March Madness: When ‘Record Heat’ Caused by ‘Climate Change’ is Just a Stuck Weather Pattern

Every so often, a monthly temperature report comes along that gets breathless coverage—“hottest ever,” “unprecedented,” “climate signal unmistakable,” and so on. March 2026 appears to have been one of those…

Miliband Expected to Block North Sea Oil Drilling

The Energy Secretary is understood to be resisting the development of Rosebank, the UK’s largest untapped oil field, estimated to contain up to 300 million barrels of oil.

Demonstrating the Reverse Greenhouse Effect in the Laboratory – PART1

Laboratory experiments explore infrared emission of greenhouse gases under normal pressure, raising questions about atmospheric heat transfer and radiative assumptions.

Open Thread

A place for discussion.

Trump’s ‘billion-dollar giveaway’ actually a refund to free us from costly offshore wind

In reality, this was a straightforward business transaction: return the lease money, cancel the projects and let the capital flow to energy sources that work.

Claim: Climate change may produce “fast-food” phytoplankton

Model based “chicken of the sea”

Data Centers, Hot Air, and the Reinvention of the Urban Heat Island

Researchers examined more than 6,000 data centers worldwide and found that surrounding areas experienced an average land surface temperature increase of about 2°C

Canada and natural gas and fertilizer and get on it

Chasing Chinese EVs is ideological nonsense; building the world’s biggest fertilizer industry should be Canada’s number one priority.

Why weather prediction got brilliant – but not climate predictions

Great video by Peter Ridd

Europe’s Hormuz Armageddon

Its Father Jupiter, not Mother Gaia, that the haughty Europeans should have prayed to.

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for March, 2026: +0.38 deg. C

The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for March, 2026 was +0.38 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, statistically unchanged from the February, 2026 value of…

Off-Grid Data Centers Will Help Protect Ratepayers, But Codifying ARC-ES Would Do Even More

With America’s 250th birthday right around the corner on July 4, it doesn’t require artificial intelligence to know that the biggest gift of all would be a guarantee of energy…

Man Stranded in the Aussie Desert Claims his Experience Proves EVs are Viable

“… the journey proved electric vehicles can work across Australia, but not without risk …”

US Heatwaves Much Worse In Past

The evidence was unarguable. By all measures, heatwaves in most of the country, with the exception of the west, had been considerably more severe in the past.

The Scandal of the Scottish Met Office Station Still Providing Temperature Figures Six Decades After it Closed

Whatever is going on, the Met Office removed the Lowestoft invented data from 2010. Perish the thought that anyone should think this station as an infilling “well-correlated neighbouring station” –…

‘Easter Eggflation’ is Not Due to Climate Change, Euro News

Weather hasn’t become more extreme in cocoa growing regions and production and yields remain high. Accordingly, Euro News has done their Easter-candy loving audience a disservice by blaming the increased…

The Iran War Reveals Who Is Living In A Fantasy World

Whether you like it or hate it, the war in Iran has definitely had the effect of exposing some of the ridiculous fantasies in the world to a serious dose…

Low Intensity Tornado Wrecks Major Solar Farm, Creating A Potential Toxic Dump

Report 24 is highly critical of “climate fanatics” and “green ideology,” framing the event as proof that renewable energy infrastructure is too fragile and expensive for practical long-term use. But Germany’s…

Looming Aviation Fuel Shortages

Little wonder, when oil refineries are punished with carbon taxes, electric car mandates and the Net Zero energy transition.

Seattle Times Provides Deceptive and False Information on Washington State Drought

But when it comes to issues dealing with climate, the Seattle Times has descended into advocacy, hype, and exaggeration, unsupported by facts and actual science.   1