The author identifies that the closing of the Indian Point nuclear plant in 2020-21 directly led to NYC's power issues.
But in Paris, legal disputes due to noise are stopping the vulnerable from installing A/C.
You know you're winning the climate adaptation vs. mitigation argument when even liberal media like Vox is temporarily on your side.
The article inadvertently points out that solar farms are inherently low-profit unless accompanied by additional extensive battery & grid cost. It also implies there is something wrong with capitalism.
Think about it. People use more power in prime time evenings, cooking dinner, running the TV, lights, heat & A/C, & washing clothes & dishes. Now add the requirement to charge their desired future EVs at home.
You can't do that with solar alone. You always need baseload & dispatchable power other than batteries. Renewables make those required power sources less profitable, too.
Near the end of the article, a well-known group asked Claude to help it craft its climate conference website info & was told it wouldn't help due to the Heartland Institute's anti-climate-alarm past.
This is a classic example of how AI could control future narratives. But for now, media coverage of climate on ABC, CBS, & NBC were down 35% in 2025.
Buildings designed to hold heat, unique regulations to preclude altering building facades, & UHI effect in Paris all have made France unprepared for heat.
Guess what has more than doubled since 1960. The population of China eating rice.
They already are paying PG&E $285 a month. Now some predict bills will rise & additional $70 monthly...in near perfect weather where heat & air conditioning aren't needed in many months.
Mr. EV & Solar is planning a natural gas pipeline to his Texas launch site to avoid trucking it in.
Does anyone else see the irony in that plus the natural gas turbines powering xAI near Memphis?
Sounds to me like the science...and models... aren't settled.
Sounds a lot like European climate scientists who don't adhere to the EU/UK party line...& American & Australian.
The author starts out chastizing Exon responsibility for the Alaska oul spill without mentioning offshore wind turbines killing birds & alarming whales/ dolphins
Then he blames oil company dollars spent clarifying their usefulness without citing "philanthropists" that have spent far more spreading climate alarm.
Finally, everything is always couched in oil company terms instead of the nations who would suffer losses if oil- drilling died off. One example is UK with Starmer resigning as they pay high prices for energy trying to go green without offshore oil.
Time to wake up to energy reality.
Bjorn Lomborg: Alarmists predicted 187 million would be forced to move inland due to sea level rise by the year 2100.
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Lomborg predicts it could 1/600th of that due to adaptation measures like seawalls. That means affecting just 311,700 globally...and don't forget that those in colder climates will be more likely to survive in a warmer world.
The article, & presumably linked study, work hard to downplay that shifting product to China actually increases global CO2 emissions...if that CO2 matters.
Related to earlier story. Recall it is taking 916 wind turbines to produce a theoretical 3.65 GW of power, dependent on wind speed. That is a fraction of the 360+ GW forecast for Texas by 2032.
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Now we learn much of that power is destined for California via 500 miles of new powerlines. We know that powerline cost through the middle of nowhere was not factored into the true cost of that renewable power.
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Does anyone believe the wind and low-cost permissive land for powerlines & turbines exists east of the Mississippi River?
Here is the New Mexico wind farm link, too.
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https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67766
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Why has Shell sold interests in 12 wind farms in 24 months while shifting interest to LNG?
Add depreciation plus lower gas costs outside California.
A young Australian reporter takes on News Corps, Dr Roger Pielke, Jr., & Dr. Bjorn Lomborg while implying that RCP8.5 elimination was due to progress on climate change mitigation.
Toxic gases released. Unusual towing lift with firetruck escort. Isolated wreckage at tow yard to preclude fire spread.
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Imagine this was required for every vehicle fire. The ICE truck also involved in the collision had little damage by comparison.