Your criticism and your dissertation were and still are **completely correct**. When correlated systematic errors and the realistic treatment of infilling problems are properly accounted for, the global mean temperature…
Month: December 2025
Northern Hemisphere tropical activity in 2025
*Second year in a row with below-normal tropical activity across the Northern Hemisphere… western Pacific Ocean leads the way with its seventh straight down year…no hurricanes hit the US for…
GREGORY WRIGHTSTONE: Refrigerants Are No Global Warming Threat
(T)he selection of the refrigerants for air conditioning systems should be based on both the safety and the needs of the consumers, rather than on a purported environmental benefit.”
Claim: Battery Rationing is Required to Contain an Aussie Green Subsidy Blowout
“… A possibility to discuss is lowering the 50kWh threshold to 15kWh. …”
Aussie Solar Farm Fire Briefly Interrupts Output
“This is the thing that happens with renewable energy” – Dubbo Deputy Mayor Philip Toynton.
Greenpeace Asks a DUTCH Court to Overturn a $345 Million Dakota Pipeline Judgement
Greenpeace appears to think European courts have pre-eminence over US courts, even for events which happened in the USA.
New York’s climate law will ration fossil fuels and tax the rations
Clearly capping fuel use is infeasible. Energy is fundamental to our way of life.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #669
Quote of the Week: “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”— Philip K. Dick, science fiction writer, [H/t National Center for Energy Analytics]
Supreme Court should not let climate lawfare set US energy policy
Let’s hope the Supreme Court agrees that Boulder’s lawsuit is an excellent opportunity to terminate frivolous climate lawfare, expand on the guidance it provided in these two previous cases –…
Rationality Returns to Australia as Climate Scare Wanes
The National Party’s abandonment of net zero signals broader rebellion. State branches in Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia had already rejected the target, pressuring federal leaders. Even mainstream media…
When a Single Rain Gauge Speaks for the Planet: How a Narrow Dataset Becomes a Global Climate Headline
If there is one robust trend visible here, it is not in rainfall but in rhetoric: the persistent escalation from modest signal to grand conclusion. Until that trend reverses, the…
UK Scientists Demand Free TV Time to Deliver their Emergency Climate Briefing
“… we are calling for a televised national emergency briefing, so that what happened in Central Hall Westminster can reach the public …”
Big Tech May Soon Have Monopoly On Power As America Faces Energy Crisis
As Big Tech develops more artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, advocates flaunt the promise of more jobs and innovation, while others warn about the impending power crunch and potential antitrust…
EDP is ‘seriously considering’ rejecting European Hydrogen Bank subsidy due to lack of visibility on demand
Worse still, for these investors, is the risk that future governments will abolish Net Zero completely, or at the very least keep carbon taxes low. In that event, their business…
Time to Stop Pretending Renewables Are Cheap
Policymakers would do well to heed energy experts like Schernikau and Stein. Chasing luxury beliefs do not cost well-heeled climate bureaucrats and renewables ideologues much, but the burdens of irrational…
Canada Summer Daily Low Temperature Trends, 1900-2023
As can be seen in the first plot (averages for all 6 major provinces), there has been an average summertime warming trend of +0.14 C/decade
Claim: The USA Securing Critical Mineral Supply Chains Threatens the Global Climate
Apparently the USA has to stay dependent on China for Rare Earths, otherwise the planet will suffer a climate catastrophe.
Scotland’s key carbon capture project faces collapse in new blow to Miliband
Storegga said it would sell its Acorn stake following a “strategic review of its business, capital requirements and future structure”.
Trust the Experts? It’s a Bad Bet
Experts are often right, but they are also often wrong. We need credentialed authorities because their deep knowledge helps us make sense of complexity. But when it comes to prediction,…