Rupert Darwall, Author at CFACT

Standing up to Putin means ditching Net-Zero

You can’t win a geopolitical conflict lasting years or decades with an economy powered intermittently by wind turbines and solar panels.

By Rupert Darwall |2022-02-24T10:10:02-05:00February 24th, 2022|Comments Off

Report: Climate risk disclosure: A flimsy pretext for a Green power grab

Must businesses rely on climate computer models to assess risk and report the results?

By Rupert Darwall |2021-11-18T13:29:20-05:00November 18th, 2021|Comments Off

COP 26: After Glasgow, 1.5 is dead in the climate models – Get over it

If Boris Johnson and his ministers had done their homework, they would have known they were on a road to nowhere.

By Rupert Darwall |2021-11-15T08:38:03-05:00November 15th, 2021|Comments Off

COP 26: Net Zero and Green financial repression

Governments prefer to outsource the heavy lifting to the world of finance.

By Rupert Darwall |2023-02-23T10:48:50-05:00November 9th, 2021|Comments Off

Happy birthday, global warming: Climate change at 33

A year older than Alexander the Great when he died, climate change took less than one-third of a century to conquer the West.

By Rupert Darwall |2021-06-26T09:04:12-04:00June 26th, 2021|Comments Off

Decarbonization: It’s the demand side, stupid

The G7 finance ministers exposed the speciousness of the justification for mandating climate disclosure to protect investors by revealing the real reason for it.

By Rupert Darwall |2021-06-12T12:37:22-04:00June 13th, 2021|Comments Off

Review — Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, And Why It Matters, by Steven E. Koonin

The most unsettling part of “Unsettled” concerns science and the role of scientists.

By Rupert Darwall |2021-06-03T16:34:25-04:00June 6th, 2021|Comments Off

“ESG” investing: politics by other means

The Left is bypassing the voters and pushing its goals via environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing.

By Rupert Darwall |2021-05-18T13:27:05-04:00May 13th, 2021|Comments Off

The net-zero shell game and Joe Biden’s deceptions

Magician shows shell game of thimbles with circles and ball, black background. Concept deception, sleight hand.

By Rupert Darwall |2021-05-18T14:23:03-04:00May 10th, 2021|Comments Off

COP 25: The business of climate change

Companies want to speculate on and profit from carbon offsets. If they were serious about cutting emissions they'd reduce their emissions instead.

By CFACT Ed, Rupert Darwall |2019-12-16T01:25:57-05:00December 15th, 2019|Comments Off

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