Rice has fed civilizations through the Holocene Climatic Optimum, the mid-Holocene warm spike, the Medieval Warm Period, and the Little Ice Age. The paper’s own author concedes that aggregate production…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #692
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits..” — Albert Einstein
Germany’s Ecological Holocaust… Once Fairy Tale Forests Getting Cleared for Wind Turbines
Germany is chronically stuck in “green” insanity. Prognosis: very poor.
The Real Story of the D-Day Weather Forecast
Weather prediction was a primitive, subjective affair at that time. There were no numerical weather prediction models, little understanding of jet streams and upper-level weather features, and an acute lack…
Lets Hope Global Temperature Stays Elevated Until the Paris Agreement Collapses
“Such temporary breaches do not mean the Paris Agreement’s long-term climate goals are unattainable” – the desperate UN push to save the Paris Agreement.
Nature Turns Up The Sunshine
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on X, my personal blog is here) For the usual unknown reasons that are so common in my life, I got to thinking about…
About That Arctic Tipping Point
Charles Rotter A new paper published this week in Communications Earth & Environment reports that the Arctic Ocean crossed an irreversible chemical tipping point in 2009. The lead institution is…
A Grand Solar Minimum Has Arrived…Global Cooling Of At Least 1°C Is Expected by The 2030s, 2040s
Using pattern analysis, it may be assumed that the onset of the next GSM has arrived, and global cooling will be realized over the next few decades.
POLITICO: ‘Climate hushing’ – ‘The sound of (climate) silence’ – ‘As Trump unravels U.S. climate policy, Dems & enviro groups have grown strangely quiet’ – Dems ‘may not aggressively pursue climate action if they win back power’
But experts worry the shift in Democrats’ rhetoric means they may not aggressively pursue climate action if they win back power in Washington. The road is already uphill: the Trump…
Climate And Energy Provisions In New York’s FY 2027 Budget: Making The Coming Crash Worse
Here is some related advice from the State of New York: if you should ever find yourself in a car hurtling toward a brick wall at 100 mph, your best…
Inside Vladimir Putin’s Quest for Eternal Youth
Just how close are the super rich to achieving medical immortality?
Wrong, BBC, No ‘Climate Driven Millisecond Earth Rotation Crisis’ Exists
Framing a millisecond-scale variation as “unprecedented” planetary destabilization represents a a textbook example of taking a measurable but trivial geophysical adjustment and inflating it into a symbolic crisis. It is…
Cost of Renewables To Hit £40bn in 2030
That is equivalent to about £750 for every household in the country, of which about a third will feed through onto our energy bills.
Climate Change Weekly # 581— It’s Hurricane Season, and Nothing Is New
It’s hurricane season again, and a few things about it are as certain as death and taxes. First, some named storms, tropical storms, hurricanes, and cyclones will form somewhere, sometime,…
Pressure Causes Temperature? It’s Time to Climb Down from “Mount Stupid”
There was a recent weeks-long exchange of emails between many climate people — professional and amateur — regarding the idea that air pressure (in combination with absorbed solar energy) is…
The ‘Dr Willie Soon got $1.2 million from Exxon’ Accusation … just got an increment more dicey
See the way nothing lines up right here? On top of all of that, the accusation itself has no merit. Dr Soon can readily explain how the Smithsonian was in…
If This Lawsuit Succeeds, Global Business Changes Overnight
The U.S. benefits enormously from an open global economy and from the rule of law. Both depend on predictability. If courts blur the distinction between parent corporations and foreign subsidiaries,…
Guardian: US Illegal Immigrant Deportation Flights are Worsening the Climate Crisis
Just in case you thought activists had reached the bottom of the well of climate absurdity.