Sitemap - 2022 - The Word Merchant
Exxon Threatens to Divert Investment Away from the EU over the Energy Windfall Tax
Cars Rusting by Oklahoma Roadside
Examples of One-Eyed Journalism and Green Worshipping
South Texas Port in Corpus Snags Funds to Improve Growing Energy Export Ship Channel
The U.S. Will Need Thousands of Wind Farms. Will Small Towns Go Along?
Exxon Isn’t the Oil User. You Are
Three Associations Renew Oil & Gas Cooperation Agreement
Congo Cobalt Mining Exposes Green Energy Amorality
You Must Assume That All Information Put Out By Our Government Is Corrupt 21, 2022
Oil-and-Gas Companies Seek ESG Loans, Pledging Emissions Cuts
A Quiet Refutation of “Net Zero” Carbon Emissions
Great Reset: German Govt to Remotely Control Heating, Charging Of EVs
Live Science Dupes Readers On Severe Weather, Tipping Points, Polar Bears, More
Climate activists are fuming as Germany turns to coal to replace Russian gas
Gas Power Saves Texas from Blackouts, As Wind Power Collapses Again!
Putin Can’t Count on the Global Oil Market
Gas Power Saves Texas from Blackouts, As Wind Power Collapses Again
Rising Power Prices in Europe Are Making EV Ownership More Expensive
ESG’s perverse, narrow, fraudulent ethical principles
Forget Oil. Now They Are Coming For the Cows
The Crude Life Podcast: Paul Driessen
Bring On The Electricity Cost Crisis!
European Green-Energy Fiasco A Terrifying Warning For US This Winter
Bob Dylan on Music’s Golden Era vs. Streaming: ‘Everything’s Too Easy’
Groundwater replenishes much faster than scientists previously thought
“ The Staggering Cost to WV of NOT Completing Mountain Valley Pipe
From the High Plains of Texas Panhandle
U.S. Flaring Declines to ‘Volumes Not Seen in Over a Decade,’ Says Texans for Natural Gas Report
Germany Pivot to Piped Kazakh Oil Looks Like Pipe Dream
Immigration and Biden’s Title 42 Catastrophe
There are so many sources of “grossly misleading” climate information
The tricky business of putting a dollar value on a human life
Europe Energy Crisis Proves Stupid Is As Stupid Does
Greenwishing in its Most Naked and Misguided Form
“We’ll just get kicked off the land.”
Activist Media Miss The Mark With NOAA’s Deceptive ‘Arctic Report Card’
The Great Carbon Con Is Coming to an End
As biodiversity degrades, nature’s solutions are lost for ever
Rolling blackouts the hollow victory of climate piety over energy reality
Wars, Bad Economic Policies Cause Humanitarian Crises, Not Climate Change
Rising Energy Costs Forcing UK Steel Companies To Halt Production
Policy Implications of The Energy Storage Conundrum
ESG RIP: Review of Terrence Keeley’s "Sustainable"
Biden Turns To Country For Green Energy Metals With Abysmal Child Labor Record
UN: Africa to Use Green Hydrogen to Produce Fertiliser
Germany’s Gas Reserves ‘Emptying At Record Speed’ As Green Energy Fails
New PBS Series “Energy Switch” Is Must-Watch Energy TV
Misperception and Amplification of Climate Risk
DOE’s Press Release on Federal Building Energy Standards Is Inaccurate, Misleading, and Unserious
The myth of the great 'energy transition'
ESG Market in US Significantly Smaller Than Earlier Thought
Lack of standardized reporting, data are big ESG challenges for money managers
Net Zero Nincompoops Being Mugged by Energy Reality
Have Embarrassing Failed Predictions Taught Climate Scientists to be Cautious?
The ESG Counter-Revolution Has Arrived
The Death of Net-Zero? Nothing Like an Energy Crisis to Change Sentiment
EU Grids Put To The Test During Season’s First Major Cold Spell
U.S. scientists announce fusion energy breakthrough | LIVE
‘Deeply damaging mistake’: UK’s decision to approve a new coal mine criticized as misguided
U.S. energy envoy Hochstein calls investor hostility to shale drilling "un-American" -FT
Big Three Nets Ignore Vanguard Leaving Woke ‘Net Zero’ Alliance
Viewers Boycott Countryfile Show, Rip BBC For ‘Ultra Woke’ Just Stop Oil Report
Green Raw Deal: Climate Fanatism Has Put Us Full Throttle On The Highway To Hell
The Impossibility Of Bridging The "Last 10%" On The Way To "100% Clean Electricity"
Artic Blast Draws Down European Natural Gas Inventories
We’re Succeeding on Climate. We’ll Fail on Biodiversity
BlackRock Subpoenaed by Texas Senate Panel Over ESG Issues
Some Activists Are Leading an ESG Backlash
Ipsos: Climate Skepticism Rising Three Years in a Row
Al Gore Slams Vanguard After Defection From Climate Group
Solar's Lofty Ambitions Are Consuming Ever-Larger Expanses of Land Down Below
Climate Hypocrite Kerry Says Americans Should Pay Carbon Reparations
Addressing Climate Change Will Not “Save the Planet”
Common Ground’ on ESG? Only Bad Wins
First UK coal mine in decades approved despite climate concerns
Well-Funded Climate Activists Waging Psychological Warfare On The Public
Transient Climate Response from observations 1979-2022
Emerging U.S. Industrial Security Policy Must Tap America’s Core Strengths
BUMPS IN THE ENERGY TRANSITION
Attack on North Carolina substation spotlights electric grid’s vulnerability — again
Welcome to the New Era of Environmental Colonialism | Opinion
Who gets to keep burning fossil fuels as the planet heats up?
Switzerland preps to ban use of electric vehicles in case of energy shortage
Germany Bans Farmers from Fertilising Own Land to Serve EU ‘Green Agenda’
Biden, Macron vow unity against Russia, discuss trade row
The disturbing links between climate change and modern-day slavery
Tennessee Valley Authority recommends natural gas plant despite objections
Economic Realities Dash Biden’s Offshore Wind Plans
The Manhattan Contrarian Energy Storage Paper Has Arrived!
Train Your Brain’ on Climate Change? (debate, don’t assume)
Germany Forcing Farmers To Use LESS Fertilizer To Satisfy EU’s Green Agenda
Green Energy Cabal Blind to Africa’s Medical Horror Show
The Tories’ Wind Power Delusion–Matt Ridley
Boy Atop the World’s Tallest Building
Siemens Power CEO Confirms the Iron Law of Power Density
Zuni Mysticism and the Continental Divide
White House Proposes Environmental Rule That Would Impact Government Contractors
Worldwide Record Cold Challenges Climate Rhetoric, Risks Lives By Complacency
Mother Jones and Lewis Hine: Child Labor Activists
A DAILY DOSE OF HISTORY (11/30): Mary Jones was 30 years old
Don't Be So Sure That The Climate Extremists Have "Won"
'Necessary evil': France refires coal plant amid energy woes
Unreliable Energy Forcing Brits To Live On A Knife Edge This Winter
EU climate plan sacrifices carbon storage and biodiversity for bioenergy
ESG Regulatory Divide Poses Challenges for Asset Managers
After just 13 years in operation, Willmar wind turbines reaching the end of their useful life
Netherlands to buy out and close 3,000 farms to meet climate goals
Chicken Little Propaganda Dressed As Science Permeates New Climate Report
West Virginia v. EPA is Wrong But Not a Calamity
Swedish activists sue state over its climate policies
The Next U.S. Energy Revolution Is Here. These Companies Will Benefit.
ESG disclosures: The red flags investors look for
Indur Goklany: “No Empirical Evidence that Anything Bad is Happening B/C of Climate Change”
The Science for Determining Climate-Change Damage Is Unsettled
COP-27: A Window Into How The UN Keeps The Poor Poor
As Africa becomes an imperative, investors must discard outdated risk perception
Young people just got a louder voice on climate change
SEC Charges Goldman Sachs for Not Following ESG Investment Policies
EACOP out of line with IFC standards, Kenyan insurer withdrawal suggests
George Soros Announces China Must Lead The New World Order
Climategate 2.0: EPA’s New Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases Report
Bloomberg: Companies Greenwashing Their Image Using “Bogus” Carbon Credits
Inflation’s next victim: U.S. offshore wind projects
COP-27 financiers and merchants of death
President Biden Takes to the World
As Green Policies Cause Energy Prices To Explode, Deforestation In Europe Accelerates
Zuni Mysticism and the Continental Divide
U.S. rejects funding to re-open Michigan nuclear plant -Holtec
Wrong Again: Al Gore Nobel Lecture Edition
COP27 Fail: John Kerry MIA as Delegates Demand the USA Pay for “Loss and Damage”
COP27 communications group slams work for fossil fuel industry
Sam Bankman-Fried Becomes an ESG Truth-Teller
Climate Scaremongers: Public Wants Action On Climate, Don’t Want To Pay For It
Background information on my activism
Eyes Wide Shut: Media Blind To Facts As The Climate Circus Rolls On
John Kerry Slammed For Vowing To Use ‘Covid Template’ To Fight Climate Change
COP27: Who Voted For Wealth Redistribution To Save The Planet?
Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, new study finds
Strategic Political Thinking By New York Democrats
Not Beyond Coal: Despite Latest IEA Report, China and India Are Building More Coal Plants
Lewis Hine is surely one of my heroes
This Former BlackRock Executive Says ESG Investment Model Is Broken
US, EU Refuse To Pay Climate Reparations Over Fears Of Endless ‘Loss’ Demands
Germany inaugurates first new LNG terminal
Library of Congress Awards Bobbitt Poetry Prizes to Rita Dove and Heid E. Erdrich
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Under Biden, Federal Agencies Have Become Climate Activists
ESG: The Merger of State and Corporate Power
John Kerry Says Climate Strategy 'Modelled' on Covid Vaccine Rollout
How The Left Views Administrative Law: A Highlight From The Federalist Society Convention
A single, devastating California fire season wiped out years of efforts to cut emissions
Green Fail: British Consumers Paying £1 billion per year for Wind Energy which Cannot be Used
Gabon Targets a Huge Payday With Carbon Credits
California imported crude oil ranks as a major emissions generator
Inside agencies, ‘it changes everything’ when Congress flips
Energy Transition Impossible Without Oil, Natural Gas, Execs Say
Al Gore, Google Back Satellite Tracking Of Individual CO2 Emitters
As SEC works to finalize climate rule, both sides make their case
Manchin Delivers Another Gut Punch To Biden’s Radical Climate Agenda
Biden EPA Caught Colluding with Dark Money Eco Groups
The Alarmist Claims Of Climate Doom Are Missing One Thing: Evidence
It’s all ‘Blood and Gore’ until somebody loses a fortune
The Great ‘Global Warming’ Hoax Refuses To Die
Environmentalism Has Become A Creepy Bourgeois Cult
Biden’s Closing Argument: Higher Energy Prices
Vesta, the World’s Biggest Wind Turbine Maker, Will Have a Negative 5% Profit Margin in 2022
Survey: Healthy Skepticism Overcoming The Climate Fearmongers
Victims of the faux climate ‘crisis’. Part I: Children
No Guardrails for (from) Regulators
Europe May See Forced De-Industrialization As Result Of Energy Crisis
Just Stop Oil? If Oil Didn’t Exist, We’d Have to Invent It
“Independent Commission” SEC Coordinated with White House on ‘Climate Risk Disclosure’ Rule
TRUST AND CLIMATE CHANGE: FROM REPORTING TO RALLYING
The idea of “cooperative federalism” began with the New Deal in the 1930s
The Climate Scaremongers: UK Health Chief’s Nonsensical Claims Of Doom
Biden says coal plants 'all across America' will be shut down, replaced with wind and solar
Asset Managers Hit by More Bad News on Top-Ranked ESG Funds
Open Letter to Global Leaders assembled at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
Fossil fuel projects were stalled a year ago. Now they’re making a comeback.
How Investors Feel About ESG Initiatives
China, India, US, Australia Skipping COP27 Climate Leaders’ Summit
WSJ Editorial Board Mocks the COP27 Global Warming Flagellants
The climate ‘crisis’ isn’t what it used to be
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We Told Big Oil Not to Invest. Don’t Complain Now
It’s sinister and anti-human to stop growth
Good Climate-Change News Is Fit to Print
After Record Year, University-Endowment Returns Drop Into Negative Territory
EPA hangs regulatory ax over Basin
Whitmer’s Line 5 ‘no change’ claim is a lot of gas
Frackers Jockey With Potash Miners for Space to Grow in Top U.S. Oil Field
Bloomberg Launches Suite of Indices Tracking Green, Social & Sustainability Bonds
UK Trapped In The Green Energy Cul-de-Sac
Is inequality the new risk benchmark?
California set a record for greenhouse gas reductions in 2020, but it means nothing
ESG’s struggles are Big Tech’s problem
Steel Giant Shuts Down Plants in Germany, Sparking Energy Crisis Fears
“The Good, The Bad, And ESG Ugly” — The Crude Life"
Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels Consultation Paper
Farm Groups Rally Against SEC Proposal to Report Climate Data
Can’t tell the players without a scorecard: Sorting out ESG, impact and sustainability
Why companies struggle to make ESG commitments a reality
The Iron Law Of Electricity Strikes Again: Germany Re-Opens Five Lignite-Fired Power Plants
The U.S. ESG Movement May Need to Reboot After the Midterm Elections
Let’s Talk About REAL Climate Cataclysms
Bad Energy Policy Ideas Never Die
ROBERT ECCLES: “ESG IS FULLY POLITICIZED IN THE US”
Investors resist efforts to paint ESG as a political issue
A Typical Exchange with a Climate Alarmist/Forced Energy Transformationist
BlackRock settles in amid the ESG crossfire
UK Regulator Targets Greenwashing with New Sustainable Investment Labels and Disclosure Rules
Learning All the Wrong Lessons From America’s Energy Crisis
Expensive Energy Is a Core Feature, Not a Bug, of Biden’s Climate Agenda
VA Joins 18 Other States Investigating 6 Big Banks’ Unfair ESG Practices
WINTER IS COMING: NEW ENGLAND’S LONGTIME NATURAL GAS SUPPLY ISSUES COULD BE EVEN WORSE THIS YEAR
Climate Change Is All About the Money, But for Whom?
What Does REDD+ Mean? Everything You Need to Know
Climate Misinformation Yields Big Lie on What Is Dangerous
The ‘Great Reset’ Is Very Real And A Grave Threat To Democracy
A single, devastating California fire season wiped out years of efforts to cut emissions
The long fight against climate change deniers
Wood Theft Skyrocketing As Germans Try To Keep Warm; Firewood Tracked By GPS
One year of wildfires undid decades of California’s emissions policy
AGs Investigating U.S. Banks For Using ESG To ‘Starve’ Companies Of Capital
The Insurance industry is turning its back on oil, gas and coal
No, Politico Europe, Vladimir Putin Is Not Making Europe “Green”
AGs Investigating U.S. Banks For Using ESG To ‘Starve’ Companies Of Capital
Why ESG Funds Fail, and How They Could Succeed
Germany keeping all three nuclear power plants operative
Harvard Endowment Lost $2.3B Last Year Due to ESG Investing
Some Banks And Energy Companies Finally Starting To Get Some Backbone
Which countries have put a price on carbon?
Cow burps to be taxed under ‘world first’ proposals by New Zealand
Legal Action Challenges EU’s ‘Sustainable’ Label for Fossil Gas
Permitting: America’s next big climate conundrum
ESG Is About Sustainable Returns for Investors
EPA expresses concern over 'likely significant impacts' of Line 5 tunnel in new report
Groups mobilize members to get pro-environment candidates elected
The Quagmire of Climate-Change Diplomacy
Going To Court Over The ‘Science’ Of Global Warming
White House releases Biden’s national security strategy
New Zealand angers its farmers by proposing taxing cow burps
Placing The Blame For Europe's Energy And Economic Crisis
Flush with cash, EPA could toughen methane rules
Hurricane hype, lies, censorship – and reality
To Avoid Climate Disaster, One Task Is More Urgent Than Anything Else
The False Promise of Corporate Carbon Neutrality
A Simple Cost/Benefit: Good Sanitation and Medical Care for Countries That Use it.
Germany Finally Says the F-Word: ‘Fracking
The NRDC Gang Is Funding Shapiro and Doing China’s Dirt
Louisiana Divesting $794 Million from BlackRock to “Protect” Funds from ESG Investing
Why Do Eco-Activists Think Polluting The Planet Will Somehow Save It?
Justifying Climate Corporatism
Bloomberg and NewsBusters Show ESG Is Neither Virtuous Nor Profitable
Fund Managers, Regulators Wrestle Over Plans to Tighten ESG Rules
Without Any Demonstration Project Or Feasibility Study
The Coming Green Electricity Nightmare
”The Song of Wandering Aengus”
EPA Never Equipped for WOTUS Management
It’s Alive, It’s Alive: Overreaching EPA Brings WOTUS Back from the Dead
ESG and the ‘Long-Run Interests’ Dodge
Green Policies, Russian War Forcing Europeans To Burn More Trees For Energy
Bloomberg Columnist Smacks ‘Apostles’ Of Woke ESG Movement
Fossil Fuels Aren’t Just Reliable: They’re Green As Could Be!
ESG Threat Goes Beyond BlackRock
Abstract Facts about Great Lakes
Canadian climate scientist Dr. Tim Ball passed away on Saturday, September 24.
BlackRock: Just Another Name for A Dirty Cartel?
A Gore-Kerry Political Climate Hit
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY: FEDERAL PERMITTING REFORM
Barbados Prime Minister Mottley calls for overhaul of unfair, outdated global finance system
New Zealand Prime Minister Calls for a Global Censorship System
World Bank president says he will not resign, apologizes for remarks on climate science
NASDAQ: “ Tackling ESG for the Future”
ESG, Extreme Shortages Guaranteed, Is Pure Insanity!
Biden’s America Is Running on Empty
World Bank Leader, Accused of Climate Denial, Offers a New Response
Inside Big Greens’ Legal War To Dismantle Oil And Gas Leasing
England’s Fracking Ban Lifted In Bid For Energy Independence
ESG Can’t Square With Fiduciary Duty
Rockefeller Foundation Bankrolls NPR ‘Climate Hysteria’ News Desk
Big Oil vs The World”: BBC Exposé Fails (Episode II)
Kigali climate treaty clears Senate hurdle
Don’t Believe the Hype About Antarctica’s Melting Glaciers
Paul Driessen: “Semi-fascism versus full-fascism”
Europe Is Losing the Energy War Here’s how the continent can fight back.
First Amendment Records an Important Affirmation in Texas.
Movement to defund fossil fuels is coming for the private equity industry
Report: The Earth Has A Changing Climate, Not A Climate Crisis
Checkbook Journalism Bedevil Climate Reporting
Climate czar John Kerry warns Africa not to rely on natural gas to bring power to millions
Science Should Repay the World, if They are Wrong
Norway is Facing Uncertain Winter
ESG demand will force structure shift among audit firms, experts say
Swiss Police Investigate Fake Ad Campaign on Energy Wasting
In Switzerland, Heating Rooms Above 19C May Be Legally Punishable
Full Employment for Deal Makers Who Focus on Energy Transition
Climate Emergency Not Supported by Data, Leading Italian Scientists Say
The SEC Can’t Transform Itself Into a Climate-Change Enforcer
Full Employment for the Legal System
Full Employment for the ESG System
Full Employment for the Legal System
Climate Cultists Are ‘On A Gravy Train’ To Make Money
A big win for nuclear: Palisades plant may reopen in Michigan
ESG Does Neither Much Good nor Very Well
“Denialism” is Embarrassing Usage by Political Scientists
Don’t confuse ESG with being green’
Cow mask designed to reduce methane
Washington, DC: Is Virtue Signally Wise in an Energy Crisis
Dare We Trust Another Fossil Fuel Report?
Francis Menton challenges California and New York
White House: Ranchers Reducing Cattle Farts Will Help Lower Meat Prices
What is the Proper Role of the International Monetary Fund?
The EU Will Now Have Control of any Crisis
Is the U.S. Treasury Over-Politicizing Our Economy?
The temptation of Carbon Offsets, Cap and Trade, Carbon Tax and ESG for gaming and/or fraud.
Full Employment and the Inflation Reduction Act
California Blackouts and the Gold River Mine Disaster
Michael Bloomberg and the ESG Debate
EU and the Beast of the East Revisited
Three Myths by Fatih Birol about Global Energy Fantasy
William Butler Yeats’ London Years Honored
Paul Driessen Contests FERC’s Legal Justification for Overreach
Another Chance for a National Debate on Fracking
The Power Hungry Podcast with Scott Tinker
Wall Street Wrestles with ESG Values By Stuart Kirk
An Army of Federal Censorship Bureaucrats
A Radical Plan for Humanity Means Electricity for Everybody
The Gold King Mine Disaster Cost Gina McCarthy And EPA Big Time
When Will Carbon Offsets Become Wall Street Legal?
ESG: Conflict of Interests, Shared Control, and Antitrust Issues Threaten Economy and Investors.
A Federal Study to Quantify Carbon Reduction from Offsets
Today’s Climate Change Wild Conjecture and One-Eyed Reporting
Shell CEO Predicts EU Life Will Be “Very Hard” and Years Long
6 Texas Agencies Fight Back Against Companies Promoting ESG
It’s Getting Harder and Harder for Universities to be Balanced and Credible
New Mark Mills Report Discusses Energy and the Cloud
When Will Legal Warfare Stop Being So Profitable?
Saving the Planet is Existentially Expensive to the Poor
ESG is Starting to Lose the Beauty Contest
The Marriage of Green Agencies and Academia
The Idea of 100 Percent Renewable Energy Is Once Again Having a Moment
The Rehabilitation of DDT’s Worth
ESG and the Tales of the Major/Green Media
How the IRS Should Spend Its $80 Billion Windfall
“Green Energy Utopia” Doesn’t Create Capital for Future Investments
BlackRock Doesn’t Dialogue on Energy Issues
Facebook Restriction Because of Poem
The SEC Continues Financial Overreach
ESG Derivatives: Will They Provide Liquidity?
Global Migrations in the Climate Damn
German Electricity Prices Spiraling Out Of Control…Tripling Since 2000…
Farmers of the World Unite Against Emissions Hegemony!
BlackRock Pushes Back against SEC’s ESG Proposal
Dark Money and its Energy Mischief
Practicing Balanced ESG Journalism
Predicting Our Energy Future is a Risky Business
ESG Derivatives: Will They Provide Liquidity?
ESGs Are Works of Fiction Without International Rules and Accounting Protocol
Discovering the Rhetoric of Energy/Environmental Reporting
Questions about fiduciary responsibility and international accounting standards?
A Real Life Analysis of Combined Carbon and Storage
John Kerry has many environmental activists on his staff
Patrick Moore violates LinkedIn’s Professional Community Standards
Another “Fat-Headed” Study is Obese with Grant Money and Anti-Intellectualism
The Financial Problems with Current ESG
Wanted: Global Leadership with Sound Economics for all 8 Billion people
Civil Discourse is Making a Comeback.
Global Financial Confusion: Where are the ESG Gold Standards?
More Renewables for the European Union
Guyana Has Aggressive Offshore Drilling Plans
New Zealand Takes Aim at Family Community
Netherlands Farmers Being Destroyed By Their Own
Enlightened Climate Self-Interest
Federalism Needs to Develop Some Humility
Why Is New York City Still Using Number 6 Oil in northern NYC and Harlem?
Double Materiality is Full Employment from Hell
ESG has left out the importance of energy efficiency almost entirely.
The Rumors of Great Barrier Reef Death are Greatly Exaggerated