I of course track the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide in the atmosphere on a weekly basis as measured at the Mauna Loa C0₂ Observatory, have estimated the first, and second derivative to construct a model quadratic that seems to fit quite well. There has been no major inflection in this data in the decades I've monitored it, nor indeed, looking into the history, in my long lifetime.

The model predicts 500 ppm around 2045.

Things are getting worse faster.

I track worldwide emissions from various sources and have loaded the data into spreadsheets. I also check the electricity map daily, for instance to track the carbon intensity of antinuke heaven, Germany, with nuclear powered France. I frequently report these numbers in this space.

I also follow and report the cost of the useless "renewable energy" scam, which amounts to well over 5.6 trillion dollars in the last 10 years reported.

The so called "renewable energy" consumed more than 1000% in "percent talk" more money than nuclear energy which a lot of mindless types say is "too expensive." That's ignoring, by the way, the high cost of vast arrays of wire to connect this unreliable garbage together with the fossil fuel plants on which they depend, and the batteries designed to help it be reliable, which it will never be. (I don't credit greenwashing fossil fuels as "hydrogen" at all.)

Solar and wind combined, have never, not once, ever produced the 31 Exajoules of primary energy that nuclear was producing as of 2024 according to the 2025 WEO. Note that nuclear energy has long functioned in an atmosphere of moronic vituperation, whereas the solar and wind junk failed to address the atmosphere's collapse in an atmosphere of quasireligious sacred worship.

It is a fact that the world is combusting more fossil fuels than at any point in human history.

Now if the purpose of this personal criticism of me and my view of the data I routinely access and post is supposed to render my views invalid by regurgitating interpretive commentary about data, it in no way causes me to retreat from these views, other than to note that I'm distinctly unimpressed. All data, no matter how rigorously produced, can be grotesquely misinterpreted and/or absurdly spun.

If anyone here comes to me to announce that the trillions of dollars squandered on so called "renewable energy" has done a damned thing to address the accelerating collapse of the planetary atmosphere, they can be easily dismissed by the looking at data produced by the very sophisticated analytical chemists at the Observatory, using well documented rigorously qualified instrumentation (ring down spectroscopy) and sophisticated data analysis software.

Personally, from the data, and from the obscene photographs of vast stretches of wilderness industrialized for this useless short lived junk, I don't see how anyone in favor of this crap can be called an "environmentalist."

If this stuff is considered beautiful by the people posting pictures of this disgraceful industrial junk, the only thing it evokes is crap from a bad Ayn Rand novel, where the industrialization of the wilderness is claimed to be a capitalist wet dream.

I note with disgust that all the once pristine desert in California, now strewn with plastic spewing greasy wind turbines, hundreds upon hundreds of square kilometers of it, the beautiful landscape I so admired as a young man and is now ruined, cannot produce as much energy (the unit of energy is the Joule, not the Watt) as the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant produces reliably and independently of the weather on a 12 acre footprint. I've provided these numbers from the California Energy Commission many times.

Thank you for the excellent opportunity to reaffirm my views and to express my disgust at the trashing of the natural world for an unsustainable bourgeois affectation.

I enjoyed the callout very much.

Have a wonderful evening. Thanks again.

🎶Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest🎵

From this diagram we can see measurable progress and real benefit achieved by renewable energy. This is encouraging because the success builds upon itself.