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Shell vs. Petroleum: Statism at the Pump

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 11, 2020

Shell also supports the UK Government’s ambition to increase the uptake of electric vehicles and believes the phase out date for sales of new internal combustion engine vehicles could be brought forward to 2030…. However, this could only be delivered through a robust government plan to make the transition fair and deliverable. (Shell, “Electric Mobility“)

In “Why We need a Plan to Achieve the Ban,” UK Country Chair Sinead Lynch of Shell stated:

I recently participated in a discussion hosted by Climate Action on ‘Rising to the Net-Zero Challenge’. My fellow panellists were John Sauven, Executive Director Greenpeace UK and Shaun Spiers, Executive Director Green Alliance.

Greening the recovery was, of course, a key topic of conversation and led us to discuss the government’s plans to bring the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars forward to 2035. 

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California Water Efficiency Standards: Peter Gleick vs. Trump

By -- August 10, 2020

“Is Trump right about the more-working-class-view that water efficient plumbing fixtures and appliances are unnecessary and costly?”

“If a household were to conserve 25 percent of its indoor water it would amount to 7/100ths (0.07) of one-acre-foot of total system water in a year; a mere drop in the bucket.”

At a December 6, 2019 White House meeting with the Small Business Roundtable, Donald Trump made the following remarks about “opening up” national standards for water efficient bathroom fixtures and appliances:

We’re using common sense.  We have a situation where we’re looking very strongly at sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms where you turn the faucet on — in areas where there’s tremendous amounts of water, where the water rushes out to sea because you could never handle it — and you don’t get any water. 

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Physical Climate Science NOW Settled? (Dessler says yes)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 6, 2020

“[This paper is] the most important climate science paper that’s come out in several years…. [It’s] really moved the game away from these questions about the physics of the climate system into questions about how are humans going to react to climate change.”

– Andrew Dessler. Quoted in “Groundbreaking Study: Earth Will Warm 4.9 to 7 Degress F.” E&E News, July 23, 2020.

“During the period of strongest greenhouse gas forcing (since 1979), the latest CMIP6 models reveal 50% more net surface warming from 1979 up to April 2020 (+1.08 deg. C) than do the observations (+0.72 deg. C).”

– Roy Spencer, “CMIP6 Climate Models …” June 25, 2020.

An alleged breakthrough, hold-the-presses moment has arrived–right during the summer heat and just in time for a Presidential election to give the problematic Green New Deal veneer.…

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Spanish Renewable Giant Iberdrola Enters Texas with a Thud

By -- August 5, 2020
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Biden’s 2-Trillion Dollar Blunder Imperils Economic Recovery

By Vijay Jayaraj -- August 4, 2020
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Trump: “Restoring US Energy Dominance” (Excerpts from July 29, 2020 speech)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 3, 2020
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Health Effects of Industrial Wind: The Debate Intensifies (update with Steven Cooper)

By Sherri Lange -- July 30, 2020
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California’s Proposed Pandemic Revisions to Cap & Trade: It’s (Still) a Tax!

By -- July 29, 2020
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Wind and Solar Ramp-up Problematic (mainstream recognition of grassroots environmentalism)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- July 28, 2020
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Kevon Martis: Common-good Foe of Industrial Solar and Wind

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- July 27, 2020
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