“The ‘clean power for 2030’ pledge is vanishing before our eyes” – The goal of 95% clean electricity by the end of the decade has given way to a ‘we’ll-get-there-in-the-end’ sort of approach, says the Times.
“Many happy returns: the Stern Review turns 20 and weather losses come in $2.8 trillion under its forecast” – Weather losses came in at 0.18% of world GDP in 2025 against the Stern Review’s projected 0.41%, leaving them $2.8 trillion short over 20 years, writes Charles Rotter in Watts Up With That.
“America closes refineries while the rest of the world races to build them” – California’s policies did not reduce the state’s demand for refined products but simply moved the source of those products across the Pacific and into the path of a crisis on the other side of the world, say Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka in Watts Up With That.
“Germany’s green energy transition becoming increasingly expensive… another six trillion euros!” – In the No Tricks Zone, Professor Fritz Vahrenholt says that Germany’s green energy transition is becoming increasingly expensive, with another six trillion euros down the drain.
“Brussels wants Europe ready for four degrees of warming” – The EU executive has declared that Europe must prepare for a rapidly warming continent, with Brussels now planning for four degrees of warming, says Paul Homewood in Not a Lot of People Know That.
From the Climate Skeptic today:
“Madame Otto and Her Computer Crystal Balls” – Fresh from a summer in Mystic Meg’s fairground tent, Imperial’s Friederike Otto has returned with her computer crystal balls to bring news that climate change killed exactly 32,619 people this summer, says Chris Morrison.