Beijing’s Useful Idiots: Germany, California and the Green Road to Chinese Supremacy

The world’s third- and fourth-largest economies have become a climate vanguard. Berlin has pledged, for the first time, to end fossil fuel use by 2045. It is not clear whether…

India Rejects UN Climate Politics in Favor of Industrialization

By Vijay Jayaraj India’s External Affairs Minister, Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, used the U.N. General Assembly gathering to say something that climate scaremongers like Al Gore and John Kerry have spent…

CFACT joins allies in urging Supreme Court to hear challenge to EPA’s fine particle rule

The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) has joined the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Energy & Environment Legal Institute, the Heartland Institute, and Heartland Impact in an amicus brief asking…

‘Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future’ (trade group under fire)

Bill McKibben is desperate. Instead of accepting reality, he continues his magical thinking of wind and solar dominance. But as James Hansen, the father of the alarm, stated:

On The Criteria For Falsifying A Scientific Hypothesis

If the ACE data reflected in this chart are the criteria on which the “more and more severe storms” theory can be falsified, then I can’t see how that hypothesis…

Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Big Climate Case at Supreme Court Today

From The Heartland Institute The Supreme Court should take its constitutional responsibility seriously by banning Boulder’s climate lawsuit in a way that applies to other cities’ lawsuits” SCHAUMBURG, IL (October…

Digger Digs Its Own Grave: Hollywood Finally Produces Something Truly Shovel-Ready

Meet Digger: perhaps the first genuinely shovel-ready movie. It arrived with the shovel, found the hole and, judging by the reported opening-weekend box office, immediately began digging its own grave.

Guardian: The Coal Hypocrisy is Strong with COP31

Both host country Turkey and “President of Negotiations” Australia are players in the global coal supply chain – Australia exports, and Turkey imports.

Heartland Institute Experts Applaud Trump’s New, Realistic Automobile Efficiency Standards

Government shouldn’t be in the business of deciding what types of cars and trucks people drive

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #709

“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”— Albert Einstein

Latest European Green Energy Debacle; Portugal’s Largest Flagship Solar Park Insolvent!

In summary, Europe’s green energy revolution is going the way of communism: lots of rosy promises turning into an economic debacle. Collapse is inevitable.

Democratic Socialists want a Green New Deal … and more

Give the Democrats and Democratic Socialists control of Congress and the Supreme Court, and affordability, justice, equality, and opportunity become a distant memory — or a pipe dream — for…

Impossible, Asia Nikkei, Climate Change Can’t Be Harming Indonesian Coffee Production, It Is Setting Records

In the end, the data suggests that Indonesia’s coffee growers have been benefitting from modest climate change, not suffering. Somehow Asia Nikkei, failed to get the memo. Its writers and…

Anti ULEZ Low Emission Zone Campaigner Jailed for 15 Years for Terrorism

The court found he was responsible for attacking a camera with a bomb which detonated and endangered lives.

Coal’s Real Value Is Optionality

Coal is not returning from the dead. The world never stopped needing it.

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Why So Many Social Science Claims Are False

Until the incentives for research change more broadly, the public will continue to be fed a steady diet of bold claims about human behavior built on an unsteady foundation.

Climate Change Weekly # 592—Major Nature Study Retracted After RCP8.5 Debunking

Major Nature Study Retracted After RCP8.5 Debunking Warmer Climate Is Resulting in Fewer Deaths, Studies Say Biden’s EV School Bus Boondoggle: High Costs, Poor Results

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for September, 2026: +0.61 deg. C

The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for September, 2026 was +0.61 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, down from the August, 2026 value of +0.68…

University of Reading Professor Explains How Britons will Have to Do Without when Renewable Energy is Unavailable – Unless you are Rich

“… Up to now, the solution has been to build more storage or curtail generation. Both approaches can work, but both can also be expensive. …”