Manhattan Contrarian

* We’re coming up on three and a half years into the Biden presidency — a presidency which from the outset promised an “all of government” regulatory onslaught to force a transition away ...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-4-21-tracking-the-demise-of-the-us-green-energy-transition

* You are undoubtedly familiar with many efforts of the fascist left to use its control of government offices, bureaucracies, and other institutions to delegitimize and silence mainstream conserv...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-4-18-ever-more-audacious-efforts-to-suppress-mainstream-conservative-speech

* Let’s face it: Central planning of the economy hasn’t worked out so well in many places where it has been tried (e.g., Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, etc.). * But then, here in New York, ...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-4-15-new-york-shows-off-its-expertise-in-central-planning-the-buffalo-billion

* By its 2019 Climate Act, New York has officially embarked on a great energy transition to Net Zero by 2050, with statutorily-dictated interim mandates along the way. The first of those mandates...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-4-12-illustrating-the-absurdity-of-new-yorks-energy-transition

* When I first came upon it, I called it the “stupidest litigation in the country.” * In 2015 a group of adolescents, led on a leash by some activist environmental lawyers, had sued the feder...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-4-9-the-latest-on-international-efforts-to-save-the-planet-through-climate-litigation

* I doubt that there are any public schools in the country more completely under the thumb of the teachers unions and the radical Left than the New York City public schools. * With relentless adv...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-4-5-the-new-york-times-addresses-the-culture-war-in-new-york-city-public-schools

* Throughout the West, the cult of fossil fuel suppression presents itself as an orthodoxy from which no dissent is permitted. * In the U.S., there has been substantial and growing resistance to ...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-4-3-european-conservatives-how-has-fossil-fuel-suppression-worked-out-for-you

* I have written a long series of posts, now 32 in number, titled “The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time.” Go to this link if you want to read some or all of those posts. * The fraud in q...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-30-another-candidate-for-the-greatest-scientific-fraud-of-all-time

* Around the world today, lots of countries claim to be “democracies”; but then the state thugs use various ploys to assure that no opposition can ever prevail. Among such ploys, the tactic c...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-28-report-on-democracy-from-around-the-world

* The single biggest problem with the Left’s “climate” agenda is that the proposed response to the alleged crisis — replacement of fossil fuels in the energy system with intermittent wind...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-24-officialdom-responds-to-doubts-that-a-renewable-based-electricity-system-will-work

* Supposedly, there is a big energy transition going on. Throughout the West, countries have made ambitious pledges to reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions by specific percentages and by specifi...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-20-starting-to-notice-that-the-energy-transition-is-not-happening

* The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time is the fraud by which government functionaries alter data collected and previously reported in official data bases in order to support a narrative of i...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-18-the-greatest-scientific-fraud-of-all-time-part-xxxii-sea-level-rise-edition

* For those interested in why some countries become wealthy while others remain in extreme poverty, Haiti is one of the most important case studies. * Despite being only a few hundred miles from ...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-15-can-things-get-any-worse-in-haiti

* What is it about fossil fuels and the people who produce them that brings forth such uncontrolled hatred, anger, and vengefulness in a very large segment of the population? * I’ve been trying...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-11-the-mystery-of-the-uncontrolled-hatred-of-fossil-fuels

* For a number of years, I’ve been observing demands of activists and promises of politicians that we transition our electrical grid to being supplied mainly by the intermittent renewables, win...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-8-new-york-getting-totally-lost-with-energy-storage

* The energy implosion set in motion by New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act of 2019 (Climate Act) continues to unfold slowly. This week we have gotten a few more new data...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-5-new-data-points-in-new-yorks-unfolding-energy-implosion

* Two weeks ago, on February 16, in a case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, Justice Arthur Engoron of the New York State Supreme Court issued his decision ordering Donald Trump...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-3-2-new-york-attorney-general-makes-a-fool-of-the-governor

* In 2019, New York enacted a Climate Act, imposing on the citizens various legal mandates for greenhouse gas emissions reductions and net zero targets, the most immediate of which is a mandate o...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-2-28-new-york-strives-for-climate-justice

* Every year millions of people move from one country in the world to another with the intent to remain permanently in the destination country. * Generally such people then congregate in the dest...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-2-25-update-on-the-good-and-the-bad-settler-colonialists

* In a post earlier this week, daughter Jane (just returned from maternity leave) reviewed, and put in an enthusiastic plug, for the new Robert Bryce documentary series titled “Juice: Power, Po...

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2024-2-22-comment-on-the-robert-bryce-series-juice-power-politics-and-the-grid