“[The Paris agreement] is a fraud really, a fake. It’s just bullshit for them to say: ‘We’ll have a 2C warming target and then try to do a little better every five years.’ It’s just worthless words…. As long as fossil fuels appear to be the cheapest fuels out there, they will be continued to be burned.” (- James Hansen, The Guardian, December 12, 2015)
Jean Boissinot is one disagreeable French fellow. My exchanges with him on social media (see here and here) are less than polite on his side, mixing sarcasm and insults (I might have dementia, he says) amid his (debatable) points. But when he argues success in the face of failure (as predicted by the father of climate alarmism above), perhaps it is time to rest my case.…
Continue Reading“Thanks to President Trump, the U.S. has officially escaped from the Paris Climate Agreement which undermined American values and priorities, wasted hard-earned taxpayer dollars, and stifled economic growth. This is another commonsense America First victory for the American people!” ( – Taylor Rogers, White House spokesperson. Quoted in Politico, below)
Effective yesterday, the United States is removed from the signatories of the Paris Climate Agreement, dated November 4, 2016. [1] Read about it: “So long, Paris: US officially leaves landmark climate pact” (Politico: January 27, 2026).
Even better, Trump II has started the withdrawal process for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992) that was responsible for the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement.
Trump Statement
The rationale for the U.S. withdrawal was given by Trump in his first administration.…
Continue ReadingEd. note: CNN’s January 22, 2026, headline–“Extreme winter storm threat sparks historic natural gas spike”–begs for the proverbial rest of the story, presented below by Allen Brooks at Energy Musings.
“For those of us who lived through Uri and are still paying for its cost, the uproar over last week’s gas price jump is somewhat laughable. Yes, gas prices jumped to a high of $5.28/Mcf. However, during Uri, spot gas prices soared to $23/Mcf, while power prices were capped at $9,000 per megawatt-hour (MWh).”
Yes, natural gas futures prices rose from $2.70 per thousand cubic feet (Mcf) on Monday to close the week at $5.28, a jump of 96%. Just between the close of trading on Thursday and Friday’s close, the gas price rose by over 47%.…
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