“[J]ust 1 percent of voters in a recent New York Times/Siena College poll named climate change as the most important issue facing the country, far behind worries about inflation and the economy. Even among voters under 30, the group thought to be most energized by the issue, that figure was 3 percent.” (NYT, Below)

Climate anxiety or climate realism? The stark choice becomes more apparent every day as climate alarmists lick their wounds at political failure. So what is the next move for those who refuse to rethink their position, to believe the data rather than the models? One guess is to get the climate modelers to tweak a few things to then conclude, “Oh, we have more time than we thought to achieve Net Zero.”

Fifty years ago, two key Club of Rome/Limits to Growth authors retreated to their New Hampshire farm “to learn about homesteading and wait for the coming collapse.”…

“Unsurprisingly, just as in Sri Lanka, the Dutch announcement has created political upheaval. What is surprising is that, in the face of all this, politicians in countries like Belgium and New Zealand want to follow suit.” 

As Benjamin Franklin once quipped, “Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.” Unfortunately, experience is often painful and occasionally fatal. Even the most foolish, if they survive, can learn from their own mistakes, but the wise learn from the mistakes of others.

Sri Lanka has made a catastrophic mistake. In 2021, during the 26^th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced that his country had embarked on a “new agricultural revolution that has sustainability at its core.”…

Ed. note: This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete MBN for this post can be found here.

Renewables (General):
*** Paved with good Intentions
*** Energy Crises In Germany and Texas Are Exposing The Folly of Renewable Energy
*** Mining Industry Warns Energy Transition Isn’t Sustainable
*** Germany went all in on green energy. Now its economy is on brink of collapse
Wind and Solar Cannot Solve High Power Prices, and Inflation
Wind, Solar And Pipelines All Fail Germany

Wind Energy:
*** Texas Wind Power Failing When State Needs It Most
*** Texas wind power is failing amid a scorching US heat wave
*** New York must balance climate mandates with declining reserve margins to ensure reliability: ISO
*** Kansas State Senator’s Testimony about industrial wind energy
Opponents question science, motivations of putting wind turbines in Lake Erie
Offshore Wind Turbine Threat to Whales is Next Big Argument
GE Shelves Wind Turbine Blade Plant as Renewable Energy Has Been a Tough Go

Solar Energy:
*** Unprecedented IEA report: There’s a huge problem for the clean energy shift and it comes from China
*** LA Times report warns about ‘environmental danger’ in solar transition
It’s Not Working

Nuclear Energy:
*** Nuclear Power Gets New Push in U.S.,…

“We need the countries that have spare production capacity to tell the world they will be ready to bring more oil to the market. Saudi Arabia has proven that they are a responsible exporter. And I would be hopeful that they will once again show their constructive role in these difficult days.” (Fatih Birol, below)

The head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has joined with the head of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in urging global oil producers to produce more crude oil immediately to avoid more pain at the pump and elsewhere. Fatih Birol–previously anti-oil–has issued an energy crisis “red alert” not unlike a similar plea by Secretary Jennifer Granholm earlier this year.

She said:

We are on a war footing—an emergency—and we have to responsibly increase short-term [oil and gas] supply where we can right now to stabilize the market and to minimize harm to American families….