Ed. note: The current cold snap (“where is global warming when you need it?”) makes timely a review of the Texas electricity debacle of February 2021. This post by Robert Bradley, “Wind, Solar, and the Great Texas Blackout: Guilty as Charged,” was originally published by the Institute for Energy Research. As of 5 pm yesterday, natural gas and coal supplied about 75 percent of Texas’s electricity (ERCOT scoreboard) and wind/solar 17 percent (versus 50 percent of rated capacity).
“Central planning for a forced energy transformation produced the debacle of debacles two years ago in Texas. It is time for a new era for U.S. electricity policy premised on market entrepreneurship.”
Electricity specialists at the University of Texas at Austin recently revisited the Great Texas Blackout of February 2021.…
Continue Reading“[The Paris agreement] is a fraud really, a fake. It’s just bullshit for them to say: ‘We’ll have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years.’ It’s just worthless words…. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.” (James Hansen, The Guardian, December 12, 2015)
Jean Boissinot is one disagreeable French fellow. My exchanges with him on social media (see here and here) are less than polite on his side, mixing sarcasm and insults (I might have dementia, he says) amid his (debatable) points. But when he argues success in the face of failure (as predicted by the father of climate alarmism above), perhaps it is time to rest my case.…
Continue Reading“Thanks to President Trump, the U.S. has officially escaped from the Paris Climate Agreement which undermined American values and priorities, wasted hard-earned taxpayer dollars, and stifled economic growth. This is another commonsense America First victory for the American people!” ( – Taylor Rogers, White House spokesperson. Quoted in Politico, below)
Effective yesterday, the United States is removed from the signatories of the Paris Climate Agreement, dated November 4, 2016. [1] Read about it: “So long, Paris: US officially leaves landmark climate pact” (Politico: January 27, 2026).
Even better, Trump II has started the withdrawal process for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992) that was responsible for the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement.
Trump Statement
The rationale for the U.S. withdrawal was given by Trump in his first administration.…
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