New York City Halloween Angel When even the New York Times  agrees that global warming will not be a global catastrophe, then the global warming scare is over.  It is probably too much to hope, but -- maybe -- the MSM will stop blaming every storm of every type on global warming.  Now, hopefully, we can address the genuine issues: The USA and the world need far  more electrical generating capability . It should be primarily from hydro (where possible) and nuclear (nearly everywhere). In the meantime, we should build natural gas as a temporary bridge. We should not  install another wind turbine onto the grid except in rare circumstances.  Update: Another climate scientist agrees . 

Having spoken to a number  of New Englanders about global warming -- one who refused to have lunch with me because I am not sufficiently dedicated to the global warming cause -- it doesn't surprise me that they are completely unwilling to be inconvenienced or pay a modest sum of money to abate their prized issue.  They think it is great that we are covering the Great Plains with highly ineffective wind turbines but they won't allow a power line to bring huge amounts of clean hydroelectric power to the region. The NYT article is here .  As we've discussed on several occasions: the global warming alarmists do not  want solve the problem. They want the political issue and they wish to feel morally superior to others.  And, so there is no misunderstanding, I do  want to decarbonize energy; with hydro and nuclear being, by far, the best ways to do it. 

A number of us keep making this point but Big Environment keeps assuring us that all will be well. It won't. We need to stop with the unreliable windmills and embark on an urgent program to build nuclear and hydro power plants as quickly as possible. 

“There is no Such Thing as a  Wealthy Society with a Weak Electrical Grid.” [This post is updated and bumped to the top] February's electrical catastrophe in Texas , caused by a combination of the failure of wind energy and human error, is serving as a wakeup call that our grid is weakening by the month as more and more wind energy is installed .  Snow and single digits in Wichita, February, 2021 From September 8th's Wall Street Journal , Blackouts are deadly and create costly drags on the economy. Bad policies and lack of oversight contributed to the February blackouts in Texas. The final tally: about $200 billion in damage and some 700 people dead from hypothermia, carbon monoxide poisoning and other causes. In California—a state that is hemorrhaging residents—blackouts have become a near-daily event.  Generac says in a recent investor presentation that power outage severity is “increasing significantly.” Between 2000 and 2020, the number of what the Energy Department c...

Since 2013, I have running an occasional series titled " Tipsy From Tipping Points " which chronicles all of the nonsense deadlines, set by Al Gore and other global warming alarmists, that we have bypassed without the predicted harm coming to pass. Wednesday, the New York Times  published another of these stories with a silly deadline (headline above). The NYT story extolls President Biden's climate plan which is nothing but magical thinking as an excuse for spending trillions and shrinking our freedoms.  Kansas' Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant Should we de-carbonize energy? Yes! But it can be done without destroying electric reliability (wind energy) or creating blackouts, and at reasonable cost. The solutions? Nuclear power. We know how to do it for reasonable cost. The design used at Wolf Creek and Callway is proven and very reliable (as opposed to wind which is extremely unreliable ). Once built, nuclear energy is cheap. Hydroelectric power. Remember those plans ba...