As 2023 slips by, it’s getting harder for wind and solar ‘industries’ to claim any other purpose than raking in massive subsidies. Europe’s wind and solar rollout is at a complete standstill; wind turbine manufacturers are laying off staff in droves and losing hundreds of millions of euros.

The French are backing a massive increase in Europe’s nuclear power generation capacity – much to the horror of renewable energy rent seekers.

Even the Brits are backing away from their grand offshore wind power plans and quietly backing nuclear power, just like the French.

Reduced to waffling about grid-scale battery storage (or occasionally mumbling about pumped hydro), the wind and solar industries are having a hard time demonstrating that they have any kind of future, at all.

Bryan Leyland reckons the whole thing depends on pulling off a miracle – which is unlikely to materialise, anytime soon.

The necessary…

By Jarrett Stepman ~

The institutional Left senses that its dominance over our societal mores faces a sudden and unexpected challenge. It is responding with predictable derangement.

A woman protests outside of a Target store on June 1 in Miami. The protesters were objecting to “Pride Month” merchandise at Target. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The Human Rights Campaign, a powerful and well-funded left-wing advocacy group, declared a “national emergency” for “LGBTQ+” people on Tuesday.

“LGBTQ+ Americans are living in a state of emergency. The multiplying threats facing millions in our community are not just perceived—they are real, tangible, and dangerous,” HRC’s president, Kelley Robinson, said in a press release.

“In many cases, they are resulting in violence against LGBTQ+ people, forcing families to uproot their lives and flee their homes in search of safer states, and triggering a tidal wave of increased homophobia and transphobia that puts the safety…

By Tim Graham ~

In his “Fourth Watch” newsletter on Monday night, former CNN producer Steve Krakauer drew attention to how the media frame transgender issues. The New York Times podcast The Daily — which airs across America on National Public Radio affiliates — explained on June 1 how transgender controversies came to the center of the debate. The guest was West Coast cultural correspondent Adam Nagourney, a former chief political correspondent and gay historian.

Following the Obergefell ruling in 2015 making gay marriage legal in America, major gay rights advocacy groups like the Human Rights Campaign and GLAAD were in a bit of a bind — gay marriage was their defining issue. In many ways, these organizations became the victims of their success. They won. As The Daily told it, now they needed a new mission to drive interest, and donations. Suddenly the focus shifted from gay rights to…