Climate & Energy
The Climate Conversation Is Broken
Everyone agrees the climate is changing. Nobody agrees on what to do about it — or whether what’s being proposed would work even if it were tried.
This section exists for the same reason the economics section does: to give you the handful of ideas that actually explain how energy, climate, and policy work, and to help you spot the bad arguments people use to confuse you.
You don’t need a science degree. You just need to be willing to ask: who pays, who decides, and what happens when it doesn’t work?
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The Nuclear Cost Myth → — US nuclear costs exploded because of policy choices, not technology. France and South Korea built cheaper. America chose to fail.
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Germany’s €600 Billion Lesson → — Germany spent a generation and a fortune on its energy transition. Its emissions stayed flat. Its electricity prices doubled. Something went wrong.
More articles coming soon.
The Nuclear Cost Myth: What America Chose
US nuclear costs exploded because of policy choices, not technology. France and South Korea built cheaper. America chose to fail.
By Max Weber
Germany's €600 Billion Lesson
Germany spent a generation and a fortune on its energy transition. Its emissions stayed flat. Its electricity prices doubled. Something went wrong.
By Max Weber
The Climate Bureaucracy, Part 1: Who Funds the IPCC and Why That Matters
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was never set up to ask whether climate change is happening. It was set up to confirm that it is.
By Max Weber