Climate Hysteria Antidote at Fox News

A few days ago, Fox News carried an outstanding piece by energy advocate Alex Epstein titled "21 Lines to Get People to Think About Fossil Fuels in a Balanced Way."

The excellence starts with the title itself: A major problem with today's "climate" debate is that neither side is thinking effectively about fossil fuels.

Yes, Epstein appears to focus on tackling the arguments of the climate catastrophist side, but that is at least in part due to that side's possession of the momentum. I would say he at least equally addresses the problem that would-be fossil fuel proponents don't know how to move from defense to offense in the debate. His piece does this and makes it look easy to do so.

Epstein's central point comes early, and gets demonstrated every single time he pitches one of his pro-fossil fuel one-liners.

This point, in fact, comes in the opening three paragraphs:

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When evaluating what to do about a product or technology -- for example, a prescription drug -- we need to carefully weigh the benefits and side effects of our alternatives.

This is a commonsense principle that most people agree with, but few people follow when it comes to one particular technology: fossil fuels.

Instead, many people -- following the example of our media's favorite "experts" -- fixate on fossil fuels' negative climate side effects and ignore their enormous positives, e.g., the fact that oil-powered equipment and natural gas fertilizer are crucial to feeding 8 billion people.

The rest is equally compelling, and I think would likely to lead to more uptake of the outstanding Fossil Future, even if he didn't mention it at the end, which he does.

-- CAV