Category Archives: Climate change

“These People are Crazy:” Climate Science and the Cult of Self-Loathing

Article by Terry L. Headley.

When environmental advocacy slips into narratives that portray human existence as inherently destructive, it crosses the line into Malthusian madness. A civilization that internalizes self-contempt risks forfeiting the confidence necessary to solve complex problems. Stewardship should flow from gratitude for human capacity, not hostility toward it. The challenge of managing environmental impact in a world of billions requires realism, innovation, and balance. It does not require embracing a philosophy that treats progress as sin. A healthy society can pursue cleaner technologies while affirming the dignity, creativity, and resilience of the human person. 

Is Canada Really Warming?

Is Canada really warming at double the global average rate, as the Canadian government says it is? A new scientific report suggests the answer is no, arguing that Canada’s reported warming is largely the result of serious errors in official temperature data.

Continue reading the article by Tom Harris here.

Big Banker Larry Fink abandons renewables for AI

Writes Joanne Nova:

Way back in his 2021, annual CEO letter, Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, wrote: “No issue ranks higher than climate change.” It will reshape global capital flows, he said, and declared, “…anyone can see the impact of climate change in the natural disasters in California or Florida.”

Now though, never mind about global extinctions and flash floods. Fink just spoke at the Davos ski club for billionaires and declared that we need “trillions of dollars” of investment for AI. Data centres, he said, are rapidly expanding — one technology company he spoke to said that “its data centres currently use about 5 gigawatts, but by 2030 it expects to need 30 gigawatts.”

But like a true banker, he doesn’t see a backflip, he sees only investment opportunities — the world is short of power he says. (He doesn’t say that this is in large part because BlackRock leaned on companies and countries all over the world to abandon fossil fuels.) Fink helped create the energy shortage that he now calls an investment opportunity. BlackRock is the largest asset manager in the world, controlling $10 trillion dollars in assets, or five times Australia’s GDP. When that much money talks, everyone listens.

Now Larry Fink throws wind and solar under the bus.

He’s matter-of-fact, with a straight face, almost like he never pushed intermittent generators:

Fink: “At the same time, this represents a huge investment opportunity. The world is going to be short of power. And to supply these data centres, you cannot rely solely on intermittent sources like wind and solar. You need dispatchable power, because these data centres cannot simply turn on and off.”

From Science to Scientism: The Crisis of Modern Science

“In this essay on the crisis of modern science, Apostolos Efthymiadis argues that contemporary scientific culture has drifted from its philosophical foundations toward dogma and authority. Drawing on Aristotle’s epistemology, he challenges scientism, politicization, and consensus-thinking, and calls for a restoration of intellectual rigor and scientific humility.”

Climate Cult’s Inevitable Dissolution

Article by co2coalition.org

Article by Vijay Jayaraj.

Excerpt:

The collapse of the Paris Agreement and the unmasking of the net zero illusion were never hard to predict for anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty. It didn’t take a fancy research title or an advanced degree. The writing was carved deep into the stone of energy reality, which no press release, no activist lobby and no billionaire-backed foundation could erase.

Thirty years of COP failures: the damning assessment of a climate process disconnected from reality

Article by Samuel Furfari, who ‘is an engineer, and PhD from University of Brussels. He is a Professor of energy geopolitics and policy. For 36 years he was a senior official in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy. He is author of numerous books.’ 

Excerpt (conclustion):

It is time to turn the page on climate illusions and recognize that the global priority must be economic development and access to energy for all. As the changing positions of emerging countries demonstrate, the future does not belong to ideological decarbonisation, but to energy pragmatism, which alone can meet people’s legitimate aspirations for prosperity, quality of life and well-being. The time has come to abandon a United Nations process that has proved ineffective and to shift international efforts to the real priorities: the fight against poverty and economic development for all through access to abundant and cheap energy.