Meet Digger: perhaps the first genuinely shovel-ready movie. It arrived with the shovel, found the hole and, judging by the reported opening-weekend box office, immediately began digging its own grave.
Guardian: The Coal Hypocrisy is Strong with COP31
Both host country Turkey and “President of Negotiations” Australia are players in the global coal supply chain – Australia exports, and Turkey imports.
Heartland Institute Experts Applaud Trump’s New, Realistic Automobile Efficiency Standards
Government shouldn’t be in the business of deciding what types of cars and trucks people drive
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #709
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”— Albert Einstein
Latest European Green Energy Debacle; Portugal’s Largest Flagship Solar Park Insolvent!
In summary, Europe’s green energy revolution is going the way of communism: lots of rosy promises turning into an economic debacle. Collapse is inevitable.
Democratic Socialists want a Green New Deal … and more
Give the Democrats and Democratic Socialists control of Congress and the Supreme Court, and affordability, justice, equality, and opportunity become a distant memory — or a pipe dream — for…
Impossible, Asia Nikkei, Climate Change Can’t Be Harming Indonesian Coffee Production, It Is Setting Records
In the end, the data suggests that Indonesia’s coffee growers have been benefitting from modest climate change, not suffering. Somehow Asia Nikkei, failed to get the memo. Its writers and…
Anti ULEZ Low Emission Zone Campaigner Jailed for 15 Years for Terrorism
The court found he was responsible for attacking a camera with a bomb which detonated and endangered lives.
Coal’s Real Value Is Optionality
Coal is not returning from the dead. The world never stopped needing it.
Why So Many Social Science Claims Are False
Until the incentives for research change more broadly, the public will continue to be fed a steady diet of bold claims about human behavior built on an unsteady foundation.
Climate Change Weekly # 592—Major Nature Study Retracted After RCP8.5 Debunking
Major Nature Study Retracted After RCP8.5 Debunking Warmer Climate Is Resulting in Fewer Deaths, Studies Say Biden’s EV School Bus Boondoggle: High Costs, Poor Results
UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for September, 2026: +0.61 deg. C
The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for September, 2026 was +0.61 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, down from the August, 2026 value of +0.68…
University of Reading Professor Explains How Britons will Have to Do Without when Renewable Energy is Unavailable – Unless you are Rich
“… Up to now, the solution has been to build more storage or curtail generation. Both approaches can work, but both can also be expensive. …”
Africa’s Poorest Countries Need Energy, Not Empathy
African governments should demand that the African Development Bank and World Bank restore financing for fossil fuel plants and for the infrastructure to connect them to consumers. This is the…
Political Spite Won’t Keep the Lights On
Whatever GBG is or will be, it’s certainly not yet a proposition as radical as the re-nationalisation of the National Grid (which I would only advocate as punishment for the…
When All Else Fails, Start a War: Europe’s Descent From Net Zero Folly to Military Mobilization
Vladimir Putin’s Russia makes an unusually convenient target: distant enough to be safely feared, weak enough (on Mr Rutte’s own telling) to be safely provoked, and useful enough, as an…
The Guardian calls Climate Change Treachery on a Major Aussie Coal Mine Extension
The mine produces large volumes of bituminous thermal black coal – the kind of coal being phased out in Aussie power stations.
Climate Alliance featured “affordability” law is anti-affordability
The Climate Alliance coalition of Democrat Governors recently featured a new Illinois “affordability” law which is actually the opposite. This is a good example of the Alliance’s anti-affordability policies.
US Unshackles Its Power Plants; Poor Nations Must Do the Same
The American energy reset is an exit from climate imperialism and an entrée to greater freedom to pursue prosperity. After appeasing ministers of international climate commitments for years, leaders of…