Climate Change Weekly # 578— Countries and Industries Are Abandoning or Reducing Net-Zero Commitments

Since the swearing-in of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States, climate alarmism and the political machinations in the public and private sector it spawned have experienced…

Net Zero Lunatics Set to Empty Your Medicine Cabinet

History shows that this type of commanding collectivisation often ends in tears – witness the gulags and starvation of Stalin’s Soviet Union, the deliberate famines in Mao’s China, and not…

From Tilak’s Substack

The mission, it turns out, is not to save the planet. It is to remake capitalism in the image of the administrative state. And the bill, as always, will be…

South Korea’s Net Zero Boast Crumbles

The net zero agenda requires a deliberate ignorance of how the modern world functions. South Korea rose from the ashes of war to become a global economic titan because it…

Friday Funny: Net Zero Hits the Fan

New cartoon – Green Cr*p Hits Its Own Fans.

UK Economist Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: High Energy Prices are ‘Good for the Climate’

Energy abundance is not a luxury; it is the foundation of modern civilisation. To pretend otherwise is not sophistication. It is civilisational self-harm. And the bill, as always, lands on…

Solar Power Threatens to Overwhelm Electricity Grid

Solar power is threatening to overwhelm the UK electricity grid this summer as gluts of supply create a risk of blackouts and leave households and businesses facing being asked to…

Continuing Slump in Global Media Climate Agitprop Bodes Ill for Future Net Zero Support

It seems the world is getting tired of clickbait, centrally-determined climate claptrap that for too long has provided an unscientific base for the Net Zero fantasy.

Manufactured Savings: How Ember Turns Assumptions into Energy Policy

Because once speculative outputs are presented as concrete savings, they begin to shape policy decisions, investment flows, and public expectations. And when those decisions are made on the basis of…

North Sea Gas “Saves Britain Billions a Year”

North Sea natural gas saved Britain billions last year and savings will be even higher this year amid sky-high prices, analysis has found, increasing pressure on the Government to boost production during…

Curtain Opens on the Dress Rehearsal for the Net Zero Calamity as Hormuz Threats Cut Hydrocarbon Supply by a Quarter

Predictably, there was a bit of a fuss and McGuire subsequently withdrew his post – “not because I regretted it”, but because people took it the wrong way, he explained.

Looming Aviation Fuel Shortages

Little wonder, when oil refineries are punished with carbon taxes, electric car mandates and the Net Zero energy transition.

Starmer: It’s Up to Miliband Whether We Drill in North Sea

Sir Keir Starmer has said it is Ed Miliband’s decision whether Britain drills for oil and gas in the North Sea, claiming he has no power in the matter.

No more ‘Great Reset.’  It’s now the ‘Great Retreat’

The “Great Reset” promised a rapid economic transformation. What’s unfolding instead is a quiet unraveling—banks backtracking, companies revising targets, and governments hedging. Behind the rhetoric, reality is forcing a course…

Brits Told to Work From Home and Use Ovens Less Amid Energy Crisis – and Reeves Can’t Help “Because She’s Maxxed Out Britain’s Credit Card”

Brits are being urged to work from home and use ovens less as the energy crisis deepens, amid worries that Rachel Reeves can’t help because she’s “maxxed out the nation’s…

Hormuz Choke Point Displays ‘Green’ Vulnerabilities and US Power

The crisis also showcases America’s capacity to support allies and the poor. Long‑term LNG contracts with Asian and European partners, coupled with support for reasonable financing of oil and gas…

CCC Deny Reality

Households are already £800 worse off a year as a result of Net Zero policies on electricity costs, whether directly via energy bills or indirectly via higher taxes and prices.…

Ursula von der Leyen Calls Abandoning Nuclear Power “A Strategic Mistake” – 15 Years After Supporting the Nuclear Phase-Out

While in 1990 one-third of Europe’s energy came from nuclear, today it’s only close to 15%. This reduction in the share of nuclear was a choice. And in hindsight, it…

Another £150 Billion For Net Zero–OBR

These costs are only the tip of the iceberg, as far as Net Zero is concerned. They are only the items that appear on the government’s balance sheet.

IEA’s 2026 Ministerial Meeting Was Its Most Consequential

The IEA has done much excellent work in the past half century. With demand for all forms of energy certain to grow into the foreseeable future the IEA should have…