The Columbia Missourian @CoMissourian Blunder on Climate Change and the Yosemite Fire

Originally published on Climate Realism Newspapers are supposed to factually report on events. Apparently, the Columbia Missourian newspaper didn’t get the memo. On Wednesday July 13, the newspaper ran this editorial cartoon…

EV obsession may catch UK automotive ‘sleeping at the wheel’, says Cambria boss

Cambria Automobiles chief executive Mark Lavery has urged his car retail colleagues to lobby Government over an all-out push to Electric Vehicles (EV) which risks catching UK automotive “sleeping at…

Washington Post: Will Happer to be Appointed to the Presidential Committee on Climate Security

Guest essay by Eric Worrall According to the Washington Post, Climate Skeptic Will Happer will be part of a team President Trump is assembling a White House committee to scrutinise…

Kelly McParland: Another wheel flies off Ontario's green energy bus, and lands on 340 workers

From the National Post Despite overwhelming evidence that governments do badly when they try to remove the freedom from free enterprise, Wynne and McGuinty ploughed ahead with their green energy…

MIT: 'more extreme storms' for California due to warming – but history mocks the claim

From the “models can make you believe anything” department comes this breathless doom-laden press release from the same school that brought you the big wheel of silly climate model results.…

Pioneers, Builders, and Termites.

Guest essay by Viv Forbes To compete in today’s world we need to score well on resource availability, capital assets, energy costs, tax burden and workforce/management. It also helps to…

Wheel! – – Of! – – Silly!

I thought I’d seen the end of this after we first saw it back on May 26th of this year. I wrote then: How not to make a climate photo op…

The Insane World of Intersectional Climate Change

With this distressing thought in mind, I have one final question for all those Intersectional Environmentalists out there, then: what are the CO2 emissions of the average Pride parade?

California’s Unprecedented Mega-Permadrought

Hydrological Drought, as opposed to Meteorological Drought, is the deus ex machina of California drought mongers

Electric or Bust: Aussie Climate Minister’s Plan to Boost China and Hurt US Automakers

Aussie federal climate minister Chris Bowen plan is to force mainly US ICE manufacturers to buy carbon credits from mainly Chinese EV manufacturers.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #590

If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”

Time to Retire the Term “Renewable Energy” from Serious Discussions and Policy Directives: Part 3

“Renewable good, non-renewable bad” is far too simplistic and unfortunately influential

How a crashing second-hand market slammed the brakes on EVs

There is no reason why demand for second hand EVs will increase from last year’s level, and if it does not prices really will collapse.

Bureau of Land Management takes Comments On World’s Biggest Solar Boondoggle

But the biggest concern by far is not addressed, namely, what this monstrosity is going to cost the poor people who have to pay for it.

Automobiles, human nature, and the challenge of building cars that people actually want

Current politicians and WEF-types believe they have a blueprint for humanity to unroll. It is an absurdity, if for no other reason than they can’t comprehend the complex realities of…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #582

“No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.” –Robert A. Heinlein

Righteous Risks Part 3: The Electric Vehicle Halo

From the Risk Monger David Zaruk Just imagine if, in the coming months, the following studies would be published in peer-reviewed journals: Would regulators in developed countries, in reading these…

Valley Fever:  Neither caused by nor spread by climate change

Valley Fever — which can sometimes be deadly and sometimes so innocuous as to be mistaken for a cold or mild flu — has now been added to the list…

Study: EV’s are Cars for People Who Don’t Need to Drive (as much)

If federal agencies are overestimating true mileage, that results in overestimating the emissions savings.

The Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council Has Petitioned the Supreme Court for Certiorari

…the Supreme Court, can be an important part of the unraveling of the energy transformation sought by today’s climate cult.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #573

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost [tossed] upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of the castle and to…

Observed increases in North Atlantic tropical cyclone peak intensification rates

…it’s utterly shocking that hurricane forecasters and modelers wouldn’t have noticed and identified it previously.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #569

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Will Soaring Insurance Costs Derail the EV Revolution?

As automakers continue to lose money on EVs and consumers worldwide continue to prefer the vehicles they have learned to trust over decades, will EV mandates fall by the wayside – or…