Is Big Oil Overpromising and Underdelivering?
Fossil fuel industry’s claims about taking care of our growing clean electricity demand falls short, but boy, the industry is over-achieving in their production of GHG Big Oil’s clean…
Category: Snips of Passing Interests
Climate fiction, climate crisis, media critiques, and the business of culture are all subjects that I try to follow and I’m trying to develop the habit of noting particularly interesting pieces—articles, blogs, news—I come across
I’m Rubber, You’re Glue: Robert Bryce, Fossil Fuel Shill, is just one of the many attacking Bill McKibben and his latest book, Here Comes the Sun
Years back, when I was checking on my understanding of the renewable energy transition, and the claims and realities of the transition, I came across Robert Bryce. It was on…
New Atlantis is a Fossil Fuel Shill Factory
There I am, reviewing the daily Google News headlines, and there’s one titled “How Bill McKibben Lost the Plot,” and I guess this is Google News headline worthy because McKibben’s…
Listening to the Godheads: What Bill McKibben and Jamie Henn Didn’t Say on Volts
First, let me be clear: Bill McKibben is terrific, with a capital “T” and the following critique of a recent David Robert’s Volts Substack podcast is not changing this positive…
Seriously, More Conversation about Climate Fiction and Its Efficacy
Showing up in my email inbox this morning was a Substack from Climate Fiction Writers League, on July 15, 2025, by Kate Woodworth. The title: “Does Climate Writing Lead to…
Excitement in Politics: An Indictment of Boring
Matthew Yglesias’s Slow Boring Substack is always worth a read, but I often find myself disappointed by his basic sense of how in American politics progress is made, as if…
The Electrotech Manifesto
Once in a while a great presentation of key arguments for the renewable energy transition comes along. This is one of them and well worth reading. It isn’t that these…
It’s the cost of living, stupid: Critiquing Matthew Yglesias’s “Doubling down on climate won’t win the Senate”
I’m a fan of Andy Revkin and his balanced and informative substack, Sustain What, but I think he’s wrong in his recent substack, “Keep Your Climate Goals in Your Pocket…
If Trump Doesn’t Kill the Fight Against Climate Change, Then Maybe Capitalism Will
Just recently I wrote a post titled “The Truth Will Out” that carried the deck, “Trump’s Reactionary Stance on Clean Energy May be Little More than a Small Bump on…
The Truth Will Out
Trump’s Reactionary Stance on Clean Energy May be Little More than a Small Bump on the Road to Clean Energy Transition, because Fossil Fuels are Very Expensive Like vast numbers…