Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #592

“A coincidence of interests is always more powerful than a conspiracy.”

‘Trust science’, Paris mayor boasts as city declares ‘there will be no air conditioning in Olympic athletes’ rooms ‘to cut the carbon footprint’ of summer Olympics

There will be no air conditioning in the athletes’ rooms at Paris 2024, which has pledged to host the “greenest ever” Games. … Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo told those nations…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591

“My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles … That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need…

Exploding Energy Prices in Costly California

Green energy policies are the primary cause for high and escalating California energy prices.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #590

If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #588

There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science [pseudoscience]…It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind…

Time to Retire the Term “Renewable Energy” from Serious Discussions and Policy Directives: Part II

The impact of “renewables” on reliability is too vague to be meaningful. 

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #587

Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” — Benjamin Franklin (1722)

Time to retire the term ‘renewable energy’ from serious discussion and energy policy directives

Sustainability Depends on the Entire Energy Conversion Process

How Much Ocean Heating is Due To Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents?

Given these various pieces of evidence, it would difficult to believe that deep-sea hydrothermal vents — actually, an increase in their heat output — can be the reason for recent…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #585

’The exception proves that the rule is wrong.’ That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation,…

Biden Pauses Natural Gas Export Approvals

President Biden doing his best to burn down an industry filled with well paid unionised jobs.

Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #584

“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” – Will Durant  

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #582

“No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.” –Robert A. Heinlein

Data Falsifies ABC News’ Claim that 2023 Displayed Dangerous Heat Trends

Many of the examples cited by ABC News are misattributed to greenhouse gas emissions, as opposed to other human causes and a variety of natural influences that climate scientists acknowledge…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #581

“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.” – Bertrand Russell, “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #578

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” – Bertrand Russell

Low North American natural gas prices: a global oddity that brings a massive but impermanent competitive advantage

From the BOE REPORT Terry Etam s there any critical industrial material as bizarre as natural gas? The stuff holds almost zero interest for the general public, for the same…

Net-Zero Targets: Sustainable Future or CO2 Obsession Driven Dead-end?

Only nuclear energy is a viable “stock limited” resource where the stocks are much larger than the jack pot from fossil fuels.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #576

Doubt is clearly a value in the sciences. Whether it is in other fields is an open question and an uncertain matter.” “…it is very important to doubt and that…

West Antarctica Temperature FALLS 2°C in 20 Years

Despite the refusal of Antarctica to show any significant warming, the climate apocalypse circus regularly rides into town to drum up catastrophe business.

Study: Underground car parks heat up groundwater

From the “especially if the EV’s are on fire” department… The heat given off by car engines warms up underground car parks in such a way that the heat passes…

CNN Peddles Alarm About Western Antarctica Melting

A recent article posted by CNN claims that western Antarctica is melting rapidly and can’t be stopped, due to human-caused global warming, which will result in a dangerous rise ocean…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #574

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.” — Thomas Huxley