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"Mr. Biden’s anti-carbon fusillade will have no effect on the climate as global demand for fossil fuels will continue to increase for decades no matter what the U.S. does. Meantime, Russia, China and Iran will take advantage of America’s astonishing fossil-fuel retreat."
Don't like the data? Just erase it, it's for the 'greater good' anyway.
Real Clear Energy (6/8/21) column: "Memory holes are much more energy efficient today. And much less polluting. When George Orwell first introduced memory holes in his novel 1984, published 72 years ago today, these machines for erasing the past were filthy incinerators in the bowels of ominous government ministries. They were fed by thousands of pneumatic tubes carrying papers to be destroyed—unrectified newspaper stories, failed forecasts, old speeches that had become embarrassing. Today’s memory holes, in contrast, are the epitome of sustainable cleanliness. A simple mouse click can do the job. That ability is shown most dramatically in the area of climate data. Through data manipulation, warm periods of the past are eliminated while current warming is embellished, making the alleged current temperature rise more dramatic. The rate of recent sea level increases is hyped despite being practically the same as what occurred over the past century. In Glacier National Park, a 'Goodbye to the Glaciers' sign warning that the glaciers 'will all be gone by the year 2020' gets quietly replaced with a less verifiable doomsday claim when the glaciers fail to disappear."
Think of all the green jobs you create when you have to replace those solar panels more frequently.
PV Tech (6/8/21) reports: "Solar asset underperformance continues to worsen, with projects 'chronically underperforming' P99 estimates and modules degrading faster than previously anticipated, risk management firm kWh Analytics has found. kWh Analytics’ new Solar Risk Assessment, released this week, pulls together a raft of industry experts to assess the greatest risks to the global solar industry and has identified a number of serious threats which threaten to reduce investor returns and damage the industry’s credibility moving forward. The report itself is separated into three sections, detailing the risk to solar assets posed by financial modeling, operational performance and extreme weather. Each section features insight from a range of contributors including the likes of PV Evolution Labs, BloombergNEF, Fracsun and Nextracker. Perhaps the most notable finding from the report, which builds on a finding from last year’s edition, is that operational solar assets are continuing to experience higher than expected rates of degradation, with annual degradation in the field observed at around 1%."
The IEA is failing at its one, single job.
Financial Post (6/9/21) reports: "The International Energy Agency’s road map inspired both praise from certain quarters for laying out actions to cut emissions sharply but also scorn from some energy industry experts and analysts, who say it would lead to a massive spike in crude prices. The Paris-based IEA released a report in May outlining what would be needed for the world to meet the goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, a blueprint that included targets on how much energy people should use to heat or cool their homes...Throughout the oil and gas industry, the IEA’s report was met with some derision as many executives and analysts questioned its underlying assumptions...Forcing oil companies to cut spending from current levels — which are currently plumbing multi-year lows — will actually usher in a price spike by restricting global oil supply. 'A spiking oil price isn’t good for anyone,' Ollenberger said. Ollenberger and his fellow BMO Capital Markets analysts published a research note May 25 called 'The Dangers of Fantasy Island,' which is both explicitly critical of the IEA’s road map and also warns that crude oil prices could spike to US$100 per barrel if oil supplies are cut...Saudi Arabian energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman dismissed the net-zero road map as a 'la-la-land' scenario when asked if oil was dead and said the kingdom is ramping up its productive capacity."
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Tom Pyle, American Energy Alliance
Myron Ebell, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Phil Kerpen, American Commitment
Andrew Quinlan, Center for Freedom and Prosperity
Tim Phillips, Americans for Prosperity
Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform
George Landrith, Frontiers of Freedom
Thomas A. Schatz, Citizens Against Government Waste
Richard Manning, Americans for Limited Government
Adam Brandon, FreedomWorks
Craig Richardson, E&E Legal
Benjamin Zycher, American Enterprise Institute
Jason Hayes, Mackinac Center
David Williams, Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Paul Gessing, Rio Grande Foundation
Seton Motley, Less Government
Nathan Nascimento, Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce
Isaac Orr, Center of the American Experiment
David T. Stevenson & Clint Laird, Caesar Rodney Institute
John Droz, Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions
Jim Karahalios, Axe the Carbon Tax
Mark Mathis, Clear Energy Alliance
Jack Ekstrom, PolicyWorks America
