British billionaire and “ESG” hedge fund manager Sir Christopher Hohn has directed scores of millions of dollars to the climate advocacy industry driving investment to ESG
Category: Climate Economics
$Trillions For Nothing…Damning Report: Green Energies Grow Only “Paltry Two Percent in Entire Decade”!
In 2020, only 12.6 percent of global energy demand was met by renewable energies. In 2009, the figure was 10.6 percent.
Biden’s Virtue-Signaling: The Costs of Climate Policy
President Biden’s climate policy is not “the root of all evil,” but it’s close. Instead of improving the earth’s climate, it is causing or at least substantially worsening several economic…
Green Energy Victim? Large California Meat Processing Plant to Close, Cites Utility Bills
Next time Californians wonder why their supermarket shelves are empty, perhaps they should consider the road miles California’s insane green energy policies are adding to deliveries.
German Economics expert Sees 6 Formidable Problems with Germany’s Green Energy Push
Leading German economist Hans Werner Sinn sees 6 major problems with Europe’s green energy transition (Energiewende) and warns other nations against following the German energy model.
Bloomberg: China is Suffering a Renewable Energy “Curtailment Curse”
According to Bloomberg, China is “curtailing”, discarding an increasing percentage of their renewable energy generation, because their grid cannot cope with the excess production on days with favourable weather.
Climate Change Weekly #436: Woke Investing Gets Well-Deserved Pushback
Many are targeting a concept known as ESG—which stands for environmental, social and governance—a sustainable investment trend sweeping the financial world. Red state officials deride it as politically correct and…
Ethanol: A Dumb Idea or A Crime — Or Both?
Shortcomings of ethanol as an alternative to gasoline have been reported continually since at least 2007
Did HSBC Stuart Kirk Kill the Climate Investment Industry?
Did Stuart Kirk’s presentation strip away a legal defence of feigned ignorance from financial advisors who sell dubious green investments?
Biden grants Earth ‘climate stability’ through higher gas prices according to 2012 New York Times OpEd – NYT claimed massive increase in gas prices would ‘result in climate stability’
If Frank’s claims from the New York Times were correct, President Biden has officially solved “climate change” with his higher gas prices.
Kentucky AG Legal Opinion: ESG Investing is a Breach of an Asset Manager’s Fiduciary Duty
While asset owners may pursue a social purpose or “sacrifice some performance on their investments to achieve an ESG goal,”25 investment managers entrusted to make financial investments for Kentucky’s public…
Watch Western Sanctions on Russia Boomerang: A Global Energy and Food Crisis in The Making
After weeks of contradictory advice from Brussels, the EU just gave its assent to payment for Russian gas in roubles by its members.
The Green Agenda’s Role in Global Inflation–Ben Pile
The rise in energy prices the world has seen were not the result of an unforeseeable supply crisis, but engineered by those charged with managing the economy.
Climate Skeptic HSBC Banker Suspended for Honesty?
A few days ago, WUWT applauded HSBC’s Stuart Kirk for revealing how head bankers like himself are being pressured to add unrealistic assumptions to climate models, like a $200 carbon…
HSBC Senior Banker Spanked After Dissing the Climate Crisis
“there was always some nut job telling me about the end of the world”, “apocalyptic warnings are ALWAYS wrong”. HSBC’s Stuart Kirk candidly sharing his frustration with economic ignorance of…
Claim: “Cryptocurrency price collapse offers hope for slowing climate change”
Cryptocurrency, which until recently received a climate pass from Californian anarchy money advocates, is increasingly being seen as a climate villain.
“Negative Electricity Prices and the Production Tax Credit” (2012 warning for Texas went unheeded)
The market distortions caused by renewable energy incentives are one of the primary causes I believe of our current resource adequacy issue… [T]his distortion makes it difficult for other generation…
The ESG Community Lacks an Understanding of What Crude Oil is Used For
Products from crude oil are the foundation of modern society and few consumers are willing to give up those benefits. Access to inexpensive, abundant and dependable crude oil has been…
Ford Reports Devastating Losses Thanks to Electric Vehicle Gamble
Ford claims supply chain issues are preventing them from satisfying strong market demand for electric vehicles.
Real Threats to Biodiversity and Humanity
Polls reveal that most people worry most about energy and food prices, crime, living standards, Putin’s war on Ukraine, and increasing efforts to control their lives.
Climate Colonialists Disrupt African Pipeline, Perpetuate Poverty
Climate activists’ ill-founded opposition to fossil fuels threatens to stop a major pipeline project in East Africa and stymie economic growth in Uganda and Tanzania — home to some of…
Watch: Morano on TV explains how climate agenda is pushing ‘the end of private car ownership’ & end of meat-eating
“The whole climate agenda stripped bare is literally a self-immolation of your national security and your economic security.”
Column: A Stake Through the Heartland – Inflation and Supply Chain Issues Are Greatly Stressing the Country’s Producing Class
But global mismanagement of the fuel system – following very bad advice that the old can be now starved of capital and dismantled because erroneous fanatics have led to believe…