Blackouts Ahead, Opportunities Knock
Keeping the lights on while pimping Australia’s bedraggled renewable-energy transformation is the job of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO). Conflicting objectives? Only if reality gets a...
View ArticleDisinformation on the Rocks
John Robson of the Climate Discussion Nexus has a great video looking at the Left's obsession with shrinking sea ice around the globe, despite the fact that sea ice is currently at its highest level in...
View ArticleThe EV 'Transition': Failure by Design
It is baffling that so many people insist on interpreting the various environmentalist moves by the Biden administration and the climate cultists in its orbit as "mistakes" or "blunders" when they are...
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When 'Science' Sells Out
Science has been heading in two incompatible, completely opposite directions for the last couple of decades and the trend, if anything, is only gaining speed. At one end there are some dedicated...
View ArticleHere Come the Ronnabytes
To grasp the realities of the use of and demand for electricity, and so how and where and with what to generate it, it is counterproductive to use any metric that does not include the growth of...
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Contradictory or Just Plain Oxymoronic?
Enervating energy. That’s a nice turn of phrase of mine. Or is it? Who knows, someone might have coined it before me. In any event, it has the éclat of an oxymoron rather than the banality of a...
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Paying the (Fiduciary) Pipers
For years The Pipeline has been warning about that the policy of pension fiduciaries hopping aboard the ESG (environmental, social and governance) bandwagon. We argued it would subject them to...
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'Record' Temperatures: a Statistical Certainty
Summertime is here again, and over the next several months there will be sweltering heatwaves in various locations around the globe. Where there are “near record” temperatures, we’ll learn from...
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Are 'Immigration' and 'Climate' Above the Law?
The foundational principle of America’s government is that it is one of limited powers. These powers are found in Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution, One looks in vain for authority to control...
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Energy: the Heart of All Living Systems
Opening my national newspaper the other day, I came across a full-page advertisement by Standard Chartered Bank. Headed: “Accelerating Australia’s net zero journey: the Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub.”...
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THE COLUMN: In Europe, a Cheer Moment
Back in the days when real writers instead of gay teenage-girl ideologues wrote motion-picture scripts, and were concerned not only with plot but theme and character development and the three-act form...
View ArticleBiden's Mendacious Electrification Agenda
Last fall the Biden campaign issued a terse statement proclaiming that “There is no ‘EV mandate',” in response to Donald Trump's well-received speech to auto-workers arguing that the administration's...
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Hochul Cancels Congestion Pricing for Manhattan
For a politician, fear of voter reaction to a bad policy is a healthy impulse. So it’s a nice surprise that New York’s governor Kathy Hochul, who is pretty far left on most things, decided at the last...
View ArticleCut Emissions, Increase 'Warming'?
So many factors, some of which are hardly yet known, affect the rise and fall of planetary temperatures that it is certainly possible that tinkering on one end has the opposite of the intended effect....
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On 'Climate,' Compromise Won't Cut It
Australia’s opposition Liberal Party led by Peter Dutton is going all in for nuclear in the 2040s with gas bridging the gap. Versus the Labor government’s, wind, solar, pumped-hydro and batteries, he...
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Hunga Tonga, Hot or Cold?
One of our go-to expressions here at The Pipeline is, "Climate changes. Always has, always will." It's an important fact that helps bridge the climatological realities of the pre-historic world through...
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Wanted: A Return to Common Sense
About two weeks ago President Biden’s Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm made an announcement that did not receive much notice given the enormous underlying concession and major potential policy...
View ArticleTHE COLUMN: Battle Stations, Everyone
Via its institutional mouthpiece, the New York Times, the American and international far Left has laid out its battle plan for the 2024 presidential election and beyond: "The Resistance to a New Trump...
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