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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0TILAK DOSHI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An article I wrote for Forbes<\/em> about J.D. Vance published on July 18th began as follows: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Within a day of ex-President Trump\u2019s announcement of \u201cclimate denier\u201d Mr. J. D. Vance as the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, the climate industrial complex and supportive mainstream media had the knives out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Little did I know that within a day of publishing that article, the knives would come out for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The editors of Forbes<\/em> deleted my article, stating that \u201cwe had to take down your latest Forbes<\/em> article about J.D. Vance because it did not meet our editorial guidelines which we take seriously\u201d. This was followed by a short note stating that I was sacked as a contributor. Similar complaints of not abiding by the magazine\u2019s guidelines were made by an editor on a couple of previous published articles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What editorial guidelines? \u201cAvoid advocacy, opinion, polemic and rumour-mongering.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have yet to read any Forbes<\/em> piece that avoided opinion, given that Forbes<\/em> contributors are opinion columnists and not journalists who are hired to merely report the news. The contributor\u2019s role, one would have thought, is to offer opinions and advocate certain lines of argument about current affairs or topics of interest based on a reasonable reading of verifiable data. Otherwise, what is the contributor\u2019s purpose? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But here is the catch. It depends on whether you are \u201con message\u201d. Are you with or against the accepted narratives? If against, you are cancelled. That is how the establishment operates \u2013 within Forbes<\/em> and in the mainstream media \u2013 as I found out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAvoid Advocacy\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Here is the lead paragraph of a recent article<\/a> in Forbes<\/em> entitled \u201cGOP Platform: Back To The Carbon Age\u201d in the weekly column \u201cCurrent Climate\u201d by two \u201cForbes<\/em> Senior Editors\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ahead of the Republican Party\u2019s National Convention that kicks off today in Milwaukee, the GOP released its official platform of key priorities for a second potential Trump Administration. As with any such political document, it\u2019s long on platitudes and slogans, but very short on detail. But there\u2019s at least one clear takeaway in the document: it prioritises increasing energy from fossil fuels while ignoring the carbon-fuelled climate crisis that\u2019s triggered record-setting heatwaves and earlier and more intense hurricanes. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The authors assert that the GOP official platform \u201cprioritises increasing energy from fossil fuels while ignoring the carbon-fuelled climate crisis\u201d. They further claim that the \u201ccarbon-fuelled climate crisis\u201d has \u201ctriggered record-setting heatwaves and earlier and more intense hurricanes\u201d. By these leading statements, the reader is led to believe that both constitute \u201csettled science\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is another example of writing from another recently published Forbes<\/em> article<\/a> that allegedly does not constitute advocacy or opinion: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imagine not being able to get the warning about the approaching hurricane or tornado. How would you know when to evacuate to stay safe or board up your home or business? Or make sure your staff is protected? It\u2019s not a bad dream, it could be the reality if Donald Trump takes office again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

My suggestion that the policy positions of J.D. Vance in support of fossil fuels and sceptical of climate alarmist claims are consistent with the verities of physics and economics got me cancelled. But arguing that if Donald Trump takes over, it would be \u201ca bad dream\u201d is perfectly fine in a Forbes<\/em> world allegedly devoid of advocacy or opinion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Settled Science<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

To suggest that fossil fuels have \u201cfuelled the climate crisis\u201d is, we are led to believe, neither an opinion nor advocacy. Forbes\u2019<\/em>s readers are told to accept \u201cthe carbon-fuelled climate crisis\u201d as established science, though it is nothing of the sort. There is no \u201csettled science<\/a>\u201d \u2013 an oxymoron<\/a> to begin with \u2013 regarding climate change. It is apparent that Forbes<\/em> would have cancelled John Clauser, a Nobel Laureate, for Physics in 2022 \u2013 like the IMF did<\/a> \u2013 since he does not give obeisance at the altar of climate change as Forbes<\/em> staff evidently do along with their preferred contributors and senior editors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, if Dr. Clauser were to write<\/a>, as he did, that the climate emergency narrative is \u201ca dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world\u2019s economy and the well-being of billions of people\u201d, he would have received a termination letter pronto<\/em> from the senior editors of Forbes<\/em>. And if he had said, as he did, that \u201cclimate science has metastasised into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience\u201d, that would certainly have sealed his fate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Forbes <\/em>editors seem oblivious to the fact that the latest IPCC assessment report, by finding little support for the much-proclaimed link between climate change and extreme weather events, \u201cis badly out of step with today\u2019s apocalyptic zeitgeist\u201d as Roger Pielke Jr<\/a>. puts it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is even more remarkable is that Forbes\u2019<\/em>s senior editors seem out of step with their own Editor-in-Chief and grandson of the magazine\u2019s founder, Steve Forbes. Mr. Forbes said in his column<\/a> last month that some $6 trillion had been spent on \u201cso-called renewables\u201d such as solar and wind over the past two decades which \u201cbarely made a dent\u201d in the use of fossil fuels in the global economy. Yet in the linked Forbes<\/em> article<\/a> above, the authors criticise the GOP platform for not making specific references to solar and wind (along with geothermal and hydropower). Perhaps they should have checked with their own Editor-in-Chief before indulging in \u201cclimate groupthink<\/a>\u201d, which Mr. Forbes warns his readers against.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Au Revoir<\/em> Forbes<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

My first Forbes<\/em> article was published more than five years ago in April 2019 entitled \u2018The World Bank\u2019s Misguided Green Energy Policies To Persist\u2019. Since then, I have published a range of pieces on climate, energy and public policy. Readers often remarked in personal comments to me that they found it surprising that a mainstream business magazine such as Forbes<\/em> allowed such contrarian and sceptical writing to be published. My response was to say that Forbes<\/em> was exceptional in providing a broad range of informed opinion to their readers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alas, that is no longer true, and climate groupthink has captured yet another media outlet. Newer hires at the Forbes <\/em>editorial office from a younger more \u201cwoke\u201d generation of journalists may well have tipped the balance in support of the climate alarmist narrative. Gone are the days when informed analysts such as Roger Pielke Jr<\/a>., Michael Schellenberger<\/a>, Diana Furchtgott-Roth<\/a> graced the pages of Forbes. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Tilak K. Doshi is an energy consultant, member of the CO2 Coalition<\/a> and an ex-<\/em>Forbes contributor.<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is the article that Forbes memory-holed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s VP Pick Is A Climate Sceptic And the Knives Are Out<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By Tilak Doshi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within a day of ex-President Trump\u2019s announcement of \u201cclimate denier\u201d Mr. J. D. Vance as the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, the climate industrial complex<\/a> and supportive mainstream media had the knives out. A few headlines of the past 24 hours are an indication:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/em><\/a> \u2013 \u201cJ.D. Vance Is an Oil Booster and Doubter of Human-Caused Climate Change\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Independent<\/em><\/a> \u2013 J.D. Vance: \u201cClimate Activists Alarmed by Trump\u2019s \u2018Dangerous\u2019 Pick for Vice President\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guardian<\/em><\/a> \u2013 \u201cClimate Advocates Fear Picking J.D. Vance for VP Is \u2018A Dangerous Step Backward\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The umbrage taken by media commentators is familiar. CNBC<\/a> laments that \u201cthe former venture capitalist though<\/em> is a known critic of climate change and renewable energy [italics added].\u201d U.K.\u2019s the Independent <\/em>newspaper reports that \u201c[c]ampaigners are responding with alarm to the selection of climate denier and Ohio senator J.D. Vance as Donald Trump\u2019s Vice Presidential nominee, with activists warning he represents a \u201cdangerous\u201d voice for the U.S.\u201d Mr. Vance\u2019s \u201ceagerness to please Donald Trump\u201d adds to the image of the Vice-Presidential nominee as an unprincipled politician seeking office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate advocacy group Fossil Free Media spokesperson Cassidy DiPaola asserted<\/a> that \u201cThis [VP] choice signals that a potential Trump-Vance administration would likely double down on fossil fuel expansion at a time when we desperately need to transition to clean energy.\u201d Communications Director Stevie O\u2019Hanlon of Sunrise Movement, a climate activist organisation, said<\/a> that \u201cLike Donald Trump, J.D. Vance has proven that he will make it a top priority to roll back climate protections while answering to the demands of oil and gas CEOs.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does Mr. Vance have a principled stand and is his stance on climate and energy policy worthy of consideration?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate Denialism <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As the highly polarised debate over climate change over the past few decades has amply demonstrated, the discourse often descends into ad hominem<\/em> attacks and name calling. \u201cClimate denier\u201d is a charge that is often used by proponents of climate alarm to shut down critical debate and to deplatform climate sceptics. Lena Moffitt, Executive Director of the environmental advocacy group Evergreen Action, said<\/a> this of Mr. Vance: \u201cDonald Trump has chosen an avowed climate denier as his running mate who has used his time in Congress to vote against the environment and shill for fossil fuel corporations at every opportunity.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cdenier\u201d accusation is among the more pernicious if popular epithets<\/a> used to denigrate sceptics of the so-called \u201cconsensus science<\/a>\u201d. It invokes a comparison to those who engage in Holocaust denial. To be sure, most observers would consider it ludicrous to suggest that questioning the accuracy and predictive power of scientific models is like questioning the historical fact of the genocide of Jews in Europe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Is Mr. Vance\u2019s Position on Climate?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Putting aside epithets and journalistic hit-pieces, it seems a fair question to ask just what do politicians sceptical of the climate alarmist narrative believe? And what are their policy positions regarding the Paris Agreement\u2019s \u201cNet Zero by 2050\u201d target? This policy target is an imperative, at least nominally, for most current governments in North America and Western Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Vance<\/a> \u2013 lawyer, businessman, former Marine and writer of the bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy<\/em>, arisen from the humblest working-class background \u2013 places himself firmly in the populist Right movement<\/a>. It now looks very likely that Mr. Trump will be the next U.S. President. The assassination attempt on Saturday, his miraculous split-second turn of the head which saved him and the iconic picture of his raised fist with the U.S. flag in the background seconds after being injured make him almost irresistible. Thus Mr. Vance will likely join the Donald Trump next year as his VP in an administration that will seek to rapidly unwind the myriad policy and regulatory constraints<\/a> that the Biden administration has imposed to shackle the U.S. oil and gas industry at every turn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance has also criticised the \u201cgreen energy fantasy<\/a>\u201d of the Biden administration, pointing out that \u201csolar panels can\u2019t power a modern manufacturing economy\u201d and \u201cthat\u2019s why the Chinese are building coal power plants\u201d. He has similarly called out wind power turbines. At the Turning Point Action conference last year<\/a>, he said \u201cthey\u2019re hideously ugly. They kill all the birds. And they\u2019re mostly made in China.\u201d The Biden administration\u2019s all-out support for EVs comes in for the same critique. In a July 2022 radio interview, he said<\/a>: \u201cThe whole EV thing is a scam. If you plug it into your wall, do these people think there are Keebler elves back there making electricity in the wall? It comes, of course, from fossil fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Vance\u2019s climate scepticism goes beyond encouraging U.S. oil and gas dominance in global markets once again \u2013 a strong theme of Trump\u2019s first term in office \u2013 if the Republicans get elected to office. He has come out fiercely against the ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) movement. In an interview<\/a> with Breitbart<\/em> in 2022, he said: \u201cESG is basically a massive racket to enrich Wall Street and enrich the financial sector of the country, at the expense of the industries that actually employ a lot of Ohio\u2019s workers for middle-class jobs.\u201d The push against ESG<\/a> occurring through the red states in the U.S. and the increasingly evident lack of success<\/a> of ESG-focused firms and investment advisors suggests that Mr. Vance has probably got a better finger on the pulse than his critics would care to admit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who\u2019s More Credible?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As a climate change sceptic, Mr. Vance stands in good company. For instance, the 2022 Nobel Laureate in Physics John Clauser exposed in a recent lecture<\/a> how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) models and analyses do not meet basic standards of scientific enquiry. IPCC models have been used as \u201cproof\u201d of scientific consensus by politicians and activists to support claims of a \u201cclimate crisis\u201d. Another example would be Richard Lindzen, an American atmospheric physicist and Emeritus Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who published an assessment of the global warming narrative<\/a> in 2022. Prof. Lindzen finds climate alarmism \u201ca quasi-religious movement predicated on an absurd \u2018scientific\u2019 narrative. The policies invoked on behalf of this movement have led to the U.S. hobbling its energy system.\u201d Whatever one\u2019s views on climate science, it is apparent that Mr. Vance is not a wild-eyed outlier in his scepticism of the claims of climate policy advocates, as asserted by his many critics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

J.D. Vance\u2019s criticisms of subsidy-supported renewable energy and EV sectors accord with the empirical evidence emerging in the current context of higher inflation, higher interest rates and a deep slump in renewable energy stocks<\/a>. For instance, an Associated Press report<\/a> last November described the travails of the Biden administration\u2019s ambitious plans for offshore wind: \u201cThe cancellation of two large offshore wind projects in New Jersey is the latest in a series of setbacks for the nascent U.S. offshore wind industry, jeopardising the Biden administration\u2019s goals of powering 10 million homes from towering ocean-based turbines by 2030 and establishing a carbon-free electric grid five years later.\u201d This news was preceded by earlier reports of developers cancelling three offshore wind power projects in New England. They said their projects were \u201cno longer financially feasible\u201d despite the ample subsidies on offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The news on the EV front, called out as a \u201cscam\u201d by Mr. Vance, is just as dire for green technology enthusiasts. As David Blackmon, a keen observer of the renewable energy space, notes<\/a>: surveys show that the vast majority of U.S. car buyers will not purchase an EV even at \u201cbargain basement\u201d prices (and despite Government subsidies); the overall growth in private EV sales in the U.S. has slowed \u201cto a trickle\u201d, just as is happening in the U.K. and EU; and the market for used EVs is practically non-existent. \u201cPure play\u201d EV maker Fisker<\/a> recently declared bankruptcy while Rivian<\/a> approaches the same fate. Giant U.S. automakers GM and Ford<\/a> have turned to gasoline-powered vehicles to sustain their profits as the global EV sales slowdown force them to delay investments and cut costs in their EV production lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Partisans may criticise the man all they want, but the realities of thermodynamics and economics support J.D. Vance. He may prove to be the best Vice President in a Republican administration geared towards supporting the country\u2019s oil and gas industries and \u2018Making America Great Again\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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