Former Time Mag climate reporter Brian Walsh now admits: ‘The scenario behind the most apocalyptic, attention-getting findings was largely an attempt to imagine how bad things could get, not a true forecast’ – ‘Climate change’s worst-case scenario is officially canceled’

I didn’t always know — and didn’t always communicate — that the scenario behind the most apocalyptic, attention-getting findings was largely an attempt to imagine how bad things could get,…

Guardian Reveals Secret Plan by BHP to Backtrack on Climate Action

Just one problem: It wasn’t a secret.

Climate Anxiety? Get A Life!

It might help if the likes of the BBC actually told the truth about climate change, not their version of it.

UK Climate Change Committee’s Latest Weather Witterings Indicate Met Office Chief Should Step Down

But the dam burst of RCP8.5 cannot be stemmed. Years of promoting a set of assumptions that were always implausible – an insult to the intelligence, some might add –…

Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Net Zero Dream

Human welfare, not abstract emissions targets, must remain the lodestar. History shows that technological progress and energy abundance, not central planning, have lifted billions from poverty and improved environmental outcomes…

Real-World Observations Do Not Support The Position That Climate Change Is Human-Caused

Real-world observations show both cooling and warming trends in the Arctic, Antarctic, and Tropical oceans since ARGO monitoring was introduced in 2004.

Chevron Launches New Sign Campaign Targeting Sacramento as California Gas Prices Hit New Highs

As companies push back and scale operations in response to these policies, they are highlighting the essential role they play in keeping the state moving and raising important questions about…

UK sustainable aviation fuel mandate to cost RAF £1bn

By 2040, ministers say 22 per cent of aviation fuel must come from sustainable sources, even though official projections show it will still be almost twice as expensive as conventional…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #691

“The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.” — Albert Einstein

Germany’s AfD Party Calls Debunked Climate Scenarios “Greatest Fraud in Human History”

AfD climate spokesperson Karsten Hilse described the scenario as an implausible “horror scenario” and “the greatest fraud in human history”, arguing that it had been used for years to generate…

Photo ops are easy, turning the wheels is another matter

The world is wobbling crazily as current events threaten to dismantle decades worth of supply chain stability. There is a palpable sense among regular people that action is required. Because…

Claim:  Climate Change Increases Risk of Snakebites

Direct from the manual of “let’s run models and scare the world without checking actual data” is this recent piece from our favorite fear mongering news outlet, The Guardian, titled…

SSP5-8.5: Garbage In, Doomcasting Out

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on X, and my blog is here.) You might have read about RCP8.5, which is now called SSP5-8.5. It is the most extreme future…

Social Media sez the Manosphere wants to “Reposition Global Warming as Theory”

Apply enough pressure on those far bigger luminary names, and they may choose to roll on who it was who provided them with that worthless accusation material.

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United Nations Resolution Demands the USA Pay Everyone Elses Climate Damage Claims

They didn’t actually say “USA”, but we all know what they meant.

Analysis: China-backed litigators crippling Louisiana energy

Stricter enforcement of the FARA law and its transparency requirements could also act as a deterrent against green pressure groups in league with China and other hostile foreign actors. Until…

Calculating Earth’s Albedo, Part 2

What is the best way to computed Earth’s albedo from CERES EBAF data.

Michael Mann: Cancelling RCP 8.5 has only Bought us 50 Years

But we still need to act immediately.

Green Energy Cultists Meltdown Over Proposed EV Road-Use Fees

Albert Gore III, the son of former VP Gore, serves as the Executive Director of the Zero Emission Transportation Association and is unhappy with this development.