EPA candidate for #2 slot: ‘If I were advising the new president, I would advise’ to stay in UN Paris climate pact
by John Siciliano President Trump is expected to tap a former George W. Bush administration official to be deputy administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency. Jeff Holmstead, who was the longest-serving EPA air pollution chief under Bush, will be Trump’s deputy administrator pick, according to Axios. He had once been on the president’s shortlist to lead […]
Shocker: Government mandated trillions in global renewable investment tally
But — wind and solar provide only 1% of 2015 world energy Guest essay by Larry Hamlin The 2017 edition of the REN21 Renewables Global Status Report (GSR) has been released providing a status assessment of global renewable energy use with energy consumption data reflected through 2015. The report presents the following breakdown of total 2015 world […]
New Study: Scientists Find Recent UK Flooding Is Not Unprecedented
By Paul Homewood GWPF has details of a new study in to UK flooding records. As I have often shown, there is nothing unprecedented about recent floods in Britain. What often makes it seem so is the “flood dry” period which occurred between 1970 and 2000. Source: New Study: Scientists Find Recent UK Flooding Is […]
Daily Telegraph: There is No Such Thing as Affordable Renewable Energy
Eric Worrall / 2 days ago June 17, 2017 EAPI represents the average commodity price of retail electricity paid by Australian businesses based on a Standard Retail Contract (commences in 6-months and operates for 2½ years). Source Energy Action Guest essay by Eric Worrall Awareness is slowly permeating through the media that renewables inevitably lead to higher electricity prices […]
Cause of Death: Climate-Change Alarmism
By Paul Homewood I didn’t want to post this, but this article gets it right. It’s not climate change that kills. It’s the zealotry of those who believe they are on a Gaia-given mission to save the planet that is capable of causing economic mayhem, poverty and even death. Meanwhile, those who should be looking after the […]
It just ain’t so: ‘The constant hype about climate change bears little resemblance to the reality’
By Andrew Urban Writing at Climate Etc., esteemed climate scientist Dr Judith Curry has urged greater attention to the uncertainties of scientific research into global warming (aka climate change). ‘The current focus on CO2 emissions reductions risks having a massively expensive global solution that is more damaging to societies than the problem of climate change,’ she […]
Analysis: Lowest Solar Activity In 200 Years Accompanied By High Northern Hemispheric Snow & Ice
By P Gosselin on 18. June 2017 Frank Bosse and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt present their monthly solar activity report at their Die kalte Sonne site. In May the sun was very quiet as sunspot number was a mere 18.8, which is only 36% of what is typical for the month this far into the cycle. Seven days saw no sunspot activity at all. The […]
Exit From Paris Climate Accord: A Re-Founding Of American Democracy?
In an interview with the French liberal newspaper Contrepoints , Belgian philosopher Drieu Godefridi discusses his view that the exit of the Trump Administration from the Paris Agreement is a sensible return to American democracy. Source: Exit From Paris Climate Accord: A Re-Founding Of American Democracy?
Matt Ridley: Gove Needs To Watch Out For The Green Lobby
From badgers to clean-air rules, environmentalists will fight him every inch of the way to protect their vested interests Even Michael Gove’s enemies concede he is good at tackling vested interests. Even his friends concede he has a knack for making enemies in the process. Source: Matt Ridley: Gove Needs To Watch Out For The […]
What A Mess! Spiegel Reveals Scientists Don’t Know Real Temperature Of The Planet
By P Gosselin on 17. June 2017 The Germany-based European Institute For Climate and Energy (EIKE) alerts here that it is now obvious nobody really knows what the real mean global temperature is, and that claims that the planet is the hottest it’s been since measurements began are not making any sense. In 1995 it was 15.4°C. Today we are told it […]