President Trump Cancels $700 Million of Battery Manufacturing Grants
Y2Kyoto: Uh Oh, Ontariowe
April 2018: When Ontario’s Liberal government cancelled plans to build two gas-fired power plants before the 2011 election, it seemed simple enough.
October 2025: Ontario utilities are heading towards a financial cliff
Y2Kyoto: No Tech For You!
Steve Saretsky – BC government effectively admitting they don’t have enough hydro power. Meanwhile, many cities have banned natural gas heating in new homes. Incompetence abounds.
British Columbia proposed legislation to limit how much electricity will be available to artificial intelligence data centers, and moved to permanently ban new cryptocurrency mining projects.
The government of Canada’s third-most populous province will prioritize connections to its power grid for other purposes like mines and natural gas facilities because they provide more jobs and revenue for people in BC, the energy ministry said Monday.
“Other jurisdictions have been challenged to address electricity demands from emerging sectors and, in many cases, have placed significant rate increases on the backs of ratepayers,” the department said Monday.
Y2Kyoto: The End Of The EU?
On September 1, the Financial Times broke the ominous news that a plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was the target of a jamming operation meant to interfere with its Global Positioning System (GPS). Russia was immediately fingered for the job. According to the report, the plane was forced to circle over Plovdiv, Bulgaria, for over an hour before pilots resorted to the use of paper maps to safely land.
We would link to the story, but the original has since been edited and most of the key claims—repeated countless times and breathlessly by news outlets around the world—were patently untrue. The plane did not repeatedly circle Plovdiv, it landed only nine minutes later than scheduled, and the pilots did not use paper maps to navigate. Demands made by a Bulgarian member of the European Parliament that von der Leyen denounce the reporting as “fake news” have been ignored. The affair has since been largely memory-holed.
We assumed the story was suspect immediately upon reading it, if for no other reason than keeping von der Leyen in her current role has to be one of Moscow’s top strategic priorities. Who else is more qualified to destroy the European Union (EU) from within? Under her bold leadership, the EU has impaled itself on nearly all the foundational attributes that underpin economic and geopolitical power—most notably by accelerating deindustrialization and forging ahead with disastrous energy policy.
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
In today’s episode of Should’a Asked Kate;
Spain’s grid operator warned that a resurgence in sharp voltage swings threatens to disrupt the country’s power supply less than six months after it suffered the most severe outage in Europe in decades.
Red Electrica requested urgent changes to its operating procedures to better manage voltage in its system, according to a document published by the regulator. The company said the challenges are being caused by abrupt changes in scheduled production, particularly from renewable power plants.
It’s a sign that while investigators have called the events of that blackout unprecedented, the conditions that led to it may be a persistent problem for the stability of Spain’s power network. Spain has been a leader in deployment of renewables and its grid stresses will be closely watched by grid operators across Europe who seek to rapidly decarbonize their grids without jeopardizing reliability.
I See A Crazy Mann
Senior administrator at the University of Pennsylvania Michael Mann is on an unhinged generational run on X, reposting comments calling Charlie Kirk the “head of Trump’s Hitler Youth.”
Mann also wrote: “The white on white violence has gotten out of hand.”
Does UPENN agree with their Director Center for Science, Sustainability & the Media?
REMINDER: Mann previously called for people to take up arms and form a militia against Trump.
Is what happened to Charlie what Mann wants to happen to POTUS?
FACT: According to court documents, Mann was sanctioned for “knowingly feeding the jury false data” in a manner of misconduct that was “extraordinary in its scope, extent, and intent.”
Y2Kyoto: Drill Old Chap, Drill
[UK Tory leader Kemi Badenough] it seems, is about to unveil a pledge to extract as much oil and gas from the North Sea as possible.
This is from the front page of the Sunday Telegraph which is carrying a headline proclaiming, “Drill the North Sea dry, says Badenoch”, mirrored by an online story headed: “Kemi Badenoch: No more net zero – extract every drop of North Sea oil”.
From the online text, we learn that this week in Aberdeen she will deliver a speech that will draw comparison to Donald Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” moment, when she will vow to abolish all environmental restrictions on fossil fuel extraction.
This, it is said, will be her greatest departure from net zero to date. It will emulate the wealth-creating approach taken by Norway and establish “a clear dividing line with Ed Miliband, who is forging ahead with net zero plans to ban new oil and gas licences.
Such a pledge, if ever translated into policy, would release the estimated 3.3 billion barrels of oil equivalent in the UK’s North Sea sector, although there may be even more, with some recent analyses suggesting that up to 7.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent could still be produced from UK waters,
To put this into context, the total annual primary energy consumption figure for the UK runs at about 550 million barrels of oil equivalent, which includes consumption directly by consumers, fuel used for electricity generation, and other transformation processes.
And, there’s more.
h/t Adrian
Y2Kyoto: Sunshine Is Free
“The paper was published anyway”
Too Big to Fail: …We find that their analysis underestimates uncertainty owing to large, unaccounted-for spatial correlations on the subnational level, rendering their results statistically insignificant when properly corrected. Thus, their study does not provide the robust empirical evidence needed to inform climate policy.
Y2Kyoto: Unsustainable
Juxtapose time!
Stanford School of Sustainability, June 18th;
A sweeping new analysis finds that rising global temperatures will dampen the world’s capacity to produce food from most staple crops, even after accounting for economic development and adaptation by farmers.
USDA forecasts a massive US corn crop this year, with yield at a record high of 188.8 bushels per acre. Corn prices going down.
An amazing trend: in a generation (since 2000), US corn yield have increased ~45%. In two generations (since 1975), corn yields have almost doubled.
Related: Faux meat-congealer Beyond Meat reported a bad third quarter last week; the company’s sales were hurt in part “by weak demand for its plant-based meat products,” according to Reuters, and that has The Street’s Daniel Kline arguing the company is ripe for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Y2Kyoto: Blunder Down Under
You can’t cheat Father Physics.
“The head of one of Australia’s biggest power retailers has warned that Australia’s energy transition is veering out of control, pointing to a major market disruption that hit New South Wales as evidence of the turmoil. During a week in which NSW agreed to extend the life of the state’s biggest coal plant, Alinta boss Jeff Dimery cited dramatic events in the market earlier in the month to argue the system was in distress.
The Australian Energy Market Operator was forced to step into the NSW market and cap wholesale prices between May 8 and 15 after a series of shocks sent costs into orbit. It’s believed to be only the second time the market operator has had to make such an intervention in NSW — the first being the energy crisis of 2022.”
[…]
“He said the energy system was getting more fragile as the addition of new clean sources of power failed to keep pace with the retirement of coal-fired generation.”
Via Doomberg.
Y2Kyoto: Run For Yer Lives!
Roger Pielke Jr :
The figure above shows deaths from weather and climate disasters, from January to June, from 2000 to 2025. You can see that deaths are dominated by years with large events — 2008, Cyclone Nargis (~138,000 deaths, Indian Ocean); 2010, heat wave (~56,000 deaths, Russia); 2022, heat wave (>50,000 deaths, Europe).5 The little red bar on the far right of the bar graph is 2025.
Y2Kyoto: Endangerment Derangement
Foxnews, watching from the sidelines;
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin will rescind the Obama administration’s endangerment finding declaration in the “largest deregulatory action in the history of America,” he announced Tuesday on the “Ruthless” podcast.
Zeldin joined the “Ruthless” podcast to break the news that the EPA would nix the declaration that insisted greenhouse gases like carbon monoxide and methane endanger human lives. Zeldin will officially make the announcement that will drive “a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion” later in the day in Indiana.
“A lot of people are out there listening, they might not know what the endangerment finding is. If you ask congressional Democrats to describe what it is, the left would say that it means that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, carbon dioxide is an endangerment to human health. They might say methane is a pollutant, methane is an endangerment to human health,” Zeldin said.
At least they were gracious about it.
Y2Kyoto: “Why not have it just catch fire like at the beginning of Bonanza?”
Someone ought to sit these folks down and explain that it’s not working.
It seems that dark red is no longer scary enough to have the required effect.
Now they've moved on to ash grey. pic.twitter.com/6JhEDNqtb7
— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) July 18, 2025
Y2Kyoto: I’m Shocked, Shocked To Find That Skepticism Going On In Here
SHOCK POLL: CNN admits that the American people AREN'T CONCERNED about climate change — Radical activists FAILED to scare citizens.
"Americans AREN'T afraid of climate change!"
"Climate activists have not successfully made the case to the American people!" pic.twitter.com/47u9IzQ8IF
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 10, 2025
Y2Kyoto: Our Fevered Planet
Watching closely weather models for chance at world record cold
Antarctica below -120°F on July 12th from the most recent ECMWF model cycle
Blame the Polar Vortex swirling above and around the South Pole. pic.twitter.com/8Tb46XVkzK
— Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) July 4, 2025
Things You’re Gonna See On The CBC
Safe from the clutches of those deplorable Conservatives, CBC are feeling their oats again.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
The Physics Behind the Spanish Blackout
When a grid failure plunged 55 million people in Spain and Portugal into darkness at the end of April, it should have been a wake-up call on green energy. Climate activists promised that solar and wind power were the future of cheap, dependable electricity. The massive half-day blackout shows otherwise. The nature of solar and wind generation makes grids that rely on them more prone to collapse—an issue that’s particularly expensive to ameliorate. […]
Grids need to stay on a very stable frequency—generally 50 Hertz in Europe—or else you get blackouts. Fossil-fuel, hydro and nuclear generation all solve this problem naturally because they generate energy by powering massive spinning turbines. The inertia of these heavy rotating masses resists changes in speed and hence frequency, so that when sudden demand swings would otherwise drop or hike grid frequency, the turbines work as immense buffers. But wind and solar don’t power such heavy turbines to generate energy. It’s possible to make up for this with cutting-edge technology such as advanced inverters or synthetic inertia. But many solar and wind farms haven’t undergone these expensive upgrades. If a grid dominated by those two power sources gets off frequency, a blackout is more likely than in a system that relies on other energy sources.
Green energy manufacturer can’t afford the cost of energy;
A major supplier to Britain’s green energy industry is set to close after its Japanese owner failed to clinch a rescue deal for the company and its 250 workers.
Wigan-based Electric Glass Fiber UK (EGFU), which is owned by Nippon Electric Glass (NEG), makes vital components used in wind turbines and electric cars. Its closure puts net zero supply chains under threat.
Y2Kyoto: Happy Summer Solstice Day!
Insane Predictions
So a warming climate will diminish crop yields? I guess that’s why corn yields in Manitoba are currently so much higher than corn yields in Iowa….oh, wait….
And if carbon pollution worsens, the loss of calories across the same six staples — corn, wheat, rice, soybeans, sorghum and cassava — rises to nearly a quarter by century’s end, the researchers reported in Nature.
More generally, every additional degree Celsius of warming reduces the world’s ability to produce food from these crops by 120 calories per person per day, or nearly five percent of current daily consumption, they calculated.