News Round-Up
25 July 2025
Solar's cheerleaders continue to make extravagant claims for its "transformative" power. But the reality is solar remains propped up by subsidies, mired in practical challenges and far from 'clean', says Dr Tilak Doshi.
The US has declared that it will withdraw from the International Energy Agency if it fails to reform. The IEA faces oblivion if it won't abandon its Net Zero fantasies, says Dr Tilak Doshi.
Greens in Germany are demanding price controls on ice cream so poor kids can afford the treat made unaffordable by their own disastrous energy policies. You can't make this up, says Dr Tilak Doshi.
UK energy policy is run by economic illiterates. That's the only conclusion Dr Tilak Doshi can come to after Ed Miliband's deputy said there is "no material difference" between importing oil and drilling for it ourselves.
No, using less oil won't boost America's energy security – it'll make it poorer and beholden to communist China, says Tilak Doshi. How long until progressive 'experts' grasp this entry-level economics?
The Chairman of Aberdeen – the ESG-obsessed investment giant – has come out against "ridiculously extravagant claims" about "saving the world". The green finance revolution is dead, says Tilak Doshi.
Africa's renewable "leapfrogging" is a dangerous myth that ignores the continent's urgent need for reliable fossil-fuel energy to drive development, warns the Daily Sceptic's Energy Editor.
The treatment of one of our leading mathematicians over his evidence-based dissident views on climate and Covid would have Galileo spinning in his grave, says Tilak Doshi.
Trump had to appear to have imposed a ceasefire. Israel had to respond to Iran's breach. Iran had to save face. The events of the last 24 hours resemble a kabuki theatre of carefully choreographed roles, says Tilak Doshi.
Trump's executive order on 'Restoring Gold Standard Science' is overdue, says Dr Tilak Doshi. For too long in climate, medicine and other areas, captured regulators have put vested interests above the public interest.
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