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Dec 18, 2024 | 
co2coalition.org | Shawn Skinner
(Photo: Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire, England)(The visible emissions from modern coal-fired power plants are water vapor)By Gordon TombHas the time come to make coal great again? Maybe. “Coal is cheap and far less profitable to export than to burn domestically. so, let’s burn it here,” says Steve Milloy, a veteran observer of the energy industry who served on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team for the first Trump administration.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
co2coalition.org | Shawn Skinner
By Vijay JayarajThe climate movement’s annual showpiece, the United Nation’s Conference of Parties (COP), held this year in Baku, Azerbaijan, has been exposed to an unprecedented level of disinterest – even dissent – from developing nations. Leaders of some of the world’s most resource-rich, economically aspiring countries have opted to sit this one out, sending only low-level delegates, if any.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
co2coalition.org | Gregory Wrightstone |Shawn Skinner
By Gregory WrightstoneAs the love affair with so-called green energy cools and “net zero” commitments to eliminate “carbon emissions” wane, we see glimmers of acknowledgment for the benefits of carbon dioxide. That’s right: More people are beginning to understand that the gas – widely demonized as a pollutant endangering Earth with excessive heat – is a life-giving substance needed in greater amounts.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
co2coalition.org | Steve Goreham |Shawn Skinner
By Steve GorehamAnother year has passed, and that stubborn Ozone Hole over Antarctica refuses to go away. Data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows that the area of the Ozone Hole remains about the same as it has been over the last 30 years. But will scientists admit that they didn’t save the ozone layer? BackgroundOzone is a gas made up of three oxygen atoms (O3).
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
co2coalition.org | Gregory Wrightstone |Shawn Skinner
By Gregory Wrightstone On November 2, Alberta’s ruling United Conservative Party (UCP) approved a resolution stating, in part: “CO2 is a nutrient foundational for all life on Earth…The earth needs more CO2 to support life and to increase plant yields, both of which contribute to the Health and Prosperity [sic] of all Albertans.” A UCP member speaking in favor of the resolution stated: “According to the CO2 Coalition, higher CO2 levels have led to healthier crops and improved food security...
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
co2coalition.org | Gregory Wrightstone |Shawn Skinner
By Gregory WrightstoneTo frack or not to frack has been a hot topic in the United States for several years. That discussion has been most intense in the state of Pennsylvania. That is because the Keystone State is home to the Marcellus Shale, the largest natural gas accumulation in the world. According to Bill Zagorski, who was given the honorary moniker of “Father of the Marcellus,” the Marcellus contains 3,698 trillion cubic feet of gas (TCF). That size qualifies it as a mega-giant field.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
co2coalition.org | Larry Bell |Architectures Beyond Boxes |Shawn Skinner
By Larry BellIn the wake of political climate alarm “net-zero” warfare on abundant fossil energy while piling millions more electric vehicles (EVs) on already overloaded grids, now add staggeringly colossal new artificial intelligence (AI) power demands. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that electricity demand from AI, data centers, and crypto currency could more than double by 2026, an added equivalent of all the electricity used in Sweden or — in the high-usage case — Germany.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
co2coalition.org | Gregory Wrightstone |Shawn Skinner
By Gregory WrightstoneThe science of climate change often is presented in complicated language that speaks of computer models and the theoretical inputs and outputs thereof and concludes that the globe is on the verge of “boiling.” Well, leave it to three physicists — steeped in calculus and such arcane matters as the behavior of molecules and the nuclear charge of atoms — to simplify the analysis and arrive at a much less alarming determination.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
co2coalition.org | Shawn Skinner
By Ronald Stein and Vijay JayarajAlmost half the world — over three billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day and billions living with little to no access to electricity, like those living in places like Africa, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia, is complicated by the hypocritical “green” agendas of leaders in the few wealthier developed economies that have benefited from the more than 6,000 products made from fossil fuels since the beginning of the industrial era.
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May 23, 2024 | 
co2coalition.org | Tilak Doshi |Shawn Skinner
By Tilak DoshiVoltaire famously said that “common sense is not so common.” Nowhere is this adage more relevant than in the field of energy policies in the European Union. These policies are most vigorously pursued in Germany—Europe’s industrial powerhouse—since it adopted the Energiewende legislation in 2010. The regulations and mandates adopted are simultaneously hostile to fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
