“… the outcome of doing nothing to combat climate change [is] simply horrific. That is why I find your phrase – We are winning the debate intellectual and politically for good reasons – somewhat alarming.” (- Martin Palmer, below)
All I have wanted in the climate policy arena is open debate. And on social media, LinkedIn has provided that to me. I now have nearly 13,000 followers who seem to enjoy my posts and ‘counterpunches’ against the omnipresent alarmists and apologists for wind, solar, and battery industrialization.
From time to time, I repost exchanges I have with the other side for the historical record. The future will be interested in what is to us the present. To this end, here is an exchange with an adversary, Martin Palmer, self-described as
…Passionate about the Climate Threat of human extinction.
“Consumer Regulated Electric Utilities can act just like regulated utilities, but they cannot sell or supply power to residential consumers and they must be islanded from, or not connected to, regulated electric systems.”
The new year brings new opportunities to build upon the free market reforms of 2025 by scaling back statism. This is particularly important in the area of U.S. electricity policy, where the work of Travis Fisher and Glen Lyons (Advocates for Consumer Regulated Electricity) is particularly important. [1]
Draft legislation by the American Legislative Exchange Council–“America’s largest nonpartisan, voluntary membership organization of state legislators dedicated to the principles of limited government, free markets and federalism”–must be favorably voted on by ALEC’s board of directors before becoming model policy for state legislatures.
The draft Act to Allow for Consumer Regulated Electric Utilities, voted out of ALEC’s Task Force on Energy, Environment, and Agriculture (SNPA 2025), follows.…
“… one of the less well understood aspects of the damage Trump is doing is how long it will take to repair it after he’s gone, assuming that he is not succeeded by an equally anti-fact president. You can’t entirely recover from it.” (- John Holdren, below)
The bad news was really good in the New York Times stocktaking, “How Trump’s First Year Reshaped U.S. Energy and Climate Policy,” subtitled “The sweeping changes have affected everything from coal plant retirements to international diplomacy over shipping emissions.” Four Times reporters—Brad Plumer, Lisa Friedman, Maxine Joselow, and Scott Dance—summarized the Trump Administration’s ethics-driven course change. [1] Quotations follow:
…[Trump’s] changes have reverberated far beyond the United States, as the administration has pressured other countries to abandon their own efforts to tackle global warming.