Time to Defund Climate Models?
By Steve Goreham -- April 29, 2025“The Trump administration is cutting funding for climate research across all federal departments…. Maybe it’s time for NASA to stick to space exploration, NOAA to stick to weather forecasting, and for the climate models to be shut down.”
Climate models have been the basis for concern about climate change for more than 35 years. The US government, the United Nations, and organizations across the world have used model projections to warn about global warming and to demand a shift to renewable energy. But Trump administration budget cuts at NASA, NOAA, and other federal agencies threaten to shut down the models, the heart of climate change alarmism.
In June of 1988, Senator Tim Wirth, then chair of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, held the first-ever hearing on the science of climate change.…
Continue ReadingEnergy & Environmental Review: April 28, 2025
By John Droz, Jr. -- April 28, 2025This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions.
Greed Energy Economics:
*** Epstein: Why Congress’s new budget should eliminate all IRA “tax credits”
Trump energy chief warns clean energy tax credits are a ‘big mistake’
Unreliables: Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
*** Affordable, Reliable, Clean Scorecard: Natural Gas Is Tops, Wind And Solar Are The Worst
Two new studies imply the Golden Eagle cannot survive more wind turbines
Wind power is buying eagle-kill indulgences
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, President Trump
*** Trump Admin Halts New York Offshore Wind Project, Orders Review of All Existing Biden-Era Wind Permits
Did BOEM Break the Law to Approve Offshore Wind?…
“Resolving Global Warming” (check your premises)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 25, 2025“Government as engineer for top-down planning or bottom-up incentives is a fatal conceit. Misidentifying the problem and imposing (government) solutions is error upon error–and in this case on a global scale. What about here-and-now economics? Consumers matter. Taxpayers matter. Energy freedom matters.”
Susan Krumdieck, an “energy transition engineer,” posted an open invitation to her network about a March 16 online discussion hosted by Insight Committee for Convergence, “Global Solutions and Outreach Programs – Our Best Chance to Resolve Global Warming.” The invitation read:
Humanity is staring into the face of an existential threat of its own making. Humanity must collaborate to minimize the risk from this threat. Current global collaboration efforts are failing.
The pitch:
We are now locked into a paradigm that prevents us from resolving this threat.…
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