We are proud to announce that today, during a press conference in Brussels, we revealed that former Czech President Václav Klaus will succeed Guus Berkhout as President of Clintel after seven years. Read the press release on our website. 👇 clintel.org/former-czech-pre…

Astronomische Kosten, schwindende Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und flüchtende Schlüsselindustrien: Während die Politik unbeirrt an ideologischen Klimazielen und planwirtschaftlichen Quoten festhält, zahlt der Bürger die Zeche. nius.de/kommentar/energiewen…

Ireland is being made to shrink its dairy herd, with healthy in-calf cows going to slaughter early, to satisfy a nitrogen figure set in Brussels. Start with how cruel the timing is. Barely a decade ago, when the EU scrapped its milk quotas in 2015, Ireland told its farmers to do the opposite. Expand. Grow the herd. Build the new parlour. The government's own strategy pushed dairy hard for export growth, and thousands of families borrowed heavily and did exactly as they were asked. Now the same establishment that cheered them bigger is ordering them smaller. The instrument is a rule that sounds technical and harmless. The EU caps the nitrogen that livestock manure may spread on the land. Ireland's grass-fed dairy farms, among the most efficient and lowest-carbon on earth, held a hard-won allowance to graze a little heavier. After a water-quality review, that allowance was cut, from 250 kilos of nitrogen a hectare down to 220, across great swathes of the country from 2024, and it has stayed under threat ever since, its conditions tightening at every review. To drop under the new line, a farmer has three doors. Find more land, ship his slurry away, or get rid of cows. Land is scarce and the squeeze itself sent rents soaring, so for many the only door left is the herd. The Irish Farmers Association reckoned an extra sixty nine thousand acres would be needed nationally just to stand still. One senator, a farmer himself, warned that up to forty one thousand cows, a great many of them pregnant, could be sent to slaughter to comply, and called it an animal welfare catastrophe in the making. Sit with that. Healthy, productive, in-calf cows, on some of the greenest grass in Europe, culled early because a stocking number on a form moved by thirty kilos. The very cows the nation was begging the farmer to buy ten years ago. This is what modern environmental policy looks like at the sharp end. A good cow loaded onto a lorry she never needed to be on, on a wet Tuesday in County Cork, to shift a figure in a spreadsheet.

Here Comes the Super Mega Ultimate Hyper Giga Godzilla El Niño The media predict that 2026-27 will turn out to have the worst El Niño of all recorded time. But according to Charles Rotter, the honest answer is that no one knows yet. And the people most qualified to know are openly saying so. clintel.org/here-comes-the-s…

We are back to global cooling. Make up your minds already. washingtonpost.com/weather/2…

Here you go... At least for the GBR.

Tom Nelson Podcast #401: Ronald Stein: “California Refinery Crisis” is now published. Ronald Stein discusses California’s “refinery crisis,” arguing that heavy regulation is driving remaining refineries to consider leaving, after recent closures and a reported 17% decline from peak refining. He says California is an “energy island” with no pipelines over the Sierra Nevada, so most fuel must be made in-state; otherwise it would come from foreign refineries, potentially in Asia, raising costs, emissions, and national security concerns for military and international airports, ports, and trucking. Stein contends wind and solar only generate electricity and cannot replace refined-oil products used for transportation fuels and countless derivatives. He criticizes politicians and the press for not addressing practical replacement plans and advocates “energy literacy.” 00:00 Refinery Crisis Begins 00:42 California Energy Island 01:22 Fuel Demand Reality Check 02:03 Refineries Leaving Warning 02:58 Climate Policy Pushback 04:12 Voters Politicians Press 05:04 Wind Solar Limits 06:00 No Backup Plan 06:14 Regulators And Newsom 08:49 Oil Derivatives Explained 09:47 Crude Types And Fracking 11:46 How Regulations Drive Out 13:15 Outsourcing Emissions Abroad 14:39 Import Dependence Grows 16:29 Shipping And Port Bottlenecks 18:34 Clean Air But High Demand 20:20 National Security Takeover Talk 22:37 Campaign Silence And Media 23:29 Planes Need Real Power 24:51 Battery Plane Reality Check 25:36 Electricity Imports Warning 25:56 Importing Power and Fuel 26:17 AI Power Crunch 29:08 Refinery Rules and Costs 30:54 Foreign Dependence Risks 32:25 Scaling Alternatives 34:35 Energy Literacy and Policy 36:25 Nuclear Future 39:26 Wind Reality Check 41:32 California Oil Underfoot 44:33 Oil Seeps and Tar Pits 46:36 Zero Emissions Reality 49:45 Global Poverty and Demand 50:45 Where to Follow Ronald

Het draagvlak voor het klimaatbeleid verdwijnt. Niet omdat Nederlanders het klimaat onbelangrijk vinden, maar omdat ze de gevolgen van het beleid steeds vaker zelf merken: ⚡ hogere energiekosten ⚡ netcongestie ⚡ minder betrouwbaarheid Wanneer luistert Den Haag? 👇 clintel.nl/maatschappelijk-d… #Klimaatbeleid #Energietransitie #Netcongestie #Energiekosten #Energie #Nederland

De VN vertellen landen hoe zij hun economie, energievoorziening en klimaatbeleid moeten runnen. Maar de organisatie die de wereld de les leest, waarschuwt nu voor een acute financiële crisis en een lege kas. Maar wel anderen vertellen hoe zij hun economie moeten runnen. 🎥 @Electroversenet #VN #UnitedNations #Klimaatbeleid #Energiebeleid #NetZero