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November 8, 2026 2:15 am
The comment period for one of the most consequential proposed actions by the EPA under Lee Zeldin is now closed as of November 2. The rule proposes to rescind the findings and repeal the regulations put in place by prior administrations concerning emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants in the U.S. Let’s hope it becomes final soon.
I submitted three formal comments expressing support for the proposed actions.
The first comment demonstrates an unavoidable buildup of uncertainty in any time-step-iterated earth system simulation. There was never any diagnostic or prognostic value concerning the influence of emissions of GHGs on climate conditions.
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0124-3044
The second comment demonstrates the de minimis maximum influence of rising concentrations of CO2, supporting the “futility” line of reasoning against the regulation of emissions. The ERA5 “vertical integral of energy conversion” hourly parameter is used to make this point directly.
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0124-3072
The third comment demonstrates that the published uncertainties in precipitation rates imply power intensities (in W/m^2) far greater than the computed radiative “warming” tendency from rising concentration of GHGs. Thus no one knows, with or without computer modeling of the earth system, that emissions of CO2 are even capable of operating as a “forcing” on the climate system.
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0124-3121
There. We’ll see what happens.
Thank you for your patient attention to these matters.
Dear DD,
These areSuperb. Rescind-or-Die! — a Motto to live by.
It’s been pleasure to watch these guys work (Zeldin – Burgum – Wright), after suffering from all the dreary bureaucrats they replaced.
Also on the Uncertainty / Attribution front, this longer work has finally appeared (link to Summary below). Perhaps you know whether earlier versions have made it into the Formal Comments period? [ More on Soon-Cohler’s paper under the recent Svalbard Eulogy here at WUWT. ]
— Rob Whetten
November 8, 2026 2:34 am
The Strange Death of Great Britain.
It’s extremely easy to get into Britain as an ‘asylum seeker’, says Laurie Wastell. You can pretend to be gay or a political dissident, and soon we can add to that list that you’re a ‘climate refugee’ fleeing the weather.
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If British immigration and asylum law were a colander, it would be all holes and no metal.
And yet now Lefty lawyers and climate activists are hoping to pry it open still further to potential billions of so-called “climate refugees”, on the grounds that standards of living and the weather aren’t always brilliant in places like Africa.
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Lawyers are not scientists, but they needn’t worry, for no whit of empirical proof or scientific literacy is required for such claims to be made, a fact the activists freely admit. As another climate litigation toolkit from University of New South Wales puts it: “Cases concerning the impacts of climate change and disasters do not require a specialised understanding of climate science.”
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green lawyers are now realising they’re onto a goldmine. – Daily Sceptic
And with a government like ours getting them here will be a doddle. Friends of the Earth are pushing the line…
Why climate justice means migrant and refugee justice – Friends of the Earth
Alarmingly, Carbon Brief, a climate data analysis website, claims that over 71% of extreme weather events across the world are “made more likely or more severe by human-caused climate change”.
More nonsensical attribution from ‘models’. The UK does have areas of coastline that have been eroding for millenia with many villages of North East England going under water in that time. If your house was at risk, then I suppose one could say that the erosion isn’t going to stop just because somebody uttered the magic words: climate change.
Which is exactly how the BBC frames it…
The UK ‘climate refugees’ who won’t leave
Oh dear.
November 8, 2026 2:41 am
Hello everyone, I hope you’re all doing well.
Some news from France: the demonstrations are continuing, and damage is still being caused. A fire extinguisher was emptied over a deputy headteacher (if it was a CO₂ extinguisher, those burns must have been nasty ; it comes out at -78°C.)
Also, Christian kids were beaten up in Rouen while being shouted at with insults such as “fascists!”, “filthy whites!” and “I’m Muslim and I’m going to have sexual relations with your mother” (I’ve toned down the wording a little, but I think you get the idea). Their only offence, apparently, was being Christians and not hiding it (they were coming back from a birthday party and singing popular Christian religious songs, such as Resucito). I can already hear the left-wingers exclaiming that the victims of the assault were being provocative and had no need to openly display their Christianity.
One of the four young men who were beaten suffered an orbital floor fracture, while the others sustained bruising and nosebleeds. Another had to be taken to hospital after losing consciousness when he got home.
The most shocking thing, apart from the violence inflicted on these young people, is that not a single mainstream media outlet has reported on the assault. Not one. If it had been the other way around (four young people from immigrant backgrounds beaten up by white people), the story would have spread across France in ten seconds.
Double standards? Of course not.
The differences between us (French and English) come down to our history.
Why do the French people get out and demonstrate/riot like they do? I would say that this is a product of the revolution and the overworking of mdme Guillotine. In contrast England had a sort of civil war and only one head was removed.
People ask why we appear so slow to anger. Parliament is always preserving the status quo and increasing its powers wherever and whenever it can. Keeping the people in check – 32 months in prison for a tweet, 6 months on remand in prison for ripping an illegal migrant dinghy etc. Suspected Iranian terrorists get instant bail.
How long they can keep people down? I wish I could say. Can the French elections come quick enough?
Yes, there is indeed this “revolutionary culture” in France. The far left, in particular, salivates at the thought of Robespierre. And the elites look down on the common people who put on a yellow vest to take to the streets in protest. What is more, these very ordinary people, including farmers, are gleefully being shot in the eye and maimed by the police, who are ordered to fire so-called non-lethal projectiles… Something that never happens when it is the thugs from the suburbs who take to the streets. Some time ago, there were protests by farmers: the authorities dropped tear gas grenades on them from helicopters…
I am afraid you may be harbouring illusions about the changes that a change of government in 2027 could bring. Personally, I am not particularly optimistic. Even if Le Pen is elected, very little will change. She is, and will remain, pro-European, and the key institutions (the Constitutional Council, the Court of Auditors, the Banque de France and the Council of State) have, in a sense, been locked down by the powers that be (the Macronist far centre), to ensure that, should either the far left or the far right be elected, no major decisions can actually be taken. What we need is to leave the European Union: monetary sovereignty, border controls, reindustrialisation, and the restoration of authority in primary schools, secondary schools and universities. None of this requires the establishment of a violent dictatorship along the lines of Salazar’s regime or the Colonels’ junta, as many otherwise well-meaning people seem to believe.
The Icelanders do not want to join the EU: does that make them all fascists? No, they are simply people who want to preserve their advantages and the distinctive features that make their nation richer. Just plain common sense.
And I’ve heard about these people being imprisoned over tweets. It’s terrifying ! Unthinkable at my country. For now.
In Barcelona, Summer of ’79, there were armed guards everywhere, multiple in front of public buildings like banks etc. When a foreign teenager asked innocently, ‘Why all the security?’ the answer was something like ‘Almost every day, one of those buildings is attacked.’ Sooner or later, the people get tired of that, and a De Gaulle or Franco is recruited to restore Law & Order. In America, also a violent society, it usually doesn’t come to that, because the people are armed & trained to defend themselves or the helpless ones. There’s no easy way around this. Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Freedom
De Gaulle cannot be compared to Franco! I see what you mean, but the two men really had very little in common. De Gaulle coordinated the Resistance against the Nazis, standing up to both Churchill and Roosevelt.
Franco, on the other hand, called upon the Nazis to bomb Spain as early as the summer of 1936, during the Civil War, in order to gain the upper hand over the Republicans, while also giving the Third Reich an opportunity to test its equipment (which was of excellent quality, it has to be said… My maternal grandfather saw V1 rockets being launched during the Second World War. It absolutely terrified him.)
I think we agree on the widespread loss of bearings affecting the West, and Western Europe in particular, on the laxity of institutions and all the other things that are undermining our societies. But I really cannot agree with putting a man like de Gaulle, who was committed to France’s sovereignty, on the same footing as a sinister dictator like Franco, who was accommodating towards the National Socialists and had his opponents executed, notably by garrotting them (the last executions took place in 1974. Franco died in 1975.)
November 8, 2026 3:04 am
Here is an interesting story I found on YouTube. It talks about how science is being used to help bring down (and hopefully someday eradicate) the Burmese python in the Florida Everglades and the brown tree snake in Guam.
The snakes have been wreaking havoc with native wildlife in both places. I was serving in the U.S. Navy on Guam in the late 1970s and wondered why I wasn’t seeing any birds on the island. The tree snake was the reason. It was also crawling up onto power lines and causing power outages on the island.
November 8, 2026 3:04 am
I wish you would stop those black pop ups that fill the screen after a few seconds.
It makes new people think their phone or PC have been hacked or scammed with a virus – so they won’t go back to the site.
I know you want more subscriptions but acting like a scam site is probably not the best way.
November 8, 2026 4:05 am
“Electric ambulances to be rolled out in East Midlands.
NHS bosses have set a target for all new ambulances to be zero emission by 2030.
The service said in the area it was introducing the electric ambulances, its vehicles averaged 85 miles a day (136.8 km), which was expected to be within range for the electric ambulances.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cked3je9z4gwo
The East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) NHS trust covers the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland, serving 4.8 million people over an area of 6,400 square miles. There’s a mixture of rural and urban areas.
The regional trauma centre and the regional cardio respiratory hospital are in the EMAS area.
Average of 85 miles a day per ambulance is equivalent to 4 journeys to and from where I live to the nearest A&E/ED which is in the centre of the nearest city, if the ambulance returned to base after each call, but they could be directed elsewhere.
This fixation with nett zero could prove catastrophic.
