Hour 1: Gregory Wrightstone
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CLIMATE CHANGE ANALYST: Gregory Wrightstone, is a geologist and the Executive Director of the CO2 Coalition in Arlington Virginia, expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and best-selling author of “Inconvenient Facts.” He is also the bestselling author of A Very Convenient Warming: How modest warming and more CO2 are benefitting humanity.
By nearly every metric, Earth’s ecosystems are thriving, and the human condition is improving. This notion of a prospering planet is entirely contrary to the claims of a climate crisis and a looming disaster around every corner, as proclaimed by the Climate Industrial Complex. In this book, we explore these benefits and learn that we are feeding the planet’s growing population through expanded crop growth, that modest warming is saving lives and that extreme weather events are in decline. Sleep well. There is no climate crisis. 
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Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist (BS Waynesburg College and MS West Virginia Univ.), bestselling author of Inconvenient Facts and A Very Convenient Warming and an Expert Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR6).
Wrightstone has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers, publications and commentaries concerning climate change and energy. He is a popular guest for media outlets on television, radio and podcasts, having done more than 200 interviews in 2023 alone.
He had a 35-year career in the energy industry, focused primarily on the Appalachian Basin of the eastern United States, culminating in his role as a founding partner and VP of Exploration for Mountaineer Keystone.
Wrightstone is a strong proponent of the scientific process and often refers to a basic tenet of English law: Audiatur et altera pars or “Let both sides be fairly heard.”
Wrightstone has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers, publications and commentaries concerning climate change and energy. He is a popular guest for media outlets on television, radio and podcasts, having done more than 200 interviews in 2023 alone.
He had a 35-year career in the energy industry, focused primarily on the Appalachian Basin of the eastern United States, culminating in his role as a founding partner and VP of Exploration for Mountaineer Keystone.
- Four-time President of the Pittsburgh Association of Petroleum Geologists
- President of the Eastern Section AAPG
- Founder and President of the Pennsylvania Coalition for Responsible Government, a state-wide free market advocacy group.
- Co-founder of Pennsylvanians Against Common Core
Wrightstone is a strong proponent of the scientific process and often refers to a basic tenet of English law: Audiatur et altera pars or “Let both sides be fairly heard.”
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Learn about the enormous benefits that are accruing to humanity from modest warming and increasing carbon dioxide. By nearly every metric, Earth's ecosystems are thriving, and the human condition is improving. This notion of a prospering planet is entirely contrary to the claims of a climate crisis and looming disaster around every corner proclaimed by the Climate Industrial Complex.
In this book we will explore these benefits and learn that extreme weather events are not increasing, how we are feeding the planet's growing population through expanded crop growth and that modest warming is saving lives. This book, A Very Convenient Warming, is separated into three sections: The first section, titled Basic Climate Facts, is an expansion and update of Inconvenient Facts' exploration of data concerning temperature and carbon dioxide. In it, we look at both the very recent and very long-term changes in both. This review clearly exposes that claims of unusual and unprecedented warming are erroneous and that hysteria over increases in CO2 are unwarranted. We also take a close look at the relationship between CO2 and temperature and find nothing of concern. In the second section, Humanity and Climate: Blessed Warmth, Horrific Cold, we review the strong relationship between the histories of humanity and temperature. In it, we find that past warm periods were warmer than today and correlated to the rise of great empires and civilizations. These warmer times of plenty were called "climate optima" before the rampant politization of climate science. The corollary to this were the cold periods that were horrific. Each cooling period was related to crop failure, famine, pestilence and mass depopulation. History tells us that we should fear the cold and welcome the warmth. In the final section, Life Is Good, And Getting Better, you will learn that the various climate crises are, in fact, simply lies created to spread fear of a non-existent problem. In this section we explore the many benefits that are improving the human condition and leading to thriving ecosystems. My hope is that I have presented enough material in this book for you to confidently assess and evaluate the various claims made by the proponents of a climate crisis. Make up your own mind, for that is the scientific process. |
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You have been inundated with reports from media, governments, think tanks and ''experts'' saying that our climate is changing for the worse and it is our fault. Increases in droughts, heat waves, tornadoes and poison ivy - to name a few - are all blamed on our ''sins of emissions'' from burning fossil fuels and increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Yet, you don't quite buy into this human-caused climate apocalypse. You aren't sure about the details because you don't have all the facts and likely aren't a scientist. Inconvenient Facts was specifically created for you. Writing in plain English and providing easily understood charts and figures, Gregory Wrightstone presents the science to assess the basis of the threatened Thermageddon.
The book's 60 ''inconvenient facts'' come from government sources, peer-reviewed literature or scholarly works, set forth in a way that is lucid and entertaining. The information likely will challenge your current understanding of many apocalyptic predictions about our ever dynamic climate. You will learn that the planet is improving, not in spite of increasing CO2 and rising temperature, but because of it. The very framework of the climate-catastrophe argument will be confronted with scientific fact. Arm yourself with the truth. |
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Chloe the Clownfish Sleeps Well is a delightful read and brilliantly illustrated. Kids will readily identify with Chloe's concerns and confusion about the demise of the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Parents can appreciate Chloe's relief after learning simple scientific facts about the health of modern coral reefs.
Those scientific facts correct the doomsday misinformation that has been causing Chloe, and so many children worldwide, the needless anxiety of a false climate crisis. I promise Chloe the Clownfish will become a favorite bedtime story. In addition, a three-page postscript provides checkable facts for adults, so parents can also sleep well knowing their children are getting the best science possible. Enjoy! CO2 Coalition Executive Director Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist and bestselling author of Inconvenient Facts and A Very Convenient Warming, as well as an Expert Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR6). He has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers, publications and commentaries concerning climate change and energy and is a popular guest for media outlets on television, radio and podcasts. Mr. Wrightstone wrote Chloe the Clownfish Sleeps Well on behalf of the CO2 Coalition's CO2 Learning Center. The CO2 Learning Center team is composed of highly motivated scientists and climate experts concerned about the quality and state of science education in America. They promote the scientific method rather than indoctrination. Their backgrounds include physics, chemistry, geology and more. Most hold PhDs or advanced degrees in applied sciences and promote scientific thought over political agendas. |
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Hour 2: Ron Stein
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About our Guest Ron Stein
Ronald Stein, P.E., Energy Consultant on Energy Literacy, Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations”, policy advisor on energy literacy for The Heartland Institute, and The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, and National TV Commentator- Energy & Infrastructure with Rick Amato. Recent Energy Literacy Op Ed articles may be viewed at: https://www.americaoutloud.news/author/ronald-stein-p-e/ Ronald Stein, P.E. is an engineer, energy consultant, speaker, author of books and articles on energy, environmental policy, and human rights, and Founder of PTS Advance, a California based company. Ron advocates that energy literacy starts with the knowledge that renewable energy is only intermittent electricity generated from unreliable breezes and sunshine, as wind turbines and solar panels cannot manufacture anything for the 8 billion on this planet. A sampling of recent articles may be viewed at: https://www.americaoutloud.news/author/ronald-stein-p-e/ World leaders continue experiencing a “dangerous delusion” of a global transition to “just electricity” that that they believe will eliminate the use of the oil derivatives manufactured from raw crude oil that made society achieve so much in a few centuries. As most know, wind turbines and solar panels only generate occasional electricity, but manufacture nothing for humanity. The elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss is that crude oil is the foundation of our materialistic society as it is the basis of all products and fuels demanded by the 8 billion on this planet. It’s shocking that policymakers are oblivious to the reality that wind turbines and solar panels do different things than crude oil.
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Remove the crude oil, and you do not merely dim the lights. You dismantle society!
Wind turbines and solar panels only generate electricity — they cannot make anything.
Ronald Stein, P.E., is an engineer, columnist on energy literacy at America Out Loud NEWS, and advisor on energy literacy for the Heartland Institute and CFACT, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book “Clean Energy Exploitations.” He is also the recipient of an unsolicited Tribute to Ronald Stein from Stephen Heins.
Yoshihiro Muronaka, P.E. Jp is a chemical engineer who currently focuses on evaluating net-zero and decarbonization policies, advocating alternative energy concepts such as “carbon symbiosis,” and promoting balanced international energy cooperation.
Co-authored by Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka
Published June 29, 2026 in America Out Loud NEWS
https://www.americaoutloud.news/remove-the-crude-oil-and-you-do-not-merely-dim-the-lights-you-dismantle-society/
The Wrong Question
The zero-emissions debate asks when we can stop burning crude oil. The harder question — one that remains largely unasked — is what we propose to make things from once we do.
Electricity generated by wind and solar cannot be poured into a mold to produce a medical device, spread on a field as fertilizer, or refined into the lubricant that keeps the wind turbine itself from seizing.
More than 6,000 products and transportation fuels that underpin modern civilization are derived from crude oil as raw materials. Remove the crude oil and you do not merely dim the lights. You dismantle the material foundation of industrial society.
Wind turbines and solar panels generate electricity — but electricity alone cannot sustain modern civilization. Energy leaders rarely acknowledge what crude oil uniquely provides. Consider what it alone supplies:
Planes, ships, trucks, and factories run on products manufactured from crude oil by multi-billion-dollar refineries. These are not legacy inconveniences to be engineered away. They are the material foundation of modern life, and no amount of electricity from wind or solar can substitute for them.
Every Nation Runs on a Different Clock
Discussions of crude oil dependency are often built around American conditions, but the reality differs sharply by country. What a sudden supply disruption would mean depends on each nation's combination of four distinct capabilities: domestic reserves, extraction capacity, refining infrastructure, and petrochemical manufacturing. No two countries share the same profile.
The United States holds domestic production and refining capacity, yet even there the ongoing closure of California refineries illustrates how quickly regional infrastructure gaps translate into transportation fuel shortages. A state with abundant sunshine and aggressive renewable targets still depends entirely on petroleum-derived products for the functioning of its economy and the materials of daily life.
Today, with Hormuz transit severely disrupted by the Iran conflict, Japan is reportedly drawing down those reserves while simultaneously securing alternative crude oil supplies from producers outside the Middle East. No renewable electricity target can substitute for this scramble to secure the physical availability of crude oil and its derivatives.
Meanwhile, roughly 60 percent of the world's population — about five billion people — lives on less than ten dollars a day. These are not yet heavy consumers of petroleum products, but they aspire, as all people do, to reliable food, clean water, modern medicine, and durable shelter. At industrial scale, every one of those aspirations depends on petrochemical inputs. The developing world has not fully joined the petroleum economy, and the answer to that fact cannot be to deny them the materials that already-industrialized nations used freely in building their own prosperity.
Each country runs on a different clock. Some would feel a supply shock within days; others have buffers measured in months. But all clocks, without crude oil, eventually stop at the same place.
The Horizon That Keeps Moving
For half a century, the world has been told that oil will run out in roughly forty years. That warning was issued during the 1970s oil shocks. It was repeated throughout the 1990s and 2000s. It is still being issued today — and the number has barely moved.
The world currently holds approximately 1.77 trillion barrels of proved reserves, a reserves-to-production ratio of about 47 years at current consumption levels. Yet this ratio has remained near 40 to 50 years for decades, even as the world consumed tens of billions of barrels annually. Proved reserves are not a fixed inventory. They are a running calculation: as technology advances and economics shift, resources once considered unextractable migrate into the proved category. Shale oil, deep water fields, and enhanced recovery techniques have each added decades to the count. The horizon keeps moving because human ingenuity keeps moving it.
This does not mean oil is infinite. It means that treating the reserves-to-production ratio as a countdown timer misreads how resource development works. The evidence points to a simpler conclusion: the world has consistently found ways to extend access to this resource — and there is no sign this process has ended.
The Refinery: Civilization's Conversion Point
One element is consistently overlooked in the rush to count barrels: crude oil in its raw form is useless. No one fuels an aircraft with unprocessed crude. The black liquid from oil fields only becomes the fuels and feedstocks civilization depends on after passing through a petroleum refinery — one of the most capital-intensive and technically sophisticated facilities ever built, representing investments of several billion dollars and years of permitting and construction.
This is why the question of crude oil cannot be reduced to a question of emissions. The refinery is not merely a source of carbon dioxide. It is the conversion point between a raw natural resource and the material requirements of modern life. Policies that accelerate refinery closures — without any credible alternative for producing the same spectrum of products — are not cleaning the air. They are removing a linchpin.
Learning to Live with It Wisely
None of this is an argument for recklessness. Efficiency, cleaner processes, and reduced waste are goals entirely consistent with acknowledging crude oil's irreplaceable role as a raw material. What the evidence does not support is the proposition that oil can be eliminated from the human economy through mandates and deadlines without catastrophic disruption to the material foundations of civilization.
This 4-billion-year-old planet has provided humanity with an extraordinary endowment of resources. The appropriate response is not to declare that endowment a crisis and race to abandon it, but to use it responsibly, innovate continuously toward cleaner processes, and extend its benefits to the billions who have not yet had full access to them. The future will not be secured by banning carbon. It will be secured by learning to live with it wisely.
Please share this information with teachers, students, and friends to encourage Energy Literacy conversations at the family dinner table.
Click this Link to Sign up for Energy Literacy from Ronald Stein
Yoshihiro Muronaka, P.E. Jp is a chemical engineer who currently focuses on evaluating net-zero and decarbonization policies, advocating alternative energy concepts such as “carbon symbiosis,” and promoting balanced international energy cooperation.
Co-authored by Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka
Published June 29, 2026 in America Out Loud NEWS
https://www.americaoutloud.news/remove-the-crude-oil-and-you-do-not-merely-dim-the-lights-you-dismantle-society/
The Wrong Question
The zero-emissions debate asks when we can stop burning crude oil. The harder question — one that remains largely unasked — is what we propose to make things from once we do.
Electricity generated by wind and solar cannot be poured into a mold to produce a medical device, spread on a field as fertilizer, or refined into the lubricant that keeps the wind turbine itself from seizing.
More than 6,000 products and transportation fuels that underpin modern civilization are derived from crude oil as raw materials. Remove the crude oil and you do not merely dim the lights. You dismantle the material foundation of industrial society.
Wind turbines and solar panels generate electricity — but electricity alone cannot sustain modern civilization. Energy leaders rarely acknowledge what crude oil uniquely provides. Consider what it alone supplies:
- Jet fuel for military and commercial aviation — approximately 100,000 flights daily worldwide.
- Diesel for trucks, trains, ships, and construction equipment.
- Gasoline for approximately 1.6 billion vehicles on this planet.
- Bunker fuel for the roughly 100,000 merchant vessels that carry 90 percent of world trade.
- Feedstocks for fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, plastics, and synthetic fibers.
- Lubricants and hydraulic fluids for every category of machinery — including wind turbines and solar panel manufacturing equipment.
Planes, ships, trucks, and factories run on products manufactured from crude oil by multi-billion-dollar refineries. These are not legacy inconveniences to be engineered away. They are the material foundation of modern life, and no amount of electricity from wind or solar can substitute for them.
Every Nation Runs on a Different Clock
Discussions of crude oil dependency are often built around American conditions, but the reality differs sharply by country. What a sudden supply disruption would mean depends on each nation's combination of four distinct capabilities: domestic reserves, extraction capacity, refining infrastructure, and petrochemical manufacturing. No two countries share the same profile.
The United States holds domestic production and refining capacity, yet even there the ongoing closure of California refineries illustrates how quickly regional infrastructure gaps translate into transportation fuel shortages. A state with abundant sunshine and aggressive renewable targets still depends entirely on petroleum-derived products for the functioning of its economy and the materials of daily life.
Today, with Hormuz transit severely disrupted by the Iran conflict, Japan is reportedly drawing down those reserves while simultaneously securing alternative crude oil supplies from producers outside the Middle East. No renewable electricity target can substitute for this scramble to secure the physical availability of crude oil and its derivatives.
Meanwhile, roughly 60 percent of the world's population — about five billion people — lives on less than ten dollars a day. These are not yet heavy consumers of petroleum products, but they aspire, as all people do, to reliable food, clean water, modern medicine, and durable shelter. At industrial scale, every one of those aspirations depends on petrochemical inputs. The developing world has not fully joined the petroleum economy, and the answer to that fact cannot be to deny them the materials that already-industrialized nations used freely in building their own prosperity.
Each country runs on a different clock. Some would feel a supply shock within days; others have buffers measured in months. But all clocks, without crude oil, eventually stop at the same place.
The Horizon That Keeps Moving
For half a century, the world has been told that oil will run out in roughly forty years. That warning was issued during the 1970s oil shocks. It was repeated throughout the 1990s and 2000s. It is still being issued today — and the number has barely moved.
The world currently holds approximately 1.77 trillion barrels of proved reserves, a reserves-to-production ratio of about 47 years at current consumption levels. Yet this ratio has remained near 40 to 50 years for decades, even as the world consumed tens of billions of barrels annually. Proved reserves are not a fixed inventory. They are a running calculation: as technology advances and economics shift, resources once considered unextractable migrate into the proved category. Shale oil, deep water fields, and enhanced recovery techniques have each added decades to the count. The horizon keeps moving because human ingenuity keeps moving it.
This does not mean oil is infinite. It means that treating the reserves-to-production ratio as a countdown timer misreads how resource development works. The evidence points to a simpler conclusion: the world has consistently found ways to extend access to this resource — and there is no sign this process has ended.
The Refinery: Civilization's Conversion Point
One element is consistently overlooked in the rush to count barrels: crude oil in its raw form is useless. No one fuels an aircraft with unprocessed crude. The black liquid from oil fields only becomes the fuels and feedstocks civilization depends on after passing through a petroleum refinery — one of the most capital-intensive and technically sophisticated facilities ever built, representing investments of several billion dollars and years of permitting and construction.
This is why the question of crude oil cannot be reduced to a question of emissions. The refinery is not merely a source of carbon dioxide. It is the conversion point between a raw natural resource and the material requirements of modern life. Policies that accelerate refinery closures — without any credible alternative for producing the same spectrum of products — are not cleaning the air. They are removing a linchpin.
Learning to Live with It Wisely
None of this is an argument for recklessness. Efficiency, cleaner processes, and reduced waste are goals entirely consistent with acknowledging crude oil's irreplaceable role as a raw material. What the evidence does not support is the proposition that oil can be eliminated from the human economy through mandates and deadlines without catastrophic disruption to the material foundations of civilization.
This 4-billion-year-old planet has provided humanity with an extraordinary endowment of resources. The appropriate response is not to declare that endowment a crisis and race to abandon it, but to use it responsibly, innovate continuously toward cleaner processes, and extend its benefits to the billions who have not yet had full access to them. The future will not be secured by banning carbon. It will be secured by learning to live with it wisely.
Please share this information with teachers, students, and friends to encourage Energy Literacy conversations at the family dinner table.
Click this Link to Sign up for Energy Literacy from Ronald Stein