The Philosophic Roots of the Paris Agreement Part V: “Small is Beautiful”
June 30, 2017“Whenever something is wrong, something is too big.” -Leopold Kohr In energy, what is hyped as new and transformative is…
BP Sees Large Drop in Global Coal Production, Small Drop in Consumption
June 26, 2017According to BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy[i], global coal production dropped by 6.5 percent in 2016 with a slower…
The Wind Lobby’s Policy Two-Step
June 23, 2017On Tuesday, June 20, 2017, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) announced the publication of a report touting wind as…
The Philosophic Roots of the Paris Agreement Part IV: Conservationism
June 22, 2017Previous posts in this series have linked the philosophical roots of the global climate-change movement to the doctrines of Deep…
The Wind Lobby’s Preemptive Strike on the Perry Grid Study
June 20, 2017In an April 14 memo circulated through the Department of Energy, Secretary Rick Perry ordered a 60-day DOE study of…
Clarifying Paris, Part 1
June 19, 2017The popular narrative in the major media and coming from most public intellectuals is that President Trump’s withdrawal from the…
