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💧 #RéalismeClimatique
🇨🇦 ET VOILÀ !
LE RISQUE CLIMATIQUE FINANCIER
Lorsque Carney dirigeait la Banque d’Angleterre, il a pris la parole au Lloyd’s de Londres (2015), où il a fait valoir que « le changement climatique menaçait la stabilité financière ». 🤦🏻♂️
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"The targets the UK has pledged for decarbonisation are highly unlikely to be achieved."
Earlier this year, we sat down with @RogerPielkeJr. He told us that the realities of our energy system do not allow for decarbonisation by 2050.
"They'll have to fudge the numbers, or they'll have to change the law."
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El Hierro is the dramatic falsification of the 100% renewable myth.
Stop wasting hard earned tax payer monies into the ditch hoping for dreams that are just dogmas.
Large scale wind turbines, especially offshore, are not a rational solution. Nuclear reactors & dense energy are.
Have policymakers in the EU, the UK and US states never heard of El Hierro?
A small island with 11,000 residents and plenty of wind. An ideal testing ground for the promise of 100% renewable electricity, before making millions of people depend on it.
They installed wind turbines with more than twice the island’s average electricity demand in capacity, plus pumped hydro storage. Yet in 2025, this system supplied just 44% of its electricity. Diesel supplied the rest.
@mhtncontrarian explains why: during prolonged periods of low wind, the upper reservoir empties. Then the diesel generators have to take over.
If this setup cannot deliver on its promise on a small, windy island, why are politicians so confident it will work on a vastly larger scale?
They keep pushing ahead, with millions of people’s electricity supply at stake.
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Across the rich world, nearly a quarter of all development aid now goes to climate projects.
The core problem is opportunity cost. Every dollar subsidizing solar panels or carbon accounting is a dollar not spent on schools, maternal health or clean water.
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Never listen when they tell you wind/solar/electrification will be cheaper and more affordable. Look at the UK!!!
Net zero added £140.3bn to Britain's electricity bills in 2002–24: £2,286 for the average household. Modelled, in 2024 prices. Nobody official counts it. Parliament should require a yearly statement, with data anyone can check.
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.@ABDanielleSmith @PremierScottMoe @OSFIBSIF_leader @OSFICanada via @jackprandelli For years "stranded assets" was a phrase used about oil. Refineries, tankers and oil fields were the things that would be left behind, the money went where the growth was.
In 2026 the phrase has changed sides. The assets that were going to be stranded are the ones collecting the cash and the assets that were the future are the ones that a chief executive with $40 billion of fresh debt expects to be left half built.
That is the inversion this article is about and it comes with a question for anyone whose wealth was made in technology this decade: not whether to leave, but whether to let some of it work where the cash is. The numbers decide which fields did better, so I initially did my researches for the fields rather than the stocks.
The US refiners' index has returned 152% this year, the tanker owners' index 100%, Canadian energy 61%, the S&P 500 energy sector 55% and oil services 30%.
The Nasdaq 100 has returned 15% and the Magnificent 7 6.5%. Since 2 March, the first trading day of the Iran war, the refiners are up 98% and the Nasdaq 16%. The one fossil field that lost is the Korean shipbuilders, down 28%, and the one tech field that lost is the renters of compute: CoreWeave is down 46% from its 8 September high. themerchantsnews.substack.co…
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ON THIS DAY IN WEATHER DISASTER HISTORY — OCTOBER 26
Before smartphones. Before viral videos. Before everyone carried a camera.
🌊 1859 — BRITISH ISLES: The Royal Charter Storm devastates the coast. Approximately 800 dead and 133 ships lost. One of Britain's worst maritime weather disasters.
🌀 1865 — ATLANTIC COAST: A hurricane reportedly sinks the USS Mobile off Georgia, sending the ship and its cargo to the ocean floor.
🌀 1877 — FLORIDA: A late-October tropical storm strikes Florida's Gulf Coast, with winds estimated near 45 mph.
🥶 1919 — NORTHERN PLAINS: An extraordinary October cold outbreak sends temperatures below zero across the Dakotas and Minnesota. Miller, South Dakota, plunges to −10°F!
🌀 1952 — WESTERN PACIFIC: Super Typhoon Wilma rages with winds around 160 mph. A U.S. military weather reconnaissance aircraft disappears into the storm.
Five events. Nearly a century of weather history.
What didn't exist was a camera in every pocket broadcasting every disaster around the planet.
History didn't start with smartphones. Neither did severe weather.
REAL EVENTS. REAL HISTORY. A DAILY CURE FOR WEATHER AMNESIA.
.@ABDanielleSmith @PremierScottMoe @OSFIBSIF_leader @OSFICanada So, 'stranded assets' is not really a thing. h/t @JessicaWeinkle
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.@HeartlandInst @wattsupwiththat Jump for Joy!
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.@ABDanielleSmith @PremierScottMoe @jackprandelli takes a look at Alberta oil and what's up in our neighbourhood. @WBrettWilson @jackmintz @ExnerPirot
Canada’s cheapest barrel just got a friend in Victoria.
British Columbia elected its first Conservative government since 1928, with about 2/3 of the 93 seats.
That matters for the $28 discount on Canadian heavy oil I wrote about.
The barrel is cheap because it has one big buyer, the US, and one pipe to the Pacific, Trans Mountain, already 98% full.
The outgoing government opposed new oil pipelines and locked in the northern tanker ban with Ottawa in July.
The new premier, Lorne Doerkson, welcomed Pacific Link, the 1m b/d pipe to the Vancouver coast, and wants a working group with Alberta and Ottawa.
Today federal Conservatives pushed a bill to scrap the tanker ban, CP reports.
Hear me out: Victoria can’t lift that ban alone. It’s federal law.
What moves is who sits across the table from Alberta.
I’m watching the Pacific Link open season next spring. That’s when producers show whether they’ll pay for the pipe.
Do not miss my article: themerchantsnews.substack.co…
.@envirodefence @environmentca @OSFIBSIF_leader @OSFICanada @ABDanielleSmith @PremierScottMoe @RBC @Uconservatrice @Sismologue FYI
Have policymakers in the EU, the UK and US states never heard of El Hierro?
A small island with 11,000 residents and plenty of wind. An ideal testing ground for the promise of 100% renewable electricity, before making millions of people depend on it.
They installed wind turbines with more than twice the island’s average electricity demand in capacity, plus pumped hydro storage. Yet in 2025, this system supplied just 44% of its electricity. Diesel supplied the rest.
@mhtncontrarian explains why: during prolonged periods of low wind, the upper reservoir empties. Then the diesel generators have to take over.
If this setup cannot deliver on its promise on a small, windy island, why are politicians so confident it will work on a vastly larger scale?
They keep pushing ahead, with millions of people’s electricity supply at stake.
.@skdh Climate Sceptics Call It a Scandal. They Have a Point. youtu.be/15PV7qn8Phg
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We now see the full extent of preplanning and empire-building that went into the United Nations' global warming campaign.
It was all behind the scenes. Today, the UN has a workforce of roughly 190,000 and an annual budget of $3.45 billion. It has become a vast self-managing, self perpetuating bureaucracy - arguably the largest non-governmental network in the world. The UN had been laying the groundwork for an environmental crisis for decades before it was finally announced in 1988.
The UN took control of the World Meteorological Organization in 1951, transforming it into a specialised UN agency. The WMO operates with an annual budget of approximately $138.7 million and has a staff of 350 to 400.
The WMO bridges the gap between raw meteorological data, international political agendas and global news media - linking thousands of land stations, ocean buoys, aircraft and satellites. While its stated role is to share critical weather and water data, this massive infrastructure has been effectively co-opted into a public relations framework.
Consequently, the world has been bombarded with weather hysteria for almost 40 years. Mainstream news outlets routinely prioritise speculative, worst-case climate models over empirical observations - like 'rain bombs' - maintaining a permanent state of crisis designed to shape public compliance.
The information gathering agency, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, runs the scientific arm. It operates with a core secretariat of just 15 staff members and an annual budget of roughly $12.5 million. The IPCC was established 38 years ago, ostensibly as a neutral body to gather objective scientific information on climate.
In reality, the IPCC became the driving force behind the greatest environmental and social upheaval in modern history. Highly politicised from its inception, it was founded entirely by UN agencies - the WMO and the UN Environment Programme. This gave the UN absolute control over the global climate agenda and funded what has become the largest propaganda campaign in history.
The UN has also run annual fund raising COP summits around the world for 30 years. They have become junkets for the rich and privileged.
The IPCC did not recruit independent scientific staff; instead, its administrative apparatus actively sponsors and selects studies that supported the carbon dioxide hypothesis. Research raising questions or doubts are minimised or discarded. Critics find their studies starved of funding and publishers, while some even faced threats to their academic tenures.
Local weather outlets and national agencies now operate inside an ecosystem heavily influenced by these overarching, high-alarm targets, broadcasting continuous warnings of 'global boiling', catastrophic sea-level rise, and 'Code Red for Humanity' - with UN leadership acting as the chief amplifier. This environment birthed foundational, highly charged studies designed to lock in future warming projections.
For decades, the UN promoted only extreme scenarios. A prime example is the IPCC's reliance on high-end warming trajectories - such as projections warning of up to a 5.5-degree temperature rise - predictions so extreme that even mainstream scientists have increasingly conceded they are implausible.
Armed with a crisis of its own making, the UN called for the rapid dismantling of hydrocarbon fuels - coal, oil, and natural gas - the very energy sources that lifted humanity out of stagnation and powered the Industrial Revolution. Almost every aspect of modern civilisation, from transport networks to industrial manufacturing, relies entirely on these dense, inexpensive and reliable energy sources.
Climate management bears no relation to the UN’s foundational charter of resolving international conflict; it's a textbook case of bureaucratic mission creep.
The sheer complexity of this UN machinery, combined with an aura of technical authority, is precisely what insulates it from public scrutiny.
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.@_InThisTogether on censorship in the UK:
"They've arrested 60,000 people over the last five years for comments they've made online."
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𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗢 𝗢𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿, 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲𝘀
MISO just obliterated the capacity values for solar, storage, and wind.
Solar dropped to 10 percent in summer and 4.5 percent annualized by 2030.
A utility that retired coal for thousands of MW of renewables now has a reliability crisis.
Read the full article:
wattsupwiththat.com/2026/10/…
🌍 Quand le débat climatique devient un dogme, la démocratie recule : peur, censure médiatique, disqualification des contradicteurs et sanctions. La science progresse par la contradiction, pas par l’interdiction du débat 👇climato-realistes.fr/le-dogm…
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𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝘁 𝗢𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗨𝗽 𝗔𝗻 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝘆 "𝗥𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀"
These guys claimed their wind and pumped hydro setup would power an entire island with 100% renewables.
The highest share they ever hit in a full year was 56%.
It has been downhill from there.
They overbuilt the wind turbines by more than double and added big storage.
Still, calm spells drain the reservoirs and diesel takes over.
Bigger places keep charging ahead with the same plan anyway.
Read the full article:
wattsupwiththat.com/2026/10/…
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At This Moment in Alberta
24-Oct-2026 @ 19:59
🔥 Fossil fuels are supplying 85.9% of Alberta's electricity.
💨 Wind
• 20.5% of capacity
• 10.8% of total generation
☀️ Solar
• 0% of capacity
• 0% of total generation
↔️ Importing: 125 MW
📊 Total Generation: 10,778 MW
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All climate models experience GIGO, which is why they all fail. Not one model can replicate past climate change - and thus none can forecast future climate change.



























