As time permits, I'm going to put the esoterica I encounter related to climate change here rather than trying to update the various pages. So this will be in reverse chronological rather than logically organized within the structure of the rest of this website. Please don't rely on this as a consistent and current source for climate change information updates. Sadly, we cannot rely on our corporate-controlled mass media for good information on this, and my time is limited.

Past blog pages:
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2020: January    February    March    April    May    June    July [COVID gap]
2021: [COVID gap] October-December
2022: January-February    March    April    May-August    September    October    November-December
2023: January    February    March-April    May-July    August-September    October-November    December
2024: January    February    March    April    May    June    July    August    September    October    November    December   
2025: January    February    March-May    June-July    August-September    October    November-December   
2026: January    February   

There is no Plan B because there is no Planet B. - Emmanuel Macron (President of France)

2026.02.27 Anyone else remember the Stern Report, or the other researched and documented warnings since?

'The world remains unprepared': Why scientists are calling for a global assessment of climate change (euronews)

2026.02.27 You can read the rebuttal of the scientists to the US DOE disinformation in this paper.

(Phys.org)

(Reuters)

(Renew Economy)

ending a practice that should never have started and in reality isn't ending, just shuffling the pieces around the board.
(The Guardian)
Yes, Canada was cutting down old growth forest (and probably still is for a while) to make wood pellets and shipping them across the continent and the Atlantic Ocean so DRAX could claim to be burning 'green renewable' fuel.

(Penn Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media ) "There are 3 certainties in life: death, taxes, and new U.S. nuclear plants are inflationary and lead to higher electricity rates even if they’re never turned on. This analysis explains why."

(ecoNEWS)
About a decade ago, I came up with an idea for a renewably powered means of increasing albedo and cold thermal mass at the melting edge of ice and snow fields. I'd be happy to share that if anyone was interested.

2026.02.26 Why is Australia shipping LNG 25,000 km to sell in in New Brunswick?

(CTV)
CTV is Canada’s most pro-fossil fuels mass media television company.
The National Post, a pro-fossil fuels ‘print’ mass media outlet also ran an alarmist, pro-LNG stance article on this event.
FIRST READING: New Brunswick sits on an ocean of natural gas. It’s now importing Australian LNG

Often, it’s worth taking a minute to step back and ask the right questions.
Why is the Canadian right-wing media so enamoured of LNG? It’s a terrible solution to a simple problem – how to produce affordable, clean electricity when and where it is wanted. But it’s a profitable enterprise to solve a different ‘problem’ – fossil fuel extraction profits worldwide. Guess which one these media outlets focused on.

Instead, as humans living on this planet as though we intended to stay, let’s look at the simple problem, and dive into the questions arising from it.

WHY is New Brunswick importing Liquid Natural Gas in the first place? As an energy carrier, it’s slightly worse than coal on GHG emissions, so it’s an environmental non-starter.
Liquefied natural gas carbon footprint is worse than coal (Cornell Chronicle)
So it must be because it’s really cheap. But it’s not.
So, because we’re Team Canada and using Canadian resources. Except this is Australian natural gas, schlepped half-way around the planet flying the Greek flag with a Greek owner (Maran Gas Maritime). Zero Canadian content there.
Or because as federal Minister of Energy and Natural Resources (note the order of priorities in the ministry’s recent renaming) Hodgson says, it’s to develop resources in the province – except this terminal is for import only, so it’s not to develop gas resources for export from NB.

Let's peel back a few layers on this story.
1) For NB to receive the LNG, they had to have a functioning LNG terminal in place already. That's a huge investment, so getting such shipments is clearly not new. Why does a province with a wealth of hydro resources and an enormous nuclear facility need to import LNG?
A) For regasification and transport to the U.S. northeast so U.S. Atlantic coast doesn't take the risks associated with such a facility.
B) It's been an unusually cold winter in NB, but very few homes there use NG - the distribution infrastructure has never been built.
C) Because NB's nuclear programme is just one more example of nuclear fission being unreliable and a very expensive and inefficient way to make steam, it has spent more money on NG 'peaker' plants to have a backup means of inefficiently making steam. Then the steam is used to turn turbines - like at hydro dams – to spin generators (technically alternators) to make electricity. About 15% of NB’s electricity is made using natural gas.
D) A very small amount of the LNG is used for process heat for industrial processes. There are lots of ways to make heat, including electricity, such as electric arc furnaces are used for making steel.
E) The important question that the media are ignoring isn't why NB is importing an energy carrier from the other side of the planet. It's why can't the Aussies find any other market for their LNG closer to home? It's because that market is saturated and a worldwide supply glut is forming now.
Global LNG Market Faces Looming Supply Glut After Years of Scarcity

2) This is the market the Canadian is so anxious to enter. Why?
Notably, not the private sector unless it is highly supported with taxpayer money. A new LNG facility in Canada will be at least 7 years from government approval (e.g. environmental assessment). The private sector knows that in 2035, the LNG glut will be full-blown, because the current markets are installing renewables for electricity production because there are no ongoing fuel bills. (Also, no GHG emissions or pollution, but the driver is the economics of fuel costs.) Because, unlike Canada, the obvious markets understand how energy works. Also, renewable energy projects can be operational a lot faster, and in a modular implementation approach, than LNG infrastructure (compressors, regasifiers, pipelines, ports, ships). So it isn’t about low operating costs, clean operations across the energy cycle, reduced GHG emissions or speed of deployment. That leaves profits for the fossil fuel industry as the real driver. Also not net tax revenues, because the fossil foolers never put up their own money for these follies (witness over $30 billion paid by taxpayers for TMX, which isn’t even breaking even on daily operations, let alone repaying the money the feds put in).

3) Is there any better option?
Yes, and more than one. Let me digress for a moment with a oversimplified example.
A villager in the developing world doesn't want an LNG plant in their yard. They want enough electricity to do something useful, like turn on their LED light in the evening to study, at a price they can afford. So they buy a cheap solar panel, battery and LED light that is powered directly from the battery. A small one time investment good for 25 years or more; no power bills, no power company, ever. No LNG required. No LNG plant required. No NG pipelines required. Simple, cheap, reliable. No GHG emissions. No pollution. No noise.

Photovoltaics are continuing to fall in cost per watt of generation, and early panels are lasting well beyond their 25-year warranty periods. Obviously, conventional PV doesn’t produce usable generation when it’s dark outside, but energy can be stored for later use – mostly in batteries – and then used a few hours later to meet evening demand. NB has considerable hydro power resources as well, so excess power could also be used to pump water back up into hydro reservoirs as a form of energy storage, as Ontario does at Niagara Falls.

Perhaps NB should look into simple, cheap and reliable. And save a lot of money on imported LNG. Looks like NS has finally figured this out and is installing lots of batteries and wind generation, possibly for the purpose of selling power into NB and points beyond (e.g. Wind West is looking for massive exports, up to 25% of Canada’s electricity needs).
Maybe NB can make a few bucks wheeling electricity from NS to the US and the rest of Canada in the next few years, if their transmission capacity is up to the task. They have at least 6 intertie points to the U.S. now, and at least 2 are 345 kV lines, and 2 interties to NS. Or, NS can invest in a 200 km submarine cable from Whale Cove to Eastport ME and leave NB out of the picture.

2026.02.25 So much for not covering nuclear fission here often. Lot's of issues, but if it can't compete on cost, why bother?

(The Sun (UK) )

The [Australian] government will hand over $10.8bn this financial year under the scheme that makes it cheaper for miners and other industries to use diesel and petrol
(The Guardian)

I'm making a rare exception for this item.
(nature communications)
To be clear, I am on record as not being a fan of nuclear fission for civil electricity generation because it is inefficient, expensive, is dangerous for people in the production and reprocessing of the fuel, provides feedstock for nuclear weapons and scientific studies have proved multiple times there is not safe dose for exposure to the ionizing radiation. Better solutions on cost, efficiency, reliability, speed to deploy and overall health effects are available today off-the-shelf.
That said, correlation does not equate to causality.
I hope this extract from the abstract will encouage you to look at the peer-reviewed, open access paper.
"Using nationwide mortality data from 2000-2018, we assess long-term spatial patterns of cancer mortality in relation to proximity to nuclear facilities while accounting for socioeconomic, demographic, behavioral, environmental, and healthcare factors. Cancer mortality is higher across multiple age groups in both males and females, with the strongest associations among older adults, males aged 65–74 and females aged 55–64."
As always, do your own research, make up your own mind.

(The Energy Mis) No rational investor would be putting their own money into this now. That's why there's always Canadian government (taxpayer) money to take on the risks the fossil foolers won't pay for themselves, like happened with TMX and orphaned wells in Alberta.
India and Pakistan are probably the 2nd & 3rd fastest countries shifting to renewables today (after China). Wind and solar plus storage is about making lower cost green electricity based on distributed resources to reduce implementation costs and long-haul transmission infrastructure. India and Pakistan don't need a lot of space heating, and already have simple, cheap solar technology for domestic hot water. Their current desire for LNG is almost purely about surging electricity demand, but as in China now, PV and wind are making up an ever larger share of the generation mix. Coal is cheaper than LNG, and they are about equally dirty on supply chain GHG emissions. In short, the next 5-7 years will be a great time to own LNG production and transport capacity, but a terrible time to start investing in it. That's a no-brainer recipe for stranded assets by 2030 or shortly thereafter as more stringent emissions rules start to bite, and the first ICJ decisions awarding damages against countries for fossil fuel production will likely be awarded.

(Phys.org)
But if you want to try dumping more nitrogen in the forest, I've got an idea, so get in touch.

2026.02.17 In reality, snow cover has been shrinking by about half a million square kilometers per decade

(ScienceDaily)

(Renew Economy)

Corporatism with the primary objective of wealth concentration has triumphed as designed. In that sense, economics did not fail. The idea that democracies work for the majority has failed. That's what you get when the majority is stupid and falls for disinformation.
(The Guardian)

(ars technica)

(techradar)

(Drive)
But, can you repurpose part of your dead ute to power your house? Check out Moment Energy reusing EV batteries

2026.02.09 Even the enormity of Saudi money and bravado can't beat reality in the end

(Middle East Eye)

(Renew Economy)

(ScienceDaily)

(The Guardian)

(The Guardian)

(The Conversation)

Canadian crude oil market flashes signals a supply glut is forming (Financial Post)
This isn't a short-term price blip; this is a global recession forming which will massively reduce fossil fuel demand within the next few years as the rational world shifts to fast-to-deploy, low-cost-to-acquire, free-fuel-forever renewables. The TMX pipeline is increasing capacity for minor additional investments.
And that will lead to a cleaner environment and lower health care costs as a free bonus.
And for entertainment, the rest of the world is going to freeze the U.S. out of the world economy by the end of 2026.

2026.02.06 More CO2 in the air doesn't make trees grow faster

Trees 'save' water when CO2 levels are high, but oddly enough, that does not speed their growth (earth.com)
Trees aren't the climate change panacea, especially when we set them on fire en masse annually.
Other research suggests there are means of helping many trees grow faster, but it isn't based on fossil fuel industry mythinformation; it takes work and money to rationally implement what science has proved works.
You won't believe me, so ask your favourite AI disinformation tool what really works, then have a look at this white paper.
Solve 2 climate change issues with one solution, and improve the environment as a bonus. Crazy, right?

2026.02.06 Too much solar energy in the afternoon, none at night. If only we could store it for later use. But, batteries.

First solar-battery hybrid sends power into evening peak, heralding radical changes for Australia's main grid (Renew Economy)
Unlimited time offer, available only to rational thinkers - like home-owners, not Alberta or Ontario decision-makers.

2026.02.06 Wall Street needs an excuse to blame their overleveraging immiment collapse; so why not scapegoat climate change?

Economic models ‘fail to capture’ severity of climate damages. Is a global financial crash looming? (euronews)

2026.02.05 Battery storage is faster to deploy and less expensive than big pumped storage

Global BESS capacity tops 250 GW, overtaking pumped hydro for first time (pv magazine)

2026.02.05 Some university should grab this public data before it is removed for 'austerity' reasons

NASA has been detecting weekly changes in sea level for 33 years and has now made the data public (earth.com)

2026.02.04 Big opportunity for next few years for Canadian jurisdictions with a U.S. grid connection (offer not available in ON and AB)

A Trump 'Blockade' Is Stalling Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide (NYT)
Install solar and wind generation now, sell electricity to U.S. for next five to ten years at high prices.

2026.02.03 If the petrostates could bury CO2 as effectively as they bury climate change consequences reports, we wouldn't have a problem.

A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried - a pattern we've seen many times before (The Conversation)

2026.02.02 The new rules are coming between the ICJ Advisory Notification of 2025 and Europan CBAMs, more to come

Addressing climate change without the 'rules-based order' (The Conversation)

2026.02.02 It's like the Groundhog Day movie, how this situation comes up time after time, but no progress is ever made.

The multi-billion problem Canada's oilpatch doesn't want to disclose (National Observer)
This is completely separate from the growing issue of orphaned and abandoned conventional wells in Alberta which have not been cleaned up and remediated, or those officially listed as remediated, but have never been inspected for compliance. Eventually, Alberta (and undoubtedly Canadian taxpayers, because it's always Canadian taxpayers, never industry or the Alberta government), will end up paying those bills, too.

2026.02.01 This approach was actually working in Canada, pre-Carney. Maybe Australia has the necessary conviction and courage, that Canada did not.

"Australians are ready for this:" Households could get paid under new plan to price pollution (Renew Economy)

Past blog pages:
2019: May    June    July    August    September    October    November    December   
2020: January    February    March    April    May    June    July [COVID gap]
2021: [COVID gap] October-December
2022: January-February    March    April    May-August    September    October    November-December
2023: January    February    March-April    May-July    August-September    October-November    December
2024: January    February    March    April    May    June    July    August    September    October    November    December   
2025: January    February    March-May    June-July    August-September    October    November-December   
2026: January    February   

You can find many earlier postings (going back to year 2000) related to climate change at:
Keith's List Archive and
the Sustainable Biofuel List Mail Archive.

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