Dumb As It Gets: Germany Heads Into Winter Refusing To Let Badly Needed Power Plants Operate
https://notrickszone.com/2022/07/05/dumb-as-it-gets-germany-heads-into-winter-refusing-to-let-badly-needed-power-plants-operate/ By P Gosselin Into winter chaos without extending power plant operation By Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt (Translated by P. Gosselin, one hyperlink added) There is another taboo law that the German federal government does not want to touch: the nuclear phase-out law. Most people in Germany have seen through the inane statements of […]
Alex Epstein’s Earth Day truth: Fossil fuels make Earth BETTER – ‘World has never been a better place for human beings to live’
https://alexepstein.substack.com/p/earth-day-truth-fossil-fuels-make By Alex Epstein Contrary to rhetoric that we’ve “destroyed the planet,” the world has never been a better place for human beings to live. Life expectancy and income have been skyrocketing, with extreme poverty (<$2/day) plummeting from 42% in 1980 to <10% today.1 A root cause of today’s amazingly livable world is fossil fuel. Low-cost, reliable […]
BONKERS: The Atlantic Cries Nuclear War Is a ‘Climate Problem’
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2022/03/16/bonkers-the-atlantic-cries-nuclear-war-climate-problem By Joseph Vazquez A deranged Atlantic article argued that when talking about nuclear war’s likely catastrophic death toll, one should also address how it would “wreck” the climate. The Atlantic had the audacity to publish an eco-extremist piece posing as serious scholarship: “On Top of Everything Else, Nuclear War Would Be a Climate Problem.” The piece, written by Atlantic staff writer Robinson Meyer, pontificated to […]
The Atlantic: ‘On Top of Everything Else, Nuclear War Would Be a Climate Problem’ – Laments even ‘nuclear winter…would not reverse the effect’ of man-made warming
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/03/nuclear-war-would-ravage-the-planets-climate/627005/ By Robinson Meyer – A staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of the newsletter The Weekly Planet, and a co-founder of the COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic. Excerpt: But energy is not the only domain that has a direct bearing on whether we have a livable climate or not. So does […]
Shellenberger: The West’s Green Delusions Empowered Putin – ‘While we banned plastic straws, Russia drilled & doubled nuclear energy production’
Key points: Michael Shellenberger: Putin knows that Europe produces 3.6 million barrels of oil a day but uses 15 million barrels of oil a day. Putin knows that Europe produces 230 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year but uses 560 billion cubic meters. He knows that Europe uses 950 million tons of […]
Alex Epstein’s ‘Energy Freedom Platform’: ‘End preferences for unreliable electricity’ – ‘Decriminalize nuclear energy’ – ‘End climate fascism’
Throughout 2022 I’ll be rolling out the Energy Freedom Platform. Its top 5 policies are:1. End preferences for unreliable electricity.2. Decriminalize nuclear energy.3. Liberate responsible development.4. Practice pro-human Federal lands management.5. End climate fascism. — Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) February 15, 2022
Energy Is Now The Most Important Issue In The World
https://climatechangedispatch.com/energy-is-now-the-most-important-issue-in-the-world/ BY AYAAN HIRSI ALI One issue more than any other will dominate airtime and influence policy in 2022: energy. Americans are seeing the highest prices at the pump in seven years. Since Biden took office, average gas prices are up by more than $1 a gallon. In November, gas prices in Mono County, California hit more than […]
Shellenberger: Why Greta’s Climate Panic Failed – Her ‘political influence has never been lower’ as EU labels nuclear & natural gas ‘sustainable’
https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-gretas-climate-panic-failed?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNzQ5MDY1MCwiXyI6IjFBSkZGIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQxMjM1MTEwLCJleHAiOjE2NDEyMzg3MTAsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0yNzk0MDAiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.voTUWBcujRV0TTdnLxpVXD4KBQrsYw5qyisl8s3gwfo By Michael Shellenberger The most influential climate activist in the world, with no runner-up in sight, is Greta Thunberg. Time Magazine named her Person of the Year for 2019 and it feels inevitable that she will win the Nobel Peace Prize eventually if not this year. With her 14 million followers on Instagram and her five […]
Watch: Walter Cronkite on CBS News in 1980 cites U.S. Senate Three Mile Island report on how the media was guilty of ‘alarming what it called an ill-informed an easily frightened public’
CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite -April 3, 1980CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite – April 3, 1980:Transcript from CBS News climate segment: CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite: “A House subcommittee, not without fallout, concluded today that Three Mile Island was a serious accident but not a serious threat to human health. The energy […]
The Real Threat to Banks Isn’t From Climate Change. It’s From Bankers.
https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/the-real-threat-to-banks-isnt-from?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNzQ5MDY1MCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDQ4OTA5NzYsIl8iOiIxQUpGRiIsImlhdCI6MTYzODQ3MTU3MywiZXhwIjoxNjM4NDc1MTczLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjc5NDAwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.9yIr3j9I7E0GUevFMTkvt6xSjbT3BW9GF6ozR9U32Uk By Michael Shellenberger In 2019, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco warned that climate change could cause banks to stop lending, towns to lose tax revenue, and home values to decline. Last year, 36 pension fund managers representing $1 trillion in assets said climate change “poses a systemic threat to financial markets and the […]