End of Rain? Guardian Blames NSW Flooding on Climate Change

15 years after former Aussie Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery claimed rainfall would not fill our dams, the Guardian asks whether ongoing severe New South Wales flooding is due to climate…

The Northwest (US) Snowpack Trend of the Past Fifty Years: The Truth May Surprise You

So the inescapable conclusion based upon snowpack observations is that there has been little trend in the amount of snow in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest during a period…

Millennial CO2 And Temperature

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My mind runs to curious corners of the climate question. I got to thinking about how little the atmospheric CO2 level has changed over most…

Fireball Rocks England with Meteor Fragments and Sonic Booms

No harm done on this occasion – but surely this is yet another reminder the world faces more serious risks than a gentle wobble in the global temperature.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #447

“It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system-ever aiming toward the…

End of Snow? Finland Thinks Their Winter Snow Might Not Melt This Summer

Finland thinks that piles of snow accumulated from road clearing this year are so large, some of the snow will still be frozen when winter returns.

Sea Level and the Jersey Shore

The Jersey Shore does not need to look to the future to see pending disaster – these communities are already at existential risk from the sea levels of today.

Former Obama-Biden federal scientist Dr. Steve Koonin declares his climate dissent

Excellent interview given by Larry Kudlow.

DOE Clean Hydrogen Plan: Breathing New Life into Brown Coal Plants

The farce of government agencies and climate warriors celebrating new CO2 belching coal plants which produce “clean hydrogen” is gathering momentum.

Fake Hurricane News Exposed: Average Day Of First Hurricane Formation “Contrary To Media Reports”

Overall Maue called the “fixation on ‘named storms’ and lengthening the season” a “waste of time.” He notes that the data for the first hurricane is “highly variable data” and…

BP to develop UK’s largest hydrogen factory in Teesside

In short, BP will be paid a guaranteed price for all the hydrogen it produces, which will probably be triple the price of natural gas. The cost of this will…

Study: Hollywood Movies Demonstrate the UN Needs More Funding to Prevent Climate Disasters

The United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Reduction is so obscure they don’t even have their own ambassador. But according to a study, unless the UNDRR receives more money, disasters…

Oil: why higher prices will complicate the energy transition

Yet paradoxically, higher oil prices also provide incentives to oil companies to spend more on exploration and production – a potential step in the wrong direction for achieving net zero…

Borrow and Hope – for the Planet?

If the Earth is cooking, does it really matter how much money we borrow or print to cool it down? If we fail, we won’t even be here to pay…

Claim: Tropical species are moving northward in U.S. as winters warm

“Quite a few mosquito species are expanding northward, as well as a lot of forestry pests: bark beetles, the southern mountain pine beetle,” said Caroline Williams, associate professor of integrative…

The contradictory Green policies to limit CO2 emissions

An excellent way to undermine Western economies is to render their power generation unreliable and expensive. That objective of Green thinking is progressively being achieved by Government policy throughout the…

New Study Challenges Long-Held Theory of Fate of Mars’ Water

From NASA The new science results indicate that a large quantity of the Red Planet’s water is trapped in its crust rather than having escaped into space. Billions of years…

Australian Financial Review Advises Readers to Embrace Climate Investments

According to the AFR, “You don’t want … a portfolio that has … companies that cannot make the transition.”. Just one problem – there will be no transition.

National Review wins, Michael Mann loses!

By Andy May The D.C. Superior Court dismissed Michael Mann’s lawsuit against the National Review today in a definitive way. The National Review was sued by Mann over a blog…

Climate adaptation sense. Part III: Dynamic Adaptation Policy Pathways

Best practice is to use 2 to 3 different teams with different perspectives/expertise in generating scenarios and evaluating scenarios of the other teams. I have been involved in three projects…

Friday Funny: The Seance Is Settled

How ‘Climate Scientists’ Decide Your SUV Causes Bad Weather

Getting Industry To Go Green Will Not Come Cheaply–Telegraph Wakes Up At Last!

The report also highlights the extremely naivety of the media up to now, who seem to have assumed that all of this decarbonisation could have been achieved for a billion…

Claim: Melting glaciers contribute to Alaska earthquakes

In a recently published research article, scientists with the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute found that ice loss near Glacier Bay National Park has influenced the timing and location…

NASA Joins White House National Climate Task Force

The administration’s climate agenda outlines putting climate at the center of the country’s foreign policy and national security and encourages a governmentwide approach to climate change.