COP30 is the world’s biggest trade show
Follow the money.
Follow the money.
Most of the issues are about money, of course, although the call for increased 2030 emission reduction targets is also on the table.
New York State is between a rock and a green hard place.
The big thing missing is easy to see. This is the strident call for trillions of dollars in "financial flows" from developed to developing countries via various UN funds.
The IMO was supposed to pass the NZF at its October meeting, but the Trump warning had a clear effect, so that vote never happened. Now the fight really begins.
The world's largest offshore wind developer, backed by the government of Denmark, is on a deliberate collision course with the Trump administration.
An alert Massachusetts watchdog group has blown the whistle on the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for issuing potentially catastrophic guidance for building grid scale battery facilities.
Land-based wind turbines kill golden eagles, so every turbine requires an Eagle Protection Act permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to kill them.
You would think the National Academy of Sciences understands science, but you would be wrong.
In the key DOE report chapter I analyzed, nothing whatever was refuted, repudiated, or rebutted. There wasn't even any scientific disagreement!
NAS is a leading alarmist, so of course they disagree with the DOE climate assessment.
A hard question calls for an answer there and then.
They want to pave the prairies with solar panels, line the ridges with wind towers, then ship the juice to faraway cities.
"Research indicates pile-driving noise is approximately 3.2 times more harmful to whales than sonar surveys, dramatically increasing risks of permanent auditory injuries and fatalities."
Every on-land wind project requires a permit to kill eagles from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).