Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #701

Quote of the Week: “[W]e compare the result of [a theory’s] computation to nature, … compare it directly with observations, to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment,…

North Sea Shutdown to Cost Treasury Billions

The Treasury faces a £13 billion hit from Labour’s ‘green’ North Sea shutdown, BP’s former finance chief has warned. The Telegraph has the story.

America Got ‘Faucied’

Accountability does not always require a courtroom. Sometimes it requires only that we stop pretending we don’t see the truth. It requires that we restore the principle that free people,…

An Extreme Lightning Event Started the Recent Northwest Wlidfires: Did Global Warming Play a Role?

The lightning numbers are DECLINING.  And this is a period of substantial global warming. Global warming is NOT contributing to more lightning over our region!.

Claim: London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Tree Planting Campaign will Save the Global Climate from President Trump

A hilariously incoherent TDS laden communique from the Mayor of London.

Defining Temperature

I never thought I would participate in a serious debate on the definition of “temperature.” But it happened on twitter, and with people who have degrees in physics and other…

Open Thread

A place for discussion

“If your ironclad proof that Big Oil secretly knew their products cause global warming is a leaked industry memo … why would you alter it to make it look more plausible?”

“If the evidence you have proving the fossil fuel industry intentionally ran a particular disinformation campaign is a very specific ‘leaked industry memo,’ and it is ironclad proof …… why…

Climate Change Weekly # 587— Climate Panickers Bemoan Realists’ Inspired Policy Wins

Based the lack of a climate crisis and the rate of success and costs associated with CCW efforts so far, CCS may prove to be among the biggest boondoggles of…

Synergy of Wind & Solar Generators in Australia’s NEM

The de-industrialisation of the Australian economy continues per Image 2 with quarterly volume down 0.5% year-on-year as rooftops exceed any growth.

China’s Great Wall of Fossil Fuels

Instead of focusing on China’s shiny clean energy activities—which, while impressive in scale, remain largely additive rather than transformative—the developed world, particularly Europe, should take a page out of China’s…

Global Greening Hits New Record as Climate Emergency Fails to Materialise

Global greening due to CO2 has hit a new record high, according to the latest research published in Nature. But activists refuse to accept that the ‘climate emergency’ has failed…

Met Office Heatwave Death Claim Was Fake News

There is no spike in deaths at any stage during 3-month period. Cumulatively there were 136,066 deaths last year and 135,466 this year.

Hardening Infrastructure Is Smart, Axios, Regardless of Climate Change

Axios would serve its readers better if it did not push fact-barren climate propaganda. Weather is not getting worse, but even so, hardening and improving infrastructure is always a good…

Climate Alarm and “Green” Energy: Protest from San Antonio

I wish the negative nellies in our media, our schools and our politicians would listen to what the real scientists are finally admitting. This is not the end of the…

The Weather Isn’t Getting Worse. The Lawsuits Are

The NAS report could trigger a wave of costly new lawsuits and forced settlements based on theoretical assumptions rather than observable evidence, drain public and private resources, and further make…

En Banc DC Circuit Reinstates Funding Of The Most Corrupt Program Ever Enacted

I challenge any reader, or anyone else for that matter, to name any program in the vast federal handout universe more corrupt that the so-called Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund that…

Live at 1 PM ET: The Muppets Mouth Climate Propaganda — The Climate Realism Show #21

There is no let-up in the culture’s attempt to scare our kids about climate change. The latest development is a segment on Sesame Street to teach kids not to be…

No, ScienceDaily, Data Show No ‘Sharp Acceleration’ in Warming

ScienceDaily’s readers deserved to hear that distinction. Instead, they received another clickbait style headline announcing certainty with possible future consequences where the underlying science remains far more nuanced and proof…

The Insidious Population Reduction Narrative Disguised as ‘Sustainability Science’

If the goal is a livable planet, the answer lies in expanding our capacity to thrive within it, not shrinking the number of people allowed to try.