Leading global warming alarmist Andrew Dessler has joined the Texas Air Conditioning Contractors Association (TACCA), a nonprofit trade association for the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration contractors (HVAC). The former Texas A&M climatologist’s new outreach program, “Scorched Earth–Buy or Fry,” will begin next month in the Lone Star State.

“Andy has been instrumental is making the case for increasing heat waves and extreme weather, which is good for our business,” stated TACCA head Makin Summers. “Nobody can spike demand better than a highly credentialed climate scientist who gets red in the face and shouts expletives at his cooler-head opponents.”

“I am happy to make money where my mouth is,” stated Dessler. “Whether it’s air conditioning, mist machines, or ice makers, it is time for mass, universal purchases.”

“Angry Andy is perfect as TACCA’s salesman,” added Robert Bradley of the Institute for Energy Research, normally a critic of climate exaggerators.…

Ed note: The extract below from a Joint Economic Committee Staff Report briefly describes the end of oil price and allocation regulation in 1981, righting one of the worst energy fiascos in U.S. history. This experience has taken price controls off the political table ever since with petroleum, including today with the Iran War. [“President Reagan’s Economic Legacy,” Section C: Energy Shortages and Regulatory Failures]

In the 1970s, OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) was temporarily successful in driving up energy prices and hitting consumer wallets worldwide. OPEC’s manipulations of oil supplies were turned into a full-scale energy crisis in the United States because of price controls in energy markets.

Rising oil prices hurt consumers, but long lines at gas stations and shortages of heating oil were the work of bad policy, not of markets.…

Ed. Note: This short piece by Robert Bradley Jr. from mid-2012 is reproduced verbatim. It is good to have a laugh sometimes in the energy debates, which the Onion parody (below) invited. Serious posts on Peak Oil can be found here.

“We are on a collision course to a world without rocks. Only take as many rocks as you absolutely need.”

        – Dr. Victoria  Merrill, author, “No Stone Unturned: Methods for Modern Rock Conservation“

“Think about it. When was the last time you even saw a boulder?”

         – Henry Kaiser (geologist and Onion expert)

The easy oil has been found. There are no more mega-fields. Costs up … prices up … economic stress … crises. We have such certain knowledge from the smartest guys in many rooms: Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren, Colin Campbell, Jean Laherrère,  Richard Heinberg, Chris Skrebowski, Matthew Simmons, ….…

“I will not be bullied but will make my case for objective reporting with the above data point of Seth Borenstein’s article.” (below)

Seth Borenstein posted on LinkedIn:

Scientists in thousands of peer reviewed studies detail, calculate the public health threats, deaths and illnesses from climate change. President Trump calls it all a scam. A detailed look at what the studies and scientists say about the research. The three experts quoted are both MDs and have extra degrees and are professors of public health.

Borenstein was referring to his piece, “Scientific studies calculate climate change as health danger, while Trump calls it a ‘scam’” (AP: February 12, 2026). Read the article, which blows itself up at the end with his recognition that

The issue gets complicated when cold-related deaths are factored in.