Obama's LOST Legacy: A new world order

President Obama is determined ot leave a lasting legacy - even if it is one that puts in place an anti-democratic new world order via US ratification of (that which Reagan rejected) the UN's Law of the Sea.

For the full story go to The Commentator (UK) or Energy Tribune (US).

UK Coalition on Energy: Dumb and Dumber

My article as titled above published here at The Commentator (UK) and here at Energy Tribune (US).

Here's a taster:

UK Energy plc is not in the best of hands. Quite honestly, the Muppets could have come up with a more coherent script than that contained in the coalition’s new energy bill.

With investor interest in developing North Sea oil and gas fields running at an all-time high, and parts of the UK onshore and offshore sitting on potentially world class shale gas reserves, it beggars belief that David Cameron’s coalition partners could end up presenting UK energy as a bad news story.

Somehow they managed it.

How NOT to do a Public Protest

The Occupy Protest nitwits should read this (if they can read). How NOT to do a p[ublic protest. Brilliant.Go here for the full article, but here's the last four of seven hints on how to protest:

4.      If you bring together five or more environmental activist groups and publicly announce a joint protest to show the full force of public fury against a science conference, a free enterprise group or some other undesirable entity, try to show up with at least 40 protesters.

5.      If you bring fewer than 40 people to a protest, you probably don’t want to chant “We are the 99 percent!” It simply makes you look foolish.

6.      If there are 40 or less of you chanting in the street, and you really do comprise 99 percent, that means there are only 41 people in the world who agree with you, giving you the benefit of the doubt and rounding up the 99-percent figure.

7.      When your protest leader is a troll-looking creature wearing a long, black rubber boot on his head and holding a megaphone with the self-identifying words “Vermin Supreme” written on it, you may wish to call off your protest after all.

Europe's Other Power Crisis: Energy

Just published here at The Commentator (UK) and here at Energy Tribune (US). Here's a taster:

What’s the difference between the European Union and the Titanic? Answer: the Titanic was holed by a single immovable object and took minutes to sink. The EU, another allegedly “unsinkable” project, is taking a little longer. As if Eurozone crisis and keeping Greece afloat wasn’t threatening enough, the next crisis is looming: energy – a crisis entirely of the EU’s own policy-making.

The EU’s ideologically-driven Energy Road Map prioritized ‘green’ renewable energy, diverting away from Russian natural gas dependency and harmonizing energy and environmental needs. The result: a devastatingly inept screw up that threatens continent-wide power outages even, as Die Welt recently reported, in Germany as early as next winter.

In short order, EU energy policies have created an unsustainable, publicly-subsidized, market-skewing ‘green’ energy bubble, eschewed a cheap fossil fuels policy and realistic alternatives to Russian gas imports. Together those failed policies have resulted in the double double-whammy of soaring of energy prices and, as is now being reported, diminishing European industrial competitiveness.

Ehrlich, False Prophets and the 'Futures' Market

Time we held the false prophets of environmental alarmism accountable for their abysmal failures. My artilce published here at Energy Tribune.  Here's a taster:

When Elijah stood on Mount Carmel he faced a formidable array of 950 prophets (I Kings 18:19). All were resolute in their populist ‘consensus’ theory about a troubling environmental matter. But Elijah didn’t mind the odds. He wasn’t interested in predictions and theory, just hard facts. The issue on Carmel was one that countless would-be prophets throughout the ages have played on: weather (no rain) and climate change (a three-year drought).

It didn’t end well for the false prophets on Carmel. And it was faith in their theoretic sacrificial solutions that proved to be their downfall. These days, of course, we don’t put false prophets to the sword. Instead we put them on the public payroll, give them status awards and grant them high-profile media prestige, no matter how pathetic their prophetic insight may have been. Take Paul Ehrlich, for example.

Ehrlich came to prominence in 1968 with the publication of his environmental blockbuster The Population Bomb. The book’s central Malthusian thesis is that a growing population is unsustainable in a world of dwindling finite resources. As Malthus’ scenario failed to materialize, so too Ehrlich’s apocalyptic vision of hungry and dead bodies on the streets in the 1970s proved a total fiction. Not that this has deterred Ehrlich. He has continued to make a healthy living from a litany of population predictions – not one of which has come to pass.

The Sheer Idiocy and Folly of Theoretic Climate Alarmism

Another short video and as good as it gets in summing up all the nutjob theories of the end-is-nigh climate alarmists - and the damage it is doing to common sense, intellectual thought and to humankind per se. 

Made by the good people at Free Market America - good job.

The Rise of Leftist Eco-Fascism

My article (as titled above) published at here at The Commentator and here at Energy Tribune compelete with 'green police' video (see previous blog blog).

This is where we are heading as the climate alarmists (while losing the scientific case) still hold sway over governments.

Here's a taster:

"Fascism per se has its roots in the beliefs and ideology of the radical Left, not as is often portrayed, the Right, radical or otherwise. German National socialism (it still exists), communism, even Islamism, all favor Big Government, centralized power and control, the subversion of democratic processes and, especially, the restriction of liberty and free speech.

If fascism in any guise doesn’t get what it wants, it has always sought ways of grabbing power first by bullying others to keep silent, then asserting the need to “put democracy on hold”. We can all understand the extreme need in times of war. But as Lovelock says, we have no idea what the climate is doing. Yet the eco-fascists are gaining social headway imposing their will through regulatory ‘laws’ often emanating from unaccountable quangos (quasi-non-governmental organizations), unelected czars and other un-democratic agencies.

US Green Police to Enforce "Environmental Justice"

If you're wondering how far eco-fascism has got...wonder no more.

The US Homeland Security Dept, has just announced it is setting up local law enforcement "green police" to enforce "environmental justice". I kid you not. And Audi are already using the reality to help sell their cars as per this Super Bowl ad.

UK Goes for Shale-fuelled 'Gold'

My article on the bonanza available from world class shale gas reserves for the UK - and the idiot green  fact-free fractivists that would prefer we went back to live 'quaintly' in the dark ages.

For the full article go here. Here's a taster:

While Eurocrats and eco-fractivists remain captivated by the synchronized stupidity of anti-fossil fuel policies and the precautionary principle, some UK officials, at least, perceive 2012 as the time to go for what promises to be an Olympian-scale prize: shale-fuelled economic ‘gold’.

Big Oil, Big Profits, Big Green Lies

The above article from me is published this weekend here at The Commentator (UK) and here at Energy Tribune (US).

Climate Dissent Launches at NASA

My article (as titled above) published at here Energy Tribune (US) and here The Commentator (UK). Here's a taster:

That’s the thing about flying to the moon. It gives you an untrammelled perspective and respect for the real world, facts and hard data. In a blast worthy of a rocket launch, 49 former NASA scientists, astronauts and engineers have finally had enough of NASA’s climate advocacy role. Going public with a letter to Chief NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, the group pull no punches in asserting the lack of empirical evidence in support of the agency’s “extreme position” as a bastion of climate change alarmism.

The letter’s co-signatories “respectfully request” that both NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) – the latter run by the high priest of climate alarmism James Hansen – refrain from making “unproven remarks in public releases and websites”.

Claims that man-made CO2 is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are “not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data.” And, alluding indirectly to the high-profile headline grabbing alarmism of James Hansen and his GISS team, the letter emphatically states “the science is NOT settled”.

Houston, We Have a Climate Alarmist Problem

Finally, a bona fide rebellion of the real scientists at NASA at the end-is-nighism peddled for years by James Hansen. Here's the full text of the letter signed by 49 NASA scientists and astronauts to the NASDA CEO over NASA's stance on anthropogenic global warming. For the full article go here. 

Dear Charlie,

We, the undersigned, respectfully request that NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) refrain from including unproven remarks in public releases and websites. We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data. With hundreds of well-known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts, coming particularly from the GISS leadership, it is clear that the science is NOT settled.

The unbridled advocacy of CO2 being the major cause of climate change is unbecoming of NASA’s history of making an objective assessment of all available scientific data prior to making decisions or public statements.

As former NASA employees, we feel that NASA’s advocacy of an extreme position, prior to a thorough study of the possible overwhelming impact of natural climate drivers is inappropriate. We request that NASA refrain from including unproven and unsupported remarks in its future releases and websites on this subject. At risk is damage to the exemplary reputation of NASA, NASA’s current or former scientists and employees, and even the reputation of science itself.

For additional information regarding the science behind our concern, we recommend that you contact Harrison Schmitt or Walter Cunningham, or others they can recommend to you.

Thank you for considering this request.

Sincerely,

(Attached signatures)

CC: Mr. John Grunsfeld, Associate Administrator for Science

CC: Ass Mr. Chris Scolese, Director, Goddard Space Flight Center

Ref: Letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, dated 3-26-12, regarding a request for NASA to refrain from making unsubstantiated claims that human produced CO2 is having a catastrophic impact on climate change.

• Jack Barneburg, Jack – JSC, Space Shuttle Structures, Engineering Directorate, 34 years
• Larry Bell – JSC, Mgr. Crew Systems Div., Engineering Directorate, 32 years
• Dr. Donald Bogard – JSC, Principal Investigator, Science Directorate, 41 years
• Jerry C. Bostick – JSC, Principal Investigator, Science Directorate, 23 years
• Dr. Phillip K. Chapman – JSC, Scientist – astronaut, 5 years
• Michael F. Collins, JSC, Chief, Flight Design and Dynamics Division, MOD, 41 years
• Dr. Kenneth Cox – JSC, Chief Flight Dynamics Div., Engr. Directorate, 40 years
• Walter Cunningham – JSC, Astronaut, Apollo 7, 8 years
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• Leroy Day – Hdq. Deputy Director, Space Shuttle Program, 19 years
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• Dr. Harold Doiron – JSC, Chairman, Shuttle Pogo Prevention Panel, 16 years
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• Ed Gibson – JSC, Astronaut Skylab 4, 14 years
• Richard Gordon – JSC, Astronaut, Gemini Xi, Apollo 12, 9 years
• Gerald C. Griffin – JSC, Apollo Flight Director, and Director of Johnson Space Center, 22 years
• Thomas M. Grubbs – JSC, Chief, Aircraft Maintenance and Engineering Branch, 31 years
• Thomas J. Harmon
• David W. Heath – JSC, Reentry Specialist, MOD, 30 years
• Miguel A. Hernandez, Jr. – JSC, Flight crew training and operations, 3 years
• James R. Roundtree – JSC Branch Chief, 26 years
• Enoch Jones – JSC, Mgr. SE&I, Shuttle Program Office, 26 years
• Dr. Joseph Kerwin – JSC, Astronaut, Skylab 2, Director of Space and Life Sciences, 22 years
• Jack Knight – JSC, Chief, Advanced Operations and Development Division, MOD, 40 years
• Dr. Christopher C. Kraft – JSC, Apollo Flight Director and Director of Johnson Space Center, 24 years
• Paul C. Kramer – JSC, Ass.t for Planning Aeroscience and Flight Mechanics Div., Egr. Dir., 34 years
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• Dr. James Visentine – JSC Materials Branch, Engineering Directorate, 30 years
• Manfred (Dutch) von Ehrenfried – JSC, Flight Controller; Mercury, Gemini & Apollo, MOD, 10 years
• George Weisskopf – JSC, Avionics Systems Division, Engineering Dir., 40 years
• Al Worden – JSC, Astronaut, Apollo 15, 9 years

Thomas (Tom) Wysmuller – JSC, Meteorologist, 5 years

The Left's Big Lie About Big Oil's "Excessive" Profits Exposed

We hear it so often from the activist lefties that we perhaps take it for granted. It's the one asserting that Big Oil needs its "excessive" profits taxed away. This good article in the US Investors Business Daily is highly revealing however. 

Why the EU's Airline Tax Won't Fly

My article published at Energy Tribune (click to read in full), Canada Free Press and Junk Science.

Why De-nuking Iran Won't Mean WW3 - or An Oil Crisis

Just published here at the British site 'The Commentator' (my first for them) article as titled above. Here's a taster:

It’s an assertion that trips glibly off the tongue of politicians, academics and media pundits. An Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would, they keep telling us, lead to a conflagration across the Middle East, even World War III. So relentlessly is this apocalyptic warning run in the Western media that it has become “received wisdom” more broadly. But it’s an assertion that runs counter to the actual facts. And here’s why.

Iran’s Shia Mullahocracy is not only considered a menacing threat by Israel, Tehran’s nuclear ambitions also scare the living daylights out of its regional Sunni Arab neighbours; not one of whom would rally to Iran’s cause in the event of a military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, even by Israel.

Neither does OPEC – which an Iranian hardliner currently chairs – possess the global oil power play clout it once did.

Telegraph Columnist Delingpole Recommends 'Power Politics'

My thanks to Daily Telegraph columnist James Delingpole for his recommendation to George Osborne after his Budget speech of my book 'Power Politics' (see link to the book on this website). He said the following: 

It really, really, really isn't difficult explaining why renewables are a disaster area and why shale gas and nuclear are our only hope of keeping the lights on and the economy alive. If Osborne needs a few tips may I recommend an excellent book. No, not Watermelons – though obviously I highly recommend that one too. I mean Power Politics by Michael J Economides and Peter C Glover. A good starting point might be the section headed Ten Fracking Things Everyone Should Know. And then maybe The Myth of Viable, Industrial-Scale Renewable Energy.

What perception! What cajones! I can only agree! In all humility and modesty, of course...Here's the full column.

Iran and the Oil Scarcity Myth

The received wisdom in th emedia is that an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities will ignote both a 'conflagration across the Middle East' and create a global oil shortage. WRONG ... on both counts - and here we explain why...

Go here for the full article.

The Royal Society's Climate of Anti-Science

My article showing how low the Royal Society has sunk in its intellectual concern for real, empirical science. Go here for the full article. Here's a taster:

As a former president of the Royal Society (1703-27) Sir Isaac Newton would be appalled by the de facto rejection of the Society’s 300-year guiding philosophical principle: “never to give their opinion as a Body upon any subject either of Nature or Art that comes before them” (1). Newton understood well that to deal in the “dull certainties” of a politicized consensus is always ruinous to the cause of empirical science. And so it is proving at the once noble Royal Society; its reputation increasingly dashed on the hard to negotiate rocks of climate science.

The evidence for the abandonment of the Society’s core tenet of faith is compellingly presented in Andrew Montford’s recent hard-hitting report, ‘Nullius in Verba (On the Word of No One): The Royal Society and Climate Change’. As leading climate scientist Richard Lindzen(2) observes in the introduction, the report delivers an “unembellished chronology of the perversion not only of the Royal Society but of science itself.” No small accusation given the influence the Royal Society continues to wield with the UK Government – not to mention the UN IPCC.

Power Politics: The Inside Track on Energy (The World's Most Important Resource)

The latest book (as above) by myself and Professor Michael J.  Economides is now available in e-book format at the Amazon Kindle Bookstore in the UK and US - and at ridiculously low prices!!

(Availability on other electronic formats to follow soon.)

And here's what to expect: 

Power Politics delivers the inside track on energy in a series of hard-hitting, fact-filled, insightful articles. Power Politics reveals that pretty much everything we have been told about energy just isn’t true. The book shows:

· The oil and gas isn’t running out
· The renewable energy revolution is already faltering
· Green-ism is a threat to democracy 
· Why the ‘fracking’ controversy matters, and
· Where energy security needs are creating international conflict ‘hot-spots’
· and much more

Whether you are an energy insider or someone who just wants to better informed on how the geopolitics of energy is affecting all our lives, Power Politics is for you.

So what are you waiting for?? Go buy...be clued and get the inside track!!

Fuelling the Rise of the Anglosphere

My article above just published at Energy Tribune. For the full article go here. Here's a taster:

Clearly, there is a gulf of difference between how leading Anglosphere economies are handling the unexpected new hydrocarbon revolution on their doorsteps and how they are being handled by more ideological, less pragmatic, EU-strait-jacketed, European states.

 According to James Bennett:

 The Anglosphere is more than the sum of all persons who have learned the English language. To be part of the Anglosphere implies the sharing of fundamental customs and values; rule of law; honoring of covenants; in general, high trust characteristics described by Francis Fukuyama in Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity ... The Anglosphere shares a narrative in which Magna Carta, Bill of Rights, trial by jury, “innocent until proven guilty” and “a man’s word is his bond” are common themes.

The cultural ideals listed for the Anglosphere are the antithesis of many of those experienced under European-style socialism. Clearly, demographic trends show that people increasingly want to live where greater personal freedoms are guaranteed. Equally business investment flourishes where free market capitalism, not ideological government writ, still calls the shots.

If the noble ideals Bennett identifies are fuelling the Anglosphere’s increasing per capita wealth, early investment in new domestic energy development will only mean one thing: more power to it.