Energy Future: CO2 Enrichment Ahead (de-decarbonization)

“There is no renewables ‘transition’ – ONLY addition.” (below)

The much-hyped “energy transition” has predictably failed. Grant Lukies presented the chart below and reported on social media:

For those of you paying attention – still no ‘transition’ evident whatsoever (to August 2025). 33 years of IPCC stewardship and panic and $billions spent and absolutely zero downward trend in slope of the curve.

THIS is THE failed KPI of alarmist catastrophism writ large. There is no renewables ‘transition’ – ONLY addition.

Is this bad news? Hardly. The plants rejoice as CO2 enrichment continues. A greener Planet Earth is surely better than wind, solar, and battery industrialization from all points of view.

Remember what Daniel Yergin concluded in The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations (2020), p. 422:

As they grow, wind and solar and EVs will need ‘big shovels’ to meet their increasing call on mined minerals and land itself.

Noel Cass: More Climate Emotionalism (and vulgarity)

“The climate profession needs a serious reboot.”

The above fronted my repost of Michael Shellenberger’s article, “Caught Pushing an Apocalyptic Scenario They Knew Couldn’t Occur, Climate Scientists Are Now Claiming Their Policies Prevented It.” His article came with the subtitle, “Clique of stealth activists, including the former head of the National Academies of Science, claimed a high-emissions future was possible long after it had been falsified.”

Noel Cass

Attracting more than a thousand impressions, my repost led to 50 comments, several belonging to Noel Cass, a research fellow at University of Leeds. Cass describes his work here:

I am a researcher focussing on the social and political aspects of energy systems and everyday life. I have researched areas including environmental audits of organisations, tourism and travel, everyday life and travel practices, public engagement with renewable energy technologies, the ethical implications of nuclear power and options for radioactive waste management, the social exclusion implications of transport policies on congestion and climate change, climate change policy in local authorities in the UK, the energy demands of the built environment, later focussing on office building designs, and the implications of changing office work practices.

Environmental Priorities vs. ‘Climate Change’

Classic articles are worth remembering. One in the environmental field was a prioritization of environmental issues back in 2020 by Bjorn Lomborg, “Welfare in the 21st century: Increasing development, reducing inequality, the impact of climate change, and the cost of climate policies“

“What is the world’s deadliest environmental problem?,” asks Bjorn Lomborg. The answer:

Not climate. Outdoor and indoor air pollution. Let’s not get so scared about climate that we forget the much bigger problems. Read more in my peer-reviewed article: https://sciencedirect.com/…/article/pii/S0040162520304157.

This result explains why today, climate alarm is just not resonating with the public to the chagrin of the alarmists. Bill McKibben faults the New York Times and Democrats for throwing in the political towel. “I’m saddened to see how little our representatives in DC seem to really care, even the Democratic ones,” he begins:

Too many Democratic leaders are feeling comfortable waving off climate concerns, because of a feeling that it might be a political problem for them.

Are Climate Psychedelics ‘Cultists’?

UK Energy Schizophrenia (all pain, no gain)

Energy Labor-saving Day

Taxpayer Subsidies for Chinese Batteries? Just Say No!

Betsy “Code Green” Rosenberg: Emotional Climatism

Climate Majority Project: Scientists “Freaking Out”

Adapt, Europe (stop whining)