Sobering PBS Newshour update on current conditions in Western North Carolina, the Asheville area, devastated by Hurricane Helene in September. Some residents have gotten needed help, municipalities have benefitted from funding for cleanup and support services, but many homeowners … | Continue reading
CNBC expert underlines, again, that “Drill Baby Drill” does not intersect with reality. | Continue reading
It’s been jokingly suggested, as I posted the other day, that Trump’s agenda is so chaotic and counter productive, that it potentially hurts the fossil fuel industry that the “Drill Baby Drill” agenda was supposed to help.The trend continues.Trump is out selling Teslas while his … | Continue reading
Above, just a year ago, Trump’s major theme was that EVs were ridiculous, too expensive, and “they don’t go far.” Yesterday, he was debasing the White House by staging a Tesla sales event on behalf of biggest donor Elon Musk. Business Insider: Meanwhile: BBC: People protesting ag … | Continue reading
I spoke last week to Meteorologist and long time friend of the blog Jeff Masters. We discussed recent hurricane developments, outlook for the coming season, and, in this clip, the un-wisdom of cutting NOAA research, scientists, and forecasters.Turns out if you don’t know when, wh … | Continue reading
Above, Michigan farmer who helped bring wind, and now solar fields, to his community hopes that his positive message will break through to Donald Trump. Meanwhile, a reckoning is coming in the US House. With the margin razor thin in the US House, the loss of even one or two Repub … | Continue reading
Energy Secretary Chris Wright, at a conference, tells cheering fossil fuel executives he is swinging energy policy “180 degrees” – turning the Titanic back toward the iceberg. Sounds good, like “Drill Baby Drill”, but Mr Wright knows it’s a lie. Coincidentally I’m sure, Mr Wright … | Continue reading
Ron Filipkowski (via email): It was a bloodbath for Tesla shareholders today as the stock fell off a cliff, which followed a long string of losses in the last several weeks. The stock took a beating, losing an astounding 15.43% of it’s value after a worldwide boycott has taken ho … | Continue reading
New Energy Secretary Chris Wright comes with good educational and professional credentials, (ok, he’s a fracking zillionaire) but seems to be infected with the same used car salesman bug that other members of this cabinet have been showing us. Guardian: The world needs more plane … | Continue reading
Keep up with fossil gas prices at the Henry Hub here. Following markets is a good education in all things energy. | Continue reading
Senator Jeff Merkeley poses pointed questions to Trump appointees. More of this, please. | Continue reading
Readers of this blog will be familiar with Mark Carney, one time chair of the Bank of England, who has consistently warned about the dire financial impacts of climate change on insurance and the financial sector. New York Times: Amid a generational crisis in Canada’s relationship … | Continue reading
Know your globally destructive industry.The topic came up in a recent post, and YouTuber Matt Randolph has helpfully, and totally serendipitously, started a quick video primer. I want all my readers to be able to discuss energy topics across the spectrum intelligently. You’re wel … | Continue reading
Nebraska, a deep red state that voted heavily Republican, is finding out that acting President Musk views them as parasitic wasteful spenders.Oops.One way forward – build out clean energy, take advantage of huge natural resource, help farmers diversify their income as corn prices … | Continue reading
I keep asking “Where is the Tesla board?”.Good point made here – China now has powerful leverage on US government due to Tesla’s big profits and investments there. “Running the US government might be more interested for (Musk) than running Tesla.” “You find out who’s naked when t … | Continue reading
These are the same guys rifling thru your financial and medical data. Independent: A group of Department of Government Efficiency agents repeatedly pressured a federal official to open a large water pump system in California — and then flew there to do it themselves, according to … | Continue reading
Topline: The idea that the US can walk away from Canada’s oil is droll, baby, droll.Kudos to CNN for finally explaining to me what “light, sweet” crude is. Like I’ve been saying, “Drill Baby Drill” is a slogan for low information voters, but does not reflect the real world. Trump … | Continue reading
“One way or another.”I can’t believe we are subjecting the world to this shit. AP: Greenland’s prime minister has a message for President Donald Trump: “Greenland is ours.” Múte Bourup Egede made the statement on Facebook Wednesday, just hours after Trump declared in his speech t … | Continue reading
If Democrats had, in the name of climate, rolled out the kind of price increases on fossil fuels and autos that the Trump Administration is currently, they would have been pilloried.But branding it “Canada is our Enemy and has been cheating us and should be the 51st state”, has g … | Continue reading
The hate is real, and its having real effects in the marketplace, and on stocks. | Continue reading
Atlantic Council: Import taxes on Mexico risk planting the seeds for another serious power crisis in Texas. US tariffs, slated to take force on March 4, could limit access to essential electrical components, making it more difficult for Texas to construct the resilient power grid … | Continue reading
This is Matt Randolph – known as “Mr. Global” on TikTok and other social media. He is vice president and principal partner of oil/gas company, Sentinel Energy, based in Oklahoma. His analysis of our situation with natural gas is the same as mine.As we have increased exports of Li … | Continue reading
If you set out to draw a blueprint for how to surgically dismember the United State’s industrial competitiveness, you could hardly do worse.Above, hatred of Elon Musk inspires vandalism at Tesla chargers. Carscoops: President Donald Trump is putting the brakes on electric vehicle … | Continue reading
Aluminum, steel, lumber, zinc, potash – a critical fertilizer for farmers, uranium. “Plants will close down in Michigan within a week.”—A new chapter in 1984 – “We have always been at war with Canada..” Newsweek: The U.S. imposed tariffs of 25 percent of Canadian goods—except for … | Continue reading
Got a heads up on this from a senior scientist who emailed today: “If this happens, weather forecasting as we know it will end.” Further underlined by Daniel Swain, well known to readers here. Axios: The Trump administration has informed NOAA that two pivotal centers for weather … | Continue reading
Well, well, well. Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal finally caught up to what I’ve been saying for a decade or more. Brutal prediction for the future of the oil industry. Wall Street Journal: Since Donald Trump’s election, clean energy stocks have plummeted, major banks have p … | Continue reading
Matt Randolph, aka “Mr Global” is a YouTuber with a long background in the Oil and Gas Industry. Texas Public Radio: Is the U.S. really energy independent? Why does gas cost what it does, and who or what controls the price? Matt Randolph is vice president and principal partner of … | Continue reading
We all get it that this is a Kremlin lead project to utterly destroy America’s Science and Technology leadership, right? See today’s posting on the firing of NOAA Hurricane hunters. Get very clear on that. Andrew Dessler in The Climate Brink: Dear America: On behalf of the People … | Continue reading
What, oh what, could go wrong. Do we understand now that this is a Kremlin project to completely destroy America’s science and technology leadership? NBC 6 South Florida: I asked him if it seemed callous. “Yeah, that’s a good way to describe it, no personal authorization, just th … | Continue reading
The two ugliest meetings I’ve been to in regard to siting solar energy were in Cohocta and Conway townships, in Southeast Michigan. In Cohocta, residents stood on their chairs and shouted down local officials. One protester had a side arm strapped to his waist. Not sure what he h … | Continue reading
Description: What astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever – here’s what it taught him. A personal account of the “Overview Effect”.Astronauts describe a new awareness of the unity of all life on planet Earth.Great stuff, but time is short, and it’s not practical … | Continue reading
And every other kind of attack. Cui Bono? Guardian: The Trump administration has publicly and privately signaled that it does not believe Russia represents a cyber threat against US national security or critical infrastructure, marking a radical departure from longstanding intell … | Continue reading
Dry start to the year brings high risk to Carolinas, including areas ravaged by Hurricane Helene. Based on recent events, looks like the southeast, besides being a high risk area for storms and flooding, is emerging as a wild fire risk area as well. Lots of pine forests, wildlife … | Continue reading
It’s been a damn week.But nevertheless we need you. So please accept this offering, get some sleep tonight, and be ready tomorrow. | Continue reading
The Trump administration and its fossil fuel funders do NOT want you to know what is happening in the atmosphere. According to Mathew Cappucci above, more than 50 percent of National Weather service offices were already understaffed. Now more cuts, big cu ts, coming.For Project 2 … | Continue reading
Above, former Ford CEO Mark Fields on strategies for dealing with tariffs.Current Ford CEO Jim Farley has said Tariffs, if applied, would “Blow a hole in the auto companies like we’ve never seen.” “It’s like trying to play 3 dimensional chess while blindfolded.” – Mark Fields | Continue reading
Just so we understand what this WHOLE MAGA thing is about, what it’s always been about, who is behind it, and who has been driving the narrative for 40 years, it is this, and nothing other than this. All the other destruction to the Constitution, to our National Security, to NATO … | Continue reading
Cattle herds “stressed by extreme weather and drought” a factor in big beef price rises. Of course, bird flu, which has been set off by concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO). If Tariffs kick in, auto prices could jump, further stressing an already threatened US car indust … | Continue reading
Further underlining what we already knew about climate denialists. Desmog: In December, a Chicago-based organization called the Heartland Institute, which for decades has attempted to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change, devoted an episode of its daily podcast to … | Continue reading
My column is now running in the Midland Daily News, and the Mt Pleasant Morning Sun – pretty good coverage of key Central Michigan area. Peter Sinclair in the Midland Daily News: Prior to the 2024 election, President Donald Trump vowed to slash energy and electricity prices in ha … | Continue reading
Musk has taken that chain saw to what was once one of the world’s most enviable brands. Is there no Board of Directors at Tesla? Who is letting this continue? Markets Insider: GLJ Research reports deliveries of Tesla (TSLA) vehicles in five countries in Europe are down about 56% … | Continue reading
Svalbard. I was ready to buy my ticket there in 2020, when the whole thing shut down for Covid. Norway has a key glacier science institute there. | Continue reading
Farmers all over the country who signed up for grants to improve resiliency, save energy and soil, getting crushed as DOGE cost cutting hammer illegally holds up funds already appropriated and contracted. | Continue reading
Farmers costs keep skyrocketing, while commodity prices don’t keep pace. Clean energy helps farmers diversify their income with drought proof, recession proof, flood proof revenue. Above, a rural County Commissioner, and Township Supervisor weigh in on what they’ve seen first han … | Continue reading
This coup is squarely on behalf of the fossil fuel industry, US manufacturing be damned. Detroit Free Press: But Ford’s restructuring of its EV investments and strategy has become a repetitive mantra for (Ford CEO Jim) Farley in recent weeks, as he tells Wall Street analysts the … | Continue reading
New Scientist (paywall): The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) presents a briefing summarising the global climate each month – and in the first of these calls under the Trump administration, NOAA researchers avoided making any link between January’s record … | Continue reading
MAGA make you gag? Musk’s Naziism too much? Can’t stomach buying a Tesla product?You’re not alone. Here are more choices ranked for non Tesla home battery systems. | Continue reading
Might as well come out on Fox News.Totally wack take on the economics of producing more oil and gas, that he can’t possibly believe. Emily Atkin in Heated: During his Senate confirmation hearing last month, Chris Wright put on a moderate face. To support his bid to lead the Depar … | Continue reading