Which is what you do when you understand that something is a real phenomena that deserves our attention.
In the interview below, Energy Secretary Chris Wright says, “That’s exactly what we want, is discussing these climate and energy trade-offs in a public setting.”
Other cabinet members are doing their own grievous damage to the Republic, but this guy takes a back seat to no one for ideological dishonesty and idiocy.
The Energy Department has added “climate change,” “green” and “decarbonization” to its growing “list of words to avoid” at its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, according to an email issued Friday and obtained by POLITICO.
The words on the DOE list are at the heart of EERE’s mission: It is the government’s largest investor in technologies that help reduce heat-trapping emissions that cause climate change as well as the hazardous pollution from fossil fuels. It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay the realities of climate change.
“Please ensure that every member of your team is aware that this is the latest list of words to avoid — and continue to be conscientious about avoiding any terminology that you know to be misaligned with the Administration’s perspectives and priorities,” the directive from acting director of external affairs Rachel Overbey said.
Those instructions apply to both public-facing and internal communications and cover documents such as requests for information for federal funding opportunities, reports and briefings.
In addition to “climate change” and “green,” EERE forbid officials from using “emissions” to avoid the implication that they are a negative. Climate change is caused by rising greenhouse gas emissions, which is driven primarily by burning oil, coal and natural gas for energy.
Other terms officials must ditch include “energy transition,” “sustainability/sustainable,” “‘clean’ or ‘dirty’ energy,” “Carbon/CO2 ‘Footprint’” and “Tax breaks/tax credits/subsidies.”
DOE did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The new policies come days after President Donald Trump excoriated world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly for pursuing actions to confront rising emissions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/climate/trump-coal-revival.html
thanks for that
I’m not going to even listen to Wright talk any more – I can’t stand the constant deception. I did see another video title recently from MSNBC where Wright is quoted as saying we need: “We need to add 100 gigawatts of firm capacity in five years”. OK, Sparky, how do you do that with gas, when the waitlist for new gas turbines is currently measured in years? Maybe adding excess wind and solar and going with batteries, all which are being manufactured and deployed rapidly?
EIA – Today in Energy – February 24, 2025
Solar, battery storage to lead new U.S. generating capacity additions in 2025
“We expect 63 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity to be added to the U.S. power grid in 2025 in our latest Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory report. This amount represents an almost 30% increase from 2024 when 48.6 GW of capacity was installed, the largest capacity installation in a single year since 2002. Together, solar and battery storage account for 81% of the expected total capacity additions, with solar making up over 50% of the increase.”
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=64586
I’m not an engineer like Wright, but if we simply stick to an annual 63GW pace, before 2030 we’d have deployed 315GW of new generation capacity with mostly renewable. Add in batteries, and you could probably figure a overall capacity factor of 30% or more with batteries spreading the solar past daylight, and with offshore wind (which generally has capacity factors higher than that, and not focused on daylight hours.
And reducing the expansion of coal and gas means we reduce our risk of inflation as Wright and buddies are simultaneously pushing to export that stuff to higher-paying overseas commodities markets.
Then what about the average weather over a period of minimum 30 jaar changes over time
Time for a new acronym: OLIVEOIL
Office of Language Inefficiency and Very Egregious Over-Idiotic Lunkheads
China is installing 100 solar panels per second, and we’re redefining the English language. This kind of reminds me of that exchange from ‘The Bourne Identity’: Abbott: “Someone tried to take him out [i.e. kill Wombosi]. Tried and failed. Was this Treadstone?” Conklin: “Are you asking me a direct question?” Abbott: “Yes” Conklin: “I thought you were never going to do that.”