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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“Today, residential electricity rates in the Northeast are twice as high as those in the Midwest or South and climbing fast. High natural gas prices, weather disasters and rising transmission costs are major factors, but clean energy mandates also add costs….”
“Ms. Hochul, Mr. Lamont and Ms. Healey have also expressed openness to new natural gas pipelines…. A few smaller pipeline expansions have begun moving forward.
A sea change in energy policy is occurring in the U.S., which represents one-fourth of the world economy. And this change is increasingly pushing the world to ditch Net Zero and let the best energies win in a free and open marketplace.
The latest recognition of this came in a recent New York Times summation, “Northeast States Set Big Climate Goals. Now Those Plans Are in Trouble.”…
“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….