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.
Bob’s Your Uncle. Jessica Weinkle Traces First Street From Flood-Risk Charity to a $120 Million MSCI Sale
Jessica Weinkle traces First Street from a flood-risk charity to a $120 million sale to MSCI, and the conflicts of interest nobody disclosed along the way. Dave Burton adds the…
Burnham to Halt Wind and Solar Subsidies in Net Zero Climbdown
Michael Shanks, the Energy Minister, told the House of Lords Environment Committee that the next auction was being put on hold so that the CfD programme could be reformed.
LSE Climate Course Recommends Book Promoting Eco-Terrorism
Young students are often revolting – these days it seems they are being given a run for their money by the supposed responsible adults egging them on.
The Sheer #%&@! Gall of Nature Magazine. EU Chief Science Advisers Say Democracy Depends on Trusted Science, and Ignore How the Trust Was Squandered
The European Commission’s chief scientific advisers tell Nature readers that democracy depends on trusted science and that the trouble is politicization by outsiders. The record on lockdowns, Proximal Origin, vaccine…
Precipitation Miracles
But then a miracle occurred: a series of atmospheric rivers pushed into the Southwest, dropping immense amounts of precipitation over the Colorado River drainage.
UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for October, 2026: +0.69 deg. C (+1.24 deg. F)
The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for October, 2026 was +0.69 deg. C (+1.24 deg. F) departure from the 1991-2020 mean, up from the September, 2026…
Move all energy policy costs onto gas says ESNZ Committee
In short, they have finally admitted that the cost of decarbonising the electricity grid is appallingly high, contradicting all the lies we have been fed for years of how renewable…
“Energy is Prosperity” (Claire Coutinho speaks to the UK people)
When something clearly isn’t working, we Conservatives should have the courage to tell the truth and say so. Net Zero isn’t working for Britain, and it’s not working for the…
Cleaned-up Coal: Part of Fossil Fuel Sustainability
The air got cleaner because engineers installed and operated the hardware, not because coal was abolished.
COP 17 Armenia: From “incentives” to control — UN “biodiversity finance” is really central planning
This is central planning by incentive design. Productive sectors that generate food, fiber, energy, and wealth are recast as “problems” to “biodiversity” and “climate” that must be phased down or…
Poster Child for Green Energy Becomes Buyer of Emergency Power
The state that spent three decades celebrating wind turbines now pays a premium for the one quality they cannot offer – on-demand dispatchability.
El Nino’s Nemesis, The PDO, Helps Protect the Northwest Coast This Year
We will enjoy PDO “protection” this year as well, so predictions of El Nino flooding on the WA coast by certain local media outlets and some social media channels are…
EU Cost of Living Crisis: “The EU … don’t have a magic wand to make the price increases go away”
But abolishing 30% of household energy bills by cancelling the green energy transition might help.
Madame Otto and Her Computer Crystal Balls
Of course, the precise figures are not based on actual fatality data but are modelled estimates using population numbers and previous historical stats on temperature and summer mortality.
Leipzig Psychologists Measure How Jovial Climate Change Makes 1,313 German Workers, to Two Decimal Places
Leipzig psychologists asked 1,313 German workers, every three months for a year, how jovial climate change makes them feel, and ran the answers through mixed-effects models. A point more climate…
“It’s been 20 years since ‘Inconvenient Truth’ and climate change is still questioned”
It isn’t the climate crisis that needs to be fixed, or the fossil fuel industry that needs to be investigated; it’s the epic level journalism malfeasance which must to be…
Gone With the Wind. German Power Goes From €13 to €315 a Megawatt-Hour in Four Days
German power averaged €13 a megawatt-hour on Sunday, October 25, when renewables briefly supplied more than the country used and Fraunhofer’s Energy-Charts posted a record. Four days later the wind…
An Extraordinary Popular Delusion: Review of Implausible by Chris Morrison
After all, these days there isn’t a rain shower or breeze we aren’t told was wildly worse than it would have been in the Good Old Days thanks to human-induced…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #713
“If quantum mechanics hasn’t profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.”— Niels Bohr