Alex Epstein: ‘Solar and wind aren’t real power sources, they’re intermittent fuel-savers’ – ‘Usually at great expense’
https://t.co/BjiDIWeqbI — Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) February 18, 2026 As a recent week of winter weather illustrated, solar and wind don’t replace reliable power sources—they just save them fuel, usually at great expense. We’re bombarded with supposed examples of solar/wind rapidly and cheaply replacing fossil fuel power: rapid rises in solar/wind “capacity” or “generation” […]
Prices Show Renewables Aren’t ‘Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels’
False, Everyday States, Prices Show Renewables Aren’t ‘Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels’ By H. Sterling Burnett Everyday States published an article claiming wind and solar power, but especially solar power, provide cheaper electric power than fossil fuels in various states. Media outlets have repeatedly made similar claims over the past decade, but as with those previous […]
Vibe shift at Davos: Honeywell CEO says solar power cannot produce cement or steel: ‘They are very energy-intensive… It’s physics…it cannot bring the amount of joules we need to produce this infrastructure which is required in the world’
The vibe shift is real and spectacular! Now we've got a guy at a WEF Davos panel pointing out obvious, showstopping problems with woke energy, and instead of pushing back, the other panelists nod and agree. https://t.co/8xCZxman8G — Tom Nelson (@TomANelson) January 22, 2026
Analysis: The end of green energy Fossil fuels are still king – ‘Green doomerism has failed to meet the reality test’
Joel Kotkin: But the green doomerism has failed to meet the reality test. We now know that predictions of climate crises, some of which date back to the 1970s, have turned out to be exaggerated or even plain wrong. For example, both ABC and NBC boldly predicted in 2008 that New York would be under water by 2015; last time I visited my familial home town, however, it seemed very much on dry land. Extinction rates, often blamed on climate change, have slowed, with even the polar bears continuing to thrive in somewhat warmed temperatures.
A 2021 paper by Carnegie Mellon University researchers David Rode and Paul Fishbeck tracked apocalyptic predictions dating from the first Earth Day in 1970. Across half a century, 61% of the forecasts of planetary collapse have come and gone (and the planet is still here, chugging along). Even the committed climate sirens at Nature journal have been forced to retract a study that claimed the world economy would contract due to climate change.
STUDY: Climate policies can backfire – ‘Mandates can make even green citizens less green’ – ‘Urban car bans, may trigger strong negative reactions’ – Found ‘a 52% greater negative response to climate mandates than to COVID mandates’
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-climate-policies-backfire-eroding-green.html By Santa Fe Institute A popular vision of life after climate action looks like vegetarians riding bikes, city centers without cars, and people foregoing air travel. But a new paper published in Nature Sustainability finds that climate policies targeting lifestyle changes (say, urban car bans) actually may weaken people’s green values, thereby undermining support for other needed environmental […]
Wash Post Editorial Board Turns Against Climate Agenda?! ‘Symbolic climate gestures please activists, but they become a political liability when the bills come due’ – ‘New York realizes it cannot afford its green promises’ – While ‘Florida has chosen to base its energy generation on reliability & affordability, instead of ideology’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/19/new-york-gas-mandates-hochul-green/ Washington Post Editorial Board: New York’s crusade against gas stoves is being placed on the back burner: Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) recently delayed the implementation of a 2023 ban on running gas in new buildings before it took effect in January. That hasn’t been Hochul’s only climate backtrack. In November, she agreed to a Trump-backed gas […]
New York Times declares ‘the fight against climate change’ is ‘now mostly led by China’ – Lomborg ridicules: China is the world’s leading CO2 emitter, getting 97% of its primary energy from fossil fuels
Climate fact check: New York Times: The fight against climate change is “now mostly led by China” Please: China is world’s leading emitter Its primary energy supply is 87% fossil fuelshttps://t.co/KuFNdIPfHZ https://t.co/QgozKumSMO pic.twitter.com/BkA9rXBAFT — Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) December 16, 2025 NYT: Europe Is in Decline. Good. – Dec. 16, 2025 By Anton Jäger – Mr. […]
Climate myth: ‘Solar & wind are taking over the world’ – Reality Check: No! ‘New report from International Energy Agency shows that solar & wind will cover 12-16% of global energy by 2050’
Climate myth: Solar and wind are taking over the world No New report from International Energy Agency shows that solar and wind will cover 12-16% of global energy by 2050 Yet, The Guardian claims new report shows renewable “transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump”… pic.twitter.com/RxIClwk3vD — Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) November 20, 2025
The ‘forced transition’ to wind, solar & batteries ‘has produced an energy crisis in blue America. Progressive-led states are beset by increasing electricity rates & declining reliability’
https://mailchi.mp/americanenergyalliance.org/the-left-cant-escape-their-mistakes?e=02e2394a9b American Energy Alliance: Wall Street Journal (11/28/25) opinion: “The politically-driven effort to force a transition from traditional power to wind, solar and battery has produced an energy crisis in blue America. Progressive-led states are beset by increasing electricity rates and declining reliability. Although their leaders uniformly blame President Trump, the costs have become so high […]
The Net Zero Death Duty: ‘Labour is using inheritance tax to push prime farmland into solar & wind farms and rewilding estates’
https://rationals.substack.com/p/the-net-zero-death-duty?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email By THE RATIONALS On 26 November 2025 Rachel Reeves will deliver her second Budget and decide whether to lock in — or finally soften — the inheritance-tax changes that are already forcing family farms onto the market. One farmer could not wait to find out what she would do next. The morning before her […]