Energy & Environmental News: January 5, 2026
By John Droz, Jr. -- January 5, 2026This 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.
Wind Energy — Offshore:
Trump halts all significant offshore wind projects
Dominion sues over offshore stoppage
Wind Energy — Other:
*** When green energy threatens what it is meant to save
*** The Unreported Story of Grid Scale Battery Fires
*** The Battery Storage Delusion: Utility-Scale Batteries Are No Silver Bullet
The world’s first wind power/pumped storage pilot project is a dismal failure
Nuclear Energy:
SMRs Explained: Real-World Economics, Fuel Bottlenecks, and the Race to Scale
Time to Build Reactors Fueled By Nuclear Waste
Fossil Fuel Energy:
Climate Faithful Admit Need for Fossil Fuels
Trump Puts Coal In National Energy Stocking
Electric Vehicles (EVs):
*** EV school buses criticized by parents over breakdowns, lack of heat
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Two Retractions Raise the Question: Is Climate Science Really Settled?…
Thirty Failed Climate Forecasts (optimism please)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 2, 2026
Martin Ecclestone on social media (November 4, 2025) usefully provided a historical review of climate exaggeration. “Educate yourself,” he began. “Uninformed personal opinions don’t change facts.”
Here’s a list [30] of the major climate-change impacts that climate scientists predicted and that have already eventuated (observed and documented in the scientific literature and major assessments). I’ve kept each item short — if you want, I can expand any item with dates, regions, or citations.
1. Global mean surface temperature rise (planet warming).
2. More frequent and/or more intense heatwaves (land).
3. Ocean warming (upper ocean and deep ocean temperature increase).
4. Global sea-level rise (mean sea level increase).
5. Melting of glaciers and mountain ice (glacial retreat).
6. Loss and thinning of Arctic sea ice (decline in extent and volume).
7.…
Continue ReadingMore Tributes in the Energy and Climate Debate (Part II)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 30, 2025Ed. Note: This repost from seven years ago (January 11, 2018) is reprinted for its relevancy today. What 12 or more would you add today? Here are some of mine: Craig Idso, Jr., Anthony Watts (WUWT), Kevin Dayaratna, and the other four DOE science study authors in addition to Judith Curry, profiled yesterday (John Christy, Steven Koonin, Ross McKittrick, Roy Spencer).
I previously recognized twelve individuals associated with free-market, classical-liberal energy analysis and advocacy. Here is a second “tribute” to those who have labored against the mainstream of Malthusianism and energy statism–and now find themselves with new opportunities to formulate, summarize, and promote pro-consumer, taxpayer-neutral energy policy.
This list is in alphabetical order. It is subjective and hardly exhaustive. Other candidates (such as the present writer) could also be included–and could be in a future iteration.…
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