{"id":411973,"date":"2025-11-07T11:44:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=411973"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:44:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:44:56","slug":"green-obsession-feeds-orthodoxy-and-starves-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=411973","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Green\u2019 Obsession Feeds Orthodoxy and Starves Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Vijay Jayaraj<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate orthodoxy insists that the poorest nations, home to billions who still live in energy poverty, must power their rise from the edge of subsistence using expensive and unreliable solar and wind energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But a country desperately trying to build up industry, jobs and infrastructure, had best bet on power sources that can reliably deliver affordable and abundant electricity. Growth of power supply must match increase in demand. Factories, small enterprises, digital infrastructure \u2013 and more \u2013 need power that cannot be provided by so-called green sources. Reliance on wind turbines and solar panels only delays the economic development so badly needed by people struggling to get by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being dependent on weather and the time of day, wind and solar cannot produce electricity on demand. They require massive backup systems \u2014 either batteries or alternative generation, the last usually being fossil\u2011fuel based. Even at industrial scale, batteries can store electricity only for limited durations, making them insufficient to cover nighttime demand or prolonged periods of low wind or cloudy skies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Growth should not be rationed through blackout management or load\u2011shedding calendars. Coal and natural gas remain the primary energy backbone of the modern world because of their abundance and reliability. Countries that achieved economic prosperity \u2014 among them the United States, Germany, China, Japan, and South Korea \u2014 did so on the back of stable hydrocarbon-generated power. That formula remains valid today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modern coal power bears no resemblance to the soot\u2011belching plants of a century ago. Ultra\u2011supercritical systems operating at high pressures and temperatures throughout Asia achieve thermal efficiencies near 45% and slash local pollutants through advanced filtration. Clean\u2011tech coal has particulate capture, sulfur scrubbing and wastewater treatment \u2014 all proven technologies. Gas turbines, meanwhile, are quickly installed and provide flexible dispatch at competitive costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For developing nations, such power sources sustain economic momentum and environmental protection. Reliable electricity supports industrial processes, mechanized agriculture, the information age\u2019s data management and the refrigeration, air conditioning and technologies that ensure comfort and good health. The fixation on \u201cgreen\u201d energy disregards these imperatives of modern society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no place for climate ideologues when preparing for tens of millions of new electricity consumers, emerging industries and urbanization. Realism and practicality are necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the citizens of high\u2011income nations have become disillusioned. In Spain, consumers face the prospect of constrained power and sky\u2011high prices. Commentators now question whether Spain\u2019s reliance on weather\u2011based generation has left the grid dangerously exposed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BBC reported that Dutch households are being instructed to curb electricity use at peak hours because \u201cthe network is overloaded by the rush to wind and solar power.\u201d Despite being one of Europe\u2019s wealthiest countries with world\u2011class engineers, the Netherlands faces grid instability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dutch case should be a warning to poorer nations, especially those with urban expansion rates far higher than Europe\u2019s. If a country of 18\u202fmillion people cannot sustain an energy system dominated by renewables without decades of additional spending, the challenge for nations like Nigeria, Pakistan, or Bangladesh \u2014 each with over 200\u202fmillion inhabitants \u2014 becomes practically insurmountable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cgreen\u201d agenda is based on the fallacious hypothesis that emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), especially CO\u2082 from power generation, are driving global warming and must be eliminated. This is pseudoscience that is being challenged more widely with every passing year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Physicists William\u202fHapper and Richard\u202fLindzen recently shared their contrarian views on a Joe Rogan podcast<\/a> that drew more than a million views on YouTube alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They describe the popular assertion that CO2<\/sub> controls Earth\u2019s climate as \u201coutdated radiative theories of CO\u2082\u202fwarming.\u201d Their 2024\u202fpaper<\/a>, \u201cNet\u202fZero\u202fAverted\u202fTemperature\u202fIncrease,\u201d concludes that elimination of fossil fuel use would alter global temperature by less than 0.2\u202f\u00b0C \u2014 a margin within natural variability. Another analysis<\/a> debunks the core claim that industrial CO\u2082\u202femissions can catastrophically heat the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, developing nations are being asked to cripple their economies to avert a crisis that credible science shows to be vastly overstated. The CO\u2082\u202fCoalition\u2019s\u202fsummary report<\/a>, Effects\u202fof\u202fNet\u202fZero\u202fby\u202f2050<\/em>, underscores that such policies inflict serious human costs \u2014 job losses, inflation and stunted industrialization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the World Bank<\/a>, 675\u202fmillion people still lack electricity and another 450\u202fmillion suffer from unreliable power grids. None of them can be lifted from poverty without abundant, dispatchable electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America must stop giving into the \u201cgreen\u201d madness. They must reject lectures from Western climate scolds who climbed to heights of unprecedented wealth on stairs made of hydrocarbons and now seek to \u201ckick away the ladder\u201d from everyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This commentary was first published by American Greatness <\/em><\/a>on November 4, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vijay Jayaraj is a Science and Research Associate at the <\/em>CO2<\/sub> Coalition<\/em><\/a>, Fairfax, Virginia. He holds an M.S. in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia and a postgraduate degree in energy management from Robert Gordon University, both in the U.K., and a bachelor\u2019s in engineering from Anna University, India.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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