P2DNZ is not an isolated initiative. It is the agricultural, and diary centered, expression of a broader ESG governance model that substitutes accounting targets for physical outcomes and private coordination…
New York’s Climate Rule Reaches into Iowa. Iowa Reaches Back.
This is the test case the post-endangerment-finding era has been waiting for. The federal climate regulatory architecture is paused. The state architecture is escalating. The question of whether the latter…
The Death of RCP8.5 | Roger Pielke Jr
In this episode, we speak with Roger Pielke Jr. about how what was lauded as the “business as usual” climate scenario known as RCP8.5 became “implausible” to the IPCC. Pielke…
After Solar and Wind Farms Suddenly Sprang Up, Citizens and Local Governments Sprang Into Action
Now, private citizens and public officials are pumping the brakes, trying to slow a movement in which momentum exceeded readiness, politics outweighed planning, and taxpayers were left holding the bag…
The Hantavirus Is Also a Climate Warning
You probably remember the outfit Covering Climate Now, which was set up to encourage journalists to forget the facts concerning weather events and make up stories about a “climate crisis”…
Climate Pseudoscience Debunked: Livestock Methane Fears are Baseless
The case for attacking livestock methane is nonexistent, and the cost is enormous. Policymakers must start paying attention to real science and common sense.
The Electricity Myth: Data Centers Aren’t the Villain
Every major emerging technology has required more energy and infrastructure. Everything digital runs through data centers, making them foundational, not optional. Questions should center on their undertaking rather than their…
Claim: The Coming El Nino Global Warming may Kill 50 Million People
Beware the horror of temperatures a few degrees warmer than normal.
Wildebeest, Buffalo, and Cattle, Oh My!
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on X, my personal blog is here) We live in an odd age when a billionaire can look at the planetary mess, point at…
Live at 1 pm ET: British Voters Dumps the Greens – The Climate Realism Show #202
Voters in this month’s elections in Great Britain delivered a shocking win for Reform UK, and was a clear rebuke of the “green” Net Zero agenda of the political elites.
Wrong, Guardian, Climate Change Hasn’t Taken New Orleans Beyond the ‘Point of No Return’
New Orleans faces engineering and land management challenges. It does not face a guaranteed watery extinction within decades based on current observed sea-level rise or hurricane trends. The Guardian’s doomsday…
Ed Miliband vows permanent shutdown of the North Sea
I have long believed Miliband is determined to do as much irreversible damage to the country as he can before he gets chucked out:
Shocked Silence Greets RCP8.5 Demise as ‘Implausibility’ Ruling Leaves Net Zero Fearmongering in Tatters
The fallout from the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ruling that computer model high emissions pathway RCP8.5 is “implausible” is only just beginning.
Disaster? NYT Op-Ed on Demoting the Climate Pitch
This essay is capitulation to catastrophe…. Don’t talk about it, then the public won’t know about it, then you can’t run for office on it and the country won’t act…
New York Following Cuba’s Strategy For Powering The Electrical Grid
If we keep up our current energy policies for long enough, we can also get to the point where our thermal (fossil fuel) power plants are too old to be…
Germany’s Nuclear Confession Is a Crack in Net Zero Pretense
Merz’s nuclear confession suggests that the political class cannot keep dodging reality forever.
Microsoft Pauses Its Carbon Indulgence Spending. The Usual Suspects Are Upset.
Microsoft, by every available accounting, was the carbon removal market. As of April 13, per CDR.fyi via ESG Dive, Microsoft accounted for 78.5% of all disclosed durable carbon removal contracts,…
Endangered Species federal spending is over one billion per year
The Federal Expenditure Reports need to be restored and made publicly available in compliance with the Endangered Species Act. Congress needs to look closely at the allocation of federal funding…
Scorecard: How Well Does NOAA’s Hurricane Outlook Actually Perform? 26 Years of Forecasts vs. Reality
Year-by-year verdict — did actual named storms and hurricanes fall within NOAA’s forecast range?
COPE: The Countervailing Obliquity–Precession Effect
The first key fact is that the Earth’s globally averaged annual insolation changes very little over epochal timescales.