Vijay Jayaraj – California Globe

U.S. Energy Shift Offers Economic Hope to Global South

October 17, 2025 7:38 amOctober 17, 2025 7:38 am

For decades growth strategies in poorer countries of the Global South – Asia, Africa and South America – leaned heavily on energy-intensive industries powered by fossil fuels and, in a handful of cases, by nuclear power. Cities grew, factories rose,...

India’s Ethanol Gambit: A Muddled Climate Policy

September 22, 2025 4:00 pmSeptember 22, 2025 4:02 pm

Indian authorities have accelerated a nationwide transition to a 20% ethanol blend in gasoline. Of the 1.46 billion people in India, many, including myself, were completely unaware that gasoline at the pumps was now a 20% blend. This is because...

Hanoi’s ‘Green’ Path to Poverty and Blackouts

September 2, 2025 2:33 pmSeptember 2, 2025 2:33 pm

Vietnam’s decision to prohibit gasoline-powered motorcycles in central Hanoi beginning July 1, 2026, is a textbook example of climate dogma disrupting developing economies with potentially devastating consequences. The policy will take effect in Hanoi’s downtown districts, then expand to outer...

Choosing the Positive Reality of Hydrocarbons Over ‘Green’ Fantasies

August 13, 2025 11:13 amAugust 13, 2025 11:34 am

British multinational BP has announced its largest oil and gas discovery in 25 years in Brazil’s Santos Basin. By 2030, daily production is expected to be 2.3 to 2.5 million barrels of oil equivalent, which leaves little doubt that the...

Asian Forests Victims of Intolerable ‘Green’ Lie

August 4, 2025 3:00 pmAugust 4, 2025 3:01 pm

In the modern climate debate, emotion and partisan allegiance replace critical thinking to smear carbon dioxide (CO2) as a dangerous pollutant. Well-crafted green advocacies steal the spotlight, while reason languishes in the shadows of medieval-style witch hunts. The reality, however,...

The Great ‘Zero-Carbon Renewables’ Deception

July 21, 2025 11:13 amJuly 21, 2025 11:23 am

Simple narratives are employed to seduce a populace, and none is more seductive today than the promise of “carbon-free” energy. In California, a state often touted as a green pioneer, Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrated an “achievement” whose announcement was free...

The Lethal Fog of Clean-Air Hypocrisy

June 17, 2025 9:00 amJune 17, 2025 9:01 am

So-called environmental activists across the United Kingdom will pat themselves on the back this Thursday (June 19), which they have declared “Clean Air Day.” Because nothing of real value will come of the observance, the crusaders’ sense of elevated virtue...