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My initial Tweet will provide a look at the failure of the global models which drive too much of "global science". Thank you Dr. Spencer.

@MatthewWielicki The Green Grifters are working hard to whitewash the problems with Spain's grid. Continued push to declare it had nothing to do with solar/wind and that we can operate our grids safely without the inertia and volt/freq regulation of gas/coal/nukes.... Absolutely delusional

Why are we doing this?

we discussed this phenomenon about 20 years ago. Various people showed the phenomenon under various ex post selection criteria: myself, David Stockwell, Lucia Liljegen, Lubos Motl, and others. The phenomenon was easy to understand and widely understood in "skeptic" community, but the climate community more or less stuck carrots in their ears and shut their eyes to the problem. PAGES2K and especially PAGES2K (2019) carried out ex post selection on an industrialized scale.

Did my own try on the Mann/Marcott/PAGES2K proxy screening routine and created an ensemble of 103 pseudoproxies consisting of random numbers between -2 and +2 for the time 0-2025 AD. To find the "temperature sensitive" proxies (as prescribed for this process) I tested correlation of the random proxies with the NOAA global temperature data set 1850-2025. The chart below shows what I received as average after discarding the negatively and non-correlating proxies. I created global warming from a bunch of meaningless casino numbers, pure noise.

🔥REOPEN GRONINGEN NOW — before the next energy crisis turns the Netherlands into Europe's beggar. Discovered in 1959, the Groningen massive gas field once supplied up to 80% of Dutch gas. It was a national powerhouse. By 2024, the Dutch government shut it down completely because of minor earthquake risks and major ideological 'green' delusion. Result? Total dependence on foreign imports — just in time for the Ukraine war chaos. Now history is repeating... with a vengeance. (1/6)

@RogerPielkeJr Some of us have been saying this for a decade….

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@domdyer70 This is a lie. They had nuke and NatGas running. They exported power as well, which is how they play with the math to make this claim They cant run the grid without nukes and NatGas. They need the inertia and volt/freq regulation which RE cant provide Another RE smokescreen

Well done Spain

@AnnieAgar What if the 21st selection of the 1983 NFL draft was Dan Marino instead of Gabriel Rivera?

biggest what if in sports?

Lets be clear for @Keir_Starmer @Ed_Miliband @ClaireCoutinho @Nigel_Farage @RupertLowe10 and anyone else in the UK..... The correlation doesn't move down as you move to the right, it moves to the right and higher Stop destroying your economy based on falsified premises

This is the problem with the cost of wind/solar in a nutshell None of the countries in Europe with high levels of solar/wind have inexpensive power ... and there are no countries with inexpensive power that have high levels of solar/wind They are mutually exclusive

@clim8resistance They are “pre-buying” electricity when they purchase this crap and don’t even understand it And without really high capacity factors over a LONG period of time they will never make up for the money they spend

Goes off elsewhere about how he bought 14 panels and a battery system. Claims ~90 reduction in energy bills. Doesn't explain how much he spent. There's always a hole in their claims. And they can't see any further than their smug little lives.

There is no vacuum in the universe emptier than the space between the ears of UK solar evangelists.

@SynthSignals26 @KobeissiLetter Downstream issues may be harder to manage-but depends on the material Example - most fert supplies by US farmers was secured months ago. They don’t buy on spot, they buy in advance. US crops should be fine and I would hazard that domestic fert supplies start rebuilding 2H 2026

Correct on crude. US refinery supply is largely insulated. The exposure is downstream. Fertilizer, petrochemicals, LNG, jet fuel, aluminum feedstock. Those don’t have Canadian substitutes. The US gas price at $3.94/gallon isn’t a refinery supply story. It’s a global price transmission story. Oil trades in a world market regardless of where the barrel originates.

The West is relatively “protected" from the current energy shock: Oil currently flowing through global shipping routes is down to ~1,430 million barrels, down -270 million over the last 3 weeks. Meanwhile, OECD Europe and Americas commercial crude flows are up to ~960 million barrels, the highest since at least 2024. Since the start of 2026, Western commercial crude flows have risen +50 million barrels, even as global oil in transit collapses. In fact, US oil giants are now set for one of their most profitable years on record. The US is pumping and selling oil like never before.

@SynthSignals26 @KobeissiLetter US imports only 8 mil bbls/day with 5 of that from Canada. Only about 600k bbls/day from Gulf US refineries using imported crude are designed around Canada, Mex, Venez heavy crudes - not MidEast+Other suppliers like Guyana, BRZ, Nigeria Almost no impact to US refinery supply

The West’s insulation is real but incomplete. US refineries are optimized for heavy sour crude, the grade that comes from the Gulf. Domestic light sweet production can’t fully substitute. The ECB pricing 75bps of hikes today is the “protected” West repricing its rate path because of a chokepoint it doesn’t control. Insulated from shortage. Not insulated from price.

@ariverob @LoftusSteve Those pieces of crap on Amazon are not providing household power. They are just for charging. They are not plug in either I will hold further comment but I highly doubt you get 13% cap factor with those things over any length of time…..

@ChartsClimate @LoftusSteve Well, your research is clearly not good enough. You are choosing a terrible example just to rant about it. News outlets in the UK are using EcoFlow as an example, 87 USD per 100 W (literally 10 times cheaper than the estimate you have in your first post) eu.ecoflow.com/products/strea…

Super. I'm all for more free market options. But for context, those half a million plug in solar panels in Germany provided 0.2% of all electricity last year.

@ariverob @LoftusSteve This was the first one that popped up when I did a search. They are all grifters preying on the ill informed. And even at half that cost it would take 12 years? No way these flimsy pieces of garbage last that long…..

@ChartsClimate @LoftusSteve Come on... A 100W unit DOES NOT cost 700-1000 USD... You can find 100W for 80 USD on Amazon.

@JavierBlas And then some countries did this .... and probably now wish they didn't with some of the highest electricity prices in the world Burning the ships only to find out you trapped yourself on "Economic Suicide Island" businessgreen.com/news/4036131/s…

More evidence of Asian counties performing a LNG-to-coal fuel switch: Thailand has reactivated two coal-fired units that had been mothballed. The switch is important to put a lid on global LNG (and European gas) prices. bangkokpost.com/business/gener…

h/t @energy_said Todays note on shipping move to electric Note the easiest to electrify, use very little of total fuel demand, and many still have problems Yet industry is trying desperately to push large cargo carriers to dump fuel oil when the easy ones still haven't gone⚡️

@PeterDClack The sun is the source, the oceans are the regulator, the atmosphere is the dissipator of energy across the globe Our “climate” is not the driver. Hell, it’s easier to argue it’s in the backseat and not even riding shogun And CO2 is in the trunk

The entire heat capacity of the atmosphere is equal to the top 3.5 meters of the oceans. The remaining 3,700m of the abyss is Earth’s true thermal vault. The truth is, the Earth is a water planet and oceans cover 71% of the surface to an average depth of 2.3 miles. Ocean currents carry warm water from the mid tropics to the northern hemisphere, then the currents return after a round trip of 1,000 years. Without these currents northern Europe would look like Greenland. Warm waters from the Roman warm period (240BC to 400AD) are still just returning to the mid latitudes. The atmosphere by comparison is a gaseous envelope that retains almost no thermal energy, hardly any CO2 and is largely controlled by ocean dynamics. The deep Pacific itself is so massive that it is only now receiving the cold waters from the Little Ice Age. We aren't starting from scratch, we are mid-cycle in a 4.6-billion-year-old machine. We’ve also reinvented the climate. Once, it was a word for the local weather of robins and sparrows. Now it's a global ideological abstraction. We’ve lost our admiration for the natural world. We count CO2 in ppm while ignoring the satellite-proven greening of the Sahara. It’s time to move past the light breezes and offshore winds and look into the deep. Ask yourself, is the 1.4°C warming since 1850 really an unprecedented crisis? The physics says the ocean runs the game.

@LoftusSteve @CitizenCohn @WIRED Would love to see that happen with eight cars at once at one location….. And how much would that grid upgrade cost? And at what rate/kwh…..

@CitizenCohn @WIRED Cool. It's technically impossible on most, if not all, current grids.

BYD just unveiled an electric car that can charge from 10 to 70 percent in five minutes, and all the way in nine More proof that EVs are going to dominate the future, just a question of how long it takes — and who will build them Via @WIRED wired.com/story/how-byds…

@SergeCostab @LoftusSteve @janrosenow Exactly what someone who doesn’t understand what they are talking about would say. Thanks for playing. No prizes for you.

@ChartsClimate @LoftusSteve @janrosenow I know enough, thanks. You have set up an entire account to spread absolute trash that has no basis in science or research.

BREAKING: The blackout in Spain and Portugal in April 2025 did NOT happen because of renewables. The final ENTSO-E report on last year's Iberian blackout is out — and it's essential reading for anyone working on the energy transition. entsoe.eu/news/2026/03/2…