Keir Starmer has drawn up plans under which the UK will ramp up its net zero targets and cede control over its energy policy as part of closer alignment with Brussels. – Telegraph
Starmer is a lame duck held hostage by his far left parliamentary party. Miliband looms large as a favourite of the lunatic tendency, how loony?
Miliband plots solar farms in space in quest to hit net zero Study suggests using orbiting satellites to capture sun’s energy under clean power plans – Telegraph
Let’s see; Chinese manufacturing and installing potential directed energy weapons in space to fulfill the Green fantasy of a colder, less fertile Earth. What could possibly go wrong?
It seems that the Warmunists cling ever more tightly to their suicidal nihilism as the losses mount!
They do. They know that if after some funding is received it goes bankrupt, it’s the perfect outcome. Let the middlemen keep most of the money (minus kickbacks) and blame #OrangeManBad or some other scarecrow for failure to deliver. Nobody will be jailed for these schemes.
We do have a unique way of putting things. I think it has a lot to do with the stiff upper lip thing; keep calm and bugger on. And we do. Maybe that’s the problem now.
The stupidity of Mad Ed’s approach to solar farms in Britain is shown by the fact that the World Bank’s ‘Global Photovoltaic Power Potential by Country’ ,which compared the solar panel potential of 230 countries, ranked the country 229th. Only Ireland was worse.
His current terrestrial plans could lead to around 25% of Britain’s farmland being taken out of agricultural production.
e v,
Trying to rationalise the circumstances, there is a pattern whereby an “interest group” often an NGO and often with links to a charity, makes a case that money is needed for directions to a broadly stated problem, for example, too many people are sleeping rough in cities, that sort of social thing.
The essential step is creation of a pool of money from government sources. The pool has to be far bigger than the problem suggests.
Next, a body is formed to handle the money, with the endorsement of a government money source.
The body is formed, its employees and founders live high on the hog at least until a change of government (but some can survive even that!). The body can use its success template to get involved in more schemes, quoting success that is often unproven.
Here in my home State of Victoria, there are investigating lawyers reports of such schemes now mounting to $15 billion. It has become a big business. Governments hush it up to protect people who authorised the cash in the first place.
Geoff S
Strat,
This is really dangerous, fundamental assault on the good people of Great Britain.
Sadly, I have no suggestions re what you might do. Out of ideas.
We are in similar dire straits here in Oz, captive to leftist governments that we did not vote for because we saw this coming.
Geoff S
The dysfunctional, impoverished, war-mongering, unready UK is the poster child of a basket case, already since WW I, when it started to lose most of its lucrative colonial empire, and stopped “ruling the seas”, because it was too expensive to modernize its out-of-date navy.
Gross, unaffordable overstretch for many decades.
The U.S. had to bail them out TWICE; Wilson’s 2-million Expeditionary force, and Roosevelt’s D-Day.
The US should just pull the plug and let the played-out, leftist, woke UK go down the drain, including its ten million mostly Islamic float-ins and fly-ins.
abolition man
February 15, 2026 2:31 am
The Endangerment Finding, in particular, and the CAGW alarmist movement in general has ALWAYS been a ploy by the well connected to quash the lower classes, and maximize their ability to loot and plunder at will! Keeping the public ignorant of 20th Century history, human nature, and basic geology is the only way to create a populace that can be easily stampeded into the recurring crisis control that our “betters” leverage to maximize power and earnings. Once again, idiots prove useful!
I can accept the idea that elite are pushing this agenda. The idea that they can loot and plunder the lower classes doesn’t make sense.
Half the population in the west doesn’t produce much or even pay taxes. How can you loot them?
There is a general hatred of productive people.
When they can pick economic winners and losers, they will always choose family, friends and campaign contributors over small businesses. Look at the billions wasted in Solyndra and other Green scams, or the “gold bricks” the the Autopen Admin was throwing to their supporters in their final days in office!
Some claim that the Covid shutdown was the biggest wealth transfer in history. I’d like to look at the numbers and compare it with Nut Zero and the Green Raw Deal!
“ALWAYS been a ploy by the well connected to quash the lower classes” Speaking of quashing lower classes, have we ever seen a better case of the powerful using their influence to protect themselves against the law, than those who abused the young girls in the Epstein case? This is not about right and left, or Dem and Republican, this is about those who move in the higher social circles being able to avoid the law. The moment at this weeks hearing, where the victims stood up and said they had all given statements to the FBI, but not one had been asked for a follow up interview. Not one. And that was under Biden and Trump. This is not right….
Follow the money they say. Seems they have made a good start with the interview of Les Wexner today. He gave Epstein 1 billion dollars. I wonder why?
Ron Long
February 15, 2026 2:32 am
I have spent a lot of time walking through the geology of the Mesozoic Neuquen Basin in Argentina. This sedimentary basin starts at about 250 million years ago (Triassic) and ends around 60 million years ago (Cretaceous, with Jurassic Park in between). The geologic strata show cycles of huge changes in the paleo-environment/climate. Anoxic ocean bays collected kerogens, leading to oil deposits. Wandering rivers underwent floods and log jams of both trees and dinosaurs. Huge sand dunes formed, both coastal and internal desert type, and their retained porous nature gathered up copper, uranium, vanadium, and cobalt mineralization (like the Congo in Africa). The geologic evidence is that dynamic Plate Tectonic events, like wandering, tipping, faulting apart, and rotating, are subjected to the additional effects of climate change. I wonder what the dinosaurs thought about CAGW? I wonder how the current CAGW crowd reconciles all of those dynamic events which are still ongoing, to interpret the CAGW signal out of all of that variance.
I hear you, Ron! For me there is nothing so mind expanding as wandering around this Earth, and considering how the many amazing geologic features were formed! Geology really rocks!
Ron,
The decades I spent in the minerals business were immensely rewarding in terms like job satisfaction, interest in learning, travel, thongs to do each day – many aspects. The bonus comes when your success enriches your company who then give you bigger pay rises.
Work in the geological sciences is thoroughly recommended for those good enough to be chosen. So, work hard on your educations of you are still at that stage/age. Be prepared to take on more than you think that you are capable of.
Geoff S
Great news. At long last, the 2009 Endangerment Finding has been officially rescinded by the EPA, with a Federal Register entry to follow soon. The finalized action relies on legal and statutory arguments and not on the scientific alternative rationale in the proposed ruling from last year.
OK then. I can see the reasoning here.
In my view, skeptics of climate alarm would do well to keep sharpening their grasp of the scientific issues as debate on these points will no doubt continue.
Source: From the “Response to Comments” document here
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3 Additional Proposed Bases for Rescission of the Endangerment Finding and Repeal of GHG Emission Standards the Agency is Not Finalizing at this Time
3.1 Alternative Rationale for Rescission: Climate Science
As explained in section IV of the preamble for this final action, the EPA is rescinding the
Endangerment Finding on the basis of its interpretation of CAA section 202(a), under which
the EPA concludes that Congress did not authorize the Agency to regulate GHG emissions
from new motor vehicles and new motor vehicle engines to address global climate change.
That legal interpretation is sufficient to support rescission of the Endangerment Finding
and repeal of the related GHG standards.
As the EPA does not adopt or rely on the proposed scientific alternative rationale in this
final action, the Agency does not need to, and is not legally required to, summarize or
respond to comments that address that unfinalized alternative as we consider those
comments to be out of scope of this rulemaking. Therefore, comments related to climate
science are out of scope of this rulemaking. This includes, but is not limited to, comments
on the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Climate Working Group (CWG).
Nevertheless, in the interest of transparency and to assist the public in understanding the
record, the EPA provides a summary of major themes raised by commenters regarding the
proposed scientific alternative rationale in section V.A. of the preamble. The EPA offers the
preamble section V.A. summary for informational purposes only. The EPA does not in this
rulemaking resolve the underlying scientific debates described below, does not issue a
new or revised scientific determination under CAA section 202(a), and does not adopt or
endorse any particular assessment, study, or comment as a statement of the EPA’s
scientific judgement.
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One more thing. After months of being dead in the water, the docket for comments on the DOE’s “Critical Review” report has come to life again. Now there are recent postings of comments made last year, including mine here.
I suspect the long pause in posting the submitted comments was related to the legal actions against the DOE at the time, which apparently no longer restrain further processing of the docket.
The world market will not wait for American political comfort. A vessel ordered in 2026 will likely operate into the 2050s. If that vessel enters European waters in 2030, it will face ETS exposure and FuelEU intensity requirements. China is heading in that direction, having 700 TEU container ships operating domestically. If the ship’s energy architecture is fossil heavy, it will carry a rising compliance burden over its life.
China has a total of 1 electric 700 TEU container ship currently sailing.
Shouldn’t that be “sparking? 🙂
Robert Watt
February 15, 2026 3:08 am
Groundbreaking research published in Nature in December 2022 revealed that environmental DNA (eDNA) found in Greenland, dating to approximately 2 to 2.5 million years ago, proves that northern Greenland was a lush, green landscape, far from the frozen desert it is today.
The DNA, collected from microscopic fragments in soil (clay and quartz), revealed a surprising variety of animals that lived in this habitat:
Mastodons: The biggest surprise was DNA from the mastodon, an extinct elephant-like creature, proving they inhabited Greenland.
Reindeer: Evidence of ancestral reindeer.
Smaller Animals: Rodents, lemmings, and geese.
Insects: Ants, fleas, and flies.
As this much warmer period in Greenland’s history took place long before any anthropogenic influence on global climate was possible, it must have been the result of natural forces. Claims of AGW seem ridiculous to me.
Do you have ANY idea what the carbon footprint of Fred Flintstone’s car was? Those cavemen were almost wholly carnivores, too! And so good at hunting that they drove most of the mega-fauna below replacement levels! Those were the days; troglodyte and Neanderthal were descriptors, not insults!
Greenland has been warmer than today for 99% of the last 250 million years, ever since it was part of Pangaea during the Permian Ice Age. That’s a quarter of a billion years of green. The ice is a recent aberration of the normative condition. Ice is death. Life requires warmth.
News from France: PPE3 is very likely to be adopted very soon. There will be a strengthening of nuclear power, which is excellent news (though not for NGOs); the “planting” of 22 offshore wind turbines, which is sheer nonsense; reinforcement of existing onshore wind farms (dismantling old turbines and replacing them with more powerful models, up to twice as tall and two to three times more powerful—given the efficiency and intermittency of wind turbines, I have doubts about the relevance of this gain in power); and a slowdown in solar panel development.
When I think that Jospin forced EDF (Électricité de France) to halt the Superphénix project, which was nevertheless extremely promising. The Socialists had to win over the Greens, after all! Yves Cochet, Green MP for Val-d’Oise, was very pleased with that decision. It is worth noting that Mr. Cochet is now known as a thoroughgoing “collapsologist.” When you see him in interviews, he almost looks pleased as he elaborates on his environmental end-of-the-world scenarios—as if he were just waiting for it to happen. He is also in favor of the French having fewer children to make room for migrants.
At the time Superphénix was canceled, Mr. Cochet said (AI translation to which I entrust the transcription of my messages from French into English): “This power plant had no justification, neither in terms of electricity production, since France already has overcapacity, nor especially from the point of view of the site.” That is still true today: France produces too much electricity relative to the needs of the population. The difference with 1997 is that Superphénix was an innovative and technologically decisive project. The progress represented by that reactor justified continuing the work. By comparison, the 2026 PPE3 will only succeed in making us pay more for electricity, when we could very well have done nothing at all and nothing would have changed.
These new EPR reactors are extremely expensive; the grid will have to be massively modernized; widespread electrification of uses (electric cars, heat pumps, etc.) will be encouraged by this Multiannual Energy Plan. I do not expect it to be a great success (that’s putting it mildly).
Oh, and yes: the EU wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040. There are many ways to commit suicide, some more inventive than others. This one is hardly original anymore, and it has the added feature of being extremely slow and painful. Hooray.
When you see him in interviews, he almost looks pleased as he elaborates on his environmental end-of-the-world scenarios—as if he were just waiting for it to happen*****
I’ve been waiting for it to happen also, and hope the good lord grants me enough more years to see it. I suspect that would mean I would live —forever???
These charts show how Trump is isolating the US on the world stage
When comparing all of Trump’s years in the White House, including his first term, with those of his immediate predecessors – Barack Obama and Joe Biden – the number of countries strongly aligned with the US has collapsed, from 46 to just seven.
MUR, it seems you think that when Eurofascists agree with the US, that’s a good thing … it’s not.
These are the genius folks who invited in millions of people who hate them, their dogs, beer, music, wine, bikinis, cartoons, Jesus, bacon, Westerm civilization, freedoms, and women … and if you say anything about that, they’ll jail you for “Islamophobia”.
Anyone the Eurofascists agree with is on the wrong side of the ledger.
Closer to the truth than you realise, Willis. The backlash in the UK when Sir Jim Ratcliffe, a respected industrialist, said we’d been “colonised” by these people was worrying. He’s subsequently said he could have used a better word but I haven’t yet worked out which one that should be.
Well, Trump’s bullyboy tactics have certainly changed the way the world now looks at the USA.
My first knowledge of Trump was over the Trump International Golf Links debacle, just outside Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, in 2007. He & his team bought the site, & then they started using intimidation against the local landowners (“because they spoiled the view”), including trying to stop access on a shared road, cutting off the water supply, contaminating a well, blocking the coastal path & trashing a SSSI site.Construction of the course led to the destruction of legally protected sand dunes, impacting the local ecosystem & the resort fails to meet sewage treatment standards. https://www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-news/aberdeenshire-farmer-regrets-not-knocking-7328172
So now a lot of Brits view Trump’s actions with a jaundiced eye.
But, I’m happy to report the existence of karma –
That golf course has not turned a profit since it opened in 2012.
Trump reportedly lost over $40 million due to poor financial practices, including failing to hedge loans issued in British pounds. (That’s a real loser ).
We also see his demanding & bullying stance on Ukraine, Gaza, Greenland, Canada; & the Detroit/Windsor bridge … alienating allies, not a bright thing to do.
Sad to see one egotistical man tearing up decades of international friendships that could prosper us all. Isolationism & tariffs will hurt the USA public (not the elites), just as Brexit has hurt the UK public (not the elites).
Neil Pryke
February 15, 2026 4:37 am
Fair bit of discussion as to the balance of Ed’s mind…If you get the loading right, you can add a fair bit…How about ADHD, OCD, and the new one…ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder…)?
The Physics Trap: Why Germany’s gas storage facilities appear fuller than they actually are The Federal Network Agency reassures us at 25 percent fill level. Reservoir physics says otherwise. An explanation of why percentages on paper and performance at the well are two very different things Do you remember? When the phrase “gas storage level” became a staple of every German news broadcast in the winter of 2022, the nation learned a new favorite number: percentage. 80 percent in November, 30 percent in February – that’s what the gas storage level regulation stipulates, and that’s how you reassure the public. But lurking behind these reassuring percentages is a physical problem that is persistently glossed over in the public debate. Because a gas storage facility isn’t a tank from which you draw gas at a steady rate until it’s empty. It’s a geological system that obeys its own laws. And these laws are currently teaching Germany an unpleasant lesson.
ed sebesta
February 15, 2026 6:34 am
Essentially everyone is incorrectly understanding how our CO2 emissions are processed by the earth system. There appears to be two ways to frame the question and Mother Nature gave us the misleading one.
Option 1. We can observe that the human emissions are increasing. The atmospheric concentration of CO2 has also been increasing in lock step with the increasing emissions. Then ask the question, “is the increasing emissions the predominant cause of the increasing atmospheric CO2”? The obvious answer is Yes. However, this answer is fatally flawed because only 1 (emissions) of 5 atmospheric inputs/outputs is accounted for.
Option 2. We can observe that the atmospheric CO2 concentration is increasing. Then ask the question, “what are the inputs/outputs that are driving the increasing atmospheric CO2 considering all 5 inputs/outputs?” The answer is that emissions are a Minor Cause of increasing atmospheric CO2. The increasing ocean flux of CO2 into the atmosphere is the predominant cause.
How we frame the question is discovered to be critical to seeing the correct conclusion.
The process engineers used:
IPCC data for total CO2 fluxes,
The bomb spike C14 decay curve data,
The Scripps Laboratory atmospheric C13 measurements collected worldwide for over 35 years, and
A first known material balance for the anthropogenic CO2 component itself, to understand the process flow data for all 3 components (anthropogenic, natural and total) of CO2 for all 5 atmospheric inputs/outputs. We applied the option 2 concept above to reach, what is believe to be, an accurate conclusion.
All of the facts, data and logic lead to the conclusion that CO2 emissions are a minor cause of increasing atmospheric CO2 is unbelievable but appears to be true. Get the complete study by emailing esebesta@comcast.net
A better way to build a solar power satellite is to use a balloon as the central structure.
Cover the outside of the balloon with flexible solar panels, fold the balloon up and put it in your launcher of choice, launch it into orbit where it inflates itself and starts collecting solar energy.
A study was done on this concept and it was estimated that a balloon of this type that measured one mile in diameter could be folded up and launched in the Space Shuttle, and would require about 40 pounds of helium to inflate the balloon to full size when in orbit.
What could be easier? The flexible solar panels are the small hurdle, but there has been much progress on this front since the time of the study.
One launch and one working Solar Power Satellite in orbit.
If you want to spend time reading about strange and impossible space proposals go here: Space elevator – Wikipedia
The last edit was on 13 Feb 2026; so still a topic.
ALAN is apparently increasing CO2 released by plants across continents. ALAN reduces the amount of CO2 stored in ecosystems, potentially exacerbating climate change impacts, according to a Nov 12, study in Nature Climate Change.
CD in Wisconsin
February 15, 2026 7:26 am
STORY TIP
Leftist climate activist groups may be in some legal hot water with the USDOJ for failing to register with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) after they apparently received money from foreign sources to influence U.S. energy policy:
“HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 19 attorneys general requesting the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) investigate over 150 U.S.-based climate activist groups taking money from foreign entities to influence energy policy in the United States. Their actions may be a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which requires any organization, political party, or individual who collects money in the interest of a foreign principal to register with the USDOJ.
Attorney General Knudsen is asking Attorney General Pam Bondi and Assistant Attorney General for National Security Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg to investigate the matter because the 150 climate organizations have received nearly $2 billion in foreign funding from five foreign-based climate groups for political activities in the United States aimed at destroying the energy sector. While the US-based nonprofits are receiving foreign money to influence energy policy, they are not registered under FARA which could be a violation of the law.”
“Foreign actors are attempting to sabotage our nation’s energy sector by funneling dark money to their climate activist cronies in the U.S. The law is clear – if U.S.-based nonprofits take money to lobby and influence policy on behalf of a foreign principal, they need to register under FARA,” Attorney General Knudsen said. “As Attorney General, I will not stand by while America’s energy dominance is threatened by foreign influence. I urge Attorney General Bondi to open an investigation into this matter immediately.”
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It is interesting to see this happening on the heels of the announcement from the Trump EPA that the 2009 Endangerment Finding is being withdrawn. I am not a legal expert and don’t know what the consequences of this will be. Wouldn’t it be just awful however if these activist groups lost all of their funding and had to close down because of this? LOL.
My eyes glaze over when I’m presented with W/m² and I’m sure I’m not alone. So thanks for making the clarification.
It would be great if people posting here and elsewhere about how much warming this or that does or doesn’t cause warming would tell us in degrees or Kelvins how much warming they’re talking about, because W/m² isn’t an expression of temperature.
I have this mental image of an old fashioned pen light shining on the forest floor at midnight.
You can stipulate to the w W/m²/K, but that would be with everything else being equal. NOTHING else remains equal in the climate system. So you can calculate a theoretical CO2 sensitivity, you can relate this to a theoretical temperature increase, but as the old joke goes, it’s only valid for spherical cows in a vacuum.
Russell Cook
February 15, 2026 9:39 am
When you take the time to tear apart what the enviro-activist promulgators hurl – and it does take time – you’ll see every time that it isn’t the fossil fuel companies who ‘deceived the public’ … all the disinformation out there in the climate issue is on the enviro-activist side.
RICHLAND, Wash. – Energy Northwest operators took action to safely remove Columbia from the grid to examine equipment essential to plant operations. Operators are investigating the performance of reactor recirculation pumps, which support normal plant operation by circulating water through the reactor core.
Operators initiated a controlled, manual shutdown at 2:49 a.m. on Thursday.
This complete shutdown can be seen on the Bonneville Power Administration page: BPA Balancing Authority Load and Total VER
Steve Oregon
February 15, 2026 11:44 am
I just learned that the former home of the Seattle Supersonics, Key Arena, was modernized in 2021 by it’s private owners with $1.2 billion and a strong emphasis on sustainability.
In a big suck up to the green city elites the arena was renamed the Climate Pledge Arena.
In other news there is speculation that the Portland Trailblazers may move there.
I wonder what the team name will be? The old Supersonics or something more suitable like the Climate Crusaders or Climate Knights?
I liked not that referendum…
Keir Starmer has drawn up plans under which the UK will ramp up its net zero targets and cede control over its energy policy as part of closer alignment with Brussels. – Telegraph
Starmer is a lame duck held hostage by his far left parliamentary party. Miliband looms large as a favourite of the lunatic tendency, how loony?
Miliband plots solar farms in space in quest to hit net zero
Study suggests using orbiting satellites to capture sun’s energy under clean power plans – Telegraph
Brussels will no doubt approve?
Let’s see; Chinese manufacturing and installing potential directed energy weapons in space to fulfill the Green fantasy of a colder, less fertile Earth. What could possibly go wrong?
It seems that the Warmunists cling ever more tightly to their suicidal nihilism as the losses mount!
I’m wondering how solar farms in space square with Minibrain’s claim that renewables are cheaper when even Earth-based solar can never be…
The cost of it boggles the mind especially as we’re a bit skint. Who would provide launch services, expensive ESA or SpaceX?
Indeed, the costs would be out-of-this-world. Astronomical, in other words. Oh wait, I forgot: the Alarmunists don’t do math.
As Ed might say: “To infinity and beyond…” and that’s just the price tag.
They do. They know that if after some funding is received it goes bankrupt, it’s the perfect outcome. Let the middlemen keep most of the money (minus kickbacks) and blame #OrangeManBad or some other scarecrow for failure to deliver. Nobody will be jailed for these schemes.
Strativarius: I love the “a bit skint”. Don’t we Brits do understatement well?
We do have a unique way of putting things. I think it has a lot to do with the stiff upper lip thing; keep calm and bugger on. And we do. Maybe that’s the problem now.
Not when you have to draw attention to how well you do it.
Well, I don’t suppose you can accuse Captain Lawrence Edward Grace “Titus” Oates of that, he really was gone some time.
But then, how do we know Scott didn’t bludgeon him to death and then scoff him up with the last of the biscuit or whatever? A diary…
The stupidity of Mad Ed’s approach to solar farms in Britain is shown by the fact that the World Bank’s ‘Global Photovoltaic Power Potential by Country’ ,which compared the solar panel potential of 230 countries, ranked the country 229th. Only Ireland was worse.
His current terrestrial plans could lead to around 25% of Britain’s farmland being taken out of agricultural production.
Solar farms in space tie in with his delusions.
You don’t understand. Cost is irrelevant because its other peoples money.
e v,
Trying to rationalise the circumstances, there is a pattern whereby an “interest group” often an NGO and often with links to a charity, makes a case that money is needed for directions to a broadly stated problem, for example, too many people are sleeping rough in cities, that sort of social thing.
The essential step is creation of a pool of money from government sources. The pool has to be far bigger than the problem suggests.
Next, a body is formed to handle the money, with the endorsement of a government money source.
The body is formed, its employees and founders live high on the hog at least until a change of government (but some can survive even that!). The body can use its success template to get involved in more schemes, quoting success that is often unproven.
Here in my home State of Victoria, there are investigating lawyers reports of such schemes now mounting to $15 billion. It has become a big business. Governments hush it up to protect people who authorised the cash in the first place.
Geoff S
Britain left the EU?
Strat,
This is really dangerous, fundamental assault on the good people of Great Britain.
Sadly, I have no suggestions re what you might do. Out of ideas.
We are in similar dire straits here in Oz, captive to leftist governments that we did not vote for because we saw this coming.
Geoff S
The dysfunctional, impoverished, war-mongering, unready UK is the poster child of a basket case, already since WW I, when it started to lose most of its lucrative colonial empire, and stopped “ruling the seas”, because it was too expensive to modernize its out-of-date navy.
Gross, unaffordable overstretch for many decades.
The U.S. had to bail them out TWICE; Wilson’s 2-million Expeditionary force, and Roosevelt’s D-Day.
The US should just pull the plug and let the played-out, leftist, woke UK go down the drain, including its ten million mostly Islamic float-ins and fly-ins.
The Endangerment Finding, in particular, and the CAGW alarmist movement in general has ALWAYS been a ploy by the well connected to quash the lower classes, and maximize their ability to loot and plunder at will! Keeping the public ignorant of 20th Century history, human nature, and basic geology is the only way to create a populace that can be easily stampeded into the recurring crisis control that our “betters” leverage to maximize power and earnings. Once again, idiots prove useful!
I can accept the idea that elite are pushing this agenda. The idea that they can loot and plunder the lower classes doesn’t make sense.
Half the population in the west doesn’t produce much or even pay taxes. How can you loot them?
There is a general hatred of productive people.
When trillions are wasted on climate schemes are fewer opportunities for the lower classes to improve their lot in life.
When they can pick economic winners and losers, they will always choose family, friends and campaign contributors over small businesses. Look at the billions wasted in Solyndra and other Green scams, or the “gold bricks” the the Autopen Admin was throwing to their supporters in their final days in office!
Some claim that the Covid shutdown was the biggest wealth transfer in history. I’d like to look at the numbers and compare it with Nut Zero and the Green Raw Deal!
“ALWAYS been a ploy by the well connected to quash the lower classes”
Speaking of quashing lower classes, have we ever seen a better case of the powerful using their influence to protect themselves against the law, than those who abused the young girls in the Epstein case? This is not about right and left, or Dem and Republican, this is about those who move in the higher social circles being able to avoid the law. The moment at this weeks hearing, where the victims stood up and said they had all given statements to the FBI, but not one had been asked for a follow up interview. Not one. And that was under Biden and Trump. This is not right….
Follow the money they say. Seems they have made a good start with the interview of Les Wexner today. He gave Epstein 1 billion dollars. I wonder why?
I have spent a lot of time walking through the geology of the Mesozoic Neuquen Basin in Argentina. This sedimentary basin starts at about 250 million years ago (Triassic) and ends around 60 million years ago (Cretaceous, with Jurassic Park in between). The geologic strata show cycles of huge changes in the paleo-environment/climate. Anoxic ocean bays collected kerogens, leading to oil deposits. Wandering rivers underwent floods and log jams of both trees and dinosaurs. Huge sand dunes formed, both coastal and internal desert type, and their retained porous nature gathered up copper, uranium, vanadium, and cobalt mineralization (like the Congo in Africa). The geologic evidence is that dynamic Plate Tectonic events, like wandering, tipping, faulting apart, and rotating, are subjected to the additional effects of climate change. I wonder what the dinosaurs thought about CAGW? I wonder how the current CAGW crowd reconciles all of those dynamic events which are still ongoing, to interpret the CAGW signal out of all of that variance.
What did the dinosurs think? Why, they made themselves extinct, just like we seem to be trying to do with stupid beliefs like CAGW.
Club of Rome springs to mind
I gave you a vote for that, Redge.
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I hear you, Ron! For me there is nothing so mind expanding as wandering around this Earth, and considering how the many amazing geologic features were formed! Geology really rocks!
Check out the YouTube videos of geologist Myron Cook. They are extremely awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/@myroncook/videos
Ron,
The decades I spent in the minerals business were immensely rewarding in terms like job satisfaction, interest in learning, travel, thongs to do each day – many aspects. The bonus comes when your success enriches your company who then give you bigger pay rises.
Work in the geological sciences is thoroughly recommended for those good enough to be chosen. So, work hard on your educations of you are still at that stage/age. Be prepared to take on more than you think that you are capable of.
Geoff S
Great news. At long last, the 2009 Endangerment Finding has been officially rescinded by the EPA, with a Federal Register entry to follow soon. The finalized action relies on legal and statutory arguments and not on the scientific alternative rationale in the proposed ruling from last year.
OK then. I can see the reasoning here.
In my view, skeptics of climate alarm would do well to keep sharpening their grasp of the scientific issues as debate on these points will no doubt continue.
Source: From the “Response to Comments” document here
https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engines/final-rule-rescission-greenhouse-gas-endangerment
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3 Additional Proposed Bases for Rescission of the Endangerment Finding and Repeal of GHG Emission Standards the Agency is Not Finalizing at this Time
3.1 Alternative Rationale for Rescission: Climate Science
As explained in section IV of the preamble for this final action, the EPA is rescinding the
Endangerment Finding on the basis of its interpretation of CAA section 202(a), under which
the EPA concludes that Congress did not authorize the Agency to regulate GHG emissions
from new motor vehicles and new motor vehicle engines to address global climate change.
That legal interpretation is sufficient to support rescission of the Endangerment Finding
and repeal of the related GHG standards.
As the EPA does not adopt or rely on the proposed scientific alternative rationale in this
final action, the Agency does not need to, and is not legally required to, summarize or
respond to comments that address that unfinalized alternative as we consider those
comments to be out of scope of this rulemaking. Therefore, comments related to climate
science are out of scope of this rulemaking. This includes, but is not limited to, comments
on the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Climate Working Group (CWG).
Nevertheless, in the interest of transparency and to assist the public in understanding the
record, the EPA provides a summary of major themes raised by commenters regarding the
proposed scientific alternative rationale in section V.A. of the preamble. The EPA offers the
preamble section V.A. summary for informational purposes only. The EPA does not in this
rulemaking resolve the underlying scientific debates described below, does not issue a
new or revised scientific determination under CAA section 202(a), and does not adopt or
endorse any particular assessment, study, or comment as a statement of the EPA’s
scientific judgement.
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One more thing. After months of being dead in the water, the docket for comments on the DOE’s “Critical Review” report has come to life again. Now there are recent postings of comments made last year, including mine here.
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/DOE-HQ-2025-0207-0371
Thank you for your patience in these matters.
You filed your comments on Aug 19, 2025.
Regulations.gov posted them on Feb 4, 2026.
And they call themselves “career professionals
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I suspect the long pause in posting the submitted comments was related to the legal actions against the DOE at the time, which apparently no longer restrain further processing of the docket.
Maybe, like most “civil servants” in the UK, those in the DOE were WFH.
America’s New Maritime Plan Is Competing for the Wrong Century
The US embassy in London should be paying the congestion charge and paying for its many parking tickets.
The US Embassy owes the largest amount at almost £14m, the Embassy of Japan owes over £10.1m and meanwhile Togo owes £40. – BBC
Do you think they are going to pay?
You really want me to answer that? OK, I know, rhetorical question.
Well at least you’re not calling for a return to the Era of Sail. Yet!
Well, trump is heading to the Era of Stean.
Make Coal great again!
There’s a couple of decent pubs near Stean.
Perhaps he’s going for a pie and a pint
Good idea… clean, too.
Good, and overdue!
Ships will ALWAYS be fossil energy heavy….. They are made of steel !!
No-one has any clue what will really happen by 2030, everything put forward is just virtue-seeking wish lists.
The way the EU is going, it could actually collapse by then anyway, and not be able to charge any taxes on anything.
……. tourism maybe?
Americans, Chinese, Arabs and Russians all pointing and going “look at that, how quaint”.
LMAO
How many electric container ships does China have?
Cat got your tongue, MUR? It’s ok to say, “Sorry, I don’t know what I’m talking about”
MUR… My Useless Rebuttal?
Bring back galley slaves!
Since you’re clearly clueless about maritime matters, I’ll answer my question for you:
China has a total of 1 electric 700 TEU container ship currently sailing.
In total, China has almost 10,000 container vessels.
You really should stop spreading misinformation in every comment you make and do a little thinking of your own, mate.
Shouldn’t that be “sparking? 🙂
Groundbreaking research published in Nature in December 2022 revealed that environmental DNA (eDNA) found in Greenland, dating to approximately 2 to 2.5 million years ago, proves that northern Greenland was a lush, green landscape, far from the frozen desert it is today.
The DNA, collected from microscopic fragments in soil (clay and quartz), revealed a surprising variety of animals that lived in this habitat:
As this much warmer period in Greenland’s history took place long before any anthropogenic influence on global climate was possible, it must have been the result of natural forces. Claims of AGW seem ridiculous to me.
Do you have ANY idea what the carbon footprint of Fred Flintstone’s car was? Those cavemen were almost wholly carnivores, too! And so good at hunting that they drove most of the mega-fauna below replacement levels! Those were the days; troglodyte and Neanderthal were descriptors, not insults!
More like a granite footprint, I’d have thought…
The once common Dog-Bone Trunk Oak was harvested to extinction in the making of foot driven car frames.
I thought he had gneiss feet! Or was that Wilma.
All right, none of that schist!
The word “northern” should have been given more emphasis IMHO.
Greenland has been warmer than today for 99% of the last 250 million years, ever since it was part of Pangaea during the Permian Ice Age. That’s a quarter of a billion years of green. The ice is a recent aberration of the normative condition. Ice is death. Life requires warmth.
Hello everyone, I hope you’re all doing well.
News from France: PPE3 is very likely to be adopted very soon. There will be a strengthening of nuclear power, which is excellent news (though not for NGOs); the “planting” of 22 offshore wind turbines, which is sheer nonsense; reinforcement of existing onshore wind farms (dismantling old turbines and replacing them with more powerful models, up to twice as tall and two to three times more powerful—given the efficiency and intermittency of wind turbines, I have doubts about the relevance of this gain in power); and a slowdown in solar panel development.
When I think that Jospin forced EDF (Électricité de France) to halt the Superphénix project, which was nevertheless extremely promising. The Socialists had to win over the Greens, after all! Yves Cochet, Green MP for Val-d’Oise, was very pleased with that decision. It is worth noting that Mr. Cochet is now known as a thoroughgoing “collapsologist.” When you see him in interviews, he almost looks pleased as he elaborates on his environmental end-of-the-world scenarios—as if he were just waiting for it to happen. He is also in favor of the French having fewer children to make room for migrants.
At the time Superphénix was canceled, Mr. Cochet said (AI translation to which I entrust the transcription of my messages from French into English): “This power plant had no justification, neither in terms of electricity production, since France already has overcapacity, nor especially from the point of view of the site.” That is still true today: France produces too much electricity relative to the needs of the population. The difference with 1997 is that Superphénix was an innovative and technologically decisive project. The progress represented by that reactor justified continuing the work. By comparison, the 2026 PPE3 will only succeed in making us pay more for electricity, when we could very well have done nothing at all and nothing would have changed.
These new EPR reactors are extremely expensive; the grid will have to be massively modernized; widespread electrification of uses (electric cars, heat pumps, etc.) will be encouraged by this Multiannual Energy Plan. I do not expect it to be a great success (that’s putting it mildly).
Oh, and yes: the EU wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040. There are many ways to commit suicide, some more inventive than others. This one is hardly original anymore, and it has the added feature of being extremely slow and painful. Hooray.
When you see him in interviews, he almost looks pleased as he elaborates on his environmental end-of-the-world scenarios—as if he were just waiting for it to happen*****
I’ve been waiting for it to happen also, and hope the good lord grants me enough more years to see it. I suspect that would mean I would live —forever???
These charts show how Trump is isolating the US on the world stage
When comparing all of Trump’s years in the White House, including his first term, with those of his immediate predecessors – Barack Obama and Joe Biden – the number of countries strongly aligned with the US has collapsed, from 46 to just seven.
Such bullshit. Rubio just received a standing ovation at the Munich Security Conference, even Maduro is onboard.
Maduro isn’t exactly going anywhere anytime soon.
And you think closer alignment to China is a good thing?
Speaks volumes.
You still haven’t answer my question here because you know you are dealing in misinformation
MUR, it seems you think that when Eurofascists agree with the US, that’s a good thing … it’s not.
These are the genius folks who invited in millions of people who hate them, their dogs, beer, music, wine, bikinis, cartoons, Jesus, bacon, Westerm civilization, freedoms, and women … and if you say anything about that, they’ll jail you for “Islamophobia”.
Anyone the Eurofascists agree with is on the wrong side of the ledger.
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Closer to the truth than you realise, Willis. The backlash in the UK when Sir Jim Ratcliffe, a respected industrialist, said we’d been “colonised” by these people was worrying. He’s subsequently said he could have used a better word but I haven’t yet worked out which one that should be.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd6zvlywz77o
Enoch Powell saw it coming decades earlier for Britain, but from a different direction.
The end effects for Blighty is pretty much the same however.
You need to realise that The Guardian is the modern equivalent of MAD magazine.
Same total dissociation from reality, and looks like it is written as a joke….
…. only difference is that it is totally lacking any humour.
What? Me worry?
…
Of course I worry.
How prophetic this Dan Martin cartoon from 1975 or so has proven to be.
Geoff S
Well, Trump’s bullyboy tactics have certainly changed the way the world now looks at the USA.
My first knowledge of Trump was over the Trump International Golf Links debacle, just outside Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, in 2007. He & his team bought the site, & then they started using intimidation against the local landowners (“because they spoiled the view”), including trying to stop access on a shared road, cutting off the water supply, contaminating a well, blocking the coastal path & trashing a SSSI site.Construction of the course led to the destruction of legally protected sand dunes, impacting the local ecosystem & the resort fails to meet sewage treatment standards.
https://www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-news/aberdeenshire-farmer-regrets-not-knocking-7328172
So now a lot of Brits view Trump’s actions with a jaundiced eye.
But, I’m happy to report the existence of karma –
That golf course has not turned a profit since it opened in 2012.
Trump reportedly lost over $40 million due to poor financial practices, including failing to hedge loans issued in British pounds. (That’s a real loser ).
We also see his demanding & bullying stance on Ukraine, Gaza, Greenland, Canada; & the Detroit/Windsor bridge … alienating allies, not a bright thing to do.
Sad to see one egotistical man tearing up decades of international friendships that could prosper us all. Isolationism & tariffs will hurt the USA public (not the elites), just as Brexit has hurt the UK public (not the elites).
Fair bit of discussion as to the balance of Ed’s mind…If you get the loading right, you can add a fair bit…How about ADHD, OCD, and the new one…ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder…)?
ODD…that is a new one, but it explains so much !
A plain and simple moron
The Physics Trap: Why Germany’s gas storage facilities appear fuller than they actually are
The Federal Network Agency reassures us at 25 percent fill level. Reservoir physics says otherwise. An explanation of why percentages on paper and performance at the well are two very different things
Do you remember? When the phrase “gas storage level” became a staple of every German news broadcast in the winter of 2022, the nation learned a new favorite number: percentage. 80 percent in November, 30 percent in February – that’s what the gas storage level regulation stipulates, and that’s how you reassure the public. But lurking behind these reassuring percentages is a physical problem that is persistently glossed over in the public debate. Because a gas storage facility isn’t a tank from which you draw gas at a steady rate until it’s empty. It’s a geological system that obeys its own laws. And these laws are currently teaching Germany an unpleasant lesson.
Essentially everyone is incorrectly understanding how our CO2 emissions are processed by the earth system. There appears to be two ways to frame the question and Mother Nature gave us the misleading one.
Option 1. We can observe that the human emissions are increasing. The atmospheric concentration of CO2 has also been increasing in lock step with the increasing emissions. Then ask the question, “is the increasing emissions the predominant cause of the increasing atmospheric CO2”? The obvious answer is Yes. However, this answer is fatally flawed because only 1 (emissions) of 5 atmospheric inputs/outputs is accounted for.
Option 2. We can observe that the atmospheric CO2 concentration is increasing. Then ask the question, “what are the inputs/outputs that are driving the increasing atmospheric CO2 considering all 5 inputs/outputs?” The answer is that emissions are a Minor Cause of increasing atmospheric CO2. The increasing ocean flux of CO2 into the atmosphere is the predominant cause.
How we frame the question is discovered to be critical to seeing the correct conclusion.
The process engineers used:
All of the facts, data and logic lead to the conclusion that CO2 emissions are a minor cause of increasing atmospheric CO2 is unbelievable but appears to be true. Get the complete study by emailing esebesta@comcast.net
Decarbonization – warmer is better than colder
Scroll down to CO2 part of the text
A closer look at CO2 and its increasing concentration in the atmosphere
Excellent lecture, it deserves more exposure.
Please read all 3 sections & distribute.
A better way to build a solar power satellite is to use a balloon as the central structure.
Cover the outside of the balloon with flexible solar panels, fold the balloon up and put it in your launcher of choice, launch it into orbit where it inflates itself and starts collecting solar energy.
A study was done on this concept and it was estimated that a balloon of this type that measured one mile in diameter could be folded up and launched in the Space Shuttle, and would require about 40 pounds of helium to inflate the balloon to full size when in orbit.
What could be easier? The flexible solar panels are the small hurdle, but there has been much progress on this front since the time of the study.
One launch and one working Solar Power Satellite in orbit.
If you want to spend time reading about strange and impossible space proposals go here:
Space elevator – Wikipedia
The last edit was on 13 Feb 2026; so still a topic.
But can NASA as it is today rebuild and successfully launch Space Shuttle?
That needs one hell of an extension cable, or do you get a load of short ones & plug them all together??? (:-))
Artificial Light at Night (ALAN)
Will Climate Alarmists bore us with ALAN?
ALAN is apparently increasing CO2 released by plants across continents. ALAN reduces the amount of CO2 stored in ecosystems, potentially exacerbating climate change impacts, according to a Nov 12, study in Nature Climate Change.
STORY TIP
Leftist climate activist groups may be in some legal hot water with the USDOJ for failing to register with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) after they apparently received money from foreign sources to influence U.S. energy policy:
From the Montana Attorney General:
https://dojmt.gov/attorney-general-knudsen-urges-usdoj-to-investigate-150-climate-groups-using-foreign-funding-to-influence-u-s-energy-policy/
“HELENA – Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a coalition of 19 attorneys general requesting the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) investigate over 150 U.S.-based climate activist groups taking money from foreign entities to influence energy policy in the United States. Their actions may be a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which requires any organization, political party, or individual who collects money in the interest of a foreign principal to register with the USDOJ.
Attorney General Knudsen is asking Attorney General Pam Bondi and Assistant Attorney General for National Security Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg to investigate the matter because the 150 climate organizations have received nearly $2 billion in foreign funding from five foreign-based climate groups for political activities in the United States aimed at destroying the energy sector. While the US-based nonprofits are receiving foreign money to influence energy policy, they are not registered under FARA which could be a violation of the law.”
“Foreign actors are attempting to sabotage our nation’s energy sector by funneling dark money to their climate activist cronies in the U.S. The law is clear – if U.S.-based nonprofits take money to lobby and influence policy on behalf of a foreign principal, they need to register under FARA,” Attorney General Knudsen said. “As Attorney General, I will not stand by while America’s energy dominance is threatened by foreign influence. I urge Attorney General Bondi to open an investigation into this matter immediately.”
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It is interesting to see this happening on the heels of the announcement from the Trump EPA that the 2009 Endangerment Finding is being withdrawn. I am not a legal expert and don’t know what the consequences of this will be. Wouldn’t it be just awful however if these activist groups lost all of their funding and had to close down because of this? LOL.
Most of them are not one-trick ponies. There’s always something or other to blather about for money.
Dave Burton wrote a few days ago “…it takes about 3 W/m² to yield warming of 1°C,...”
My Reply :
My eyes glaze over when I’m presented with W/m² and I’m sure I’m not alone. So thanks for making the clarification.
It would be great if people posting here and elsewhere about how much warming this or that does or doesn’t cause warming would tell us in degrees or Kelvins how much warming they’re talking about, because W/m² isn’t an expression of temperature.
I have this mental image of an old fashioned pen light shining on the forest floor at midnight.
You can stipulate to the w W/m²/K, but that would be with everything else being equal. NOTHING else remains equal in the climate system. So you can calculate a theoretical CO2 sensitivity, you can relate this to a theoretical temperature increase, but as the old joke goes, it’s only valid for spherical cows in a vacuum.
When you take the time to tear apart what the enviro-activist promulgators hurl – and it does take time – you’ll see every time that it isn’t the fossil fuel companies who ‘deceived the public’ … all the disinformation out there in the climate issue is on the enviro-activist side.
“The ‘Victory Memo’ Is the ‘Ugliest’ Document …
– NOT –
… in Climate Denial History”
Just a note to inform:
Columbia Generating Station offline – Energy Northwest
RICHLAND, Wash. – Energy Northwest operators took action to safely remove Columbia from the grid to examine equipment essential to plant operations. Operators are investigating the performance of reactor recirculation pumps, which support normal plant operation by circulating water through the reactor core.
Operators initiated a controlled, manual shutdown at 2:49 a.m. on Thursday.
This complete shutdown can be seen on the Bonneville Power Administration page:
BPA Balancing Authority Load and Total VER
I just learned that the former home of the Seattle Supersonics, Key Arena, was modernized in 2021 by it’s private owners with $1.2 billion and a strong emphasis on sustainability.
In a big suck up to the green city elites the arena was renamed the Climate Pledge Arena.
In other news there is speculation that the Portland Trailblazers may move there.
I wonder what the team name will be? The old Supersonics or something more suitable like the
Climate Crusaders or Climate Knights?
Well, if the new team will be recruited from Seattleoodles… “Super Somethings”?