That’s the subject of a presentation I’ll be giving in Calgary, Alberta, on November 16, 2026, hosted by the Friends of Science Society.
At COP31 Even the UN is Giving Up
The 100,000 participants will fly home, and the world’s energy system will carry on much as before, governed by the arithmetic of cost, reliability and security rather than the theology…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #714
“Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”— George Orwell, 1984 [H/t Guy de la Bédoyère]
Panic Buying at NESO
We are back to the unavoidable problem – when we are short of wind power, so is Europe, and we have to pay accordingly. And when we have too much…
The Little Ice Age and Northern Europe’s Agricultural Revolution
Nicolò Badino examines how Little Ice Age cooling may have forced Northern European farmers to work harder and develop the agricultural methods that later supported sustained growth.
Wrong, Newswise, Irresponsible Climate Messaging, Not Climate Change Itself, Is Fueling Student Anxiety
The University of Utah study has identified a real problem, but Newswise has the diagnosis backwards.
Climate Home Briefs COP31. Almost Certain Overshoot, a Climate Midterm and Turkey’s Electric Fog
Climate Home News briefs COP31 in Antalya as the first summit staring down an almost certain 1.5C overshoot, reads the US midterms as a climate thumbs-down, and notes Turkey’s electrification…
Voters Pull the Plug on Big Tech’s AI Data Center Boom
Voters have sent Big Tech a clear message: Address the costs imposed on local communities before expecting a welcome mat for the next server farm.
Free Palestine Activists Occupy a Dutch Data Center Protest Against AI
Perhaps an activist scheduling conflict?
Remembering Leif Svalgaard, 1942–2025, Solar Physicist and Friend of WUWT
Leif Svalgaard, solar physicist, Stanford researcher, sunspot-record fixer and longtime friend of WUWT, died October 11, 2025. A long overdue tribute.
Judge Denies Greenpeace a New Trial. The $345 Million Dakota Access Judgment Heads to North Dakota’s Supreme Court
A North Dakota judge has denied Greenpeace a new trial in the Dakota Access Pipeline case, leaving the $345 million judgment for Energy Transfer standing. Greenpeace says it will appeal…
All-of-the-Above Democrats Won the Electoral Map But the Climate Old Guard Claims the Morning After
Josh Freed’s all-of-the-above Democrats won the midterm map. Grist and Gore’s shop claimed the climate morning after. On Climate Realism Show #224, Sterling Burnett called Grist whistling past the graveyard:…
COP 31 in Antalya: Who Will Be There
An annual gabfest and a boondoggle for 100,000 useless individuals to have a wonderful holiday and feel important all at your expense.
Aviation Biofuel Net Zero Climbdown
Is Net Zero increasingly coming down to earth? Little by little, the driving force behind Government policies seems to be throttling back.
Wrong, The Independent: A Flood in Fiji Is Weather, Not Proof of a Climate Crisis
That isn’t serious climate journalism. It is advocacy masquerading as reporting.
The Democrat Midterm Victory has Created Data Center Opportunities for Other Countries
The USA was on track to securing its position as the AI center of the world. Then AI hating Democrats won the midterms.
Issues & Insights Is Right: If Modern Warming Is Driven By Fossil Fuel Use, It Prevented an Ice Age
Regardless of whether human use of oil, gas, and coal are primarily responsible for modern warming, there is no doubt that it is better than what appears to be the…
‘Imagine 2200’: Grist Climate Fiction
I’ll take my chances with energy freedom. I fear the energy dystopia of Climate Big Brother.
LIVE at 1PM ET – Climate, Energy, and The Midterm Blue Wave, The Climate Realism Show
The Republican Party got a good old-fashioned butt-whuppin’ in the midterm elections on Tuesday as Democrats swept both houses of Congress making Donald Trump the lamest of lame duck presidents.…