{"id":414125,"date":"2025-11-21T14:44:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414125"},"modified":"2025-11-21T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:44:31","slug":"japan-and-the-u-s-have-shed-the-paralysis-of-irrational-warmism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=414125","title":{"rendered":"Japan and the U.S. Have Shed the Paralysis of Irrational Warmism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From RealClearMarkets<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The U.S. and Japan are shedding the paralysis of irrational climate policies with a strategic pact covering rare-earth minerals, critical components for semiconductors and next-generation nuclear reactors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forged through the leadership of two no-nonsense politicians \u2013 President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi \u2013 the clear-eyed agreement abandons more than a decade of energy uncertainty that was marked by unpredictable supply chains, unrealistic net-zero pledges and overreliance on unreliable wind and solar energy. This rightly places energy and industrial strategy at the heart of protecting national sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facing the weaponization of supply chains by Beijing<\/a>, which controls over 90% of processed rare earths, America\u2019s deal with Japan<\/a> makes priorities of access to materials and technology, strategic resilience and economic growth and leverages an existing $550 billion investment package between the two countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a White House fact sheet, Japan and various Japanese companies will invest up to $332 billion in U.S. energy infrastructure, including nuclear reactors, plus up to $50 billion in power equipment through deals involving both U.S. and Japanese companies. Japan reportedly is to have increased access to U.S. markets for technology sales and favorable tariff treatment<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These investments are not for more bird-slicing wind turbines or desert-smothering solar panels, but for practical, reliable electric-generating capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. is to spend $75 billion on data-center infrastructure from three Japanese companies: Mitsubishi Electric, for supply power station systems and equipment; TDK Corp., advanced electronic power components; and Fujikura, Ltd., optical fiber cables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S.-Japan agreement also includes a multi-year deal valued at over $100 million between Global Coal Sales Group and Tohoku Electric Power for American thermal coal. This is a rational decision by an advanced industrial nation to secure affordable, reliable electricity for its people. Coal remains an indispensable energy source for nations that refuse to sacrifice economic growth at the altar of \u201cdecarbonization\u201d dogma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deal calls for a Japanese investment of up to $3 billion to construct an ammonia and urea fertilizer manufacturing facility in the United States and another $2 billion to construct a copper smelting and refining plant in the American West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other side of the Pacific, Japan will bolster energy supplies by importing 66 million metric tons of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) each year, making it the second-largest LNG buyer after China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Japan would be well served to add further to provisions of the deal \u2013 such as JERA Co.\u2019s $1.5 billion stake in natural gas assets in Louisiana’s Haynesville shale deposits and Tokyo Gas’s purchase of Alaska LNG \u2013 which help to replace strategically risky Russian supplies that account for 9% of Japan’s gas needs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for nuclear power, Japan’s political cowardice following the Fukushima disaster in 2011 has left it with only 14<\/a> of the country\u2019s 54 pre-accident nuclear reactors restarted. Japan needs to exorcise the Fukushima ghosts that have frozen policymakers for 14 years and reclaim its edge in a field now dominated by China, France, South Korea and Russia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately for Japan and others, America\u2019s Trump administration has bulldozed a path for vigorous development of resources by ditching the Paris Accord’s chains and axing funds for global climate polices that enforce energy poverty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S.-Japanese framework hammers home strategic resilience through partnerships with major firms like Mitsubishi and Toshiba embedding in American projects, engendering employment and trade and defying minimalist \u201cgreen\u201d delusions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both powers now stand armored against disruptions, their economies roaring on a bedrock of hydrocarbons and atomic might, proving that real strength comes from embracing what works, not cowering before fabricated crises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Washington and Tokyo have accomplished is more than a trade agreement. It is a declaration of independence from the climate catastrophism that has paralyzed rational policymaking for a generation. Other nations will follow. The tide is turning. Energy realism is ascendant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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