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…

You’ll Never Guess Who Biden Just Picked to Replace John Kerry as Top Climate Diplomat

John Podesta, who currently works in the White House as a senior adviser to the president, will take the reins from Kerry as the face of the Biden administration’s international…

Artificial Alarmism

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I was notified by my long-standing “Google Alert” that my name had appeared in a paper on the web. It was in a study…

Climate Change Weekly #494: Associated Press Takes More Money to Promote Climate Alarm

Upton Sinclair reportedly once said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” Similarly, William Jennings Bryant reportedly said,…

Watch the Ongoing Mann-Steyn Trial Live

Michael Mann vs Mark Steyn, live from court.

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…

Climate Change Weekly #493: The Antarctic Ice Shelf Is More Stable than Climate Alarmists Assert

Four papers published in peer-reviewed journals in 2023 concerning Antarctica’s ice extent and/or shelves suggest both are more stable than climate alarmists have warned

Claim: Climate Activist Tourists are Helping to Save Fijian Mangroves

Imagine flying thousands of miles to a tropical island so you can spend all day digging holes.

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Climate Change Weekly #492: Climate Goals Undermining Global Poverty Reduction

Efforts to rapidly restrict the use of fossil fuels is hampering the #1 goal of poverty reduction in Africa and is restricting Africa’s efforts to develop and utilize its own…

Climate Fact Check: December 2023

At best, this is a graph of fantasy guesstimates.

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Beijing Breaks Seven Decade Cold Weather Record

I wonder how their solar panels and frost sensitive EVs are working out for them?

U.S. Climate 2023 Year in Review – In one word: NORMAL

The year is not quite in the books, but it is late enough that we can have a look-back at this year’s weather and climate extremes.

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Climate Change Weekly #490: Fighting for Truth in Climate Science Is Important

The fight for sound science, per se, but climate science, specifically, is a fight for truth and all the progress science can provide.

Canadian Climate Policy: Reasonableness Needed

They exhibit an almost ritualistic narcissism defending their crowning achievement, the Carbon Tax, and treat opposition to its efficacy as malignant, unintelligent treachery while demonstrating hypocrisy in practice.

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Energy and Environmental Review

This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnighly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete Newsletter…

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Green Energy Buys Itself a Legislature

Dominion and Clean Virginia both understand return on investment.

Climate Fact Check: October 2023 Edition

10 bogus climate claims from October 2023 debunked

‘Demographic Warming’: Humans Increasingly Choose to Live Where It’s Warmer

… it shows humans choose to live under warmer conditions just by living in densely populated areas — and increasingly so.