India Rejects Carbon Tax, Backs Fossil Fuels and Trade in Defiance of Green Policies

India won’t bow to carbon taxes and it won’t join an unscientific climate war that sacrifices its future. The U.K. and EU would do well to listen, lest they find…

Exposing Alaska’s Green New Deal (Part I)

The political class in Alaska is trying to sell the public on “cheap” renewables as the centerpiece of the state’s energy policy. We’ve all heard the line: Solar and wind are…

Climate Clergy Livestreams the Sads

This livestream extravaganza is being promoted as a grassroots movement, but like all good astroturf campaigns, it’s deeply establishment. The message is clear: only by maintaining the current bureaucratic caste…

Blackouts Surge: How Fragile Grids Threaten Global Energy Security

We need to be honest with ourselves… wind and solar alone can’t provide energy security. Not today. Maybe not ever without massive redesigns. We have leaned too hard on brittle…

BBC’s ‘Weather Whiplash’ Claim Exposed: No Evidence for Extreme Swings in Scotland

Taking spring as an example, although the average has increased since the 19thC, that does not mean individual springs are getting wetter. What has changed is that unusually dry springs…

EU’s ETS-2 Climate Tax: A Costly Green Nightmare Hits in 2027

Going green in Europe means going expensive – and unfree. The EU’s new climate tax, ETS-2, set to begin in 2027, will expand the existing ETS-1 system, which requires heavy…

Green Giants vs. Trump: Billion-Dollar Enviro Groups Fight to Save Wind Power

Wind power is not clean, not affordable, and certainly not reliable. It is, however, deadly to millions of birds, bats, and marine mammals. No more of these deadly turbines should…

Weaponizing Uncertainty: Climate Scientists Admit They Don’t Know—Then Demand You Obey Anyway

It would be nearly impossible to fabricate a better fictional demonstration of motivated reasoning than the May 2025 Nature commentary titled “Hurricane risk in a changing climate — the role…

Guardian’s Mosquito Scare Busted: Climate Change Not Bringing Tropical Diseases to UK

This story is just one more instance in which The Guardian is irresponsibly promoting a doomsday scenario based on unjustified extrapolations of trends based on extreme model projections, while ignoring real-world epidemiological…

Spain Boosts Natural Gas Capacity After Renewable Energy’s Failure Led to Historic Blackout

Now, in the aftermath of this blackout that could have been much worse, Spain has significantly increased its reliance on natural gas-fired power plants to stabilize its electricity grid. This strategic shift…

A New Era for American Science: The Gold Standard is Back

With this action, the United States reasserts itself as a leader not just in scientific capability, but in scientific integrity. The Gold Standard is more than a label. It is…

Paul Homewood’s BBC Complaint Upheld

It probably will not make much difference to the Justin Rowlatts of the BBC, but at least we now have a precedent laid down if further complaints are made in…

Direct Air Capture’s Epic Flop: Green Hype Crashes Against Physics and Costs

…with CO2 mitigation policies and technologies failing, it is time to reverse course on the whole climate crusade, redirecting resources toward adaptation to extreme weather (from any cause). Thirty-five years…

Musings on the AMO

Does the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) play a role in global warming? Or does global warming affect the AMO? We take a look.

Renewable Push Sends Aussie Electricity Prices Skyrocketing

Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen blames householders for not shopping around for the cheapest deal.

BP May Cancel Teesside Hydrogen Project

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby The Telegraph is reporting that BP may pull out of its hydrogen project on Teesside: A…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #643

“It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two…

Swedish Northvolt Pulls Plug On E-Car Plant…But Germans Keep Denying E-Car Reality

Despite the bad news from Sweden, many members of parliament from Schleswig-Holstein still see the opportunity for the site in Dithmarschen. ‘There will be an investor, I am very confident…

The “Big Beautiful Bill” — Climate And Energy Provisions

Somewhat to my surprise, the BBB as passed by the House appears to repeal and rescind essentially all of the green energy handouts from the IRA. The IRA had added…

Cannes Film Festival Blackout Averted by Portable Generators

This festival was reportedly dominated by visions of imaginary apocalypse, including climate crisis films.