If California’s leaders truly wanted to lower costs at the pump, they’d start by getting out of the way of refining capacity instead of dictating the chemistry of your tire rubber. The post California’s New Tire Mandate Could Drive Up Costs appeared first on Watts Up With That? .
When the observations disagree with the model, claim the model is right anyway? The post Claim: “Natural Variability” Hid the Real Magnitude of Global Warming Between 1981 and 2014 appeared first on Watts Up With That? .
It is unfortunate that these weather conditions have coincided with at war in the Middle East that has resulted in multiple bottlenecks or closures of major shipping lanes at the same time, but that has nothing to do with climate change. The Financial Times stepped outside their area of expertise in making the climate change assertion, and by doing so has badly misinformed its readers. The post…
The indisputable facts they have put forward must be the strongest argument yet about abandoning Ed Miliband’s mad dash to decarbonise the electricity system. The post New Report Says Miliband’s Clean Power Plan Will Cost £320 Billion appeared first on Watts Up With That? .
The political signal in gasoline prices is real, but it is a signal of accumulated policy choices: fuel taxes, carbon taxes, and regulatory environments built over decades, rather than of who happens to hold office right now. The post Blue States. High Rates ($0.55/gallon premium) appeared first on Watts Up With That? .
The boy in Cabo Delgado and the girl in Rivers State are the first generation with a plausible route out of poverty their grandparents never had, and that pathway runs through the hydrocarbons their economies require. The post Washington Lit the Fuse for Africa’s Energy Explosion appeared first on Watts Up With That? .
People can change their minds. But voters are entitled to ask a harder question: What happened when these politicians actually had power? The post Woke 1.0 Is Still Alive in the Democrats’ Energy Agenda appeared first on Watts Up With That? .
Could this taxpayer funded climate conference possibly get more embarrassing? The post Aussie Climate Minister turns to International Labor Unions to Fill Seats at his No Show Fiji Climate Conference appeared first on Watts Up With That? .
Recent setbacks with the above in-process projects all but ensure that the original goal of 76 “green” hydrogen projects, part of the Biden-era goal of Net Zero by 2050, will not be reached. The post Hydrogen: Not Market Ready appeared first on Watts Up With That? .
Group identity, social status, and a credential-dominated policy establishment make the climate narrative increasingly immune to disappointing results, argues Evert Doornhof of Clintel. The result is a climate policy trap in which failure doesn’t lead to reconsideration, but to even more climate policy. The post The Climate Policy Trap: Why Failure So Often Leads to More of the Same appeared first…