That’s the subject of a presentation I’ll be giving in Calgary, Alberta, on November 16, 2026, hosted by the Friends of Science Society.
The AI Boom Needs Superconducting Wire, Not Another Record
The next superconductor breakthrough will not be a number in a table. It will be a length of tape that holds its current after a thousand bends and a decade…
Ideologues Try Their Hand At Ordering Up An Electrical Grid Powered Only By “Renewables”
…places like New York, California, Germany and the UK continue to plow forward as if wind/solar/storage electricity systems can work. It’s as if it’s not possible to learn from experience.
Cancel Culture. Another Science Paper Credits CO2 With Calling Off the Next Ice Age
Charles Rotter Add one more charge to carbon dioxide’s record. A recent paper published in Science by Nicolás Young of Lamont-Doherty and nine co-authors says it stopped the next ice…
What is the Point of Studying, if AI will Take All the Jobs?
What to tell demoralised kids who think AI has eaten their future.
Washington Post on Natural Gas: No Plan = Best Plan (channeling F. A. Hayek)
The editorial board of the Washington Post last month gave a shout out to natural gas. Kudos to the Post for magnifying the obvious.
The Minister for Climate Transition Will Protect Us From Weather
Head over to “Cartoons by Josh” for more, including next year’s calendar due out soon.
Maintaining Reserves and Their Cost
There is no power is more expensive than power that isn’t available when needed most.
Closure of US tax credit transition window to reshape wind and solar outlook, says GlobalData
Enacted in July 2025, the legislation introduced termination provisions for the Section 45Y Clean Electricity Production Credit and Section 48E Clean Electricity Investment Credit for applicable wind and solar facilities…
Pages 2k Greenland Proxy Temperatures
By Andy May I’m reviewing the Pages 2k temperature proxies one-by-one as I once reviewed Marcott’s proxies (May, 2018). There are 647 Pages 2k proxies, so this is a big…
Climate Death Toll: Batteries Not Included
CNN is here to tell us just how bad the most recent summer was. Their headline says: ‘Worst on record’: Brutal summer heat wave killed more than 50,000 in Europe’s…
Live at 1 PM ET: California’s Bullet Train: Speeding Into Absurdity — The Climate Realism Show #222
On Episode #222 of The Climate Realism Show, we will examine what might be the world’s greatest climate grift, the California train that even Gov. Gavin Newsom said may never…
The New York Times Shows Democrats How To Run On “Energy Affordability”
It’s easy — by focusing on emotional stories that in reality have nothing to do with “skyrocketing” energy prices, and by leaving out (or lying about) all the key facts.
E-Cars Reduce CO2 Emissions By Only 41% Compared To Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles
Viehmann argues that labeling electric vehicles (EVs) as completely “zero-emission” is misleading. While EVs do not have a tailpipe, their carbon footprint depends heavily on how the electricity used to…
The New Alaska Gold Rush
Should the new pipeline – and new mining projects – come to fruition, by the early 2030s the 49th state could be in the midst of a new (liquid) gold…
Widely Acclaimed 1960 Scientific Paper Predicted Doomsday November 13 2026
While critics were initially less than impressed, by the 1970s the paper’s apparently on track predictions had grown its fan base.
Latest Aussie MET Excuse for Weather Report Errors: Wrong Kind of Moths
Just in case you thought there couldn’t possibly be any more excuses for bad weather forecasts…
BREAKING: Models Model Modeled Tipping Points
Imagine I write a computer program to simulate a horse race. Then I write another computer program to predict which simulated horse will win. My second program does wonderfully. Predicts…
The Climate Narrative is Collapsing
The climate house of cards is collapsing, as became clear last week at the IPCC meeting in Ethiopia. The climate narrative has never had any substance, and now that the…
Monarch Butterfly Populations Rebound as U.S. Honeybee Colony Counts Rise
Somebody alert the mainstream media: Mother Nature has interrupted their regularly scheduled environmental doom-and-gloom broadcast with a little good news.
Tech Companies Drive Nuclear Power Plant Expansions, More Electricity
For much of the past 40 years, nuclear power has been in a funk in the U.S., though according to the U.S. Department of Energy it still produces nearly 20%…