That’s the subject of a presentation I’ll be giving in Calgary, Alberta, on November 16, 2026, hosted by the Friends of Science Society.
Britain’s North Sea Gas Field Approval Marks Another Win for the Iron Law of Electricity
Jackdaw today with Rosebank approval looming in the future as Britain Takes an important step away from Net Zero insanity.
Much of the AI-will-kill-us-all scare is driven by a charity movement gone crazy
Funding a push for global governance of AI development is not altruism; it is crazy.
Proposed natural gas pipeline expansion forecast to lower energy bills in Massachusetts
Embracing Project Beacon would also mean making a clean break with anti-energy policies that have held sway in Massachusetts up until now.
Storm Boelo
This is what happens when you give storms silly names; it was precisely why the Met Office started it in 2015.
The new Alaska gold rush
UKMP is a potential new U.S. source of copper, zinc, and other metals vital to domestic supply chains. Trilogy’s Arctic project was added earlier this year to the FAST-41 program…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #712
“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”—…
Sudden Stratospheric Warming, Powerful El Niño Combination May Lead To Extreme Europe Cold, Energy Crisis!
Extreme cold threatens Europe, energy crisis… When two of the planet’s most powerful climate phenomena align in an unprecedented surge, atmospheric scientists pay close attention.
No, New York Times, California’s Climate Has Always Been a Land of Flood, Drought, and Fire
The lesson of California history is not that nature was once benign and humans somehow broke it. The lesson is that California has never been climatically benign.
MISO Obliterates Solar, Storage, and Wind Capacity Values
For years, utility companies have pursued a reckless strategy of prematurely retiring their reliable, affordable coal plants while pretending that a combination of wind, solar, and storage could replace their…
Two New Studies Find Thwaites Glacier Melt Cannot Be Driven By Human Activity Or A Warming Ocean
These authors do not suggest humans are warming the deepwater around Antarctica by enhancing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, but that warming (and cooling) have been ~100% “driven by…
The AI Boom Needs Superconducting Wire, Not Another Record
The next superconductor breakthrough will not be a number in a table. It will be a length of tape that holds its current after a thousand bends and a decade…
Ideologues Try Their Hand At Ordering Up An Electrical Grid Powered Only By “Renewables”
…places like New York, California, Germany and the UK continue to plow forward as if wind/solar/storage electricity systems can work. It’s as if it’s not possible to learn from experience.
Cancel Culture. Another Science Paper Credits CO2 With Calling Off the Next Ice Age
Charles Rotter Add one more charge to carbon dioxide’s record. A recent paper published in Science by Nicolás Young of Lamont-Doherty and nine co-authors says it stopped the next ice…
What is the Point of Studying, if AI will Take All the Jobs?
What to tell demoralised kids who think AI has eaten their future.
Washington Post on Natural Gas: No Plan = Best Plan (channeling F. A. Hayek)
The editorial board of the Washington Post last month gave a shout out to natural gas. Kudos to the Post for magnifying the obvious.
The Minister for Climate Transition Will Protect Us From Weather
Head over to “Cartoons by Josh” for more, including next year’s calendar due out soon.
Maintaining Reserves and Their Cost
There is no power is more expensive than power that isn’t available when needed most.
Closure of US tax credit transition window to reshape wind and solar outlook, says GlobalData
Enacted in July 2025, the legislation introduced termination provisions for the Section 45Y Clean Electricity Production Credit and Section 48E Clean Electricity Investment Credit for applicable wind and solar facilities…