Commentary on Recent Articles

  • Commentary on Recent Articles April 8, 2025 -New York has a new interactive renewables map; solar net-metering has hidden costs, Bjorn Lomborg explains that adding more solar and wind to the energy supply pushes up the price of electricity for consumers and businesses; and the cost of California climate policies should be a warning to NY.
  • Commentary on Recent Articles  March 29, 2025 – David Catalfamo on the New York to ban fracking; Jim Willis argues that combining natural gas and nuclear in new ways could solve the need for new generation; Matt Ridley explains How the Green Energy Transition Makes You Poorer; Chris Bond analyzed California battery energy storage requirements and found Mark Jacobson gets it wrong; Robert Bryce documents that 52 communities from California to Australia have rejected battery projects; Ed Reid explains why the NY Climate Change Superfund bill is lawfare; and Robert Roper description of the Vermont transition shows why it is worse than New York.
  • Commentary on Recent Articles  March 17, 2025 – Alex Epstein breaks down the EPA deregulatory actions; Kevin Killough shows that the ruling that made greenhouse gases a target for regulation was a premediated effort; Colin Kinniburgh addresses natural gas pipeline replacement; David Wojick issues a warning about Bald Eagles and wind turbines; concerns about rising electricity bills; and a discussion piece about energy choices.
  • Commentary on Recent Articles  March 9, 2025 – Alex Epstein on America’s electricity crisis and the  full cost of IRA subsidies; Charles Rotter notes the clean energy sector is in  trouble, Roger Pielke, Jr. describes a Swedish public radio investigation into United Nation exaggerations; and Roy Spencer concludes that CO2 regulation is all just an excuse for more power and vested interests.
  • Commentary on Recent Articles February 22, 2025 – Ed Reid explains that net-zero plans are “all goal and no plan”, Ronald Stein explains that crude oil is used in more than 6,000 products, Chris Morrison notes that wind turbines not only kill birds but also enough insects to disrupt the food chain, Robert Bryce warns of the hidden impacts of the Great Texas Blackout, NY climate superfund litigation, and EPA funding mismanagement.
  • Commentary on Recent Articles February 9, 2025 – Bryce on wind energy troubles, Vermont has bad climate policy too, Angwin notes that oil-firing is a needed electric generation resource, Jessup finds that natural variability is responsible for recent warming anomalies, and Wielicki argues that CO2 cannot explain current warming.
  • Commentary on Recent Articles January 26, 2025 – Happer on climate, endangerment finding, prosocial censorship, temperature data tampering, New York Climate Superfund follies, green hydrogen will not be viable for decades if ever, and Dunkelflaute profiteers.
  • Commentary on Recent Articles January 18, 2025 – Recommended video by Steve Koonin, energy transition challenges, New York Climate Act overview, Sea-level rise over hyped, Exxon litigation against California Attorney General, and Climate Discussion Nexus on electricity access.
  • Commentary on Recent Articles January 12, 2025 – Prospects for nuclear power in Japan, how to make nuclear viable in the US, LA fires, and wind turbine incidents
  • Commentary on Recent Articles January 4, 2025 – Wind energy costs, comparison of coal plants in the US and China, solar energy siting trends, Wojick summary of offshore wind articles, and NY’s race to the green energy wall.
  • Commentary on Recent Articles December 8, 2024 – CA transition issues, carbon credit markets are pushed by vested interests, CO2 and temperature relationship is complicated, weather is not climate – extreme weather events and hurricanes, advocates follow the money, and the impossible physics of net zero transition.
  • Commentary on Recent Articles 28 November 2024 – NE wildfires, climate scam terminology, residential battery fantasy, disinformation censorship, and the energy transition cannot happen on command. Videos on transition costs too.
  • Commentary on Recent Articles 25 October 2024 – Chocolate teapot fallacy, mistake to abandon fossil fuels, hydrogen fails, solar and wind energy are not the cheapest, and Vineyard Wind update.
  • Commentary on Recent Articles 12 September 2024 – Offshore wind vulnerability to hurricanes and summaries of four articles about the failing German Energiewende.
  • Commentary on Recent Articles 30 August 2024 – Natural gas production and cost hazy outlook, National Center for Energy Analytics,  Irina Sla on the helplessness of fighting uninformed political pressures that adversely affect the energy system, Bjorn Lomborg newsletter, Pielke on NOAA billion dollar disasters, and energy transition subsidies.
  • Commentary on Recent Articles 21 August 2024 – Reasons to oppose renewable energy, Farming, Mining, and Energy Development, Alex Epstein – Sound Bites on Fossil Fuels, weather trend confounding factors, Paris Olympics was a test of net zero, and time of use tariffs
  • Commentary on Recent Articles 4 August 2024: :  Vermont clean heat standard, green hydrogen, electric school buses, CO2 impact on global temperature, residential solar issues, calls to pause the Climate Act, costs for the energy transition, and an argument that MISO rather than New York might experience the inevitable catastrophic blackout first because of net transition.
  • Commentary on Recent Articles 21 July 2024:  Energy transition and artificial intelligence, hydrogen dreams are failing, offshore wind problems, balanced view of fossil fuels, urban heat island video, and GHG effect misinformation
  • Commentary on Recent Articles 14 July 2024: Basic economics and renewable energy, crude oil is not for for electricity, methane is irrelevant, and Ithaca, NY climate goals
  • Commentary on Recent Articles 7 July 2024: Supreme Court Ends the Chevron Defense, New York Climate Super Fund, Proposal to Raise the New York Distributed Solar Target, and India is Going Gangbusters on Coal
  • Commentary on Recent Articles 13 June 2024 – Copper requirements are a physical restraint on the transition, can we afford the transition, Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy Estimates, and NYSERDA agrivolatic demonstration projects includes trees as a eligible crop