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Posted by James Ruppert | Mar 17, 2025 | Alliance of British Drivers, Articles, Car Manufacturers, Electric Cars, Emissions, Environment, Low Emission Zones, Net Zero, ULEZ
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• C1: Japanese researcher confirms Beck’s hypothesis that 280 ppmv estimated pre-industrial atmospheric CO2 concn. is demonstrably wrong & an underestimate.
• C2: The Global Battery Strorage Backlash gathers even more momentum.
A – Global Climate/ Social/ Political Developments:
1. Greenland Ice Sheet Gained 8 Gigatons Yesterday; Bitter Cold And Heavy Snow Grip South Korea; Great Wall Of China Blanketed; California Peaks Walloped; +El Niño and Natural Forcings:
2. Surprise Snow Hits Côte-d’Or; Feet Hit The Sierra Nevadas; Greenland Snow/Ice Above Average; +The UN’s Plea For Relevance:
3. Towering Snow Corridors In Japan; Northern Hemisphere Snow Mass Needs A Bigger Chart; $9 Trillion For 0.3%; + Judge Sanctions Michael Mann…
4. Dome Fuji To -67.2°C (-89°F); March Blizzards For The High Plains; Winters In China; Fuego Eruption; Stratospheric Changes; Nothing They Say…
5. Mexico Cools; Feet Of Snow Hit Northern Arizona; B.C. Burial; March Snowstorms Sweep China; + Northern Hemisphere Snow Mass Breaks Records:
6. One of Antarctica’s Coldest Early Marches on Record; UP Buried; +Zero Call For Alarm:
One of Antarctica’s Coldest Early Marches on Record; UP Buried; + Zero Call For Alarm
7. Vostok At -64.7°C (-84.5°F); Record-Breaking Winter Storms Slam China; Establishment Scientists Blame Avalanche That Killed 8 On “Climate Change”;+ Michael Mann Loses (Again):
8. Rare Snow Blankets Canary Islands; Winter Storm Slams U.S.; Rapid Cooling In Antarctica; Go Nuclear Or Shut-up; + Study Challenges Pre-Industrial 280 ppm CO2 Assumptions:
9. Heavy Snow Sweeps South Korea; Flakes For Tokyo; Michigan Snow Impresses; Udaipur Chills; Antarctica To -61.5°C (-78.7°F); +Hurricanes Are Not Getting Stronger:
10. Greenland Ice Sheet Above Average; Colder-Than-Average February For Canada; Avalanche Buries Workers In Northern India; Red Snowfall Alerts In China; + AP: It’s Cold Because It’s Warm:
11. Iraqi Desert Snow; Middle East Freeze; Blizzards Batter Georgia; Snows Sweep Northern India; China Coal Trains And War:
12. No, warming will not cause losses in future agricultural yields:
13. Cyprus At Record Electricity Demand; Northern Hemisphere Snow Mass Well-Above Average; Japan’s Record-Breaking Winter To Worsen; +Extreme February:
14. Wide Ranging Interview With Climate Realist Professor William Happer:
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/wide-ranging-interview-with-professor
15. Stalwart Portuguese Citizens Show How Best to Deal With Alarmist Idiots:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/watch-stalwart-portuguese-citizens
16. Roger Pielke Jr.: The Case for a US Disaster Review Board – A guest post by Mike Smith:
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-case-for-a-us-disaster-review
17. The climate cult is just a neo-Malthusian religion made up of narcissists. Alarmists hold three main beliefs:
* Resources are finite and us humans are consuming too much.
* There are too many people on Earth.
*Carbon dioxide (CO₂) is a “pollutant” and a one part per 10,000 increase in its concentration over the last
175 years from our industrial combustion is causing the globe to heat up to dangerous levels:
https://x.com/ChrisMartzWX/status/1901313105105183215
18. Houston lecture by Guus Berkhout: Let the Data Speak (do the talking), + CLINTEL Newsletter excerpts:
19. Roger Pielke Jr. – The Politicization of Expertise – Experts must address the public’s crisis of confidence:
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-politicization-of-expertise
20. It’s Alive! The Green Blob Is A Parasitic Organism – The Green Hive Mind:
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/its-alive-the-green-blob-is-a-parasitic &
21. CO2 pipelines can’t use eminent domain under new SD law. Inexpert on US Law, I take this to mean CO2 pipeline constructors can’t ride roughshod over local objections, in contrast to what the UK’s Marxo-Fascist govt. has enacted:
https://sarahmontalbano.substack.com/p/co2-pipelines-cant-use-eminent-domain
22. OPEC Slams IEA Head Fatih Birol’s 2021 comment: “There is no need for investment in new fossil fuel supply in our Net Zero pathway.” World energy supply is still over 80% hydrocarbons-based, & with renewables additive to, not subtractive from them:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/brutal-opec-slams-iea-head-fatih
23. Is the climate activism business running out of gas? CERAWeek by S&P Global is one of the world’s biggest energy conferences. And it routinely attracts climate activists. Not this year. Have they been “Trumped”?
https://substack.com/@robertbryce/note/c-99421708
24. Steve Everley Reflects on the US ‘Gas’ Pump Price: A hard-hitting summary of the influence of the US fracking/ drilling revolution on energy prices & hence growth in economic well-being:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/steve-everley-reflects-on-the-price
25. E&E News Comes Over to the Dark Side at Long Last:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/e-and-e-news-comes-over-to-the-dark
26. 9 Takeaways from JP Morgan Chase Energy Study: “The upshot is that the so-called energy transition is hitting the brick wall of reality. Policymakers need to come to their senses and end wind & solar subsidies so we can get back to rational energy policies:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/e-and-e-news-comes-over-to-the-dark
27. Welcome to the Era of Energy Realism – Five key figures from JP Morgan’s 2025 Energy Report:
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-era-of-energy-realism
28. The Future For Oil Takes Centre Stage At CERAWeek Opening Day:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-future-for-oil-takes-center-stage
29. The Energy Realities Podcast, 3.11.2025: Robert Bryce Joins the Gang to Talk About the Sputtering Energy Transition:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-energy-realities-podcast-3112025
30. Chris Wright Moves to Refill The Strategic Petroleum Reserve:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/chris-wright-moves-to-refill-the
31. Elections Matter: US LNG Resumes Its Place of Global Dominance:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/elections-matter-us-lng-resumes-its
32. Surging LNG Exports Show US Is A Global Nat Gas Superpower – Seven charts that prove that claim:
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/surging-lng-exports-show-us-is-global
33. Plug Power, Last-Minute $1.66Bn Loan Guarantee Recipient From DOE, Reports $2.1Bn Loss. Given its lousy financial condition, why did Biden’s DOE give it a loan guarantee?
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/plug-power-which-got-a-last-minute
34. Bloomberg: Clean Energy Sector is ‘Dead for Now’:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/bloomberg-clean-energy-sector-is
35. The Energy Realities Podcast, 3.3.2025: The Global Impacts of Reversing the 2009 EPA Endangerment Finding:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-energy-realities-podcast-332025
36. Climate cakeism: The UK government & the Climate Change Committee (CCC)’s 7th Carbon Budget, portray a “cakeism” narrative; suggesting that economic growth & Net Zero emissions are jointly achievable, without net costs and unacceptable lifestyle changes:
37. Yergin Deftly Deconstructs the Energy Transition Narrative:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/yergin-deftly-deconstructs-the-energy
38. Here’s The Video Of My Energy Humanism Speech At The ARC Conference In London: Be pro-energy, pro-human, and don’t you ever apologize for it:
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/heres-the-video-of-my-energy-humanism
39. Doug Sheridan: BP Comes Full Circle Back to Oil:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/doug-sheridan-bp-comes-full-circle
40. Shell Scenarios Outlook Sees Bright Future For Oil, Gas, And LNG:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/shell-scenarios-outlook-sees-bright
41. Chris Wright: “We need more energy. Lots more energy”. Partial transcript of Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s remarks this morning at the CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston:
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/chris-wright-we-need-more-energy
42. The Terrorism Against Tesla Must Be Harshly Punished:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/watchread-the-terrorism-against-tesla
43. EPA To Attempt 30 Deregulatory Rollbacks on:
* Mandatory oil & gas operation GWG reporting
* CH4 oil & gas operations regulation
* Power plants limits on Hg & other toxic pollutants
* PM2.5 Air quality regulation
* Power plant wastewater pollution
* Haze regulations:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/washington-u
44. Zeldin Lays Out the Beginning of the End of the Green New Scam:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/zeldin-lays-out-the-beginning-of
45. Michael Mann Gets the Justice He Richly Deserves:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/michael-mann-gets-the-justice-he
46. Michael Mann & his lawyers sanctioned for “extraordinary” misconduct in climate defamation case. Mann & Stanford’s Mark Jacobson now 0-2 down using lawfare against critics. As the late Dr. Tim Ball remarked, Mann should be in a state Pen., not at Penn State
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/slapped
47. “In Bad Faith”. A DC court sanctions climate scientist Michael Mann & his lawyers for misconduct “extraordinary in its scope, extent, and intent.” – Roger Pielke Jr.:
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/in-bad-faith
48. Can everyone please calm the *bleep* down about tariffs?
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/can-everyone-please-calm-the-bleep
49. Chris Wright at CERAWeek: Biden Policies ‘a cure…far more destructive than the disease’:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/chris-wright-at-ceraweek-biden-policies
50. Momentum Builds For Meaningful Energy Permitting Reform:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/momentum-builds-for-meaningful-energy
51. Zelden: ‘It’s a Green Slush Fund’:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/zelden-its-a-green-slush-fund
52. Lord Mackinlay: Miliband’s Net Zero agenda spreading like sepsis. Former MP who lost all his lower limbs to sepsis says it is reckless to think we ‘can simply decarbonise overnight’:
53. Zeldin’s EPA is Shutting Down Green Money Laundering ‘Non-Profits’:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/zeldins-epa-is-shutting-down-green
54. Is the EPA “Endangerment Finding” Endangered? No and yes – Roger Pielke Jr.:
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/is-the-epa-endangerment-finding-endangered
55. Trump Still Wants the Keystone XL Pipeline:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/trump-still-wants-the-keystone-xl
56. Washington Update From the U.S. Oil & Gas Association – 2.25.2025: Kathleen Sgamma to lead the Bureau of Land Management. Her stance is diametrically opposed to her Biden-appointed predecessor, Traci Stone-Manning:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/washington-update-from-the-us-oil-c3b
57. Washington Update From the U.S. Oil & Gas Association, 01/03/25: EPA To Reverse GHG Endangerment Finding:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/washington-update-from-the-us-oil-d4f
58. Nine Slides on Our Win Reining in Utility Green Plating – One small step for ratepayer kind:
https://energybadboys.substack.com/p/nine-slides-on-our-win-reigning-in
59. Politicians, unsurprisingly, have corrupted scientific reports and findings time and time again to serve their own interests:
https://x.com/CO2Coalition/status/1901347740451561744 &
https://x.com/i/status/1901347740451561744
60. Award-winning Physicist, Will Happer:”The entire Earth is getting greener…. so why would you want to call CO2, the molecule that makes that happen, a “pollutant”? Beats me:
https://x.com/i/status/1899797679372124262
61. Is Shifty Bill (Gates) Pulling Back From Climate Alarm Advocacy?
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/doug-sheridan-is-bill-gates-pulling
62. Chris Martz: The Arctic Will be Ice-Free by…Pick a date, any old date….:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/chris-martz-the-arctic-will-be-ice
63. Nature Publishes Pseudoscientific Extreme Weather Attribution Study Blaming 2023/24 Ocean Warming Spike On ‘Climate Change’. Jaime Jessop’s conclusion: more pseudoscientific, hocus-pocus, extreme weather/climate scam bollocks:
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/nature-publishes-pseudoscientific
64. There is no form of hypocrite quite as repugnant as a climate alarm hypocrite:
https://substack.com/@davidblackmon/note/c-99995271
65. Large areas of Amazon rainforest are being CUT DOWN for COP30 UN climate conference, to transport jetting-in climate conference delegates to the venue by road. Virtue-Signalling Hypocrisy as we’re being exorted to cruise, fly, drive & eat less (/insects)?
https://www.petersweden.org/p/amazon-rainforest-being-cut-down
66. COP30: Amazon Rainforest is Sacred, Until it Becomes Inconvenient For Globalist Elites:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/cop30-amazon-rainforest-is-sacred
67. Trump moves to scrap key climate finding, because evidence shows Obama’s EPA used it to push the ‘progressive’ endangerment finding; using advice from people who wanted to regulate greenhouse gases whatever the sound science said:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/kevin-killough-as-trump-moves-to
68. Never Forget: You are the Carbon They Really Want to Reduce:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/never-forget-you-are-the-carbon-they
69. US DOJ Investigating Biden Administration’s ‘Very Dangerous’ $20 Billion ‘Slush Fund’:
DOJ Investigating Biden Administration’s ‘Very Dangerous’ $20 Billion ‘Slush Fund’
70. Monetising the 2008 climate fraud. Worse than parasitic, it’seconomically terminal disease: the host economy cannot sustain the greed of the parasites feeding from it. UK government’s legalised crime business model?:
71. WHO network on BRINK of COLLAPSE. This warning comes shortly after the USA pulled out of the organization. Bring it on!
https://www.petersweden.org/p/who-network-on-brink-of-collapse
72. Extreme weather catastrophe hits lying federal bureaucracy: Climate hoaxers at NOAA “reap the whirlwind” for “cutting corners on science”, says @RogerPielkeJr:
https://x.com/JunkScience/status/1899638573483057344 &
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/03/10/pseudoscience-government-weather-agency-doge/
73. WSJ Prints Perhaps the Dumbest Energy Analysis in World History:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/wsj-prints-perhaps-the-dumbest-energy
74. Toyota’s Sports Car Revolution!
75. Big Nuke Country: Montana’s push for nuclear and the defense of the American tradition:
https://nuclearbarbarians.substack.com/p/big-nuke-country
76. Roger Pielke Jr.: THB Insider #15 – The best that crossed my desk this week … and there is a lot!
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/thb-insider-14
77. Tesla’s Stock Plummets as European Sales Collapse. Due to Musk’s decline in popularity or Chinese competition + buyers rumbling that, long-term, BEVs aren’t sound buys?:
78. PODCAST: The Windmill Myth:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/podcast-the-windmill-myth
79. Wall Street Journal: Trump Paralyzes the U.S. Wind Power Industry. Oh, the humanity!
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/wall-street-journal-trump-paralyzes
80. Share Science Realist climate/ environment-related articles on CLINTEL’s Telegraph channel:
B – Recent Local/ National Developments:
1. Electricity Bills Are Going Up Because Gas prices have played a part, but the impact of Renewables is larger:
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/why-are-electricity-bills-going-up
2. Prof. Dieter Helm: Defence and the Retreat from Net Zero. Resources at least not squandered on pointless Stalingrad-style, Net Zero virtue-signalling/ posturing; but even more pointlessly on unwinnable foreign war-mongering instead:
3. Classic Car Owners BEWARE! DVLA’s Consultation Could Change EVERYTHING:
Classic Car Owners BEWARE! DVLA’s Consultation Could Change EVERYTHING
4. Bjorn Lomborg: UK Should Ditch Insane Net-Zero Boondoggles to Fund Defense:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/bjorn-lomborg-uk-should-ditch-insane
5. Surely there’s political capital here to ruthlessly exploit to once-&-for-all electorally bury The Uniparty without trace?
https://x.com/GBNEWS/status/1895918828967616516
6. Freedom To Move Is Being Grabbed From Us. Stand For Mobility #together!:
Freedom To Move Is Being Grabbed From Us. Stand For Mobility #together!
7. Debunking The Met Office’s Ridiculous ‘Unprecedented’ NAO Scare Story:
https://jaimejessop.substack.com/p/debunking-the-met-offices-ridiculous
8. National Vision Zero & 20’s Plenty Conference: For all the brain-dead, let-others-do your thinking, masochistic automatons out there; an alternative to ripping your fingernails out with pliers:
https://mailchi.mp/6d3a82d32a1b/join-us-for-the-national-vision-zero-and-20s-plenty-conference
9. Labour’s War on Pubs Will Close Your Local:
https://www.whatlaboursaid.com/save-our-local
10. Carbon Budget Misinformation. Despite warning of misinformation about low-carbon technologies, the CCC has been spreading its own brand of misinformation in its latest Carbon Budget:
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/carbon-budget-misinformation
11. ULEZ Expansion 2023: Air Quality Report Fact-Checked!:
12. The Futile, Sinister Dogma of Net Zero by 2050:
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/the-futile-sinister-dogma-of-net
13. The deadline for consultation submissions on the proposal to make all rural single-carriageway roads in Scotland subject to a 50mph limit expired on March 5th:
https://www.transport.gov.scot/consultation/national-speed-management-review-consultation/
14. DrivingSense-ABD’s submitted response to the recently closed consultation on the proposal to limit all Scottish rural single carriageway roads to 50mph:
15. The World Bank found the UK and Ireland were the worst places in the world for solar power. So we definitely should not give prime agricultural land over to solar…
https://x.com/KathrynPorter26/status/1901635235948777756 &
https://x.com/7Kiwi/status/1901214012752151003
16. Chinese Man in a Van – The Bloke with your parcel is now driving a Farizon Battery Van: one BEV (in this case where V = Van) to rule all BEVs? Goodbye European vehicle industry:
https://jamesruppert.substack.com/p/chinese-man-in-a-van
17. Stellantis’ Epic FAIL: The Titanic of Car Companies?
18. Did We Just Hit ‘Peak Petrol’?!
19. Aston Martin Lagonda to row back on plans to become an electric car manufacturer within a couple of years:
20. 50% EV Depreciation “SHOCK”!:
C – Narrative Developments:
1. Japanese researcher confirms Beck’s hypothesis that 280 ppmv estimated pre-industrial atmospheric CO2 is demonstrably wrong: “Reconstructed ice core CO2 values and modern CO2 and CH4 measurements do NOT support the narrative that human emissions are driving atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations.”
Discussion: https://notrickszone.com/2025/03/04/new-study-casts-doubt-on-the-accuracy-and-reliability-of-the-modern-and-paleo-co2-record/ &
Paper: https://scienceofclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/SCC-Ato-2025.pdf
2. The Global Battery Strorage Backlash. Global Battery Rejection Database shows 52 communities from California to Australia have rejected battery projects. Vistra’s Moss Landing site fire creates more opposition:
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/the-battery-backlash-is-real-its
