Climate Change Weekly #500: Looking Back on 500 Issues, Celebrating a Milestone

Climate Change Weekly (CCW) has reached a milestone, its 500th edition. Joe Bast, the founder and first president of The Heartland Institute, charged James Taylor, then managing editor of Heartland’s…

Time: More Chinese Communism can Save Us from Climate Change

China is apparently doing such a good job at transitioning to renewables, we should all ditch democracy and copy their example.

Counting:  Exactly What and Exactly How

If we want any number to be considered scientific, the rules for this specification [“describing or identifying something precisely”] become stronger and stronger – we should consider this requirement paramount. 

L A Times Falsely Hypes a “Wild” 2023/2024 Rainy Season while Concealing NOAA Climate Science Data Establishing this Season as Completely Normal

The Times claims of “supercharged” and “wild” rainfall between December 2023 through February 2024 in California are pathetic and a clear demonstration of the climate science incompetence represented by climate…

Major (and unusual) Solar Flare and CME

h/t Roy W. Spencer March is a peak month for auroras, and this should be a good one in the coming days. A strong X-class solar flare lasting 5 hours…

UK Guardian: A nuclear plant’s closure was hailed as a green win. Then emissions went up – ‘Shuttering of facility raises awkward climate crisis’

…since the closure, New York’s greenhouse gas emissions have gone up.

History of weather extremes reveals little has changed, new report shows

…collective memories of extreme weather are short-lived