The Crumbling of Net Zero in the U.S.
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2025/03/26/the_crumbling_of_net_zero_in_the_us_1100057.html By Duggan Flanakin Voters last November rejected the grandiose plans of the Biden Administration to abandon gasoline- and diesel-powered engines, natural gas hot water heaters and other appliances, and coal- and gas-fired power plants. But who foresaw the total reversal of the anti-business regulatory climate of the past fifty years? When Richard Nixon announced the creation of […]
The Trump Effect! Reuters: ‘UK climate protest group Just Stop Oil says it will stop direct action’ – Group admits ‘we need a different approach’
“So it is the end of soup on Van Goghs, cornstarch on Stonehenge and slow marching in the streets,” Just Stop Oil said in a statement.
“As corporations and billionaires corrupt political systems across the world, we need a different approach,” it said.
WaPo: ‘Growing weed takes more energy than mining bitcoin’ – Uses 1% of all American energy, ‘warms the planet about as much as 10 million cars’
WaPo: Together, legal and illegal cannabis growers use about 1% of all American energy. That’s more than cryptocurrency mining or all other crops combined, according to a paper Mills published in February, an update to his original 2012 study.
The industry’s greenhouse pollution warms the planet about as much as 10 million cars do. For a daily user who buys cannabis grown indoors, their pot’s carbon footprint is nearly half the carbon footprint of their entire home, according to Evan Mills, a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.