Weekly clippings #10 - Antarctica, solar activity, executive compensation, net zero causing poverty

Likely the saddest of this week’s articles is the one explaining how The Western world’s net zero policies are condemning hundreds of millions of Africans to a lifetime of poverty. While ESG advocates try to position it as ethical, when we can clearly see how its ideas perpetuate the poverty and suffering of billions of people, we need to check our premises. Three billion people have access to less energy than one of our refrigerators. These people need far more energy and it must be reliable, affordable, scalable, and flexible. This is why every country trying to emerge from energy poverty turns to the same energy source: fossil fuels. The rest of the articles are all very interesting but this one really “hits in the feels.”

Limited Impact of Thwaites Ice Shelf on Future Ice Loss From Antarctica Melting of the so-called Doomsday Glacier won’t cause the upstream glacier to move anywhere and would at most raise sea levels by a few millimeters.

 

Solar Activity: Solar Cycle 25 Surpasses Cycle 24  This analysis shows that a large solar forcing is needed to explain both the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age. As a result, the IPCC hypothesis of low climate sensitivity to solar activity is shown to be incorrect.

 

The myth of an overheated planet 

1. Cold-related deaths > heat-related deaths

2. Earth is warming slowly, and less in warm places

3. Fossil fuels make us safer from dangerous temps

4. Anti-fossil-fuel policies increase danger from cold and heat

 

The ultimate debunking of “solar and wind are cheaper than fossil fuels.” Solar and wind are only cheaper than fossil fuels in at most a small fraction of situations. For the overwhelming majority of the world’s energy needs, solar and wind are either completely unable to replace fossil fuels or far more expensive.

Tying executive compensation to ESG metrics is pointless and ridiculous

Countering the world's rigged conversation about energy and climate To help you counter the rigged nature of this conversation, I will identify 12 distortions that rig our global energy and climate conversation to reach the deadly conclusion that we should rapidly eliminate fossil fuel use to prevent climate catastrophe.

The Western world’s net zero policies are condemning hundreds of millions of Africans to a lifetime of poverty  Western governments and organizations are now denying the region the chance to exploit their hydrocarbon resources and condemning hundreds of millions of people to extreme poverty. Oil and gas have been the bedrock of global development for hundreds of years. Why shouldn’t Africa be allowed to benefit in the same way?

 

Climate Politics in One Lesson Ride a bike for 100 meters and save the planet. Or not.