“The global climate elite are scrambling for relevancy and power. The poll-conscious wind and solar lobbies are disingenuously pitching affordability. And the climate zealots are getting nutty. Energy reality bats last.”
Let history note that the United States has issued a notice to withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), effective February 27, 2026. This withdrawal is broader than the previously announced (and started) withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015. The UNFCCC is the governing global network behind the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) “consensus” science (based on subjective climate-model interpretation), as well as the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 and the Paris Climate Accord of 2015.
The one-year window is running, with formal withdrawal set for February 27, 2027. As summarized by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI):
… Continue ReadingIn January, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would be withdrawing from the UNFCCC.
“Plant Vogtle is not an argument for wind and solar, which are also uneconomic and require government subsidies, penalizing taxpayers and running up the federal budget deficit. It is a call for a free market in electricity where ratepayers come first, while protecting the environment from wind, solar, and battery industrialization.”
“Clean Energy Strategist” Jamie Skarr revisited the Plant Vogtle #3 and #4 debacle with this summary:
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Remember when a gallon of gas cost 99 cents? Now imagine if one gas station spent 15 years building a “next-generation” pump that made gas cost $50 per gallon. You’d probably have questions.
That’s basically what just happened with electricity in Georgia. The state spent 15 years and $37 billion building new nuclear power plants that will force every resident to pay an extra $420 on their electric bills each year – forever.
Ed. Note: This short piece by Robert Bradley Jr. from mid-2012 is reproduced verbatim. It is good to have a laugh sometimes in the energy debates, which the Onion parody (below) invited. Serious posts on Peak Oil can be found here.
“We are on a collision course to a world without rocks. Only take as many rocks as you absolutely need.”
– Dr. Victoria Merrill, author, “No Stone Unturned: Methods for Modern Rock Conservation“
“Think about it. When was the last time you even saw a boulder?”
– Henry Kaiser (geologist and Onion expert)
The easy oil has been found. There are no more mega-fields. Costs up … prices up … economic stress … crises. We have such certain knowledge from the smartest guys in many rooms: Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren, Colin Campbell, Jean Laherrère, Richard Heinberg, Chris Skrebowski, Matthew Simmons, ….…
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