American Association for the Advancement of Science “Trump Tracker”

The American Association for the Advancement of Science of America launches their Trump Tracker and it’s hilarious!

In Dealing With China, Trump May Have a Trick Up His Sleeve

Trump is deliberately shrinking the U.S. market for wind turbines and for the predominately Chinese-supplied raw materials that go into them. The goal is to play to America’s strengths, which…

Texas takes giant steps toward nuclear energy dominance

Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp last week announced that his university has surpassed even the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology and now has the nation’s largest nuclear engineering research department.

Biden’s Transformer Blunder: How Ideological Policy Choices Deepened the Grid Crisis

The transformer crisis is a direct result of the previous administration’s decision to prioritize ideological policies over practical energy infrastructure needs. While certain technologies were favored politically, they did not…

Hydrogen Energy: Not Clean, Green, Cheap

Hydrogen. The first element in the Periodic Table and the most abundant element in the Universe. It is also the simplest element—the most common isotope has only one proton and…

Conflicts of Interest in Climate Science: A Systemic Blind Spot

Moreover, the research found that funding from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) was a significant predictor of studies reporting a positive association between climate change and hurricane behavior​.

The Public Gives a Big “NO” to $9 Billion Pipeline to Capture CO2 from 57 Ethanol Plants Across Five States

Most of Wednesday’s attendees opposed the pipeline — evident by applause often filling the room after opponents spoke. The opponents who spoke primarily reiterated concerns about safety and impacts to…

California’s Dangerous Path: Oil Refinery Takeovers and the Coming Supply Crisis

California’s energy policies have been walking a tightrope for years, but now, the state is contemplating an extreme measure that could tip it into full-blown crisis mode: taking over oil…

Bloomberg News: ‘Climate change is leading to more social media use, as the increase in extreme weather events forces people indoors’

Put this together and a vicious cycle emerges: one in which worse weather drives us to spend more time inside on social media, growing more and more enraged and politically…

A simple way to save the grid from more wind and solar

FERC must act quickly to restore reliability. FERC’s first step is to ban the connection of new intermittent generation to America’s grid.

Dr Will Happer: The Academic Who Knows Where the Bodies are Buried

Dr. Will Happer served in President Trump’s first administration. Happer once told Al Gore to his face “What you’ve said is absolutely incorrect”.

The Social Cost of Carbon: A Bureaucratic Boondoggle Exposed

Ross McKitrick’s Latest Study Shows SCC Manipulation for Political Ends

London’s Blade Runners: Climate, Class War and the Corruption of Science

The Ulez scheme was introduced in 2019 covering Central London. The increase in Ulez penalties followed the expansion of the scheme in 2021, to include both the North and South Circular…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #631

Quote of the Week: “We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than…

Waking Up to Harsh Reality: Airbus Abandon’s Hydrogen Powered Airplanes

Green pie-in-the-sky dream crash lands on the runway of reality.

Trump Officially Ends Biden-Era War On American Appliances

“In recent years, burdensome and ideologically motivated regulations have impeded the development of these resources, limited the generation of reliable and affordable electricity, reduced job creation, and inflicted high energy…

How Ed Miliband’s Net Zero Fantasy Is Deforesting North Carolina

Everyone I spoke to in North Carolina admitted they were slightly shocked that “tree-loving” and climate change-aware Britain, of all countries, had facilitated the biomass industry –adopting renewable energy accounting…

The Great Antarctic Sea Ice Flipflop

In 2014 NOAA blamed record high sea ice on global warming. Now NSIDC blames record low sea ice on global warming.

Wrong, Earth.com, Cocoa Production Is Not ‘Under Extreme Climate Pressure’ It’s Improving

In the end, the Earth.com story was long on alarming speculation pushing the catastrophic climate change narrative, and short on detailed analysis. The author showed no evidence of reading the…

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