20 Years of WUWT: What We’re Up Against & Why It Matters – Keynote Address at #ICCC16

Twenty years. That’s a long time to keep asking inconvenient questions.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #687

Quote of the Week: “…that it is the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some…

EV Industry Reached $70 Billion In Losses In 2024 Due To Delusional Green Ideologies

The economic consequences are profound. The crisis is leading to production cuts, halted projects, and increased uncertainty for employees and suppliers. High raw material prices and the lack of “economies of…

The Increasing Sustainability of Conventional Energy: Shell Offshore

Major technical and economic advancements are happening within the fossil-fuel industries, not outside of it. The stock energy age–oil, natural gas, and coal age–is still young. The future belongs to the efficient,…

The Washington Post Gets It Right on Typhoon Sinlaku

Credit where it is due. The Washington Post reported on a dangerous storm without turning it into a climate morality play. That is how extreme weather coverage should be done.

Monbiot: Green Energy Advocates are Now Pragmatic Patriots Because of Iran and Trump

“Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution?”

AMOC To Collapse–Part 98

But crooked scientists has grant money to earn and far left Guardian hacks have headlines to write. It’s a marriage made in heaven!

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Cracks Appear in Climate Consensus as Germany’s Energy Minister Admits Renewable Energy is Ruining the Country

Fifteen years after Merkel’s nuclear panic and decades after the Greens first infiltrated the corridors of power, reality is reasserting itself with the cold logic of physics and markets. The…

No, WHYY, a Heat Wave Is Not a ‘Fingerprint of Climate Change’

Just as a single month’s unusual cold is not proof that the planet is cooling, a single month’s unusual warmth is likewise not some “fingerprint” of a climate emergency.

When Primate Politics Turn Deadly: ‘Civil War’ Shattering Uganda’s Ngogo Chimps

That being said, I must admit I did not have “chimpanzee civil war” on my 2026 bingo card.

The data center energy threat is way overblown

But in no case is there a data center threat to the grid. Data centers are too small and growing too slowly to be a threat.

Reality Check: Maldives Have Actually Grown In Size or Remained Stable Over Recent Decades

Contrary to the “sinking” narrative, the TKP article cites scientific observations (including satellite data) showing that many islands in the Maldives have actually grown in size or remained stable over recent decades rather than…

Renewables Are Costing Us A Fortune–Justin Rowlatt

WOW! Justin Rowlatt has seen the light!

Want to Know Climate Truth? Believe the Opposite When the Media Says Something Is False.

In other words, Dr. Clauser was right as rain – the kind of moisture most likely to come from a Nimbostratus or Cumulonimbus cloud, although others can also produce rain…

Schadenfreude Of the Week: Majority of New York’s Pending Wind and Solar Projects Getting Canceled

It’s the feel-good story of the week, if you don’t mind taking joy from others’ misfortunes. When it comes to the wind and solar energy grifters, I don’t mind a…

Forget Climate Activism, the Guardian is Now Pushing AI Activism

But history has a hard lesson for those who ban or restrict economically important technologies.

Breaking: Major Under-the-Radar SCOTUS Decision on Climate Lawfare

There are Supreme Court decisions that arrive with fanfare, and then there are those that quietly rearrange the legal landscape in ways that only become obvious after the dust settles.…

Live at 1pm ET: Conference Rattles Climate Activists – The Climate Realism Show #198

Last week, the 16th International Conference on Climate Change made international news. It also disheartened the environmental left and the media because it was clear from that two-day event that…

Heartland right over the target with triumphant climate change conference

The Heartland Institute, and co-hosts CFACT, the CO2 Coalition, and WUWT, and their allies are today’s bomber pilots.

Is America on the Verge of a Nuclear Renaissance?

It has been more than seven years since President Donald Trump signed the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA) into law – and it has taken all seven years…