The fate of the West Cumbria Mining project had been hanging in the balance for two years after the local county council initially approved the mine in 2020.
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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #493
“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science.”— Richard P. Feynman.
British Government: “renewable power is the best way to shield the UK from volatile gas prices.”
According to British government ministers, the best way to shield Britons from gas price volatility is to embrace renewable energy. My question – what is the plan when the wind…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #490
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #482
“So, it is a one percent effect—it is actually a little less than that because that is with no clouds. Clouds make everything even less threatening.” – William Happer on…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #480
“There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [H
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #478
“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!” –…
UK Government Funded Climate Think Tank Demands Peak Cars by 2030
According to the Institute of Public Policy Research, even Electric Vehicles are not green enough to permit unfettered growth in car ownership.
Ban All New Gas Boilers By 2025 Say IEA
Reposted from NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT MAY 18, 2021 By Paul Homewood Could somebody please tell me which planet McGrath And Harrabin are on? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57149059 Do the…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #455
“Net zero is a new word for indulgences to emit CO2. When will a modern Martin Luther nail truth to the door of the cathedral of green religion?”
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #447
“It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system-ever aiming toward the…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #446
“The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.” Isaiah Berlin — Naturalized British philosopher
Sister Flatulenta of the Breath of Heaven
That he should thus have wasted the first opportunity in three decades for Britain to chair the Security Council shows how poor is his judgment both about matters of science…
Weekly Climate And Energy News Roundup #441
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge…
2021 COP26 Climate Conference Hosts Authorise a New Coal Mine
Britain, the host of the upcoming COP26 climate conference, is getting slammed by climate activists for authorising a new coking coal mine in the politically sensitive national electorate of Whitehaven.…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #435
“Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.” – Alexander Hamilton
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #433
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” — John Adams…
UK Bans Gasoline and Diesel Vehicle Sales from 2030
Boris Johnson has demonstrated a spectacular lack of empathy for vulnerable people who cannot afford an electric vehicle.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #429
“Quantum theory yields much, but it hardly brings us close to the Old One’s secrets. I, in any case, am convinced He does not play dice with the universe.” Albert…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Round Up #427
“It is well known that [scientific] reputation is hard to build and easy to lose; however, it is even harder to rebuild.”– Professor Leonid Tsybeskov, New Jersey Institute of Technology…
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