YouGov survey: The Clean Energy Transition’s Voter Problem: They’re just not that interested
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-clean-energy-transitions-voter By Roger Pielke Jr. and Ruy Teixeira Excerpt: Findings from a new YouGov survey When presented with a choice among three options—a rapid green energy transition, an “all of the above” energy policy, and emphasizing fossil fuels—American voters across demographics and partisanship strongly prefer an “all of the above” approach to energy policy including oil, gas, […]
Two whales found dead within two days in NJ, NY waters
https://nypost.com/2024/10/05/us-news/two-whales-found-dead-within-two-days-in-nj-ny-waters/ By Chris Harris Marine biologists are taking a closer look after the remains of a young minke whale washed ashore in New Jersey Friday — less than 24 hours after another dead whale was found floating off Staten Island. On Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard spotted a 16- to 18-foot-long whale “floating in the […]
Watch: VP Debate Coverage: 2nd question by CBS News on ‘climate change’ – Vance calls it ‘weird science’ as moderator pushes fake ‘97% consensus’
Vance on CO2 emissions pic.twitter.com/IdVCpDQtDI — Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) October 2, 2024 Vance U.S. manufacturing & the Green agenda pic.twitter.com/JkKInp2fkF — Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) October 2, 2024 Debate update: Vance deflected ‘the science’ nicely. I wish he would say “carbon dioxide” emissions not “carbon” But it would have been nice if he had thrown in […]
RFK Jr. repudiates the Left on its out-of-touch climate policy: Rips EV mining, solar/wind land clearing, declares off-shore wind turbines are ‘exterminating the whales’ & rejects carbon capture pipelines as ‘boondoggles’
https://www.cfact.org/2024/09/15/rfk-jr-repudiated-the-left-on-its-out-of-touch-climate-policy/ By Peter Murphy “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me.” Those words were not spoken by Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. last week. Rather, they are words of our nation’s 40th president, Ronald Wilson Reagan, who voted for Franklin Roosevelt for President all four times he headed the ticket. By the 1960s, Reagan made the formal Party switch. […]
Former Microsoft CEO & Billionaire Steve Ballmer blurts out to Jon Stewart: Wind turbines ‘destroy habitats’
https://www.cfact.org/2024/09/12/billionaire-ballmer-blurts-out-to-jon-stewart-wind-turbines-destroy-habitats/ By Craig Rucker Donald Trump was not the only unscripted billionaire America heard from Tuesday night. Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer blurted out one of the roughest facts about so-called “renewable energy.” The incredibly massive land required for wind and solar wrecks natural habitats and threatens the survival of birds, whales and other species. That’s the […]
NY Times finally admits reality! ‘Offshore Wind Slowed by Broken Blades, Rising Costs & Angry Fishermen’ – Warns wind failures ‘could imperil climate goals’
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/12/business/energy-environment/offshore-wind-blade-vineyard-wind.html NY Times: “Accidents involving blades made by GE Vernova have delayed projects off the coasts of Massachusetts and England and could imperil climate goals.” “Everyone wants this green legacy, but at the cost of what?” – Peter Kaizer, commercial fisherman. Offshore wind farms are a danger to our coasts, fishermen, and marine life. https://t.co/kUfCPRGbH9 […]
Mark P. Mills: The Political Cost of the Energy Transition: ‘Elected leaders will pay a price for green policies that hit citizens in the pocketbook’
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-political-cost-of-the-energy-transition For physicists, energy is about the laws of nature; for engineers, it’s about manufacturing prowess. For citizens, however, energy is generally about money. Energy purchases are unavoidable—whether directly, by paying our electric bills or for gas in our cars, or indirectly, by paying for the energy costs embedded in food, vacations, and everything else. […]
Watch: Morano on Fox & Friends on Harris’s plastic straw ban reversal & collapsing EV sales & offshore wind fiasco
Fox and Friends – Fox News Channel – Broadcast September 7, 2024 Partial transcript: Rachel Campos-Duffy: Vice President Harris is flip-flopping on yet another issue: banning plastic straws. …Now, her team says she doesn’t support banning plastic straws. Here to react is climate depot.com publisher Marc Morano. So what is this epiphany about what […]
Do Green Energy Subsidies Work? – Answer: Green energy ‘may be a lucrative game for the lucky recipients, but eventually everyone loses’
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2024/09/03/do_green_energy_subsidies_work_1055865.html By Jonathan Lesser Like the Jeopardy! game show, green energy subsidies have been Congress’ answer to every energy policy question. The first OPEC oil embargo of 1973-74 catalyzed decades of energy policy, including the formation of the Department of Energy. Wind, solar, and hydropower subsidies began in earnest with the Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act […]
Study in journal Science: Only 63 of 1,500 Global Climate Policies of Past 25 Years Worked to Reduce CO2 Emissions – A success rate of 4.2%
Sarah Montalbano of IWF: The peer-reviewed study, published August 22, 2024 in the journal Science, reviewed the effects of 1,500 climate policies implemented between 1998 and 2022 across 41 countries using a machine learning algorithm. The model identified significant breaks in carbon dioxide emissions (between 0.6 and 1.8 gigatons of CO2) and associated them with known policy changes.
Via Study Abstract: “We provide a global, systematic ex post evaluation to identify policy combinations that have led to large emission reductions out of 1500 climate policies implemented between 1998 and 2022 across 41 countries from six continents…We identified 63 successful policy interventions with total emission reductions between 0.6 billion and 1.8 billion metric tonnes CO2.”
Only 63 of 1,500 climate policies were associated with any significant break in carbon dioxide emissions. That’s a success rate of 4.2%.
There were no “successful pricing intervention[s] with large emission reductions in the electricity sector of developing economies” despite 13% of studied policies being related to pricing. … The U.S.’ predominant strategy to achieve its green dreams has been subsidies and regulations—to the tune of a projected $1.2 trillion in uncapped Inflation Reduction Act subsidies.
Study author: ‘We find that it’s very rare that [subsidies and regulations] really work in reducing emissions.’
According to The Wall Street Journal: “By searching through the OECD database, which identifies 46 types of policy interventions, the study’s authors found government policymakers prefer subsidies and regulations, according to [Nicolas Koch, senior researcher at the Berlin-based Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change and an author of the study]. “We see a lot of policy packages built around these two policy types, and we find that it’s very rare that they really work in reducing emissions,” Koch said.