French Nuclear: End of the Line?

Flamanville, he writes, “is likely one of the last nuclear plants to be built in Europe. Hinckley Point may be completed at some point in the future in the UK, but even in France the next ones are in doubt, with decisions on future investments postponed. “By the time any new nuclear plant in the West gets built, the transformation of our power systems towards renewables dominance will be over.”Re Posted From: French Nuclear: End of the Line?Watts Up With That . . . [More]

French Nuclear: End of the Line?

Flamanville, he writes, “is likely one of the last nuclear plants to be built in Europe. Hinckley Point may be completed at some point in the future in the UK, but even in France the next ones are in doubt, with decisions on future investments postponed. “By the time any new nuclear plant in the West gets built, the transformation of our power systems towards renewables dominance will be over.”Re Posted From: French Nuclear: End of the Line?Watts Up With That . . . [More]

Jimmy Carter: The Great Deregulator?

“There has been a certain tendency to regard technological advance as a chancy phenomenon, a bit of luck that is sure to run out sooner or later (with the ever-present implication that it will be sooner),” explained Harold J. Barnett and Chandler Morse. [6] But data suggested otherwise. “Every cost-reducing innovation opens up possibilities of application in so many new directions that the stock of knowledge, far from being depleted by new developments, may even expand geometrically.” [7]Re Posted From: Jimmy Carter: The Great Deregulat . . . [More]

Jimmy Carter: The Great Deregulator?

“There has been a certain tendency to regard technological advance as a chancy phenomenon, a bit of luck that is sure to run out sooner or later (with the ever-present implication that it will be sooner),” explained Harold J. Barnett and Chandler Morse. [6] But data suggested otherwise. “Every cost-reducing innovation opens up possibilities of application in so many new directions that the stock of knowledge, far from being depleted by new developments, may even expand geometrically.” [7]Re Posted From: Jimmy Carter: The Great Deregulat . . . [More]

Three Strikes and You’re Out! New York Swings And Misses Again with Climate Litigation

So, to summarize: it turns out that the “deceivers” were never the energy companies to begin with. Rather, New York City attempted to deceive the legal system by taking information out of context in order to name and shame American energy companies. While unfortunate, this activity isn’t surprising considering the City’s law firm, Sher Edling, is currently under Congressional investigation for its dark money financing and questionable ties to activist-academics.Re Posted From: Three Strikes and You’re Out! New York Swings And Misses A . . . [More]

Three Strikes and You’re Out! New York Swings And Misses Again with Climate Litigation

So, to summarize: it turns out that the “deceivers” were never the energy companies to begin with. Rather, New York City attempted to deceive the legal system by taking information out of context in order to name and shame American energy companies. While unfortunate, this activity isn’t surprising considering the City’s law firm, Sher Edling, is currently under Congressional investigation for its dark money financing and questionable ties to activist-academics.Re Posted From: Three Strikes and You’re Out! New York Swings And Misses A . . . [More]

Cloud Reduction Global Warming, CRGW 101.  A Competitive Theory to CO2 Related Global Warming

With new data and input from readers, CRGW theory has been evolving over the 7 essays already published in WUWT.  This essay suggests that cascading natural steps in CRGW theory are real and significant contributor to global warming.  The psychrometric equations governing atmospheric properties are proven science.  The correlation of VPD to cloud cover and enthalpy should exist and should improve with time.  The magnitudes of the VPD to clouds and atmospheric enthalpy relationships has uncertainty, but the negative slope of VPD vs Clouds an . . . [More]

Cloud Reduction Global Warming, CRGW 101.  A Competitive Theory to CO2 Related Global Warming

With new data and input from readers, CRGW theory has been evolving over the 7 essays already published in WUWT.  This essay suggests that cascading natural steps in CRGW theory are real and significant contributor to global warming.  The psychrometric equations governing atmospheric properties are proven science.  The correlation of VPD to cloud cover and enthalpy should exist and should improve with time.  The magnitudes of the VPD to clouds and atmospheric enthalpy relationships has uncertainty, but the negative slope of VPD vs Clouds an . . . [More]

A Unified Team for HHS Reform

This collective effort marks more than a policy shift—it is a cultural transformation. By prioritizing transparency, accountability, and public health, the incoming administration aims to restore trust in HHS and its agencies. While the challenges ahead are significant, the commitment of these leaders offers hope for a healthier, more equitable future for all Americans.Re Posted From: A Unified Team for HHS ReformWatts Up With That . . . [More]

A Unified Team for HHS Reform

This collective effort marks more than a policy shift—it is a cultural transformation. By prioritizing transparency, accountability, and public health, the incoming administration aims to restore trust in HHS and its agencies. While the challenges ahead are significant, the commitment of these leaders offers hope for a healthier, more equitable future for all Americans.Re Posted From: A Unified Team for HHS ReformWatts Up With That . . . [More]

Forbes and Frist Are Wrong About Climate Change Harming Human Well-Being

Frist and Forbes are perpetuating the baseless claims that weather has become more unpredictable and extreme when long-term data demonstrates that it has not, and that climate change presents an existential threat to human life and health, when it does not. They are misinforming their readers in order to spur environmental action, but instead are generating hopelessness and fear. This is shameful behavior.Re Posted From: Forbes and Frist Are Wrong About Climate Change Harming Human Well-BeingWatts Up With That . . . [More]

Forbes and Frist Are Wrong About Climate Change Harming Human Well-Being

Frist and Forbes are perpetuating the baseless claims that weather has become more unpredictable and extreme when long-term data demonstrates that it has not, and that climate change presents an existential threat to human life and health, when it does not. They are misinforming their readers in order to spur environmental action, but instead are generating hopelessness and fear. This is shameful behavior.Re Posted From: Forbes and Frist Are Wrong About Climate Change Harming Human Well-BeingWatts Up With That . . . [More]

Why the LA Wildfires Have Little to Do With Drought or Climate Change

Very strong video and photographic evidence indicated the Los Angeles Eaton fire, which resulted in the most deaths was due to a faulty power line.  Clearly, this transmission line was not de-energized even with the forecast of severe Santa Ana winds.Re Posted From: Why the LA Wildfires Have Little to Do With Drought or Climate ChangeWatts Up With That . . . [More]

Why the LA Wildfires Have Little to Do With Drought or Climate Change

Very strong video and photographic evidence indicated the Los Angeles Eaton fire, which resulted in the most deaths was due to a faulty power line.  Clearly, this transmission line was not de-energized even with the forecast of severe Santa Ana winds.Re Posted From: Why the LA Wildfires Have Little to Do With Drought or Climate ChangeWatts Up With That . . . [More]

A DEI Green New Deal Hydrogen Bomb

In a better world the state could be put into receivership and its assets properly managed, absent that, many agencies and offices in the state are ripe for a thorough accounting and housecleaning.Re Posted From: A DEI Green New Deal Hydrogen BombWatts Up With That . . . [More]

A DEI Green New Deal Hydrogen Bomb

In a better world the state could be put into receivership and its assets properly managed, absent that, many agencies and offices in the state are ripe for a thorough accounting and housecleaning.Re Posted From: A DEI Green New Deal Hydrogen BombWatts Up With That . . . [More]

7000-Year-Old Trees Uncovered High Up In The Rockies

The paper incorrectly claims that recent warming is a new phenomenon, but provides no data to back this up. However many tree line studies have conclusively shown that tree lines in the Rockies were much higher than now as recently as the Middle Ages.Re Posted From: 7000-Year-Old Trees Uncovered High Up In The RockiesWatts Up With That . . . [More]

7000-Year-Old Trees Uncovered High Up In The Rockies

The paper incorrectly claims that recent warming is a new phenomenon, but provides no data to back this up. However many tree line studies have conclusively shown that tree lines in the Rockies were much higher than now as recently as the Middle Ages.Re Posted From: 7000-Year-Old Trees Uncovered High Up In The RockiesWatts Up With That . . . [More]

Biden Uses Last-Minute AI Executive Order To Force More Green Energy Onto The Grid

The executive order is another eleventh-hour move in what appears to be an effort to stymy President-elect Donald Trump’s energy agenda, which is expected to include a vast expansion of oil and gas drilling on federal lands and waters. Biden announced a ban Monday for future offshore oil and gas activity across 625 million acres of the outer continental shelf, citing a law that could prevent a successive administration from easily reversing the policy.Re Posted From: Biden Uses Last-Minute AI Executive Order To Force More Green Energy Onto . . . [More]

Biden Uses Last-Minute AI Executive Order To Force More Green Energy Onto The Grid

The executive order is another eleventh-hour move in what appears to be an effort to stymy President-elect Donald Trump’s energy agenda, which is expected to include a vast expansion of oil and gas drilling on federal lands and waters. Biden announced a ban Monday for future offshore oil and gas activity across 625 million acres of the outer continental shelf, citing a law that could prevent a successive administration from easily reversing the policy.Re Posted From: Biden Uses Last-Minute AI Executive Order To Force More Green Energy Onto . . . [More]