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The Energy Transition is Dead

by Tilak Doshi
2 March 2025 7:00 AM

The mesmerizing ‘Net Zero by 2050’ mantra that had taken hold of the ruling elites in the collective West at least since the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 now seems like a thing of the past in the US. President Trump’s busy executive pen together with the successful appointments of economically literate conservatives and businessmen – instead of climate zealots – in leadership roles in the energy (Chris Wright), environment (Lee Zeldin) and interior (Douglas Burgum) portfolios have put ‘energy transition’ policies on the backburner if not in the ash heap of American history.

Within a few days in office and his first executive orders, President Trump had dumped the Paris Climate Agreement, cancelled the Biden electric vehicle mandate, prioritised fossil fuels and related infrastructure development and ceased the leasing and permitting for wind energy projects until a review is completed. Last week, the Trump administration halted the participation of US scientists in the UN IPCC climate change meeting in China as part of its broader withdrawal from the global climate change agenda championed by the European and the UK governments.


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Tags: Climate AlarmismEnergy transitionNet ZeroParis Climate AgreementPresident TrumpRenewable energy

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 months ago

It will take 20 years for the rest of “The West” to change course.

The lunacy is deeply embedded. And now, simply opposing US policies is a central commitment of most of the airheads in so-called “governments” and state departments.

Last edited 2 months ago by Marcus Aurelius knew
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JXB
JXB
2 months ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

With the USA – the biggest World economy – and nobody else outside Europe playing the game, that means 85% (and growing) of the global economy is not part of the Net Zeroid fantasy.

”Europe” with its shrinking economy, depends on that 85%. Putting up carbon tariffs will only hurt “Europe” whilst the rest of the economies of the World trades with each other and enjoys increasing prosperity.

As Bill Clinton’s election campaign manager wisely said: It’s the economy, stupid.

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Hardliner
Hardliner
2 months ago

If Government are so keen on green energy, let them lead the way by immediately and completely giving up centrally heated offices, ministerial cars, and jet transport

Thought not…

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varmint
varmint
2 months ago
Reply to  Hardliner

It isn’t that they are “Keen on Green Energy”—–It is that they are taking their instructions form their globalist bosses at the UN and WEF that we in the wealthy west must give up fossil fuels because we have used up way more than our fair share of what is a finite resource in the ground. 8 billion people in the world all cannot have the same standard of living as us in the wealthy west and so our Political Class have agreed and are forcing wind and sun on us all at astronomical expense. —-Luckily for Americans Trump is not falling for this communist eco scam.

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Hardliner
Hardliner
2 months ago
Reply to  varmint

I think my point remains…

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varmint
varmint
2 months ago
Reply to  Hardliner

Yes your point remains. But Politicians have never done the things they expect us to do, so don’t be too surprised.

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klf
klf
2 months ago
Reply to  Hardliner

Indeed. Lead by example.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 months ago
Reply to  Hardliner

They kicked off about noisy heat pumps in the H of C. Bloody thieving, treasonous hypocrites.

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
2 months ago

The Energy Transition always was a fallacy predicated on climate claptrap.

The game has been given away any number of times down the decades:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2010/11/19/climate-talks-or-wealth-redistribution-talks/

“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth…”

…Ottmar Edenhofer, IPCC economist, interviewed ahead of Cop-16 in 2010.

Meanwhile Britain blunders on under the deadweight of the 2008 Climate Claptrap Act, passed by an overwhelming majority of parliamentary lemmings, on an afternoon in late October when snow fell in London.

Bonkers is as bonkers does.

Last edited 2 months ago by Art Simtotic
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Gezza England
Gezza England
2 months ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

The ‘overwhelming majority’ underplays the near 100% support for the CCA.

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varmint
varmint
2 months ago

Miliband says “People around the world can see the climate crisis is here”—–Oh really? Where? Do people look out of their living room window and say “Oh look at all the climate change”? —–No they don’t.—- If they had not seen all this climate crisis talk on their TV every day they would never suspect anything was amiss with the climate, and that is mostly because there isn’t. ——So what is it that Miliband thinks people are actually seeing?—–He is ofcourse a total fantasist and since energy is the most important commodity it is essential that this idiot is nowhere near energy policy. But having said that there are many more eco fantasists among the Political Class. They are almost all in on the scam. ——-But this idea that the “energy transition” s driven by markets is total nonsense. No one would ever build a wind turbine without the subsidy, because they are totally uneconomical. Coal Gas and Nuclear can always produce full time energy much cheaper, whereas the cost of the back up has to be factored into the cost of wind, sun, tidal or any other of the part time energy solutions.

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klf
klf
2 months ago
Reply to  varmint

If they had not seen all this climate crisis talk on their TV every day they would never suspect anything was amiss with the climate

Exactly right.

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Betty W
Betty W
2 months ago
Reply to  klf

In exactly the same way that if people hadn’t been fed an unrelenting diet of terrifying propaganda five years ago, they wouldn’t for a second have believed there was a ‘deadly’ killer virus out there…

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Gezza England
Gezza England
2 months ago
Reply to  varmint

I look at my weekly gas use and see no crisis but a lot more gas consumption this year compared to last year despite the alleged hottest January ever. Put simply I have used 10 weeks gas in 8 weeks.

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JXB
JXB
2 months ago
Reply to  varmint

Climate cannot be observed. It is a statistical analysis of weather condition over an extended past period.

Climate does not exist – it’s like “the average man”.

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varmint
varmint
2 months ago
Reply to  JXB

Yes—–So what is it that Miliband thinks people “see”?—–

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
2 months ago

Kill Energy Transition Forever

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stewart
stewart
2 months ago

the climate crisis is here

Is it? How come I don’t notice it?

Maybe it’s like the corpses piling up from COVID, or the epidemic of racism, or the violent bigotry against trans people all of which only seem to exist in the minds of deranged activists.

I have to say, I am keen to see how the counter revolution taking place in the US is going to affect us here in the UK.

So far all I see is the woke and climate extremists in power doubling down on their extremism.

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klf
klf
2 months ago
Reply to  stewart

Excellent points.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 months ago
Reply to  stewart

I think what is happening generally in the US with the Trump administration may embolden politicians and their supporters who were already sympathetic to his politics, and equally embolden those who weren’t – in short, the battle lines will be drawn more clearly. On the whole I think that’s a good thing. The more extreme the socialist fascists become, the more people will wake up.
This morning’s glorious sunshine has made me optimistic 🙂

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Gezza England
Gezza England
2 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

It was nice yesterday in the sun but chilly in the shade. It is meteorological spring now and the sun on my conservatory is warming up nicely.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 months ago
Reply to  Gezza England

Will soon be bright enough to start making Vitamin D.

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klf
klf
2 months ago

It should be no surprise to UK readers that that “unstoppable” word was used by the country’s most dangerous person, the green ideologue Ed Miliband

Yes, an unstoppable train, heading towards the buffers, and full of gullible people saying everything is on track and fine and dandy.

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Climan
Climan
2 months ago

In 20 years time the current energy “transition” may well be seen as a pointless waste of money, as small modular nuclear generators become widespread, and old wind farms are decommissioned rather than replaced.

Precious fossil fuels would then be used exclusively for making steel, lubricants and chemicals.

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factsnotfiction
factsnotfiction
2 months ago

“… engage in what Harold Demsetz called “nirvana economics”, a term that describes the tendency to compare real-world situations with unrealistic, idealised alternatives, often leading to flawed conclusions about the efficacy of proposed policies.”

Same playbook, different domain. We’re all going to die if we don’t do as we’re told:

IPCC = WHO
EPA = CDC
Greenhouse gasses = viral pathogens
Net Zero = herd immunity
Renewables = vaccines
High energy prices = high positive test rates
etc, etc…

… and just like pandemics, one has to be repeatedly reminded there’s an actual climate crisis.

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JXB
JXB
2 months ago

“Mr Bremmer claims that “technological breakthroughs, steep learning curves and plummeting costs have made clean energy cheaper than fossil fuels…”

Not according to my electricity bills and the demand by the wind/solar subsidy harvesting farms for ever higher Contract for Difference rates – currently £128 per MWh, over twice what fossil fuels can give.

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