Al Gore hopeful Pope Leo XIV ‘will be so crucial on this vitally important issue’ of climate change
https://x.com/algore/status/1920544016258531596?t=YtDeYnsx08a09z2z2yoPAw&s=09 Bloomberg news: ‘Pope Leo XIV Might Be the Climate Champion We Need’ – New Pope has declared world needs to move ‘from words to action’ on climate change – Touted Vatican’s solar panels & EVs Bloomberg news: ‘Pope Leo XIV Might Be the Climate Champion We Need’ – New Pope has declared world […]
Bloomberg news: ‘Pope Leo XIV Might Be the Climate Champion We Need’ – New Pope has declared world needs to move ‘from words to action’ on climate change – Touted Vatican’s solar panels & EVs
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-05-08/pope-leo-xiv-might-be-the-climate-champion-we-need Bloomberg excerpt: The new pontiff appears inclined to follow in his predecessor’s green footsteps. In picking a new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, the Vatican had a chance to honor the late Pope Francis’ legacy as the greenest pope in modern history. In choosing the American (and Peruvian) Cardinal Robert Prevost — […]
BBC: ‘How the political consensus on climate change has shattered’ – ‘The political climate is very different…reaching net zero is fast becoming a political dividing line’
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx20znjejw1o By Helen Catt Excerpt: When the UK became the first major economy in the world to commit to reducing its carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, there was so little disagreement among MPs it was simply ‘nodded through’ without a vote. Six years on, the political climate is very different, the consensus at […]
LA Times: ‘The high cost of California’s green energy policies’ – ‘Cost of electricity in state is now the highest in the continental U.S.’ – ‘High energy prices are a self-inflicted wound’
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-05-07/california-gavin-newsom-renewables By Joel Kotkin Excerpt: Since the early 2000s, governors and legislators from both parties have signed onto a climate agenda in California that is making energy steadily unaffordable. Gasoline in California, according to AAA, which tracks national gas prices daily, costs an average of about $4.78, compared with $3.16 nationally. The cost of electricity […]
‘The claim that any species, including mammals, can only survive within a narrow ONE DEGREE range is not just misleading… it’s dangerously pseudoscientific’
This figure highlights a serious issue: the claim that any species, including mammals, can only survive within a narrow ONE DEGREE range is not just misleading… it's dangerously pseudoscientific! ❌ The reality is that you experience temperature changes far greater than… pic.twitter.com/X8DA5QE5xB — Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki (@MatthewWielicki) May 7, 2025 https://t.co/rcV72hoKtp — Dr. Matthew […]
Vineyard Wind drinks oil! Each wind turbine generator houses 4,887 gallons of oil – Stands 814 feet tall, roughly 2.7 times taller than the Statue of Liberty
“Each GE Haliade-X 13 MW turbine has a 220-meter (722-foot) rotor, 107-meter (351-foot) blades, and is 248 meters (814 feet) tall – roughly 2.7 times taller than the Statue of Liberty.” And, Each Vineyard Wind WTG houses 4,887 gals of oil. pic.twitter.com/XpbYvaMex0 — Barbara Durkin (@Barbarajdurkin) May 7, 2025 # Background: Watch: ‘Juice’ debunks claims […]
U. of Cambridge prof Mike Hulme declares his dissent: ‘I disagree with the doom-mongers’ – ‘Climate change is cited as the sole explanation for everything going wrong in the world. Drought, famine, flooding, wars, racism – you name it’
Via UK Daily Mail – May 8, 2025: Excerpt: A University of Cambridge professor said skeptics still have a valid argument about so-called ‘climate alarmists.’ Mike Hulme told DailyMail.com that climate alarmists have created so much distrust and ill will among the public by blaming almost all of society’s issues on the climate emergency. ‘Climate change […]
NASA’s GISS Gets the Boot: A Seinfeldian Saga – ‘Climate models churned out by GISS might just be as fictional as a Vandelay Industries’
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/26/giss-gets-the-boot-a-seinfeldian-saga/ By Charles Rotter In a move that’s as poetic as it is ironic, the Trump administration has yanked the lease out from under NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), sending the climate science hub packing from its quirky perch above Tom’s Restaurant in Manhattan. Yes, the very same diner immortalized as “Monk’s” in Seinfeld—a place […]