Mining Is Not a Supply Chain

The United States should measure critical-mineral security by how much of the resulting supply chain can operate independently of China, not by how many foreign mines it has financed.

The Conversation Admits Fuel Load Is Responsible For Severe Fires, Not Climate

It is good that The Conversation allowed any article that explains something as straightforward as the fact that fuel load is more to blame for severe fires than climate change,…

Believe It or Not. NASA Study Finds the Arctic Melt Season Stopped Lengthening in 2010

If less cloud under a positive Arctic Dipole drove the 2000s lengthening, where does anthropogenic forcing enter the calculation? Why is the 2010–2023 stall internal variability while the 2000–2009 jump…

8 Million Properties at Risk of Flooding by Mid-Century –Environment Agency

A British Geological Society study a few years ago found that the affected coasts, mostly Norfolk, Suffolk and East Yorkshire, have been eroding at a similar rate to now for…

Extracts from Chris Morrison’s New Book Implausible: How Scientists, Activist Politicians and Journalists Invented a Climate Crisis

There is no evidence in the record that suggests a strong, unbreakable connection – something that the current opinion on human-caused global warming surely demands.

Wrong, Media: Penguins Thriving or Dying, Climate Change Gets Blamed Either Way

The BBC reports that Antarctica’s gentoo penguins are “flourishing with climate change,” while CBS News reports that an iconic chinstrap penguin colony has suffered a “population collapse” driven by climate…

Climate Lawsuits Fail Constitutional and Scientific Review

Whatever one thinks of the climate issue, its questions need to be answered according to the disciplined rationale of both the U.S. Constitution and scientific inquiry.

Just the Numbers, Ma’am. Chris Martz on Isaias and Gulf Sea Surface Temperatures

In layman terms? An anomalously warm Gulf has no meaningful correlation to Gulf hurricane intensity.

Feds defy Supreme Court ban on labeling every puddle a ‘protected wetland’

“The Clean Water Act gives the Army Corps of Engineers limited authority to regulate navigable waters — not total control over every drainage ditch and damp parcel of land in…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #710

“[W]e compare the result of [a theory’s] computation to nature, … compare it directly with observations, to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong. In…

Germany’s Green Energy Debacle: High Energy Costs Force Kahla Porzellan to Close After 182 Years!

According to a report by Blackout News, the renowned porcelain manufacturer Kahla in Thuringia is shutting down its operations for good on December 31, 2026.

Seattle Times Story on Skagit Flooding and Global Warming is Clearly Wrong

The Seattle Times Climate Lab runs a story claiming global warming will create a dangerous situation. A story that is factually incorrect or grossly exaggerated. And it happened again yesterday…

You Pay Each Month for Closing Coal Power

The data are clear, coal keeps electricity prices at a reasonable level, enhances reliability, supports national security and keeps the wolf from the door in times of extreme weather events.

Claim: The French Drought Crisis Should be Addressed by Cutting Pesticide and Switching to Organic Farming

European climate activists seem determined to turn a bad season into a famine crisis.

Climate Alliance’s anti-affordability platform raises big election issues

Eighteen of the 23 Climate Alliance Governorships are up for grabs in November so the Alliance’s anti-affordability platform is especially important. There are also thousands of State Legislator races. Nor…

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Britain is Heading Towards Blackouts

Spain went from trouble to darkness in 27 seconds. The judgement that mattered had been made months before.

Climate Fact-Check September 2026

Summer 2026 NOT hottest evah! – ‘Climate Change’ NOT gobbling up apples or making wildfires more frequent & intense – Sea Levels NOT rising faster than ever – Flash flooding…

Climate Change Weekly # 593— 2026 Science Review: Stories Casual Readers May Have Missed

Widespread catastrophic desertification and system wide crop failure have largely failed to materialize. Instead, the broader trend has been of increasing agricultural yields and vegetation density. What actually happened did…

My Comments on the Suncor v. Boulder Climate Case

We need to know that we can fulfill our commitments to provide natural gas to the Europeans, for example. We can’t have this morass of litigation around the country hanging…