Bill Gates Returns to Energy Pragmatism

Alex Epstein reports regarding Bill Gates latest statement downplaying climate doomsterism, and reminds us that he hasn’t changed his mind so much as he is now able to speak freely.  For example, watch this short video of Bill Gates in 2019. Alex Epstein posted his conversation with Fox News Will Cain: Why Bill Gates is […]

Bill Gates Returns to Energy Pragmatism

Surprised By Leftwing Radical Rhetoric? Look Closer at the Climate Movement

Radical environmentalists like Michael Mann are organizing, teaching, and shaping the next generation in ways that are anti-human, anti-freedom, and anti-Western. Thus far, they’ve done so unopposed. But conservatives can’t continue to cede this battlefield.

Surprised By Leftwing Radical Rhetoric? Look Closer at the Climate Movement

Ted Nordhaus’s Epiphany

For that, Ted Nordhaus deserves genuine respect. He may not yet be a full skeptic, but he has done something rare in the climate priesthood: he has confessed that the prophecies were false.

Ted Nordhaus’s Epiphany

The cost of turning off gas

Labour and Greens want us to run out of gas, having banned future exploration. They think the country can be powered by 100% renewables. One problem is that many New Zealanders have gas powered heating and cooking. So what would be the cost of doing away with gas? We now have an answer with this […]

The cost of turning off gas

World Bank Reduces Emissions, Not Poverty

The World Bank and other Western institutions retreat from fossil fuel finance has created a significant geopolitical opportunity for China. China is willing to finance fossil fuel projects in Africa and the developing world and reap the strategic benefit of control of energy infrastructure  in many countries.

World Bank Reduces Emissions, Not Poverty

Tories Won’t Commit To Lift Petrol Car Ban

By Paul Homewood    Mike Graham interviewed Matt Vickers, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, yesterday. At about 3hr 12 minutes in, the topic of Net Zero is raised. Vickers is asked whether the ban on petrol cars will be lifted – answer came there none!     It is astonishing that no thought seems […]

Tories Won’t Commit To Lift Petrol Car Ban

Claim: Renewable Australia will Have No Problem with Zero Generation Days

A new study suggests blackouts will only happen sometimes, if we build enough batteries and overcapacity, and a hydrogen export industry.

Claim: Renewable Australia will Have No Problem with Zero Generation Days

UN, EU, ICJ, Climate Cabal want to keep world’s poor impoverished

Poor and developing nations need to band together, finance their own energy infrastructure, development, health and prosperity – and tell the carbon colonialists to take a hike.

UN, EU, ICJ, Climate Cabal want to keep world’s poor impoverished

Badenoch vows to scrap ‘failed’ climate change law

By Paul Homewood It’s a bit half hearted, but better than nothing, I guess:   From the Telegraph: Conservatives will end net-zero targets that are ‘bankrupting the country’ Kemi Badenoch will promise on Thursday to scrap Britain’s flagship climate change law if the Conservatives regain power. The Tory leader is vowing to repeal the “failed” […]

Badenoch vows to scrap ‘failed’ climate change law

No Right to Stable Climate in Our Holocene Epoch

Leszek Marks explains how warming and cooling alternated throughout the last 12,000 years and how our modern period is no different in his paper Contemporary global warming versus climate change in the Holocene.  Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images.  H/T No Tricks Zone Leszek Eugeniusz Marks is a Polish geologist, professor ordinarius, […]

No Right to Stable Climate in Our Holocene Epoch

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

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

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