When the world’s richest entrepreneur says wind and solar will never work, it’s probably time to listen. When we posted this story – Bill Gates Slams Unreliable Wind & Solar: ‘Let’s Quit Jerking Around With Renewables & Batteries’ – a couple of weeks back, listen they did – that post went viral with over 40,000 hits, so far.

Where Bill Gates is happy to tell it as it is, there are plenty more who are just as eager to take the public for fools. Threatening imminent global doom in one breath, and claiming that the only solution is windmills and solar panels in the next, a new breed of Robber Baron is driving energy policy in the US, and beyond.

Peter Foster details the latest brand of mercenary, corporate cynicism at work. This time being run by what he calls the ‘Climate Barons’.

Bill Gates, defying the Climate Barons, tells…