Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #532

“It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.”

Germany’s Krupp Mannesmann Steel Mill “In Danger of Failing Due to Financing”, Green Energy Costs

If the plant were to be shuttered, production would likely be moved offshore to a location where energy is cheaper and environmental regulations lax.

Linnea Lukin, Exploring Energy: Biomass

Heartland’s Linnea Lueken breaks down the details behind this biomass as an energy source in the newest episode of Exploring Energy.

The Impossibility of Bridging The “Last 10%” On the Way To “100% Clean Electricity”

In other words, you will need about 35 times the capacity of solar panels as the amount of firm power that you are committed to provide.

Professor: Stop “Colonial” Agriculture, to Save Africa from Starvation and Climate Change

According to Professor William G. Moseley, if we balance the insects just right, Africans can live in happy little climate friendly agrarian villages rather than joining the modern world.

The “All-the-Above” Energy Policy Is a Compromise That Reverses Human and Environmental Progress

To summarize, all-the-above policy, while sounding beguilingly attractive, is an unhelpful concession to those hostile to fossil fuels

Green Raw Deal: Climate Fanatism Has Put Us Full Throttle On The Highway To Hell

This combination of a misguided energy policy and a war, which shows no sign of abating anytime soon, is a toxic mixture that may threaten all of us.

This Year’s Puffin Scare Story

Every year we get this silly story, generated by grant-funded, climate alarmist scientists, and every time the gullible reporters fail to check the actual facts.

False, Washington Post, Climate Change Isn’t Forcing Retreat From Hog Island

Tide gauge data show no measurable increase in the rate of sea level rise in recent decades along coastal Virginia.

“Goofy” Celebrities Blind to Cold and Snow

Sometimes, it is easier to understand weather data than a mind unwilling to accept a reality that challenges an apocalyptic narrative. As for the celebrities who exhibit such recalcitrance, we…

Ipsos: Climate Skepticism Rising Three Years in a Row

“… Unexpectedly, climate skepticism has consistently grown over the past 3 years (37%, +6 pts in 3 years), and is particularly striking in France this year (37%, +8 pts in one…

Looking For the Official Party Line on Energy Storage

The end product is an excellent illustration of why central planning does not work and can never work.

Open Thread

Open Thread

Plus or Minus Isn’t a Question

It isn’t that there are two possible answers, it is that the answer could be as much as or as little as the “two possible values of the initial value”…

ABC: “Ramp Down” Fossil Fuel Production Instead of Jailing Protestors

The Aussie federal government owned ABC thinks climate extremists are just trying to show us the disruption climate chaos will bring.

Climate Change Weekly #455: COP 27 Will End Up as FLOP 27

Judging by the effect of past climate agreements on the actions of nations around the world, the agreements reached at the COP 27 meeting held in Egypt in November are…

Is the Renewable Energy Industry Nothing More Than a Jobs Program?

— For the most part, it is.

Transient Climate Response from Observations 1979-2022

The best estimate of TCR based on CMIP6 models (the red line in Fig.1) is 1.6K / 2*CO2, following the cited paper.

Friday Funny – Teenage Expertise Needed – No Experience Required

This is over a month old, but still relevant today. Dilbert channels Greta, who apparently is branching out her “technical expertise.” Hat tip to Kip Hansen.

Cumbria Coal Mine Gets Go-Ahead

The fate of the West Cumbria Mining project had been hanging in the balance for two years after the local county council initially approved the mine in 2020.

The Great Climate Con | Alex Epstein | #312

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Alex Epstein discuss the undeniable need for fossil fuels, the toxic underlying nihilism of the “climate concerned” left, the need for balance between conservation and…

ESG is the Psychotic Bully of the Investment World

…its advocates use emotional blackmail and fear about climate change to get away with becoming corporate kingmakers…

Victories against ESG Starting to Accelerate

Using our cash to fund BlackRock’s social-engineering project isn’t something Florida ever signed up for

ClimateTV – Live at NOON CST Friday – The Futility of Electric Vehicles

Essentially, electric vehicles have had negligible impact of the use of fossil fuels in transportation over the last decade