Tag: Net Zero
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Can US Grid Handle Next Winter Storm Fern – or Major Solar Flares?
by Paul Driessen, ©2026 (Feb. 14, 2026) — Winter Storm Fern (January 23-27) dumped heavy snow and ice on more than 240,000,000 Americans across 40 states and 2,300 miles, beginning in Arizona and wrapping up in Maine. Scores died, including 20 in New York City, where Mayor Mamdani refused to close homeless camps or compel…
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Climate Censorship and Integrity at COP30 and Beyond
by Paul Driessen, ©2025 (Dec. 1, 2025) — The Roman god Janus had two faces: for comings and goings, beginnings and endings, the interim between war and peace, and transitions both tangible and abstract. Climate Cultists might hail him for presiding over the demise of fossil fuels and advent of wind, solar and battery power;…
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COP-30 Insanity vs the Global Tide of Climate and Energy Reality
by Paul Driessen, ©2025 (Nov. 16, 2025) — The 30th Conference Of Parties (COP-30) is in full tirade down in Belém, Brazil. Many of the 50,000+ attendees arrived via the sleek private jets they always take to planet-saving climate conferences. To make travel from the airport to the host city easier, Brazil felled some 100,000…
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Misplaced Green Energy
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2025 (Mar. 4, 2025) — Why are we always putting green energy assets in all the wrong places? The main electricity demand comes from big cities and their industries, so the electricity generators should be nearby, thus reducing capital costs and transmission losses, and supporting local jobs.…
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A Pilot Plant for Net Zero
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2024 (Jul. 24, 2024) — Both solar and wind energy have fatal flaws – solar stops when the sun goes down or if a cloud blocks the sun; wind fails if the wind is too strong or too weak. But every day we hear of some fantastic…
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First Aid for Flicker Power
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2024 (Jul. 12, 2024) — Wind and solar energy have a fatal flaw – intermittency. Solar generators won’t run on moon-beams – they fade out as the sun goes down and stop whenever clouds block the sun. This happens at least once every day. But then at…
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Grassroots Activists Are Winning Battles Against Powerful Green Forces
by Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2023 (Nov. 3, 2023) — “The global forces are just too big and powerful. There’s no way to stop them. We are locked out of the process. Our elected officials just won’t listen to us!” This is what I hear every day from activists who truly want to stand…
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Cobalt Carnage, Child Labor and Ecological Destruction
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2023 (Jul. 30, 2023) — Global cobalt demand soared with the advent of cell phones and laptop computers. It exploded with the arrival of electric vehicles and now is skyrocketing in tandem with government EV mandates and subsidies. Cobalt improves battery performance, extends driving range and reduces fire risks. Demand will…
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Net Zero and the Carbon Capture Pipeline: Renaming Things to Condemn Them
by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center, ©2023 (Mar. 30, 2023) — According to the UN, “Net zero is broadly the same as carbon neutral: Emissions are still being generated, but they’re offset by the same amount elsewhere. The “net total” of your emissions is then zero.” [1] A pipeline is being set up to transport carbon…
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COP-27 Financiers and Merchants of Death
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2022 (Nov. 22, 2022) — As Americans give thanks this week for our many blessings, let us recall the Pilgrims’ and Native Americans’ primitive agricultural knowledge and technologies, the hunger and disease that were constants in their lives – and how so many around the world are not much better off…
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Fixing Flood Damage with NET ZERO
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2022 (May 17, 2022) — La Nina Floods have mangled the roads of eastern Australia with pot-holes, gully wash, mud and silt. Have the Green Teams in the leafy suburbs worked out how real workers can repair roads, fences, culverts and bridges without diesel-powered dozers, graders, rollers…
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China’s Strange Endorsement of ‘Net Zero’
by Duggan Flanakin, CFACT, ©2021 (Apr. 23, 2021) — You have to hand it to Xi Jinping. The Chinese “president for life” schmoozed United Nations royalty last September with his unexpected pledge that his country aims “to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality (Net Zero) before 2060.” Confident that the mantle…