When Bad News is Good: Ditching Net Zero (Google is out!)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 3, 2025“What many don’t realize is that the green agenda was never about saving the planet, it was about making money and reducing competition by increasing barriers for other companies to try to compete with them in the first place.” (Thomas Marihart, below)
“Another climate commitment quietly bites the dust,” complained Ben Hardman on social media. He continued:
… Continue ReadingRemember when Google was one of the good guys? Yeah, me too. Shame it can’t be said anymore. Google has stealthily deleted their 2030 net zero pledge from their website. Gone. See ya later.
This is the same company that once proudly displayed “carbon neutral since 2007” on their homepage (ok, all done through buying carbon offsets, but we’ll park that for now). Now their footer spot has been replaced with “Applying AI towards science and the environment.”
Land of the Living Dead: Paul Ehrlich this Halloween
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 30, 2025Always wrong but never in doubt. Welcome to the-end-is-always-near world of Paul R. Ehrlich, where humans are the problem–or at least everyone that does not see what the neo-Malthusians warn against. The land of the living dead–something to think about this Halloween.
I was reminded of neo-Malthusianism come Halloween 2025 upon rereading a piece in the (Progressive Left) The Guardian, “Paul Ehrlich: ‘Collapse of Civilisation Is a Near Certainty Within Decades‘”, published eight years ago (March 2018).
“Fifty years after the publication of his controversial book The Population Bomb, biologist Paul Ehrlich warns overpopulation and overconsumption are driving us over the edge,” the subtitle of Damian Carrington article states. He continues:
… Continue ReadingA shattering collapse of civilisation is a “near certainty” in the next few decades due to humanity’s continuing destruction of the natural world that sustains all life on Earth, according to biologist Prof Paul Ehrlich.
DOE Grid Policy & Data Centers: New Thinking Ahead?
By Kennedy Maize -- October 29, 2025“Ideas have consequences. Even new pathbreaking ones that are shaking the foundations of the Federal Power Act of 1935 and state public utility regulation.”
The Department of Energy has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to federalize and streamline the connection of large data centers to the interstate transmission grid. DOE last week (Oct. 23) sent FERC a 16-page draft notice of proposed rule making, asking the commission to enact the new, unprecedented rule by the end of April, which is unlikely.
Under the DOE proposal, FERC would take over interconnection decisions for “large load” data centers, defined as those with a load of 20 MW or greater. These decisions are now made by regional transmission organizations, such as the PJM Interconnection, or by state regulatory agencies.
The DOE proposed rule states:
… Continue ReadingIn light of the unprecedented current and expected growth of large loads seeking to interconnect to the transmission system, and to provide open access and non discriminatory access to the transmission system, it has become necessary to standardize interconnection procedures and agreements for such loads, including those seeking to share a point of interconnection with new or existing generation facilities (hybrid facilities).