Advance Briefing for COP30 Belém 2025

Overview from E Co. A summit at the crossroads When the world gathers in Belém, Brazil, in November 2025 for COP30, it won’t be just another climate conference. It will be the first major summit after the Paris Agreement’s initial Global Stocktake at COP28, and the moment where climate ambition must decisively shift from words […]

Advance Briefing for COP30 Belém 2025

Climate Alarmism: Not Science, But Superstition

Brian C. Joondeph writes at American Thinker, CO2 Alarmism: Science or Superstition? Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. When Americans hear about carbon dioxide (CO2), it’s often shown as a harmful pollutant that threatens the planet. Politicians, activists, and media outlets warn that if we don’t reduce emissions right away, disaster will […]

Climate Alarmism: Not Science, But Superstition

California Dems Scramble To Boost Oil Production After Running Refiners Out Of Town

“After years of pushing radical climate policies that punished working families, Governor Newsom is finally waking up to what Californians need, he’s now scrambling to secure the very fossil fuels he tried to eliminate,” CEO of the American Energy Institute Jason Isaac told the Daily Caller News Foundation previously. “This sudden embrace of petroleum isn’t leadership, it’s survival. California’s energy future depends on realism, not green delusions.”

California Dems Scramble To Boost Oil Production After Running Refiners Out Of Town

Porsche delays new electric car after demand slump

By Paul Homewood   h/t Ian Magness   From the Telegraph:   Porsche has delayed the launch of its new electric vehicle (EV) as weak demand forces the German car manufacturer to focus on petrol and diesel engines.

Porsche delays new electric car after demand slump

Germany Faces Challenging Winter Of Power Outages As Energy Supply Struggles

Germany’s Energy Crisis: A Look At What’s Ahead Symbol image created by Grok 3 AI The head of transmission system operator Amprion, Christoph Müller, warns that Germany’s energy supply is facing a challenging winter due to a lack of power plant capacity as the nuclear and planned coal continue to get phased out. The This…

Germany Faces Challenging Winter Of Power Outages As Energy Supply Struggles

Alarmists Fail to Refute Realistic Climate Report

They shoot, they miss, we score.  David Wojick reports on the laughable failure of alarmists in his CFACT article Attack on DOE Climate Report is a comedy of criticism.  Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. The DOE science report saying the impact of CO2 on climate is exaggerated was quickly followed by […]

Alarmists Fail to Refute Realistic Climate Report

Why Fossil Fuels Still Rule

Kite & Key explain in their video, transcript in italics with my bolds and added images. Tech executives.  Heads of state.  Brilliant scientists and engineers. They’re some of the most talented and respected individuals in the world — and, in recent years, they’ve all come together behind a common purpose. They’ve marshaled their talents — […]

Why Fossil Fuels Still Rule

Power supply

Claim: Climate “Pragmatism” is Cover for Climate Delay

“Pragmatism” allegedly allows politicians to be in favour of climate action without actually having to do anything.

Claim: Climate “Pragmatism” is Cover for Climate Delay

Shell abandons huge biofuel project in Netherlands

By Paul Homewood   Another one bites the dust:   From AFP:     British oil giant Shell announced Wednesday it has abandoned construction of one of Europe’s largest biofuel plants in the Netherlands, as it focuses on its fossil fuels business. Faced with weak market conditions, the company last year suspended construction of the […]

Shell abandons huge biofuel project in Netherlands

China Still Building Coal Power Plants

By Paul Homewood China continues to burn more and more coal, according to dw.com:   China burned more coal at power plants between January and July of 2025 than at any time since 2016, despite massive renewable capacity, according to new environmental research report. The report,  published by the Center for Research on Energy and […]

China Still Building Coal Power Plants

Why Are Electricity Prices So High?–Dieter Helm

By Paul Homewood     Why is the price of electricity so high? It’s a puzzle, because successive politicians (Blair, Cameron, May, Johnson and now Starmer and Miliband) and lots of lobbyists have told us we should have expected quite the opposite: cheap energy, to be achieved by getting out of fossil fuels. First exit […]

Why Are Electricity Prices So High?–Dieter Helm

The Battery Storage Delusion

By Paul Homewood   Dr Lars Schernikau exposes the harsh reality about grid-scale batteries:     My first moped when I was fourteen, back in East Berlin, had no starter battery. The only way to get it running was to kickstart it which, back then, seemed perfectly normal. Batteries were expensive and heavy. My current […]

The Battery Storage Delusion

Mad Miliband’s British Net Zero Industrial Collapse

Another steel mill just entered administration.

Mad Miliband’s British Net Zero Industrial Collapse

An attempt to lower NZ electricity prices could end up doing the opposite – here’s why

Richard Meade writes – In its quest to lower electricity prices for New Zealand households, the Electricity Authority may inadvertently make the situation worse. This week, the authority announced plans to require New Zealand’s “gentailers” – firms that both generate electricity and retail it to consumers – to offer the same supply terms to independent retailers as […]

An attempt to lower NZ electricity prices could end up doing the opposite – here’s why

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