Climate Oscillations 11: Oceanic Niño Index (ONI)

ENSO affects weather all over the world but doesn’t track the global mean surface temperature (GMST), at least for the last 35 years. Is GMST an appropriate measure of climate…

UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for July, 2025: +0.36 deg. C

The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July, 2025 was +0.36 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, down from the June, 2025 anomaly of +0.48…

Chinese Media: AI Investment Should be Diverted to Climate Action

“… Trillions of dollars of bubble-inflating equity investment continue to pour into tech stocks while critical areas … such as climate change alleviation continue to go underfunded. …”

Barclays follows HSBC in exit from banking industry’s net zero alliance

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood Another bank sees the light! From the Guardian: Barclays has become the second UK bank to withdraw from a…

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I was Wrong – Green Europe is Building at Least One US Scale AI

A 230MW AI campus to be powered by Norwegian Hydro has been announced – but competition for electricity and rising prices are already causing political unrest.

Oreskes’ Embrace of the “Victory Will Be Achieved” Memos, Redux, in Honolulu v Sunoco – Big, big mistake.

Luckily, someone smarter than me preserved an Internet Archive version of the original AP story, with the two Oreskes paragraphs intact.

Most Hilarious Reaction to Trump Admin’s EPA’s repealing the CO2 Endangerment Finding: Dem Congressman Sean Casten: ‘Trump will have been responsible for more deaths than Stalin, Mao & Hitler combined’

Casten added: “Millions, if not billions will die if we don’t address climate change; some will survive but if rivers keep moving, coasts keep eroding, fires keep burning we will…

Trump Admin Moves To Curb ‘Environmentally Damaging’ Green Energy Projects

The Department of the Interior (DOI) moved to deal another blow to the green energy industry Friday, announcing that it will consider energy projects’ capacity density and the environmental impacts…

Attribution Studies Don’t Prove Anything About South Africa’s Floods, Phys.org

Instead of beginning with the assumption that climate change is making flooding worse in places like Durban, scientists should approach the issue more modestly. It is worthwhile to try to…

When the Wind Stops Blowing: Trump Administration Restores Sanity to Offshore Energy Policy

And if the wind doesn’t blow quite so favorably for offshore wind’s rent-seekers in the future, well, maybe that’s just the way the wind ought to blow.

Some Thoughts on Our DOE Report Regarding CO2 Impacts on the U.S. Climate

…we are the “Red Team”; the “Blue Team” has had their say since the late 1980s.

Grid on the Brink: PJM’s Record Auction Proves We Must Keep—and Build—More Coal Plants

We need coal-fired power. We need it now. And we will need it for decades to come. 

The Ongoing Fiction of Cheap Wind and Solar

As energy analyst Alex Epstein testified in the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should “require solar and wind generators to bear the full costs of the backup,…

The Hill Allows a Clinton Crony to Lie About Climate Change Tearing Our Nation Apart

His reputation depends on people accepting him as an expert and taking his views on the matter as authoritative. His book sales and funding for the various organizations he is…

LIVE AT 1PM EDT: Death Blow to Climate Alarmism – The Climate Realism Show #167

This marks the first time ever that a climate report from the federal government can withstand scientific scrutiny, as it is based on actual science and data rather than politics…

Misuse, Misquote, or Just Misunderstood? Readers Wanted for the Blob’s Latest Climate Panic

With all the smoke and thunder, WUWT is uniquely positioned to cut through the noise and offer readers a rare public service: an actual forensic examination of these accusations. This…

Yes Minister on Global Warming

A blast from the past. from the BBC.