Anyone can manipulate data to come up with horrifying “what if” scenarios designed to frighten or intimidate people into making their preferred choices. That’s not how to make public policy.…
Aerosols: The Heads I Win, Tails You Lose of Climate Science
This is what “heads I win, tails you lose” looks like in a scientific framework. There is no observational outcome that forces a reconsideration of the underlying assumptions. Warming confirms…
How Did Last Month’s (UK) Rainfall Compare With 1929?
In the 4 months from October to January, a total of 691.3 mm fell in 1929/30, compared to the 554.8 mm in the last four months:
Why Climate Science Is Not Settled
Viewing the climate issue as unsettled is not to deny science, but rather to respect it. Empirical inquiry thrives on skepticism, on a willingness to question assumptions, on the refusal…
Fakegate Remembered: The Shame of Peter Gleick
“[Peter] Gleick’s use of deception [against the Heartland Institute] in pursuit of his cause after years of calling out climate deception has destroyed his credibility and harmed others…. That is his…
The Coming Squall
What will happen now that Trump is pulling out the linchpin of environmental overreach. If the Trump administration follows through and formally repeals the EPA’s 2009 Endangerment Finding on carbon…
Climate Change and Energy: World Leaders in Turmoil
“There is no evidence that UN COP meetings and more than $10 trillion spent on renewables over the last 30 years have affected the climate. The average atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration,…
Federal Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Climate Science Chapter — Withdrawn!
Here at Manhattan Contrarian, we get results. After my last three posts harshly critiquing the Federal Judicial Center’s newly revised Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, and particularly its chapter on…
Met Office’s N Ireland Rainfall Dataset Is Worthless
We know that the Met Office’s long term temperature record is massively corrupted by poor siting and UHI. It seems that their rainfall datasets are also equally corrupted and worthless.
Breaking: The Evidence is in: Endangerment Finding was Pre-cooked
2009 Obama EPA appointees internally called the Endangerment Finding a “decision ready to go,” a “basic fact” and “nothing more than science and common sense”; discussion went straight to timing,…
Should Guardian Authors be Paid in Hugs to Reduce Climate Damage?
Guardian author Alex Clark wants the world to “move beyond” GDP as a measure of wellbeing. The experiment should start with The Guardian.
Waste of the Day: EPA Missed Obvious Payment Inaccuracies
The inspector general reviewed just 20 payments the EPA had marked as proper and found that 19 of them were actually improper, as defined by the Payment Integrity Information Act…
Bernie’s Green Transit Busses are Struggling with Winter Fire Safety Issues
… the five electric buses were “operating well” until November 2025 when the batteries “were recalled for fire hazard. …
Bald Eagle’s Grizzly Death at Obama‑Funded Wind Project Site Triggers Federal Fine
Until regulators and policymakers confront the reality that these projects are wiping out key predators in the natural food chain, it is dishonest to market this form of power as…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #678
Quote of the Week: “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts” — Richard Feynman [H/t Francis Menton]
BBC’s Fake Record Rainfall Claims
I gather there was 271 mm in Torbay. But even that pales into insignificance in comparison with some of the totals registered in November 1929. October 1960 was also extremely…
False, New York Times, Climate Change Doesn’t Cause Both Extreme Heat and Extreme Cold
Gelles should acknowledge that the scientific expectation in a warming world has long been for fewer cold extremes. Observations largely confirm that expectation. The idea of warming “fueling” cold extremes…
Climate Slump: Bezos boots global warming coverage! Wash Post Fires 14 of 19 ‘Climate’ reporters – Paper had ‘climate solutions’ reporters touting ‘human hair’ clothing to save the earth
Does this mean we will have fewer stories from the Post about how human hair clothing can save the Earth?! What will happen to the team of Washington Post ‘climate…
Claim: China Should Learn from California’s Clean Energy Example
“… With the right policy, coal is not essential to ensuring a reliable electricity supply… “
Another Temperature Bias: The Shrinking Stevenson Screen = Warming
By shrinking the Stevenson Screens in such a manner, they made yearly temperatures warmer by 0.54C.