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POLITICO: ‘How the Iran war is helping the climate’ – ‘Leading to lower carbon emissions globally’

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-surge/2026/09/24/how-the-iran-war-is-helping-the-climate-01091344 By ZACK COLMAN Excerpt: The Iran war is leading to lower carbon emissions globally. The Iran war is leading to lower carbon emissions globally. Why energy markets are watching the Trump-Xi summit closely. The U.S. Energy secretary applauded China’s expansion of EVs. Huh. President Donald Trump’s war in Iran may accelerate the arrival of […]

Keep the lights on, sideline Big Brother: Trump EPA rollback could save ratepayers $310 billion

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/trumps-epa-gets-action-roots-out-30-billion-waste-fraud-and-abuse By Amanda Head Republican officials and fossil-fuel advocates have long argued that Biden-era climate rules threatened coal plants, new gas generation and export projects, even as U.S. crude output and dry natural gas production would go on to set records. The EPA said it will save taxpayers $310 billion through 2047. The U.S. Environmental […]

Trump’s EPA Ends America’s War on CO2

https://www.climateskeptic.org/p/trumps-epa-ends-americas-war-on-co2 Biden-era green power plant rules scrapped By TILAK DOSHI Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum at a G20 ministerial meeting on energy abundance and signed what may be the single most consequential act of environmental deregulation in American history. The final rule, formally the “Partial Repeal of the Carbon Pollution Standards for Fossil Fuel-Fired […]

Al Gore’s Global Warming Movement Has Officially FAILED! ‘Global Fossil Fuel Use Keeps Increasing’ – ‘Fossil fuels supplied 81% of world energy in 2024 – A 163% increase since 1971

The world uses more and more fossil fuels In percent, the world is leaving fossil fuels very, very slowly In real terms, it is just more, more, and morehttps://t.co/E2k1wOduOp You can see all the references in my Twitter thread:https://t.co/8vZ8XwE31V pic.twitter.com/dKgshPS2ww — Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) September 13, 2026 The world still runs on fossil fuels Globally, […]

Pielke Jr.: Most Countries Have Already Passed Peak Carbon Dioxide Per Person – ‘Per-Capita CO2 emissions from fossil fuels peaked globally in 2013’

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/most-countries-have-already-passed ROGER PIELKE JR. What the countries past peak have in common, and what that tells us about the rest Excerpt: Here is something that few people are aware of — per capita carbon dioxide emissions (pcCO2) from fossil fuels peaked globally in 2013 and have remained below that level ever since. The trend in pcCO2 […]

Climate Crusaders Turn to Flimsy ‘Extreme Event Attribution’ to Bring Down Oil, Gas, & Coal

https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2026/08/04/climate_crusaders_turn_to_flimsy_extreme_event_attribution_to_bring_down_oil_gas_and_coal_1198291.html By Gary Abernathy August 04, 2026 Earlier this year, the Trump administration removed a chapter on climate change from a manual used by judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys “to better interpret the scientific complexities of the cases before them.” For those of us who don’t believe in coincidence, the response to that removal offers […]

Fossil fuels still dominate the globe, providing 86.3% of primary energy — despite trillions of dollars spent on energy ‘transition’ – With the current pace of ‘green’ energy, it would take centuries to reach net-zero

Just the News Excerpt: The 2026 “Statistical Review of World Energy” finds that 86.3% of primary energy consumption was derived from fossil fuels last year. This is down from 86.6% the previous year. …

Nuclear, hydroelectric and other carbon-free generation technologies reached their highest level ever in 2025. Their share of the global energy picture stood at 14% in 2025, climbing steadily over the past decade. …

Coal was the largest source of global energy, taking up nearly one-third of the total, a decrease from the 33.7% in 2024. Natural gas was the next largest source of energy at 21.9%, and hydroelectric accounted for just under 14% last year. …

Global solar power rose by 30% in 2025 over the previous year, and its share of total generation reached 8.7%, which surpassed wind, at 8.4%. Solar’s share nearly matches nuclear power’s share at 8.8%. …

Dr. Roger Pielke Jr., a climate researcher and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, points out in his “The Honest Broker” Substack … With respect to climate policies, the pace of change is agonizingly slow. Based on the growth in the past 10 years, Pielke wrote, it would take centuries to reach net-zero.  …

Trump to shrink 2 Utah national monuments by 90% – Coal & uranium deposits open up

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-shrink-2-utah-national-monuments-90-percent By Anders Hagstrom Fox News Utah Gov Spencer Cox praised the move, citing Antiquities Act limits on monument size as coal and uranium deposits open up President Donald Trump signed an executive order drastically shrinking the size of two national monument areas in Utah on Monday. The order applies to the Grand Staircase-Escalante and […]