Climate, Energy and Net Zero — Issue 343 Volume 4
Latest 30 Critical Commentaries 10291—10320. Click orange / underlined commentary source to open at original website. Some sources require subscription.
Climate Scribe 343 Selected quotes:
At Climate Realism¹⁰³⁰⁸ linked below, Anthony Watts and Sterling Burnett uncover misinformation about climate change at Politico…
« Politico’s piece is not journalism — it’s an extended press release for climate activists and unelected NGO bureaucrats, which regurgitates flawed model projections, cherry-picks isolated data points, and conveniently ignores real world data to the contrary that shows climate-related mortality has drastically declined during the recent period of modest warming and that adaptive capacity has never been higher.…»
10291 Poll finds global public support for nuclear remains high
Twice as many people support the use of nuclear energy than oppose it, according to the latest multinational public opinion poll conducted by market research firm Savanta on behalf of energy consultancy Radiant Energy Group.
The Public Attitudes toward Clean Energy (PACE) index is described as « the world's largest publicly-released international study on what people think about nuclear energy », with data collected from almost 32,000 respondents in 31 countries…
WNN Team | 13 June 2025 | World Nuclear News | UK
10292 Climate Oscillations 1: The Regression
Introduction to the « Climate Oscillations » series.
My last two posts, Musings on the AMO and The Bray Solar Cycle and AMO were fun to research and write, and they helped show that solar variations and cycles do have an impact on climate change regardless of what the IPCC says in AR6 WGI and…
Andy May | 17 June 2025 | Watts Up With That | USA
10293 « Housing policy is disaster mitigation policy »
Home prices are softening and climate change has nothing to do with it.
In recent months, home values have softened in formerly hot real estate markets. The news has been awash with that there are now more sellers than buyers. A story in Bloomberg attributed the downturn to climate change induced rises in…
Jessica Weinkle | 17 June 2025 | Conflicted | USA
10294 £2 Billion UK Hydrogen Plant Cancelled
US-based Air Products has abandoned the proposed green hydrogen project in Humberside.
The Telegraph brings news of the latest setback for the green scam industry. Let’s be absolutely clear about this — when they use weasel words like « support measures », what they really mean is subsidies. If there was a viable market for their…
Paul Homewood | 17 June 2025 | Not A Lot Of People Know That | UK
10295 The Carbon Isotope Fingerprint Just Got Smudged
...and I Owe Some of You an Apology.
In light of the recent Nature study I discussed yesterday in Settled Science Springs a Leak, it’s time to revisit a position I’ve long held—and, it turns out, one that now requires correction. Specifically, the long-standing assumption that carbon isotope ratios ( δ¹³C and Δ¹⁴C ) provide unambiguous proof that the rise in atmospheric CO₂ is almost entirely anthropogenic…
Charles Rotter | 17 June 2025 | Watts Up With That | USA
10296 Thousands of wind turbines and millions of solar panels generated a massive blackout
Thousands of wind turbines and millions of solar panels generated a massive blackout.
Updated Man of La Mancha lyrics could read: « To dream the impossible dream of clean, green, net-zero electricity, to fight the unbeatable foe of manmade climate cataclysms, we must run where the brave dare not go »…
Paul Driessen | 17 June 2025 | Watts Up With That | USA
10297 UK Sky News: Spanish Blackouts Due To « Miscalculation » !
A miscalculation ! ! !
No, Sky, it was not a miscalculation. It was the inevitable result of running the grid mainly on highly variable, low inertia renewables. That in turn was the consequence of deliberate government policy...
Paul Homewood | 18 June 2025 | Not A Lot Of People Know That | UK
10298 The End Of Alarmism
Despite its fortified position as orthodoxy in academia, not to mention the press and politics, climate alarmism shows every sign of being on the ropes as a scientific theory.
In this Climate Discussion Nexus « Backgrounder » video John Robson delves into the history and philosophy of science, particularly the theories of Thomas Kuhn, to explain why this apparently mighty paradigm is close to exhaustion...
Dr John Robson | 14 June 2025 | Climate Discussion Nexus | Canada
10299 Whatever
Feat. the UK, IEA, Norway, and the Brussels brain trust. Also Spain. And a lot of contradictions.
The UK’s government is on a quest to kill natural gas by blaming it, and only it, for high electricity prices. If only we didn’t set electricity prices based on gas but on solar and wind, people would...
Irina Slav | 18 June 2025 | On energy | Bulgaria
10300 Europe Must Reclaim Control of Its Energy Destiny, Or Face Risks of Energy Poverty, Instability, and Geopolitical Irrelevance
This article is from a European reader and energy consultant who authored it in response to my request that he expand on a comment he made on one of our posts. It's very thoughtful !
Europe’s energy sector stands at a crossroads. Recent shocks — from the Ukraine war to Iberia’s blackout — have laid bare a system weakened by siloed policies and antiquated market design. This paper argues for a holistic, technology-neutral…
Damjan Stanek | 18 June 2025 | Energy Security and Freedom | USA
10301 NESO Winter Outlook
NESO has published its preliminary UK power grid Winter Outlook for this year.
The Telegraph reports... see excerpt at original. In fact the reality is much worse than that. As NESO’s Outlook shows, that inter-connector capacity is no longer a luxury, it will make the difference between blackouts and no blackouts...
Paul Homewood | 18 June 2025 | Not A Lot Of People Know That | UK
10302 Screwing the Tern
Displacement Activity – a Case Study.
The story that follows might be described as labyrinthine, perhaps even Byzantine, such are the twists and turns. It all stems from the plans by Equinor — the Norwegian state-owned oil and gas company now specialising in blighting the UK with wind farms — to develop...
Mark Hodgson | 18 June 2025 | Climate Scepticism | UK
10303 OFGEM Brearley Lies About Renewables
There was a time when OFGEM prime consideration was the customer !
You bare faced liar, Brearley !... see excerpt at original. The so-called gas crisis was very short lived, and we came out of it two years ago because of market factors, not your intervention. In reality the costs imposed on electricity prices by the gas…
Paul Homewood | 18 June 2025 | Not A Lot Of People Know That | UK
10304 Effect of 300 ppm extra CO₂ on Eastern Purple Cornflower
From the CO₂ Science Archive: Eastern Purple Coneflower, aka Echinacea purpurea, a flowering perennial, furnishes the active ingredient in some herbal remedies and is a nice late-summer display for our gardens.
And getting nicer because in 2007 four experiments showing an extra 300 ppm yielded a remarkable 191.5% increase in plant growth. So if you find echinacea makes you feel better when you are sick, just remember your CO₂ helps it feel better all the time...
John Robson | 18 June 2025 | Robson on Climate Nonsense | Canada
10305 Claim: Government Mandates can Help Australia to Seize Renewable Energy Export Opportunities
If it is a profitable opportunity, why is government intervention required to make it happen ?
There probably is a market for boutique green energy products. If your luxury sports EV costs a million dollars, it probably doesn’t matter if the steel or aluminium used to manufacture that vehicle costs $100 / pound, because it was manufactured using green energy...
Eric Worrall | 18 June 2025 | Watts Up With That | Australia
10306 Yet Another Darter-fish Invented to Stop Development
What exactly are « meristic traits » ?
Way down in Bessemer, Alabama, the development of a huge data center is being fought with a time-tried and proven tactic : invent a new species of the darter-fish and declare it at once « endangered ». According to locals and environmental…
Kip Hansen | 18 June 2025 | Watts Up With That | USA
10307 Should NESO be allowed to lower its minimum inertia requirement ?
« ... a quirk of carbon accounting rules... »
In my latest column for the Daily Telegraph I discuss the risks associated with NESO’s ambition to run the power grid without gas by the end of this year and to reduce its minimum inertia requirement. It has boasted already of running…
Kathryn Porter | 18 June 2025 | Watt-Logic | UK
10308 False, Politico, « Climate-Related Deaths » Are Declining, Not Climbing
Politico’s piece is not journalism.
In an article in Politico, titled « EU has no plan for rising climate-related deaths, scientists warn », writer Rory O’Neill warns that « Europe is increasingly grappling with illness and deaths from extreme weather and the arrival of tropical diseases but it has no plan to prevent and cope with rising climate-related health problems ». This is false. In fact, evidence…
Anthony Watts and H Sterling Burnett | 18 June 2025 | Climate Realism | USA
10309 Three Years To Save The World !
Outright Lie From The BBC.
The BBC are still under the illusion that the Paris Agreement in 2015 was ever going to make the slightest bit of difference to anything. It was obvious at the time that global emissions would carry on rising, because China, India and all of the other…
Paul Homewood | 19 June 2025 | Not A Lot Of People Know That | UK
10310 EPA Gets Moving On Its Push For Energy Deregulation
Now coming into view are the specifics of EPA’s strategy to end the Obama/Biden efforts to strangle the energy sector of the economy in the name of « saving the planet » from climate change.
A document released by EPA last week on June 11 lays out the plan for repeal of the absurd (and dangerous) regulation that would have ended use of fossil fuels to generate electricity by some time in the 2030s…
Francis Menton | 16 June 2025 | Manhattan Contrarian | USA
10311 We Don't Have the Money, Workforce or Materials to Achieve Net Zero : Michael Kelly
Lee Hall, of NTD, sits down with Michael Kelly, professor emeritus of technology at the University of Cambridge.
Kelly was a government scientist when the Climate Change Act launched in 2008, and has been researching the reduction of carbon in Britain since then. He wrote to Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Milliband to say that the Net Zero targets are an engineering fantasy—because...
Lee Hall | 25 February 2025 | British Thought Leaders | UK
10312 Wind and Solar Energy Subsidies vs. Oil and Gas Tax Deductions
The Inflation Reduction Act provided wind and solar power with lucrative tax credits that are essentially uncapped and available without limit.
The oil and gas industry receives tax deductions that pale in comparison to the vast sums of taxpayer money provided to wind and solar generators, estimated at 6%...
IER Team | 18 June 2025 | Institute for Energy Research | USA
10313 The UK Clean Air Day Crusaders Are All Too Happy to Deprive Developing Nations of LNG to Pull Themselves Out of Poverty
So-called environmental activists across the United Kingdom will pat themselves on the back this Thursday, which they have declared « Clean Air Day ».
Because nothing of real value will come of the observance, the crusaders’ sense of elevated virtue will be the only noticeable effect from all the promotion of cycle-to-work schemes and lamentations over vehicle exhaust on the M25...
Vijay Jayaraj | 19 June 2025 | Energy Security and Freedom | USA
10314 Professor Judith Curry: Climate Science Has Become Pseudo Science
Renowned climatologist Dr. Judith Curry debunks the myth of a climate consensus, revealing deep scientific disagreement on critical issues like the causes and impacts of warming.
« Your funding, your salary increase, your tenure case is tied to agreeing with the consensus. It’s really about careerism and resources. They all have to dance to that same drum beat if they want to get professional recognition and professional advancement… »
Hannes Sarv | 19 June 2025 | Freedom Research | Estonia
10315 Chris Wright Lays Out Ambitious Plan Related to SMR
Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced an ambitious plan to have three small modular reactors (SMR) built and producing power at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) by July 4, 2026.
This initiative was revealed during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on June 18, 2025, aligning with President Donald Trump’s executive orders to boost domestic nuclear energy development...
David Blackmon | 19 June 2025 | Energy Transition Absurdities | USA
10316 May 2025 Two Years of Ocean Cooling Persists
The ocean covers 71% of the globe and drives average temperatures.
The chart below shows SST monthly anomalies as reported in HadSST4 starting in 2015 through May 2025. A global cooling pattern is seen clearly in the Tropics since its peak in 2016, joined by NH and SH cycling downward since 2016…
Ron Clutz | 19 June 2025 | Science Matters | Canada
10317 Climate Doom Hoax: Debunking the Latest Agricultural Scare
Why Climate Science Keeps Getting Agriculture Wrong.
The Latest Climate Pivot: From Warming to Agricultural Ruin. Here we go again. As public interest wanes in the endless parade of climate doom, first global warming, then extreme weather, activists and complicit media have pivoted once more…
Dr Matthew Wielicki | 19 June 2025 | Irrational Fear | USA
10318 CONSENT NOT REQUIRED:
Who Gave Them Permission to Alter the Sky ?
In this engaging episode of The Clear Skies Movement LIVE on X, Serge Brown asks the question that no agency, contractor, or government has ever bothered to answer: When did we consent to atmospheric experimentation ?
Serge Brown | 19 June 2025 | Serge vs Goliath | USA
10319 Water Shortage ?
Blame It On Climate Change ! !
The latest gaslighting from the Environment Agency... see original. Naturally they blame the shortage partly on climate change... Whatever the future holds, they are lying to you about « the impacts of climate change already being felt » ...
Paul Homewood | 19 June 2025 | Not A Lot Of People Know That | UK
10320 Scientific institutional activism
Wonks put out another air pollution propaganda piece. Other wonks say there's only three years left to save the planet.
I was on Ian Collins’ Talk TV show this afternoon, talking about two new very obvious political interventions from people calling themselves « scientists ». Watch it here…
Ben Pile | 19 June 2025 | The Net Zero Scandal | UK