The Climate Policy Trap: Why Failure So Often Leads to More of the Same

Group identity, social status, and a credential-dominated policy establishment make the climate narrative increasingly immune to disappointing results, argues Evert Doornhof of Clintel. The result is a climate policy trap…

Climate Alarmists Go Silent: Turns Out Fossil Fuels Are Earth’s ‘Miracle-Gro’

The question is no longer whether fossil fuels have greened the planet. The evidence is overwhelming. Will people in power have the courage to acknowledge it as a benefit?

Energy Cost Before Energy Generation

Energy systems have to satisfy many requirements simultaneously: reliability, affordability, environmental impact, resource requirements, infrastructure needs and their ability to deliver energy when and where society requires it. But before…

Entering the Gates of Lies: Unmasking the Climate Version of Theranos

Phia should serve as a cautionary tale for the future of so-called climate investment—and the climate movement itself.

Aussie Coal Plants to Stay Operational Thanks to a “Souring” Renewable Investment Environment

Only the most committed green states are closing coal plants.

D.C. Circuit Endangerment Finding Litigation: The Nefarious EPA “Futility” Analysis

I can’t think of any argument that 0.007 °C of avoided temperature rise, or 0.7 cm of avoided sea level rise is other than completely de minimus, indeed likely well…

Just as Hot in 1911

There is nothing unprecedented about the weather in the past week.

Wave Goodbye to the Butterfly Effect …

Any predictive system constructing cycles of variable duration and/or varying amplitude will fail after a few cycles if the mechanisms behind the variability are not fully understood and/or cannot be…

Hoping for an Energy-Intensive Future

The critical point is that developing nations are seeking not marginal improvements but rather fundamental, dramatic transformations in living standards. This necessitates massive investments in infrastructure, industrialization, and agricultural modernization…

Comparing Equilibrium, Kinetic, and Non-Equilibrium Temperatures

Definitions of thermodynamic, kinetic, and non-equilibrium temperatures with illustrations.

The Biggest Garbage Heaps in Human History

So much for the lies about clean, renewable, sustainable energy. Where will all the trash go?  

Ellenbogen’s (New York) Data from the July 2026 Heat Wave

Ellenbogen connected the voltage collapse to a growing reliance on inverter-based resources — solar and batteries — that disconnect from the grid when voltage or frequency moves outside their operating…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #702

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.” — Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)

Am I a Conspiracy Theorist?

Science advances by challenging consensus, not by bending to it. From Galileo, insisting that the earth was in orbit around the sun and not the other way round, to Barry Marshall,…

Save LBI Notifies U.S. Department of Commerce of Intent to Sue for Failure to Protect Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale

The lawsuit will seek to compel the DOC to revisit and act positively on a 16-month-old Petition asking the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to designate the whale’s primary…

Even CNN Admits It: Americans “Don’t Care” about Climate Change Hysteria

…the gap between elite climate messaging and voter priorities is becoming impossible for even CNN to ignore… as much as it may like to.

When Experts Obfuscate!  How Alarmist Scientists like D. Swain, J. Abatzoglou, A. Williams Falsely Attribute Wildfires to Climate Change.

Once you install these precautions, you can then guiltlessly enjoy a hamburger and fossil fuel powered heating and cooling systems.

The Loneliness Epidemic is Not Caused by Climate Change, PBS News

The Conversation, and PBS, should be embarrassed for promoting this borderline pseudoscience. We know what is making the loneliness epidemic worse and it’s not climate change or even the weather.

Open Thread

A place for discussion

Too Hot For Oak Trees!

The idea that it is too hot for them in England is ridiculous.