Ed. Note: The New York Times is the newspaper of record on climate alarm. The latest, “Scientists Denounce Trump Administration’s Climate Report” (September 3, 2025), brings to mind this paper’s first climate alarm article of note, “‘Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate Today (June 24, 1988). The latter (by environmental reporter Philip Shabecoff) had specific forecasts of anthropogenic activity: 3–9°F and 1–4 feet by 2025–2050. Into this forecast period, some 37 years later, the recorded increase is under 1.5°F and around four inches. The 1,300-word, front-page Times article follows.
…“If the current pace of the buildup of these gases continues, the effect is likely to be a warming of 3 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit from the year 2025 to 2050, according to these projections.
“One wonders if Shell, trying to greenwash best it can, is happy to see the climate outliers within its ranks leave. The company should at least inform employees about the moral case for fossil fuels—past, present, and future—as explained by Alex Epstein to his world audience.”
Richard Plant, self-described “sustainability champion … born at 326.42 ppm,” was obviously working at the wrong company–an oil and gas company, Shell. Shell was not the problem–it has rightly pulled back from the bad economics of wind and solar. Tried and failed, just as happened at Exxon. And at BP, no longer “beyond petroleum.”
Plant describes himself as “an experienced procurement professional … [with] over two decades of experience in global supply chain and category management roles, most of which I’ve spent at Shell.”…
This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.
Unreliables (General):
*** The price of energy and the system costs of renewables
Wind turbines and solar panels ONLY generate electricity
California Blackouts Have Begun. Thank ‘Green Energy’
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Trump’s Transportation Secretary Terminates $679 Million from Offshore Wind Projects
*** Trump Admin Kills Massive RI Offshore Wind Project
S&P downgrades Orsted credit rating
Wind Energy — Other:
*** A newer Study about the adverse consequences of turbine generated infrasound
Solar Energy:
How Bill McKibben Lost the Plot
South American Cold Underscores Role of Oil and Gas
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Stossel on the Green Industrial Complex: Power, Panic, and Profits
*** The Supposed Nearly Unanimous Consensus on Climate Change Was A High Stakes Pernicious Deception
UN abandons science and hires climate change zealots who damn the facts
Lobbying Judges Is the Latest Form of Climate Lawfare, A Case of Elites Buying Favoritism from the Courts
Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** Interview.…