Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #703

“Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” — Marie Curie

Foreign lawfare threatens Transatlantic energy security

The administration should use appropriate diplomatic and legal channels to defend American judgments and make the resilience of U.S. energy infrastructure part of the transatlantic security conversation.

Throwback Sunday: “We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period!”

Video of Dr David Deming’s statement to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works on December 6, 2006. Dr Deming reveals that in 1995 a leading scientist emailed…

Climate Change Weekly # 589—National Academy Pulls Climate Chapter—for Now, at Least

To wit, in early August the NAS announced it was pulling the climate chapter from its website and initiating a formal investigation into the process by which it was written.…

Comer Demands National Academy of Sciences Turn Over Withheld Documents on Biased Climate Review

It is fundamental to the Committee’s legislative purposes to understand the sources of bias, to include any potential conflicts of interest, within NAS studies intended to assist in or influence…

Britain can no longer rely on the kindness of strangers for its energy

Britain has become increasingly reliant on electricity imports to keep the lights on, particularly in winter. But Norway, one of our most important suppliers, is having second thoughts.

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British Gas Boss Warns UK Faces Winter Fuel Shortage Due to Reliance on Imports

The boss of British Gas’s owner has warned the UK faces fuel shortages this winter as stockpiles fall to just 30% owing to an over-reliance on imports. The Telegraph has more.

End-Of-August Arctic Sea Ice Extent Hasn’t Fallen In 20 Years, Official Data Show!

Strangely, the alarmists have been mysteriously abesent from the North Pole region for many years now. Al Gore’s warning (citing experts) of an ice free Arctic by 2013 never materialized. Here’s the…

Colorado River Crisis Brings Major Cuts for California, Nevada, and Arizona

But precipitation alone will not solve a crisis worsened by decades of over-allocation, political procrastination, and an aversion to building the reservoirs, recharge projects, and other infrastructure needed to capture…

Congressional Races Will Impact Energy Affordability and Reliability

Pro-energy policies make the U.S. the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas, help facilitate a revival of our environmentally friendly nuclear energy industry, and recognize the importance of…

Don’t Blame Gas Prices, Miatta!

If Miatta wants lower prices, she needs to get her own house in order, instead of blaming fossil fuels.

Reform’s Richard Tice Isn’t ‘Out of touch on Climate Change, ITV News Is

Tice is completely correct and deserves praise for standing against climate scolds like those at ITV, who are evidently either scientifically illiterate or don’t care about what data show about…

Adapt, Europe (stop whining)

Did climate mitigation policy work against adaptation directly and indirectly? Yes and yes. That is a major problem. In the name of social justice, climate campaigners are invited to replace…

Backlash Against AI Data Centers Is Real, Organic, Widespread

All the money in the world from Big Tech and their allies in Washington, D.C., won’t make a difference. Only a real and sustained demonstration that we are on the right…

Climate change activists want to make California insurance crisis even worse

These are the typical climate change and “renewable” energy obsessions that bring blackouts, rolling outages, and the highest gasoline and electricity prices in America.

Global Wildfires At Record Low This Year

While the media obsesses about record wildfires, the satellite data shows the opposite – worldwide, wildfire area is at the lowest for time of year since records began:

Live at 1PM ET: Nepal Disaster – The Climate Realism Show #214

The scenes coming out of Nepal of the glacier collapse and flash flood of mud, ice, and water are horrifying. The amount of devastation is almost hard to fathom, and…

Trump Space Policy Targets 1,000 U.S. Launches, Reentries Annually by 2030

If our country is serious about returning to the Moon, reaching Mars, and maintaining its leadership in the new space race, it cannot allow launch pads, range scheduling, and reentry…

Net Zero ideology ‘putting NHS patients at risk’, warn top doctors

NHS Net Zero rules could put patients’ lives at risk by threatening supplies of vital medicines, leading doctors have claimed.