The risks of blackouts are increasing so watch what happens during the first stress test of the year.
Energy notes from the edge: Coal trains vs. high speed rail – guess which is faster (into service); Here’s how big oil can sleep at night
The messaging should be that humanity requires oil and gas and will for decades, and that role of industry is to do this as cleanly and efficiently as possible.
Blue State Dems Throw Wrench in Plan to Extend Life of Zero Emission Power Plant
The Democratic-controlled California Senate and Assembly opposed a loan that would extend the lifespan of the state’s last remaining nuclear power plant, Newsweek reported Friday.
A Preview on Some of The New York Energy Impossibility
…the entire plan post-2030 relies on something that has not yet been invented or deployed at scale.
Climate Change Weekly #509: Surveys Show Vast Bulk of Antarctica Is Stable or Growing
Overall, there was no declining trend in fixed ice on land, and perhaps even net growth across East Antarctica, where “[ice] losses have primarily occurred in some of the marine-based…
No, ScienceNews, Your “Ocean’s Record-Breaking Hot Streak” Claims Are False
In other words, we had one warm year in the oceans during 2023, but 2021 and 2022 weren’t abnormally warm at all. 2023 was, but it was driven by a…
GCMs Cannot Predict Climate
Well, now that there is a paper that states explicitly that GCMs can’t predict climate, and explains why, will it make any difference?
Fossil Fuels Remain The Future. VW To Invest 60 Billion Euros In Combustion Engines!
…customers are tired of being told what to buy and what rules to follow.
BBC Hails Green Election Letter From “408 Climate Scientists” Signed by Psychologists, Accountants and Landscape Designers
Jeremy Grantham has a long track record of preaching about the coming apocalypse, asking a 2019 meeting in Copenhagen, “what should I do, you say?” He met his rhetorical question…
Teachers Union Issues List Of Climate Demands As Students Struggle To Read At Grade Level
The CTU will push the city to include initiatives like electric school buses, green jobs training programs for students and reducing emissions from buildings with solar panels and other retrofits, among other initiatives,
Four Corners: Wind Farms are Devastating Community Cohesion in Rural Australia
Claimed threats of violence, abusive phone calls, former friends not speaking anymore, allegations of greed – welcome to the Aussie green energy revolution.
The Shakedown That Is Vermont’s New Climate Superfund Law
Vermont’s new law ought to be viewed for what it is: a shakedown to benefit the state’s favored constituents at the expense of the public.
ClimateTV – Live at 1PM ET – Heatwave Alarm Season is Here – Same Old Climate Claims, Different Year
Yes, it’s that time again kids, panic the American people over heat waves by blaming them on climate change. This past week several news outlets talked about the “Western Heat Wave”…
What Postmodernists Got Right About Science
It was inevitable, perhaps, that after science became ubiquitous and powerful, and very rich, that it would devolve into politics. Which is what the postmodernists (in part) argued all along.
New Hudson Bay sea ice modelling paper is more utterly useless fearmongering about polar bears
From Polar Bear Science Susan Crockford A new collaboration by sea ice and polar bear specialists that predicts a catastrophic future for polar bears in Hudson Bay (Stroeve et al.…
German Hydrogen Rollout Fails To Take Off
Without massive subsidies, hydrogen is a non-starter in Germany.
How we know the sun changes the climate. III: Theories
The Sun has a lot to say about future climate, but we are not listening. Long-term changes in solar activity are cyclical, and what adds to warming now will subtract…
Solar Developer “Disinformation” Reality
The real disinformation in this instance is the insistence that there are no legitimate problems with solar deployment as suggested by the author of “Disinformation Campaigns Are Hurting New York’s…
‘Skeptical Science’ Gets Comeuppance on Social Media
“Skeptical Science” is a name akin to the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. A ploy to fool, in this case to draw in doubters to try to show that alarmist…
How Much Warming Would Net Zero By 2050 Prevent?
The immense costs and sacrifices involved would lead to a reduction in warming approximately equal to the measurement uncertainty.
The Wall Street Journal’s Left Turn on Climate Change Is Unjustified, the ‘Finer Things in Life’ Are Widely Available
Nest time, Emont and WSJ, if you want to warn of climate change driven impending product shortages, you should first check to see whether the products in question are actually…
Net Zero Averted Temperature Increase
…we estimate that if the United States (U.S.) eliminated net CO2 emissions by the year 2050, this would avert a warming of 0.0084 ◦C (0.015 ◦F), which is below our…
