The broader lesson of the Hormuz crisis — a lesson almost perfectly inverted by the American Prospect — is that energy security cannot be reduced to a story about the electricity grid.
Category: Net-Zero
European People’s Party Leader: “We cannot kill our industry due to climate change”
The five stages of Europe’s climate grief: The bargaining stage.
The EU’s Green War on Farmers Never Ends
What we are witnessing is the last-ditch defence of a politico-scientific paradigm that has no empirical grounding but retains its institutional grip.
19% of Low Income Australians are Eating from Trash Cans – the True Cost of Net Zero
According to the Salvation Army, just under one in five Australians who sought emergency relief admitted to scavenging discarded food from trash cans.
Poultry Farmer Debunks Sainsbury’s Brown Egg Ban
I suspect that Sainsbury’s ban has more to do with the fact that breeds such as White Star need less feed, and are therefore cheaper to produce, thus enabling Sainsbury’s…
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair: “Abandon Net Zero and Move Closer to Trump”
“Infinite capacity for self-delusion” – Tony Blair kicked off Britain’s Net Zero disaster by signing Kyoto in 1997. Now he wants to hit the reset button.
Guardian Reveals Secret Plan by BHP to Backtrack on Climate Action
Just one problem: It wasn’t a secret.
Shocked Silence Greets RCP8.5 Demise as ‘Implausibility’ Ruling Leaves Net Zero Fearmongering in Tatters
The fallout from the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ruling that computer model high emissions pathway RCP8.5 is “implausible” is only just beginning.
Renewables Obligation Subsidies Top £100 Billion
There was never any democratic mandate for any of this. At no stage were the public consulted, never mind given the opportunity to vote on renewable energy policy, Ed Miliband’s…
South Korea’s Net Zero Boast Crumbles
The net zero agenda requires a deliberate ignorance of how the modern world functions. South Korea rose from the ashes of war to become a global economic titan because it…
HSBC: Net Zero Australia “one of the least well placed” to Weather the Iran Oil Shock
“… the Australian economy has also been operating beyond its sustainable capacity …”
Net Zero France Capitulates to an Iranian Safe Passage Fee for Gulf Oil
European Net Zero policies appear to have created a total dependency on imported fossil fuel.
Aussie Fuel Crisis: “Is this a safe area to leave my automobile?”
This evening I looked into the eyes of someone in hell – mortgage rates and electricity bills soaring, gasoline prices near doubling in a week, but he has a family…
UN: “War-driven energy price spikes highlight value of renewables”
“… Sunlight doesn’t depend on narrow and vulnerable shipping straits, wind blows without massive taxpayer-funded naval escorts …”
Aussie Security Experts Demand an Accelerated Renewable Transition
If you want to understand how Australia got into its current mess, read the open letter quoted in this article.
UN Urges Member States to Support the ICJ Ruling on Climate Change Obligations
Nobody paid attention to the International Court of Justice, so now they’re hoping a UN Resolution will do the trick.
Guardian: Net Zero would be Less Expensive than One Persian Gulf Oil Crisis
Apparently UK Net Zero to 2050 will only cost £100 billion (US $134 billion), or £4 billion / year. But a lot of the money has to be spent upfront.
Can “The Silent Majority” and Media Intervention Drag Climate Action Back onto the Global Agenda?
Although media interest in climate change is crashing, apparently lots of people still want governments to act.
Bloomberg Net Zero Obituary: “Even at the peak of its popularity, net zero looked far-fetched”
Bloomberg was until recently Net Zero’s chief champion. But now it was always obvious that Net Zero ambitions were not grounded in reality.