In Central Asia’s Brutal Winter, Fossil Fuels Trump Climate Politics

By Vijay Jayaraj Globally, winter cold kills more people than summer heat, and winter in Central Asia is no gentle visitor. Temperatures can plummet to minus 40°C (-40°F), transforming bustling…

Aussie Energy Execs Urge a Coal Backup “Safety Net” to Ease the Net Zero Transition

“… the pace of the renewables coming forward is too slow, relative to the ambitions articulated for the nation …”

Another Canary? Not.

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In my meand’ring peregrinations of the multiverse, I came across the following about a bay up near the northernwest corner of California. Lost Coast Outpost…

The Climate Cargo Cult

By Julius Sanks “In general, we look for a new law by the following process. First we guess it. Then we compute the consequences of the guess to see what…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #589

The Week That Was: 2024-02-24 (February 24, 2024)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The care of human life and happiness, and…

The UK is much closer to blackouts than anyone dares to admit

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Of all the problems with electric cars, perhaps the least expected was the revelation that some…

“The climate crisis is not gender neutral”, says WMO’s Celeste Saulo

The old joke continues: World To End Tomorrow: Women, Minorities Hardest Hit As my tipster writes: To think the WMO used to be a respected scientific organization…. MM In a…

Why California’s climate disclosure law should doom green energy

From CFACT California prides itself on being a leader with respect to tackling climate change.  This is because they believe, albeit on shaky scientific grounds, that their citizens “already” face…

Claim: “the loss of dung beetles … creating a climate doom loop”

Scientists ignoring obvious solutions to problems?

Animal Sanctuary Woes Not Caused by Climate Change

“At the Catskill sanctuary, flooding and constant dampness have resulted in soil erosion and a loss of trees. Animals’ hoofs often sink into saturated ground while members of the sanctuary’s…

Open Thread

A Long Chat with Google’s Gemini

After all the news of Gemini’s biases this week I thought I’d give it a try, not of image generation which is currently disabled, but a conversation similar to my…

Claim: Climate Change is Causing Cholera Outbreaks

Al Jazeera promoting climate change explanations instead of exposing political incompetence or worse.

Preparing for the 104F (40C) Sydney Climate Apocalypse

They forgot to say “Evacuate everyone south of that line…”. Apparently the green electricity of the future will be too unreliable to depend on air conditioning.

Why Climate Scientists were Duped into Believing Rising CO2 will Harm Coral and Mollusks

The world can only hope that NOAA and all those alarmist websites will soon admit that improved science has revealed the error of their ways

Time to Retire the Term “Renewable Energy” from Serious Discussions and Policy Directives: Part 3

“Renewable good, non-renewable bad” is far too simplistic and unfortunately influential

Watch Out For Hoopoes!

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT Guest Post by Ian Magness https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13101877/An-exotic-bird-emits-smell-rotting-meat-soon-Britain-climate-change.html Now, as anyone who has ever seen one (and they are pretty common around the Mediterranean)…

Climate Change Weekly #497: A Proposal to Fix Science Education

The worst current problem in US K-12 schools (by far), is WHAT our children are being taught—i.e., what is in (or missing from) the curriculum.

Hollywood Climate Summit Pushes More Woke Film Scripts

If your viewer interest is cratering, the solution is to double down on your mistake?

Friday Funny: A Retraction So Hilarious that I Can’t Put the Title in the Title

A leading scientific journal faces humiliation after it published a completely fake paper, purportedly written by Chinese researchers, which contained AI generated images of a rat with a penis bigger…