List of ‘Weak Links’ Accusers for the “Crooked Skeptic Climate Scientists” Accusation — Summary for Policymakers

These are the chain of people one increment back from the main promulgators who’ve pushed the false accusation about ‘shill skeptic scientist on Big Oil’s payroll who were directed to…

Trump Completely Rejects AI “Experts” Push to ‘Pace the Frontier’

“We’re leading China in AI. We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins AI wins.”

Unlocking America’s Nuclear Gold Mine: The Promise of Spent Fuel

America’s spent nuclear fuel challenge will not be solved by rhetoric, grants, or endless study alone. It will be solved when states voluntarily participate, when private industry sees opportunity rather…

UN Tries to Insert itself into Calls for AI Regulation

I’m now even more convinced of my AI drawbridge theory – incumbents using red tape to raise the drawbridge and block entry for new competitors.

The South China Sea Has Not Been Cooperating With The Climate Change Narrative

A 2021 coral proxy study indicates from ~6000 to 2000 years ago nSCS annual SSTs were 3-4°C warmer than they were from 1994 to 2004, with the modern SSTs the…

Teachers Demand Legal Right to Down Tools When Classrooms Exceed 26°C

The National Education Union is pushing for a legally enforceable maximum indoor working temperature of 26°C, which would force schools to halt lessons during heatwaves. The Telegraph has the story:

Energy Reality Forces Tech to Ditch Climate Virtue Signaling

The lesson is the same for data centers and households: Prosperity requires electricity that is available when needed. Dependable systems of conventional energy sources will continue to power the tech…

Trillion tree initiative is so 2020

All the environmental regulations, conferences, summits, and studies have failed to convince people to stop using energy to enhance their lives. Imagine all that time and money spent planting trees.…

BREAKING: EPA eliminates rule that limits ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions from power plants

They’re not only repealing the Endangerment Finding, but also trying to make it so future presidents can’t reinstate it.

Wrong, USA Today, “Hottest Summer Ever” Claim Ignores the Most Important Temperature Record

Good climate journalism should do the opposite. It should explain uncertainty, distinguish between adjusted datasets and pristine observations, and recognize that a record based on a few tenths of a…

Climate Alarmists Are Making False Claims to Derail Approval of Jackdaw and Rosebank

Both the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields have had a chequered history. Both were discovered in the mid-2000s and were initially approved for development in 2023 and 2022,…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #706

“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” — Nicolaus Copernicus

Energy Crisis: Germany Enters Heating Season with Historically Low Gas Reserve Fill Levels

Experts are warning that Germany is heading into the heating season with dangerously low natural gas reserve fill levels. Currently, Germany’s gas reserve fill level stands at only 55%!

OpenAI Claims Breakthrough in Navier-Stokes Equation, but NYU Mathematician Alleges His Work Was Copied

Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster asserts OpenAI cribbed the work he and a collaborator had done, which included significant progress toward solving the equation in August. OpenAI announced its team had solved…

Circular logic all the way down

Then I would like to see GCMs not being used for climate modelling. What a massive waste of time and money they have been.

Pumpkin Spice and the AI Apocalypse

Ah, autumn in America. It’s time for some of our favorite seasonal rituals: leaf-drenched pumpkin patches, foamy lattes, retro barn jackets, and yet another self-reported Anthropic AI researcher declaring to…

The National Academies’ climate review must be truly independent

For years, the left has used the supposed “consensus” on climate science to ram through its agenda unchallenged. That cover is starting to crack.

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Climate Change Weekly # 590—Ag Cabal’s Dairy Net Zero Restrictions Harm Producers, Report Shows

“First Street is making a profit at the expense of the value of Nebraskans’ homes,” Hilgers said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. “First Street passes off misleading and often…

Climate Fact-Check August 2026

This compilation serves as a fact check on the most widespread false claims made about climate change by the media in August, 2026.