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Fussing and Troubles in COP Land

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 27, 2025

Climate activist Andrew Griffiths, policy director of Planet Mark and cofounder of the Carbon Accounting Alliance, posted:

Despicable… it would seem that COP28 UAE continue to use and abuse their hosting of hashtag#COP28 to promote hashtag#fossilfuels….

He is referring to the United Nations’ 2023 Conference of Parties held in a petrostate (United Arab Emirates) that continues to haunt the hard-core climate activists. Griffiths continued:

I just received an unprompted email from ADIPEC Exhibition and Conference hosted by ADNOC Group, UAE’s national oil and gas company. Maybe it’s pure coincidence and they’ve found my email through some random data supplier, but to my mind the main reason they would have my email address and think I’d be interested is if the hashtag#COP28 Green Zone or other fringe events database was shared with ADNOC to support their marketing.

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Revolution Wind Stop Order: Remember Keystone XL (Obama) and LNG Exports (Biden)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 26, 2025

Ed. Note: The government giveth and taketh. The Stop Order issued last Friday regarding Revolution Wind Farm invites a relook at the similar orders against the completion of the Keystone XL Pipeline (Obama 2015) and in-process liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports (Biden 2024).

Statement by the President on the Keystone XL Pipeline (November 6, 2015)

Several years ago, the State Department began a review process for the proposed construction of a pipeline that would carry Canadian crude oil through our heartland to ports in the Gulf of Mexico and out into the world market.

This morning, Secretary [John] Kerry informed me that, after extensive public outreach and consultation with other Cabinet agencies, the State Department has decided that the Keystone XL Pipeline would not serve the national interest of the United States.  …

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U.S. Offshore Wind: Politics Giveth, Taketh

By -- August 25, 2025

Ed. Note: The government-enabled on-grid wind and solar industries are on the downside of a political business cycle. The lesson for sustainable entrepreneurship is to meet underlying consumer demand, not rely on special favor from temporary political majorities.

Last Friday, the Daily Caller News Foundation broke an exclusive story that the U.S. had ordered a halt to construction on the offshore Revolution Wind Farm project. The article, “Trump Admin Kills Massive Offshore Wind Project,” announced the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (Department of Interior.

Revolution Wind is a 704-megawatt (MW), 65-turbine wind project located 15 miles south of Rhode Island’s Point Judith port and 32 miles southwest of Martha’s Vineyard. The capacity has been contracted under 20-year power-purchase agreements to utilities in Massachusetts (304 MW) and Rhode Island (400 MW).…

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Angry Michael Mann Isolates Himself (climate exaggeration backfires)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 21, 2025
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Solar Bankruptcies: The New Normal

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 20, 2025
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‘Big Oil’ and Early Solar: Trying and Failing

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 19, 2025
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Energy & Environmental Review: August 18, 2025

By -- August 18, 2025
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AI on Me re Climate and Energy (the consensus strikes again)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 14, 2025
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“Who Are the Climate Deniers Fighting the Endangerment Finding?” (the new majority, DeSmog)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 13, 2025
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Catastrophic Climate Change? (1977 memo to Carter in retrospect)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- August 12, 2025
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