How Will New York's Energy Madness End? The "Don't Do It!" Report

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  • I frequently write about how the mandates for energy transition that New York has adopted are impossible and irreconcilable in the real world; and therefore it is inevitable that they will have to be abandoned at some point when implementation of the project runs up against physical reality.

  • Probably the most frequent question that I get asked is, OK, how and when will that occur?

  • The question is important because for as long as the impossible mandates remain in place they are causing massive ongoing damage to our electricity system and to consumers.

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Big Tech On The Path To Net Zero: The Story With Amazon And Apple

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Big Tech On The Path To Net Zero: The Story With Amazon And Apple

  • Before everything got disrupted by the attempt on President Trump’s life, I had written a post last week titled “Big Tech On The Path To Net Zero.”

  • That post looked at the most recently issued “sustainability” reports from Google, Microsoft and Meta, and noted that all three admit to going rapidly in the opposite direction from “net zero.” As their businesses grow in the direction of power-hungry data centers and AI, they inevitably require large incremental amounts of always-available electricity — the kind of electricity that wind and sun cannot provide. Lacking viable alternatives to fossil fuels, their “emissions” rise.

  • But, you might ask, how about Amazon and Apple?

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The Latest On The Federal War Against Internal Combustion Vehicles

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  • I’m old enough to remember a time when there were serious environmental concerns with internal combustion engine vehicles.

  • NOx and SOx emissions caused a thick layer of brown smog in the atmosphere during calm weather spells in summer and winter; and a layer of black soot would cover the snow along the roadside in the winter.

  • But gradually that all got cleaned up. Today the bona fide serious environmental concerns about internal combustion engines are far in the past. But the war to eliminate them — supposedly on environmental grounds — is just ramping up.

  • The Biden Administration is all in with the plan to get rid of the ICE car. Why?

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Getting Ready For The European Elections

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Getting Ready For The European Elections

  • The Global Warming Policy Foundation 2024 American speaking tour is now set for next week.

  • Dr. Benny Peiser, Director of the GWPF, and I will be speaking at three events on June 11, 12 and 13 on the topic of “Europe’s Net Zero Rebellion, European elections, and the coming U.S. reckoning.” My piece is the “U.S. reckoning,” while Benny will cover the backlash against Net Zero currently beginning to boil up in Europe.

  • Meanwhile, take note: there is clearly a political earthquake gathering force in Europe against the green energy takeover. Exactly how much force it has gathered so far is something we will learn much more about after June 9.

  • But whether the shift in this election is small or large, either way it will be significant.

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So How Are Things Going In China?

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  • How are things going in China?

  • That is a question of great interest to everyone in the world, both inside China and out. Of all countries, China has either the largest or second-largest population (neck and neck with India at about 1.4 billion), and an economy that is a relatively close second to the United States in absolute production (although less than 20% as prosperous on the basis of per capita GDP).

  • China’s economy has clearly grown rapidly since the 1980s, but there is conflicting information as to whether that growth is continuing, or perhaps stalling out. If China is continuing its rapid economic expansion under the increasingly authoritarian regime of Xi Jinping, its enhanced economic strength could pose a growing threat to its Asian neighbors and indeed to the rest of the world.

  • But other information suggests that China’s economy is in grave distress, and that the country has entered into what could be a period of extended contraction and decline.

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Is Beef Production A Major Contributor To Climate Change?

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Is Beef Production A Major Contributor To Climate Change?

  • Undoubtedly, by this time in your life you have read a hundred times, or maybe a thousand, that beef production is a “major contributor” to climate change. It’s one of those narratives that has become a continuous drumbeat in the progressive press.

  • Probably, you have had no reason to question it. Without thinking about it, you likely assume that this narrative is probably true.

  • But there is good reason to think critically about this one. Among the various scare stories used to take further control of your life, this is one of the more important. With the war against fossil fuels, there is at least the pretense that their use can be reduced or eliminated without major effect on your lifestyle — i.e., just replace the energy from fossil fuels with “cheap” electricity from wind and sun. There is no such pretense with the war on beef. The end game is unabashedly to reduce your standard of living by taking away one of the most important and best parts of your diet.

  • So is it true that beef production is a major contributor to climate change?

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