Where are the true environmentalists?

There is no rational reason for what is being forced down the throat of the planet.

A Twitter Debate on Clintel’s IPCC AR6 Critique

By Andy May In May 2023, Clintel published a book (see figure 1) criticizing AR6 (IPCC, 2021), a publication that was supposed to summarize climate science research to date. We…

Exploiters versus Experts

Energy “plans” that call for wholesale changes but do not consider how the final overall system might work are not plans but rather only naïve wish lists.

Go Organic, And Starve!

ning economic and humanitarian crisis, Sri Lanka called off an ill-conceived national experiment in organic agriculture this winter.

Wrong, CNN, AP, NYT, etc., Climate Change Did Not Cause South Africa’s Tragic Floods

To make claims about trends in flooding, one should look at trends in flooding and not precipitation. The conflation of the two is a common error.

Weekly Climate And Energy News Roundup #502

The Week That Was: 2022-04-30 (April 30, 2022)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “So, first of all, let me assert my…

Climate Colonialists Disrupt African Pipeline, Perpetuate Poverty

Climate activists’ ill-founded opposition to fossil fuels threatens to stop a major pipeline project in East Africa and stymie economic growth in Uganda and Tanzania — home to some of…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #501

“Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.” “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered…

Jen, Joe… Is it 9,000 leases or 9,000 permits that oil companies are allegedly sitting on?

Guest “Do they really think we’re that stupid?” by David Middleton This is the second sequel to Democrat Senators Demand That Oil Companies Increase Production. The first sequel dealt with…

Having Fun Watching Wind And Solar Failing To Step Up To Power The World Economy

Coal supply shortages are pushing prices for the fuel to record highs and laying bare the challenges to weaning the global economy off one of its most important—and polluting—energy sources. The crunch…

The Madness of John Pandolfi and Michelle Gunn

Next time you read that such and such a percentage of the Great Barrier Reef has already been destroyed by humankind, laugh out loud! I say that not to offend,…

Arctic ocean moorings shed light on winter sea ice loss

The eastern Arctic Ocean’s winter ice grew less than half as much as normal during the past decade, due to the growing influence of heat from the ocean’s interior, researchers…

Why I Am So Critical of Climate ‘Science’?

Guest opinion by Mike Smith Let’s begin by re-stating information about which we can be confident: The earth is warmer than it was sixty years ago. Mostly unreported is the…

NYT: Allowing Free Speech is like Allowing Carbon Pollution

Guest essay by Eric Worrall NYT columnist Andrew Marantz thinks allowing free speech is as dangerous as letting ordinary people drive climate destroying automobiles. Free Speech Is Killing UsNoxious language…

CAGW: a ‘snarl’ word?

Reposted From Judith Curry’s Climate Etc. By Andy West The term ‘CAGW’  has both appropriate and inappropriate usage. Introduction Rational Wiki says: ‘“CAGW”, for “catastrophic anthropogenic global warming”, is a…

Scottish Sunspots

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See Update At End] In a recent post, Anthony published Leif Svalgaard’s new paper showing 9,000 years of reconstructed solar activity. Svalgaard paper: Reconstruction of…

Rex Murphy on the IPCC: you can’t have plural doomsdays – you only get one

The UN climate-change panel that cried wolf too often You can’t set multiple deadlines for Doomsday. It’s a kind of one-off by nature. Do it too often and people cease…

Nature always finds a way – coastal wetlands respond positively to global warming

Mangrove expansion and climatic warming may help ecosystems keep pace with sea level rise From the BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY Sea level rise and extreme weather events have become harsh realities…

Study: Removing Oil and Gas "Subsidies" Might Increase Coal Use

Guest essay by Eric Worrall An economic model based study has suggested that removing oil and gas tax breaks would have a modest impact on global emissions, falling far short…

Listing the Bearded Seal as Threatened: A Disturbing Victory for Untestable Hypotheses and Flawed Models.

Guest essay by Jim Steele Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism I’m a longtime…

Monday Mirthiness – ‘Russia caused Climategate’

Lol, this is hilarious! Asteroid expert and self-appointed super-sleuth Mark Boslough has it all figured out (on Twitter no less). It was the Russians wot dun it! Just like his…

Heartland Institute Tries to Influence K-12 Teachers… Journalist Calls for Them to Be Burned at the Stake!!!

Guest post by David Middleton OK… My “burned at the stake” comment was mostly sarcastic hyperbole… But the author of this CSM article really deserves a heaping dose of sarcastic…

From the No Schist, Sherlock Files: "Despite climate risks, utilities bet big on natural gas…"

Guest post by David Middleton For the fossil fuel industries, 2016 has been a terrible year. Amid historically low commodity prices and stricter environmental regulations, coal companies went bankrupt, oil…

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Moves the Goalposts… Again.

Guest post by David Middleton First it was #ExxonKnew… Debunked here, here, here, here and here. Then it was Exxon failed to inform investors of Schneiderman’s belief that Exxon’s proved…