The Worst Climate Stories of the Week: Winter is Coming. Everybody Act Surprised.

Dec 06, 2024
Jeff Reynolds
Energy & Environment

Don’t forget to charge your EV now if you want to use it by spring time.

The calendar has turned to December, and a massive cold front has hit the eastern United States, sending temperatures below freezing as far south as Florida. Several football teams hosted games last weekend in snowy, windy conditions. All of a sudden, the weather got severe again. Winter is just around the corner, so naturally the cold temperatures are the result of global warming. Don’t you dare question the science. And don’t you also dare question the wisdom of solving that global warming in Chicago by mandating EVs that can’t run below freezing. Blue states have solved these problems with solar fields so big you can see them from space. We are well on our way to solving all our problems.

This week, we have several stories of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice coverage that definitively prove … something? We also have electric vehicles preparing for hibernation season in Chicago and yet another electric bus company going out of business (which will inspire confidence in the all-new electric Popemobile); California has started producing too much solar power; lake-effect snow in Buffalo, NY apparently proves global warming; and targeting asthmatics to save the planet. In our Good News segment, nuclear power has gotten new life in the US, and one blue state has decided not to outlaw campers and RVs after all.

(Don't miss last week's Climate Cultists Column: Black Friday Edition!)

Sea Ice Capades

We saw a flurry of articles this week around Arctic and Antarctic sea ice coverage. The government and the corporate media (if you’ll pardon the redundancy) would have you believe both polar regions have seen record low ice coverage. News reports announced a previously un-noticed “hot spot” in east Antarctica where an ice shelf broke off, which scientists attributed to stronger winds because of global warming. No way this could be natural, they say. The catastrophic ice loss caused such panic that hundreds of scientists got together during the Australian Antarctic Research Conference last week for an emergency summit:

This gathering of 450 mostly “early-career” polar scientists flexed scientific muscles to alert the world to the what’s happening to our planet, taking off the gloves and coming out swinging. They claim we’re got a bigger problem than generally realized: “Efforts to slow down climate change through coordinated global action are paramount to protect the future of Australia, Antarctica, and our planet.

This gathering of 450 mostly “early-career” polar scientists flexed scientific muscles to alert the world to the what’s happening to our planet, taking off the gloves and coming out swinging. They claim we’re got a bigger problem than generally realized: “Efforts to slow down climate change through coordinated global action are paramount to protect the future of Australia, Antarctica, and our planet.

Drastic action is necessary, they announced!

Archaeological proof of life from thousands of years ago in Antarctica don’t prove these cycles could possibly be natural, though. Nor did the release of a scientific paper analyzing tens of thousands of satellite recordings that demonstrate the surface temperatures of Greenland have dropped over the past 20 years. Nor did yet another scientific paper that shows Antarctic ice increasing since the start of the satellite era in 1979, and any variations attributable to natural phenomena. Nope. We have to do something.

It’s Electric Vehicle Hibernation Season

As we barrel towards wintertime, the natural cycles of the seasons assert themselves. Migratory birds make their way to South America. Monarch butterflies fly to Mexico. Snowbirds flock to Florida and Arizona. Bears prepare to hibernate. And electric vehicles start using way less energy as they, too, prepare to hibernate until the weather improves.

Chicago has already seen its first version of “EV Armageddon,” as frigid temperatures yet again made it impossible to get a charge:

Meanwhile, more blue cities that relied on EV companies to provide public transportation have been left holding the (very expensive) bag, including Joliet, just outside Chicago:

That company, Lion Electric, also screwed over several towns in Maine:

It defies credulity that municipalities where winter occurs every year continue to rely on these things. Those of the Catholic persuasion had better hope the Pope doesn’t choose to visit his flocks located in wintery locales:

The Continuing Insanity of Solar Economics 

Several articles emerged over the past week or two revealing the reality of California’s investments in solar energy. Turns out, it backfired, as all their green schemes end up.


SFGate picked up the story:

Over the past two decades, California has become a juggernaut of solar energy production. But that doesn’t mean its residents are reaping huge benefits.

Oversupply of solar power is causing California’s operators to regularly halt production or even pay electricity traders to take power off their hands. Sometimes, other states snag the extra energy for cheap. Meanwhile, California residents, businesses and factories pay around two to three times as much for power as the national average.

California’s most-in-the-nation solar panel buildup isn’t enough for an ideal alternative energy model. Millions of dollars of electricity go to waste because the infrastructure isn’t in place to store or move all the solar power.

The technology either doesn’t exist to store the energy, or the regulatory state won’t allow for the massive required expansion of infrastructure to transport all that extra power to consumers. With all of that, SFGate notes residential power rates have increased a whopping 51 percent over just the past three years. But California presses on regardless, building even more solar plants for power they can’t use.

Of course, the little-brother state of Oregon feels like it’s gotten left behind, so now they want to waste a bunch of land too. Just this week, Oregon approved a 10,000-acre solar farm, using up otherwise productive farmland.

Snow in Buffalo Proves Global Warming?

On Sunday Night Football, the San Francisco 49ers visited the Buffalo Bills, and apparently brought California’s politics with them. The stadium got hit with a few feet of lake-effect snow the day before, requiring the team to once again enlist the fans to dig it out.

According to the local fish wrap newspaper, the blame for this common occurrence in upstate New York can sit squarely at the feet of global warming.

Global warming has caused winter to become more severe? The Blizzard of 1978 would like a word.

Asthmatics Cause Global Warming

Sometimes, you only need to read a headline to know what insanity awaits.

You can pretty much guess the direction of the article. According to the ghouls at Great Britain’s National Health Service, that tiny life-saving puff of medication causes global warming.

Now for some good news …

Momentum for Nuclear Continues to Build

The election of Donald Trump to his second term starting in 2025 promises to bring about another energy revolution, like the one he oversaw in his first term. This time around, however, the momentum has shifted towards unshackling nuclear energy, as both an efficient and a carbon-neutral source of power. That should bring both sides of the climate debate together.

Fears over nuclear energy have greatly subsided since the 1970s protest movement dissipated.

Indeed, Trump said so on the campaign trail over the summer.

Now if he can also unshackle the development of electrical transportation infrastructure, we’ll really have an energy revolution.

Zero Emission Truck Rules Take a Hit

It was just last week we reported blue states outlawing gas and diesel campers and RVs because they might lead to too much fun and independence. That went over so poorly, at least one blue state has decided to put the brakes on its plans:

Last week, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality’s commission adopted temporary Clean Truck Rules that will go into effect in January. The rules are set to be updated to align with California’s vehicle and truck emission standards. Oregon is one of 10 states that have opted to adopt California’s standards for these vehicles and must be aligned with California’s standards.

The updated versions of the rules will delay when stricter standards for medium and heavy-duty trucks go into effect and will introduce more flexibility and time for manufacturers to sell these vehicles.

(Learn more about how climate cultists have ruined science in our groundbreaking report: How the Left’s Global Warming Ideology Wrecked Science—And How to Stop It)



Jeff Reynolds is Senior Editor for Restoration News, specializing in energy and science policy, as well as dark money. Jeff is an author, editor, strategist, and public speaker. A prolific researcher and writer, he authored the book Behind the Curtain in 2019, which details the billionaires and foundations responsible for the radical left's ascension in American politics. 

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