“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):
…In January, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would be withdrawing from the UNFCCC.
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, ….…
“… if you make a living doing left of center climate and energy policy, there are strong social, political, and professional incentives to get climate risk wrong…. There is little tolerance on the Left for any expression of materialist politics that challenge foundational claims of the environmental movement.”
Ron Clutz of Science Matters [1] is one of many “talented amateurs” who has worked to correct climate exaggeration and check the excesses of the United Nations’ IPCC/COP process. His post, Why Climate Alarmists Can’t Recant, is an example of his work. Clutz’s recent comment at MasterResource is worth publishing here, after which I add my observations on the reasons for the futile, wasteful crusade.
Ted Nordhaus explained why, unlike Gates, doomsters can’t recant [in his] paper:
Why I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist….…