Why the Sun, Not CO2, Heats the Oceans Revisiting the Debate: Does Greenhouse Back-radiation Warm the Oceans?

After analyzing the physics detailed in this video, I’m convinced it is solar energy that drives the observed ocean heating, and any infrared ocean heating is insignificant at best.

Sleepwalking to Green Austerity

Basically, if you wish for net zero then you need to be very, very careful what you wish for. We may all end up sleepwalking to Green Austerity.

Saudi Aramco CEO: “Not losing any sleep over ‘peak oil demandʼ or ‘stranded resourcesʼ” and the reality of energy transition.

Guest post by David Middleton If Alexandria Occasional Cortex and the rest of the Green New Deal nitwits only had the mental capacity to understand Amin H. Nasser’s 2018 CERA presentation……

Black hole with the mass of 17 billion suns discovered

From NASA Goddard: Behemoth black hole found in an unlikely place Astronomers have uncovered a near-record breaking supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, in an unlikely place: in the…

A note about Bad Losers and Global Warming on Super Bowl Sunday

Guest essay by Caleb Shaw It is not merely the physical science behind Global Warming Alarmism that is rotten; the social science is equally rotten. The fiasco involves both the…

Reply to 'Anesthetic gases raise Earth’s temperature (a little) while you sleep'

Guest essay by Charles G. Battig, M.D. Earlier today, WUWT carried a press release “Anesthetic gases raise Earth’s temperature (a little) while you sleep (7 April 2015)” according to the…

A new global warming threat: sleeping gas

From the American Geophysical Union and the laughing gas department comes this story. I can’t wait for Greenpeace to start storming dental offices to “save the planet”. Of course Nitrous…

Sunspots and Sea Level

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I came across a curious graph and claim today in a peer-reviewed scientific paper. Here’s the graph relating sunspots and the change in sea level:…

Faint young sun paradox explained by Stanford – greenhouse effect not involved

Early Earth stayed warm because its ocean absorbed more sunlight; greenhouse gases were not involved, Stanford researchers say. See more about the Faint sun paradox here. A video clip follows.…

Svensmark: "global warming stopped and a cooling is beginning" – "enjoy global warming while it lasts"

UPDATED: This opinion piece from Professor Henrik Svensmark was published September 9th in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Originally the translation was from Google translation with some post translation cleanup of…

Renewables will destroy America’s lifestyle back to the pre-1800’s – this is the Biden energy plan.

The elephant in the room that policymakers refuse to talk about is that renewables only generate electricity but cannot manufacture any products for today’s materialistic society.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #592

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

Climate Change Weekly #495: New Research Further Demonstrates Problems with Surface Temperature Records and Models

And does  Michael Mann really have a strong case for defamation? He himself frequently spreads false and malicious rumors about colleagues who challenged his science. Listen to his explanation for falsely…

A Closer Look at the UK’s Energy Predicament

Even at the cost of impoverishing its citizens, Britain’s political elite has striven in its hubris to make the country a global “climate leader” in the United Nations-led drive to…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #585

’The exception proves that the rule is wrong.’ That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation,…

Big Claims About Tiny Numbers

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [UPDATE: An alert commenter, Izaak Walton, notes below that I’d used 10e21 instead of 1e21. This means all my results were too large by a…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #580

“I apologize for writing such a long letter, but I didn’t have time to write a short one.” – Mark Twain

In Denial about the Science – Part 2, ARC in London

If Western civilisation is to persist, it needs more than anything else to save its science, because otherwise our civilisation will be conquered and replaced.

Reconciling with Nature – God and Qantas (Part 1, Arriving London)

Guest essay by Dr. Jennifer Marohasy There is a tendency, that must be resisted, for 21st century Western scientists to claim every discovery of mass death as a catastrophe and…

Wrong, Amnesty International, “Climate Change in Mexico” is Not Displacing People

The incompetence of the media and NGOs, like Amnesty International News, in doing even the most basic investigation is disturbing and misleading.

Review of Proposed Minimum Efficiency Standards for “Consumer Boilers”

DOE’s recent appliance efficiency ‘determinations’ are doing more harm than good for consumers and defy objectivity and transparency processes required by the Code of Federal Regulations (the Process Rule)

“A Missed Opportunity”: Biden to Skip This Week’s New York UN Climate Summit

In the midst of widespread climate protests, Biden has decided to skip the UN summit and send John Kerry in his place.

Shock News–Pavements Get Hot In Summer!

Of course, if Guardian journalists understood why roads and pavements get hot in summer, they would also appreciate why urban areas get much hotter than rural ones, and that the…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #562

“To know when you know something, and to know when you don’t know, that’s knowledge.”