US Supreme Court Rejects Long Running Youth Climate Lawsuit

Bye bye Juliana v. United States.

Seismic Data Suggests Ocean’s Worth of Water Lies Beneath Surface of Mars

The volume of water is estimated to be enough to cover Mars in an ocean about a mile deep.

The Crash of London’s Latest LTN

Attempting to put the best spin on it, LBC calls this a “pause”, but the scheme – a pet project of cycle-fanatic Cllr Adam Harrison, “Cabinet Member for Planning and…

Nuclear Subsidies: Did DOE’s Wright Get the Message?

The DOE loan authorities have come under fire since the 2011 collapse of the advanced solar photovoltaic firm Solyndra, leaving the Obama administration holding a bag containing a $527 million default.

Left torching Teslas

That’s right, the same folks who scolded that the world will “burn” unless the government forces every one of us to buy an EV or stop driving, are now torching…

Climate Change Is Ruining Your Nap: The Stupidest Study of the Year (So Far)

This deeply unserious study out of China—blessed, of course, by Nature Communications (a publication that has long since traded rigorous science for progressive catechism)—makes the mind-numbing claim that rising temperatures…

GROAN – Quantifying the Media Brainwashing of Weather=Climate

Only 6% of people over 50, though, had talked with a health care provider about how extreme weather might affect their health and how they could prepare or protect themselves.

EPA Internal Watchdog Peeks Under The Hood Of $7 Billion Biden Solar Program

The OIG is auditing the Solar For All program, which is part of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) created by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The Biden EPA used the program…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #636

“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning … People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.” – Richard Feynman, “What is…

German Industry Fleeing High Energy Prices, Costs And Bureaucracy In Record Numbers

Soaring energy prices… regulations…35% of German companies say country is too hostile to business. 

What’s Up with Measles?   

Measles is getting rather spotty coverage in the press over the last couple of months.  Most of the coverage deals with a measles outbreak in Texas, in and around Gaines,…

AI Forecasting? Well, Anything is Better than the Met Office

with Aardvark, researchers have replaced the entire weather prediction pipeline with a single, simple machine learning model. The new model takes in observations from satellites, weather stations and other sensors…

The Uranium – Hydrogen – Carbon Energy System of the Future

In summary, we will be going to Net Zero whether we like it or not. Because one day we will run out of coal and oil and all the other…

Evidence Found that Cosmic Rays Spark Lightning

Via SpaceWeather.com Every second, almost 50 bolts of lightning zig-zag across the skies of Earth. Despite centuries of study, however, researchers still aren’t sure how the bolts get started. Electric…

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David Defeats Goliath. Again

Over the years I learned how inefficient solar and wind energy are and how it raises prices for consumers. People like the fantasy of “free” power. I think most people…

Grok 3 beta et al

Jonathan Cohler, David Legates, Franklin Soon, and Willie Soon, steer xAI’s Grok 3 beta to produce what they call. FIRST-EVER [AI produced] peer-reviewed climate science paper,

House Oversight Committee Sinks into Key Study ‘Intentionally Buried’ By Biden Administration

“The Energy Department has learned that former Secretary Granholm and the Biden White House intentionally buried a lot of data and released a skewed study to discredit the benefits of…

“Tens of Thousands of [Foreign Climate Change] jobs” gone Because of President Trump

“… The only word I can use to describe it is brutal. …”

Why “Can you provide empirical measured proof of how much warming is caused by CO2?” is a really stupid question

Yet, despite its appeal, it’s not just unanswerable with current methods—it also reflects a misunderstanding of how climate science works. And no matter one’s position in the climate debate, including…