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New record high price for electricity

French President Emmanuel Macron told one of the nation’s leading newspapers that he no longer considers the unvaccinated to be French citizens, and that his primary COVID-19 strategy is to continue to “piss them off” until they submit to his COVID-19 mandates, i.e., coerce them, break their will.

 Macron No Longer Views Unvaxxed as French, Vows to 'Piss Them Off' and 'Reduce'…

I am not surprised at the lack of public trust in Washington, DC, and elsewhere. The games of smoke and mirrors played in Washington are off-the-charts outrageous.

Never, ever, has there been such a level of deceit, as Democrats have inflicted on the US People, since January 2021, using a controversial election in 2020 (see Appendix), to obtain government power, to relentlessly implement:

- An increased size and intrusiveness of the federal government

-…

Greek green follies fail…a U-turn back to coal

This article is By P Gosselin on 8. December 2021

Greece Puts Coal Power Plants Shut Down in 2019 Back Into Operation…To Avert Winter Blackouts!

Until recently, Greece was one of the largest operators of…

Texas Tribune: Not enough done to prevent another winter blackout

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

According to the Texas Tribune, the state government has not done enough to secure the supply of gas against another winter deep freeze.…

Deep freeze in Arctic Europe sends power prices soaring

By Paul Homewood

It’s so cold, even Norwegians refuse to ski

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/12/01/deep-freeze-in-arctic-europe-sends-power-prices-soaring/

On the Finnmark plateau, between Kautokeino and Karasjok, temperatures dropped down to -35°C on Sunday. The forecast for the coming week…

The Transportation Climate Initiative is DEAD AND BURIED

The TCI was proposed about 2 years ago. The word “climate” was inserted for political correctness.

There is no way, any and all measures, by all of the US northeast, could ever affect the world climate, while China, India, and others, are allowed to continue burning at least 8 BILLION metric ton of coal each year, with NO time limit, as agreed to by Glasgow COP26…

At a time when President Biden and congressional Democrats are pushing to expand the breadth of entitlements to include free preschool and subsidized child care, little attention is given to the fact that the country’s biggest existing entitlement program—Social Security—is a financial wreck.

Authored by Brian McGlinchey via Stark Realities,…

Here is what has happened in recent days in some of the bluest of blue US jurisdictions.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/11/21/when-the-costs-hit-home-nobody-will-give-up-fossil-fuels/

In 2010, some twelve US northeast states, plus the District of Columbia, agreed to form something called the “Transportation and Climate…

New England experienced an unusual cold spell from December 24, 2017 – January 8, 2018

The image was created by the New England electric system operator, ISO-NE.

Fuel Shifts During the Cold Period

Fuel oil consumption increased,…

Everything In The $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill: New Roads, Electric School Buses And More

Jonathan Ponciano

President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law one of the largest infrastructure packages in U.S. history after months of bipartisan negotiations and tense political infighting, shoring up $1.2 trillion in funds, including $550 billion in new investments for the nation’s bridges, airports, waterways, public transit and more…

We all agree there has been global warming. The issue is how much.

The global warming is NOT uniform over the entire surface of the earth; some areas have warmed more than others

The ACCURATE satellite data regarding global warming, from 1979 onwards, is the ONLY OBJECTIVE UNALTERED  data.

All the rest, from 1850 and onward, is subjective malarkey, based on dubious temperature date and interpolated estimates, made up by various “climate experts”,…