Comments on Stefan Rahmstorf’s Post at RealClimate “What ocean heating reveals about global warming”

I was recently asked to comment on Stefan Rahmsorf’s post What ocean heating reveals about global warming at RealClimate. There is a link to a pdf edition of this post…

Climate Queries: The Search for Gullibility

…these questions are less about climate science and more about the climate of our national discourse.

DAVID BLACKMON: Having Biden Declare A Climate Emergency Is A Crazy Idea

This is indeed a crazy idea, but it would be a mistake to assume it is not being seriously considered, and for all the wrong reasons.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #595

“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” — James Wilson (1790)

Climate Change Is Normal and Natural, and Can’t Be Controlled

These and other phenomena influencing our climate are well beyond the control of humans.

Climate Change Weekly #503: Official Temperature Data Isn’t ‘Data’ At All

In fact, we found that 89 percent of the stations—nearly 9 of every 10—fail to meet the National Weather Service’s own siting requirements …

Climate Change and Volcanoes

Hence any “increase in volcanic eruptions due to ongoing deglaciation since the end of the Little Ice Age may not become apparent for hundreds of years.”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #594

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” – Albert Einstein

Climate Fact-Check March 2024 Edition

As always, average global temperature is not a physical concept. It is merely a notion invented to push the global warming agenda. We mention it merely because it is what…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #593

“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star.…

Climate Change Weekly #502: Climate Change Is Not Causing Inflation

Policymakers taking this study seriously might impose policies which themselves would result in worse inflation than the world is currently experiencing, which is in part due to existing climate policies.

‘Blatant Violations’: Watchdog Challenges Key Data Used by Biden Admin to Push Sweeping Climate Agenda

Sensational climate claims made without proper scientific basis and spread by government officials threaten the public’s trust in its scientific officials and undermines the government’s mission of stewarding the environment

Claim: Questioning Attribution Studies is the “Gateway Drug” to Climate Denial

Apparently “… denialism is standing up for industrial capitalism. … poorly educated men (and to the regional communities built around them) …” are the drivers of modern climate denial.

Citigroup Reports Huge Share Of Its Clients Are Not Ready To Reach Key Climate Targets

From The Daily Caller Nick PopeContributor Citigroup is warning that more than 40% of their energy sector clients are unprepared for the “net-zero” emissions transition, according to the financial institution’s…

Biden’s Signature Climate Law Has a Major Achilles’ Heel — And Dems Are Making It Worse

…you can’t get anything built because of these statutes,” Mike McKenna, a Republican strategist with extensive experience in and around the energy sector, told the DCNF about Congressional gridlock on…

Climate Change Weekly #501: Stream ‘Climate: The Movie’ Before It’s Censored

The movie features discussions from multi-award-winning climate researchers. The Climate Intelligence group Clintel is translating the program into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, and Danish, and it has…

Dems, Media Push New Study Linking Climate Change to Inflation, But Economists Aren’t Buying It

The Earth’s average temperature does not affect the amount of currency in circulation,” Ryan Young, a senior economist for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told the DCNF.

Annotated Bibliography for Climate: The Movie

By Andy May Many viewers of Climate: The Movie have asked for more information on the topics discussed. In response, I selected the following 70 key statements from the movie…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #592

“A coincidence of interests is always more powerful than a conspiracy.”

Climate Policy vs. Social Justice (‘Bloomberg Green’ decries rollbacks)

Apologies are in order from Bloomberg Green. In terms of social justice, why hurt the average person as consumer, ratepayer, and taxpayer?

Emissions Are Not a Material Risk to Investors or Companies, SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule Is

It is time for rogue agencies, like the SEC, to return to their core missions of protecting people and making our markets fair and transparent.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591

“My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles … That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need…

The Conversation Leans on Flawed Polling Study to Claim That Climate Change Influences Elections

It is transparently an effort to use polling in order to influence people into believing that the climate issue is more important in their peers’ minds, so that social pressure…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591

“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge…