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Most renewable electricity in the world is not wind or solar, it is hydropower. Hydro produces about 14% of global electricity, and more than half of all renewable power. It is reliable, dispatchable, and produces virtually no CO2 - yet many environmental groups oppose new dams. The same contradiction appears with nuclear power. Nuclear produces zero operational CO2, runs 24 hours a day, and uses far less land than wind or solar. If cutting emissions were truly the priority here, the focus would be obvious: Hydropower and nuclear, not endless wind and solar expansion.

From 2008 to 2015, Antarctic sea ice was running at record highs. Then the system flipped. By 2017, sea ice had hit record lows. A new study explains why. A cold surface layer in the southern ocean had been gradually thinning since 2005, while warmer deep water was slowly rising closer to the surface. Then in 2015, strong winds mixed that heat upward, disrupting the ocean structure and rapidly reducing sea ice. The paper concludes the decline was a "result of atmospheric forcing" and "ultimately triggered by strong winds in 2015." It was a natural, wind-driven event, in other words (not a CO2 melt story), and one today's climate models fail to reproduce, according to the authors. Looking at the latest data, another swing may be playing out. Sea ice is surging in 2026, with extent currently higher than in the early 1980s.

In 2023, Antarctic sea ice hit a record low. Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey were quick to blame climate change, saying human CO2 emissions made such an event "four times more likely." But then reality intervened. Through 2025 and into 2026, Antarctic sea ice surged back, returning to levels similar to 1980 - a dramatic rebound the models did not predict. This is the problem with climate attribution theatre. When ice declines - it's climate change. When it rebounds - it's ignored. And a complicit media never updates the public.

Post-2015 Antarctic sea-ice losses were a wind-driven ocean regime shift. The authors admit that models struggle to reproduce both the timing and magnitude of these changes (rendering them useless). Full report (and more): electroverse.substack.com/p/alaska-deep-…

MIT atmospheric physicist Dr. Richard Lindzen has said "there will be no climate catastrophe." "When someone says half a degree more and it's the end of the species, that's not science, that's theatre," says Lindzen. Every apocalyptic prediction, from famine, to ice-free poles, to snowless winters, has failed. And they'll keep failing. "2030 will pass. 2050 will pass. 50 years will pass. There will be no climate catastrophe." Lindzen isn't a fringe voice. He's a leading atmospheric scientist, author of nearly 250 peer-reviewed papers, and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Today's climate agenda, he argues, isn't about data, it's about power. "It's about controlling policy, controlling economies, and reshaping society under the guise of a crisis that doesn't exist." The real threat isn't climate change. It's climate policy.

Munich Re is one of the world's largest reinsurance companies. Their business depends on accurately pricing risk. Their chart shows weather disaster losses as a percentage of global GDP over the past 35 years. And the trend is negative. If climate change were causing an explosion in disaster damage, losses should be rising faster than global wealth. But they aren't. So why do headlines keep shouting "record climate disasters"? Because the climate industry always cites raw dollar losses. As the global economy grows and more infrastructure exists, total damages naturally rise. Normalize the data properly though, and the panic narrative collapses.

Germany currently has about 26 GWh of battery storage. Most of it sits in home batteries, with only 4.3 GWh actually serving the grid. Building that storage has already cost more than €10 billion. And at national demand levels, it only covers roughly 30 minutes of summer electricity usage. The winter months bring what's known as “Dunkelflaute” — cold, dark, windless periods (and higher energy usage). To survive a 10-day winter lull (the minimum realistic requirement), Germany would need about 12,000 GWh of batteries — 470 times today's storage. Such a system would weigh roughly 60 million tonnes, and would be made from vast quantities of lithium, nickel, graphite, copper, aluminum, and steel — all requiring intensive mining. At current battery prices, the system would cost trillions of euros. And batteries last only 10 to 15 years, meaning the entire system would need constant replacement. The conclusion is unavoidable: Wind and solar require reliable backup power. Renewables need oil, coal, gas, and nuclear.

A solar panel's lifespan is just 15 to 20 years. After that, efficiency drops and it needs replacing. Each panel is built from glass, aluminum, silicone, silver, copper and polymers. While glass and aluminum can be recycled, the silicone, silver and polymers (the most mining/energy-intensive components) are rarely recovered due to the cost and difficulty involved. Because of this, the panels simply end up in landfills. By 2050, solar panel waste is estimated to hit 78 million tons, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency. This is the dirty secret of 'clean' energy: short lifespan, heavy mining, and a growing toxic waste crisis.

Britain restricts drilling in its own waters… while buying the very same fuel from Norway at far greater cost. The emissions are identical. The difference is that the jobs, tax revenue, and energy security now belong to someone else. Full breakdown: electroverse.substack.com/p/great-lakes-…

A BBC article claims the island of Cartí Sugdupu (Gardi Sugdub) is being abandoned because of rising seas. But that's not what's happening. More than 1,000 people live on an island denser than New York City (without the high rises). Residents are relocating because there is no space, not because the island is drowning. The broader science tells the same story. A large satellite analysis of more than 700 islands across 30 atolls found 88.6% were either stable or increased in size, while only about 11% shrank. Another major study of Tuvalu's 100 islands found 73 islands expanded between 1971 and 2014, which, despite alarmist photo ops by the UN, increased the country's total land area by 2.9%. Coral islands naturally shift, build and reshape themselves. But that reality doesn't fit the narrative.

A powerful storm has dumped extraordinary snow across the European Alps. Parts of northern Italy and the western alpine chain saw extreme accumulations in less than 24 hours. In Macugnaga, Italy, a remarkable 1.47 meters (around 5 feet) of snow fell in a single day - one of the most intense short-duration snowfall events ever recorded in the region. Across Aosta Valley and northern Piemonte, totals widely exceeded a meter (3.3 feet), with higher elevations seeing even deeper snow. The storm has now moved out, but colder air lingers across the Alps. And more snow is possible later this week. This is a rare setup for the second half of March.

Shareholder climate proposals are collapsing. These are votes where activist investors try to force companies to adopt climate or ESG policies. In the 2025 round of voting, not a single environmental proposal passed - down from 21% that passed in 2021. The world's largest asset managers BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street and Fidelity rejected all of them. Without their backing, the proposals go nowhere. A leading campaign group called the results "the worst we've seen," and bemoaned "a worrying retreat from ambition." Companies themselves are also pushing back. The message from markets is clear. The climate crusade is fading. The money is moving on.

Europe's official grid authority has released its report on the nationwide blackout that hit Spain last year. And while the report treads carefully politically, its data make the cause clear. Wind and solar triggered the collapse. Within the first 80 seconds, Spain lost 2.5 GW of generation, around 10% of its national supply, with every MW of that early loss coming from renewables. Gas and hydro remained stable until the cascade was already underway. The report calls it an unprecedented speed of blackout. This was a textbook inverter chain failure, with renewables dropping so fast that the grid's stabilizers never had time to react. By midday, Spain's grid had virtually no inertia, nothing spinning fast enough to hold frequency steady. But to admit that outright would mean questioning Europe's green transition itself, something the report appears unable to do. So the event is officially described as "a rare local disturbance," rather than what it actually was... A systemic failure of weather-dependent power.

In Macugnaga, Italy, a remarkable 1.47 meters (58 inches) of snow fell in just one day — one of the most intense short-duration snowfall events ever reported in the region. Full breakdown & more: electroverse.substack.com/p/rare-march-c…

For years, we were told fossil fuels would become "stranded assets". But in a new report by Barclays, it is warned the risk may now lie with renewables. Wind and solar are expanding faster than the grid. In the US, transmission capacity has grown just 3% in a decade. Meanwhile, thousands of renewable projects sit waiting years to connect. Barclays also challenges a key Net Zero claim. Energy transitions do not replace old fuels. They simply add to them. Despite trillions spent, fossil fuels still supply more than 80% of global energy. Cheap turbines and panels do not mean cheap power. Reliable grids still require reliable generation.

A new study analyzed more than 200 fossil mollusk shells from coastal deposits on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula. The shells date to two past warm periods: the last interglacial (about 127,000 to 115,000 years ago), and the Holocene (which began around 11,700 years ago). Scientists measured oxygen and carbon isotopes preserved in the shells to reconstruct ancient sea temperatures. The results show SSTs were often 4C warmer than today. During the last interglacial, reconstructed temperatures ranged from 17.6C to 22.9C. For comparison, modern coastal waters typically range from about 15C to 19C. Sea levels were higher in the past too As much as 5 meters above present during the last interglacial, and up to 3 meters higher during the mid-Holocene. Warmer and higher seas occurred naturally long before modern emissions.

Deforestation has reduced biospheric carbon for centuries (the carbon stored in plants, trees and vegetation). Climate narratives highlight those losses, but ignore CO2 fertilization. As atmospheric CO2 rises, plants grow faster and photosynthesis becomes more efficient. Satellite data show the result: global vegetation has exploded. And by 2020, increased plant growth had offset historic vegetation losses from deforestation. The biosphere moved back into net positive territory. Rising CO2 boosts plant growth, the biosphere expands as a result, and global greening has now exceeded centuries of deforestation losses.

Southern Australia’s coastal climate experienced warmer seas, higher sea levels, and large natural temperature swings in the relatively recent past. The ocean system has always been dynamic. Full report: electroverse.substack.com/p/record-snow-…

From 1900 to 1970, land and sea temperatures rose almost identically. But after 1970, land readings shot up while the oceans warmed only slightly. The reason isn't a sudden climatic change, but a measurement one. As the global population doubled, cities sprawled and weather stations once surrounded by open fields were swallowed by concrete, asphalt and traffic. This creates what's known as the urban heat island effect. Cities trap heat during the day and release it slowly at night, keeping local temperatures artificially higher than the surrounding countryside. That extra warmth shows up in the records, pushing land data upward. The oceans of course have remained unaffected by city sprawl, and they show a more gentle, gradual rise. It isn't CO2. It's concrete.