Modern Society Runs on Refined Oil Products. Can California Keep Ignoring Reality?

The world is not dependent on natural fossil fuels, as no one uses “raw” crude oil that is only black tar, BUT has become dependent on the products and transportation fuels MADE…

Record Temperatures & UHI

If anybody is in any doubt about the unsuitability of Kew as a climatological station, a few years ago the BBC/Met Office laughably tried to present Heathrow as a reliable…

Where AI is the Tool, Humans are the Variable

Artificial intelligence is proving, in real time, that it is neither savior nor villain but an amplifier of human judgment, be that judgment good, bad, or catastrophically expensive. In other…

Climate exaggerators won’t go away

Consider exaggerating natural weather to the point of fanaticism.  It is about control. Most Americans will simply say, ” Live the life the way you want. Most leftists say you…

Ford Ditches EVs–Again

“The American people have been very clear; they do not want EVs forced upon them. This proposal aims to return EPA regulations to reality, restoring consumer choice, protecting good paying…

Are Climate Models “Just Physics”?

…any policy can only benefit from a better understanding of how climate models are constructed, their physical basis, how they can be tested, and how to assess their outputs.

The ‘Dr Willie Soon got $1.2 million from Exxon’ Accusation … is still more dicey, Part 2

There are no such words to that effect anywhere in the 131-page Smithsonian FOIA docs. The only thing that resembles a direct communication between Dr Soon and any Exxon official…

Are ‘heat spikes’ becoming more common?

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/clyp513ynv3o Chris Morrison’s excellent piece in the Daily Sceptic today, which I trailed earlier, deals with the corruption of…

Serious Doubts Arise About Kew Temperature ‘Records’ as Recent UK Heatwave is Weaponised to Drive Net Zero

The observed changes in temperature over the past 30 years therefore owe more to flaws in measurement… rather than any wider anthropogenic effect. The uncritical adoption of the PRT technology,…

Can US and India Forge a ‘Big, Beautiful’ Energy Deal?

A U.S.-India alliance would strike at the heart of the corrupt climate lobby. By trading massive quantities of fossil fuels, it would break a stranglehold on energy policy that climate…

Would You Rather Live Near A Battery Energy Storage System or a Nuclear Plant

“From a public safety standpoint, if you’ve decommissioned three nuclear reactors, why would you want to install a BESS facility in populated areas that is far less safe?”

Net Zero Just Cut Aussie Wheat Production by 50%

Too bad all those Aussie oil refineries had to close.

The Rice Catastrophe Paper and the RCP 8.5 Rug-Pull

Rice has fed civilizations through the Holocene Climatic Optimum, the mid-Holocene warm spike, the Medieval Warm Period, and the Little Ice Age. The paper’s own author concedes that aggregate production…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #692

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits..” — Albert Einstein

Germany’s Ecological Holocaust… Once Fairy Tale Forests Getting Cleared for Wind Turbines

Germany is chronically stuck in “green” insanity. Prognosis: very poor. 

The Real Story of the D-Day Weather Forecast

Weather prediction was a primitive, subjective affair at that time.  There were no numerical weather prediction models, little understanding of jet streams and upper-level weather features, and an acute lack…

Lets Hope Global Temperature Stays Elevated Until the Paris Agreement Collapses

“Such temporary breaches do not mean the Paris Agreement’s long-term climate goals are unattainable” – the desperate UN push to save the Paris Agreement.

Nature Turns Up The Sunshine

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on X, my personal blog is here) For the usual unknown reasons that are so common in my life, I got to thinking about…

About That Arctic Tipping Point

Charles Rotter A new paper published this week in Communications Earth & Environment reports that the Arctic Ocean crossed an irreversible chemical tipping point in 2009. The lead institution is…

Open Thread

A place for discussion.