“Government as engineer for top-down planning or bottom-up incentives is a fatal conceit. Misidentifying the problem and imposing (government) solutions is error upon error–and in this case on a global scale. What about here-and-now economics? Consumers matter. Taxpayers matter. Energy freedom matters.”
Susan Krumdieck, an “energy transition engineer,” posted an open invitation to her network about a March 16 online discussion hosted by Insight Committee for Convergence, “Global Solutions and Outreach Programs – Our Best Chance to Resolve Global Warming.” The invitation read:
Humanity is staring into the face of an existential threat of its own making. Humanity must collaborate to minimize the risk from this threat. Current global collaboration efforts are failing.
The pitch:
We are now locked into a paradigm that prevents us from resolving this threat.…
Continue Reading“Do not dare say that Texas is ‘deregulated’ or the free market or ‘competition’ failed in the Lone Star State. All of the state and federal laws [listed] need to be repealed where the owners of assets gain control of them–and customers make voluntary transactions with government out of the picture….”
Doug Sheridan, a top energy analyst with a large social media footprint, noted the dirty hidden secret behind Texas’s beleaguered grid.
When we examine the cost of solar energy, we assume all energy comes from new assets built at current costs. Those assets are assumed to power a hypothetical grid in a US region rich in both natural gas and sunlight.
The results of the analyses show a breakeven cost of generation of $54.24 per MWh for a 100% newbuild gas-fired system.…
“CO2 is not the threat but the friend, as are fossil fuels that make an unsafe world safe and pleasant for billions of people despite the forces of Statism and … elitist climate policy.”
Climate alarmists live in a self-righteous bubble where humankind is the scoundrel. Nature is optimal and fragile; anthropogenic change cannot be good, even toward greening, warming, and moistening. Think about that nonpolluting trace gas, carbon dioxide (CO2).
To the Church of Climate, there cannot be any debate against the narrative of alarm–or pushback against forced energy transformation. The opposition is evil against the common good, defined so vaguely as to preclude real human betterment. So psychological explanations emerge.
Consider this post on LinkedIn by self-described PR specialist Dr. Tanya Pobuda (Tanya P.) (I am blocked–see comment below):
… Continue ReadingThere’s something I have noticed when I engage with climate change deniers on LinkedIn.