SMH: Australia is Crucial to Global CO2 Reduction

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia can save the world by manufacturing cheap goods using green hydrogen.

The Permian Basin: The gift that keeps on giving!

Guest “Peak Productivity” by David Middleton SEPTEMBER 30, 2022Advances in technology led to record new well productivity in the Permian Basin in 2021 The Permian Basin in western Texas and…

Claim: Fauci Grants $650K to UK Researcher to Perform Gain of Function Studies on Covid Like Viruses

Is the plan to keep attempting to wipe out mankind until they get it right?

Berlin Antifa Group “Goes on Hunt” For High Energy Users… Heated Pools “Immediately Collectivized”

If we find a hot pool in the villa district, it will be immediately collectivized in the sense of public pool parties.

Drax Is Burning Virgin Forest

The BBC have finally caught up! There have been complaints for years about this:

Why It Matters That Climatologists Forgot the Sun Was Shining

Yet our result shows that official climatology’s conclusions, based as they are on the outputs of general-circulation models, are mere guesswork. They do not in any degree warrant or justify…

Britain Celebrates Climate Assistance and Gender Studies for Mexican Coffee Growers

As Ordinary Britons struggle with skyrocketing power bills and a cost of living crisis, the British Government is boasting of all the cash they are spending on gender issue trained…

Sea Level: The Geological “Control Knob” for Atmospheric CO2?

Guest “putting 2 and 2 together” by David Middleton This post is the nucleus of a hypothesis I’ve been trying to develop. It is a “work in progress” and not…

That Sinking Feeling

Our local media is up to their usual alarmism. From the San Francisco Chronicle (paywalled, so I quote). Emphasis mine.

Claim: Bitcoin Worse For the Climate than Beef

Which would you rather give up? Bitcoin or beef?

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #522

“A man who is certain he is right is almost sure to be wrong.”– Michael Faraday

The Coming Green Electricity Nightmare

Hundreds of billions in new subsidies will bring expensive, unreliable, eco-destructive power

Day Two CPAC Australia: Zuby, Alan Jones, and Climate Hysteria

Day two saw audience outrage after an Aussie conservative branch president, whose party switched to supporting Net Zero just before the election, told the audience they saw no need to…

New Sunspot may Hurl Dangerous Solar Flare at Earth

SpaceWeather reports: One of the biggest sunspots in years has just rotated over the sun’s northeastern limb. AR3112 has a mixed-polarity magnetic field that harbors energy for strong X-class solar…

Hindawi and Wiley to Retract over 500 Papers Linked to Peer Review Rings

It is increasingly apparent to all involved in safeguarding and investigating issues of research integrity that closing rings down at one publisher can simply move the problem to others. We…

New York Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate

The State’s obsession with being a climate leader is pointless.  Worse there is no recognition that the pursuit of zero emissions has unintended consequences and will likely cause more harm…

Bloomberg and NewsBusters Show ESG Is Neither Virtuous Nor Profitable

… numerous states have also begun to wake up to the damaging effect of ESG-focused investment.

Claim: Scientists find link between fast-melting Arctic ice and ocean acidification

An international team of researchers have sounded new alarm bells about the changing chemistry of the western region of the Arctic Ocean after discovering acidity levels increasing three to four times faster than…

Germany’s Power Supply Will Likely Be Plagued by Supply Gaps Until 2030, Institute Finds

The way things are going now, the grid probably will crash very soon, and so the government will have to come out of its green energy wet dream sooner than…

Colonialism Reappears in Africa with a Woke New Spin

Climate colonialism threatens to usher in a period of sustained poverty, wiping out decades of economic progress in just a few years.

UN official at WEF: ‘We own the science & we think that the world should know it’ so ‘we partnered with Google’ to ensure only UN climate results appear

“We partnered with Google. For example, if you Google ‘climate change,’ you will, at the top of your search, you will get all kinds of UN resources” — Melissa Fleming

Day One CPAC Australia: Climate Skepticism, Freedom and Protestors

A star lineup of speakers including Nigel Farage, former Aussie PM Tony Abbott, Jacinta Price, Michael Shellenberger, The Outsiders, and top US Republicans like Matt Schlapp (CPAC USA) and Matthew…

What Is Milankovitch Theory, What Is It Not, And What Can We Learn from It?

The interglacial periods are initiated by amplification and terminated by reduction of the insolation due to the eccentricity through the precession index.

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