Ed. 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.”…

This 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.

Greed Energy Economics:
*** Why Are Green Activists Suddenly Outraged at the Billions Wasted Paying Wind Projects to Switch Off When it’s Too Windy?

Unreliables (General):
*** How to end the “100% renewable” fraud
*** The transition to renewables is a globalist suicide pact for the rest of us!
Breaking Down How Energy Prices Will End Up Affecting the Midterm Elections
Public Should Receive Earlier Notification of Solar or Wind Projects

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** All Republicans Must Stop The Wind Scam
*** Court filings claim Revolution Wind developers didn’t answer Fed questions
UK Offshore Wind Project receives $2.5+ Billion (US) in just Six Years

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Wind Turbine Radar Interference
Upstate NY Wind Project demolition

Nuclear Energy:
*** Introducing SMR Intelligence US
OKLO SMR

Miscellaneous  Energy News:
*** AlexAI on why European electricity is so expensive, “energy efficiency,” and the limitations of batteries
*** Alex Epstein: Talking points roundup: rising electricity prices, the National Academies’ climate “report,” China’s new coal plants, and more
60 Hours: Berlin Suffers Longest Power Cut Since WW2 after Ultra-Leftist Sabotage
It makes more sense to produce hydrogen with nuclear, not renewables

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** The Consensed and the Realist
*** Teaching Children about Climate Misinformation Caused by Averaging
Media’s Psyop Against Climate Scientists
Three Climate Lawsuits in Montana
Trump to UN: Climate change ‘the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world’

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** The National Academies’ perversion of science

Manmade Global Warming — Miscellaneous:
*** GAO submits Comments on EPA Reconsideration of 2009 “Endangerment Finding”
Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered
Geoengineering?…

This 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):
*** New York State Cancels Critical Transmission Project for “Clean Energy”
*** AI Could Vaporize Green Energy Hallucinations
Cross-Regional Analysis of Renewable and Dispatchable Energy Sources
Failures of the renewables transition era are insults to taxpayers

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** US DOI Plans to Revoke More Permits; White House Seeking to Engage DHHS?
Offshore wind has no future in the U.S., Interior Secretary says

Wind Energy — Other:
Belgian Wind Project Vetoed; Global Total Of Renewable Rejections Hits 1,104

Solar Energy:
China Tackles Price Wars as Bloated Solar Sector Amasses Huge Losses

Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Virginia Staff Sees Need for More Gas Because Wind Will “Collapse”
Energy Experts Say Trump ‘Absolutely Deserves Credit’ For US Producing More Oil Than ‘Any Nation On Earth’

Manmade Global Warming:
*** Study: Sea Level Rise Not Caused by Climate Change
*** Where Are All The Hurricanes?…

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.  …