Revealed: Covid recovery plans threaten global climate hopes

The Guardian has no qualms with having a couple of millions jobless…

The Conversation: “International Momentum” and Green Jobs will Persuade Republicans to Back Biden’s Green New Deal

It looks like the Republicans will have a majority in the Senate…

Utility-Scale Battery Costs “Fall” to $625/kWh

Another one throwing out lots of figures that look shady. How…

Facts and Theories, Updated

The fact that its radiates off energy does not make CO2 a greenhouse…

First hydrogen-powered commuter train in the U.S. under development

Electrifying a track has a cost element. You only do that if…

The future of nuclear: power stations could make hydrogen, heat homes and decarbonise industry

How much money have we left after COVID to be thrown at fancy…

Fresh snowfall in Lahaul elates hoteliers, farmers

Reports on early snow from all over the Northern hemisphere.…

Aramco maintains dividend, shrugs off 45% profit drop and rising debt

Does anyone still remember the putative Aramco IPO? Yes, I know,…

Reefs at WA’s Rowley Shoals make surprise recovery from ‘significant’ coral bleaching

Sure it recovers. Some of those reefs are millions of years old…

China’s Green Offensive: The Obama State Department

China has learned the lesson well from Stalin. They know that…

Scientists Propose a Way to Feed 10 Billion People By 2050 Sustainably

We don't need scientists for that. Today we barely scratch the…

Perhaps the dumbest article title ever: “The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3 million years”… AEUHHH???

Every historian knows the Roman and Medieval Warm Periods. They…

Tax Meat to Hit Paris Agreement Climate Targets

Here in Vienna where I live things have become extraordinarily…

EU Targets LNG Exporters via Green Deal

There will be some virtue signaling gestures but on balance,…

WHO Presses for More Action on Climate Change

Smells like the WHo needs a new topic they can drum out when…

Diamondback CEO following a go-it-alone shale strategy

Bigger is often nothing but a recipe for hiding underperforming…

Biden as president would pursue climate ‘cheaters’ – and Australia could be among them

Biden will pursue climate cheaters? Good, if this means an end…

80% OF RUSSIA IS BURIED IN SNOW

Ahh, that must just be local weather. Like, the entire Northern…

Britain faces green energy disaster as lack of wind triggers new blackout warning

Busy people don't like to think a lot. They are busy doing -…

Australian coal exports hold up despite China ban

So the largest coal user on the planet boycotts a very large…

We need to talk to our kids about the climate crisis. But courage fails me when I look at my son

The Baader Meinhoff gang was a bunch of mindless savage butchers.…

Ditch Paris—and Save America

Watching the aftermath of Nov. 3rd, I am nothing short of amazed.…

Norway wealth fund says it’s hard to find right green energy projects

And it will get a lot harder still to find appropriate investment…

China Proposes Max $4,500 Fine for Carbon Market Violations

The virtue-signaling must go on. But let's assume that China…

The Global Hub for Trading Natural Gas Moves to the Netherlands

I remember when NBP was the big monster hub and TTF plus Zeehub…

OPEC Poses Threat to Itself

The pain starts to drive some members crazy. Patching over glaring…

With little left to cut, oil majors must wait for a recovery

When the pain becomes so strong that big corporations see no…

How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster

In a sense, thats what the essence of entrepreneurialism is.…

IVECO & ZF Logistics further deploy natural gas trucks on German routes

The feeling I get is that hydrogen is one giant figleaf and that…

William Can’t Sleep Because Of Climate Change!

I wonder what would keep the Prince awake at night if he wasn't…

Why the next financial crisis could be green

I grew up in the sticks, scion of a family of small handicraft…

Deloitte: Australia to Lose Trillions Unless We Act on Climate Change

What are GDP figures good for? Exactly, they provide people like…

Report Your Neighbours: British Police Urge the Public to Inform on Covid-19 Lockdown Breaches

It's good training for the people. When a population spies on…

Does selling ‘stranded assets’ lower global carbon levels?

Selling stranded assets means that someone else has made the…

Italy’s Snam takes first step into Israel with LNG, hydrogen plans

I am not very keen on the hydrogen part but I guess it's a fig…

Unusual and Unprecedented Warming – Presentation to the AAPG ACE 2020

Everyone should see this. And I would like alarmists to sit down,…

Is clean coal a lost cause?

We talk about clean coal and all we think of is CCS. When in…

Religion of Green

I have said so many times and I am sure I will do it many more…

A Biden Victory would Push the World on Climate Change

That is actually pretty desperate. They need blunt force to make…

Joe Biden Wants to Jail Oil Executives for Causing Climate Change

I would guess that Trump carries the election but in a sense,…

No, @ClimatePower “Climate Change” Isn’t Making It Harder to Vote

What's horrible is not the incredible ridiculousness of the claim.…

Meet the Climate Scientists That Social Media Censors Don’t Want You to Know About

This Hunter Biden story and the subsequent questioning by social…

Total Makes Second Gas Discovery Off South Africa

I have spent a lot of time in South Africa and got to know the…

Trump mulls executive order on fracking

An economic analysis - that shows the ups and downs of what fracking…

Gazprom puts into operation Europe’s biggest CNG station

The same thing thats true for the US is also true for Russia.…

Dubai builds first coal power plant despite pledging lowest carbon footprint in the world by 2050

Dubai needs a lot of baseload power and they have plenty of space…

CNN Proposes Climate Friendly Battery Powered Military Vehicles

Oh yes, I can see that. Wait, we are not done charging the tank.…

Science and politics

Anything has always been a tool for the powerful. That has laws…

Another Major Breakthrough For Solar Energy

It would be a breakthrough when you can install it and real costs…

Pester power from kids pushes parents towards electric cars

It's devious. My younger son has started his first year in middle…

The Hindenburg Myth

Wow, blatant lies in their most impressive shape. Question: what…

Aussie PM Defies Pressure to Set a Net Zero 2050 Climate Target

Down Under is a weird place today. Morrison hits some of the…

Urgent Climate Action Required to PREVENT the Greening of the Sahara Desert

Today we know that the Sahara was greener at some time. Not millions…

LNG Exports and the Trade Deal

When the US pull manufacturing back to the US through a policy…

Japan Likely Needs New Reactors to Meet Carbon Goal: Ex-Minister

Not long after Fukushima, I predicted that Japan will start building…

NASA’s SOFIA Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon

We see the Moon every day above our heads. We have been there,…

New Japan PM Pledges to Match China’s Zero Carbon 2050 Initiative

Looks like Japan has learned some lessons from China. Announce…