Climate & Energy – Page 53

Batteries cannot make renewables reliable

It would cost an estimated $3.6 BILLION worth of batteries to back up a 100MW (smallish) wind farm so that it could supply a single day’s worth of power.

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Oh no… Lindsey Graham backslides into climate bedwetting

Kavanaugh-confirmation hero Sen Lindsey Graham wants to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by introducing a GOP climate plan, backsliding into John McCain-ism. He must not have read my Wall Street Journal op-ed.

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The New York Times (Henry) Fountain of glacier disinformation

Last week, we busted New York Times climate Henry Fountain on the Mt. Rainier glacier. Today, Fountain weeps for Switzerland’s Trift glacier.

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Is global warming sinking Waikiki… or is Waikiki just sinking?

Inquiring minds want to know.

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Wind/solar mandates are a costly fail, reports UChicago study

Even minimal increases (1-4%) in wind/solar raise electricity prices 11-17%. Reducing CO2 emissions costs $130 to $460 per ton. Disaster. Don’t believe us. Believe the climate bedwetters at the University of Chicago.

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NYTimes busts itself… Mount Rainier glacier melting not due to CO2

This is today’s New York Times front page. The NYT blames the retreat of the Mount Rainier glacier (about a mile over the past 100 years) on carbon dioxide. But…

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Despite climate arm-waving, World Bank finances burning more coal, oil and gas

More inconvenient truth reported by the German NGO Urgewald: “The World Bank’s active energy project finance significantly favors fossil fuels over renewable energy — $21 billion to $7 billion”… about 25% of which is coal. Emissions are never going down.