Climate, Energy and Net Zero — Issue 345 Volume 4

Latest 30 Critical Commentaries 10351—10380. Click orange / underlined commentary source to open at original website. Some sources require subscription.

Climate Scribe 345 Selected quote:

At EIGEN VA𝛌UES¹⁰³⁵⁵ in « Net Zero for Dummies » linked below, David Turver demonstrates the folly of Net Zero in eight charts like the one below and others including…

« Net Zero Leads to Economic Stagnation and Poverty: Global energy consumption has continued to rise, however since 2005 high prices have contributed to falling UK energy consumption alongside reduced emissions of carbon dioxide. Sadly, emissions reductions are correlated with a stagnating economy and there are no rich countries with low energy consumption per capita…»

10351 Is It Really Our CO₂ ?

New Evidence Questions Humanity’s Role in the Carbon Cycle.

Questioning the Fundamental Basis of Climate Science and Policy. As an isotope geochemist, I’ve spent years studying the subtle signatures that reveal Earth’s hidden stories. Isotopes, variants of elements like carbon, act as chemical fingerprints...

Dr Matthew Wielicki | 21 June 2025 | Irrational Fear | USA

10352 Arise, ye prisoners of carbonisation

Apparently corporations will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.

At least so we gather from a piece in Bloomberg that asks « As Companies Abandon Climate Pledges, Is There a Silver Lining ? » and answers yes, comrades : « Coca-Cola, BP, HSBC and countless others are dropping environmental goals…

John Robson | 21 June 2025 | Robson on Climate Nonsense | Canada

10353 Natural Gas Projects Reboot After Officials Wake Up To Stark Realities

When the government abuses its powers in pursuit of far-left political goals at the expense of common sense policies, entire states and regions often suffer.

Such was the case in recent years when numerous projects centred on traditional energy were derailed by environmental extremists who leveraged the tools of government to erect roadblock after roadblock. Most famously…

Gary Abernathy | 11 June 2025 | The Empowerment Alliance | USA

10354 The shaming of the Climate Emergency Industrial Complex

It’s a shame I have to write this kind of article !

It’s a shame I have to write this kind of article, but it has to be said, and we are way beyond concerned ! We climate realists waste a lot of our time debunking the wild and weird statements made via the media by many scientists who are trapped in the…

Nigel Southway | 21 April 2025 | Take Back Manufacturing | Canada

10355 Net Zero for Dummies

The folly of Net Zero explained in eight charts.

A good friend of mine who subscribes to the Sub-stack told me my articles tend to be a bit too complicated for the layman and I need to write an article along the lines of Net Zero for Dummies. I always like to respond to feedback...

David Turver | 22 June 2025 | EIGEN VA𝛌UES | UK

10356 Junk Science Week: The hottest year ever ?

Advocates and the media claim 2024 was the hottest year ever. Archeological data suggest it wasn't, while modern data suffer from biases.

In 2024, mainstream media and political leaders aggressively promoted the alarming narrative that Earth had just experienced its hottest year ever recorded. National Geographic dramatically proclaimed, « 2024 was the hottest year ever … and the…

Matthew Wielicki | 19 June 2025 | Financial Post | Canada

10357 What is the link between GB electricity and gas prices ?

Political debate is a game of soundbites for both politicians and media commentators.

In turn, those soundbites tend to rely heavily on recent traumas which stand out in the mental maps of politicians, commentators and their assumed audience. In the case of energy policy, the trauma that dominates...

Gordon Hughes | 22 May 2025 | Cloud Wisdom | UK

10358 UK Government Admits Net Zero Is Expensive... and Renewables Behind Spain’s April Blackout

Every week, the editorial team of Freedom Research compiles a round-up of news that caught our eye, or what felt like under-reported aspects of news deserving more attention.

Spain’s disastrous national blackout was triggered by solar farms switching off in response to plummeting power prices, an official investigation has found, The Telegraph writes…

Hannes Sarv | 22 June 2025 | Freedom Research | Estonia

10359 Power Systems

Let's Talk About Inverter Based Resources.

You have no doubt heard all the chatter about « IBR » or Inverter Base Resources, they seem to be the buzz word of the day, but what are they ? Well, they walk hand in hand with renewables. Here is a list of renewable resources that use IBR and why...

Kilovar 1959 | 22 June 2025 | Kilovar 1959 | USA

10360 Latest Guardian Fake News

« Current heatwave likely to kill almost 600 people in England and Wales »

This shameful article surely marks a new low for the wretched Guardian, and its author, Damian Carrington... see excerpt at original. You don’t even have to read it to realise what a load of drivel it is. And they cannot even wait a week or two...

Paul Homewood | 22 June 2025 | Not A Lot Of People Know That | UK

10361 Trump:

Green Tax Credits Are A Giant Scam.

President Donald Trump posted this on his Truth Social feed Friday afternoon... see original. I’m thinking this removes all doubt about his feelings related to the costly, destructive, and largely useless US wind industry...

David Blackmon | 22 June 2025 | Energy Transition Absurdities | USA

10362 Decarbonisation Myth Frays as Hydrocarbon Use Grows

One cannot peruse the morning headlines or scroll through the digital ether without being assailed by the global media’s solemn decree...

Society is gracefully, unequivocally and inexorably decoupling from the deathly embrace of fossil fuels. Many in the « enlightened » professional classes, forgoing independent scrutiny of the issue, regurgitate the declaration with the…

Vijay Jayaraj | 22 June 2025 | Watts Up With That | USA

10363 A weak wind

Two weeks ago we cited Roger Pielke Jr that hurricane season was off to a quiet start.

How quiet ? There had been no tropical cyclones in the Northern Hemisphere at all by May 30 and, he added, if there weren’t any by June 5 it would be the quietest start since 1970. And at the risk of seeming cynical we accused alarmists of a…

John Robson | 22 June 2025 | Robson on Climate Nonsense | Canada

10364 The Damaging Reality of the Australian March Toward Net Zero, Regardless of Consequences !

The following short — 15 minute — video presents a devastating indictment of Australia’s current government.

It is embarked on an insidious ideological mission to throw away its natural resource advantages. Instead, it is pursue an unachievable net-zero goal. And, farmers are having none of it...

Thomas J Shepstone | 22 June 2025 | Energy Security and Freedom | USA

10365 A Critical Look At The Media Claim That 40°C Summer Days Have Become Much More Likely Because Of Climate Changes

So let’s take a look at this study to see what it really says.

Here’s the media hype: see euronews excerpt at original. So let’s take a look at this study to see what it really says. But just before doing so, note what the Met Office media release says about this study…

Jaime Jessop | 22 June 2025 | Challenging Un-enlightenment « Science » | UK

10366 Supreme Court Delivers Blow To California Climate Zealots

The Supreme Court sided Friday with oil companies seeking to challenge California’s electric vehicle regulations.

In a 7-2 ruling, the court allowed energy producers to continue their lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to approve California regulations that require manufacturing more electric vehicles...

Katelynn Richardson | 20 June 2025 | Daily Caller | USA

10367 The Hydrological Cycle : Why Warmth Fuels Snowfall

The hydrological cycle is sometimes counterintuitive: warmer air, not colder, often leads to more snowfall.

Here’s how it works. Air’s capacity to hold water vapour increases exponentially with temperature — about 7% more per 1°C of warming, per the Clausius-Clapeyron relation. In the equatorial Pacific, where sea surface temperatures…

Jennifer Marohasy | 22 June 2025 | Counterpoints & Storybooks | Australia

10368 China Is Studying How to Hack and Crash Our Power Grids

We have been tracking this issue for years.

The following article, written by Erika Langerova on LinkedIn, presents some valuable points regarding the Chinese efforts to hack Western grids. This extends beyond this article, and it aligns with my comments…

Stu Turley | 21 June 2025 | Energy News Beat | USA

10369 Wind Industry Now Destroying 1000-Year-Old German Forest That Inspired Grimm Fairy Tales

Germany’s environmentally destructive technocracy.

In the Reinhardswald near Kassel, known as the Fairytale Forest, a previously untouched natural and cultural landscape with trees over 500 years old, is today being irreversibly destroyed. Why? To protect nature and the climate...

Pierre Gosselin | 22 June 2025 | No Tricks Zone | Germany

10370 Miliband « robbing Peter to pay Paul »

Mr Montford warned that any relief would be temporary.

Net Zero Watch has belittled the government’s announcement that it will cut electricity bills for large industrial users by 25%. The campaign group has pointed out that the cost of the discount has to be paid somehow...

NZW Team | 23 June 2025 | Net Zero Watch | UK

10371 Another Significant Omission :

The false Endangerment Finding by the EPA under Lisa Jackson in 2009 under the Obama Administration asserts...

Elevated concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may reasonably be anticipated to endanger the public health and to endanger the public welfare of current and future generations. The finding ignores or omits contradictory…

Ken Haapala | 21 June 2025 | The Science and Environmental Policy Project | USA

10372 Heatwaves and Excess Deaths

The Facts.

Further to the Guardian’s absurd claim that « last week’s heatwave killed 600 people », it is worth going back to the ONS analysis carried out after the 2022 heatwaves...

Paul Homewood | 23 June 2025 | Not A Lot Of People Know That | UK

10373 The Green Energy Narrative’s Troubles Grow

A weekly Carbon Brief newsletter headline screamed, « Three Years to 1.5℃ »

It cited research by 60 climate scientists that shows that the world is « doomed to breach the symbolic 1.5°C warming limit » in as little as three years...

Allen Brooks | 23 June 2025 | Energy Musings | USA

10374 What If The Foundation Of The Climate Scare Was A Calculated Lie ?

Carbon dioxide, we’ve been told over and again, is the enemy that must be subdued if we are to avoid catastrophic global warming.

It is, however, a faulty premise. Physics, not politics, tells us that man’s CO₂ emissions will not cause catastrophic climate change nor an increase in extreme weather...

I & I Editorial Board | 18 May 2025 | Issues and Insights | USA

10375 What's up ?

Oil. Oil's up.

Another week, another oil shock that I can’t leave undiscussed, not after I spent the better part of my Sunday afternoon reading news, which I avoid doing over the weekend for self-preservation reasons...

Irina Slav | 23 June 2025 | On energy | Bulgaria

10376 Powering Data Centres & AI

High demand, high load factor, high reliability customers and challenged grids.

The federal goals of Net Zero by 2050 and “all-electric everything” have been placed “on hold” at least temporarily. Therefore, the primary drivers of electric demand and consumption growth are now expected to be data centres and AI…

Ed Reid | 23 June 2025 | Climate Change Conundrum | USA

10377 Alberta’s Data Centre Boom:

Economic Opportunity or Electricity Affordability Crisis ?

What is true for Alberta, is true for many jurisdictions in North America that remain conflicted over investing in weather dependent electricity or embracing in full, the 4th Industrial Revolution...

Joseph Fournier PhD | 23 June 2025 | Dr Joseph Fournier | USA

10378 Air pollution mortality science

An archive recording and transcript of perhaps the most important news show interview on this topic in over a decade.

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, so now seems like a good time. It’s an interview in 2017 on Talk Radio — now Talk TV — by Julia Hartley-Brewer and the late Professor Anthony Frew, who unfortunately died a few years later…

Ben Pile | 23 June 2025 | The Net Zero Scandal | UK

10379 How « Green » Wind and Solar Could Trash the Planet

When « clean energy » gets messy.

This week, Center of the American Experiment released « Shattered Green Dreams: The Environmental Costs of Wind and Solar », which has been in the works for years — Isaac and Mitch actually worked on the earliest drafts of this report…

Sarah Montalbano | 23 June 2025 | Montalbano Mondays | USA

10380 2025 Evidence of Nature’s Sunscreen

2025 Updated Report on Global Dimming and Brightening Worldwide and in China.

Martin Wild et al., published April 2025 A Perspective on Global Dimming and Brightening Worldwide and in China. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images…

Ron Clutz | 24 June 2025 | Science Matters | Canada