Central banks raising interest rates makes it harder to fight the climate crisis | Thomas Ferguson and Servaas Storm
In late 2021, consumer price inflation surged in many countries. Prices shot up again following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In response, central banks drastically tightened monetary policy – raising interest rates from near zero to around 5%…
Demand For More Subsidies Hides the True Costs of Wind Power
Net Zero Watch is highlighting the fact that claims of falling wind power costs are contradicted by demands from wind power operators for additional subsidies on top of existing support. This debate has been in progress since 2017 when research…
Two IPCC Authors Make Ludicrous Claims On Corals, Green-Energy Solutions
A Google News search for the term “Climate Change” brings up an article by The Conversation, in which two authors associated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report make a series of claims, including that climate…
Climate change A to Z: an FT jargon buster – Financial Times
Adaptation Making changes to deal with the effects of climate change — both now and in the future. This includes building infrastructure such as flood and fire defences, developing crops that can cope with new climatic conditions, and exploring new…
Govt. Report: World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Grossly ‘Unprofitable’
A new report commissioned by the Norwegian government contradicts Boris Johnson’s recent claim in Parliament that offshore wind costs have fallen by 70% in a decade. It confirms that the UK’s newest offshore wind farms remain high-cost operations. Indeed, the academics who produced…
Biden’s Solar Folly: Administration Must Rethink Its Climate Agenda
President Joe Biden’s goal to make the U.S. electric grid carbon-free by 2035, will require the U.S. to diversify its domestic energy sources, including a heavy reliance on solar power. This is foolish for two reasons: The solar industry in…
Why Everything You’ve Heard About Solar Is Wrong
Three years ago I published a long article at Forbes arguing that solar panels weren’t clean but in fact, produced 300 times more toxic waste than high-level nuclear waste. But in contrast to nuclear waste, which is safely stored and never hurts anyone, solar…
It Takes Big Energy To Back Up Little Wind And Solar
Power system design can be extremely complex, but one simple number is painfully obvious. At least it’s painful (and terribly inconvenient) to advocates of wind and solar power – which may be why we never hear about it, why it…
The missing trillions
(University of Sussex) The hidden social, environmental and health costs of the world’s energy and transport sectors is equal to more than a quarter of the globe’s entire economic output, new research from the University of Sussex Business School and Hanyang University reveals.
Paper: Data Shows ‘Cheap’ Offshore Wind Power Claims Are False
A new paper from the Global Warming Policy Foundation shows that the cost of offshore wind power is high and barely falling. GWPF is calling for ministers and officials to come clean with the public. Since 2017, renewables advocates have…
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