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Steve Gorham Originally published in Real clean energy. Headlines promote renewable energy equipment companies as part of efforts to transition to net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050. The share is growing. But market returns for renewable energy equipment companies are poor, so investors should be careful. The Renewable Energy Industry Index (RENIXX) is a global stock index of the 30 renewable energy industry companies with the largest stock market capitalization in the world. Current RENIXX companies include Enphase Energy, First Solar, Orsted, Plug Power, Tesla and Vestas. The German IWR established RENIXX on May 1, 2006, with an initial value of…
A news release from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, from the department of “It’s all about climate change.” What time is it: 1. Glaciers melt and collapse, triggering local tsunamis. This is what they do and have been doing for thousands of years. The same goes for rock slides. Nothing new here. No need for climate change. 2. Seismic waves produced by calving glaciers are nothing new. In fact, they occur “all the time” in Antarctica, according to the University of Leeds. At best, this was a novelty, as the signal lasted nine…
While Potential Tropical Cyclone 8 struggled to make a name for itself along the southeastern U.S. coast on Monday, it brought tropical storm-like weather to the North Carolina coast. Satellite imagery and reconnaissance flights show that PTC 8 is entangled with a persistent front that stretches the circulation and prevents it from becoming a distinct, symmetrical low. As of 11 a.m. ET, PTC 8's elongated, ill-defined center was located nearly 100 miles east of Charleston, South Carolina, moving north-northwest at 5 mph. In fact, all of PTC 8's stronger shower and thunderstorm activity (convection) is concentrated in a single area…
Is Joe Biden a “drill, baby, drill” president? In a recent article, my AEI colleague Roger Pielke Jr. noted that based on time trends in U.S. oil production from federal lands (onshore and offshore) from 2008 to 2023, “Joe Bye Den is the 'Drill, baby, drill' president.”1 In summary, Pielke reconstructed data on oil production from federal lands reported by the U.S. Department of the Interior, showing that such oil production increased by approximately 129% between 2008 and 2023, and by more than 46% between 2017 and 2023,1 Compared to 2020, there will be a 25% reduction in 2023. [emphasis,…
Future Fridays disappear faster than snowballs on a hot summer day. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash German youth are rebelling… Young Germans have turned to the right in response to harsh lockdowns, censorship, media bias, economic collapse and aging infrastructure during the coronavirus pandemic. [emphasis, links added] The German political system will soon pay a heavy price for its mistakes, arrogance and disrespect. A profound and accelerating mood swing is taking place across Germany, and nothing can stop it. The more the establishment tries to condemn it, the more the elites are rejected. The Germans, who once seemed to…
An autistic Swedish teen wants to save the planet from the scourge of fossil fuels but is willing to hand over a large part of it to Bronze Age barbarians who also care about the issue. It's a huge irony. [emphasis, links added] But it is what it is. The Swedish girl in question is Greta Thunberg, the Swedish doomsday elf, and in recognition of her support for Hamas, she was named Anti-Semitic of the Week by an organization called Stop Anti-Semitism. ists”. Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been named “Anti-Semitic of the Week” by a Jewish organization after she…
Looking back at more than 20 years of climate advocacy, two themes emerge: activists’ stubborn reluctance to acknowledge any inconvenient science, and the ever-changing flow of favorite stories, first promoted and then cast aside. [emphasis, links added] First constant: Focus on scaring the public, which in turn makes for bad climate policy. At the beginning of this century, polar bears were symbols of climate disaster. Protesters dressed as polar bears while Al Gore's 2006 hit film “an inconvenient truth”We are shown a sad and lively polar bear drifting to death. The Washington Post warned that polar bears are facing extinction,…
After a warm and sunny weekend, the Baltimore area is expected to have a chance of showers throughout the week, along with coastal flooding on Tuesday.As Tropical Storm Helen is expected to form toward South Carolina early this week, the National Hurricane Center has not issued a tropical storm warning for the Baltimore area, although rain is expected here. The storm is expected to cause severe flooding in North and South Carolina as it moves northwest, according to the hurricane center.[Get the latest weathercast from FOX45 News]Monday will be sunny with a high near 77 degrees, according to the National…
Kamala Harris is eager to “free herself from the burdens of the past” — the Biden-Harris policies she helped craft and implement. She wants voters to focus on “joy” and “freedom,” insisting that America will be the best if they elect her, Tim Walz and their Biden-Harris-Obama “advisors.” future. [emphasis, links added] Yet she is President Biden's “last person in the room to make the big decisions” and is very committed to what she says “remains my values” on energy, climate, immigration, unrest and police. She can't get over the Biden-Harris record on energy and food price inflation; flooding our…
If you're not paying special attention, and depending on where you live, you might think wildfires are just wildfires. You might think of fire as always, either scary (Smoke Bear) or naturally healthy (Regenerative). But none of this is true. In fact, the wildfire story of our time continues to evolve. Here's what it looks like as of late summer 2024—with an emphasis on wildfire behavior. Global overview: Regional overview: Overview of fire behavior: Firestorm and other specific behavior changes: The new meaning of 'fire weather': “A wildfire in Canada became so intense it created its own weather,” The New…