We also need to take stock of the results of the net zero program.
Trillions of dollars have been spent around the world rolling out wind and solar infrastructure and we have got in return more expensive and less reliable power with serious environmental impacts.
The elephant in the room is the impact of severe wind droughts or dunkelflautes over continental areas, causing gaps in the contribution of windpower to the grid, that Paul Miskelly and Anton Lang documented in Australia over a decade ago.
Wind droughts become an existential threat to thousands or tens of thousands of people when the wind drought trap closes on a windless night during extreme weather conditions. See Texas in February 2021! Fluctuations in solar and wind input pose the same threat in the daytime where grids lack inertia, see the pain in Spain, 2025.
Perhaps we can be more relaxed about climate change and CO2 emissions due to the resurgence of climate realism.
https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=Rafe+Champion&i=stripbooks&crid=GZ66NWUYZ193&sprefix=rafe+champion%2Cstripbooks%2C262&ref=nb_sb_noss
We also need to take stock of the results of the net zero program.
Trillions of dollars have been spent around the world rolling out wind and solar infrastructure and we have got in return more expensive and less reliable power with serious environmental impacts.
The elephant in the room is the impact of severe wind droughts or dunkelflautes over continental areas, causing gaps in the contribution of windpower to the grid, that Paul Miskelly and Anton Lang documented in Australia over a decade ago.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/the-late-discovery-of-wind-droughts
Dirt farmers are alert to the threat of rain droughts, but the wind farmers never checked the reliability of the wind supply.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/we-have-to-talk-about-wind-droughts
Wind droughts become an existential threat to thousands or tens of thousands of people when the wind drought trap closes on a windless night during extreme weather conditions. See Texas in February 2021! Fluctuations in solar and wind input pose the same threat in the daytime where grids lack inertia, see the pain in Spain, 2025.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/defusing-the-wind-drought-trap