Examining ESG

  Welcome to another weekly collection of Examining ESG. This week features: SCIENCE • Extreme Weather and Climate Change • Saving Climate From the Greens INVESTMENT/ECONOMICS • The Earth and Civilization Have Been Saved By Fossil Fuels • A Wealth-Creating Way of Reducing Global CO2 Emissions • New Study Identifies Big Reductions In US Natural Gas Emissions • New York Shows Off Its Expertise In Central Planning: The Buffalo Billion • Why you shouldn’t be alarmed about unusually warm temperatures • Ronald Stein: Environmentalists’ silence on humanity and environmental atrocities • Trillions in taxpayer subsidies haven’t made wind and solar power cheaper or better for Americans • Abolish DEI Statements - Assessing a debate about a controversial hiring practice • Sustainable investments lagging interest: Mackenzie Investments survey ABSURDITIES • Melting ice both speeds up and slows down time • 'Net-Zero' a Problem? Just Change the Name! SCIENCE Extreme W...

Welcome to another weekly collection of Examining ESG. This week features: Science 425 million years of temperature vs CO2 Island shorelines are growing due to human influence Investment/Economics Net-zero isn’t happening and is a threat to human well-being Three Non-Economic Challenges Facing the Renewable-Energy Transition A history of failed peak oil predictions How Alberta’s embracing of intermittent generating sources is causing grid weakness The President of Guyana defends humanity against carbon colonialism Canadian banks caught in ESG backlash Absurdities Al Gore’s failed Kilimanjaro snow prediction Bill Gates says 'electricity unfortunately has to be reliable' Al Gore’s failed Maldives prediction SCIENCE The Relationship between Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration and Global Temperature for the Last 425 Million Years  "Atmospheric CO2 concentration is correlated w...

Once again we bring you a collection of news that does not bode well for ESG/DEI etc. The second science piece is especially important. Science • Unusual cold at both poles • Challenging net zero with science Investment/Economics • What should government do about carbon capture? • Blackrock energy pragmatism and legal warning • CSA guidance on ESG-related fund disclosure • The backlash is real: behind DEI’s rise and fall • America’s Top Public Companies De-Emphasize the ‘E’ in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Communications • Canadian fossil fuel subsidies hit $18.6 billion in 2023, says report • Bad News for Tesla Highlights the Looming Bloodbath for the US Auto Industry Absurdities • Industrial wind turbines are destroying rural wells! • Real COP 28 Learning Session: 'Responsible Yachting, Today and Tomorrow' SCIENCE Unusual Cold Plagues Both Northern, Southern Hemispheres….Arctic Sea Ice Strengthens  "The Australian continent saw tempera...

Ho hum, another week and another litany of ESG errors revealed. It's not hard to find folks, but when will regulators and policymakers awake to this reality? Likely not until the general culture has turned against them - and the tide is turning.  In science this week: • Another powerful study shows that temperature causes CO2 and the human influence on CO2 is not discernable. • Climate change may cost 1% to 2% in a century, but net-zero policies will cost 700% more. • Clarity on the Lytton BC heat dome of 2021. • Fraud in sea level rise measurement alteration. • Canadian arctic ice reporting bias. In Economics/Investment: • Businesses worry about ESG fraud. • Blackrock faces pressure about ESG. • Canadian banks say sustainable finance pledges may not curtail emissions growth • Noticing that the energy transition is not happening • Energy companies start to find their voice at last. • Bonuses padded by cryptic ESG claims draw scrutiny. • ESG has spawned a bul...

  A whole lot of science this week: Temperature and CO2: cause and effect The IPCC’s new hockey stick Holocene temperature variations Iceland’s ice not melting Greenland near lowest temp of last 10,000 years The end of el-Nino brings cold for the coming years No trend in Rainfall   Also a bunch of Investment/Economic articles: The regulatory climate disclosure fraud Flawed ESG statistics Canadian fund disclosures required, but complete lack of due diligence by regulators ESG series in Invesmtent Executive, again no due diligence Exxon on the offensive Banks shoot themselves in the foot by adopting ESG Nearly useless battery energy storage Diversity hiring is racist   And then Absurdities: Chopping down 120,000 to place industrial wind turbines to save the environment A true ban on fossil fuels would quickly force a reality check. Will any...