- The IEA seems to be all-in on peak oil to the cheers of the usual suspects. Even if “Has the demand for fossil fuels already peaked? A new report suggests that may be the case” isn’t a full-throated declaration of certainty.
- Meanwhile nuclear energy really seems to be the power source of the past with a future. And as sanity slowly gains on frenzy on the climate file, we find more and more enthusiasm for it among alarmists. Heatmap notes “Microsoft and Constellation restarting Three Mile Island” and Google aiming to purchase electricity from Kairos’s “small modular reactors”. But they say the big news is Amazon putting money into X-energy, another small modular reactor firm, not just to buy power but to fund the actual plant. We’d call it a glowing account if we weren’t worried about reviving dormant fears.
- The New York Times can’t get enough of deplorables moving to places with nicer climates that are secretly awful and only journalists know. Hence “The country’s vast population shift has left more people exposed to the risk of natural hazards and dangerous heat at a time when climate change is amplifying many weather extremes.” For instance “Florida, which regularly gets raked by Atlantic hurricanes, gained millions of new residents between 2000 and 2023.” That Florida has always been “raked” by hurricanes, with no sign that they’re getting more common or more dangerous, would strike some people as relevant to the story. But not others.
- Scientific American just can’t help themselves. Almost every newsletter they send out has something on climate change, an obsession they extend to no other area of science. And when for instance (on October 16) they tout “A fascinating six-part series on how Indigenous communities are confronting climate change” we’re extremely dubious that it’s fascinating or even remotely interesting, let alone that it’s science.
- The German government seems unable to help itself either. As we’ve mentioned, the Energiewende has pivoted the economy right into a brick wall. And now The Economist reports that “Germany’s economy goes from bad to worse”. They blame “Soaring energy prices [that] followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine” rather than, say, a catastrophic bet on hugely expensive and unreliable alternative energy. But more and more people know it and the more the bien-pensant insist on ignoring it, the more obvious it will become. And having unions go on strike because car firms (in this case Volkswagen) are cutting jobs after their failed bet on EVs just underlines that as Thomas Sowell warned years ago, reality can be tricky.
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23 Oct 2024 | News Roundup
Captain Obvious here,but if millions of people have moved to Florida since 2000,then millions more people are at risk of property damage,injury,death when hurricanes DO strike.Which they do and always will.Less in some years,more in others.WTF does NYT expect???Oh,never mind!