“One wonders if Shell, trying to greenwash best it can, is happy to see the climate outliers within its ranks leave. The company should at least inform employees about the moral case for fossil fuels—past, present, and future—as explained by Alex Epstein to his world audience.”
Richard Plant, self-described “sustainability champion … born at 326.42 ppm,” was obviously working at the wrong company–an oil and gas company, Shell. Shell was not the problem–it has rightly pulled back from the bad economics of wind and solar. Tried and failed, just as happened at Exxon. And at BP, no longer “beyond petroleum.”
Plant describes himself as “an experienced procurement professional … [with] over two decades of experience in global supply chain and category management roles, most of which I’ve spent at Shell.”…
Continue ReadingThis post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.
Unreliables (General):
*** The price of energy and the system costs of renewables
Wind turbines and solar panels ONLY generate electricity
California Blackouts Have Begun. Thank ‘Green Energy’
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Trump’s Transportation Secretary Terminates $679 Million from Offshore Wind Projects
*** Trump Admin Kills Massive RI Offshore Wind Project
S&P downgrades Orsted credit rating
Wind Energy — Other:
*** A newer Study about the adverse consequences of turbine generated infrasound
Solar Energy:
How Bill McKibben Lost the Plot
South American Cold Underscores Role of Oil and Gas
Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** Stossel on the Green Industrial Complex: Power, Panic, and Profits
*** The Supposed Nearly Unanimous Consensus on Climate Change Was A High Stakes Pernicious Deception
UN abandons science and hires climate change zealots who damn the facts
Lobbying Judges Is the Latest Form of Climate Lawfare, A Case of Elites Buying Favoritism from the Courts
Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** Interview.…
This national holiday weekend presents another opportunity to appreciate the labor-saving qualities of energy, the master resource. The utility of affordable, plentiful, reliable energy is not a partisan issue except to a fringe anti-industrial sect (see below).
Note how leading climate alarmists do not question the importance of energy for the masses. “A reliable and affordable supply of energy,” stated John Holdren, Obama’s two-term science advisor, “is absolutely critical to maintaining and expanding economic prosperity where such prosperity already exists and to creating it where it does not.” [1] The father of climate alarmism, James Hansen, has stated:
Let’s be clear: the frequent comparison of the fossil fuel and tobacco industries is nonsense. Fossil fuels are a valuable energy source that has done yeomen service for humankind. [2]
Energy as Bad?…
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