BP’s green pivot has backfired spectacularly, hammering profits and leaving the company vulnerable to a hedge fund siege, writes Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph.
BP Faces “Existential Crisis” After Ruinous Attempt to Go Green
BP Faces “Existential Crisis” After Ruinous Attempt to Go Green
02 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
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Climate Change Committee Demands Government Impose Radical Lifestyle Changes on UK
28 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
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The Climate Change Committee, the UK’s official Net Zero advisory body, has told the Government that to hit Net Zero it must impose radical lifestyle changes on the UK population. The Mail has more.
Climate Change Committee Demands Government Impose Radical Lifestyle Changes on UK
Trump Officially Ends Biden-Era War On American Appliances
17 Feb 2025 1 Comment
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“In recent years, burdensome and ideologically motivated regulations have impeded the development of these resources, limited the generation of reliable and affordable electricity, reduced job creation, and inflicted high energy costs upon our citizens,” Trump stated in the executive order. “These high energy costs devastate American consumers by driving up the cost of transportation, heating, utilities, farming, and manufacturing, while weakening our national security.”
Trump Officially Ends Biden-Era War On American Appliances
Europe’s Suicidal Green New Deal
17 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
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The American version of the Green New Deal included some subsidies for inefficient wind and solar, but it was largely just a marketing gimmick for a big expansion in the burden of government (everything from Medicare for All to student loan bailouts). The European version, by contrast, has been more focused on making energy more […]
Europe’s Suicidal Green New Deal
Five More Climate Lawsuits Shot Down
10 Feb 2025 Leave a comment
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Legal Newsline reports the string of climate lawfare defeats in their article Fifth judge agrees with Big Oil, dismisses another climate change case. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) – A New Jersey state court judge refuses to be the one who sets international energy standards and has […]
Five More Climate Lawsuits Shot Down
Trump Dumps the Paris Agreement: Is it a Big Deal?
29 Jan 2025 1 Comment
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President Trump’s executive order for the US to exit the Paris agreement is a huge deal, not least in saving the nation hundreds of millions of dollars which would have been spent on climate boondoggles such as President Biden’s euphemistically termed Inflation Reduction Act and vast transfers in climate funds pledged to developing countries. Let not the naysayers say otherwise.
Trump Dumps the Paris Agreement: Is it a Big Deal?
Green on Green? Climate Activists Assault Sigourney Weaver with Confetti
29 Jan 2025 1 Comment
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I guess even climate activists like Sigourney Weaver aren’t safe from the green mob.
Green on Green? Climate Activists Assault Sigourney Weaver with Confetti
Remembering Paris
28 Jan 2025 1 Comment
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The National Review has an excellent piece (here) on Donald Trump’s burial of the Paris climate accords entitled “Forgetting Paris”.
Remembering Paris
We Are Close To Blackouts Now–But What About 2030?
26 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
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We will no doubt muddle through again, but nobody in the media seems to be pointing to the elephant in the room; the fact that demand for electricity will start to rise rapidly as we transition to heat pumps and EVs.
We Are Close To Blackouts Now–But What About 2030?
Net Zero Is Unstoppable–Says Ed Miliband
26 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
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By Paul Homewood Justin Rowlatt is not the only deluded clown, when it comes to Net Zero. The idiot Miliband has warned President Trump that Net Zero is unstoppable. The Telegraph report: Ed Miliband has warned Donald Trump that the rise of net zero is “unstoppable”, just hours after the President vowed to […]
Net Zero Is Unstoppable–Says Ed Miliband
Koonin: Reckless Claim of Climate Emergency
25 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
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Transcript Hubris is a Greek word that means dangerously overconfident. Based on my research, hubris fairly describes our current response to the issue of climate change. Here’s what many people believe: One: The planet is warming catastrophically because of certain human behaviors. Two: Thanks to powerful computers we can project what the climate will be […]
Koonin: Reckless Claim of Climate Emergency
The Tennessee-BlackRock Settlement: A Win for Transparency and Investor Interests
24 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
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While no settlement is perfect, this agreement represents a significant victory for transparency, accountability, and the integrity of financial markets. For Tennessee investors—and indeed, all investors across the country—it’s a step in the right direction.
The Tennessee-BlackRock Settlement: A Win for Transparency and Investor Interests
Trump Signs Executive Order Pulling U.S. From Paris Climate Accord
22 Jan 2025 1 Comment
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(a) The United States Ambassador to the United Nations shall immediately submit formal written notification of the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The notice shall be submitted to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Depositary of the Agreement, attached as Appendix A. The United States will consider its withdrawal from the Agreement and any attendant obligations to be effective immediately upon this provision of notification.
Trump Signs Executive Order Pulling U.S. From Paris Climate Accord
MPs to Consider Bill Likely to Cause Mass Starvation, Death, Disease and Societal Collapse in Near Future
22 Jan 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, climate activists, climate alarmism
A little science and realism might go a long way for supporters of a bill that seeks to ensure the end of the “exploration, extraction, export and import of fossil fuels by the United Kingdom as rapidly as possible”. Even the mad Miliband, the current Energy Minister, accepts that gas has a part to play in keeping the lights on – hardly a surprise given the wind droughts of this winter, the lack of back-ups and the consequent need for up to 70% gas electricity generation. If realism fails to materialise there are tough choices ahead – who will step up to the plate to take away the life-saving heat that warms the homes of senior citizens or ban the inhalers that calm their winter asthma? Perhaps the 200 MPs listed on the Zero Hour site as supports of the bill will be asked such questions next time they seek the votes of the wider electorate.
MPs to Consider Bill Likely to Cause Mass Starvation, Death, Disease and Societal Collapse in Near Future
Climatists Make Their Case by Omitting Facts
15 Jan 2025 1 Comment
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One of the world’s top economists has written an expert court report that forcefully supports a group of children and young adults who have sued the federal government for failing to act on climate change. (Source: Inside Climate News here) Excerpts in italics with my bolds. Stiglitz, a Columbia University economics professor and former World […]
Climatists Make Their Case by Omitting Facts
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