The concept of ‘all of the above’ dates back to a mid-2000s convergence of energy-related events including: (1) the then emerging but imaginary “climate crisis” and (2) an actual energy…
Tag: Green New Deal
New York Takes A Stab At a Green New Deal Demonstration Project: The Case of Ithaca
In short, everything about Ithaca’s Green New Deal is either a scam, or has been quietly abandoned, or both. Here in New York City we have our own building electrification…
Trump Energy Choices Saving America From Economic Disaster
The green fantasy has been a product of hubris – a belief that human ingenuity could defy nature’s limits and economic gravity in a single bound. The Trump administration is…
Ending the fallacy of Environmental Racism
The debate over environmental justice has been overtaken by the term “environmental racism” — the claim that minority communities suffer disproportionately from pollution because of systemic racism. While it is…
Great News from ‘Bloomberg Green’!
“I terminated the ridiculous and incredibly wasteful Green New Deal — I call it the “Green New Scam”; withdrew from the one-sided Paris climate accord; and ended the insane and…
Trump Wins U.S. presidency! Net Zero, UN Climate Pacts, Green New Deal & Inflation Reduction Act Face Ruin
“With Donald Trump winning the US presidential election, the United Nations COP29 will turn into a giant wake, with the United Nations facing defeat of their anti-human climate agenda. The…
Will “Green New Deal” Failures Elect Trump?
But maybe climate politics is about more that just “saving the planet.” Maybe it is about money and power, the Climate Industrial Complex, bleeding prosperity but at a pace that…
AEA: Kamala Harris on Energy
“Kamala Harris has a plan for American energy: make it harder to produce and more expensive to purchase.”
Climate “Communicators” Discover the Best Way to Persuade Voters is to Lie to Them
This is a hilarious X (formerly Twitter) thread on a presentation about “messaging over climate”. Worst messages tested: electric cars, Green New Deal, frontline communities, ‘Big Oil lied’, climate pollution…
Wash Post admits reality: ‘Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power’ – U.S. ‘power grid’ being pushed ‘to the brink. Utilities can’t keep up’ – ‘It is staggering’ – But WaPo frets energy shortage ‘threatens to stifle the transition to cleaner energy’
It makes you scratch your head and wonder how we ended up in this situation.
Boston’s Fossil Fuel Fiasco: A Case Study in Absurdity
a bold step towards “racial and economic justice,”
“Islands of expertise surrounded by oceans of incoherence” – today’s energy policies in a nutshell
…defiance of reality, of decision-making in the ocean of incoherence instead of on the islands of expertise, of the belief in the superiority of policy over anything else.
The Federal War Against Your Lifestyle
You need to prove that you are a big shot. You need to do something big. Maybe you could impose a lockdown. Failing that, banning some appliances that are cheap…
Great Car Reset: Biden’s EPA to release strict new fed emissions standard to ‘move U.S. car market decisively toward electric vehicles’ – ‘Up to 2/3’ of cars sold mandated to be EV by 2032
…the only result is going to be shortages of cars and a completely altered used car market. You can look to Cuba to find out what it’s like to have…
Pursuit of the Green Dream Will Make Inequality a LOT Worse
It’s amazing how quickly we could find ourselves living in a world where the vast majority of people have become poorer, in the sense of struggling to meet their basic…
Biden Putting Climate Change Agenda Over Energy Security – Linnea Lueken
In her discussion with host Rachel Campos-Duffy, Lueken explains how artificially raising energy prices in America by moving away from fossil fuels is going to raise the prices of everything,…
Lauren Boebert on climate and politics at Heartland’s Climate Conference in 2023
She discussed how she and fellow conservatives fought for reforms in the House Rules, and how she is fighting against the radical climate agenda of the Biden administration and Democrats…
The Faux Urgency of The Climate Crisis Is Giving Us No Time or Space To Build A Secure Energy Future
From Climate Etc. by Judith Curry There is a growing realisation that emissions and temperature targets are now detached from the issues of human well-being and the development of our…
Trump’s Victory and Climate Policy
This election, though not explicitly about climate, may go down as a turning point for climate policy itself. Voters signaled that they won’t accept environmental goals at any cost, especially…