Donald Trump has always specialized in knifing friends in the back. Canadians have picked up on that better than many Americans. CBC (Canada): U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent commented Thursday on the separatist movement in Alberta — making him the highest-ranking member of … | Continue reading
A lot of us will be watching the Texas grid this weekend, to see if it holds up under severe stress. Hundreds of people died in the blackout of Valentine’s Day, 2021, and it’s become an absolute case study in how Americans have been systematically disinformed about clean energy. … | Continue reading
This reporter looks about the way I look on an average work day, and that makes me feel seen. | Continue reading
Much has been made of the (purported) need for US bases in Greenland, to insure national security. (It’s clear now the need related more to the Orange Toddler’s in-security) Many Americans might not remember that in the early days of the Cold War, the Strategic Air Command had fo … | Continue reading
Of particular interest here, some info about Russian and Chinese SMR efforts, which, it turns out, have had challenges. | Continue reading
Warm Arctic, cold continents = signature of climate change. Russia using climate extremes as a weapon against Ukraine, in brutally cold winter as attacks on energy infrastructure continue. Conversation below gives a first person update. “They’re not going to break.” In other news … | Continue reading
As I have noted before, the larger a given state’s exposure to natural gas, the more likely electric rates will be higher, according to recent research from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.Gas has always been notoriously volatile. Some states have a bit of a buffer in that rates a … | Continue reading
“I haven’t been able to find any wind farms in China.” – see below. Politico: (paywalled) The world’s two biggest climate polluters are racing in opposite directions: The U.S. is chasing fossil fuels while China entrenches its dominance over clean energy. That divergence was on f … | Continue reading
If the coming winter storm lives up to advance billing, a lot of people are going to be inside their homes, at their keyboard, furiously pumping out conspiracies theories about weather modification. Marjorie Taylor Green is most famous for the formulation “Jewish Space Lasers”, w … | Continue reading
A sure indicator of catastrophic weather, Senator Cruz bugs out from Texas ahead of predicted ice storm. Duke Energy tips for preparation: | Continue reading
Recommends a move back to coal. Seriously. Financial Times: US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick was heckled at a World Economic Forum dinner in Davos, with European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde walking out during his speech. The gathering on Tuesday night descended i … | Continue reading
I don’t know who the creators are of these videos, above, but damn – that’s impressive turn-around time. This was out just hours after Trump’ humiliating turn-tail-and-run about face on Greenland. The combination of international revulsion, horrendous polling data in the US, and … | Continue reading
Journalist Lisa Noelle Holding recorded. interviews with Sascha Riley, a decorated Iraq war veteran, and self proclaimed victim of sex trafficking from Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump. The story has been a viral sensation, but also somewhat radioactive, for the same reason. The … | Continue reading
After blustering and insulting his audience for an hour, Trump floating concepts of a plan for Greenland. Wall Street Journal: President Trump said he wouldn’t impose tariffs on several European nations after he reached the “framework of a future deal” on Greenland and the Arctic … | Continue reading
Obnoxious? Ignorant of Climate Science, sure.Dead right and courageous on the Epstein Files issue, and on corruption in the Trump Administration, also true.Congressman Thomas Massie wins this week’s stopped clock award for being right, this time, and sticking to his, well, guns. … | Continue reading
Bloomberg: For years, climate experts have insisted that markets will naturally push companies to take climate change more seriously as risks become more apparent. Fresh research indicates that borrowers are now starting to face a financial penalty for ignoring the dangers ahead. … | Continue reading
Yes, it’s AI. I made it using Nano-Banana, but asked Chat GPT to tell me what the banner behind them says.Here’s the answer it gave: The Russian banner reads: «ВЕРНЫЙ СОЮЗНИК» That translates to “Loyal Ally” or “Faithful Ally.” Both are accurate; “loyal ally” is the more natural … | Continue reading
Senator Tom Tillis interviewed in Davos at the World Economic Forum. Not exactly a profile in Courage. “I’m not critical of the President, I’m critical of the bad advice he’s getting.” All that, but not until after he announced his retirement . | Continue reading
Wow. Absolutely terrific research on this 40 minute video pointing to some of the glaring issues with the rollout of Small Modular Nuclear reactors. (SMRs)I’ve read, and heard, a lot from engineering experts about some of the manufacturing bottlenecks and economic challenges for … | Continue reading
Accuweather: Arctic air is amassing in northern Canada and will surge into the central United States late this week and the weekend. It has the potential to be the coldest weather so far this winter in many areas and may surpass the cold experienced in December. It is likely to e … | Continue reading
Release the Epstein Files. Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: For more than 75 years, the fondest dream of Russian strategy has been to divide Western Europe from the U.S. and break the NATO alliance. That is now a possibility as President Trump presses his campaign to capture … | Continue reading
When you go into a rural county or township in support of a clean energy project, most often there will be an organized faction of angry, misinformed, social media activated and enraged local citizens there, who have been made to believe that clean energy is somehow a threat to t … | Continue reading
I wrote this off as AI, but apparently it is real. There IS a lot of AI garbage on this, so if it looks impossible, probably is, but it was a hell of a snowstorm. | Continue reading
Malcolm Nance is an author and military analyst, a frequent guest on podcasts and talk shows. He may be controversial in some circles, but he’s been out in front warning about the dangers of a Donald Trump presidency, and the connections between Trump and Moscow. Nance points out … | Continue reading
Ryan Maue is a University of Michigan trained meteorologist and anything but a “climate alarmist” – he’s constantly feuding with mainstream scientists like Michael Mann. But he’s calling (above) for some sobering impacts in coming weeks, and my social media Meteo-feed is lighting … | Continue reading
China marches on in deploying renewables. More battery storage needed. No problem, China is the leading manufacturer of Batteries. In addition, new transmission and transformer technology making renewables “more reliable and predictable at scale.” Reuters: China’s mostly coal-bas … | Continue reading
NYTimes: President Trump is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a text message he sent to Norway’s prime minister over the weekend. Jonas Gahr Store, Norway’s leader, received the text message o … | Continue reading
“Freeze-offs” refer to interruptions in natural gas production and transport caused by freezing water or gas hydrates blocking flow during cold snaps, leading to supply issues.This was a huge part of the problem in Texas’ Valentine’s Day blackout of 2021. Big polar vortex freeze … | Continue reading
Not just stupid, short sighted, mean spirited, treacherous and strategically catastrophic.Massively unpopular.Like, head lice, yeast infection, Ebola, Brain eating amoeba unpopular. Reason: President Donald Trump’s push to seize Greenland might be the least popular idea in Americ … | Continue reading
Dafydd Townley in the Conversation: A movement that wanted to merge North America into one nation and extend its borders as far as the Panama Canal might sound incredibly familiar. But this group, called the “technocracy movement”, was a group of 1930s nonconformists with big ide … | Continue reading
An awful lot of Auto workers in the upper midwest drank the kool aid and voted for Trump. But, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who lives at an intellectual level several orders of magnitude above the current US administration, understands … | Continue reading
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CBC: CBC: Ontario Premier Doug Ford isn’t mincing words about Canada’s new electric vehicle deal with China, saying Friday that Chinese manufacturers are gaining a foothold in the country’s auto market at the expense of workers in this country. “The federal government is inviting … | Continue reading
All star team of climate experts has a new evaluation of ocean heat. One of the authors, Michael Mann, notified on X, above. Springer Nature: Global ocean warming continued unabated in 2025 in response to increased greenhouse gas concentrations and recent reductions in sulfate ae … | Continue reading
Military YouTuber Ryan McBeth gives a useful checklist of reasons why an attack on Greenland won’t happen because it makes no sense and is instantly devastating to United States power and influence.I think he has altogether too much confidence that we are dealing with a rational … | Continue reading
Trump administration lost a key legal battle in its effort to block the Revolution offshore Wind Farm. The same geniuses who are threatening to destroy NATO and start World War III have been desperately working to block clean energy, and for the same reasons – fealty to fossil fu … | Continue reading
Good PBS Weathered discussion – what happens if the very impacts of climate change derail our attempts to solve and head off the worst impacts? | Continue reading
Military Analyst Malcolm Nance on X: CONSEQUENCES FOR DUMBASSES: You are an F’ing idiot. If we invade Greenland we go to war with 31 nations. NATO stays together but without us. Its HQ is in Brussels, not the Pentagon. Our global reach across the Atlantic will end with our closes … | Continue reading
Above, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse explains the “Generation Stack” – the least expensive sources come on line first as demand goes up – and that means clean energy, solar, wind and battery are the cheapest options.The price of electricity in this scheme is set by the last, and hig … | Continue reading
Putin can’t believe his good fortune. Arctic Today: Former U.S. Rep. Billy Long, President Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Iceland, joked with lawmakers this week that Iceland will become the 52nd U.S. state (it remains unclear, which country Long suggests will become th … | Continue reading
The Berkeley Earth surface temperature record is one of the most respected and widely followed projects tracking global temperatures. They have released their evaluation of 2025 global temperatures. Berkeley Earth: We conclude that 2025 was the third warmest year on Earth since 1 … | Continue reading
New York Times: President Trump again threatened on Friday to forcibly annex Greenland, saying that he was “going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not.” In a White House event discussing his plans to have American companies exploit Venezuela’s vast oil reserv … | Continue reading
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Exxon CEO Darren Woods went on “we are confident that with this administration and President Trump working hand in hand with the Venezuelan government, that those changes can be put in place.” This sounds like “not now”, while hand waving that in some hypothetical further situati … | Continue reading
In Other News:US moves to dominate the global VHS video market once and for all. Eat shit Beta max! President Trump promises US taxpayers will reimburse Blockbuster videos for rebuilding video marketing infrastructure, pledging an “All of Government” approach, and the full streng … | Continue reading
“Running the government like a business”. That’s what we hear from Republicans. That’s why people elected George W Bush. He got us into a war for oil, remember? That “cakewalk” that was going to pay for itself with cheaper gas?How much worse could it be when you elect a guy with … | Continue reading
Add this to the No-files in courage. Outgoing Senator Tom Tillis rales against the “stupid” of White House war talk on Greenland. Below, a Danish official in CNN interview gives a corrective on the history. | Continue reading
Reposting some overviews of Greenland from Dark Snow Project and research field work over the past decade and a half.I had the great good fortune to work along side international teams of scientists in Greenland for a number of summers in the past decade and a half. To see it bec … | Continue reading