There is nothing unprecedented about the weather in the past week.
Wave Goodbye to the Butterfly Effect …
Any predictive system constructing cycles of variable duration and/or varying amplitude will fail after a few cycles if the mechanisms behind the variability are not fully understood and/or cannot be…
Hoping for an Energy-Intensive Future
The critical point is that developing nations are seeking not marginal improvements but rather fundamental, dramatic transformations in living standards. This necessitates massive investments in infrastructure, industrialization, and agricultural modernization…
Comparing Equilibrium, Kinetic, and Non-Equilibrium Temperatures
Definitions of thermodynamic, kinetic, and non-equilibrium temperatures with illustrations.
The Biggest Garbage Heaps in Human History
So much for the lies about clean, renewable, sustainable energy. Where will all the trash go?
Ellenbogen’s (New York) Data from the July 2026 Heat Wave
Ellenbogen connected the voltage collapse to a growing reliance on inverter-based resources — solar and batteries — that disconnect from the grid when voltage or frequency moves outside their operating…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #702
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.” — Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Am I a Conspiracy Theorist?
Science advances by challenging consensus, not by bending to it. From Galileo, insisting that the earth was in orbit around the sun and not the other way round, to Barry Marshall,…
Save LBI Notifies U.S. Department of Commerce of Intent to Sue for Failure to Protect Critically Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale
The lawsuit will seek to compel the DOC to revisit and act positively on a 16-month-old Petition asking the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to designate the whale’s primary…
Even CNN Admits It: Americans “Don’t Care” about Climate Change Hysteria
…the gap between elite climate messaging and voter priorities is becoming impossible for even CNN to ignore… as much as it may like to.
When Experts Obfuscate! How Alarmist Scientists like D. Swain, J. Abatzoglou, A. Williams Falsely Attribute Wildfires to Climate Change.
Once you install these precautions, you can then guiltlessly enjoy a hamburger and fossil fuel powered heating and cooling systems.
The Loneliness Epidemic is Not Caused by Climate Change, PBS News
The Conversation, and PBS, should be embarrassed for promoting this borderline pseudoscience. We know what is making the loneliness epidemic worse and it’s not climate change or even the weather.
Record Low Lake Mead: “Millennium Drought” or Inevitable Result of Demand Exceeding Supply?
As can be seen, since about 2000, usage has exceeded supply, and given the natural multi-year variations in streamflow, it was only a matter of time before Lake Mead water…
California’s ‘Sustainability’ Bureaucracy Takes a Big Sip from Napa Valley’s Iconic Vineyards
“Sustainability” has essentially become the bureaucratic equivalent of a blank check, invoked to justify new fees and new layers of government management.
Where Do Candidates Stand on Energy? There Is No Issue More Important to Us All.
Study a candidate’s energy policy closely, then choose wisely. The ripple effect will be enormous.
D.C. Circuit Endangerment Finding Litigation: The Stall Is On
And meanwhile, the EF litigation sits basically idle in the D.C. Circuit, with frivolous procedural motions still sitting undecided, and no merits briefing schedule six months after filing of the…
EU Net Zero Regulations Are Killing Off British Agriculture – And we Slavishly Enforce Them, Even Though We’ve Left the EU
An unrealised benefit of the 2016 Brexit vote should be a new British emissions standard for non-road mobile machinery that sees a return to something closer to the Stage IIIb…
Call It What It Is: Texas Didn’t Order an Audit. It Ordered a Pause.
The real test isn’t whether Texas audits these projects. It should. The test is whether the state uses that audit to build a predictable regulatory framework or simply creates an…