Chaos to Control: Scientists Use a ‘Butterfly Attractor’ to Control and Change the Weather

“We have successfully built a new theory and methodology to study the controllability of weather,”

Newsom’s Energy Regulations Have Oil Tankers Emitting More Than Twice What All of California’s Vehicle Fleet Do

As a result of continuously decreasing in-state oil production, California has increased imported crude oil from foreign countries from 5 percent in 1992 to 58 percent today of total consumption.

WP: Ukraine War Helps with “Communicating the Need for [Climate] Sacrifice”

According to the Washington Post, people who have accepted austerity to defeat Russian aggression are more likely to also accept “sleeping colder in the winters to flying less and paying…

Comprehensive European Study Finds Warmer Climate Periods Do Not Lead to More Conflict, War

Our results indicated that none of the temperature reconstructions could be used to explain variation in conflict levels. It seems that shifts to extreme climate conditions may have been largely irrelevant…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #497

“If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”— Richard P. Feynman.

Covid Pandemic and Climate Change Facts: Fact Checking the Fact Checkers

But are they the guardians of truth and accountability as they claim or are they the enforcers of the reigning political narrative? Are they the arbiters of “consensus science” (an oxymoron)…

Saving America from Planet-Threatening Fossil Fuels

Presidential candidate Joe Biden repeatedly promised to end fossil fuels in America. There’ll be “no more drilling, including offshore,” he said. “No ability for the oil industry to drill. No…

Atmospheric Fingerprint

By Andy May The IPCC believes that the change in solar radiation over the past 60 years nets to zero and has no trend beyond the normal ~11-year solar cycle.…

“Save The Children” Chooses Climate Virtue Signalling Over Feeding Hungry Kids

You might expect on the eve of a global food price crisis, a charity which genuinely cares about feeding hungry children would swallow their pride and prioritise accepting donations from…

Weather Records Shattered–180 Years Ago

By every measure Hawkins claims don’t stand up to scrutiny, for England at least. It may be that rainfall is now more extreme in Scotland, but it is dishonest to…

Leading Environmental Group NABU Now Vigorously Opposes Wind Parks In German Forests

“From an ecological point of view, the expansion of wind turbines in forests would be a fatally flawed development,” writes Blackout News.  “According to NABU, the already damaged forest would…

Did Anyone Notice Today’s Climate Change School Strike?

Real problems, like Putin again threatening to use nuclear weapons to bolster his faltering attack on the Ukraine, are kindof sucking the oxygen from slow news day sensations like student…

New York Climate Act: Cost Estimate Sleight of Hand

The Draft Scoping Plan was written to prove the desired conclusion that the benefits were greater than the costs.  In order to make that case both benefits and cost estimates…

Biden Promised Europe More LNG From US… Forgot to Check With Industry First

Guest “You don’t have any LNG to promise to anyone” by David Middleton “Saturday’s Energy Absurdity of the Day” Given that industry was already expanding capacity over the next few…

“Its a Disaster”: Aussie Noise Nuisance Court Defeat Panicking Renewable Energy Investors

According to the ABC, the recent court ruling that upheld a complaint by residents that wind turbines are a noise nuisance has sent “ripples of uncertainty” throughout the entire Renewable…

Rescued Victorian Rainfall Data Smashes Former Records

Specifically, this data should allow the official gridded monthly rainfall reconstructions for the UK to be extended back to 1836, and even earlier for some regions.

Open Thread

Saturday am thoughts.

Al Gore Re-Invents Himself as a Climate Change Youth Leader

You would have thought after making hundreds of millions selling his TV station to big oil backed Al Jazeera, and having his most famous climate predictions fall flat, Al Gore…

Claim: Birds are laying their eggs earlier, and climate change is to blame

By comparing recent observations with century-old eggs preserved in museum collections, scientists were able to determine that about a third of the bird species nesting in Chicago have moved their…

MSM Scares Themselves, Confuse ‘Unprecedented’ Weather Model Temperature Spikes with Actual Temperatures

Scientists (and journalists) that use those terms might be better off keeping a lid on their opinions until they have real data to confirm their “unprecedented” claims. Carl Sagan rightly…