Transition realism hits Barclays

Imagine you had been fed climate nonsense your whole life. Your teachers were emptied-headed little bimbos who had bought into the climate agenda wholesale and tolerated no dissent from their…

Drones Over Dubai

The resilience I saw in Dubai, where life continued amid ongoing attacks, now faces an even greater test as the global energy supply chain is under strain. With escalation showing…

Context and Location Matters, USA Today and Others, Longer Allergy Season Has an Upside

Every year at this time, myriad media outlets run stories on the allergy season and what steps people with allergies can take to alleviate their suffering. In recent years, there…

Climate Assumption Busted: Mega-Volcano, Falling CO₂

A recent piece in Eos highlights a result that will likely make climate modelers a bit uncomfortable: during one of Earth’s more dramatic volcanic episodes, atmospheric CO₂ didn’t spike—it fell.…

Maryland Blocks Frivolous Climate Lawsuits

This is a HUGE win for common sense and energy security.

THE PUZZLING MYSTERY OF OHIO AND TEXAS FIREBALLS:

“Spring is fireball season,” says Bill Cooke of the NASA Meteoroid Environment Office. “For reasons we don’t fully understand…

British Regulator OFCOM to Investigate Broadcaster Climate Denial

Apparently “dangerous climate lies” like claims there is no climate emergency should not be allowed to go unchallenged in TV programmes.

New Jersey Legislation Targeting Energy Companies Will Hurt Consumers

Elected leaders and policymakers can’t have it both ways. They can’t tell the citizens of the state that they are going to reduce your energy costs, then tax the very…

New York Approaches The Green Energy Cliff With Morons In Charge

We are moving into a world of make-believe. At this point, nothing about the supposed green energy transition is real, except for the ongoing costs getting stuck to the taxpayers…

Mocked, Dismissed… and Right: The Problem With ‘Trust the Experts

The meme below shows a guy at his laptop, grinning like he just cracked the Da Vinci Code: https://x.com/zackkanter/status/2032873329900888230 “Honey, come look! I’ve found some information all the world’s top…

Wyoming wind power needs a Programmatic Environmental Impact Assessment

It would be best if the Feds and Wyoming teamed up on a comprehensive assessment of how to control the adverse impact of wind generation on wildlife, especially golden eagles.…

Brother Love the Earth’s Traveling Salvation Show

These pleas are offensive, intellectually degrading and founded on exaggerations, fables and lies. But as 2024 Sierra Club Changemaker of the Year Bruce Hamilton has admitted, “It’s what works. It’s…

The Strait of Hormuz Crisis Shows the World Still Runs on Fossil Fuels

The world will remain vulnerable to disruptions in oil and gas supply. And few places embody that vulnerability more clearly than the Strait of Hormuz. A sliver of water in…

There’s Nothing “Voluntary” About a Smart Meter

The process is described as “voluntary“. The practical outcome is that, once existing meters reach the end of their life, all households will move onto smart metering whether they ever…

The Two Biggest Myths About AI Data Centers

AI data centers are being built, whether most Americans like them or not. Around 3,000 were planned or under construction as of December. The good news is that there actually…

Is Public Stupidity Behind Climate Change Apathy?

Maybe its climate messaging. We’ve been attempting to scare or shame people into caring, and it’s not effective. Is it time to completely rethink how we talk about climate and…

Aussie Fuel Crisis: “Is this a safe area to leave my automobile?”

This evening I looked into the eyes of someone in hell – mortgage rates and electricity bills soaring, gasoline prices near doubling in a week, but he has a family…

The severe socio-economic costs of solar and wind

A heightened crescendo of voices reverberating across the world, to aggressively promote renewable energy, will continue to miss the point about the need to have a sustainable energy mix. Such…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #684

Quote of the Week: “If the man doesn’t believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we…

Electric Car Mandates Start To Bite

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood Car manufacturers must ensure that electric cars make up at least 33% of their total registrations this year or…