Back in May, Lake Mead had already dropped to 1,050 feet above sea level, which was 25 feet below its critical level of 1,075 feet. The huge reservoir, held in place by Hoover Dam, was just below 1,040 feet as of August 13. When the lake level falls to 1,035 feet, Hoover Dam will have […]
Western Water Fight Also Impacts Power Generation Learn More »
Four years after TotalEnergies vacated its Afungi site in northern Mozambique amid civil unrest, the company restarted its $20 billion liquefied natural gas project. The gas had not moved. The geology had not improved. What changed sat 8,000 miles away at the U.S. Export-Import Bank, where a newly appointed board reauthorized a $4.7 billion loan
Washington Lit the Fuse for Africa’s Energy Explosion Learn More »
Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam is now within several feet of the lowest level at which turbine power generation must be greatly curtailed. Recent news articles often blame the cause on a “millennium drought” being experienced in the West. Of course, much of the western U.S. experiences drought conditions every summer, which is part of
[Editor’s note: The theory of major climate and weather changes brought about by relatively minor perturbations has always troubled me as inconsistent with the Biblical teaching that what God made—including Earth’s climate system—was “very good”(Genesis 1:31). This article explores the likelihood that the “butterfly effect” occurs only in computer models, not in the real world.—ECB]
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The following is a guest article by Dick Storm and Ronald Stein. Most California politicians have opposed zero-emissions electricity generated by nuclear power since 1976, when they passed the moratorium on new nuclear power plants. Nuclear is the cleanest, safest, most proven, and lowest-emitting energy source, yet most California politicians oppose it. California once had
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A MAGA loyalist might say that President Trump has raised the dead—the U.S. nuclear energy industry. Led by Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, the Trump administration has jump-started development of micro and small modular reactors, authorized 10 new nuclear power plants, extended the lifecycles of older plants, reenergized uranium mining and processing, and
Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses Flesh Out Ike’s Dream Learn More »
The following is a guest article by Angela Wheeler. Rather than a serious assessment of the connection between extreme weather and climate change, a recent National Academies of Sciences (NAS) webinar presented a 253-page report engineered to reinforce the shopworn claim that emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) threaten a climate crisis. The hour-long presentation was as thin on real science as the self-congratulations were
The Weather isn’t Getting Worse. The Lawsuits Are Learn More »
I’ve written in prior Climate Change Weekly posts about President Donald Trump’s moves to rein in the regulatory state, promote sound climate science, advance U.S. energy dominance, and claw-back national sovereignty. It is one thing when I, a long-term advocate for such moves, discuss Trump’s actions, describing them in guardedly glowing terms. It’s another thing entirely when radical environmental activists and climate
Climate Panickers Bemoan Realists’ Inspired Policy Wins Learn More »
Sometimes a story gets buried not because editors conspire against it, but because the news cycle has room for only one crisis at a time. This year the big news has been the Iran war. But even accounting for competing headlines, the silence around a genuinely consequential development is telling. And that is the story of India’s explicit rejection of
India To Climate Cartel: Count Us Out Learn More »
The following is a guest article by Dr. Joseph Fournier. Americans often picture Canada as a vast northern forest – an endless expanse of pristine wilderness. But the truth is far more complex and increasingly relevant to U.S.–Canada policy debates. Eighty‑nine percent of Canada is Crown land, owned by federal or provincial governments. Yet only about 10–12% of that land receives detailed
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