake Wealth and Income StatisticsTendentious statistics are constantly put forth by various neo-Marxists trying to prove that U.S. society is unjust and that confiscatory taxes should therefore be imposed on the wealthy.
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November 4, 2019
Has Elizabeth Warren Really Thought about Her Tax Plan?The ignorance is breathtaking.
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October 28, 2019
Scientocracy Busts Open the Motivation behind Global Warming PoliticsThe science establishment has been corrupted by money, specifically federal research grants.
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July 29, 2019
Apple Could Help the USA and Help ItselfMaybe Apple should try being red, white, and blue instead of green.
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July 19, 2019
Sustainability and Global Warming Give Birth to Renewable EnergyEnvironmental nonprofits need a constant parade of future dangers in order to keep the interest of members and donors.
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July 16, 2019
Why Planting Flowers under Solar Panels Won't Make Solar WorkGreen zealots are desperate to save solar power by tinkering around the edges.
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July 9, 2019
What It Will Take for the Wind and Solar Industries to CollapseThere's a significant risk that wind and solar will collapse. For how long will the global warming delusion protect them?
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July 1, 2019
Disentangling the Renewable Energy ScamThis is how solar energy can make so much money when it's not even close to profitable.
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June 24, 2019
The Energy Solution That Should Make Everyone HappyBut leftists want to profess more than one heretical view at a time. How about just one?
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June 18, 2019
Solar Power to Hit the Wall in NevadaThe bottom line is that solar is not a good method of supplying electricity and it is not a good method for reducing CO2 emissions.
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May 11, 2019
Trump, Pareto, and the Fall of the ElitesThe elites have to stop Trump and discredit him, or else the old establishment will be further discredited and will lose its ability to rule.
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May 5, 2019
The Solar Energy RacketIf solar energy were not propped up by various government policies and subsidies, no utility would buy it.
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April 9, 2019
Battery Foolishness in FloridaThe largest electric utility in Florida is proposing building the world’s largest battery to smooth the output of solar energy installations.
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April 2, 2019
Does General Electric Know What It Is Doing?It is not encouraging that General Electric cannot get well known facts straight.
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February 24, 2019
Climate Science, Red in Tooth and Claw: Yapping Hyenas Attack a LionWilliam Happer is one of the most important scientists in the United States. Now he's under fire from the manic and rabid global warming industry.
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February 14, 2019
The Green New DealIt is clear that the real motive for the Green New Deal is the installation of socialism, not protection against an imaginary climate crisis.
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January 29, 2019
Quartz: The Elite Talk to ThemselvesQuartz: a crowning example of groupthink in action.
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January 12, 2019
New York State and RenewablesWind or solar power is not the answer to everything. In fact, it is a good answer for pretty much nothing.
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January 1, 2019
‘Meet The Press’ Preaches Climate ChangeThe staff of “Meet the Press” is either incredibly ignorant or pursuing an agenda of left-wing propaganda, or probably both.
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November 27, 2018
Latest Global Warming Lies from US Global Change Research ProgramThe brazenness of the fake science is often shocking.
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November 12, 2018
Green Energy is the Perfect ScamWhat makes the scam extremely clever is that the scammers have convinced the public that the purpose of their scam is to improve the environment
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November 4, 2018
Global Warming and Fake ScienceAccording to the promoters of global warming, climate doom is just around the corner. But it never seems to arrive.
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September 24, 2018
Dumb Energy Advances in ColoradoA sinister alliance between green groups, the government, the renewable energy industry, and utilities have provided a new way to profit at the expense of the public.
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August 11, 2018
Wind and Solar Energy: Good for NothingThe bottom line is that wind and solar are useless. Here is why.
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July 6, 2018
The Incredible Scam of Rooftop SolarA large-scale natural gas electricity generating plant can supply electricity for around 6 cents per kilowatt-hour. Rooftop solar electricity costs, without subsidies, around 30 cents per kilowatt-hour.
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June 30, 2018
Wind and Solar Require Massive SubsidiesWe are constantly treated to disinformation claiming that wind or solar is competitive with fossil fuels.
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June 17, 2018
Dumb EnergyHow nice to pluck energy out of the air and the sky. Shame it's all a scam.
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May 11, 2018
Is Kim Jong-un seeking to change sides?He's got to be tired of being subservient to China.
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April 11, 2018
The Parade of Impending CatastrophesIf we're not always doomed, how will the doomsayers make money?
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March 18, 2018
Chasing Sunbeams: Taming the Sun and Solar EnergyAn error-filled new book attempts to reassert the exploded argument for solar power.
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November 11, 2017
Tell a Big Lie and Keep Repeating ItMother Nature is not cooperating with fake global warming science because the Earth has failed to warm for the last two decades.
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October 18, 2017
The New York Times Embraces Fake Science, Fake Engineering, and Fake EconomicsA long, windy editorial on climate change run by the New York Times was simplistic and did not engage with economic or engineering realities.
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October 8, 2017
How to Survive: Lessons from Puerto RicoEnemy actors could initiate a Puerto Rico-style destructive event on our entire country. Here is how to prepare.
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September 29, 2017
Big Brother's Cashless SchemeThe elites want to abolish cash and replace it with electronic currency – for the sole purpose of controlling your money.
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August 15, 2017
The Drawdown cultGlobal warming, independent of the truth or falsity of the science, has cultish aspects.
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August 14, 2017
The Solar Energy FraudSolar energy is not always a fraud. But most of the time, it is, especially when you look at the numbers.
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July 31, 2017
Green Delusions and the Wind BullyThe green cult is rife with contradictions and dogma. One of the big ones centers on wind power.
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July 8, 2017
Just Say No to Naomi KleinA psychotic enviro-leftist in sheep's clothing has a new book out.
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June 17, 2017
The Coal-Asthma ConnectionBy means of lies and distortions designed to raise the maximum amount of money and membership, environmental organizations can send the country down the wrong course.
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June 9, 2017
California's Bogus 'Renewable Energy'California's "renewable power" mandate is a scandal waiting to happen.
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May 25, 2017
The Popes of Global Warming Religion Write a BookMichael Bloomberg lends his name to a new gospel touting the religion of global warming.
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May 13, 2017
Academic Global Warming Advocates and the Power of Incoherent JargonWhen an academic discipline runs out of progress, fake progress is substituted. Fake progress consists of restating well known truisms in a more obscure, abstract, and pompous form.
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April 25, 2017
Academics Play the Global Warming CardThe government money that supports Big Science has made scientists into politicians, just like all the others eating at the government table.
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February 14, 2017
Demon CoalIn the eyes of the diminishing crowd of believers in catastrophic global warming, coal is evil, a demon. Why?
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February 10, 2017
Establishment Politicians Using ‘Carbon Tax’ to Foil TrumpAn unholy alliance between global warming believers and establishment political forces that have been shut out of power by the Trump victory.
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January 22, 2017
Nationwide shortage of pink yarn handicaps Women’s MarchWARNING: Pics ahead, and lots of foul language.
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January 16, 2017
The Global Warming Smoking GunTo err is human, but to really foul up you need a computer.
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December 3, 2016
Columbia University's Climate: A Visit to an Alternate UniverseThe real craziness comes out at a global warming conference – featuring a journalism professor, a philosopher, and an actual real scientist.
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June 30, 2016
The Long Arm of the European CommunityRegulations are never wrong, unnecessary or stupid. Regulations are always prudent and based on the best information. In other words, it is all about political spin.
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May 16, 2016
The Greens and Nature WorshipIf people want to worship nature, that is their right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. But it is illegitimate to disguise nature worship as science.
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April 8, 2016
Fighting Junk ScienceJunk science is the bad science that drives good science out of circulation.
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December 17, 2015
Yes, We Can Deport 12 MillionThe story that it is somehow difficult to deport 12 million people is a self-serving myth propagated by the political alliance that wants the illegals here.
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December 8, 2015
The Economist's Hot Air on Climate ChangeA pathetic example of how the media intellectual elite can get science wrong.
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November 21, 2015
Ted Koppel and the Electric GridThe former ABC anchor needs to clear up a few misunderstandings on how we in the United States get our power.
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October 10, 2015
Global Warming: Making the Ruling Class into the Crackpot ClassA fervent belief in "climate change" seems to have a powerful inverse correlation with the impressiveness of our modern nobles.
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September 29, 2015
Free Trade IllusionsFree trade should not be a sacred doctrine among conservatives.
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September 18, 2015
EMP versus AGW - Is There a National Death Wish?While pursuing the supposed threat of AGW, the government is taking measures that will make the electrical grid less resistant to an EMP attack.
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September 3, 2015
Survival in the Age of EMPThere are only a few things that could paralyze the entire country. The Obama administration is whistling past the graveyard on one of the most likely.
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August 29, 2015
Energy DelusionsThe Clean Energy Summit is a chance for the crony capitalists and the politicians to get together and celebrate their mutual good fortune.
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July 20, 2015
Let's Worry about a Real ThreatWhich is more important – global warming, or a cheap and easy attack that could shut down our infrastructure as we know it?
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June 29, 2015
Climate CompulsionsDo people suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) worry a lot about global warming/climate change? We don’t have to speculate
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June 18, 2015
Environmentalist ShipwreckTo the obsessed environmentalist landlubbers, the romance of the sea is a waste of energy and a source of carbon pollution.
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June 12, 2015
Where is All the CO2 Going?Those who panic the public about CO2 emissions are loath to admit how much of it disappears from the atmosphere into the ocean and land. Even worse, the science of CO2 absorption is far from settled.
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June 5, 2015
A Scientist Gets With the ProgramSecretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, often mentions President Obama’s programs in a favorable, even worshipful, way.
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June 3, 2015
The Iranian and Russian Strategy: A Counter-StrategyThe goal of the Iranians is to increase their influence while creating a smokescreen of appeasement and threats sufficient to prevent a serious attack.
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May 15, 2015
Should the Death Tax Die?Most discussions of the estate tax, better known as the death tax, ignore the green monster in the room.
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May 14, 2015
How to Fix Higher Education: Bring on Creative DestructionHigher education has become a status symbol rather than a public good. Something must be done.
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April 28, 2015
Renewable and Sustainable Crony CapitalismWhy are Republicans supporting expensive and unnecessary renewable power programs?
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April 14, 2015
Environmentalism and EnvyBelievers in environmental prophecies of doom lash out with undisguised fury when their prophecies -- and their “science” -- are treated with skepticism.
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March 27, 2015
Pareto Speaks to Us About EnvironmentalismThe scientific theories promoted by the global warming advocates are soft targets. Their science is lousy. But critical scientific arguments are highly technical and only of use in getting authoritative scientists to join the skeptical side. So how do we combat the global warming obsession?
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March 22, 2015
Global Warming: A Flop at the Box OfficeMakes sense, considering that global warming hysteria is a flop, too.
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March 18, 2015
Political Correctness: The Progressive Political StrategyPC accomplishes a lot for the Left, but it is vulnerable if people dare stand up to it.
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February 12, 2015
TIm Cook, Enough AlreadyThe Apple CEO offers fine products and a lot of PC nonsense.
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September 28, 2014
Apple, Google, and GreenwashingScientific facts don’t matter to people who have staked their futures on global warming. They only care that the money doesn’t stop.
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September 12, 2014
A Government-subsidized Desert Death RayBurning birds combusting in flight (exclusive video and telephoto pictures) at the Ivanpah solar electricity plant.
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July 21, 2014
Bamboozled BillionairesThe billionaire trio of Henry Paulson, Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer have been bamboozled by global warming profiteers.
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May 24, 2014
The Corruption of ScienceScientists will exaggerate the importance of their own work. However, there should be a line that is not crossed -- the line that separates self-promotion from corruption.
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April 18, 2014
Ripoff TechRenewable energy has a positive image thanks to the people who should be defending the public but are either corrupted or don’t understand what is going on.
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December 30, 2013
The Solar SwindleThe promoters of solar electricity claim that it is close to being competitive with conventional sources of electricity. That is a fantasy.
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December 2, 2013
Jeffrey Sachs: Socialism and SanctimonyJeffrey Sachs is a famous Columbia University Professor, and he has a real grudge against the rich.
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November 16, 2013
William Nordhaus and Climate DelusionsWhen Nordhaus, a serious economist, writes about climate science, he sadly makes many errors and generally takes as gospel all the catastrophic claims.
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October 17, 2013
Computer Games and Global WarmingThe scientific mind has not changed just because intellectual fashions have changed. Scientists today are simply consumed by new mysticisms
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September 27, 2013
The Climate-Industrial ComplexBig science is government-supported science. The temptation to influence policy and appropriations by manipulating scientific conclusions is irresistible.
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August 8, 2013
Climate Realism and Socialist Realism'Climate Realism' has more than a passing resemblance to the old Soviet doctrine of 'Socialist Realism'.
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August 6, 2013
Global Warming as FaithIt should not seem remarkable that governmental organizations and highly educated scientists have become fanatical followers of a global warming ideology.
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August 4, 2013
The Post Office is Sitting on a Gold MineThe United States Postal Service is operating according to a paradigm set up 100 years ago. The new services that the post office could provide represent a potential bonanza, if only the unions and other obstacles could be overcome.
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June 29, 2013
American Geophysical Union Scraps Science, Now Faith BasedBasically, they teach you how to lobby and then ask you to join a cult.
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May 31, 2013
Science in the Service of Ideology: The National Climate AssessmentAs far as I know, there are no Ph.D.s offered in the study of junk science. Maybe there should be.
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May 8, 2013
Is Roy Spencer the world's most important scientist?Roy Spencer is a climate scientist at the University of Alabama Huntsville who may be the world's most important scientist. He has discovered scientific insights and theories that cast great doubt on global warming doctrine.
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April 9, 2013
Subverting BowdoinBowdoin, once one of the most respected small colleges in the United States, has suffered complete ideological degradation. Joshua Chamberlain weeps.
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March 24, 2013
Apple's Disappearing Cursor and Corporate ArroganceHere's one example of how the market corrects errors.
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February 19, 2013
Global Warming Believers March in D.C.On, February 17th, a very chilly and windy Sunday afternoon, the big guns of global warming activism gathered with their true believer followers in a park adjacent to the Washington Monument.
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February 3, 2013
Al Gore, FuturistGore is not a serious thinker but a politician and self-promoter pretending to be a serious thinker. He has successfully wielded the power of celebrity to make immense amounts of money; The Future amounts to another such effort.
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January 10, 2013
How to Destroy Science: Cast Self-Interest as Public InterestOrganized science has become another special interest group lobbying for government favors. Nowhere is this clearer than in the climate change debate.
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December 10, 2012
The American Geophysical Union and Climate HysteriaFor the true believers ideology trumps facts. They are agile thinkers and can always figure a way to explain away any negative information that might disconfirm the impending climate catastrophe.
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November 23, 2012
Wind Power Fiasco: Call Your CongressmanThere are a lot of good reasons why wind power is a ridiculous waste of money. So let's list them.
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July 6, 2012
Forbidden Science: Low Level Radiation and CancerSome things are hard to believe. What you've been told about low-level radiation by the people who are supposed to be responsible authorities is very wrong. The evidence that the official story is wrong is overwhelming
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May 21, 2012
Militant Nurses March for SomethingTrade unionism of the clenched fist variety is a stretch for the feminine half of the population, but they do try on occasion.
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May 6, 2012
Marin County: Garden of DelusionA little slice of liberal heaven. Nothing works, but it's very pretty.
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April 25, 2012
Why Israel Should, and Probably Will, Attack IranThe Israelis can't afford to buy into the rosily pacifistic intentions nations around the world are projecting onto the Iranians.
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April 15, 2012
Global Warming Dogma and the New Iron TriangleThe typical doomsday cult believes that an apocalyptic disaster is imminent. The global warming cult is just a little better-funded.
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March 13, 2012
Apple, Get Your Carbon Footprint Off My NeckWhat is going on here? Surely there is plenty of arrogance at Apple. This is very worrying to some of us stockholders. Arrogance leads to mistakes.
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November 20, 2011
Post-Normal Claws, Teeth, and SlimeThe promoters of trendy Post-Normal Science present it as a necessity for dealing with the greater complexity and the higher stakes that science allegedly faces in the modern world.
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November 8, 2011
Sierra Club at the Metropolitan ClubMy dirty secret is that I'm a member of the Sierra Club.
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October 24, 2011
OWS in Chicago (a photo essay)The Occupy Chicago people hang out most of the time at their sidewalk headquarters at the corner of LaSalle Street and Jackson Boulevard. At this corner is the Chicago Board of Trade, The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Bank of America Building.
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October 20, 2011
The Bizarre World of Radical Climate ScienceImagine that you are a climate scientist and the Earth is threatened with a climate disaster. You need to warn the people of Earth and lobby Earth's governments. On the other hand, maybe you have lost touch with reality.
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July 28, 2011
Climate Witchcraft and Post-Normal ScienceIf it weren't for the prophecies of doom, climate science would be an obscure academic niche. Global warming has made everyone in the field rich, at least in academic currency if not dollars.
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June 7, 2011
Naomi Oreskes, Conspiracy QueenNaomi Oreskes, of the University of California, is the environmentalist Noam Chomsky.
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May 1, 2011
Adventures in the Climate TradeIt's not just a dubious theory, it's a multibillion dollar industry, and you are paying for it, like it or not.
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January 29, 2011
Greenland Is Going to Be OKAccording to the government's Global Change Research Program, the oceans will rise three to four feet by the year 2100. Ice-covered Greenland is the top candidate to supply the water.
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January 12, 2011
Scientists Challenged to Become Better Global Warming PropagandistsStrange doings at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
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August 27, 2009
Global Warming BluesProfessional environmentalism has an ethics problem. Exaggeration promotes contributions