Ed. Note: This post reproduces an advertisement in the Wall Street Journal (April 30, 2026) by central European energy company Orlen, titled “The Baltic Eagle Gas Hub Is Emerging as Europe’s Energy Firewall.” It documents how changed prices and profit opportunities have and will demote the Strait of Hormuz for petroleum and LNG transportation “as if led by an invisible hand”.
“By linking regional markets with global ones, the Baltic Eagle Gas Hub is emerging as part of a new energy-security architecture in Europe—one based not only on diversification of supply, but also on flexibility, regional cooperation, and the ability to respond quickly to shifts in the global environment.”
Rising geopolitical tensions are rippling through global energy markets, with fuel supplies increasingly used as instruments of influence. Countries are responding by diversifying where they buy energy to reduce dependence on any single source.…
Desmog Blog continues to profile climate and energy realists as if their views (against climate exaggeration and magical energy policy) were prima facie proof of wrongdoing. MasterResource has documented many Desmog backfires where the evidence presented would be pretty much accepted by the targeted person–and most folks outside of the Climate Industrial Complex (including academics wed to ‘the cause’).
Not surprisingly, the DeSmog hit list has expanded to suggest a majority. The waiting list for inclusion is huge. I have suggested that many more be profiled as a badge of honor, of courage.
Here is the latest: a repeat on Roger Pilke Jr. that presents his legitimate, common-sense views. The open-minded alarmist is invited to follow Pielke’s empirically derived research to cure “climate anxiety,” in fact.
DeSmog begins:
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“The EV bust in the U.S. is front-page business news. The domestic battery industry is following suit. The demise of the U.S. rooftop solar industry, despite subsidies, is now all about litigation to get out of long-term contracts. Add the EV school bus bust.”
A sea-change is occurring in energy policy as realism overtakes magical thinking. But you would not know it from the social media ‘denialists’ (thousands of climate-related professionals) who claim that
In a bizarre piece, “Solar Is the Cheapest Power in History, But States Are Retreating from It,” Haley Zaremba states:
…Solar is now the cheapest energy source in human history, yet rollbacks are spreading from California to Virginia as officials blame high costs and a hostile Trump administration….