Energy reporter for @JustTheNews. I've made a career out of talking to the people that the legacy media won't. Opinions entirely my own.
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Kevin Killough retweeted
Before Trump, higher oil/gas prices (and less use) fulfilled climate goals. All this is now forgotten as higher gas/energy costs are used as political cudgel against Trump. Politics trumps policy every time
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Kevin Killough retweeted
I don’t understand why it’s so unfathomable to people that you can have friends with all different views or opinions.
Kevin Killough retweeted
College is *supposed to be* a place where students debate controversial topics.
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Halley Froehlich studies "how fish, shellfish and seaweed that humans eat are responding to climate change."
Kevin Killough retweeted
Democratic control over technology would have resulted in banning lightbulbs to protect the jobs of candlemakers.
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Stay tuned for our new paper exposing the weather attribution “science” scam/hoax/lie.
No scientist would or could attribute a weather event to greenhouse gas emissions. What is as predictable as sunrise and sunset is that the climate hoaxers at World Weather Attribution @WWAttribution will try to do so and that AP climate propagandist Seth Borenstein @borenbears will uncritically parrot their claims. The only true part of this article is the AP acknowledgement that multiple (left-wing) private foundations pay for its climate lying.
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Kevin Killough retweeted
I have critiqued the World Weather Attribution methods as being capable of attributing any event to any variable with a trend
Now it appears that WWA is copying and pasting from earlier reports, leaving in old numbers along the way
The @AP @borenbears falls for it 🤷♂️
Study says global warming did more than El Niño to turbocharge Hurricane Polo apnews.com/article/climate-c…
Kevin Killough retweeted
This BS so tiring.
I am not sure how many more times this needs to be explained this to you, Seth Borenstein (@borenbears), but climate change is not a fuel or physical force that causes things to happen.
Climate change does not “turbocharge” the weather or cause hurricanes to intensify either. There is no such thing as “climate-fueled” weather; that's not at all how this works. Change is an outcome, it is not a cause.
Oh, and the World Weather Attribution (WWA)?
Please quit citing their garbage papers. They receive funding from left-wing environmental groups including the Grantham Foundation, the European Climate Foundation, and Bezos Earth Fund. Their job is to pay scientists to “find” proof that climate change was the cause or accelerant behind a particular weather event, and their findings are intended to be used in litigation against oil and gas companies.
Those are two major conflicts of interest, but for some reason you routinely fail to mention that part of the story in your pre-canned, copy-paste articles that are essentially press releases from WWA.
Seth, I'd encourage you to put your degree to good use and actually do some actual investigative journalism for a change instead of being a parrot. 🦜
Kevin Killough retweeted
I'm in the @washingtonpost today with @mitchrolling discussing the enormous costs of DC's solar mandates.
Cut your losses on solar power, Mayor Bowser. D.C. will thank you. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Kevin Killough retweeted
Another good article on the NASEM/climate science scandal. Worse than climategate.
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Kevin Killough retweeted
Are there any AI doomers who are experts in the workings of a free society that protects individual rights?
A lot of the “rationalists” are collectivist-statists who in some ways value reason but don’t actually understand how reason functions and evolves when individual rights are protected.
So much of doomerism is based on this ignorance. Doomers project that human beings won’t evolve in response to increasingly negative feedback from some phenomenon—whether it’s mineral reserves depleting or air pollution increasing.
They assume that people will 1) just keep doing self-destructive things over and over, and 2) fail to develop new methods of mastering challenges. So they expect us to just run out of oil or keep making our cities more and more polluted.
With AI, the doomer sees that increasingly powerful open-ended computers can, when configured in certain ways, inadvertently create new kinds of cyberattacks. And they imagine that if the open-ended computers were way more capable—which they will be—then the attacks will get worse and worse and worse.
Whereas when rights are protected and reason is unleashed, humans evolve: the people responsible for the dangerously-configured computers are held liable (legally and reputationally), and they quickly invest more in controlling open-ended computation to lessen inadvertent harm, while the potential victims get more interested in improving cybersecurity using open-ended computation.
The other variable driving AI doomers is the belief that “AI” is a conscious, interested, competitive being that is somehow beyond human control. If you believe this, and you never really understood the mechanics of free-market capitalism, I totally get how you’d be super-afraid of “AI.”
But good news: LLM-based computers are not conscious or interested—they have no desire to take our job or take us over—they are just incredibly powerful tools of people who are conscious and interested. And we need to get better and better at controlling these tools. Which we will if we’re left free to use our minds to do so.
Kevin Killough retweeted
Well I love the cartoon. And I applaud @RogerPielkeJr for continuing to fight the good fight. But I am so over this stuff. The climate wars and attacks on scientists that challenge the mainstream narrative continue, but may be muted during the Trump regime (I admit I have lost touch with what is going on in academia, but I suspect things haven't improved). Academia has suffered from the loss of myself, Pielke, others, not to mention the scientists that rejected the academic path or left very early on in their tenure.
While I will continue to set the record straight if I am asked (e.g. such as the DOE CWG), I've pretty much removed myself from the public debate on this topic (particularly after shutting down Climate Etc), apart from sporadic tweeting.
In the meantime, I am working in the private sector (Climate Forecast Applications Network) which allows me to bypass all the BS of peer reviewed journal publication, government grant applications, and generally playing the game to build academic prestige. Academics waste a colossal amount of time on that stuff.
Pielke is bypassing all that with his substack, sustaining his reputation and profile in the public debate. I have taken a different path. I am bypassing all that by doing client-driven research to help companies and governments understand and manage their extreme weather and climate change risks (timescales from days to decades). I have done some path breaking work in this regard, which is to the great benefit of my clients but unknown to the broader academic community.
So Michael Mann and the rest of that gang can go suck eggs, their path to irrelevance grows with every passing day. It's sad for academia and the education of the future generation of scientists. But the real action these days is in the private sector (e.g. the AI weather forecast models) and on social media.
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Kevin Killough retweeted
Today, @AlwaysOnEnergy released a new study showing how in-state renewable energy mandates are massive drivers of costs for families and businesses.
No surprises here, but the most expensive in-state mandates tend to be in Blue states, one reason they have high rates. 🧵
Kevin Killough retweeted
You heard it first at THB
In actuality, it is much, much worse
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I predict anti-AI activists will soon throw soup at paintings and glue themselves to the street.
You have to be incredibly lame to ruin a Saturday night party in DC at @PubKey.
Do these protestors use cell phones, social media, any digital services? They are dependent on data centers. They should divest personally. 🤡
Go @edtarnowski& @JonasYDu!
Kevin Killough retweeted
🚨Dressing up in jeans, cowboy boots, a western shirt straight from Cavender’s and a belt with a Longhorn buckle does not qualify Norah O'Donnell to opine on the character of Red Oak or any other Texas city.
• Last night’s @60Minutes piece on #datacenters in #Texas spent 13 minutes chasing “backlash” and gave local supporters almost no airtime. That’s not reporting. That’s a framing choice.
• All duded up in her drugstore cowboy attire, New York City resident O’Donnell declared data centers “are going to change the character of this community.” That’s opinion, not fact. Across the country, data centers have kept small towns from hollowing out.
• Ellendale, North Dakota: the mayor says the town was dying until a data center arrived. Now families stay, spouses open shops, and the place has a future.
• Cedar Rapids, Iowa and rural Georgia: family construction firms grow, Main Street stays open, kids don’t have to leave.
• On power prices, 60 Minutes said Northern Virginia rates “surged” because of data centers. They left out the rest: Virginia still sits below the national average. Studies show large, steady data-center load helps utilities spread fixed costs and can hold rates down.
• Prices have risen most places because of inflation and policy, not because a warehouse full of servers showed up.
• Water? Credit where due. CBS admitted golf courses use more than twice as much water as data centers. UT Austin found Texas data centers use less than 0.5% of the state’s water. Operators are moving to closed-loop, near-zero-evaporation designs.
• Two-thirds of proposed sites are rural. That’s not an invasion of farmhouses. That’s tax base, jobs, and a reason for young people to stay.
Sensational claims make good TV.
Honest trade-offs require facts.
Communities can weigh those facts without a network correspondent in rodeo costume telling them who they are.
[Link to full analysis in the following post.]
Kevin Killough retweeted
Then: EXTINCTION REBELLION, THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH, NO ABUNDANCE ON A DEAD PLANET
Now: Woah woah woah no one said climate change was LITERALLY existential!!
