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One of the narratives that circulates among eco-cultists is the pervasive fear that we’ve broken the planet and are doomed. It’s not true, but they’ve heard it so many times that its constant consumption has become part of their person. Their reality hinges on this lie being true. It is cultish, and why the movement … Read more
State Sen. wants constituents to pay for her policy failures In a recent VT Digger article with the misleading headline, “Clean Heat Standard is Dead. What comes next?” (It’s not, it’s just temporarily dormant until it can be fully implemented), Senator Anne Watson (D/P -Washington) expressed her hope and desire that the state be sued … Read more
’ve spent a lot of time discussing the Clean Heat Standard and Cap & Invest proposals to meet the mandates of the Global Warming Solutions Act, and have noted often but perhaps too obscurely in passing that even these monumentally expensive and disruptive programs won’t, on their own, do the job. Other programs, each with … Read more
This week, the topics include the massive cost of Illegal immigration on school funding, the northern border, and the Hunga Tonga Volcano. Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Got Something to Say, We Want to Hear It. Comment or submit Op-Eds … Read more
For the second year in a row, it has become difficult to impossible for the usual suspects to play their tiny drought violins to scare the uninformed. Heat, however, has come in waves when it has not been cool. We had three very hot days in this corner of the globe while other “corners” have … Read more
As the Vermont Climate Council punches away at a document that will, I assume, be heralded as “The Plan” (cue heavenly chorus) to meet the greenhouse gas reduction mandates of the Global Warming Solutions Act, I’m happy to say a few honest, semi-sane voices have emerged in their debate. Will the majority on the Council … Read more
Hamlet’s famous soliloquy ponders mortality through the filter of our insufferable experience, littered with brief moments of joy versus the mystery of what awaits us in death. Or, something like that. The inner voice explores existential crisis. In keeping with my impromptu (as in unplanned) climate content Friday, while reporting this morning on the demise … Read more
With a Side Order of House Cleaning by RFKJ The Trump Administration just fired every content creator working at Climate.gov. It has sent shockwaves through the green graft community. The Climateers are worried the new Administration might “turn into a propaganda website for this administration, because that’s not at all what it was.” Not at … Read more
It’s almost Summer. That means another apocalyptic season of Biblical proportions. Or is it another season of biblical apocalypses? Boiling seas, all manner of tempests, raining fire, swarms of frogs, hell like infernos, and (of course) rising seas that swallow the sinners, Noah-like but with some dry land left to which true believers may cling. … Read more
Update: The cargo vessel has now been abandoned. And while no cause has been officially assigned, the lithium batteries are the prime suspect. Photographs show the vessel still smoking hundreds of miles from the nearest coastline days after the initial distress signal was received. Thick columns of smoke can be seen billowing into the sky. Incredibly, all … Read more
The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2020 established the Climate Council and tasked it with developing a plan to meet the greenhouse gas reduction mandates outlined in that law. That was five years ago. Their first “plan,” released in December 2021, was/is, as I pointed out at the time, not a plan. It was/is an … Read more
The US Supreme Court just laid out an 8-0 decision (Justice Neil Gorsuch recused himself) that to me looks devastating for the environmental psychopaths in the climate cult. And while I may be reading too much into it, this was a unanimous outcome. Even the liberal justices agreed. To what? The court ruled that the … Read more
Just weeks after the Iberian Peninsula went dark thanks to an overreliance on unreliable energy, New Orleans had 100,000 customers left in the dark. The power outage came with a three-minute warning as providers were forced to kill the juice to avoid imminent widespread and longer blackouts. Grid instability issues threatened to produce a much … Read more
The sky is blue, water is wet, and each year, about this time, the ‘ Grok reviews NOAA’s annual hurricane predictions. It’s not that we’re overly interested in hurricanes, though you’d be hard pressed to prove otherwise. There are over 100 articles in recent years on the subject, but for a good reason. The science. … Read more
As reported back in March, Vermont is pretending to be concerned about arbitrary man-made emissions reduction targets. Two months ago, experts predicted the state would miss by as much as 12%. All the usual suspects were pearl-clutching and hand-wringing, despite decisions about the things measured being as arbitrary and man-made as the target. What counts … Read more
On May 24th, 2006, the so-called climate documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ exposed Americans to sore loser Al Gore’s post-public-office wealth accumulation strategy: peddle fear and cherry-pick data into the perception of expertise, scaremonger bad science to sell people on ideas he would invest in. Al did his speaking tours, got lots of earned media for … Read more
The latest clash between climate ideology and reality – the requirement in the Global Warming Solutions Act (2020) that Vermont adopt California’s Clean Cars and Clean Trucks standards – is coming to a head. So far reality has been racking up the victories with the Clean Heat Standard for home heating now lying “dormant” as … Read more
We are always looking for tools you can use in the social media jungle—rhetorical weapons of conversational self-defense. Things that, while they may not change the hearts or minds of an intractable opponent who might be embedded like a tick in their beliefs, may encourage observers to consider your position. On the topic of climate, … Read more
Vermont climate activists in the legislature and beyond continue to insist that their policies will ultimately save Vermonters money. How they reach this mathematically questionable conclusion (apart from the scenario where the politicians rob Peter to pay for Paul’s “free” weatherization project and installation of cold climate heat pumps in which case Paul certainly saves … Read more
When the Spanish electricity grid collapsed one ordinary Monday in late April, the dreams of renewable energy and the green transition team died with it. On these pages, Ryan McMaken was quick to point out that, under European Green Deal-type political convictions, affordability and reliability are not important virtues of the European electricity grid. Shoving too much odious excrement onto … Read more