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.

Miliband Overrules His Inspectors to Approve Britain’s Second-Largest Solar Farm

Ed Miliband has approved Britain’s second-largest solar farm on 4,000 acres of prime farmland after overruling opposition from his own inspectors. The Telegraph has the story.

Electricity Affordability: States Need to Ditch Climate Policies

But before blue-state politicians blame everything from the rollback of federal wind and solar subsidies to new data center development, they should take a hard look in the mirror. 

Vineyard Wind’s Troubles Mount Despite Political Victory Lap

Troubled windfarm is producing less than half the promised output, sensors are repeatedly tripping offline, and it’s engaged in a legal battle with its turbine manufacturer.

Battery Storage for Grid Backup: Better Keep Working on It

Just get some batteries, store up excess power from the windy mid-days, discharge as needed, and everything will work out.

Fears of Gulf Stream Collapse Fade as Hard Data Reveal Major Role of Natural Variation

The Lee et al. paper refers to an underlying anthropogenic weakening produced by modelled suggestions. But RAPID provides actual proof that natural variation is far more important in determining how the Gulf…

Prominent British Climate Skeptic and Christian Activist Ann Widdecombe Murdered in her Home

Ann Widdecombe was one of only five MPs to vote against the Climate Change Act 2008.

Yet Another Electricity Margin Alert

Yet another margin alert

California Eco-Tyranny Destroyed by New EPA Rule

“This action gives responsible companies a clear, nationally recognized path to demonstrate compliance while continuing to innovate and serve consumers. I appreciate Administrator Zeldin and the Trump Administration for advancing…

Arizona’s Hermosa Mine Clears Final Federal Hurdle Under FAST-41

The Hermosa Project seems to be the first real-world test of whether Washington can finally balance national security priorities with some form of sensible environmental policy, all without the usual…

Alice in Hydrogen Land

As we have already found out, storing and transporting Hydrogen is extremely difficult, requiring much higher specifications than storing or moving Oxygen or Nitrogen. The costs of installing a Hydrogen…

The Real Grid Crisis Is a State Policy Problem Dressed Up as a Market Failure

The states are absolutely responsible for chucking icebergs into the path of this ship, and if it goes down, they’ll have themselves to blame for the aftermath.

Fatal Snobbery: In France, It’s Better To Die From A Heatwave Than to Do as Americans

French authorities seem to prefer seeing citizens suffer through heatwaves –  and die by the thousands  – than utilizing modern air conditioning.

Claim: Climate Change is Driving Child Marriages

Maybe if mom or dad had a high income oil or gas job they wouldn’t have to marry off the kids to strangers.

No, New York Times, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Modern Heat Waves

The failure belongs squarely with the NYT simply parroting, without critical examination, a climate advocacy organization’s unverified claims.

G7 Climate Realism Signals Policy Progress

Let us hope that 2026 G7 forum paves the way for pragmatic policies that advance the human condition and protect individual liberties.

BREAKING: Trump Admin Hires Skeptic to Run National Climate Assessment…Mann Clutches Pearls

Scrutiny of a government assessment by someone inclined to question it is not a threat to the science. It is a stress test.

Greenland Summer Melt Is a Month Late

The summer melt has no even begun yet and is already a month overdue.