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Monday, February 23, 2026

February 23 - 26, 2026 Reading List:

February 23 - 26, 2026 Reading List:

Links to Other Subjects After The Climate & Energy List 

Richard Greene, Editor, 
Bingham Farms, MI

Global Average Temperature, in green, vs. Rising CO2, in black, C. degrees vs. ppm  1880--2021 Chart

Climate & Energy:

Can the grids in the US handle more AI data centers?


AI science will not work as hoped: Human thinking ability will deteriorate when the "answers" are so easy to find:
The following variables are known to influence Earth's climate:

Why this blog exists: 


The Greenhouse Effect: The CO2 is Saturated Myth


Nut Zero is a political power strategy and is working as planned 


The Right Insight is a climate & energy website you should visit  (Second link below is to their archive)  

1/30/2026 – 2/5/2026: 7 Days Mid-Winter -- an abnormally cold period for the region.

UC Santa Barbara scientists create liquid solar battery that stores sunlight as heat

Renewables Now Make Up 25.8% Of US Electricity Generation (includes hydropower, geothermal and biomass) + 17.4% nuclear

Half A Million Without Power After Winter Storm Ravages US Northeast

Waste Piles Up In Cuba, Blackouts Worsen, As Lavrov Pleads To US For 'Brotherly Nation'

The effect of additional CO2 on Indian goosegrass: a +34% growth boost from an additional 300 ppm CO2

China goes gangbusters building 52 big coal plants in 2025

Actual Honolulu Tide Gauge Data Undercuts Disastrous Sea Level Rise Claims

NYT Cries ‘End Of Science’ After Trump EPA Scraps Obama-Era Endangerment Finding

Trump Has Betrayed the People of Coal Country. They Love Him Anyway.

Grid Socialism: The EU’s plan to make electricity uniformly expensive for all.

Data Centers Push Great Lakes Region to the Brink

Car giant owner of Vauxhall and Fiat to bring back diesel cars as EV sales fall across major markets

The End of Baseload Power as We Know It: China and France are retrofitting coal and nuclear plants to operate more intermittently

Ukraine Strikes Russia's Druzhba Pipeline Network

Supreme Court to Rule on Exxon's $1 Billion Cuba Assets Claim

Of the 1,300 Sanctioned Oil Ships, How Many Did the US Capture? (13)

Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere

Planting Billions of Trees Turned Barren Desert into a Carbon Sink That Lowers CO2

How Bogotá is tackling air pollution by greening its poorest neighborhoods

Analyzing The Western Water Crisis

Spain Leans on Gas to Stabilize Grid After Historic Blackout

Even auto giants know it: the electric car boom is out of charge

UK: The Case Against Net Zero – a Fourteenth Update

Coal Power Back In Trend As Globe Tries To Keep Pace With Growing Demand For Power

Tesla slashes Cybertruck prices as it tries to move (unpainted) metal

UK: The climate scaremongers: Mad Ed’s Net Zero mania will cost us billions, warns gas chief

What’s the status of international oil companies in Venezuela?

What the 2003 Blackout Revealed About the U.S. Power Grid

EPA Moves To Overhaul Biden-Era EV Clean School Bus Program After Safety Failures

 Solar's Land Use Problem Is Much Worse Than You Think

Chinese EVs Flood Europe, Signals Hollowing Out Of Bloc's Industrial Core

How A Water War Is Brewing Over A Drying Lake In Nevada 

Residents complain of widespread “wind turbine sickness” in Steuben County NY 

Germany’s “Energy Transition” Hits the Ice: LNG Crisis Exposes the Costs of Shunning Nuclear and Baseload Power

Claim: The “Open Fridge Effect” Baltic Sea Level Drop is Proof of Global Warming 

The federal government will provide $2.3 billion in EV rebates that will encourage Canadians to buy cars made elsewhere 

There are lessons to be drawn from the recent near-buckling of the U.S. energy grid under the stress of the winter  

Being against “climate change” in the abstract is inane 

The Royal Dutch Meteorological Agency (KNMI) has been forced to admit that they artificially scrubbed historical heatwaves from their temperature records

Texas Judge Lets Industry Fight Back In Plastics Recycling Lawsuit 

India Doubles Down On Coal And Natural Gas As Climate Goals Recede

India Builds a Fossil Future One Coal Plant at a Time


Cumulative hydrodynamic impacts of    offshore wind farms on North Sea currents and surface temperatures

 A geothermal revolution is unfolding around the United States 

GOOD NEWS:

Mountain Rescue Script Flipped as Hiker Saves Lost Dog Instead of a Dog Saving Hiker

Trump’s 15% Section 122 Tariff Retry Headed for a Supreme Court Loss Too

Trump's New Tariffs Are Probably Illegal Too

EU Halts Its Trade Deal With the US, a Good Move? 

 Trump Just Broke Every Deal with 15 Percent Tariffs, Other Countries Can Too

Q4 GDP Unexpectedly Grows At 1.4%, Half Expected Pace

3 Million Pages of Child Sex Trafficking, So, What Is the FBI Doing? (Nothing)

Immigrants Reduced US Deficits by $14.5 Trillion Since 1994

The so-called Ukrainian peace negotiations are now about money 

Trade Deficit Surges in December, Full Year Deficit Hits a New Record

Protecting Sex Predators: The Sordid Reality of the Global Power Elite

Pending Home Sales Drop to Record Low in the Data, from Already Low Levels, on Big Drops in the South & Midwest

Single-Family & Multifamily Construction: Bring on the Supply just as Population Growth Slows to a Crawl

The Epstein Files: A Peek Behind the Dark Curtain

Orders for Durable Goods at US Manufacturers Jump 7.8% in 2025 to Record on AI Infrastructure & Civilian Aircraft

PCE Inflation (2.9%, 3.0%) and GDP Inflation (3.7%) Got Hotter, but CPI Inflation (2.4%) Cooled. Why? The Fed Needs to Pay Serious Attention

Ukraine Is Exhausted But Plans for More Years of War

Better Late Than Never: On Friendship, Authoritarianism, And Finally Drawing A Line

Savings Rate Tumbles To 4 Year Lows As Fed's Favorite Inflation Indicator Comes In Hot

Trump Said Tariffs Would Reduce the Trade Deficit. Instead, It Hit a Record High in 2025.

Immigration and Culture

ICE Expansion and the Architecture of a Security State

Here Goes Washington To War Again…Because It’s Still Empire First 

All fundamental information that is widely distributed and/or well known by the investment community is already priced in.

Pros and Cons of Artificial Intelligence

US Treasury Debt-to-GDP Ratio Rises to 122% in Q4, Highest since Covid Spike

Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is a grim joke

We Deserve Better War Propaganda

Police Drug Tests Are Notoriously Unreliable. They Got This Man Wrongly Charged With Trafficking

Idiot US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee: “It Would Be Fine” If Israel Took Over Most of the Middle East

ICE whistleblower testifies to Congress about minimal training

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Saturday, February 21, 2026

2/20/26 Financial Data Summary of the Week: S&P 500 up +1.1% last week & up +0.9% ytd

2/20/26 Financial Data Summary of the Week: S&P 500 up +1.1% last week & up +0.9% ytd

For the Week:
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Wednesday, February 18, 2026

February 18 - 22, 2026 Reading List:

February 18 - 22, 2026 Reading List:

Links to Other Subjects After The Climate & Energy List 

Richard Greene, Editor, 
Bingham Farms, MI

Global Average Temperature, in green, vs. Rising CO2, in black, C. degrees vs. ppm  1880--2021 Chart

Climate & Energy::

Can the grids in the US handle more AI data centers?


AI science will not work as hoped: Human thinking ability will deteriorate when the "answers" are so easy to find:
The following variables are known to influence Earth's climate:

Why this blog exists: 


The Greenhouse Effect: The CO2 is Saturated Myth


Nut Zero is a political power strategy and is working as planned 


The Right Insight is a climate & energy website you should visit  (Second link below is to their archive)  

1/30/2026 – 2/5/2026: 7 Days Mid-Winter -- an abnormally cold period for the region.

Winter Storm Fern shuts in 18.3 bcfd of US gas production at its peak

Wind and Solar Ruin Grid Transformers

Reduction of Global Sulfate Aerosol Concentration and Corresponding Radiative Effects From Recent Chinese Emission Reduction

Ford is focusing on efficiency to make its 2027 $30,000 EV pickup affordable           (I doubt if this would be profitable at $30,000: Ye Editor)

Major Automakers Have Written Off $55 Billion After Overestimating EV Demand  (Boston Consulting Group (BCG) reported that U.S. automakers are still losing about $6,000 on every $50,000 EV they sell in the U.S. market: Ye Editor)

Scientists new plan to save the world by chopping down boreal forest and tossing it in the Arctic Ocean

"Climate pollution" causes boreal forests to grow 12% — recklessly spreading greenery in Arctic

Why Are Transit Buses So Expensive?

Buses and Trains to Nowhere Carrying Almost Nobody

Goodbye and Good Riddance to the Endangerment Finding

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Using Direct Air Capture to Remove Atmospheric Carbon

A fluid can store solar energy and then release it as heat months later

Was January's Low Snowfall the Result of Global Warming? The Facts are Clear

Tourists have been ordered to leave parts of the Italian and Swiss Alps after extreme snowfall and increasing avalanche risks forced authorities to evacuate villages and shut down entire areas.

The E.U. Wants 'Deforestation-Free' Products. Consumers May Pay the Cost.

China Opened 78 GW Of Coal Power Plants In 2025 (The US opened none and shut down 2.7 gigawatts: Ye Editor)

The Reason Nuclear Reactors Glow Blue Is Surprisingly Simple

Climate Slump: Bezos boots global warming coverage! Wash Post Fires 14 of 19 ‘Climate’ reporters – Paper had ‘climate solutions’ reporters touting ‘human hair’ clothing to save the earth

What are the most energy-efficient reactions in physics?  

Chinese EVs Will Soon Come to Canada. How Much Will They Cost?

Over 90 California Fish Stocks Almost Totally Rebuilt Thanks to Trawling Ban, Other Measures

‘Mushroom Mining’ Could Be Cheap Way to Recover Rare Earth Minerals from Industrial Waste

Iran Closes Part of Critical Oil Chokepoint for Navy Drills

Escalation: Iran, Russia, China To Hold Naval Drill In Flashpoint Strait Of Hormuz

Asia’s Crude Oil Imports Set for Record High in February

China's Unprecedented Oil Stockpiling Sparks Questions If Beijing Is Preparing For War

World is Better Off Dispelling Al Gore Climate Fears

California–U.K. Clean Energy Deal Sparks Fresh Clash Between Newsom and Trump

Clean Energy Gets Dirty: The Illegal Wind Turbine Dumping Scandal In Texas 

Trump Orders Pentagon to Buy Coal. It’s an Energy Emergency? (another fake trump emergency: Ye Editor)

UK: Smart meters are simply a way to control us  

BBC Admit Great Barrier Reef Report Was “Misleading”

China now has more operating power capacity from clean energy sources than capacity running on fossil fuels, thanks to a decade of booming solar and wind installations.

The Ozone Success Story With a Complicated Ending

Canada: Ottawa faces calls to send essential fuel to Cuba as U.S. widens oil blockade

Canada: Two Examples of Incompetence of Those we Elect and the Bureaucracies they Rule Over:

Claim: AI and Air Conditioning are Threatening Renewable Energy Dominance 


Endangerment Finding Rescission Major Win for Science and the Rule of Law

UK: Ed Miliband hails clean energy deal with Trump's worst enemy Gavin Newsom - amid warnings Britain faces 'BLACKOUTS' unless he drops Net Zero targets

Why California Gasoline Takes A Costly Detour Through The Bahamas  

How Trump’s EPA revolution will make California more affordable

No, Climate Change Isn’t Driving Wildlife Disease In New Jersey

U.S. Threatens to Quit IEA Over Green Energy Advocacy

GOOD NEWS:

Stray Dog Chooses His Family By Jumping Into Their Car 

“True power is sitting back and observing things with logic…” – words of wisdom to navigate today’s dumpster fires

Donald Trump’s Approval On Immigration :Hits Lowest Point Of His Presidency: 38%

Morocco: Outrage as three MILLION dogs to be 'massacred' by firing squad ahead of the World Cup

Berkshire Dumps Most Of Its Amazon Shares, Sells More Apple And BofA; Buys Small New York Times Position

Trump-RFK Jr.’s FDA in science freefall: The leucovorin autism “cure” fiasco is one of many (Kennedy is a conspiracy theory crackpot: Ye Editor)

Will Cuba Return to US Colonial Rule?

What’s the Right-Wing Beef With Cuban Socialism?

Trump: The Worst President Ever? (I say the worst in 165 years: Ye Editor)

ICE’s ‘Warrant’ Shortcut Violates the Constitution  

Idiot Trump Touts “78 Percent Reduction in the Trade Deficit” Due to Tariffs -- trade deficit increased in 2025  

As a Former Cop, I Have to Ask: What the Hell Is ICE Doing? 

Report: The FBI Bent Its Own Rules To Spy on 1,100 'Sensitive' Targets

Media Freedom…if We Can Keep it!

How much money has Trump made as president? The answer should worry us all.

The story of the Trump economy? Old people.

President Trump’s outrageous opposition to a new bridge to Canada disrespects Michigan 

 The Tariff Delay Is Now Over, Companies Start Hiking Prices Again  

Jobs Vanished: Jobs revised down two and a half million jobs back to 2019: Down -403,000 in 2025, from 584K to 181k = largest downward revision in at least two decades (Payroll jobs have always bee total BS numbers: Ye Editor)

Why Firing 9% Of The Federal Workforce Didn't Move The Needle 

Medical Care Costs Surge. What’s the Inflation Impact on PCE and CPI? 

Serious Delinquency Rates for Subprime & Prime Auto Loans, Balances, and Debt-to-Income Ratio in Q4 2025  

Trump tariff "victory lap" revolved around phony numbers, cherry-picked facts, and a strawman caricature of his critics’ arguments.

The Big Lie About Iran’s Support for Terrorism

Ron Paul: The One Man Who The ‘Epstein Files’ Make Look Better

The Trump Administration's War Against ICE Critics

Trump's Blatantly Unconstitutional Attempt To Punish His Congressional Critics Hits 2 Roadblocks

Prosecutors Admit the DHS Account of an ICE Shooting Was Based on Lies

Trump Threatens Iraq With Crippling Sanctions If Maliki Elected To 3rd Term As PM

Trump’s Voting Claims Are False. So What Is the Save Act Really About?

Marina Lacerda was only 14 years old when she was introduced to Jeffrey Epstein

US Government Sold $701 Billion of Treasury Securities this Week. As Deficits Balloon, Bond Math Is Relentlessly Brutal

The record-breaking cocaine boom — and its deadly fallout

Special Ed Teacher Killed In Georgia By Driver Fleeing ICE, Authorities Say

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