Greenpeace-WWF Wind Claims Blown Away

John McCarthy once said, "He who refuses to do the arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense". Or become politicised tin-shakers pushing absurd "independent economic analysis" it seems.

The above is a quote from my article published this week debunking the latest Greenpeace-WWF propaganda - a report that claims the UK economy would benefit from windfarms more than from its domestic gas resources (inlcuding its world class shale gas reserves) by 2020.

Knowing the real energy facts and data, I nearly fell off my chair laughing at this one.

For the full article go here to The Commentator.

UK energy bill reforms triple green subsidies

To see how the new UK energy bill is bumping up UK energy bills by tripling green subsidies (among other things) go here to Energy Tribune for the full published article.

Iran's Gazan Proxy War

Evidence for how Iran is pulling all the ocnflict strings on Israel's borders - and is using Palestinian Hamas as its regional pawn in pursuit of its nuclear strategy...in my latest article. Go here to Energy Tribune.

Obama's Energy Mandate: More Oil and Gas

So much for the democratic mandate of the well-heeled environmental lobbies...the President's election mandate, it turns out, is (strong cross-party support) for more domestic oil and gas.

For the full published article go here to Energy Tribune

The Next Oil Revolution

Along with a few others who have swum against the tide of media ignorance, I have been saying for years how the peak oil (we're running out of oil) alarmists were dead wrong. Now everyone knows they were. Here's a piece from me just published spelling it out further.

For the full article above go here to Energy Tribune.

The EPA's Dirty BIG Secrets

Just published at Energy Tribune my article spelling out why the US Government's unlected quango (aquasi-non-government-organization) is thoroughly "unfit for purpose".

For teh full article go here.

Obamanomics, Solyndra and Crony Capitalism

Just published the above article from me here at Energy Tribune. Here's a taster (and for the full article go here):

If ever there were a poster child for government ineptitude in picking winners and losers in the marketplace it’s the Solyndra scandal. Perceived by some as ‘yesterday’s story’, Solyndra is still very much news – a self-inflicted wound for the administration and a running sore for US taxpayers. Right now the IRS is fighting a courtroom battle to prevent Solyndra investors from misusing the bankruptcy laws to further sting US taxpayers.

But that’s only half of it. In an equally desperate bid to blame competitors for their failed business model, Solyndra’s backers have also lodged an unfair trading practices lawsuit against Chinese solar panel-makers.  Meanwhile, a whole raft of potential ‘Solyndras’ still await receipt of their own government’s largesse as part of the administration’s ‘green deal’. And if anyone wants to know what all that means in practice a snapshot of the Nevada energy market provides it.

Fracking Goes to Hollywood

Just published at Energy Tribune my article showing the hypocrisy of Damon and the anti-fracking Hollywood elite when it comes to shale gas development.

For the full article go here.

US Shale's Seismic Success Shakes Kremlin

My latest just published here at The Commentator. Here's a taster:

The seismic tremors of the US shale gas boom are not only rattling the Kremlin’s confidence in the future of Russia’s energy empire, but they could prove fatal to the country’s gas giant, Gazprom.

As the Wall Street Journal recently reported, with the formerly “unthinkable” scenario of U.S. energy independence becoming a serious proposition, “Russia could be the big loser”. Official EU energy policy has long been to wean the continent off its ‘addiction’ to imported Russian gas – and the political leverage this offers Moscow.

Kyoto: The Last Rites

The above article from me published during the last week. For the full article go here or here. And here's a taster:

It’s uniquely appropriate that November’s UN Climate Summit – the last before the Kyoto Protocol formally expires on December 31^st – is taking place in Doha. In the league of the world’s highest per-capita greenhouse gas emitters, Qatar currently ranks at the very top. Where better than the Qatari capital to perform the last rites over the Kyoto Protocol?

Not that that’s how November’s talks will be sold, you understand. In typical UN double-speak, the Climate Summit secretariat will fashion a form of words suggesting that the Kyoto process is alive and well and merely moving into a ‘new phase’. So why do the terms ‘flogging’ and ‘dead horse’ come to mind?

EU Reports Should Green-light Shale Revolution (and red-light irrational Green rhetoric)

Once again Europe has been shooting itself in the foot putting every regulatory obstacle  in the way of the economy boost many EU states could get from the shale gas bonanza under their feet.Now three of the EU's own reports should change that ... but I wouldn't hold your breath.

Published here at Energy Tribune today and here at The Commentator (UK) yesterday.

Solar eclipsed?

The above article from me published today here at Energy Tribune (US) and here The Commentator (UK). Here's a taster:

What marks out both the entire renewable energy sector for economic decline above all else is the fact that it is effectively an expensive government-sponsored enterprise, not a child of the free and democratic marketplace. Consider again the elements colluding to produce the current crisis: the lifeline of public subsidy, energy levies and taxes and market-skewing regulation dove-tailing with incentivized over-capacity, protectionism and, ultimately, trade wars. All marks of an industry kept afloat by ideological fiat and not free market capitalism geared to meeting actual market need.

To gain a final key perspective, a report by United Nations Environment Programme in June announced that global renewable energy investment generally reached $257 billion in 2011 rivalling the $302 billion invested in hydrocarbon power. Germany alone has committed over €100 billion in solar subsidies over the next 20 years – for a power that will produce a very small energy return. In total, renewable energy, of which solar is just a tiny fraction, makes up just 3 percent of our electricity.

As the green utopian clouds obscuring the real cost of ‘free’ solar power clear, it’s easy to see why the industry is in eclipse.

Mark Steyn v Michael Mann: Nice cartoon

A nice cartoon drawn specifically for my article The Climate Change Racket: Finally A 'Day in Court'? published today here over The Commentator (UK).

The Climate Change Racket: Finally, a 'Day in Court'?

Michael Mann wants to sue Mark Steyn over thr latter's claim that his climate change hockey stick graph was 'fraudulent' (which it was of course). Good luck with that, Michael.

Here's the full story at Energy Tribune.

Whatever happened to peak oil?

The above now published here at Energy Tribune (US) and here at The Commentator (UK). Peak oil alarmists have started running for cover as increasing finds make a nonsese of their predictions. As some of us have been saying for years: for all practical pursposes, oil and gas resources are limitless.

Worstall, Carbon Tax and Floating Polar Bear Syndrome

Tim Worstall strikes again - in his Telegraph blog pushing the 'alternative' idiocy of a carbon 'poll' tax instead of the current raft of green taxes. We need rid ourselves of both, in truth.

For the full article go here at The Commentator (UK) or here to Energy Tribune (US). But here's a taster:

Worstall’s case is that a simple bureaucratic change of tack to manipulate the free marketplace is the way to go to achieve the goal: state manipulation of the climate.

Not exactly the kind of argument I ever expected a committed free marketeer to make. No wonder University of Houston Professor, Larry Bell, commenting on the new bipartisan mood for compromise among some conservatives in the U.S., tags Carbon Taxomania: “stupidity-on-steroids”.

The fact is that we need to rid ourselves entirely of a plague of green taxes which are having zero impact in the pointless war on a harmless trace and minor greenhouse gas.

Arguing for a state intervening substitution of one failed bureaucratic tax system for another merely avoids facing the real scientific conundrum Warmists are avoiding: How is it that CO2 emissions have continued to rise exponentially while the global average temperature has not risen for 15 years?

Ah, the floating polar bear

But I must mention one other thing in connection with Worstall’s Telegraph missive. Next time such a piece is in the offing, it might be an idea to ensure that it isn’t totally undermined by a dim-witted sub-editor including the iconic green propagandist tool: the image of a polar bear ‘cast adrift’ on an Arctic ice floe.

Yes, his piece is captioned with riotous pomposity: “The man from Whitehall cannot protect this polar bear”.  Ah yes, FPBS – floating polar bear syndrome! The fact is that polar bears can swim. There’s nothing the cuddly imps love more than jumping onto and riding around on ice floes. It’s what polar bears do for fun.

Climate Activist Nitwits Think There Are Polar Bears in Antarctica

You'd think that when they are trying to get their sensationalist claims about alleged global warming (which actually hasn't happened at all in 15 years now) they would at least illustrate their case with a fact or two. Unfortunately, so intent are they on their fact-less ideological spin they locate polar bears in the wrong hemisphere. Check it out for yourself here. Priceless!

And just in case you think me uncaring about polar bears...here's just one of the photos greensists and dim-witted news editors like to wheel out to illustrate the alleged plight of polar bears.

 

Aaah....but, unfortunately for greens polar bears are actually thriving as countless reports have shown since the first green  alarm sounds a decade ago alerted us to the facts that they were no longer in one Arctic bay; it turned out they'd simply adapted and moved elsewhere, sadly, too late to quell the senasationalist headlines that persist to today.

Oh, and one other thing they omit to mention: polar bears can swim. And one of their favourite pastimes? Jumping on to ride on passing ice floes. But hey, let's not facts get in the way of a good story.

Cuddly aren't they? Polar bears,that is, not greens - they're downright  dangerous.  

UK's Energy Policy 'Schizophrenia' Spreads to Europe

A new energy realism is being forced onto only on the UK, but on Europe, too. Here's my piece spelling it out...to the chagrin of Greenpeace and its journo acolytes.

Published here at The Commenatator (UK) and here at Energy Tribune (US). And sorry about the 'frigthening' graphic above...none of my doing!

Debunking the Great Carbon Tax Hype

The above article from me now published here at Energy Tribune (US), here at The Commentator (UK) and here at the Canada Free Press.

It reveals how the alleged 'third way' carbon tax- as proposed by those like the Adam Smith Institute's Timw Worstall - is just another climate alarmist 'Warmist' hype. Here's a taster:

Britain (and Germany’s) anti-carbon war has actually succeeded only in hiking taxes, providing a windfall for government, driving up energy costs, hobbling industry competitiveness, costing jobs and dumping half a million people into fuel poverty while having precisely zero impact on carbon emissions. Tim Worstall’s ‘solution’ proposes the assimilation of the pestilence of (failed and financially sapping) green taxes into a socially ubiquitous carbon ‘poll’ tax toward, as even Worstall admits, is an entirely “uncertain” end of ‘man-made’ climate manipulation.

Or put more succinctly: translate the unworkable into the unacceptable to achieve the delusional.

Irony of Ironies: Europes Switches to Coal as US Switch to Gas Drives Down Emissions

Just published at The Commentator (UK), Energy Tribune (US) and Canada Free Press my piece on how (once again) European politics - this time on the key issue of energy - achieves the exact opposite of its goal as the Law of Unintended Consequences kicks in.