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Ed Miliband’s Plan for Zero Carbon Electricity by 2030 is a Damning Indictment of the Whole Net Zero Agenda
Many energy experts have long argued that a zero carbon grid simply is not possible at these timescales, because you cannot run a grid predominantly on intermittent renewable energy. It turns out...
The Dunkelflaute Disaster: What Happens When Wind Power Goes Silent
The truth here is painfully simple. Europe’s renewable dream relies on natural gas, coal, and nuclear. Without these, the entire system is a non-starter. Dunkelflaute is just the latest chapter...
Trump Wins U.S. presidency! Net Zero, UN Climate Pacts, Green New Deal & Inflation Reduction Act Face Ruin
“With Donald Trump winning the US presidential election, the United Nations COP29 will turn into a giant wake, with the United Nations facing defeat of their anti-human climate agenda. The enti...
AI Knows It is Biased on Climate Change
Okay it is chatbots that know they are biased, not all of AI. But these days the headlines are all about “AI” and they really just mean these chatbots that emulate reading to an amazing degre...
Trump’s Victory and Climate Policy
This election, though not explicitly about climate, may go down as a turning point for climate policy itself. Voters signaled that they won’t accept environmental goals at any cost, especially ...
Right, Our World In Data, Climate Change Is Increasing Crop Yields, Concern About Future Decline Is Unwarranted
You can’t have high yields without CO2 and modern, fossil fuel intensive, agricultural infrastructure. That’s the overall lesson readers should take away from Ritchie’s Our World In Data se...
Gas Power Will Remain Crucial
So it is quite wrong to imply, which NESO seem to, that gas will only make a small contribution. On the contrary, it is absolutely fundamental to the grid.
Climate: Losing Politics (time to end the futile, wasteful crusade?)
“Inflation and high interest rates could be blamed on high government spending stimulating excessive demand. High gas prices could be blamed on suspending drilling permits and the terminatio...
Urban Legends of Climate Change: Palm Springs, California
This is the first of what will likely be a series of posts regarding urban heat island (UHI) effects in daily record high temperatures. My previous UHI work has been using the GHCN monthly averag...
Natural Climate Change Factors
By Andy May “Consensus” scientists do not believe that solar variability, internal climate variability (in this model simplified to the ~67-year stadium wave), or volcanism influence net glob...
Science Shock: U.K. Met Office is “Inventing” Temperature Data from 100 Non-Existent Stations
Following a number of Freedom of Information requests to the Met Office and diligent field work visiting individuals stations, Sanders has discovered that 103 stations out of 302 sites supplying ...
Flooding Facts Drowned by Climate Hysteria: The BBC Ignores Spain’s Weather History
By Anthony Watts and H. Sterling Burnett The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) article, titled “Scientists sure warming world made Spain’s storm more intense,” ties recent flash floodi...
A Kamala Victory Means Green New Deal Lawfare
With preelection forecasts favoring a Republican takeover of the Senate, it’s quite likely a president Kamala Harris would not move landmark climate laws through Congress. That means she would ...
Mining Industry Needs $2.1 Trillion Dollars in New Investment to Meet Net-Zero Demand for Raw Materials
Despite the growth in metals supply over the last decade, BloombergNEF’s (BNEF’s) annual Transition Metals Outlook finds that there are still not enough raw materials to meet growing demand. ...
Alaska court: Climate change can’t justify giant habitat for seals
The court’s rebuke of the Biden administration’s attempt to use the ESA to curtail fossil-fuel development in Alaska could set the stage for developing this hydrocarbon-rich area under a new ...
Will “Green New Deal” Failures Elect Trump?
But maybe climate politics is about more that just “saving the planet.” Maybe it is about money and power, the Climate Industrial Complex, bleeding prosperity but at a pace that the subjects ...
Monday Mirthiness…and Horror
You can read my @LD_Sceptics piece on how some sceptics are mirroring the bad ideological tendencies that are dominant in establishment thinking here (today only).
Private Firms, States Use Tobacco Lawsuit Playbook in Energy Cases
Three years ago, as the lawfare effort against energy companies reached critical mass, economist Benjamin Zycher noted that using litigation rather than reaching consensus through normal politi...
UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for October, 2024: +0.73 deg. C After Truncation of the NOAA-19 Satellite Record
The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for October, 2024 was +0.73 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, down from the September, 2024 anomaly of +0.80 deg...
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #618
“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." — Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays