Wind turbine eagle-kill secrecy may soon end

A new lawsuit could finally end the secrecy surrounding wind turbines killing eagles. Wyoming’s Albany County Conservancy (ACC) is suing the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) for failing to…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #671

“Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.”— Max Planck

Quit Lying, The New Republic, Climate Change Isn’t Threatening ‘Favorite Holiday Foods’

With the tinniest bit of effort, Kahn or The New Republic’s fact-checkers and editors could have discovered these facts themselves. They evidently couldn’t let facts get in the way of…

Climate Fundraising Update: Hope amid Doom

“Climate activists are in denial. A great reset is underway…. But are they willing to emotionally reject their prior thinking for cause?”

New York Unheated EV School Bus Horror

Children’s fingers, toes and noses are so overrated…

All 30 Extinction Rebellion Members Stage Mass Climate Protest in London

OK maybe they have more than 30 members. But it was a cold morning, so looks like most of them stayed home.

Our Final Objection To Our Local Utility’s Rate Increase

The problem for the supporters of the settlement, principally Con Edison and the Public Service Department Staff, was that they had admitted in the documentation that the JP contained “funding”…

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The Wind Energy Paradox: “Why More Wind Turbines Don’t Always Mean More Power”

The Munich-based daily Merkur is finally reporting on something that us skeptics have been pointing out some 20 years: Wind turbines always either produce too little or too much, and are thus…

Permitting Reform Is the Key to Energy Affordability

Permitting reform will empower the economy and get the heavy hand of bureaucracy out of the way. With Congress, we can drive economic progress for this country, secure affordable energy…

Climate Apocalypse Fantasy: From Next Year, Crop Yields will Begin to Fall

A graph with a predictive inflection point like that would be laughed out of a high school science class.

Scientific Report or Legal Brief? The Hunga Tonga Assessment and the Anatomy of Narrative Closure

In that sense, the document reads less like an open scientific inquiry and more like a legal brief. Evidence is marshaled, counterarguments anticipated, uncertainties catalogued, and a verdict delivered early,…

Climate Change Weekly # 566— Big Banks No Longer Bound by Federal Climate Accounting Rules

Whether Kennedy [lead author of the study] is right (or Lindzen and Happer or Clauser) is by the way. Alternative hypotheses are in the skeptical scientific tradition of searching for…

Government Minister Steps in to Defend Met Office as Fake Temperature Scandal Escalates

“They recognised that confusion could be caused when there appears to be a continued flow of data on this website from stations that have closed,”

The Record Hot UK Summer of 2025: Validation of the UKMO Methodology, but the Record Was Only in Tmin

The record hot summer of 2025 in the UK was in the nightly minimum temperatures, not in the daytime maximum temperatures. This is true in both my analysis and that…

The Critical Flaw in Single-Event Hurricane Climate Attribution

Less than a month has passed since the official end of the 2025 hurricane season for the Northern Hemisphere. Interestingly, 2025 statistics show that Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) in the…

The Story behind my Paper on the ITCZ and the Hadley Circulation

By Andy May It all began eight years ago when I read and reviewed Ronan and Michael Connolly’s first three papers on their ideas about the “molar density intersection” which…

Could the AI Dash for Gas Energy Boom Actually Be an Underestimate?

Researchers have discovered trying to make AI reason like humans leads to between a 30x to 700x rise in energy consumption.

LIVE at 1PM ET: CRAZY CLIMATE NEWS OF 2025 – The Climate Realism Show #186

A year of crazy climate news comes to a close as Christmas and New Year’s approaches. What were the craziest of 2025?

U.S. and China Are Headed for an AI Collision

Given the economic importance of AI to countries throughout the world, the competition between the United States and China is regrettable. But it’s probably also inevitable. China is not abiding…