Links - 23rd May 2026 (1 - Climate Change)

Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 on X - "On April 1st our Government is still going ahead with increasing the Industrial Carbon tax from $95 per tonne to $110 per tonne. We are in a cost of living crisis, yet these scum don’t care that it will make much of our life more expensive. These are the industries affects:
Oil and gas
Mining
Electricity generation (utilities)
Pulp and paper
Chemicals & petrochemicals
Fertilizer (nitrogen) production
Cement and lime
Iron and steel
Base metal smelting and refining
Potash and mineral processing
Food processing
Other Industries that are affected indirectly by the industrial carbon tax include:
Retail and services
Restaurants and food services
Construction
Agriculture (especially fuel-intensive operations)
Our Government tells us it makes them more competitive. This is because Carney and his friends created this system to make themselves wealthier than they you can imagine."

Al Gore on X - "Twenty years ago, after the release of “An Inconvenient Truth,” I invited 50 people to gather on my family farm outside Nashville, Tennessee. We came together, empowered by science and concerned about the dangers posed by the climate crisis. We believed then, as I do now, that informed and determined citizens can help drive the transformative solutions our planet urgently needs.  That gathering was the catalyst for The Climate Reality Project.  Over the past two decades, I have watched with deep gratitude as thousands of Climate Reality Leaders stepped forward to become champions for science-based solutions, inspiring others and driving climate action around the world.  Now, 20 years later, we’re returning to Nashville, Tennessee.  On May 1–2, I invite you to join me and Climate Reality as we celebrate this milestone and recommit ourselves to the necessary work ahead. And as part of this anniversary year, we’ll also gather and train leaders in Chile and Singapore to continue building momentum worldwide.  The climate crisis demands courage and commitment. Join us in Nashville and help shape the next chapter of climate leadership.  Register here: https://bit.ly/nashville2026"
Chris Martz on X - "20 years ago in your film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” you predicted that:
- The Arctic Ocean would be “ice-free” by 2013. That didn't happen.
- There'd be no more snow on Mount Kilimanjaro by 2016. That didn't happen.
- Polar bears would be dying out. That's not happening; in fact, most populations are relatively stable.
- Lake Chad would dry up due to global warming. It is drying, but decreasing water levels are mostly due to growing population and increased drawdown.
- The melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets would cause sea levels to rise by 20 feet in the “near future.” That didn't happen, it definitely won't happen anytime soon, and is pure exaggeration.
I could go on and on. . . The only thing you got right was that it has continued to get [marginally] warmer since your movie came out, and that the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) level has risen to over 400 parts per million (ppm). Almost everything else is pure exaggeration, if not an outright lie."

Maurice Cousins on X - "Listen to Sir Alex Younger, the former head of MI6. He is one of the most astute establishment figures we have right now when it comes to grand strategy. His warning that America’s defence shield has “infantilised” Britain and Europe needs to be taken really seriously.  Creation of hard power is absolutely central to grand strategy. But decades of security dependence have trained European leaders to treat it as someone else’s job.  Politicians like Starmer, Miliband and Ed Davey do not seem to grasp that hard power has to be built, funded, and maintained. It is fundamentally incompatible with many of their cherished agendas.  The same criticism applies to every single Conservative leader since Thatcher. They talked a good game about defence, but too often governed as if the strategic environment would remain benign forever. This was unforgivable post-2014.  To be fair to Kemi Badenoch, she seems to understand this better than her predecessors. And Nigel Farage, whatever people think of him, has a much sharper instinct for the reality that power ultimately rests on productive force.   For me, the clearest example of Westminster’s complacency and recklessness is Net Zero, renewables, the war on domestic fossil fuels and the steady march of deindustrialisation. We have treated our industrial base as expendable, as if our national prosperity and security can survive without cheap, reliable energy and carbon-intensive industry.  I am hoping Trump’s behaviour over Greenland finally forces a fundamental rethink of the national security assumptions that have dominated British politics, the media, and boardrooms for far too long.  This complacency has to stop, and quickly. We need late 1930s levels of urgency, determination and seriousness."
Sinan Ulgen on X - "The claim that industry cannot survive and therefore hard power cannot be maintained without carbon heavy energy is an angle that links security and defense to green transition and in a negative way. The inevitable conclusion is that return of geopolitics dooms climate efforts."
Sinan Hanioglu on X - "An astute observation. However, I would contend that rather than doom, the “return of history” is simply forcing Europe to rediscover some modicum of realism in energy policy. Chancellor Merz’s recent admission on the mistake of gutting Germany’s nuclear plants is one example of this.   For the past decade Europe has prioritized low-carbon above all, at the willing expense of energy security and economic competitiveness. Credible security threats are finally forcing a painful reset to that approach."

Meme - Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX: "The same exact weather that occurred 48 years ago in February 1978 is apparently caused by climate change today. The ignorance and arrogance of climate alarmists never cease to amaze me. *metereological map* *winter scene*"
Climate Power @ClimatePower: "Climate change isn't just extreme heat and rising temperatures. It's this too. Yes, this is climate change, too. *winter scene*"

Meme - "CALIFORNIA SHATTERED THE MYTH THAT RENEWABLES AREN'T RELIABLE: STUDY FOUND THAT FOR 98 OF 116 DAYS, CA MET 100% OF ELECTRIC DEMAND FOR 10 HOURS USING ONLY RENEWABLES. CALIFORNIA NOT ONLY KEPT THE GRID STABLE BUT EVEN PRODUCED A SURPLUS OF ENERGY. SOLAR IS WINNING."
"And what did they use for the other 14 hours that day?"
"There could be no "surplus" until 100% of demand was met for 116 of 116 days and for 24 hours for each of those days."
"If you move the goalposts anyone can make a field goal"
At this stage, you have to wonder if renewables promoters are stupid, dishonest or both

Meme - Phil Labonte @philthatremains: "this isn't exclusive to climate hysteria. this can happen with every issue the left claims to care about. because "the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution""
"AOC''s Former climate activist Reflects on the moment she realised climate activism was bullshit"
She admits she got her identity from climate change, and to be a good person you couldn't question the narrative and had to atone for your sin
As Richard Dawkins observes, the retreat of Christianity has opened the way to worse. Politics becomes religion for many secular left wingers

Nina Schick on X - "The problem with Net Zero is that countries like the UK and Germany (both former nuclear leaders) traded energy sovereignty for dependency on China in an ideological race to go Green.  Assume you could go completely Green without nuclear? The entire hardware supply chain for green energy (solar panels, batteries, wind turbines) is Chinese-dominated.  China controls over 80% of every manufacturing stage in solar: polysilicon, wafers, cells, modules. In batteries, CATL and BYD together hold over 55% of the global EV battery market.   In wind, Chinese manufacturers took the top four global positions in 2024, the first time Western firms have ever been shut out of the top three.  And the raw material underpinning all of it? China refines over 80% of the world’s lithium, cobalt, and graphite.  Even on nuclear: as we see with Hinkley, the UK can’t build a reactor without Chinese money and expertise. And China is building nuclear faster than anyone. They have 33 reactors under construction right now.  The irony: while EU leaders lecture on saving the planet, China will go further and faster on clean energy than any European nation.   It has strategic reasons to diversify away from fossil fuels, and the industrial capacity to act on them.   In 2024 alone, China added 277 GW of solar to its grid, more than the entire cumulative installed capacity of the United States.   It has already built enough panel manufacturing capacity to meet global demand through 2032. A single province (Xinjiang) produces 40% of the world’s polysilicon.  The lesson is brutal. Decarbonise without owning your supply chain and you don’t become a clean energy leader. You become a vassal state.  This is much more than “go woke, go broke.” It’s a surrender of national sovereignty."

Nina Schick on X - "This proves my point exactly.  Norway has gone 98% green domestically, powered by hydroelectric (which is unique to its geography), while remaining one of the world's largest exporters of oil and gas.  Its fossil fuel exports have surged since the Ukraine war. Norway is already Europe's top gas supplier.   Over 75% of all gas imported into the UK comes from Norway. It supplies over 50% of all pipeline gas entering the EU. Germany, Europe's largest economy, relies on Norway for 45–48% of its national gas consumption.  In 2023, the Norwegian government approved 19 new oil and gas field developments worth over $18 billion, extending production for decades.   Petroleum still accounts for 40–50% of total Norwegian exports and supports around 200,000 jobs. Norway's exported fuels create ten times more CO₂ emissions abroad than the country produces at home.  Norway is held up as the green role model, but the full picture reveals it has made a coldly sovereign calculation: green at home, fossil fuel profits abroad, emissions exported out of sight.    These are the facts, whether or not they fit your worldview."

Possum Reviews on X - "Green Party pushes to ban nuclear power. Wind and solar fail to deliver on promises. Germany becomes dependent on Russian energy. Russia invades Ukraine, making it politically untenable. Germany tears up the countryside mining coal. Germany is now doing more environmental damage than they were before the Green Party banned nuclear power.  Germans still vote for them."

Oliver Groß on X - "Unreal numbers 👀⚡️ "JPMorgan estimates that, had Germany not phased out nuclear power, the country would have generated 50% less electricity from fossil fuels and 84% less electricity from natural gas in 2024. Electricity prices in Germany would have been around 25% lower, and the country would have imported half as much electricity..""

Chris Martz on X - "This is fun! Four years ago, The @Guardian reported that Spain and Portugal are becoming too dry because of [man-made] climate change. 🏜️ But, after the devastating floods in the fall of 2024, The Guardian changed their tune. They now say Spain is too wet thanks to climate change. 🌧️  The real-world data, however, tells a consistent story. A study published in Nature last March analyzed long-term rainfall data in the Mediterranean and found that no statistically significant trends exist in the region as a whole.
🗨️ “𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑀𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 1871 𝑡𝑜 2020, 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖-𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦… 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑡𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐 𝑑𝑦𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑐𝑠, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦.”  🔗 https://nature.com/articles/s4158 6-024-08576-6
Interestingly, in Spain, there has been little trend in rainfall since 1871. However, if the analysis starts in 1951, there is a significant decrease (p <0.05), while starting in 1981 yields a statistically significant increase (p <0.05).  This just goes to show that people (like the writers at The Guardian) can manipulate data to get a desired trend to suit a specific narrative."

Bruce Anderson on X - "83% of Global GDP is produced in places that have net zero targets. Pierre Poilievre thinks Canada should join the other 17%. My new column on what message Conservative leader took to Europe (where all 27 EU countries, plus the UK) have net zero goals."
MikesMoneyTalks.ca on X - "Forget Poilievre - this is text book progressive dogma - ie all talk - no action.  83% counts countries that have made declarations or long-term pledges, not countries that are actually reducing emissions at scale or enforcing binding policies.  When you look at binding, enforceable, near-term action, the share of global GDP covered drops to 20–30% at most (EU + a few others). While major companies/financial institutions like BlackRock, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, BP, Shell all scaled back or withdrew from Net Zero."

REACTION: Emissions cap not worth the job and economic losses, MEI says - "The federal oil and gas emissions cap will cost tens of thousands of well-paid jobs for very little environmental impact, points out an MEI researcher in response to the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s analysis published this morning.  “This analysis from the PBO confirms what we have long been saying at the MEI: that this emissions cap will prove costly for Canada’s workers and its economy,” says Gabriel Giguère, senior policy analyst at the MEI. “The emissions cap only makes our economy weaker at a time when it’s already under threat.”  Last November, the federal government published a set of regulations capping Canada’s oil and gas industry’s emissions at a level 35 per cent lower than in 2019, starting in 2026.  A newly released analysis from the PBO estimates such a policy would reduce our collective prosperity by $20.5 billion in 2032 and result in 40,300 fewer jobs than there would otherwise be.  The researcher notes that the jobs in the oil and gas sector are among the highest paid in the country. The average salary of workers in oil and gas extraction is $151,461, which is almost 2.4 times the average Canadian salary.  Given the global nature of the oil and gas industry, he also notes it is unlikely that Ottawa’s attempts to curtail production will lead to lower global emissions.   “Whatever this federal government believes, it is clear that there’s a significant and sustained market demand for energy products throughout the world,” explains Giguère. “Every time Ottawa tries to legislate to keep Canadian energy in the ground, other jurisdictions with lesser environmental standards pick-up the slack and simply sell more oil and gas.  “This policy is all economic pain and no environmental gain.”"
From 2025. When left wingers sabotage the economy, then blame everyone but themselves

Steve Guest on X - "UNHINGED: The LA Times just published a fundamentally anti-human essay that pushes communist ideas as the solution for climate change. The “climate anxiety” riddled author writes: “I find myself questioning whether I could ever justify bringing my own children into this world.”"
James Lindsay, anti-Communist on X - "Are you paying attention yet? "To fix climate anxiety (and also climate change), we first have to fix individualism." –LA Times To fix their mental illness about the climate, we have to let the mentally ill people control us. That's what that literally means."

Meme - Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet: "Eye-opening chart. The US, with its energy independence, will weather the current energy crisis. Europe, after decades of left-green self- destruction, will tumble into a crisis. Choices have consequences. Will Europeans get it now, or will they stick to their Net Zero?
Benchmark Europe vs US Gas Future
*Europe price as 6x US price*"

Meme - @BjornLomborg: "The difference in global temperature if Canada goes net-zero by 2050 or not. Unmeasurable even by 2100 (0.018 degrees C difference) Run in the UN's own climate model, MAGICC."
"TEMPERATURE IF CANADA GOES NET-ZERO IN 2050 OR NOT. Change in degrees Celsius. Likely path. Likely path, but Canada net-zero"

Meme - "Green Transition $14+ trillion. From 2004-2024, the world has squandered at least $14 trillion on green. That is 100+x what we spent on avoiding hunger through World Food Programme. Costs are rapidly increasing and underestimated - this counts only pure costs of renewables, electric cars, heat pumps, hydrogen, carbon capture, and power grids; ignoring considerable growth losses from higher energy costs."

Meme - Clare Hymer @ClareHymer: "Just Stop Oil co-founder Roger Hallam just got sentenced to five years in prison. His co-defendants got four. The crime? Appearing on a Zoom call."
Readers added context: "They were convicted due to blocking the M25 over 4 days, causing 51,000 hours of driver delays, two vehicles to collide, a police motorcyclist injury, missed exams and medical appointments, and an estimated cost of over £1,800,000. The zoom call was used as evidence."

National Trust net zero drive in doubt after profits plunge - "The National Trust’s net-zero drive has been thrown into doubt after its renewables profits fell by almost half.  The charity brought in solar panels on visitor centres and biomass boilers behind outbuildings at some of its 500 historical houses and on its 25,000 hectares of land to reduce its carbon footprint and generate income.  However, the latest accounts are reported to show that profits at National Trust Renewable Energy, the renewables arm of the trust, have fallen sharply... The charity has been criticised for “reinventing itself as a nature and climate charity” over its renewable energy arm.   Cornelia van der Poll, of Restore Trust, a forum for concerned National Trust members, claimed the charity was straying too far from its original mission and relying on income streams that are too risky.  She told the newspaper: “In recent years, the Trust has been reinventing itself as a nature and even climate charity. Our worry is that it’s neglecting pressing concerns of a more immediate kind. When you go around properties, you see a lot of damage and you see things that are not being fixed.”... The direction of the National Trust continues to spark division and debate. Some critics claim the charity’s increasing embracing of environmental and political campaigning falls outside of its original role of conserving historic places."

Storing Green Energy To Last Germany 10 Days Would Require A 60-Million Tonne Battery - "Energy expert Staffan Reveman presented a plausibility calculation for making Germany self-sufficient (without fossil fuel plants or imports). The results are sobering...   A simulation for the Traunstein district showed that self-sufficient supply via wind, solar, and batteries would increase wholesale electricity costs from 6 cents to 217 cents per kwh.  Moreover, a 240-hour battery (12,000 GWh) would require an area of approx. 600 square kilometers (roughly two-thirds the size of Berlin)."

Electroverse on X - "Germany currently has about 26 GWh of battery storage. Most of it sits in home batteries, with only 4.3 GWh actually serving the grid.   Building that storage has already cost more than €10 billion. And at national demand levels, it only covers roughly 30 minutes of summer electricity usage.  The winter months bring what's known as “Dunkelflaute” — cold, dark, windless periods (and higher energy usage).   To survive a 10-day winter lull (the minimum realistic requirement), Germany would need about 12,000 GWh of batteries — 470 times today's storage.  Such a system would weigh roughly 60 million tonnes, and would be made from vast quantities of lithium, nickel, graphite, copper, aluminum, and steel — all requiring intensive mining.  At current battery prices, the system would cost trillions of euros. And batteries last only 10 to 15 years, meaning the entire system would need constant replacement.   The conclusion is unavoidable:  Wind and solar require reliable backup power. Renewables need oil, coal, gas, and nuclear."

Climate change is actually making days last longer : NPR
The Earth is spinning faster than ever and it's making our days shorter : NPR - "Some scientists say it's climate change"
Climate change is so powerful and damaging that it's making days shorter and longer at the same time. If you disagree, you're an ignorant climate change denier and need to Trust the Experts!

Nature Communications Creates a Scientist Blacklist - "Below is a letter from the National Association of Scholars (NAS) to the editors of Nature Communications. The controversial article, written by Alexander Peterson, Emmanuel Vincent, and Anthony Westerling seeks to "juxtapose 386 prominent contrarians with 386 expert scientists by tracking their digital footprints." (Emphasis added). The authors hope that by listing these contrarians journalists and editors will instead choose expert scientists for stories on climate change. They essentially seek to deplatform and censor all 386 climate change contrarians."
Trust the Experts! Science is dispassionate and the correct views always end up amplified!

Labour is blaming wreckers for the energy crisis they created - "Sure, the war in the Gulf may have sent the price of oil and gas soaring. And yet, it is Britain’s own idiotic energy policies that have left us uniquely vulnerable. We have run down our domestic energy industry, while moving too slowly to build the solar, wind and nuclear alternatives that could replace it. And we went into the crisis with among the most expensive industrial energy in the world – twice the cost in France and four times the United States – leaving our factories at the mercy of the global markets.  There are so many practical, supply-side solutions to our current problem. True, none of those measures would deliver more, or cheaper, energy immediately. But they would have demonstrated that we had a government willing to do whatever it takes to keep the lights switched on, and the vans and trucks moving, even if it meant casting aside some ideological baggage. After all, in a real crunch it might be possible to get new or re-opened North Sea oil fields running within a few months, and, of course, in return for zero taxes, their operators could agree to sell all the production within the UK instead of exporting it. Likewise, nuclear plants could potentially be delivered in world record time: keep in mind that the technologies are all well-developed.  A solution that would genuinely ease consumer pain tomorrow would be to slash tax on fuel duties. Britain has some of the most over-levied energy in the world. Easing government-imposed costs on producers and consumers would at least stabilise the cost of energy – but it would also mean the Government losing out on lucrative tax revenue. Here again we can see Labour’s ideological blinkers. A tax cut can only be sustainably funded through a cut in spending, and Labour backbenchers have already made clear they’ll revolt over any plan to touch our bloated welfare bill. Instead, we will have to witness the shameful attack of an industry that already pays some of the highest taxes in the world, and that has been regulated to the point of extinction, to try and cover up a failed energy policy."