The European Union serves as a warning of what happens when ideology trumps physics. Climate mandates cannot make the wind blow. The “green” emperor has no clothes, and, baby, it’s…
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Panic-Stricken Climate Alarmists Resort to Bolder Lies
The real misinformation has been repeated predictions of apocalypse, fabricated links between bad weather and a harmless gas necessary for life on Earth and attacks on the reputations of those…
Time to Stop Endangerment of Developing Economies With CO2 Regulation
Now is the time for policymakers in developing economies to stop treating plant food as public enemy number one so that their societies can take advantage of energy resources that…
BP Defies Ed Miliband to Reopen North Sea Oil Field
The energy giant is reviving the Murlach field, which was declared uneconomic and taken out of use in 2004, has now become viable partly due to new technologies.
A Net Zero parable: The widget factory in the village
A village survives not on the fashion of the age, but on the reliability of the things that keep it warm, fed, and alive.
Trump Admin Walks Back Biden Rule ‘Smothering’ Alaskan Oil
DOI determined the Biden-era rule was “inconsistent with the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976,” the agency said Monday. The Trump administration’s proposed rule will be released in the…
Kathryn Porter on British Thought Leaders
The problem that we had in Britain on the 8th of January was we nearly just ran out of electricity. We didn’t have enough available generation to meet demand. So,…
National suicide – a rejection or just a reprieve for the USA?
Here’s the inescapable reality. Wind, solar and grid-scale battery power are not clean, green, renewable or sustainable. These installations and transmission lines blanket scenic, cropland and habitats. They slaughter raptors…
UK Electricity Grid Rescued by Gas as Massive Winter Wind Droughts Disrupt Supply
Despite an official admission that gas will be needed for renewable electricity back-up into the foreseeable future, new oil and gas exploration has been stopped. And continuing with the de-industrialising,…
Ebb Tide in Texan Oilfields
President Trump has undertaken to increase US oil production by three million barrels per day. That is a heroic undertaking given that he is facing a headwind of a half…
Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Mark Christie: Power Grid is Facing ‘Dire Consequences’ Due to Coal & Gas Retirements
The problem is the subtraction of coal and gas and other dispatchable resources which are the ones we need during this transition to keep the lights on.
Bloomberg News: ‘South Africa Beats Climate Goal as Blackouts Slash Emissions’ – ‘Unintentional…power plant breakdowns are reducing industrial activity’
Regular breakdowns of the coal-fired power plants that supply more than 80% of South Africa’s electricity mean that less carbon dioxide is being pumped into the atmosphere and daily rotational cuts of…
Fossil Fuels: The Big Picture
Most of us take cost-effective energy for granted. But much of the world doesn’t have that luxury.
Gas Station Bans Next on Climate Agenda: Colorado city BANS new gas stations due to ‘obligation’ to tackle ‘climate change’ – Follows California cities
The proposal includes a spate of climate-oriented provisions intended to reduce Louisville’s emissions.
European Commission Declares Nuclear and Gas to be Green
The European Commission has labeled nuclear and gas as sustainable. Critics are calling the step “greenwashing” and say it could threaten the bloc’s bid to become climate-neutral by 2050.
IEA Warns Russia could Cut Off All Gas to Europe
Just as well Europe has invested hundreds of billions of Euros in renewable energy capacity /sarc.
Irish climate plans fall short of urgent action needed
From Green News (.ie) Greens and the EU are fretting that Ireland just doesn’t do enough. The Commission’s 2019 Country Report for Ireland states that we are “falling further behind”…
U.S. Set To Pump More Oil Than Russia And Saudis Combined
From Oilprice By Rystad Energy – Jan 24, 2019, 11:00 AM CST In a major shift, the United States is set to produce more oil and liquids than Russia and…
Carbon dioxide emissions from the U.S. power sector have declined 28% since 2005
From EIA From December 17 through December 31, Today in Energy will feature a selection of our favorite articles from 2018. Today’s article was originally published on October 29. EIA’s…
Irony can be so… Ironic – Trump’s solution to AGW: “Drill, Baby, Drill!”
Guest commentary by David Middleton Daily Comment In Bonn, Trump’s Answer to Global Warming? Drill, Baby, Drill! By Elizabeth Kolbert November 15, 2017 Every year around this time, negotiators from across the…
