…customers are tired of being told what to buy and what rules to follow.
Fossil Fuels Remain The Future. VW To Invest 60 Billion Euros In Combustion Engines!
Fossil Fuels Remain The Future. VW To Invest 60 Billion Euros In Combustion Engines!
15 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics Tags: electric cars, Germany
Legal challenge made over ‘net zero’ power plant
15 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics

By Paul Homewood One more reason why the Net Zero Act must be cancelled. The UK’s energy security is far too important to be put at the whim of a judge and an eco-nutjob, who is no doubt funded by far left eco groups. (It is an extremely expensive process going to judicial review, […]
Legal challenge made over ‘net zero’ power plant
Starmer risks losing support for fighting climate change
14 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, solar power, wind power

By Paul Homewood The general election is now dominating our national life, generating wall-to-wall media coverage. But while dramas such as Nigel Farage’s decision to stand in Clacton, Rishi Sunak’s D-Day blunder and the first two television debates dominate the headlines, far less noticed was Labour’s energy policy announcement. Party leader Sir […]
Starmer risks losing support for fighting climate change
Windless nights make net zero impossible
13 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
It is very simple. The cost of storing electricity is so huge it makes getting through a single windless night under a net zero wind, solar, and storage plan economically impossible.
Windless nights make net zero impossible
New Report Reveals Massive Scale of Green Billionaire Funding of ‘Climate Emergency’ Reporting in Mainstream Media
13 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
…there might be some concern that another science-lite campaign could eventually lead to more grovelling public accountability, laughable scorn and diminished credibility.
New Report Reveals Massive Scale of Green Billionaire Funding of ‘Climate Emergency’ Reporting in Mainstream Media
How Jacinda Ardern left New Zealand on the brink of blackouts
13 Jun 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: British politics

By Paul Homewood Sir Keir Starmer is standing by a pledge to ban new drilling in the North Sea, despite New Zealand abandoning a similar policy amid blackout fears. Labour’s manifesto, due out on Thursday, will feature a pledge to block all new licensing for oil and gas as one of its key […]
How Jacinda Ardern left New Zealand on the brink of blackouts
Is Paris About to Leave the Paris Agreement?
12 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: France

President Macron has called a snap parliamentary election after devastating losses to right wing challenger Marine Le Penn in recent European elections.
Is Paris About to Leave the Paris Agreement?
Expert advice
11 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: carbon trading
There are a few things you’d hope would be common knowledge about the Emissions Trading Scheme.For example, the scheme caps net emissions. If emissions go down in one sector, another sector’s emitters can buy the slightly-cheaper NZUs and use them. The only thing that reduces net emissions in the covered sector is government auctioning or…
Expert advice
Net zero by 2050 is simply not happening
09 Jun 2024 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming

By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Few energy analysts enjoy the level of global respect accorded to Vaclav Smil, a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba and a best-selling author of 47 books. Whenever Smil publishes something new, people in the energy space pay attention. That’s certainly the case with […]
Net zero by 2050 is simply not happening
The rich will soon pay a heavy price for net zero
08 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics

By Paul Homewood . Will net zero upend our lifestyles? Will we fly less, turn down our thermostats, become vegans? The British public are already feeling the effects – from the push to buy EVs and install heat pumps, to Ulez, low-traffic neighbourhoods and the endless restrictions on plastics. Although the UK became the first […]
The rich will soon pay a heavy price for net zero
The WEF Denies Demanding the Arrest of Climate Deniers
08 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, free speech, political correctness, regressive left

An AAP Factcheck, a few wild claims, and an Andrew Doyle interview with British environmentalist Jim Dale which appears to have taken on a life of its own.
The WEF Denies Demanding the Arrest of Climate Deniers
The UK government’s climate intransigence–Ben Pile
06 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics

By Paul Homewood h/t Russell Hicks Ben Pile’s rebuttal of the government’s response to the petition to repeal the Climate Change Act: Earlier this year, a petition on the UK government’s website called for the repeal of the 2008 Climate Change Act and Net Zero targets. It argued that allowing only “one […]
The UK government’s climate intransigence–Ben Pile
Electric car discounts now ‘unsustainable’ amid record price cuts
06 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics Tags: electric cars

By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Manufacturers have warned that high levels of discounting for electric cars cannot continue “indefinitely” amid a downturn in household sales. Electric vehicle sales rose overall by around 6pc in May, compared to a year earlier, taking their share of the market from 16.9pc to 17.6pc. That represented […]
Electric car discounts now ‘unsustainable’ amid record price cuts
How we know that the sun changes climate (II). The present
06 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in econometerics, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism

by Javier Vinós Part 2 of a 3-part series. Part I is here. The effect of the Sun on climate has been debated for 200 years. The basic problem is that when we study the past, we observe strong climatic changes associated with prolonged periods of low solar activity, but when we observe the present, […]
How we know that the sun changes climate (II). The present
The Claim ‘Exxon Knew’ Their Products Induced ‘Catastrophic Climate Impacts’ In The 1970s Is Bunk
05 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism

In the 1970s and 1980s ExxonMobil did not know that their reports would be so wrongly misinterpreted in the 2010s. Since 2015, when “investigative journalists” uncovered reports written in the late 1970s by ExxonMobil’s Science Advisor J.P. Black, it has been a common talking point in alarmist circles to insist that “Exxon Knew” about the…
The Claim ‘Exxon Knew’ Their Products Induced ‘Catastrophic Climate Impacts’ In The 1970s Is Bunk
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