A lot, it turns out. The Biden Administration, bending the knee to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, has paused approval of new LNG export facilities. (In terms of influence on the President, this “wing” is looking more like the breasts, the thighs and drumsticks, the other wing, and the piece that went
Climate Change
What Happened at COP28?
About the same as what happened at COP27.
The 70,000+ fabulists, opportunists, and assorted acolytes comprising the congregation of the Church of Our Holy Mother of the Suffering Planet celebrated another high mass in, of all places, Dubai UAE (producer of 4 million barrels of oil per day).The worshipers heard righteous condemnation of the sin…
Pushback Against Climate Hysteria
A quiz: What do Big Oil and Galileo, and maybe you, have in common? Answer is below.
Here is news and opinions about climate change that counters climate-alarm truthiness emanating from some quarters. These facts and opinions are being said by those who know what they are talking about. Decide for yourself if you accept…
CLIMATE LITIGATION UPDATE
You might recall our posts on litigation by states, counties, and cities blaming a host of calamities, real and imagined, past and future, on Big Oil. The producers tried their best to remove the cases to federal court. In a two-sentence ruling, the United States Supreme Court refused to consider defendants’ Hail-Mary to have the…
COP27 … More of the Same
We’ll end the year end with a look at “COP27”, the all-expense-paid shindig that was the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, featuring exaggerations, hysteria, and outright misstatements burning with greater intensity and frequency than their beloved climate itself.
Before you decide who to trust, remember who says they “own the…
More Climate News You Don’t Often Hear
Its time again to report on climate-related news from a perspective other than the alarmists. I’ll leave it to those who know more than I.
First, have you wondered why all the news from your Google search seems to spell climate D-O-O-M? Maybe its because the UN has teamed up with the search engine to…
Climate Change Lawsuits Plague Oil and Gas Producers
A special thanks to Derek Younkers, a soon-to-be 1L at Baylor Law School, who gathered the material for this post.
Those with even a passing acquaintance with the Old Testament know that when the Good Book talks pestilence and destruction, its go-to is a horde of locusts. And so it is with the plethora of…
California Climate Change Suit Returns to State Court
Co-author Brittany Blakey
In City of San Mateo, et al v. Chevron Corporation, et al, six California jurisdictions sued 13 energy company defendants for global warming-related claims.
The question in this round was whether the federal district court was wrong in remanding the suit to state court after it had been removed to federal…
Are There Other Ways to Look at the IPCC 6th Assessment?
I prepared this post before Ida. It might now be perceived as cynical, or unsympathetic to the plight of those affected in South Louisiana and the Northeast. Is the intensity of hurricanes exacerbated by global warming? Some say it is; some say it isn’t. Regardless, what to know and do about climate change…
Is There a Problem With Nuclear Energy?
From the “Not-my-circus-not-my-monkeys” department, after the 10th anniversary of the Fukishima disaster last March my curiosity ventured into the nuclear energy debate. See these observations from those who actually know something about the issue (read the articles themselves for the full story). Opinions vary widely:
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