He claimed I had been confused by the money paid by the government to reduce gas bills in the wake of the Ukraine invasion. This money was paid to energy…
Month: May 2025
Puerto Rico Ditches Billion-Dollar Climate Lawsuit Following Trump’s Blue State Crackdown
Puerto Rico withdrew its $1 billion climate lawsuit against the oil and gas industry on Friday following the Trump administration’s move to block two states from seeking legal damages for…
Casting blame for the blackout in Spain, Portugal, and parts of France
It has long been predicted that replacing conventional synchronous generators, which rotate together with the grid, with asynchronous inverter-based resources like wind, solar, and batteries will increase the risk of…
Los Angeles Slaps Climate Alarmists with Budget Reality — Cue the Outrage Meltdown
Los Angeles—yes, that Los Angeles—just committed what the climate faithful might call a mortal sin: budget cuts to the climate bureaucracy. The horror!
Sea Level: NASA Versus NOAA
I see that the NASA folks are busily putting the hype back into hyperventilate. Over at The Cool Down, the news is headlined: NASA issues warning after sudden change in…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #641
Quote of the Week: “We can always prove a definite theory wrong. Notice however that we never prove it right.” — Richard Feynman (1964)
High Resolution Earth Orbital Precession relative to Climate & Weather
The daily variation in Earth’s geometric relationship with the sun correlates well with observed temperature trends and also gives some indication of weather extremes from-year-to-year. The coming changes in Earth’s…
Australian Federal Election: Climate Lukewarmers and Greens Take a Hit
The Australian Labor Party has decisively won Saturday’s Federal Election – but support for climate skeptics rose a little.
Putting The Alarmist Spin On The Earth’s Rotation
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach So I ran across this headline and subhead out on the interwebz: “China Disrupts Earth’s Rotation”: NASA Confirms Massive Project Is Slowing the Planet With…
Wrong, The Hill, Climate Driven Corn Insurance Cost Projections Mislead the Public
It’s astonishing that The Hill would publish such an article based on shaky, unverified models without at least checking real-world data trends on agricultural productivity and extreme weather. For over…
The Hidden Cost Of Net Zero
The REF’s new report on green energy subsidies noted that renewables subsidies are now costing £25.8 bn per year – or over £900 per household annually – about one third…
Another refinery closure in California increases the States’ dependency on China.
Over the last several decades, California’s passion to transition away from fossil fuels has overregulated and overly burdened just the SUPPLY of oil production and refining but has not reduced…
Antarctica’s Ice Sheet Stages a Remarkable Comeback
A groundbreaking study published in Science China Earth Sciences has unveiled a stunning reversal in the fortunes of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS), which gained mass at an unprecedented rate…
Climate Change Weekly # 542 — More Ways Coal Improves the Economy and the Environment
Since misanthropic environmentalists and their Western-world-hating fellow travelers in academia and in the political realm discovered climate alarm as a fashionable and effective way to hamper economic growth and constrain…
Sorry, PBS, Population Growth and Infrastructure, Not Climate Change, Are Causing Rhode Island’s Water Woes
While sea levels are rising, PBS exaggerates the rise. There is no evidence that extreme weather is getting worse for Rhode Island. Evidence suggests that population growth and infrastructure problems…
Net Zero Subsidies Now Cost £26 Billion A Year–New Report Claims
Levies used to encourage construction of wind farms, solar parks and other renewables have added £25.8bn a year to energy bills paid by both households and industry, according to a…
Brink Of Extinction – More And More Companies Rejecting Costly Hydrogen Technology
Once considered a key technology in the green energy transition, companies are waking up and finding out that hydrogen isn’t the answer to the challenges posed by renewable energies such…
Narrative Based Evidence Making`
It is far easier for journalists, print or radio or television, to use a pre-determined storyline than to do real original journalism, easier when told by one’s editor to “write…