Why electricity costs more than we think…and why, in Germany, solar is about 10x more expensive than coal

What does it actually cost to keep the lights on, reliably, 24/7/365 year after year?

Positive national energy momentum at risk of being swamped by…everything else

Even Ontario’s premier Doug Ford has chastised the federal government to show some respect to Alberta and Saskatchewan, singling them out, an act that has happened exactly never times before.

‘Republican’ Green energy fantasies and casualties

Republicans who court an “all-of-the-above” energy strategy must drop their green virtue-signaling and get on board with the Trump administration and Secretary Wright’s train to prosperity and security. Unleash American…

California’s Climate Overreach

“The Affordable Insurance and Recovery Act (SB 982) would impose liability on fossil fuel companies for ‘climate-attributable damages,’ expected to be assessed in billions of dollars. It would empower California’s attorney…

Quit Fearmongering, San Francisco Chronicle, Climate Change Isn’t Coming for Cabernet

…a disservice to the San Francisco Chronicle’s readers, misrepresenting the true state of Cabernet production and its prospects in an attempt to advance the false narrative that climate change is dooming…

Amsterdam bans public adverts for meat and fossil fuels

Amsterdam has become the world’s first capital city to ban public advertisements for both meat and fossil fuel products. Since 1 May, adverts for burgers, petrol cars and airlines have…

IPCC Admits Apocalyptic Climate Scenarios Are “Implausible” – Meaning Most Media Scare Stories Over Last 15 Years Are Officially Junk

Purely anecdotal, but the BBC seems to have moderated its wilder climate stories of late with the “Climate” topic on its News site relegated to the second tier of subjects.

Not All Temperature Records Are Equal

And some records are being used to hype normal temperature variability in unfortunate ways.

Save Long Beach Island (LBI) Sues NOAA for Failure to Protect the Migration Corridor of the Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale

Lawsuit seeks to compel NOAA to act on a year-old petition to designate the whale’s migration path a “critical habitat” to ensure its survival.

Hatching a fossil fuel phase out treaty

For now it is more of a show than a threat so it is worth watching with some humor. Planning to achieve the impossible has to be funny.

No, USA Today, ‘Day After Tomorrow’ AMOC Collapse Isn’t Happening

The AMOC is complex. It has fluctuated for millennia. It may weaken modestly over this century under certain emissions scenarios. That is not the same as a Hollywood-style catastrophe.

Another Study Links Warming to Cloud Forcing, Shortwave Radiation, Natural Atmospheric Circulation

Natural atmospheric circulation patterns (like the Western Tibetan Vortex, or WTV) drive total cloud cover (TCC) change, which, in turn modulate the the amount of downward solar radiation reaching the…

UAE’s OPEC Exit: Pragmatic Oil Policy, Not ‘Stranded Assets’ Panic

The UAE’s departure, the largest and most consequential since the cartel’s founding, weakens OPEC+ materially and reputationally, but it does so because of internal rifts, US supply abundance and regional…

What about Earth’s Threatened and Endangered PEOPLE?

These global zealots want power over poor countries – not power for the countries’ destitute and desperate people. Their morally depraved policies and practices bring death to millions every year.…

Apparently, Getting Old Causes Climate Change

Charles Rotter There was a time when the climate conversation had villains you could point to without needing a spreadsheet. Smokestacks. Jet engines. Maybe a coal plant belching away like…

What Fuel Crisis? New Aussie Call to Tax Fossil Fuel Giants for Climate Damage

Locals ignored the advice of experts in beach sand erosion management. Now the council is blaming fossil fuel companies for the mess.

Amicus Brief of Naomi Oreskes … er, “Expert Report” Redux 5: the Conservation Law Foundation v Shell version

The legacy new media reporters never once questioned the collective accusation sources behind the “crooked skeptic climate scientists” accusation. This rock-bottom journalism malfeasance problem is unsustainable. The crash of the…

Select Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #689

Quote of the Week: “If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.” — Benjamin Franklin

The Politics of Tumble Dryers

Ed Miliband has decreed that tumble dryers are so dreadful that traditional ones are to be banned, to be replaced with ‘green’ ones which are more expensive and take longer…

MIT scientists say fusion overcoming energy challenges

Once fusion energy achieves commercial success, Mumgaard envisions a high demand, especially in countries like Japan, South Korea, and Singapore that are attracted to an energy source that uses so…