A business book tracing the history of a low-profile, Midland, Texas oil and gas company with nary a villain, scandal, or a larger-than-life wheeler-dealer at its center does not sound like the recipe for a spicy page-turner. However, The Wolfberry […]
The key messages of Dr. Steven E. Koonin’s new book, Unsettled (2021), on the current state of climate science and its implications for energy policy, though cogently organized and expressed, are nonetheless disorienting. Rather than offering the conventional warnings of […]
An impassioned plea to retire and replace all existing equipment in the fossil fuel chain — from exploration and production to utilization — Saul Griffith’s Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for our Clean Energy Future (2021) (hereafter, “Electrify”) is quite the […]
The first question Bill Gates confronts in his new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (subtitled “The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need”) is why a world-famous, unimaginably wealthy computer software innovator with no specific credentials in climate change science is authoring a book on this sprawling[…]