Art Berman
We can all relax. Bill Gates has solved climate change. That should trigger every intuitive alarm our species has evolved. His message is that climate change is a serious problem…
A French court found TotalEnergies guilty last week of misleading investors about renewable energy. The oil and gas company was fined for “misleading commercial practices” — basically for telling the…
Some believe artificial intelligence is humanity’s path to utopia. Others fear it will help bring about our end—through nuclear war, ecological collapse, or machines that outgrow and discard us. I…
In 1858, Charles Darwin received a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace explaining that natural selection was the driving force behind evolution. Darwin later said it struck him like “a bolt…
Luke Kemp’s new book is great political theory built on an entertaining but unreliable version of human history. Goliath’s Curse is about humanity’s fall from grace. We were once egalitarian and nonviolent,…
The story of a big oil glut is based on some of the worst analysis I’ve seen in years. It’s pure groupthink, yet investors are acting on it—at their peril.…
Saying CO2 is good because it fertilizes plants is like saying high blood pressure is good because it makes you lose weight. Both can kill you. That’s how misguided a…
The surplus story most of us learned is straightforward. Once humans learned to farm, they grew more food than they needed. That extra food freed some people to build, rule,…
The Power of Siberia 2 isn’t really about natural gas. It’s about poking Trump in the eye on energy dominance. Moscow and Beijing know he’s obsessed with LNG and talks…
For more than two decades, governments, international agencies, and corporations have promoted the false hope of an “energy transition.” History shows otherwise. There are no examples of true transitions—only new…
On a flight to California last week, I read a review of two new books on the Renaissance that made me think differently about the times we live in. In Inventing…
Ted Nordhaus wants us to stop talking about climate catastrophe. He calls Amazon collapse, crossing tipping points, and weather shocks exaggerations. He acknowledges that the world is headed toward 3°C…