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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: climate activists, solar power, wind power
Opening a crushing power bill while sitting freezing (or boiling) in the dark focuses attention on the obvious and only cause: heavily subsidised and hopelessly intermittent wind and solar. Delivered according to the whims of mother nature rather than the demands of human industry, activity and endeavour, wind and solar power were never going to […]
Political Power Shift: More Voters Refuse to Swallow Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Lie
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in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, health economics Tags: air pollution, climate alarmism, indoor air pollution, life expectancies
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: coal power, Germany, wind power
At the end of the article, Haferburg comes to the conclusion that we will continue to see coal-fired power plants in operation for a very long time.
Germany’s Unstable Power Grid…Coal Plants Will Be Needed “For A Very Long Time”
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
What is happening all over Europe is the first organized revolt against the green agenda.
Europe’s Consensus on Climate Is Crumbling
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in econometerics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published their latest assessment report (AR6) in 2021. In 2023, the Clintel Foundation published a report which criticizes AR6.
IPCC’s New “Hockey Stick” Temperature Graph
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in environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, greenwashing
This is the latest in an increasing series of Greenwashing suits around the world. Some notable examples.
New York AG Sues Beef Producer
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
Europe’s wind industry is in its death throes. Denmark’s Ørsted share price plummeted 25% late last year, and after slashing dividends to shareholders was forced to write $billions off the projected value of its US offshore projects, and its share price is still heading south. Europe’s turbine manufacturers are bleeding cash and their shares will […]
Europe’s Wind Industry Faces Total Oblivion & Slovakia Cans All Wind Projects
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Of all the problems with electric cars, perhaps the least expected was the revelation that some home charging points provide a potential point of weakness for malign foreign powers to interfere with our National Grid. Last week, the Office for Product Safety […]
The UK is much closer to blackouts than anyone dares to admit
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in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: unintended consequences
See One Country’s Dream of EV-Driven Prosperity Helps Fuel a Coal Binge Instead: Indonesia pitches its plan to leverage natural resources as a model for other developing nations by Jon Emont of The WSJ. Excerpts:”A few years ago, Indonesia set out to turn its treasure trove of nickel into an electric-car manufacturing boom.It imposed a sweeping…
Life is full of tradeoffs: if we want more nickel to make EV batteries we might have to use more coal
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in energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming Tags: active investing
For fund managers, it may violate their fiduciary responsibility (to maximize returns) to their shareholders. Apparently, the legal risk is too big for JP Morgan, State Street, and BlackRock: Asset managers have been walking a fine legal line. GOP Attorneys General in 2022 warned that they might be violating their fiduciary obligations and antitrust laws.…
Is ESG investing illegal?
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Australia, wind power
“… the pace of the renewables coming forward is too slow, relative to the ambitions articulated for the nation …”
Aussie Energy Execs Urge a Coal Backup “Safety Net” to Ease the Net Zero Transition
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, transport economics Tags: electric cars
By Paul Homewood h/t Gamecock TRANSLATION – NOBODY WANTS TO BUY THE USELESS THINGS! . . Mercedes-Benz has backtracked on their plan to transition to selling only electric vehicles after 2030, with company officials saying that “market conditions” have not allowed that to happen. It was just three years ago when the […]
Mercedes-Benz Scraps Plans to Make Only Electric Vehicles Due to ‘Market Conditions’
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in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, wind power
Without reliable and affordable electricity, civilisation as we know it wouldn’t last a week. Absolutely everything we do depends on having power as and when we need it. Or, as Tyson Culver and Robert Bryce call it “Juice”. Over several years now, Tyson and Robert have been attempting to educate Americans about where their power […]
Why Costly & Unreliable Wind and Solar Threaten Modern Civilisation
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in economic history, environmental economics, global warming
By Andy May Renee Hannon (@hannon_renee) pointed out that Raphael Neukom, et al. (2019) compares the modern instrumental temperature record to the Pages2K proxy temperature record and declares that: “… we find that the coldest epoch of the last millennium—the putative Little Ice Age—is most likely to have experienced the coldest temperatures during the fifteenth […]
Sorry, the Little Ice Age Does Exist
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