The Climate Change Debate Goes On
A “religious” war over anthropogenic global warming (or AGW) continues to rage in the United States and...

Obvious & Low-cost Responses to the Perceived...
In a world of economy-obliterating, freedom-destroying efforts to mitigate the alleged threat of climate change, there...

Eliminating the Plastic Garbage Threat
At various points in our history we’ve faced anthropogenic threats to the environment and we’ve responded with...

The Greens Face Growing Global Push-Back
Even as the Trump administration exits international climate agreements, rolls back Obama-era regulations and works to...


Climate Change 2019 – Science vs Propaganda
published on: Jan 15, 2019
Both the United Nations and the U.S. government recently released reports about climate change trends and their implications. What does the data...

Securing the Supply Chain of Strategic Minerals
published on: Dec 15, 2018
Recently, the U.S. Government classified 23 “mineral commodity groups” as critical based on the assessed likelihood of supply interruption and...

California Wages Environmental War Against the...
published on: Aug 15, 2018
As we explained in the May 2018 issue of Trends, the United States is now engaged in a de facto “civil war” between two economic systems built...

Environmentalism Jumps the Shark
published on: Sep 15, 2017
Now, increasingly deprived of the coercive power of government, the most strident advocates of the apocalyptic environmental movement are going into...

The New Green Revolution
published on: Jul 15, 2016
By far the biggest medium-term opportunity for AI, ubiquitous computing, and robotics to transform our lives and economy is the driverless...

The Climate-Industrial Complex Enters a New Era
published on: Jan 23, 2016
Low energy prices, a lack of technological game-changers, and a shift in the political climate are about to put the $15 trillion climate-industrial...

The Truth About a High-Carbon World
published on: Dec 19, 2015
In prior issues, the Trends editors have quantified the miniscule nature of the adverse impact of global warming over the next century and compared...

Challenging the Green Tyranny
published on: Sep 20, 2015
Even as the global economy embraces the opportunities created by the Deployment Phase of the Digital Techno-Economic Revolution, growth is staggering...

Dry California Whine
published on: Jun 23, 2015
California is suffering from another year of drought, which appears to be getting worse. It's affecting consumers, agriculture, and industry. How did...

Wizards, Prophets, and Other Wall Street Fairy...
published on: Jun 23, 2015
Is your email overflowing with urgent messages from "get-rich-quick wizards" or "prophets of doom"? It's amazing how many otherwise-smart people are...

Diamond Becomes the New Material of Choice
published on: Jan 17, 2015
For centuries, diamonds have been valued for ornamentation, as well as use in manufacturing applications where their hardness enables them to easily...

It’s a Big Fracking Deal
published on: Nov 17, 2014
Because of the enormous transformational implications built into the economics of the North American Energy Revolution, its promoters and opponents...

Linking Weather Events and Climate Change
published on: Jun 11, 2014
Twenty years ago, the Trends editors predicted that the economic case for the “climate change crisis” and related solutions championed by...

The Green Implosion
published on: Mar 22, 2014
Two of the biggest stories of the current decade are actually flip sides of the same story. On side one is the accelerating North American Energy...

Turning Environmental Trash Into Treasure
published on: Sep 11, 2013
In rough times like we've experienced since 2000, and especially since 2008, many want to say, "The system is not fair." That feeling is at the heart...

Managing the Global Water Crisis
published on: Apr 12, 2013
For over a decade, the Trends editors have been watching the global water crisis unfold. The supply-demand situation has been deteriorating in many...