Nearly 900 companies—including dozens of large international corporations—have quietly withdrawn from the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), reports Blackout News here.
Category: Climate Economics
Boiler Tax to Rise to £100 as Miliband Refuses to Back Down on Heat Pump Push
We have disagreed with this policy since its inception under the previous government. It imposes additional and unnecessary costs on the consumer when replacing their boiler.
Ed Miliband: Wind Power is Worse Than We Thought So We Need to Subsidise Even More of It
How can such a plan possibly fail when you have trusted messengers still claiming wind is nine times cheaper than gas? All hope is surely not lost when Fiona Harvey…
Did Punitive British Net Zero Taxes Just Bankrupt an Oil Company?
Thousands of jobs at risk “… have applied to the High Court of England and Wales to appoint administrators. …”
Guardian: Net Zero is Killing British Manufacturing
“… Time to closely regulate price-gouging gas plants or take ownership of supply …”
President Trump Cancels $700 Million of Battery Manufacturing Grants
But two companies have vowed to push forward anyway.
Climate Out, Affordability In
While the climate campaigners are busy trying to sell politically correct renewables (wind and solar) as cheaper, she uncorked a Truth Bomb.
Aussie Professor: Trump is Forcing Allies to Reject Renewables and Buy Expensive US Gas
“… The goal: prop up energy sources facing cost pressures from clean technology, strengthen US control …, and shut out China …”
Europe’s Terminal Decline: The Philosopher Queens and Their Ruinous Rule
The geopolitical humiliation of Europe is already manifest. The continent once balanced the world’s powers; it is now a mere appendage of American strategy. Its energy policy is dictated by…
Green Flagship “Beyond Meat” Shares Plunge After Debt Restructure
Bill Gates’ Beyond meat, promoted as a climate friendly alternative to real meat, is struggling with consumer backlash against processed foods.
Giant Transport Airplane to be Developed for Wind Turbine Components
Humans might face future air travel restrictions, but wind turbines could get a free pass if inventor Mark Lundstrom has his way.
Australia’s Energy Transition & De-industrialisation
Over the next decade, rooftops will force the demise of grid scale WDGs. They are not renewable or sustainable. They are stranded assets with no future.
Claim: Overpopulation Climate Claims are “A Dangerous Lie”, We Just Need Wealth Redistribution
“This isn’t a population crisis. It’s a distribution crisis.”
UK Exporting Gas Power To Windless Europe
…yesterday we were exporting our gas power to Denmark, Ireland and the Netherlands, because of the same shortage of wind power we were experiencing. (Gas and biomass power are the…
World Bank Reduces Emissions, Not Poverty
The World Bank and other Western institutions retreat from fossil fuel finance has created a significant geopolitical opportunity for China. China is willing to finance fossil fuel projects in Africa…
RGGI Investment Proceeds Report Implications
These results support my conclusion that RGGI can only claim to raise money effectively. Claims that RGGI is a successful emission reduction program are inconsistent with the following observations. The…
Utility-Scale Solar: The Grim News Begins (Blue Ridge “Wind-Down’)
Solar as grid electricity is a government-created industry. It would not exist without the large tax credits that began with the 10 percent ITC in 1978, which was extended six times…
The Doughnut Delusion: A Case Study in How to Turn Data into Ideology
After nearly two decades of “Doughnut” development, the grand insight remains: we must stop growing, stop consuming, and start obeying the moral geometry of academics who draw circles in PowerPoint.…
Time: When will Companies Notice the Cost of Climate Change?
Time author Justin Worland is distressed that companies don’t understand alarmist predictions of future climate harms.
Net Zero Business? Energy Prices Now Aussie Business’ Number One Concern
Inflation was the number 2 concern. Both inflation and high energy prices are being caused by Net Zero Expenditure.
Australia’s Big Battery Snowy 2 Pumped Hydro Scheme Suffers Another Cost Blowout
A billion here, a billion there, soon you’re talking about real money.
New York Draft Energy Plan Health Impacts Analysis Scientific Travesty
My comments should precipitate, at a minimum, a revision to NY-CHAPPA to include 16 wind directions and a valid verification analysis of the modeling. I don’t expect NYSERDA to respond. …
Place Your Bet on the Future of Energy: U.S. Or China
So how are you going to bet? Here’s my bet: The entire idea of an energy system based on wind, solar and batteries will not work and will fail, probably…
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