Australia’s Historical Temperatures, Update Following Tom Berger Forensic Audit

He was keen to know my thoughts on what appeared to be a cut and paste discovered as part of a privately initiated forensic audit by Tom Berger.

Reflect Orbital Demos Turning Night Into Day. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Mirrors in space to turn night into day. A Solution Looking for a Problem?

El Nino, Sea Level, and Kelvin Waves: Correcting Media Errors

An elevated water column is centered on the equator, producing a pressure force to the north and south.  This pressure force is balanced by the Coriolis force (due to the rotation…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #711

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”— Albert Einstein

Nature’s Carbon Cycle with Dr. Ganapathy Shanmugam | Climate Debrief

He explains how desert dust supplies iron and other nutrients that trigger phytoplankton blooms, strengthen the biological carbon pump, and support marine food webs.

No, Climate Change Is Not ‘Gentrifying’ Seafood, New York Times

The most frustrating thing about articles like this, is the mixing of truth with exaggeration, where the New York Times and other outlets like it will choose to amplify the…

Santa Ana-Driven Wildfires Rage as California’s Next Political Reckoning Nears

One of the most significant factors in the 2025 destruction of Pacific Palisades was that the Santa Ynez Reservoir, a 117-million-gallon water source, was offline when the wildfire hit. Latest reports indicate…

The Yellow Vest Participants show the French Riots are About Climate Policy

I was almost fooled – I thought the French protests were illegal immigrants kicking off, or radical leftists randomly burning stuff. Then I had a closer look.

I feel the need, to (hurricane) seed

But what I really want to talk about here is something I’ve been trying to push for many years, and that is to seed intensifying hurricanes as they’re coming to…

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Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline Expansion Forecast to Lower Energy Bills in Massachusetts

Pipeline Policy Stance a Key Test in Governor’s Race

Feds Target North Korean Laptop Farms Allegedly Funding Nuclear, Missile Programs

How wonderful to see the FBI focusing on alleged North Korean spies and fraudsters, which is truly a welcome change from the bureau’s controversial scrutiny of traditional Catholics and concerned…

Fire Down Below. Latest State of Wildfires Report Finds Global Burned Area 18% Below Average

If the fire models could not reproduce the decline in 2017, how much weight do their end-of-century projections carry now?

RCEnergy Poll: Majority Wants Less Red Tape To Cut Energy Costs

Fifty-nine percent of voters said they would be more likely to vote for a congressional candidate who supported making permitting decisions for energy infrastructure take “considerably less time and be…

Wrong, TIME, Climate Change Is Not ‘Accelerating Faster Than We Can Respond’

The climate is changing slowly. Humanity is adapting rapidly. The world is not coming to an end. The only thing accelerating uncontrollably in TIME’s article is the rhetoric.

Climate Alarmism, Not Climate, Is What Threatens Europe’s Brains

Policies that treat energy as a problem to be constrained rather than a tool for human welfare leave the most vulnerable exposed. The Euronews framing treats climate as the primary…

How to Fulfill the Great Potential of Nuclear Energy. Affordable, Clean, Abundant Power

Diversifying nuclear fuel sources provides customers timely and cost-effective options. It enables us to unlock an abundant fuel solution for the next century, transforms two liabilities—waste and government material—into assets,…

No More Cash Cow: USDA Cuts Off Dairy-Funded ESG Projects

It appears that America’s dairy farmers have been milked to finance someone else’s climate agenda.

Seoul Power. A $200 Billion Korea Deal Puts Eight Reactors on the U.S. Table

The authors call the relationship between the American and Korean builders “previously convoluted and obscure” and say it remains uncertain. The rest of the package is not settled either. Seoul…

Peak Oil By Any Other Name

Human flourishing has come not from technocratic control over consumption but from the freedom to produce, innovate, invest and exchange in voluntary contracts with other individuals.