Not much, really. Just a whole lot of waste and false hopes with massive government intervention to create a wind/solar/battery bubble. The subtitle of the CLIMATEWire piece said much: “The…
Tag: Paris Climate Agreement
Live at 1 p.m. Eastern: Making Climate Policy Sane Again – The Climate Realism Show #142
The Heartland Institute’s Anthony Watts, Sterling Burnett, Linnea Lueken, and Jim Lakely are joined by special guest Myron Ebell, who was on President Trump’s EPA Transition Team for his first…
Mexico’s Emissions Con Trick
Mexico is another country which continues to increase emissions. Even their Paris NDC was explicit about this, as it pledged only to cut emissions from a theoretical Business as Usual…
Conflict of Energy Forecasts: Saudi Aramco vs. International Energy Agency
“The IEA has become, so to speak, our armed wing for implementing the Paris agreement,” France’s President Emmanuel Macron declared two months ago.
Starting To Notice That The Energy Transition Is Not Happening
We should abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and gas and instead invest in them adequately reflecting realistic demand assumptions,” he said. . . . “All this strengthens the…
Why COPs Should Have No Teeth
There has curiously been very little comment about the willingness of the UN to go on having Conferences calling for actions that don’t happen.
U.S. Exit of the Paris Climate Accord: Reasons Reverberate Today
Six years later, the logic of withdrawal remains–and more so.
Emissions and CO2 Concentration: An Evidence Based Approach
Therefore, if we keep living our lives with the current CO2 emissions – and a 3%/decade efficiency improvement, then the Paris climate goals are fulfilled.
German Economics expert Sees 6 Formidable Problems with Germany’s Green Energy Push
Leading German economist Hans Werner Sinn sees 6 major problems with Europe’s green energy transition (Energiewende) and warns other nations against following the German energy model.
More on Energy Fantasy Versus Reality in Woke-Land
It’s official: the world is committed to rapidly reducing CO2 emissions
Exit the Paris Climate Accord (Marlo Lewis on offense)
If fewer than two thirds of senators present vote in favor of ratification, President Biden should inform the U.N. Climate Secretariat that America is not a party to the Paris…
Will China achieve its 2060 carbon neutral commitment from the provincial perspective?
China has pledged to peak carbon emissions before 2030 and strive to achieve carbon neutrality before 2060
Beijing demands US fulfill wish list of demands in exchange for cooperation on climate change
Among its demands, the CCP requires the United States not to “infringe” upon China’s “sovereignty” in the troubled regions of Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong. Many Western governments, including the…
India’s Energy Policies and the Paris Agreement Commitments: Economic Growth and Environmental Constraints
As we approach the UN climate body’s Conference of Parties (COP26), to be held in Glasgow in November, the drive by the UN’s climate body to push the world’s major…
COP26 heading for the rocks?
Unsurprisingly, the reluctance of Western governments to deliver its pledge of an annual $100 billion transfer fund to more than 100 developing countries is threatening to unravel COP26.
Biden’s U.S. Emissions Reduction Scheme Repeats Past Failures That Promote More Global Emissions Increases
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin Biden and the Democrats U.S. 50% emissions reduction by year 2030 pipe dream scheme will simply lead to the same failed future emissions outcomes that…
Huge change in Biden’s April 28 speech – U.S. emission reductions “don’t matter.”
It was most appropriate of Biden to inject some “truth” into his speech by acknowledging the complete futility of his scheme mandating the U.S. to undertake costly and ineffective efforts…
Philippines at Crossroads: Paris Pledge Threatens to Compromise Energy Security
The Philippines was one of the first countries to pull out of the international Paris climate agreement. However, it rejoined soon after and is now torn between its need for…
China’s carbon reduction target looks elusive as banks keep throwing cash at coal mines and power plants, undercutting Xi Jinping’s plan to slash fossil fuels
American and Canadian banks led almost half of the US$3.8 trillion in global fossil fuel financing deals over the past five years. European, UK, Chinese and Japanese financial institutions pale…
The Paris Delusion Collapses: Even the New York Times Admits It
It has taken a full decade, but the mainstream press is finally catching up to what we at Watts Up With That (WUWT) have been saying since the day the…