GREGORY WRIGHTSTONE: Refrigerants Are No Global Warming Threat

(T)he selection of the refrigerants for air conditioning systems should be based on both the safety and the needs of the consumers, rather than on a purported environmental benefit.”

Claim: Battery Rationing is Required to Contain an Aussie Green Subsidy Blowout

“… A possibility to discuss is lowering the 50kWh threshold to 15kWh. …”

Aussie Solar Farm Fire Briefly Interrupts Output

“This is the thing that happens with renewable energy” – Dubbo Deputy Mayor Philip Toynton.

Greenpeace Asks a DUTCH Court to Overturn a $345 Million Dakota Pipeline Judgement

Greenpeace appears to think European courts have pre-eminence over US courts, even for events which happened in the USA.

New York’s climate law will ration fossil fuels and tax the rations

Clearly capping fuel use is infeasible. Energy is fundamental to our way of life.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #669

Quote of the Week: “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”— Philip K. Dick, science fiction writer, [H/t National Center for Energy Analytics]