Aussie PM Announces Plan to Force US AI Companies to Pay for Australia’s Net Zero Transition

What could possibly go wrong with this plan?

RGGI Cheerleaders and the Consumer Carbon Cash Grab

As things stand, RGGI at $35 per ton looks more like a stressed carbon tax with uncertain climate benefits than a stable source of “climate cash.” Higher allowance prices should…

BBC Peddle Fake Heatwave Deaths Claims

Unlike these shysters, I am going wait until the actual mortality data is available, which is generally three weeks after the deaths occur – ONS data is for deaths registered,…

China Wind & Solar: Output Lags Capacity

China, already losing money on its wind and solar buildout, evidently has a tiger by the tail with transmission capacity to get solar and wind from nowhere to somewhere.

Regarding Energy, the Left Wants Us to Live Smaller Lives. Americans Don’t Do That.

For too long, Americans have been treated like children, coerced into buying over-priced “energy efficient” appliances and technologies that don’t do the job, and shamed into adopting lifestyles that are…

Socialist Candidates Want To Resurrect Green New Deal Corpse

Any effort to apply a renewed Green New Deal to the AI industry would be designed to destroy it, too. Because socialism at its base is never about building anything,…

Claim: Climate Change Should be Depoliticised by Convincing Everyone to Support Climate Action

“… We need to take the politics out of the debate and get the people to demand that governments take action to minimise the climate threat …”

Climate consensus research is the worst, most invalid research ever published in journals

…measuring consensus by having conflicted political activists read the abstracts of irrelevant journal articles from an amateur keyword search, followed by deranged arithmetic? Ours was supposed to be a scientific…

Tory Centrists Defy Badenoch’s Red Lines on Net Zero and ECHR

Kemi Badenoch’s red lines on Net Zero and the ECHR are facing open revolt from centrist Tories. The Telegraph has the story:

Science Over Climate Narrative: Dr. Matthew Wielicki to Lead America’s Climate Research

If the USGCRP returns to its statutory mission, which focuses on objective assessment grounded in transparent data and reproducible analysis, the American people will be far better served, and public…

No, USA Today, 4th of July Heat was NOT “Climate Change.”

This USA Today article is an embarrassing example of journalistic negligence and demonstrates a lack of understanding about weather history and how record-setting works when 365 days of an entire…

Groan…Science Tries to Legitimize ‘Weather control’

From the press releases “I never bothered to finish reading because it was too effing stoopid.” department.

“The ship may have sailed on nonviolence” – Meet the Human Extinction Radicals Fighting the Rise of Artificial Intelligence

Climate activism is so 2025.

Vacuuming the World’s Wallets

,,,a precise operation performed on a subjective input does not produce an objective output. It produces subjectivity in a lab coat. Charles Rotter Here’s another episode of my endless, some…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #697

“The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to…

Connecticut v. Exxon — the Sher Edling connection

Basic point is, the interconnectedness of these lawsuits becomes ever more apparent the deeper anyone examines these.

“Portlandia” phasing out diesel?

The risk of supply interruptions is no mere abstraction. Just in November 2025, a leak in the Olympic Pipeline near Everett, Washington — which delivers 90 percent of Oregon’s gas,…

Claim: The Iran War is Worsening the Climate Crisis

More absurdity from the climate change causes everything bad brigade.

New Study: NASA’s Models Wildly Underestimate The Capacity Of Clouds To Alter Solar Radiation

Today’s climate models are so inaccurate they must be improved a hundredfold just to detect a CO2 signal in climate change.

Open Thread

A place for discussion.