Net Zero Banking Alliance Terminated
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 6, 2025“RIP—and not a moment too soon for the 2.1 billion humans that suffer in abject energy poverty and much too late for the 16.5 million loved ones they have lost due to indoor air pollution during the 5 1/2 years the Net Zero Banking Alliance was working to prevent financing for fossil fuel projects all over the world.” (- Ryan Zorn, below)
“NZBA votes to cease all operations, abandon membership model,” reported ESG Dive. Lamar Johnson summarized:
- Members of the United Nations-backed Net-Zero Banking Alliance voted Friday to immediately cease operations and shift to a guidance-based model, an NZBA spokesperson told ESG Dive.
- The spokesperson said that the vote also “provided a mandate to explore how best to carry this work forward.” Banks will be involved in that process over the next six to 12 months where further plans will be developed.
Thatcher & UK Politics: Up from Alarmism
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 3, 2025Ed. Note: The UK is again at a crossroads with climate policy. Reformers want to severely weaken, if not repeal, the Climate Change Act of 2008. With UK media posts mentioning Margaret Thatcher’s original (alarmist) position (here), but not her reversal (below), the record should be set straight.
“Government interventions are problematic, so intervene only when the case is fully proven.”
– Margaret Thatcher, Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World. New York: HarperCollins, 2002, p. 453.
“An Inconvenient Truth About Margaret Thatcher: She Was a Climate Hawk,” declares Will Oremus in Slate. In “The Iron Lady’s Strong Stance on Climate Change” (Daily Climate, reposted at Climate Progress), author Douglas Fischer notes “how seriously [Margaret Thatcher] viewed the threat of climate change and the robustness, more than 20 years ago, of climate science and United Nations body tasked with assessing state of that science.”…
Continue ReadingNRDC in Climate Denial (forced smiles at ‘Climate Week’)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 2, 2025“Dilute, intermittent, fragile, land-intensive, transmission-intensive, and government-enabled energies have had their chance since the 1970s and the 1990s. It is time to move on to consumer-chosen, taxpayer-neutral superiors.”
Their only option was to put a happy face on climate activism at the just-ended Climate Week in New York City. But how things have changed. Consider, 11 years ago, a lone Alex Epstein challenging climate alarm and forced energy transformation at the People’s Climate March in New York City (below). Now, Epstein’s “human betterment” human philosophy is ensconced in the halls of power in Washington, including the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
But the narrative and jobs of the Climate Industrial Complex, thousands of rent-seekers and grifters strong, must keep their Deep Ecology faith. Manish Bapna, President and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), wrote on social media:
… Continue ReadingWhat a lively way to start the day.