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1 week ago | 
climatechangedispatch.com | Thomas Richard
The Department of Energy (DOE) canceled a Biden administration multi-billion-dollar partial loan guarantee to a green energy company facing financial instability and a history of alleged misconduct, according to Reuters. [emphasis, links added]In 2023, the Biden DOE announced a $3 billion partial loan guarantee to Sunnova Energy, a Houston-based company that provides solar panels and EV chargers, in furtherance of its broader green energy agenda.
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1 week ago | 
climatechangedispatch.com | Thomas Richard
It’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it. That is the rationale driving upwards of 10,000 climate doomers jetting to the French Riviera [city of Nice] next week for what the United Nations has deemed the latest global “climate emergency” meeting.
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1 week ago | 
climatechangedispatch.com | Thomas Richard
Climate Realism has spent years scrutinizing climate science claims; thus, it was heartening to read Scott Waldman’s recent E&E News article, titled “Is climate change a threat? It depends, says Elon Musk’s AI chatbot.” [emphasis, links added]The article highlights how Grok, the AI chatbot developed by xAI, presents the debate about the causes and consequences of climate change in a balanced fashion.
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1 week ago | 
climatechangedispatch.com | Thomas Richard
Anyone who thought electric-vehicle mandates and policies designed to force Americans out of their cars and into public transit or onto early 18th-century technology (bicycles) are intended to protect the environment is either naive or an accomplice in tyranny. [emphasis, links added]The evidence has been helpfully provided by a Massachusetts senator who wants to limit how far people can travel.
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1 week ago | 
climatechangedispatch.com | Thomas Richard
While the Biden administration was quick to tout and implement its aggressive climate agenda, a closer look raises a more troubling question: Did President Joe Biden ever even know about some of the sweeping actions taken in his name?
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1 week ago | 
climatechangedispatch.com | Thomas Richard
A General Motors (GM) plant in New York previously intended to build electric vehicle (EV) parts is pivoting to manufacture new V8 engines as the GOP dismantles the Biden administration’s de facto EV mandate, according to Reuters.
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1 week ago | 
climatechangedispatch.com | Thomas Richard
A new evidence-based study provides compelling evidence that for decades, the IPCC has been engaged in “advocacy research,” or the “antiscientific practice of undertaking research designed to support a given hypothesis.” [emphasis, links added]The IPCC favored climate model parameters used to support the narrative that climate change is primarily caused by humans burning fossil fuels (referred to as the Anthro models in the study).
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1 week ago | 
climatechangedispatch.com | Thomas Richard
The Government Accountability Office (GAO)—an ostensibly nonpartisan congressional watchdog—has come under fire in recent days from Republicans, who accuse it of showing bias and overstepping its bounds. [emphasis, links added]Established in 1921, the GAO does not possess veto power over Congress, but it has generally been respected as a rules-keeper and referee for both chambers. The agency is supposed to audit the federal government for waste and inefficiency, and for obedience to the law.
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1 week ago | 
climatechangedispatch.com | Thomas Richard
A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily halted the Trump administration’s effort to kill New York City’s controversial congestion pricing program. [emphasis, links added]U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Liman issued a temporary restraining order barring the administration from getting rid of the program and withholding federal funding if the city failed to nix the program.
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1 week ago | 
climatechangedispatch.com | Thomas Richard
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was fuming Thursday as Congress passed a repeal of California’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate, which relied on a special waiver from the outgoing Biden administration in December. [emphasis, links added]“Make America Smoggy Again,” he announced, sarcastically. The Senate voted 51-44 to repeal the waiver, after a bipartisan majority in the House had done the same, as Breitbart News reported earlier this month.
