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Last Wednesday the wind died, and Britain’s fleet of thousands of wind turbines mostly stopped turning.
The engineers at National Grid had seen the problem coming: temperatures and wind speeds had been low all week and were forecast to fall further.
Their response was to issue a ‘margin notice’ – a warning to generators that extra capacity was going to be needed....
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A French court started examining on Thursday what environmental and other organizations are billing as “the case of the century,” accusing the country’s authorities of failing to act against climate change.
It stems from a legal complaint filed by Greenpeace France, Oxfam France, the Nicolas Hulot Foundation, and Notre Affaire à Tous (”Our Shared Responsibility”) in March 2019.
The non-governmental organizations said...
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A little over two decades ago, Dr. Irving Janis, professor of psychology at Yale University, published Groupthink in which he explained how a group of like-minded people could share a common belief or goal whilst completely ignoring any evidence that challenged that belief.
Janis provided the tragic example of the Challenger spacecraft disaster that occurred on January 28, 1986, when a...
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is becoming ‘more and more obsessed’ with COP26 (the United Nations climate conference which Britain is hosting later this year).
‘The green agenda is not just a load of green nonsense,’ he claims. ‘If you do it right, it’s the opportunity to create hundreds of thousands of jobs.’
Possibly this is good news for Johnson,...
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Cancel all the claims by climate activists that global warming is decimating Antarctica.
A peer-reviewed study recently published in one of the most prominent science journals destroys one of the most frequently asserted claims by climate activists – that climate change is warming Antarctica and melting the Antarctic ice sheet.
This recent study confirms Antarctica has not warmed in the past 70...
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The election of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and their ultra-progressive cabinet will hasten the death of the internal combustion engine in the United States, despite the nearly even party split in the House and Senate.
They will just take their narrow victory as a license to implement all manner of decisions in the name of saving the planet. Or so we’re...