CO2 Science, not Climate Models

Ken Brook takes on Greepeace’s David Ritter

“Let the record show a rational voice responding to irrational, emotive, magical thinkers. Ken Brook, take a bow for history.”

The critics of climate alarm and forced energy transformation are winning on social media also. A recent example is a response to a post by David Ritter, CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, who tried to take the moral high ground against fossil fuels. But one energy realist, Ken Brook, was right there with an effective rebuttal.

Ritter wrote:

The mental gymnastics on display by the gas industry and their pals in politics deserves an Olympic medal. Responding to our bold action at yesterday’s Australian Domestic Gas Outlook conference, the likes of Minerals Council of Australia chief Tania Constable and Nationals Leader Matt Canavan are doubling down on fossil fuel extraction as the solution.

“… as fossil fuel use declines….” Magical energy Thinking in Print

“The academic community is vastly overbuilt. And perhaps no area more than the climate intelligentsia. It is ‘publish or perish’, with anti-fossil-fuel research being the narrative of the day.”

Working from false assumptions has sunk a million intellectual ships. One example is an article in Science by Emily Grubert and Joshua Lappen, Fossil Energy Minimum Viable Scale (2026). As summarized by Renée LaReau, also with the University of Notre Dame:

As the world shifts toward renewable energy sources, some experts warn that a lack of planning for the retirement of fossil fuels could lead to a disorderly and dangerous collapse of existing systems that could prolong the transition to green energy….

The researchers introduced the concept of “minimum viable scale,” a threshold of production below which a fossil fuel system can no longer function safely or economically.

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