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Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Dec. 30, 2025 to Jan. 2, 2026 Reading List:

Dec. 30, 2025 to Jan. 2, 2026 Reading List:

Links To Other Subjects After The Climate & Energy List 

Richard Greene, Editor, 
Bingham Farms, MI

Global Average Temperature, in green, vs. Rising CO2, in black, C. degrees vs. ppm  1880--2021 Chart

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Climate & Energy:

NOTE: CO2 concentrations jumped by a record 3.58 parts-per-million (ppm) in 2024, surpassing the 2023 record of 3.36 ppm, marking the largest annual increase since records began in 1957, driven by fossil fuels. 
AI science will not work as hoped: Human thinking ability will deteriorate when the "answers" are so easy to find:
The following variables are known to influence Earth's climate: 

Why this blog exists: 


The Right Insight is a climate & energy website you should visit  (Second link below is to their archive)

2025 Climate and Energy Year in Review

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #672

Five energy market trends to track in 2026, the year of the glut

Tide Turns Against Climatists’ Agenda

Top Five Climate Science Scandals 2025

Forbidden knowledge: The carbon cycle

UK Shropshire Sinkhole? Blame It On Climate Change!

A UK wildlife charity has declared 2025 "the Year of the Blooming Octopus" after record numbers were spotted off the south-west coast of England.

A Climate Theory That Fits Every Outcome Now Warns Of An Ice Age

UK: Major Climate Grooming Course Shuts Down as World Turns Away from Constant Media Gaslighting

UK: Starmer to push Britain into stricter net zero targets under EU deal

UK Eco Loons Object To AI Centres in Scotland

UK: Prices of Used Electric Cars Plunge

Miliband Claims High Energy Bills Due To Fossil Fuels?

NOAA deploys a new generation of AI-driven global weather models

Tesla Publishes Downbeat Wall Street Estimates For Electric Vehicle Sales

Where Do Microplastics Come From Anyway?

Where are The World's Rare Earth Minerals Located?

U.S. Blockade Leaves $900 Million of Venezuelan Oil Stranded at Sea

Venezuela resorts to floating storage as onshore tanks fill up amid ship seizures

Chevron Unloads Venezuelan Crude at U.S. Ports as Enforcement Tightens

Venezuela Starts Cutting Oil Production Amid U.S. Blockade

The PJM capacity auction sent a message the Washington Left can’t spin away

The Five Biggest Biden Regulations That Republicans Overturned In 2025

Hawaii To Bilk Cruise Ship Passengers With 11% ‘Climate Tax’ Starting Jan. 1

EV realism is here. How automakers react in 2026 will be telling

Federal Agency Sued For Withholding Wyoming Wind Farm Eagle Death Data

States That Face Looming Energy Crisis

How AI Rewired the Automotive World in 2025

Ontario, Canada: IESO Shut Down some Wind Turbines so Santa and his Reindeer had a Clear Path but, They Picked the Wrong Day!

Climate activists v. the U.S. energy industry: Cases to watch in 2026

Banging the Same Old Drum: Christian Aid seeks to spoil our Christmas cheer by publishing its annual report, telling us that it’s all going to hell in a handcart, and the reason is climate change. Indeed,

It’s Not the Taking Part That Counts: Game theory and climate change

Blockbuster: Renewables, EVs need silver, yet China bans silver exports, and the price takes off

China’s CNOOC Discovers Massive Oilfield in Bohai Sea

Ukraine: Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Could Resume Operations 18 Months After War Ends

The Permian Is Drowning in Its Own Wastewater

Kazakhstan Crude Production Dips 6% After Black Sea Drone Attack

Average Electricity Rates by State, What Do You Pay?

Average Electricity Rates by State, What Do You Pay? – MishTalk

GOOD NEWS:

A High School Supported its Star Student When She Needed it Most, 20 Years Later She Pays it Back

Other Subjects: 

Scientists define six traits that make a person ‘cool’ – and they transcend borders

The Fourth Big Lie of Vaccinology 

Mouse study suggests that starch-based microplastics may raise blood sugar, damage organs

In January 2006, ABC’s John Stossel’s brutally honest documentary, “Stupid in America,” first aired. "Stupid In America" Turns 20.

Lung Cancer? Alarming Study Finds Ultra-Processed Foods Are Even Worse Than Previously Thought

The 2026 Bear Market Nobody Sees Coming (Except This Wall Street Veteran)

America's hidden economic crisis: Everything costs more than expected.

How US manufacturing was gutted with a smile

Only a Third of CEOs Plan to Hire Workers in 2026

IPO Bloodletting after “Pop” in 2025: Venture Global, CoreWeave, Figma, Klarna, Bullish, Circle Internet, Navan, Firefly, Fermi…

How Jobs Become ‘Jobs Americans Just Won’t Do’

Greene says she didn’t like ‘MAGA Mar-a-Lago sexualization’

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Trump Turned on Her Over Epstein Survivors

Trump Says the U.S. Struck a ‘Big Facility’ in Campaign Against Venezuela

Trump’s Second Term Is Already the Most-Failed Presidential Term in U.S. History.

The $50,000 Man: Border czar Tom Homan didn’t receive normal background check

Border czar Tom Homan didn’t receive normal background check during bribery probe

Refusing To Let Trump Deploy the National Guard in Chicago, SCOTUS Adds a New Wrinkle To the Debate

They Feign Concern About Pro-Palestine Chants in Order To Shut Down Pro-Palestine Protests

U.S.-&-Allied ‘News’-Media Pack Their Reports With Ukraine Lies 

The Memo: Latest Jeffrey Epstein files hit Trump harder

Trump Threatens To Terminate Networks' Broadcast Licenses Over '100% Negative' Coverage Of Him

The Real Story Behind the Russia–Ukraine War—and What Happens Next, by David Stockman

The Trump Rule: “Anybody that disagrees with me will never be the Fed Chairman!” 

Many Americans are sick of a bullying, narcissistic con man who increasingly shows signs that he is literally demented or perhaps suffering from early stage dementia.

A Lookback At The Late Brigitte Bardot’s Life In Style And On Screen

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Song of the Day: 

Monday, December 29, 2025

AI science will not work as hoped

AI science will not work as hoped: Human thinking ability will deteriorate when the "answers" are so easy to find.

Sunday, December 28, 2025

The following variables are known to influence Earth's climate:

The following variables are known to influence Earth's climate:

1) Earth's orbital and orientation variations: "Planetary geometry". 

2) Changes in ocean circulation, ENSO and others 

3) Solar irradiance and activity

4Air pollution & volcanic aerosol emissions

5) Greenhouse gas emissions

6) Land use changes (cities growing, clear cutting forests.  etc.)

7) Changes in clouds and water vapor

8) Random variations of a complex, non-linear system

9) Unknown causes of climate change.

The variables above are not all independent.

by Richard Greene, Bingham Farms, MI, December 28th, 2025

Friday, December 26, 2025

December 26 - 29, 2025 Reading List:

December 26 - 29, 2025 Reading List:

Links To Other Subjects After The Climate & Energy List 

Richard Greene, Editor, 
Bingham Farms, MI

Global Average Temperature, in green, vs. Rising CO2, in black, C. degrees vs. ppm  1880--2021 Chart

Image

Climate & Energy:

NOTE: CO2 concentrations jumped by a record 3.58 parts-per-million (ppm) in 2024, surpassing the 2023 record of 3.36 ppm, marking the largest annual increase since records began in 1957, driven by fossil fuels. 
Last week WTI crude oil inched eight cents higher, or 0.1%, to $56.74 (down 21% ytd). Gasoline dipped 0.6% (down 16% ytd), while Natural Gas rallied 9.6% to $4.366 (up 21% ytd). Copper jumped 6.0% (up 45% ytd). 
12/26/25 Financial Data Summary of the Week: S&P 500 up +1.4% last week 

Why this blog exists  


The Right Insight is a climate & energy website you should visit  (Second link below is to their archive)

NGOs Pursuing Climate and Energy Relevance – 3

From Snowflakes To Raindrops: The Decline Of White Christmas

Clouds Are Weirder at the Top Than We Thought

The Critical Failure Point in Modern High-Efficiency Solar Cells

Holiday Doom, Frozen Kids, And The Fake Climate Crisis

Regarding the peril of Lake Chad 


Inquiries called by the government are headed and staffed by people selected to provide recommendations which the government itself favours.

E&E News: “The Paris Agreement at 10: What the World has Achieved”

Energy & Environmental Review (Reading list): December 22, 2025

Who Should Your Climate Spokesman Be?

Biomass Energy Exorbitant, Destructive and Pointless

Climate alarmism and net zero strategy on the wane

The Right to Be Cool: NYC landlords will be required to install sufficient air conditioning to keep apartment temperatures at or below 78 degrees with 50 percent humidity in the summer months.

The Right to Be Cool – The Antiplanner

Florida Conductor Sues for PTSD: In his five years of working for Brightline, Darrel Brown was involved in at least 16 accidents including at least seven fatalities.

NYC Cordon Pricing is not Congestion Pricing

The Problem with Energy Blinders

LG Energy Solution To Sell Ohio Battery  Facility To Honda For $2.85 Billion

House Passes Energy Reliability Bill Aimed At Lowering Costs Nationwide

China’s Solar Rebound Signals Discipline, Not Another Boom

Japan set to restart world’s biggest nuclear power plant

U.S. Coal Generation To Rise In 2026, Boosting Grid Reliability

Gavin Newsom Sticks It To California Ratepayers

Solar panels destroying countrysides to save Earth from a climate non-crisis

UK: Ed ‘Net Zero’ Miliband Set To Miss Clean Energy Target By Three Years

India Greenlights First-Ever Coal Exports Policy

Hardline Republicans Warn Bipartisan Permitting Reform Threatens Trump Agenda

SPEED Act passes in House despite changes that threaten clean power projects

‘Never Mind:’ The High-Profile Retreat From Overblown Climate Claims

Naval Reactors For AI Data Centers

Russia's Oil Exports Face Delays As Tankers Take 70% Longer Route

Offshore Wind Is Not a National Security Threat. Misusing the Term Is.

The Cost of the Energy Transition

California’s Gasoline Market May No Longer Need to Be an “Energy Island”

Anti-Energy Threats Still Abound

U.S. Automakers Pull Back from Electric Vehicles

Canada: Three Days in Ontario: Too Much Wind Energy ... It gets sold at a loss to Quebec, New York and Michigan 

Let Americans Choose Their Cars – Not the Government

Climate Faithful Admit Need for Fossil Fuels

Study Shows Coal’s Importance to Electric Affordability

Climate Fundraising Update: Hope amid Doom

Australia: Wind investment fell off a cliff: The industry gets excited, because the *first* wind project just got approved for 2025.

Toxic Wastewater Turns US Largest Oil Field Into a Pressure Cooker

Environmental Groups Urge Congress to Ban Data Centers

Dems Retreat On Climate Mandates As Electricity Costs Hammer Voters

GOOD NEWS:

Firefighters Rappel Down the Windows of Children’s Cancer Hospital in Unforgettable Christmas Surprise

Other Subjects: 

Why Are Houses So Expensive? It’s Deliberate Government Policy

Trump Flew On Epstein’s Private Jet Far More Times Than Previously Reported:  Flight Records Cited In DOJ Files Dump Show (In 2024, pathetic liar Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that he never flew on Jeffrey Epstein's private plane: Ye Editor)

Justice Department Humiliated as People Find the Epstein Files Can Easily Be Un-Redacted (DOJ is corrupt and incompetent: Ye Editor)


Only one party benefits from the Justice Department’s Epstein redactions: Trump


DOJ "Finds" a Million More Epstein Files It Needs to "Review"

How Much Does Health Care Contribute to GDP?  

China Sanctions 20 US Companies Over Taiwan Arms Sale

Trump Hate-Filled Christmas Message: “Merry Christmas to all, including the Radical Left Scum that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country," (Donald Trump is a horse's ass: Ye Editor)

U.S. forces boarded a Panamanian-flagged commercial vessel, owned by Hong Kong's Centuries Shipping, off the coast of Venezuela. They had no seizure warrant.

The Surveillance State Is Making a Naughty List—and You’re On It

Why Bari Weiss cancelled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment that Trump wouldn’t like

Pirates of the Caribbean

A Battered America Awaits Trump’s Next Move

Israel Is Preparing for a Permanent Presence in Gaza, Satellite Images Reveal

Trump Claims He's Turning America Around. He's Really Doubling Down on Executive Overreach.

Dollar set for worst year since 2017, yen still in focus

Supreme Court Refuses to Allow Trump to Deploy National Guard in Chicago

The GOP War on Nurses

Venezuela: Strangulation by President Trump, or Rebellion To Accelerate Washington’s Downfall?

U.S. economy: Lots of things are looking up

DOGE Failed the Mission, But It Sure Was Disruptive

DOGE was a dishonest sham — that still hurt our country

US Government Interest Payments to Tax Receipts, Average Interest Rate on the Debt, and Debt-to-GDP Ratio in Q3 2025

Justice for Sale: Current price for a Trump Pardon is $1 million and Rising

Our beyond broken tipping culture 

The Reason I’m Bearish on Tech Stocks

Real GDP Has Exceeded GDI for 12 Straight Quarters, What’s Going On?

Song of the Day: