Sunnova Hype pre-Bankruptcy

Unprofitable companies try to chalk up moral victories, while hiding the bottom lines and the analysis behind them. Enron was great at that–so was Berger’s Sunnova.

“THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE GOOD FOR ENRON STOCK!!” (Enron’s Kyoto memo turns 27)

The Washington Post broke the memo soon after Enron’s demise, showing how Enron was hardly a free-market, capitalistic company in  “[Enron] chairman Pushed Firm’s Agenda With Clinton White House.” Indeed, Enron was…

JUICE (Episode 2) – Undermined by Enron

The push to treat electricity as a commodity instead of a service is particularly punishing in California, where electricity prices are increasing three times faster than in the rest of…

Climate Enron May Be Heading for a Crash

Biden’s reliance on huge subsidies to underwrite the “Green Revolution” has brought soaring inflation to the U.S. that is taking away purchasing power faster than it can increase subsidies and…

‘Green’ Energy vs. the Environment (Enron to BP to PG&E to Hawaiian Electric)

…in retrospect, it seems clear, we weren’t as focused on these fire risks as we should have been.”

Recent Science Hoaxes Reruns of 2001 California Energy Crisis

Has anyone called for a separation of media from government?

“THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE GOOD FOR ENRON STOCK!!” (Enron’s Kyoto memo turns 25)

Dated December 12, 1997, it was written from Kyoto, Japan, by Enron lobbyist John Palmisano in the afterglow of the Kyoto Protocol agreement.

Exploiters versus Experts

Energy “plans” that call for wholesale changes but do not consider how the final overall system might work are not plans but rather only naïve wish lists.

Big Oil, Exxon Not Guilty as Charged (a rebuttal in six parts)

Trying to appease the enemy is futile. Employees, investors, board members who view oil and gas as destructive should not be part of the company.

UCLA Ordered to Release Records Showing Coordination Between Law Enforcement to Attack ‘Climate Denialism’

While UCLA attempted to categorize many of the requested documents as “not public records,” the court stated that, per a previous filing, “the definition of ‘public records’ is ‘broad and…

“THIS AGREEMENT WILL BE GOOD FOR ENRON STOCK!!” (Enron’s Kyoto memo turns 24)

If implemented, this agreement will do more to promote Enron’s business than will almost any other regulatory initiative outside of restructuring of the energy and natural gas industries in Europe…

Texas’s Renewables: How Did the Problem Start? (Enron, Republicans Running Wild)

This post from 12 years ago recounts the political origins of the Texas wind power boom. It is also the prehistory of the Great Texas Blackout of February 2021. Note…

Politicizing Business: From CSR to ESG

Corporate social responsibility (CSR)… stakeholder theory … sustainability … environmental, social, and governance investing (ESG). Whatever the term, the premise is that business is a cultural failure as well as…

Another False Premise that Underlies Environmental, AGW, and Creationists Views Thriving in a Moral Vacuum.

Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball The perpetuation of the deception that humans are causing the inevitable collapse of the world because of global warming works because of the deliberate exploitation…

Enron Romm

Most WUWT readers know Joltin Joe Romm by his trademark over the top rhetoric and his outright hatred of skeptics on parade every day at his Center for American Progress…

Science at work: "Tuning may be a way to fudge the physics"

A collection of fudge from The Team, sweet! ClimateGate FOIA grepper! – Email 636 Solution 1: fudge the issue. Just accept that we are Fast-trackers and can therefore get away…