CTV- Polar bears are getting fatter and healthier, despite melting sea ice
Y2Kyoto: “An Inconvenient Truth” Celebrates 20 Years
Forecast for Florida: “This is not something you hear very often, but Gulf Effect snow is a possibility“.
Cult Classic
Maybe it’s time for a passive/aggressive approach to idiotic court rulings. In this case, I’d suggest putting every single story house on Bonaire on stilts and/or prohibiting the occupation of the first floor on multi-floor buildings. That much stair climbing will see that residents grow tired of climate change hysteria in short order.
A court on Wednesday ordered the Dutch government to draw up a plan to protect residents on the tiny Caribbean island of Bonaire from the effects of climate change — a sweeping victory for the islanders.
The Hague District Court, in a stunning rebuke of Dutch authorities, also ruled that the government discriminated against the island’s 20,000 inhabitants by not taking “timely and appropriate measures” to protect them from climate change before it’s too late.
Keepin’ those lights on
Natural gas and coal kept Saskatchewan’s lights on during frigid weather. As in, nearly every furnace in this province saw its fan running as a result of natural gas and coal, right when we needed it most.
Also: Bronwyn Eyre inaugural recipient of new award for Canadian champions of freedom. She happens to be cohost of the Pipeline Online Podcast and a regular columnist.
Brian Crossman: Artificial Intelligence, the oilpatch, and John Wick’s dog.
And under the file of “I’ll believe it when I see it”: If elected, the Parti Québécois would not necessarily oppose new gas or oil pipelines
When You Separate Authority from Responsibility
Bad News for Climate Alarmists
Trigger warning to all of you who have a framed photo of Saint Greta Thunberg above your bed and worship the ground that Al Gore walks upon.
Mann Up, Mike
BREAKING: The Superior Court in DC just NUKED disgraced climate scientist Michael Mann AGAIN.
Last year, Mann was sanctioned for “knowingly feeding the jury false data” in a manner of misconduct that was “extraordinary in its scope, extent, and intent.”
Today, the court doubled down, highlighting Michael Mann’s lies:
“Plaintiff left the jury with misleading evidence… the Court simply cannot condone such bad faith litigation tactics… Thus, the Court’s ruling must stand. It is the Court’s duty to punish and deter bad faith litigation tactics.”
Now Michael Mann must pay Rand Simberg $16,762.82 and Mark Steyn $11,404.80 within the next 30 days.
Who is Michael Mann?
He reposted comments calling Charlie Kirk the “head of Trump’s Hitler Youth.”
In 2022, Mann wrote on X that the Republican Party needed to be “destroyed.”
Mann has also called for people to take up arms and form a militia against President Trump and he has been sanctioned by a court for “knowingly feeding the jury false data” in a manner of misconduct that was “extraordinary in its scope, extent, and intent.”
Great Success!
O’Keefe Infiltrates Davos WEF
Trump’s speech
Donald Trump’s speech to the WEF at Davos.
Oh, yeah, and he has something of a response to Carney’s speech the previous day, too.
Beyond Profits
Interactive Investor- BP reveals $5bn hit on green energy
BREAKING: Coal injunction tossed, judicial activism rebuked
BREAKING: Coal injunction tossed; court says governments get to make environmental policy. In other words, the coal injunction is dead it its tracks. @SaskPower can rejuvenate its coal fleet. The decision is a rebuke of the trend of judge-made law and activist courts, clearly noting the supremacy of the legislative branch in making policy.
This is a huge decision on many points – not just on coal, but on putting activist judges in their place. It will be cited for a long time to come.
The pendulum just may be swinging back to sanity.
Also: NDP criticizes impending SaskPower rate hikes, minister responds
When it blows, it sucks for ever other power generator
High wind output in Saskatchewan and Alberta, with zero dollar pricing in Wild Rose Country
Freezing In The Dark
Spiked- Berlin’s blackout was a grim taste of our Net Zero future
Berlin’s horrendous four-day blackout, which plunged over 45,000 households in the city’s south-west into darkness, is finally over. Beginning last Saturday and lasting for four nights, the blackouts left homes, shops and care facilities without light, heating and communications access – just as a particularly nasty cold spell sent temperatures plummeting to minus-10 degrees Celsius. The far-left ‘Volcano Group’ (Vulkangruppe) has claimed responsibility for the blackout, which it reportedly achieved by setting fire to electricity cables connected to Berlin’s largest gas power plant.
Great Success!
Chris Morris- Update on Australian NetZero efforts
The answer is not much progress but massive amounts of money spent.
Math is Hard
Back in November 2025, the Washington State Department of Ecology and Washington State Department of Commerce published some statistics about how much carbon emissions have been reduced because of the programs they’re spending millions of taxpayer dollars on.
One little problem: Their numbers were off by 9,500 per cent.
Due to a data entry error, Commerce reported that 7.5 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced as a result of eight rebate projects funded by the CCA that support home electrification and appliance rebates for low-income and vulnerable communities. The corrected data now estimates that 78,000 tons of emissions will be reduced over the lifetime of those projects.
If you don’t breathe for 12 hours, do you ask about a good day?
Saskatchewan saw zero wind power for 17 hours over two days.
Hilariously, a Saskatchewan doctor commented on Facebook re this story, “Are you able to share the data for a day where we had good wind production too, for comparison sake?”
I responded, “Doctor, when you look at a patient, do you say, “Let’s look at a day when he’s breathing, because on this day for 12 hours he wasn’t breathing?”
“You don’t judge critical systems by their good days, but their worst. You of all people should know that.”
Related:
NDP calls SaskPower rate hike “fiscal trainwreck,” Minister calls it “modest” compared to the alternative.
The big goose egg
Zero, Zip, Nada. Wind output in Alberta on Jan. 2.
I had to rewrite the story at least five times and change my headline three times as the numbers kept falling, ultimately to zero.
And amazingly, in Facebook comments on this story, some people still argue “zero”. One person called it “misleading.”
Also:
Brian Crossman: Being good neighbours
And:
SaskPower seeking 3.9% rate increases this February and next February
Sparky Car Blues
I suspect the reasons for Tesla’s sales slump have less to do with Elon’s political views and more to do with the fact that the EV market has generally been stoked by hype as opposed to tangible value.
Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025, down 9% from a year earlier.
For the fourth quarter, sales totaled 418,227, falling short of the 440,000 that analysts polled by FactSet expected. The sales total was impacted by the expiration of a $7,500 tax credit that was phased out by the Trump administration at the end of September.
Liberal straws
Michael Zwaagstra: Liberals being hypocritical on plastics ban.
And, since everyone is doing the whole year in review, here’s the biggest energy story in Saskatchewan for 2025:
Saskatchewan to rebuild its coal fleet, despite federal regulations calling for its demise
This was the biggest story in Saskatchewan’s energy sector in 2025, by a wide margin. Even the Premier agreed, when asked about it in December. Saskatchewan to rebuild its coal fleet, despite federal regulations calling for its demise. It’s my understanding we should see Boundary Dam Unit 4 returned to service soon in the new year. It was retired under the federal coal regulations, but continually brought back into service because, guess what, we needed it. About a year ago it was finally disconnected, only to be called back to service now.