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Do they or don’t they? It’s the perennial argument, and I claim that it shouldn’t be difficult to show that they do not. However, I have to admit that there is not a readily available and convincing set of data or a...

In this in-depth interview, economist and statistician Ross McKitrick discusses climate models, uncertainty, and whether the public climate debate is as scientifically balanced as often claimed...

Soaring energy bills, a political crisis, and an insane plan to expropriate wealth creators who drive the Californian Economy.

As the Telegraph states, this is essentially a Scottish problem, as there is not enough transmission capacity to carry all the wind power south when it is windy...

To blame “system design” while defending Net Zero is to rearrange the analytical furniture in a sinking ship. The UK’s electricity crisis is not a bug in an otherwise sound energy transition. It is the bill coming due...

Why should anybody else pay for all of this work, other than the wind farm itself?

Climate Change News and the WEF should get with the program and realize that their concerns do not reflect the needs of the people they are supposed to represent...

This gives the lie to the “nine times cheaper than gas” claim, which I have seen some people still claim.

Last year Trump successfully lobbied for deferral of a global carbon tax on maritime CO2 emissions. But with 10s of billions of dollars at stake, the fight isn't over.

Has President Trump's withdrawal of Biden era renewable subsidies killed the Chinese economy?

I can think of no other branch of government that could, or ever has, signed away £38 billion of taxpayers’ money on a white elephant that has zero value at all to the country.

Apparently buying technology off others will not be a thing in the Guardian / Kerry vision of the future.

Scotland’s biggest offshore wind farm wasted three quarters of the energy it produced last year after being paid hundreds of millions of pounds to switch off its turbines...

“The LCOE narrative has just collided with reality. If ‘cheap’ solar and wind really were enough, the energy transition would largely run on autopilot. Emissions would fall. Subsidies wouldn’t be needed. Electricity...

Even starving dogs wouldn't eat their product?