Energy Secretary Wright Threatens To Take U.S. Out of International Energy Agency over Climate-Cult Supporting Forecasts

Instead of sipping champagne while making up fantasy stories of melting polar ice and dying polar bears, Wright challenges narratives and promotes policies that will not only help our nation, but the rest of the world.

President Donald Trump’s current cabinet is a marked upgrade from the one he had in his first term.

Take, for example, the Department of Energy. When he was first nominated to head the agency, I reported that entrepreneur Chris Wright did not believe in the climate crisis hysteria. Rather, he is a proponent of ensuring our nation has inexpensive, efficient, and reliable energy.

Nor does he believe in ginned-up data from climate cultists, who want to pretend that solar and wind options are every bit as reliable and efficient as fossil fuels and nuclear. So, when confronted with the happy talk from the International Energy Agency on their “data”, Write said the organization needed to be reformed or the U.S. would no longer be a member.

In a July 15 interview with Bloomberg, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said he has told Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), his agency must either reform its forecasting methods or face potential U.S. withdrawal from the organization. This development reflects growing tensions between the Trump administration’s energy priorities and the IEA’s focus on clean energy transitions.

Wright’s criticism centers on the IEA’s reports and projections, which he and other critics of the agency argue are overly optimistic about renewable energy adoption and fail to adequately prioritize energy security. The debate underscores a broader ideological divide between the U.S. administration and many other western governments over global energy policy and could impact international cooperation and domestic energy strategies.

…Wright laid out the U.S. position in the Bloomberg interview, stating, “We will do one of two things: we will reform the way the IEA operates, or we will withdraw.” He expressed a preference for the former, saying, “My strong preference is to reform it,” in hopes his discussions with Birol and others can influence a return to the more balanced approach which formerly characterized IEA’s modeling approach.

Apparently, the IAE forecasts indicate the need for fossil fuels will “peak” before 2030...then go into decline.

…The IEA’s annual World Energy Outlook (WEO), which it previously styled the “gold standard of energy analysis”, has proclaimed the “Age of Electricity”, consistently projecting that demand for all three fossil fuels will peak before 2030 before going into permanent decline.

“That’s just total nonsense,” responded Wright, who was CEO of a US$2.8-billion oilfield services company before joining Donald Trump’s cabinet and taking over responsibility for his new boss’ analytically challenged “Drill, Baby, Drill” agenda. In an interview during a conference at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University, Wright told Bloomberg he’d said as much to IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol.

“Wright’s criticism of the agency that gets millions of dollars in US funding is in line with Trump’s broader pro-fossil fuels thrust,” Bloomberg writes.

“We will do one of two things: we will reform the way the IEA operates or we will withdraw,”

Energy Secretary Chris Wright blasted the Paris-based International Energy Agency… pic.twitter.com/sR2viq1owI

— Walter Curt (@WCdispatch_) July 15, 2025

The IAE’s assertion defies all logic and reason. Take, for example, the more plausible projections of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC):

This forecast starkly contrasts with OPEC’s outlook, which anticipates oil demand rising to 123 million barrels per day by 2050, up from around 105 million bpd today.

OPEC has repeatedly criticized the IEA’s predictions as “dangerous,” warning they could lead to energy market volatility.

Furthermore, it is clear that the IAE numbers are not factoring in the energy-greedy artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. There are likely quite a number of them that will be built, and all of them will require a steady source of a great deal of energy that green energy cannot supply.

Interestingly, the biggest US grid ( PJM Interconnection, serving about 65–67 million people across 13 states and the District of Columbia) lacks the capacity to take on these facilities, according to a watchdog group.

“There is simply no new capacity to meet new loads,” said Joe Bowring, president of Monitoring Analytics, which is the independent watchdog for PJM Interconnection, the grid that extends from Washington to Chicago. “The solution is to make sure that people who want to build data centers are serious enough about it to bring their own generation.”

Artificial intelligence is driving the biggest US surge in electric demand in several decades, adding stress to grids that have proven vulnerable to extreme weather. PJM, which is home to the highest domestic concentration of data centers, has endured such tension for more than a year.

Tight supplies on PJM led to a record $14.7 billion in an annual auction last year. (The auction provides a key revenue source for generators within the system.) The results of the next auction, which are scheduled to be released late Tuesday, are expected to show capacity prices match or exceed all-time highs as the growth of data centers, especially for artificial intelligence, accelerates, according to Barclays Plc.

Ignoring economics and physics has real-world consequences. Just ask Spain.

Instead of sipping champagne while making up fantasy stories of melting polar ice and dying polar bears, Wright challenges narratives and promotes policies that will not only help our nation, but the rest of the world.

Personally, I like that in my Energy Secretary.

I can’t wait to laugh when this doesn’t happen.  pic.twitter.com/wApUUcQKEN

— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) July 25, 2025

https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/energy-secretary-wright-threatens-to-take-u-s-out-of-international-energy-agency-over-climate-cult-supporting-forecasts/

Reject the Moral Blackmail of the Marxist/Jihadi Axis

Apparently, the Gazans are starving, though you wouldn’t know it from the pictures of the Palestinian fatsos in the background of the kids with chronic wasting diseases that the Cecil B. DeMilles of Pallywood are trying to pass off as victims of Israeli meanness. The nerve of those Jews – it’s always the Jews, you know – for fighting back against a bunch of psychotic Marxist/jihadi freaks who initiated this war with a rape/killing spree and are now crying like little girls because they are righteously getting their behinds kicked. Israel should ignore the invertebrates and double down on defeating them.

We are solemnly informed by the moral illiterates of the left and its regime media adjuncts that we must care about Palestine’s children, though there is no Palestine, nor should there ever be. But it’s baffling why we are supposed to care more about Palestine‘s children than the Palestinians do. The Palestinians care about them not at all – if they cared about them, they wouldn’t raise them into adult semi-human savages, nor would they start wars they can’t win. But of course, losing is their strategy – they want to lose so hard and so badly that the tofu-spined cowards of the West invert the moral paradigm and force the righteous retribution to stop and the rule of the terrorists to be preserved.

Count me out of that bizarre, evil moral calculus. Israel must win, unequivocally and hard. If the Palestinians want to eat, they can release the hostages. Again, none of us is under any moral obligation to care more about them than they care about themselves.

But, of course, the argument that the Palestinians should not have started the war, and should not perpetuate it by keeping innocent Israelis that they kidnapped and tortured for nearly two years in their grim dungeons, is now officially off-limits. We’re seeing a coordinated pushback against the idea of expecting the Palestinians to release the hostages if they want the war to end. We are not supposed to state the obvious, that the Palestinians can end this war by ending their captivity of the innocents anytime they want. Naturally, the sorry, feminine likes of David French have weighed in in favor of adopting a civilizational cuckold strategy, making the Christian Case for Total Submission to Muslim Supremacism. 

We’re told this is an immoral argument for reasons that are never explained. It’s actually a strong argument that normal people understand and therefore must somehow be put off-limits. It’s so effective because it’s so obviously true that the Marxist/jihadi alliance must declare it unspeakable. It’s akin to someone accused of racism countering that some of his best friends are minorities. That’s a great argument that one is not racist, and therefore it’s an argument that cannot be made because it undermines the whole morally bankrupt premises of the accusations. It’s the same here. Their whole narrative strategy is based on the idea that Palestinians lack any kind of agency or ability to control the savage impulses of their seventh-century ideology, and the second you point out that they could end their pain in an instant, you utterly neutralize the Marxist/jihadi narrative.

It’s always amusing how they attempt to use the language of morality to try to get us to surrender to the forces of immoral Marxist/jihadi barbarism. It works on a lot of people, because a lot of people are stupid, but the greatest insult is not their epithets but that they think it might actually work on us. They must think we are as stupid as their supporters.

They want to leverage your conscience to make you do what they want, living out that popular meme where the smug femboy tells you that you should be doing something because Jesus said so, even though he holds Christians in contempt. But our morality is not a suicide pact, in this case, a suicide pact that we never entered into and that is being presented to us as a fait accompli, complete with the expectation that we will participate in it because of reasons and shut up, racist colonialist.

That’s why it’s important to be utterly indifferent to their ham-handed attempts to distract from the fact that they want to see all the Jews murdered and the barbarians take over Israel. And after that’s done, they want to murder the rest of us in the West. Some of the dumber ones will even go off-script and tell you that, but for some reason, you’re morally obligated not to believe it. Remember, globalizing the intifada doesn’t mean going on a mass killing spree around the globe. It means hugging or something, and if you think any differently, you’re a racist colonialist.

No. 

Our enemies have no moral standing. Everything they say is a lie. We cannot let them morally browbeat us into choosing suicide. The ugly truth is that Jews can’t die in enough numbers for their enemies to stop hating them. But that also applies to those of us who are not Jewish. Our Marxist/jihadi enemies would not break stride if they made their Holocaust II fantasy come true (their perverse fantasy of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” means free of breathing Jews) and would immediately get onto killing the rest of us. That’s why I’m going to side with civilization and continue to advocate for the total destruction of the Marxist/jihadist enemy.

The Gazans are enduring hardships, but this is not a bug. It is a feature. Bad things should happen to people who start wars, particularly with grotesque rape and murder sprees. This tends to discourage future wars, but understand that the Marxist/jihadi doesn’t want to discourage future wars. The Marxist/jihadi wants to win future wars and intends to do so by morally hamstringing those fighting against it.

Israel should have cut off all food, water, and power to Gaza on October 7. That’s how sieges work. It should have attacked with unrestrained fury until the enemy was completely annihilated. That’s how wars are fought, with the objective being victory. It’s how they’ve always been fought throughout history. When did it suddenly become the duty of the side winning a war to start taking care of the enemy’s logistical needs during the war? I find it bizarre that not only would some people expect the forces of civilization to fight in a manner unknown to human beings before last week – somehow the righteous besieger is now responsible for the logistic support of those resisting the siege – but that people within the scope of civilization would accept this concept.

We are under no moral obligation to allow the enemies of civilization to survive. That means finish Hamas. If their families suffer as a result of their conduct, they are free to relieve that suffering by total and unconditional surrender. Enemies of humanity must be defeated. Anybody who is a friend of the swamp of human waste known as Hamas is an enemy of humanity.

The only way we can lose the war against the semi-human savages of Marxist/jihadi barbarism is to choose to be defeated. That choice manifests as refusing to win the war in the way that human beings have won wars for 5,000 years. The choice to embrace brand-new rules and norms that have never existed within the history of conflict, which somehow shield the aggressor from righteous retribution, is a suicidal one, and we must have no part of it.

Remember, the Marxist/jihadi axis and their pathetic, morally illiterate American and other Western allies would gleefully cheer as you are actively exterminated. If we submit to their moral blackmail, they will have the chance to exterminate you actively, and they will do it. The only way they can defeat you is if you are both weak and stupid enough to submit. Reject the aptly named David French and his fellow submissives.

The answer to the Gaza problem is to annihilate Hamas and anybody helping it. It is to inflict righteous retribution such that no one dares start another war. This is what history teaches. This is the way.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/07/31/reject-the-moral-blackmail-of-the-marxistjihadi-axis-n2661150

Mount FUSSMore: Lefty Lawyer Accidentally Proves Why Democrats Are Losing Voters Across All Demographics

As Democrats continue to win over male voters by ... *checks notes* ... attacking Sydney Sweeney jeans ads as 'Nazi propaganda, we'd like to remind you that the party only has a favorable rating with three demographics: women ages 30-49, and seniors age 65+.

That's a bad sign.

But here's a great pic to remind us all exactly why the Democrats are in such dire straits:

Oh, Fernando.

No.

Just no.

Totally weak.

Totally fascinating.

Not.

And blowhard he did.

Heh.

He sure would.

Thank goodness.

It's working out GREAT.

Also, funny as heck.

Ouch.

https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/07/31/fernando-oliver-democratic-women-mount-rushmore-n2416523?utm_source=twdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=45d996accbfd36c3837ab03d1775182de3af75990f114699abb5aa9734e3dc72&lctg=28264343

Migrant Crime DHS scoops up trans illegal alien charged with heinous crime on child in sanctuary city: 'Worst of the worst' 'This creep should’ve never been released into our country,' DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said!

A transgender illegal alien is being charged with child rape in the sanctuary city of New York, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

DHS told Fox News Digital that the illegal alien, Nicol Alexandra Contreras-Suarez, a Colombian biological man who identifies as a woman, is being charged with rape of a minor and stalking.

According to the agency, Contreras-Suarez was arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection for illegally entering the country in San Ysidro, California, in March 2023. Contreras-Suarez was released into the country under the Biden administration’s "catch and release" policy and then went on to commit several serious crimes in American communities.

Contreras-Suarez had been arrested by the Medford Police Department in Massachusetts for armed robbery, prostitution and assault with a dangerous weapon. However, "due to local sanctuary policies," DHS said, Contreras-Suarez was once again released.

TRUMP ADMIN UNLEASHES CRUCIAL RECRUITMENT CAMPAIGN WITH MASSIVE BONUSES TO BOLSTER ICE RANKS

Nicol Alexandra Contreras-Suarez mugshot 

Contreras-Suarez is now facing criminal charges in New York for first-degree rape of a child less than age 17 and stalking. Contreras-Suarez has a preliminary criminal hearing in New York City this week and is set to have his case heard by the New York Supreme Court Sept. 10.

The agency said Contreras-Suarez’s "horrific and preventable crime illustrates the consequences of the Biden administration's catch and release and sanctuary policies."  

Commenting on the arrest, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin lamented that "this creep should’ve never been released into our country."

FORMER ICE CHIEF TORCHES 'UNCONSCIONABLE' BIDEN-ERA POLICIES AS TRUMP'S DHS FINDS MIGRANT CHILDREN

President Donald Trump (C), alongside Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem (R) and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (L), speaks to reporters after arriving at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida, on July 1, 2025.

"Thanks to the failed sanctuary policies and Biden’s open-border agenda, this serial criminal was freed to prey on innocent American children — but that ends now," she said.

ICE lodged an immigration detainer against Contreras-Suarez in February. He is currently in custody at Rikers Island Prison in New York until his next court hearing.  

This comes as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is facing intense criticism for its crackdown on illegal immigration and as officers are dealing with an 830% increase in assaults.

While the agency has said it will not back down from arresting any immigrants who are in the country illegally, the new DHS statement says that the vast majority of those arrested thus far have criminal charges or convictions. Despite claims by some Democrats that ICE is targeting innocent immigrant communities, 70% of the agency’s arrests have been of illegal aliens convicted or charged with crimes.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem 

DHS called Contreras-Suarez one of the "worst of the worst" criminal illegals it has arrested in its nationwide sweep thus far.

"ICE will not allow predators like Contreras-Suarez to terrorize American citizens," said McLaughlin.

Virginia City Councilman Vogler Sustained Third-Degree Burns on 63% of His Body – Suspect Admits It Was His ‘Intention to Kill’ Vogler

 Danville, Virginia, City Councilman Lee Vogler was doused in gasoline and set on fire in his office on Tuesday.

According to reports, the attacker, identified as Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, 29, of Danville, threw five gallons of gasoline on Vogler before setting him on fire.

Suspect who attacked Virginia Councilman Lee Vogler: Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes 

Danville police said the attack appears to be personal and not related to Vogler’s position as a city councilman.

The Daily Mail reported that Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes’ wife filed for divorce just two weeks ago.

Showcase Magazine’s Andrew Brooks said Buck-Hayes forced his way in the magazine’s office as Vogler was visiting and poured a five-gallon container of gas on him.

“Lee attempted to flee, ran to the front of the building,” Showcase Magazine owner Andrew Brooks said in a Facebook video. “The individual followed him and set him on fire.”

Vogler was flown to the UNC burn unit in Chapel Hill, according to WSET.

WSET reported on Thursday that Lee Vogler sustained third-degree burns to 63% of his body mainly on his torso and back.

According to the criminal complaint, Buck-Hayes admitted it was intent to kill Vogler.

Buck-Hayes was arraigned on Thursday. He requested a court appointed lawyer.

Shotsie Michael Buck Hayes, 29, was charged with attempted first degree murder and aggravated malicious wounding following the attack.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/virginia-city-councilman-vogler-sustained-third-degree-burns/