China To Build 43 New Coal-Fired Power Plants

The report reckons that these new coal plants and blast furnaces will add 150 million tonnes to China’s CO2 emissions. This is roughly half the UK’s total emissions.

Claim: Climate change threatens seal hunting by Indigenous Alaskans

Hunters worry that in future years, ugruk and ice floes may be farther from Kotzebue across large expanses of open water, increasing the risk to boaters and lowering their chance…

Extinction Rebellion Co-founder Drives a Diesel

Cristo clashes with Extinction Rebellion co-founder Gail Bradbrook after the latest climate protests, calling her a “hypocrite” as she admits driving a diesel car and flew 11,000 miles for a…

Nuclear Power Not Welcome at COP26

“The nuclear industry provides most of the world’s CO2-free power, but is barred from UN IPCC meetings and even barred from the adjacent exhibit hall. Clearly UN IPCC does not…

California: Curtailing Solar Power & Building Natural Gas Plants… Because…

Because “I don’t care who you are! That’s funny right there!” by David Middleton Solar power delivers more electricity than Californians can use from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM and…

Here’s Why Climate Alarmists Are Ignoring All-Time Record Crop Production in India

All-time record crop production in India belies the doomsday narrative of climate alarmists. To no great surprise, the U.N. and media ignore the remarkable achievement of this country of 1.4…

Sea Levels Near B.C. Canada Were 90 Meters Higher Than Today 14,500 Years Ago

A new study suggests British Columbia (Canada) relative sea levels remained 10 meters higher than they are today until they fell to their present levels in the last ~1800 years.…

Drought Makes its Home on the Range

From NASA As Tracy Schohr goes about her day, water is always on her mind. She’s thinking of it as she rides an all-terrain vehicle around the pasture, looks up…

£170 Million To Be Wasted On “Greener Homes”

£170 a year for 38,000 homes tots up to a saving of £6.4 million. In what sane world would this justify spending £170 million?

Texas’s Renewables: How Did the Problem Start? (Enron, Republicans Running Wild)

This post from 12 years ago recounts the political origins of the Texas wind power boom. It is also the prehistory of the Great Texas Blackout of February 2021. Note…

Guardian Demands Higher Density Cities to Combat Climate Change

According to The Guardian, packing people into cities like sardines will help save the world from climate change. But even progressives are hesitating to support this latest climate initiative.

The Interpretation of Interpolation

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (see Arctic/Antarctic update at the end) Over in the comments at a post on a totally different subject, you’ll find a debate there about interpolation…

UK Relying On Europe For A Fifth Of Its Power

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT AUGUST 22, 2021 By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler https://gridwatch.co.uk/demand We’re currently relying on Europe for 16% of our electricity, as wind…

Weekly Climate and Energy NewsRoundup #467

Can a man who’s warm understand one who’s freezing?

Global Climate Strike: If you don’t pay Climate Reparations, All the Useless People Will Walk Out Until Their Demands are Met

Greta Thunberg’s band of future burger flippers have reaffirmed their determination to ensure the children of evil exploiters get the best jobs and university courses.

How Satellite Maps Help Prevent Another ‘Great Grain Robbery’

“As long as you know when the crop was put in the ground, roughly, you can now estimate with a good degree of accuracy when the crop enters the key…

How “the experts” can be totally wrong about energy

In this episode I will show definitively that our knowledge system is wildly irrational in its method of moral evaluation when it comes to not only fossil fuels but also…

The Real Cost Of Green Steel

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There is much agitation in the climatosphere about the amount of “coking coal” used in making steel. A number of allegedly smart folks are working…

Strong Demand For Jackets…Northern Europe Sees Very Little Midsummer Warming Over Past 2 Decades

As readers will note, mean July temperatures over northern Europe are usually deep into the teens Celsius, meaning Greta can expect having to always keep warm clothing at hand year-round…

Bastardi Comments on Hurricane Henri

But let me be clear as to why this is the storm I have always feared.   A lot of it has to do with its end game in the forecasting.