‘Clean energy leader’ PG&E Filing Bankruptcy – rejects investor bailout – massive rate hike looms

If only they’d spent more money on keeping their infrastructure maintained instead of chasing green dreams. From Zero Hedge late yesterday: Confirming earlier reports that distressed California utility PG&E had…

‘Polar Vortex’ Will Have Nearly 90 Percent Of US Below-Freezing

4:54 PM 01/28/2019 | Energy Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor Nearly 90 percent of the continental U.S. will experience below-freezing temperatures over the next five days as Arctic air moves…

Anti-GMO attitudes study Nature 2019

Submitted by Joel O’Bryan, PhD From NPR on-line, there is this news item: “People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding Of Food Science, Study Finds” January 26, 2019 7:00 AM…

Trump trolls the warmists

And we thought deadly wind chill would be a “thing of the past”. A bit of humor here from the President, and while any one weather event doesn’t prove or…

AL GORE: Migrant Caravans Are Victims Of Global Warming

From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor Former Vice President Al Gore said the recent Central American migrant caravans seeking asylum in the U.S. were fleeing the ravages…

Doctors Demand Total Control of Global Food Distribution to Solve Obesity, Hunger and Climate Change

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to The Lancet, a radical restructuring of global commerce and food distribution is necessary to solve world hunger, prevent obesity and stop agriculture related…

Australia’s ABC says Heard Island is a “canary in a cage” for climate change – but investigation shows the claim is patently absurd

Australia’s ABC News and Marty McCarthy not only jumps the shark, but makes a mockery of science reporting. Ross Hyland writes to Climate Depot (which was forwarded to me for…

MIT continues progress toward practical fusion energy

From the “we are this close to nuclear fusion department, 7th decade edition” and MIT: In series of talks, researchers describe major effort to address climate change through carbon-free power.…

President Jefferson Meets Mount Tambora

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In the comments of my last post entitled “Spot The Volcano, 1815 Edition” someone mentioned that Thomas Jefferson had commented on what is often called…

Another False Premise that Underlies Environmental, AGW, and Creationists Views Thriving in a Moral Vacuum.

Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The perpetuation of the deception that humans are causing the inevitable collapse of the world because of global warming works because of the deliberate exploitation…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #345

The Week That Was: 2019-01-26 (January 26, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project   Quote of the Week: “Advances are made by answering…

Saved by pseudo-renewable energy?

Climate alarmists must prove expensive, weather-dependent energy is green and sustainable Paul Driessen, The IPCC says it’s still possible to limit planetary warming to an additional 0.5 degrees C (0.9…

ILO: Think of Humans, When Creating Jobs for Robots

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Will the AI crisis replace the faltering Climate Crisis? Keep humans in good jobs in the robot era, ILO commission urges Tom Miles JANUARY 23,…

Arnold Schwarzenegger: “we all have to work together to fight this problem of this unbelievable pollution”

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Global warming just isn’t scary enough. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Why Trump is ‘wrong’ on climate change By Rob Hodgetts and Christina Macfarlane, CNN Updated 1946 GMT…

Germany totally kills coal – will likely end up in the dark, without heat and light

From the LA times, a bold move, but unlikely they can pull it off. Germany to close all 84 of its coal-fired power plants, will rely primarily on renewable energy…

Sunday silliness: AOC is too dumb to even come up with her own disaster scenario

Last week we covered the announcement during an interview from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that the “…the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change”. Augusta Chronicle Cartoonist…

Inverse Hockey-Stick: climate related death risk for an individuals down 99% since 1920

Bjørn Lomborg writes on Facebook about some new and surprising data that turn climate alarmist claims upside down. Fewer and fewer people die from climate-related natural disasters. This is clearly opposite…

Sowell: the catchwords “climate change deniers” reveals nothing but a political crusade

Fact-Free Politics: From Climate Change to Trickle Down by Thomas Sowell January 17, 2019 Empty catchwords reveal a mind that’s unwilling to analyze and debate. In this era when there has…

Green Financial Advisor Makes the Case for a “Free Market” Carbon Tax

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to green fund manager Erik Kobayashi-Solomon a carbon tax is the free market solution to the climate crisis. Carbon Tax: The Ultimate Free Market…

California’s Wildfire History – in one map

Here is an interesting interactive graphic that depicts perimeters of more than 100 years of California wildfires recorded by Cal Fire and the U.S. Geological Survey. The map below shows…