“Let the record show a rational voice responding to irrational, emotive, magical thinkers. Ken Brook, take a bow for history.”
The critics of climate alarm and forced energy transformation are winning on social media also. A recent example is a response to a post by David Ritter, CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, who tried to take the moral high ground against fossil fuels. But one energy realist, Ken Brook, was right there with an effective rebuttal.
Ritter wrote:
… Continue ReadingThe mental gymnastics on display by the gas industry and their pals in politics deserves an Olympic medal. Responding to our bold action at yesterday’s Australian Domestic Gas Outlook conference, the likes of Minerals Council of Australia chief Tania Constable and Nationals Leader Matt Canavan are doubling down on fossil fuel extraction as the solution.
“The academic community is vastly overbuilt. And perhaps no area more than the climate intelligentsia. It is ‘publish or perish’, with anti-fossil-fuel research being the narrative of the day.”
Working from false assumptions has sunk a million intellectual ships. One example is an article in Science by Emily Grubert and Joshua Lappen, Fossil Energy Minimum Viable Scale (2026). As summarized by Renée LaReau, also with the University of Notre Dame:
… Continue ReadingAs the world shifts toward renewable energy sources, some experts warn that a lack of planning for the retirement of fossil fuels could lead to a disorderly and dangerous collapse of existing systems that could prolong the transition to green energy….
The researchers introduced the concept of “minimum viable scale,” a threshold of production below which a fossil fuel system can no longer function safely or economically.
“Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle have announced AI capital spending plans totaling $650 billion this year, up 70% from 2025 and up 650% from 2020. This single-year spending total is larger than the individual Gross Domestic Product of 168 nations.”
“Economy-transforming artificial intelligence faces a rising battle between the Trump administration and progressive environmental groups, a major issue for the mid-term elections.”
Artificial intelligence is impacting the economy on a scale that may surpass changes from the internet revolution. Science, technology, energy, transportation, health care, industry, and business are being transformed at an accelerating pace. President Trump has emerged as an AI champion, but opposition is rising from progressive and environmental groups.
The term “artificial intelligence” was coined by John McCarthy at Dartmouth College in 1955. But it took 67 years until the introduction of ChatGPT in November of 2022 for AI systems to master the complexities of human language.…
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