Britain is a “sitting duck” for drone attacks, senior defence sources say, because Ed Miliband’s wind farms interfere with radar used by defensive domes.
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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #683
Quote of the Week: “…turbulence is the most important unsolved problem of classical physics.”— Richard Feynman,
Storing Green Energy to Last Germany 10 Days Would Require A 60-Million Tonne Battery
The EIKE author concludes that batteries alone cannot guarantee a secure power supply. Even under massive expansion scenarios for 2030, gaps remain (especially in winter) that would strictly require a…
SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Case on Colorado Dispute over Climate Change; (it should throw that case and all the others out)
So . . . . why is it not argued that these lawsuits should be dismissed because they do not present a prima facie case that ‘industry disinformation campaigns employing skeptic scientists’…
Check Your Facts, WTAE ABC, Activists Are Lying, Coffee Production Is Booming Amidst Climate Change
The Climate Central study has been around for a few of weeks, meaning it was hardly breaking news. WTAE’s audience would have been better served by the outlet and Szwed…
A Windy Day!
It does not take a genius to work out that when Ed Miliband succeeds in tripling wind power capacity, there will be far too much wind power for the grid…
“These People are Crazy:” Climate Science and the Cult of Self-Loathing
There was a time when environmental stewardship meant conservation grounded in gratitude rather than condemnation. It reflected a belief that a prosperous and confident society could protect its natural inheritance…
Potomac Disaster Demonstrates Environmental Hypocrisy
Politicians in and around Washington, D.C., posture as guardians of the planet while standing by seemingly unconcerned for weeks as raw sewage from their backyard spills into the Potomac River…
Antarctic Sea Ice Back To Normal
First, the Arctic sea ice refused to melt away, as the “experts” predicted. So they turned their attention to the Antarctic after a couple of years with less ice than…
The Politics of Oil and the Origins of the IEA
The IEA remains the energy security backbone for OECD plus other member states, all 32 of which hold at least 90 days of net oil imports as strategic reserves. Even…
Inconvenient wind turbine facts
Wind turbines are intermittent, inefficient, labor-and resource-intensive, and require a tremendous footprint on land or water. These massive turbines extract a heavy toll on eagles, hawks, birds, bats, and marine…
Chinese Communist Party Using Nonprofit Networks to Attack American Energy, Report Suggests
A Chinese Communist Party connected organization gave millions of dollars to an environmental law non-profit that targets energy projects in Louisiana.
Live at 1 pm Eastern: Space Mirrors to Save Solar Power? | The Climate Realism Show #194
It sounds like something a Bond villain would think up. A startup wants to put giant mirrors into space to reflect sunlight back toward the Earth at night. Why would…
They’ve nearly given up on climate — plastics will be next
No one wants plastic trash strewn about. But we don’t need another bloated UN program to handle it by orchestrating top-down controls, market distortions, and endless funding streams. Real solutions start with better…
CCC Deny Reality
Households are already £800 worse off a year as a result of Net Zero policies on electricity costs, whether directly via energy bills or indirectly via higher taxes and prices.…
Hinkley Point C UK: France’s EDF Boondoggle Sets a Record
Europe’s biggest nuclear power operator EDF, which manages France’s fleet of 57 reactors, is under pressure to show it can improve on its record of reactor construction. Recent projects have…
Climate Change — Where the Experts Make Fools of Themselves
Yale’s climate “experts” are backed by a $44 billion endowment, plus regular grants from left-wing foundations with aggregate assets a multiple of that. They will not go away any time…
Sorry, The New Republic, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Somali Migration. Blame Civil Strife and Poverty
here is no evidence that this drought is worse than those that drove historic migration. The cited claim that recent drought in Somalia was made “a hundred times more likely”…