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Al Gore: Climate Barker

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 21, 2024

“To the Church of Climate, Al Gore will always be their champion. But back in reality, citizen voters have had enough as consumers and taxpayers.”

Everyone knows the carnival barker, that deep throated voice at a funfair extolling the merits of an amusement. But then there is Al Gore, the aging guru whose prognostications of climate doom were not only exaggerated but laughably wrong. But on he goes, like a Cuckoo Clock.

On social media, Oliver Bolton, self-described CEO of Earthly, “an organization empowering hundreds of businesses around the world to reverse climate breakdown and restore our planet,” praised yet another emotional outburst of Al Gore toward climate (and political) reality.

Al Gore’s electrifying speech at COP29 is one of the standout moments for me. It was a powerful reminder of what’s at stake and a call for the ambition and accountability the world urgently needs.

Alberta: CO2 is Positive!

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 20, 2024

“Resolution 12, noted DeSmog, ‘harkens back to the 1990s fossil fuel industry playbook.’ Yes it does and should. Long Live the Greening Earth Society, which refuted (via CO2 science) the notion that carbon dioxide is a pollutant.”

“Alberta Conservatives Pass Climate Denial Resolution 12 to Celebrate CO2 Pollution,” DeSmog reported. “UCP pledges to abandon the province’s net zero targets, and remove the designation of CO2 as a pollutant.”

Denial? Pollution? Not so fast! The resolution from Alberta’s United Conservative Party recognizes the positive, settled-science side of CO2 and calls for a new debate predicated on

i. Abandoning “Net-Zero” targets,

ii. Removing the designation of CO2 as a pollutant, and

iii. Recognize that CO2 is a foundational nutrient for all life on Earth.”

Fantastic! And consonant with Trump energy policy, as well as the about-face by Argentina on alarmist climate policy.…

Government-enabled Nuclear: Trump Demures

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 19, 2024

Commercial nuclear power (fission) was a government-created industry in the 1950s that continues to hold false promise today. It is by far the most complicated, expensive, and fraught way to boil water.

President Trump seems to recognize the falsity of new nuclear capacity as the Hail Mary of the futile, false goal of “Net Zero”. As reported by E&E News:

Former President Donald Trump expressed significant reservations over American nuclear energy in his recent appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, a departure from other Republicans who have entirely backed the zero-carbon energy source.

Trump told Joe Rogan in an interview released Friday that he thought projects to build more of the large nuclear reactors currently on the grid, while “very clean,” have a tendency to be complex and to go over budget.

Trump 45 vs. Green New Deal (Trump 47 will be better)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 18, 2024

DOE Efficiency Standards: Consumer Time?

By Mark Krebs and Tom Tanton -- November 14, 2024

Scientists Haven’t ‘Saved’ the Ozone Layer

By Steve Goreham -- November 13, 2024

COP29 Preview: Hot Talk vs. Reality

By Kennedy Maize -- November 12, 2024

Energy & Environmental Review: November 11, 2024

By <a class="post-author" href="/about#john-droz">John Droz, Jr.</a> -- November 11, 2024

The Climate Road to Serfdom in One Graph

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 8, 2024

President-Elect Trump’s Climate/Energy Policy: 100-Day Action Plan a Good Start

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 7, 2024