Former Sri Lankan president lectures the world on the virtues of ESG compliance — Last October, Sri Lanka had an ESG score of 98.1, one of the highest in the world. Here is, word for word, the speech of former president Rajapaksa last October. Watch or read until the end: Ayubowan. It gives me great pleasure to address you this evening, and I…

No country should have a climate policy, period. — In previous posts, I showed how the math of renewables doesn’t add up. You can’t replace fossil fuels with alternatives, you can only add alternatives, which makes everything more expensive and less reliable. Last week, I discussed energy storage. …

Will new battery and storage technologies enable the transition to Net Zero? — The point of this blog is to show people that Net Zero is a house of cards built on political virtue signaling, not science. Carbon Dioxide does not drive our climate and is good for plants and animals. In previous essays, I showed that the math on renewables doesn’t work…

We must destroy the planet to save it — I have a hypothesis that there’s no such thing as irony. Here’s an example: “It’s absolutely ironic, but to save the planet we are going to need more mines,” says Allison Britt, director of mineral resources at government agency Geoscience Australia. I don’t think it’s ironic. Whenever you see the…

Being an environmentalist means doing cost/benefit calculations — This is the second in a series of articles on renewables. The first covered the big picture. Here I present several thinkers doing cost/benefit analysis rather than blowing hot air about “the transition to net zero.” We might not need to destroy the environment to save it. We should always…

No matter how excited you are about renewables, you must still do the math — This blog is called Shortfall for a reason. No matter how many solar panels and wind turbines you install, you still need energy during the times when they are not supplying power. In separate posts, I’ll do the math on renewable energy, batteries, and the raw materials required. I’ve already…