“Emissions of climate-busting methane from fossil fuel operations are 70% higher than national governments are reporting… the gap between the reporting and the reality is “massive” and “alarming.”” 2022 edition of the Global Methane Tracker released February 2022 by the International Energy Agency (IEA). All of this is happening against the backdrop of a …
Climate change is an existential threat, but so is Putin! He is playing his penultimate hand. His mind set is “legacy Soviet Union” but he cannot recreate the circumstances that sustained that failed empire. He is destined to lose; so why let him off the hook? Merkel supported the Nordstream 2 pipeline. It had short …
Outages such as we have been experiencing this past week had not occurred to the same degree in the past. We had outages in 1989 and in 2011, primarily related to weather-related failures of thermal capacity. Three events in 30 years is a difficult scenario to plan for and would incur costs that likely would …
In 2017, Trump pulled out of the Paris Accord effective November 2020 (one of only nine nations to do so). He rolled back regulations controlling GHG emissions, particularly methane, and those governing offshore federal leases instituted under Obama a year after Macondo. The industry cheered, as if liberated from an oppressive regime. The response was …
The mental shift of the last two days has been striking. Both factions are in disbelief. Is he truly gone? Are there no tweets? Can we go so many days without his all-consuming presence? Trump retreats to Mara-Lago and Biden begins his new administration. We do not quite know what to make of it. It …
