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Vijay Jayaraj
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March 27, 2025
Hydrocarbon-friendly Trump a match for energy-hungry IndiaWith 1.4 billion energy-hungry citizens, India stands at the epicenter of the geopolitics of energy and climate policy. As the world’s third-largest energy consumer and projected to have the fastest growth in demand over the next two decades, t...
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February 3, 2025
Paper exposes pseudoscience behind methane war on farmersMethane emissions have become a focal point of the climate debate, triggering absurd agricultural regulations negatively affecting farming communities worldwide. Targets for abuse are ruminant animals, including cattle and sheep, that produce methane...
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January 30, 2025
Is the climate doomsday cult finally losing power?For years, climate activists like Al Gore and John Kerry have made bold, headline-grabbing predictions that have failed to materialize. Gore’s 2007 assertion that the Arctic would be ice-free by 2013 stands in stark contrast to reality: Arctic ice h...
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January 28, 2025
UK losing wind gamble A warning for worldOn a frigid January morning, the fruit of the U.K.’s overreliance on wind energy was reaped when its contribution to the national grid plummeted to a pitiful zero. Solar output, meanwhile, was a paltry 1% of power generation. This...
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January 21, 2025
The dark side of Europe's energy devolutionThe winter of 2025 has been brutal for Europe, exposing the severe flaws of its over-reliance on wind and solar energy. As temperatures plummeted, countries grappled with electricity shortages, soaring energy prices, and the grim specter of blackouts...
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January 13, 2025
Your cappuccino is safe despite climate fearmongeringA few hundred years ago, coffee was almost an unknown commodity with hardly a handful of countries consuming it at a commercial scale. But today, it is a sought-after drink that drives multiple companies to compete for the world’s best beans. ...
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September 29, 2024
The real cause of weather-related deathsDespite fear-mongering about climate change supercharging natural disasters, weather-related deaths have declined dramatically. According to the Emergency Event Database, the total global deaths per decade from climate-related disasters has fallen...
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June 3, 2024
Natural Gas Fuels Prosperity of Canadian First Nations CommunitiesObsessed with the faux climate crisis, the Canadian government in Ottawa seemingly discounts altogether the social and economic benefits of natural gas to First Nations communities of the country’s western region. Approximately 5% of the wor...
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February 11, 2024
Wind and solar are slaughtering India's iconic birdBy commissioning expensive and inefficient wind and solar electric-generating facilities, India may have dug the grave of its own efforts to save its beloved and critically endangered bird, known as Great Indian bustard, which is dista...
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February 10, 2024
Health of fish stocks contradict climate alarmists' predictionsThe oceans are still very much a mystery to humankind, with a vast majority of it yet to be explored. Early in my career, I wanted to make an in-depth study of how climate affected marine life. After all, many media reports claimed that “oc...
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January 20, 2024
Shaking off old climate lies for the new yearAs we embark on a new year, our hopes and aspirations are renewed even as the specter of a climate doomsday purportedly looms over us. The predicted apocalypse being a falsehood, we are called upon in this season of joy and love to forgive the fea...
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December 7, 2023
Brewing truth: Climate doomsayers’ cooked up coffee crisisEvery day, people across the world wake up to news about climate change affecting their lives. With the seeming randomness of a roulette wheel, the doomsday clique of the climate world daily selects a fresh topic to sow seeds of anxiety am...
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October 31, 2023
Thailand’s tiger turnaround contradicts climate fearmongeringThailand’s protected forest areas are home to the Indochinese tiger, known by its biological name Panthera tigris corbetti. Recent population numbers suggest that the tiger is making a comeback. Tiger populations in two of Thailand’s w...
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July 24, 2023
Warming-obsessed media wrong againThere is not much new about media hyperbole in weather reporting, but July's climate alarmism may be more breathless than usual. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media were inundated with posts containing flaming red maps of Sout...
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June 7, 2023
Saying 'no' to green energy: Mexico and South America must tap fossil fuels to fight povertyDespite intense news coverage of issues surrounding the U.S. southern border, it is rare to see headlines about the energy policy of Mexico and the rest of Latin America. Nonetheless, much as in other regions, energy is a major concern inextricabl...
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December 29, 2022
Media report India's weather to fit doomsday narrativeAt 39 degrees Fahrenheit, India’s ordinarily sweltering capital of Delhi experienced one of the coldest winter nights this year on Dec. 27. Its region is home to 32 million people, with millions of them having no access to heating in t...
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December 9, 2022
A cold winter undercuts the warming narrativeThe mainstream media (MSM) want the world to believe that climate change has turned us into rotisserie chickens. However, real-world temperatures are not warming to dangerous levels, nor are they going to. Australia's ABC, for examp...
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November 7, 2022
COP27: A meaningless ritual for China and IndiaLast week, Greta Thunberg called the COP27 climate meeting a “scam” that provides a platform for “greenwashing, lying, and cheating.” The teenage climate activist is probably right -- for a change. Many European countries t...
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October 29, 2022
Why Are Farmers Defying Bans to Cultivate GM Crops?Farmers across the world are desperate to grow genetically modified crops (GM) in their fields. So much so that in some countries farmers have bypassed existing bans on these crops and even made harvests from them. Why do these farmers risk being ...
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August 30, 2022
How do climate doomsayers explain the current state of Arctic ice?With ice coverage for July and August remaining above the ten-year average of 2010–20, the extent of summer sea ice in the Arctic has surprised experts who once predicted that such levels would be impossible. This stands in stark contrast to...
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August 18, 2022
Green policies creating an uncertain futureRestrictive energy policies have the world staring at an uncertain future. Advanced globally by undemocratic institutions like the United Nations and embraced to varying degrees by numerous national leaders, fanciful but dangerous commitme...
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June 28, 2022
Coal: Europe's security blanket, the Third World's necessityHow many lives do European coal plants have? Nobody knows. But by now, most of the world understands that Europe's reliance on coal is no longer deniable. In a time of global energy instability featuring an embarg...
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June 6, 2022
South Africa: Warmism creates blackoutsSouth Africa — supposedly one of Africa's advanced economies — is reeling under severe power shortages and daily rolling blackouts, some for as long as eight hours. In May, most households, commercial buildings, and industries expe...
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May 8, 2022
Electric utopia takes a deadly U-turnElectric vehicles have been pushed hard as a solution to the world’s faux climate emergency, but in India they have turned into killing machines. Many EV bikes and scooters have been bursting into flames across the country. The frequency ...
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March 13, 2022
Oil price hikes hit poor countries the hardestThe fighting in Ukraine has intensified with Russian forces showing no signs of retreating and residents are fleeing cities. What does this have to do with the lives of billions of people living far away from the war? Oil price increases. ...
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December 28, 2021
Shift to nuclear brightens Asian energy futureAt a time when the global media narrative is dominated by fossil fuels and renewables, countries in Asia have been commissioning an increasing number of nuclear plants, contrary to many European countries and the U.S. With a string of new ap...
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December 11, 2021
Energy dichotomy: Asian coal gains momentum as Biden undermines US economyIt has been a tough time for the U.S. energy sector, with production impacted by Joe Biden's hostility to Big Oil and gas prices and heating bills soaring as a result. President Biden has blamed OPEC for not producing oil at a faster pac...
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October 22, 2021
'They need to breed less': the darkness of climate zealotryIn this age of green craze, the most likely response to legitimate concerns about the lack of access to energy for the world's poor is advocacy for so-called renewable technologies such as wind turbines and solar panels. As embarrassing as tha...
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October 8, 2021
In this year's cool, summery India, no signs of global warming at allThe onset of spring has always been a welcome event, especially for people in parts of the world where winters are cold and severe. Poets talk about it and various socio-cultural events are organized to mark the season of rising temperatures and rebi...
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September 28, 2021
Coal's future lies in AsiaThere is no doubt that coal, along with oil, has been the bedrock for the industrial success of the 19th and 20th centuries. Amid the current century's growing concerns for climate change, many world leaders have hopped on an anti-coal...
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September 22, 2021
Energy poverty is not an option for India's 360 million poorThe global call to impose climate shutdowns akin to the COVID-19 lockdowns fails to recognize that there are millions of poor people for whom there is no room to compromise on energy liberty. Political organizations like the World Economic Forum s...
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September 4, 2021
Climate 'crisis' more dangerous than terrorism? Get real, BidenThe resurgence of Taliban is now expected to pose a serious threat to U.S. and global security. Thirteen U.S. servicemen and nearly 200 Afghans were already killed in blasts outside Kabul Airport on August 26, 2021. Yet Presiden...
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August 13, 2021
The UN's 'code red' on climate changeThe new U.N. climate report is nothing more than a tired ritual of fear-mongering that has been repeated for decades with the complicity of mainstream media. The report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — known as th...
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August 1, 2021
Is Earth Actually Getting Hotter?Every year, climate-change enthusiasts tell us the earth is getting hotter. Phys.org warned the world, “New 'hottest year on record' likely to occur in the next five years.” C2ES informed readers, “It...
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May 24, 2021
Ban on Fossil Fuel Funding Threatens Africa's FutureGreen propaganda, based on unfounded fears of climate doomsday, is beginning to threaten Africa's ambition for developing a reliable and affordable energy sector. Christians concerned about the world's poor should take notice....
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April 24, 2021
China Funds Africa’s Fossil Fuel Renaissance—To Africa’s and the World’s PerilChina is pushing major advances in Africa’s energy sector. It will inevitably use the African fossil fuel sector as security for its own future energy needs. The geopolitical consequences could be serious. Countries in Africa are in dire nee...
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February 3, 2021
Toward a Renewable Chaos: Carbon Imperialism and Disadvantaged Smaller NationsNet Zero, Climate Action, Build Back Better, and the Great Reset are some of the names for policies aimed at expediting the transition of the global energy sector from fossil fuel to renewable technology. The goal? Saving the planet from climate apoc...
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January 21, 2021
Wind and solar dependency on fossil fuels is a fact we cannot ignoreNewly inaugurated President Joe Biden is moving forward with his Clean Energy Agenda. At the heart of the proposed energy transition plans is the assumption that wind and solar offer cleaner and greener energy than fossil fuels, thus savin...
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October 27, 2020
To fix Africa's hunger problem, bring on genetically modified cropsThe economic situation in Africa has improved a lot since the 1990s. Yet rampant poverty and food insecurity still impact millions of lives there. Currently, there is a huge demand-supply gap in the agricultural sector. At le...
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July 21, 2020
What Made Asia’s Largest Slum a Success Model for Treating COVID-19?On July 9, 2020, Asia's biggest and densest slum shocked the world by announcing just one new positive COVID-19 case despite being a cluster and hotspot. Dharavi is no ordinary slum. It is one of the densest in the world, housing mo...
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October 4, 2019
Developing countries must bail out of the climate gameAs obvious as it may sound, developing countries need more fast-paced development, not moral policing on matters of energy, development, and environment. The onset of the twenty-first century saw the international community coerce developing natio...
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June 29, 2019
Gone with the Wind: Inefficiency and Hazardous Nature of Wind Energy Impedes Renewable CrusadeWind energy is infinite, clean, a friend of climate, and the future of our energy sector. That is the green gospel we hear from renewable-obsessed environmentalists and politicians every day. If wind energy is what they claim it is, why...
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June 19, 2019
Connecticut bill requires political indoctrination in climate alarmismOn May 28, the Connecticut House of Representatives passed a bill making it mandatory for public school science teachers to include "human-induced climate change" in their curricula. Connecticut House Bill 7083 requires that "s...
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March 14, 2019
Global Cooling: The Real Climate ThreatClimate alarmists constantly warn us that man-made global warming is making our world less habitable and that climate doomsday is fast approaching. But a closer look at our climate reveals a surprising climate discovery that our mainstream...
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December 22, 2017
Blessing or Curse? The Curious Case of Carbon DioxideIn recent decades, select groups of scientists and politicians have blamed carbon dioxide (CO2) -- a greenhouse gas -- for increasing global temperatures to dangerous levels. Is CO2 really destroying our planet? CO2 is an odorless, invisible, t...
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July 9, 2016
The coming winter: Dropping temperatures and economic freezeThroughout history, humans have cautioned each other to prepare for winter, both literally and figuratively. Harsh climates can be very dangerous, and hard times fall on us all. Globally, that warning can again be given literally as tempe...
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June 29, 2016
In the Face of Zika, What Population Should Be Controlled?Pregnant women in South America have a profound concern about the health of their babies. Zika -- a mosquito-borne viral disease -- has been spreading quickly there. The main agent of transmission is the Aedes mosquito. The mosquito is abundant, e...
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June 23, 2016
The infamous wind farms of UdumalpetMy hometown of Udumalpet is located in the state of Tamil Nadu, deep in the south of India. The town experiences pleasant tropical weather throughout the year. Because of this, it is famously called “poor man’s Ooty.” ...