The Week That Was: 2026-11-07 (November 7, 2026)
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)
The Science and Environmental Policy Project
Quote of the Week: “Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”— George Orwell, 1984 [H/t Guy de la Bédoyère]
Number of the Week: On at 7 to 11 mph (3 to 5 m/s); off at 55 to 65 mph (25 to 29 m/s).
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Scope: This TWTW begins with a discussion of Metascience. TWTW then presents Howard Hayden’s chapter in Canary In a Climate World. TWTW discusses the analysis of the world’s longest historical temperature record by Stephen Andrews. TWTW briefly discusses Earth’s Energy Imbalance. TWTW discusses a paper that may start a new controversy in climate science. TWTW concludes with a discussion of a remarkable weather event that escaped those who attribute extreme weather events to human causes.
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Metascience: On September 10, 2026, the National Science Foundation announced that it will create a new Office of Metascience (OMS) within the Office of the Director (OD). In an article in The Scientist, Berna Devezer, a Professor of Marketing at the University of Idaho, objected. Ms. Devezer was described as “a theoretical metascientist, she studies inferential processes in science and the drivers of replicability.” Certainly, the replicability of a substantial number of “scientific papers” is questionable in fields such as behavioral and social sciences. Much of the writing on climate change has the same issue as can be seen by the allocation of probabilities of human cause from carbon dioxide emissions after an extreme weather event has occurred. Organizations such as World Weather Attribution have no solid theoretical, well tested basis for allocating such probabilities, yet they do so insistently and call it science.
According to one AI (Bing): “Metascience—also called the science of science—is the systematic, empirical study of how scientific research is conducted, evaluated, communicated, and incentivized, with the goal of improving the reliability and effectiveness of science.”
According to Wikipedia: “Metascience examines the structures, practices, and outcomes of scientific research. It draws from fields such as philosophy of science, sociology of science, scientometrics, and research methodology. Its rise is closely tied to concerns about research integrity, publication bias, and the replication crisis.”
In short, Metascience has little or nothing to do with how to evaluate physical science. One of the great advantages of physical science is the scientific method in which all concepts are tested against physical evidence. If contradicted by physical evidence the concept must be changed or discarded. In the history of modern science, Newtonian Mechanics replaced the Ptolemaic system and became the foundation for Classical Physics. Relativity changed Newtonian Mechanics. Then, Quantum Mechanics changed Classical Physics on the molecular and smaller scale. These upheavals are based on physical evidence from observation and experiments that are replicated.
Understanding the greenhouse effect is based on Atomic, Molecular, and Optical physics, the study of the interactions between light and matter on the scale of molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles. The problems of replication in behavioral and social sciences leading to development of ideas of a Metascience have been resolved in physical sciences and in quantum mechanics. As Richard Feynman stated:
“It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment [or observations], it’s wrong.”
See link under Seeking a Common Ground.
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Not So Simple: Howard “Cork” Hayden is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Connecticut, where he spent more than three decades teaching and conducting research in atomic and accelerator-based physics. His work has included measurements of atomic collisions, energy loss processes, beam-foil spectroscopy, and ion implantation, as well as a highly sensitive version of the classic Trouton–Noble experiment. Spectroscopy is the study of how electromagnetic radiation and matter interact, which is critical to understanding the Greenhouse Effect. Unfortunately, in his review of Canary In a Climate World, John Robson did not include the chapter written by Hayden. In his chapter, “The Climate Question Isn’t as Simple as It Sounds” Hayden wrote:
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In 1980, if you asked a scientist about climate change, the answer would have been almost trivial. Of course, the climate changes. It always has, and it always will. Ice ages came and went, Greenland once supported Viking farms, and ecosystems shifted long before humans had any measurable influence. To say climate change is real would have been like saying water is wet.
Somewhere along the way, that simple idea was transformed into something very different. Today, climate change is no longer just a description of a changing climate. It has come to mean a problem to be controlled, and more specifically, a problem attributed largely to human activity and carbon dioxide. That shift in meaning has had profound consequences, not only for public discussion, but for how the science itself is presented.
To understand what is actually going on, it helps to step back and look at the basic physics. The Earth is governed by a simple energy balance. Energy arrives from the Sun, some of it is reflected back into space, and the rest is absorbed and eventually radiated away as heat. If more energy comes in than leaves, the planet warms. If more leaves than comes in, it cools. There are only three quantities that matter: the incoming solar radiation, the fraction reflected, known as the albedo, and the infrared radiation escaping to space.
If someone wanted to control the climate, those are the only three levers available. You could change the sunlight reaching Earth, alter how reflective the planet is by increasing clouds, ice, or atmospheric particles, or interfere with the infrared radiation leaving the planet. Everything else, storms, ocean currents, droughts, and floods, may be dramatic, but they are internal processes. They matter only to the extent that they affect one of those three quantities.
The modern discussion focuses almost entirely on the third factor, infrared radiation, and the so-called greenhouse effect. The surface of the Earth emits infrared radiation continuously, but the atmosphere does not simply let it pass. Certain gases, especially water vapor and carbon dioxide, absorb and re-emit that radiation. This process reduces the amount of heat that escapes directly to space.
But the greenhouse effect is often described far too simply. It is not a uniform blanket trapping heat. It is a highly selective process, operating wavelength by wavelength. The Earth emits a smooth spectrum of infrared radiation, but what actually escapes to space is uneven, with portions removed or altered by interactions with specific gases.
Even familiar experiences hint at how these processes work. When you pump air into a bicycle tire, the pump becomes warm, not because of pressure alone, but because of compression. Similarly, air descending from mountains warms as it is compressed. These are basic physical processes, yet they are rarely part of the public conversation about climate.
Carbon dioxide, the centerpiece of modern climate concern, is present in surprisingly small amounts, about 400 molecules per million in the atmosphere. That number can sound insignificant, yet all [complex] life on earth depends on that tiny amount of CO2; without it, photosynthesis cannot happen. Some climate scientists often treated it as the primary driver of global temperature. To understand its role, it helps to place it in a longer historical context.
Over the vast history of the Earth, carbon dioxide levels have varied enormously. Roughly 170 million years ago, atmospheric CO₂ concentrations were on the order of 2,500 parts per million, far higher than today. During the most recent ice age, about 18,000 years ago, levels dropped to around 180 parts per million. Below about 150 parts per million, plant life begins to struggle to survive.
Long term decline in atmospheric CO₂ over the past 140 million years
These long-term trends show that present day levels are not unusually high in geological terms. In fact, they are relatively modest compared to much of Earth’s past, and closer to the lower boundary required for plant life than to historical highs.
This raises an important question. If carbon dioxide alone were the dominant control on temperature, one might expect a clear and consistent relationship between its concentration and climate. Yet the evidence is more complicated.
Reconstructed atmospheric CO₂ and global temperature over hundreds of millions of years.
Over long periods of Earth’s history, the relationship between carbon dioxide and temperature is not consistent. There are intervals where the two rise and fall together, but there are also long stretches where they diverge. This suggests that carbon dioxide is part of the system, but not necessarily its controlling factor.
One such factor is albedo, the reflectivity of the planet, and it is here that the discussion becomes particularly important. Albedo determines how much of the Sun’s energy is reflected back into space before it ever reaches the surface. Bright surfaces such as clouds, snow, and ice reflect large amounts of sunlight, while darker surfaces absorb it. A change in albedo is therefore not subtle. It directly alters how much energy the Earth retains.
Consider a simple example. If cloud cover decreases slightly, more sunlight reaches the surface. That additional energy must go somewhere. It warms the land, the oceans, and eventually the atmosphere. Unlike the greenhouse effect, which works indirectly by slowing the escape of heat, a change in albedo affects how much energy enters the system in the first place.
Observations in recent decades suggest that changes in absorbed solar radiation, particularly those associated with cloud cover, may play a significant role in warming. In this view, the planet is warming not primarily because it is failing to shed heat, but because it is absorbing more energy to begin with.
Over longer timescales, albedo has played an even more dramatic role. Ice ages are closely tied to changes in reflectivity. Expanding ice sheets reflect more sunlight and reinforce cooling, while melting ice reduces reflectivity and promotes warming. These feedbacks can amplify relatively small changes into large shifts in climate. Over the last million years or so, orbital changes have increased and decreased the amount of sunlight reaching the earth, in particular the far-northern latitudes. The temperatures correspondingly changed, and then the amount of carbon dioxide changed.
For every increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, there is an increase in the amount of infrared that the gas can inhibit from going to space. For every increment in the surface temperature, there is an increase in the amount of infrared that the surface emits. The “most probable” climate models predict temperature increases that would emit almost five times as much infrared as the increase in carbon dioxide could retain on the planet. However, no climate model ever published has accounted for that increase in infrared emitted by the surface.
The climate system is not governed by a single control. It is a complex interplay of factors. How much energy arrives, how much is reflected, and how efficiently heat escapes all play a role. Carbon dioxide is part of that system, but it is clearly not the whole story.
Think of the colors of a rainbow. Although we cannot see infrared radiation, it has its own “colors,” for which we can measure the wavelengths. The greenhouse effect is all about the interaction between greenhouse gas molecules and infrared radiation on a wavelength-by-wavelength basis. Read every word in every IPCC Assessment Report, and you will find no reference whatsoever to that spectrum. You will find no calculations about how that wavelength is absorbed — or emitted — by that greenhouse gas.
Climate does change. It always has. The real question is not whether it changes, but why, and whether we truly understand all the factors involved. Answering that question requires careful attention to the underlying physics and a willingness to consider the full complexity of the system.
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See link under Challenging the Orthodoxy.
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Warming Winters, Not Summers: In the Daily Sceptic retired Biochemist Stephen Andrews examined the historical record of the Central England Temperature (CET) series. CET runs from 1659 to the present and is the longest continuous instrumental temperature record available. The UK Met Office now maintain it. Andrews writes, in part [the graphs in the article are omitted here]:
“For each calendar month I calculated the linear trend over two periods – 1659-2025 and 1850-2025 – and expressed the result as degrees Celsius per century. This produces 12 independent rates of change that can be compared directly. Because the same month is compared with itself across centuries, many of the practical difficulties that affect long temperature series (instrument changes, site moves, time-of-observation bias) are held constant.
Full record: 1659-2025
When the monthly rates of change are plotted for the entire 365-year period, a clear pattern appears. March is one of the strongest warming, roughly 0.45-0.5 °C per century. June shows the weakest, around 0.05°C per century – more than eight times slower. Winter months (December-February) and October also warm relatively quickly; late spring and early summer warm far more slowly.
The industrial period: 1850-2025
Restricting the analysis to the modern industrial era produces higher overall rates, as expected. Yet the seasonal contrast remains. March still warms roughly three times faster than June. October and November now show the highest rates, both exceeding 1°C per century, while June remains the slowest of the 12 months.
What the pattern implies
The data confirm that central England has warmed. They also show a persistent, large difference between the warming rates of individual months. A forcing that is essentially constant through the year does not, by itself, predict that March should warm three to nine times faster than June. Seasonal differences can of course arise from other processes – changes in snow cover, cloud, atmospheric circulation, or land-surface feedbacks. The magnitude and longevity of the March–June contrast therefore raise a legitimate question: is carbon dioxide the dominant control, or are other factors playing a larger role than the prevailing narrative assumes?
Limitations
CET is a regional series, not a global one. Linear trends calculated over centuries can still be influenced by earlier natural variability. Nevertheless, it remains the longest continuous instrumental record we possess, and the monthly pattern is robust across both the full series and the industrial subset.
The observations do not ‘disprove’ a role for carbon dioxide. They do show that the simple hypothesis – CO₂ as the primary driver producing broadly uniform warming – fails a straightforward test against the longest temperature series available. Something else is clearly at work.”
See link under Challenging the Orthodoxy.
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Earth’s Energy Imbalance: John Robson has started a series on Nobel Laureate John Clauser’s new paper published by Science of Climate Change, “Global Warming, Climate Change, and Scientific Consensus have not been Proven.” Clauser challenges the readings compiled by the Terra and Aqua satellites to calculate Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI). NASA’s Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) project is designed detect changes in Earth’s radiation budget (ERB) which may result in Earth’s Energy Imbalance. This will be discussed further in the next TWTW.
See links under Challenging the Orthodoxy.
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New Controversy: The Science of Climate Change published a paper by Jonathan Cohler and Willie Soon, a Director of SEPP, titled “Mathematical Falsification of the Fossil-Dominant Hypothesis for Rising Atmospheric CO2 Using the Keeling Relation.” The Keeling relation is based on the two main isotopes of carbon specifically carbon-12 (12C) (which has 6 neutrons along with 6 protons) and carbon-13 (13C) which has 7 neutrons and is 1.1% of all carbon. It is used to estimate the difference between carbon dioxide from human emissions from “fossil fuels” and 12C in normal atmospheric carbon dioxide. Because plants naturally take up 12C more readily than 13C, fossil fuels have a higher ratio of the 12C isotope than natural emissions from volcanoes, oceans, etc.
This paper will start a controversy that will be strongly contested. Ocean outgassing is the generally accepted explanation for increasing CO2 levels during interglacial periods. However, among the issues that need to be explained is: Why are today’s carbon dioxide levels at about 420 ppmv (parts per million in volume) so much higher than the about 280 ppmv during the last interglacial period, the Eemian (129,000 and 115,000 years ago), when it was warmer than today?
See links under Challenging the Orthodoxy.
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A Miracle? On his blog, meteorologist Cliff Mass writes [illustrations omitted here]:
Sometimes, higher powers respond to our supplications.
At the end of summer, the water level of Lake Powell, fed by the Colorado River, was at record lows, and there were worries about power generation, as well as supplying needed water downstream.
But then a miracle occurred: a series of atmospheric rivers pushed into the Southwest, dropping immense amounts of precipitation over the Colorado River drainage.
Rivers rose dramatically, and the water level was rapidly elevated behind the dam:
Plenty more water will flow into the Colorado River during the next week, as shown by the predicted hydrograph below for a location upstream of the dam.
But the miracles don’t stop there.
The Yakima Valley [south‑central Washington State], which had low snowpack feeding the Yakima River, received localized heavy rain at the end of the summer, allowing water restrictions to end.
And now the upcoming water miracle.
The 15-day precipitation forecasts predict large amounts of precipitation for Northern California, whose reservoirs need a refill after the summer, and the Pacific Northwest, which has been relatively dry this autumn.
Meteorology and religion have had a long association, and perhaps there is only one thing to be said: ‘It’s A Miracle.’”
The heavy rains will temporarily relieve the problems of the overallocation of Colorado River waters. Will the politicians and special interest groups actually solve the issues such as other states buying out California’s claims to Colorado River water and California developing more desalination plants and better allocating water use? Or will they forget about it until the next time a drought hits?
See link under Changing Weather.
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Number of the Week: On at 7 to 11 mph (3 to 5 m/s); off at 55 to 65 mph 25 to 29 m/s). The energy wind turbines generate varies according to wind speed raised to the third power (cubed). A 20 mile per hour (mph) wind may generate 8 times the power as a 10-mph wind. Further, for utility scale wind turbines the cut-in-speed (when it begins to generate usable electricity) is about 7 to 11 mph (3 to 5 m/s (meters per second)). The rated capacity is based on the rated speed which is typically around 25 to 35 mph (11 to 14 m/s). The cut-out speed when the turbine must be shut down (blades rotated about their own axis to “full feather”) is about 55 to 65 mph (25 to 29 m/s).
NEWS YOU CAN USE:
Challenging the Orthodoxy — NIPCC
Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science
Idso, Carter, and Singer, Lead Authors/Editors, Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), 2013
https://www.heartland.org/media-library/pdfs/CCR-II/CCR-II-Full.pdf
Summary: https://www.heartland.org/_template-assets/documents/CCR/CCR-II/Summary-for-Policymakers.pdf
Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts
Idso, Idso, Carter, and Singer, Lead Authors/Editors, Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), 2014
http://climatechangereconsidered.org/climate-change-reconsidered-ii-biological-impacts/
Climate Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels
By Multiple Authors, Bezdek, Idso, Legates, and Singer eds., Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, April 2019
http://climatechangereconsidered.org/climate-change-reconsidered-ii-fossil-fuels/
Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming
The NIPCC Report on the Scientific Consensus
By Craig D. Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer, Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), Nov 23, 2015
http://climatechangereconsidered.org/why-scientists-disagree-about-global-warming/
Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate
S. Fred Singer, Editor, NIPCC, 2008
http://www.sepp.org/publications/nipcc_final.pdf
Challenging the Orthodoxy – Radiation Transfer
The Role of Greenhouse Gases in Energy Transfer in the Earth’s Atmosphere
By W.A. van Wijngaarden and W. Happer, Preprint, Mar 3, 2023
Dependence of Earth’s Thermal Radiation on Five Most Abundant Greenhouse Gases
By W.A. van Wijngaarden and W. Happer, Preprint, December 22, 2020
https://wvanwijngaarden.info.yorku.ca/files/2020/12/WThermal-Radiationf.pdf?x45936
Net Zero Averted Temperature Increase
By Richard Lindzen, William Happer, and William A. van Wijngaarden, CO2 Coalition, June 2024
Radiation Transport in Clouds
By W.A. van Wijngaarden and W. Happer, Klimarealistene, Science of Climate Change, January 2025
https://scienceofclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/SCC-2025-vWijngaarden-Happer.pdf
Challenging the Orthodoxy
The Climate Question Isn’t as Simple as It Sounds
By Howard “Cork” Hayden, Canary In a Climate World, Via SEPP, Nov 7, 2026
https://www.sepp.org/science_papers/Climate%20Question.pdf
The Simple Empirical Observation That Blows the CO2 Climate Narrative Out of the Water
There’s a simple empirical observative that blows the CO2 climate narrative out the water, says Stephen Andrews: it’s the inconvenient fact that winter has warmed much more than summer.
By Stephen Andrews, The Daily Sceptic, Nov 5, 2026 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
#Clauser Magnum Opusculum: Part I
By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, Nov 4, 2026
Link to paper: John F. Clauser: Global Warming, Climate Change, and Scientific Consensus have not been Proven
By John Clauser, Science of Climate Change, Oct 22, 2026
New Study: The Net Fossil Fuel Contribution To Rising Atmospheric CO2 Has Been Zero For 500 Years
By Kenneth Richard, No Tricks Zone, Nov 4, 2026
Link to paper: Mathematical Falsification of the Fossil-Dominant Hypothesis for Rising Atmospheric CO2 Using the Keeling Relation
By Jonathan Cohler, Willie Soon, Science of Climate Change, Accepted Oct 21, 2026
https://scienceofclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/SCC-Vol.6.4-04_Cohler.pdf
The Pages 2k R code and Temperature Records by Latitude Band
By Andy May, WUWT, Nov 5, 2026
These are the instrumental era proxy-by-proxy calibration statistics missing from the Pages 2k documentation. You can see the overall average R2 is only 0.16 and the average p is 0.165, these are poor correlations overall and there are few good correlations in the whole batch, the maximum R2 is only 0.68.
I should mention that a low calibration R² does not necessarily imply that a proxy is invalid. It may indicate that the proxy responds to seasonal, oceanographic, hydrologic, or regional variables not fully captured or represented by the nearest NOAA annual-mean temperature grid cell. Many of the proxies just represent one season which is not taken into account in Pages2k.r. Under some circumstances Pages 2k takes season into account but usually treats all proxies as if they were annual.
[SEPP Comment: The Aug 21, 2021, TWTW discussed how statistician Steve McIntyre exposed the cobbled together hockey-stick in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers of Assessment Report 5 using Pages2K results. (2014). For McIntyre’s post see https://climateaudit.org/2021/08/15/pages19-asian-tree-ring-chronologies/ and for issues in AR6 see https://climateaudit.org/2021/08/11/the-ipcc-ar6-hockeystick/ . ]
How the Climate-Obsessed Lancet Tortures Data to Push Alarmist Propaganda
No, there aren’t “500,000 deaths each year due to climate change” – deaths are falling.
By Ben Pile, The Climate Skeptic, Nov 02, 2026 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://www.climateskeptic.org/p/how-the-climate-obsessed-lancet-tortures
But how were these data produced, and what do they really say? The report states that “estimates [of heat-related mortality] for all countries” were “obtained by combining state-of-the-art meta-prediction models with yearly mortality estimates from the Global Burden of Disease study”. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study is an impressively extensive searchable database relating to health data of all kinds compiled by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. So, we can obtain the raw data for ourselves.
[SEPP Comment: See link immediately below.]
Defending the Orthodoxy
Climate change and health: 10 years on, what next?
Editorial, The Lancet, Nov 7, 2026
The Paris Agreement came into force in 2016, a watershed in collective international action on climate change. That year also saw the creation of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change, established to track the health effects of climate change and climate action.
Claim: The Evidence Climate Change Threatens Human Health is Stronger than Ever
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Nov 5, 2026
Link to cited report: The 2026 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: a decade of escalating health harms and a decisive moment for all.
By Prof Marina Romanello, et al., The Lancet, Oct 27, 2026
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)01779-4/abstract
[SEPP Comment: Omit the existence of cold weather amd then more people die of warm weather.]
Questioning the Orthodoxy
Madame Otto and Her Computer Crystal Balls
Fresh from a summer in Mystic Meg’s fairground tent, Imperial’s Friederike Otto has returned with her computer crystal balls to bring news that climate change killed exactly 32,619 people this summer, says Chris Morrison.
By Chris Morrison, The Daily Sceptic, Nov 1, 2026
Weather attribution computer models were first designed to create useful press headlines and to stick it to oil and gas companies in the law courts. Whatever use they have in the political arena, they cannot make plausible estimates to the nearest one person about how many people died in a hot summer due to a claimed anthropogenic weather change. Even Mystic Meg would struggle with that one.
An Extraordinary Popular Delusion: Review of Implausible by Chris Morrison
The doomsday climate predictions keep failing, but the quasi-religious popular delusion persists. What will it take to break it, asks Guy de la Bédoyère as he reviews Chris Morrison’s Implausible.
By Guy de la Bédoyère, The Daily Sceptic, Oct 31, 2026
Movements obsessed with the imminent end of the world have recurred throughout history. They all share the conviction that Armageddon will be caused by the sins of humanity, and that only self-flagellation will propitiate the angry gods. They’re usually fixated with coercing others into the same mindset.
In the past these movements were religious in nature. God, or any god, they claimed was enraged by evil human beings who therefore needed punishing. We, however, live in a secular age. The present orthodoxy has been recast in a bizarre contemporary conflation of pseudoscience and religious fervour to create a unique variant on ancient and medieval mentalities. “Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.” (George Orwell, 1984.)
Sceptic on Climate, Conventional on Russia: A Review of ‘The Age of Error and the West’s Undoing’ by Rupert Darwall
By Tilak Doshi, The Daily Sceptic, Nov 2, 2026 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
“It’s been 20 years since ‘Inconvenient Truth’ and climate change is still questioned”
By Russell Cook, Gelbspan Files.com, Oct 28, 2026
Such was the assertion a person submitted in a letter to the Los Angeles Times editor back in September. The first part is a provable fact, the latter half is arguably one more disinformation talking point to throw onto the collective deception pile generated by enviro-activists about the climate issue.
Climate Change Weekly # 595—Study: Net Zero Climate Policies Carry a High Price Tag
By H. Sterling Burnett, The Heartland Institute, Oct 30, 2026
Tidbits
By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, Nov 4, 2026
Recovery of Kazakh Steppe’s Animals Without Climate Targets
By Vijay Jayaraj, CO2 Coalition, Nov 3, 2026
You have been told that wild animals would vanish unless governments treat carbon dioxide as the master switch for Earth’s temperature and the bane of ecosystems. The animals did not follow that script.
Climate Change and Gilligan’s Island: Why Every Disaster Gets the Same Script
By John S. (Steve) Pabst, WUWT, Nov 6, 2026
Perhaps that is where the climate discussion could use a change of script. Instead of immediately asking how a local catastrophe fits into the great global argument, start smaller. What happened? Why did it happen? What could we have known beforehand, and what can we build differently next time?
Democratic whiplash — The Globalist Empire fights back
By Jo Nova, Her Blog, Nov 6, 2026
After Paris!
UN Climate Summit Hypocrisy
By Rebecca Terrell, New American, Nov 3, 2026[ H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://thenewamerican.com/world-news/un/un-climate-summit-hypocrisy/
On November 9, delegates from nearly 200 nations will gather in Antalya, Turkey, for COP31, the United Nations’ annual climate summit. The two-week conference, which runs through November 20, is billed as a forum on the planet’s future. It also raises the unstated issue of how much national sovereignty member countries are expected to give up.
Robbing Wealthy Nations
The main business in Antalya is money. At COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 2024, nations adopted the “New Collective Quantified Goal,” calling for developed countries to “take the lead” in mobilizing at least $300 billion a year for developing nations by 2035. The agreement also calls for total climate financing for developing countries to reach $1.3 trillion a year by 2035, from all public and private sources. COP31 is expected to press for delivery on that goal, along with stronger national emissions pledges under the Paris Agreement.
For taxpayers in wealthy nations, this is an open-ended commitment. Decisions made by international negotiators would shape domestic spending and energy policy, and elected legislatures would then be asked to pay for promises they did not make.
On with the show at UN COP31
By David Wojick, CFACT, Oct 30, 2026
COP31 is upon us, and while you may think it is pointless, it is still a spectacle worth watching.
These folks are professional negotiators who could just as easily spend eleven luxury days debating the seating priorities on the first passenger trip to Mars. There is also the enormous global trade show that comes with it.
Globalists’ climate grift returns in full force
By Craig Rucker, CFACT, Oct 29, 2026
Social Benefits of Carbon Dioxide
The effect of extra CO2 on Ladder Brake
By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, Nov 4, 2026
From the CO2Science archive.
Seeking a Common Ground
Holding Science to a Gold Standard Will Hold It Back
A metascientist pushes back against the unified and idealized vision of science embodied in NSF’s new Office of Metascience.
By Berna Devezer, The Scientist, Oct 29, 2026 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://www.the-scientist.com/holding-science-to-a-gold-standard-will-hold-it-back-75170
Measurement Issues — Atmosphere
UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for October, 2026: +0.69 deg. C
By Roy Spencer, His Blog, Nov 3, 2026
Global Temperature Report: October 2026
By Staff, The Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville Nov 3, 2026
Text: https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/aosc/Global_Temperature_Report/2026_Reports/GTR_202610.pdf
Map and Graph: https://www.uah.edu/aosc/data-products/global-temperature-report
October 2026 Global UAH Warming Abates
By Ron Clutz, Science Matters, Nov 4, 2026
Changing Weather
Precipitation Miracles
By Cliff Mass, Weather Blog, Nov 3, 2026
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2026/11/precipitation-miracles.html
At the end of summer, the water level of Lake Powell, fed by the Colorado River, was at record lows, and there were worries about power generation, as well as supplying needed water downstream.
But then a miracle occurred: a series of atmospheric rivers pushed into the Southwest, dropping immense amounts of precipitation over the Colorado River drainage.
[SEPP Comment: Sudden favorable climate change, or a change in weather?]
Good News for West Coast Water Resources
By Cliff Mass, Weather Blog, Nov 1, 2026
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2026/11/good-news-for-west-coast-water-resources.html
With all the worry about the current Super-El Niño, it is comforting to see the substantial snow and precipitation of the past week, with forecasts of much more to come.
As I noted in an earlier blog, the very strongest El Niños tend to produce normal precipitation over our region and near-normal snowpack.
As shown below [in article, not here], although most CA reservoirs are at or above normal, the large ones in the northern part of the state are a bit below normal.
Why? The low snowpack last year resulted in a greater draw of stored water last summer. The substantial rain forecast for the next few weeks should bring them up to very close to normal.
A SuperFront Will Cross the Northwest This Weekend
By Cliff Mass, Weather Blog, Nov 5, 2026
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2026/11/a-superfront-will-cross-northwest-this.html
Changing Seas
AMOC of the week
By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, Nov 4, 2026
Link to paper: Reversible Atlantic overturning despite continued Greenland ice sheet melt
By Chuncheng Guo, et al., AAAS Science Advances, Oct 14, 2026
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aee5373
We’re not making it up: the “Abstract” of the actual study, in Science Advances, says in its 2nd sentence that:
“Here, we use a carbon dioxide emission–driven Earth system model with an interactive GrIS to assess AMOC reversibility under a range of idealized carbon dioxide emission pathways that produce near-linear global warming up to 10 kelvins (K), stabilization across 1.5 to 9 K, and subsequent cooling.”
It’s the AMOC of the mind, not the one out there at sea.
AMOC Slowdown Scare is Back!
By Ron Clutz, Science Matters, Nov 2, 2026
Link to contradicting paper: Continued Atlantic overturning circulation even under climate extremes.
By J. A. Baker et al., Nature, Feb 26, 2025
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08544-0
From Baker, et al.: Here we show that the AMOC is resilient to extreme greenhouse gas and North Atlantic freshwater forcings across 34 climate models. Upwelling in the Southern Ocean, driven by persistent Southern Ocean winds, sustains a weakened AMOC in all cases, preventing its complete collapse. As Southern Ocean upwelling must be balanced by downwelling in the Atlantic or Pacific, the AMOC can only collapse if a compensating Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation (PMOC) develops. Remarkably, a PMOC does emerge in almost all models, but it is too weak to balance all of the Southern Ocean upwelling, suggesting that an AMOC collapse is unlikely this century.
[SEPP Comment: More on the paper from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) discussed in last week’s TWTW.]
Lowering Standards
Australia’s Duplicated Temperature and Rainfall Data: What the Bureau Missed
By Patrick Lloyd, WUWT, Nov 1, 2026
What this is, and what it isn’t
To be fair to the Bureau: these look like clerical and data handling errors, not tampering. The temperature copies show no measurable lean warm or cool (15 warmer, 10 cooler, where the direction can be told). None is more recent than 1981, and ACORN-SAT, the series that carries Australia’s warming trend, excludes all of them bar the Sydney week and five Charleville days. The rainfall copies are a small fraction of the archive, and I have not quantified any effect on national trends.
Communicating Better to the Public – Use Yellow (Green) Journalism?
Wrong, The Independent: A Flood in Fiji Is Weather, Not Proof of a Climate Crisis
By Anthony Watts, Climate Realism, Nov 4, 2026
That isn’t serious climate journalism. It is advocacy masquerading as reporting.
If this is The Independent’s standard for covering climate science, the thing most obviously in danger of going underwater isn’t Tuvalu. It’s The Independent’s journalistic credibility.
Communicating Better to the Public – Make things up.
‘Imagine 2200’: Grist Climate Fiction
By Robert Bradley Jr., Master Resource, Nov 4, 2026
https://www.masterresource.org/climate-messaging/climate-alarmists-grasp-new-strategies/
Grist’s Image 2200 Creative Manager Tory Stephens continues:
“We are living through a moment where the stories being told about the future are shrinking, and the space to imagine something different is being crowded out by fear and despair. Imagine 2200 is an antidote: a global climate-fiction initiative in which writers from more than 90 countries have imagined new futures, shaped by justice and resilience, and informed by the real-world solutions already in motion.”
[SEPP Comment: Usually the first step is to destroy what works, claiming it’s not just or not fair.]
Communicating Better to the Public – Do a Poll?
Climate Researchers Ask 90 Queenslanders Which Messengers Could Sell Climate Action Better Than Environmentalists
By Charles Rotter, WUWT, Nov 4, 2026
Link to paper: Social and psychological factors shaping public views of unconventional climate advocates.
By Xiongzhi Wang, et al., Climate Change, Oct 24, 2026
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-026-04321-2
Communicating Better to the Public – Use Propaganda
The Sheer #%&@! Gall of Nature Magazine. EU Chief Science Advisers Say Democracy Depends on Trusted Science, and Ignore How the Trust Was Squandered
By Charles Rotter, Nov 4, 2026
Link to comment: How democracy depends on science — and must protect it
Verified information from trusted experts is crucial to help the public and governments navigate rapid changes and increasing complexity.
By Martin Kahanec, et al., Nature, Nov 3, 2026
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03510-4
El Fantasma
By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, Nov 4, 2026
One great thing about being a climate alarmist is never having to say you’re sorry. Not about forcing schoolchildren to watch Al Gore’s error-riddled documentary, not about wrecking economies over weather trends that aren’t even happening, not over making an international heroine of some addled schoolchild in ways that arguably ruined her life as well as scientific debate. Or even about continuing to say something once it’s been shown to be clearly untrue, as when you praise the hair-raising British “Stern Review” on its 20th anniversary for predicting climate disasters that didn’t happen because his methodology was rubbish, as was exposed at the time (on which see below). [Boldface added]
Expanding the Orthodoxy
COP 17 Armenia: From “incentives” to control — UN “biodiversity finance” is really central planning.
By Alex Newman, CFACT, Nov 1, 2026
Liberty and property rights will not last long if the UN succeeds in redirecting capital in this way, with productive uses penalized and wasteful schemes supposedly mandatory to achieve UN targets
Environmental Levies & DESNZ Spending
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Nov 3, 2026
As far as DESNZ is concerned, the annual budget for Resource Spending (RDEL) runs at about £2 billion a year – this is basically for operational costs. Most of this could be saved tomorrow if the Department was shut down and its activities taken over by the Business Department.
But much more significant is the Capital Spend (CDEL), with a budget spend of £36.1 billion between now and 2029/30. A lot of this will be wasted on uneconomic carbon capture and hydrogen schemes.
Who needs hydrogen, when it seems we have money to burn?
Questioning European Green
EU Cost of Living Crisis: “The EU … don’t have a magic wand to make the price increases go away”
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Nov 3, 2026
The Political Games Continue
After Huge Election Win, Democrats Hold Key to Lowering Energy Prices
By Paul Bledsoe, Real Clear Energy, Nov 5, 2026
Paul Bledsoe is president of Bledsoe & Associates, an energy and economic policy consultancy. He served as a staff member in the House of Representatives and Senate Finance Committee, and as an official at the Interior Department and the White House under President Clinton.
The Senate Permit Streamlining Bill Is Imperative for America’s Future
By Debra W. Struhsacker, Real Clear Energy, Nov 4, 2026
Re-arranging the Deckchairs on the Titanic
Man the lifeboats
By Mark Hodgson, Climate Scepticism, Oct 29, 2026
The UK Government’s 2026 Budget document runs to well over 150 pages, but Jit wasn’t being unreasonable when he described it as a nothing burger with a gherkin in it. The parts dealing specifically with energy can be found primarily on numbered pages 2 and 3 and run to little more than a page in total, though as will be seen below [in the post, not here], there are other sections of relevance to UK energy policy.
Litigation Issues
A $28 Trillion Mistake
Major errors in two papers at the center of the climate liability movement
By Roger Pielke, Jr., The Honest Broker, Nov 5, 2026 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
Subsidies and Mandates Forever
Burnham to Halt Wind and Solar Subsidies in Net Zero Climbdown
By Will Jones, The Daily Sceptic, Nov 3, 2026
EPA and other Regulators on the March
EPA Enhances Federalism, Takes Aim at Costly Oil and Natural Gas Regulations
By Lora Current, Real Clear Energy, Nov 5, 2026
Energy Issues – General
26th Annual David Gunn Memorial Lecture
By Kathlyn Porter, Watt-Logic, Nov 5, 2026
We must not mistake a lack of blackouts for proof the risks have been adequately controlled. If we wait until a serious blackout to discover that those standards were not being met, we will have waited too long – people may die as they did in last year’s Iberian blackout. With so many identifiable risks, worrying about blackouts is not scaremongering.
Dismissing those concerns without properly addressing them is the bigger danger.
Seven Principles of Sound Energy Policy
By Jason Hayes, For Mackinac Center, Via Real Clear Public Affairs, March 24, 2026
- Energy is at the core of our economic well-being.
- Energy powers our lives and cools us during the summer and heats us during the winter.
- Energy cooks our food, transports us, and is the essential ingredient to the products that we use daily.
- In fact, abundant, reliable, and low-cost energy elevated humanity from the near-Hobbesian state of existence — “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
- It was vast amounts of energy that enabled the industrial revolution.
- Without energy, nearly all of humanity would likely return to a life of poverty, disease, and want.
- Some now say that because of deforestation and climate change we have let our growing need for energy come at the expense of the planet.
Yet, today we use energy far more efficiently than we did during the industrial revolution and most of the 20th century.
Energy Issues – Europe
[UK] Govt Bans New North Sea Exploration
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Nov 6, 2026
Link to: Energy reforms to cut bills and put power back in people’s hands.
The Energy Independence Bill will cut bills for households and put power back in people’s hands with a fairer energy system.
Press Release, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Nov 4, 2026
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/energy-reforms-to-cut-bills-and-put-power-back-in-peoples-hands
From press release: The Energy Independence Bill is a down payment on longer-term reforms that will fix Britain’s broken energy system, putting affordability at its heart, while unlocking barriers to deliver clean power.
Delivers on manifesto commitment to issue no new oil and gas licences to explore new fields in the North Sea
From Homewood: When Burnham approved Jackdaw gas field last month, some suggested he was going weak on Net Zero.
As I suggested at the time, it was just a PR exercise, to garner a few votes.
NESO is Playing With Fire
Disconnected leadership and statistical sophistry putting energy security at risk.
By David Turver, Eigen Values, Nov 1, 2026 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
https://davidturver.substack.com/p/neso-is-playing-with-fire
[SEPP Comment: NESO is the UK’s National Energy System Operator. It is publicly owned and responsible for planning and running Great Britain’s electricity and gas systems. It is controlled by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.]
NESO’s Wind Power Plans Blown Away Already
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Oct 31, 2026
A day after I reported on how NESO’s Winter Outlook had assumed we could rely on a minimum of 5.4 GW from wind power, we find that currently it is just sending 2.67 GW to the grid.
Move all energy policy costs onto gas says ESNZ Committee
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Nov 2, 2026
From committee press release: Government should now move all remaining energy transition policy costs off the price of electricity and onto the price of gas on UK energy bills, the Commons Energy Security and Net Zero Committee says in a report today – a key step to making the transition away from fossil fuels economical for consumers.
[SEPP Comment: The committee advocates the enormously expensive transition away from fossil fuels. Saving a few £s will not make it economical for consumers.]
Gas Standing Charges
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Nov 1, 2026
The Chancellor announced plans at his Budget speech to do away with standing charges for gas next year, to be followed with a possible similar move for electricity.
Depending on where you live, you are probably paying about 29.7 p a day for gas standing charges, or £108 a year.
Don’t be fooled by the Government though, because this move does not necessarily mean you will actually save money, as the costs covered by standing charges will simply be added back into unit charges.
Low users will of course benefit, but high users of gas will be worse off.
Even the EU is waking up to the need for oil refineries
By Jo Nova, Her Blog, Nov 3, 2026
Energy Issues – Australia
Australia Could be Sitting on an Oil Deposit Comparable to Texas – if Only our Politicians will Get Out of the Way
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Oct 31, 2026
Estimates for the Taroom Trough have just risen to a billion barrels of oil, possibly 10s of billions.
[SEPP Comment: This apparently massive onshore region appears to be developable thanks to hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling – banned in Australia.]
BINGO — Another billion dollar industry arrives to feed off “The Climate Crisis™”
By Jo Nova, Her Blog, Oct 31, 2026
Australian companies will pay $1+ billion in climate accounting fees, including reporting CO2 produced in other countries.
Even believers admit Australia will bomb at our Net Zero ambitions — eight years to build a wind plant!
By Jo Nova, Her Blog, Nov 5, 2026
Energy Issues – Elsewhere non-US
Low Energy Costs have Pushed China to the Top of the Global Chemical Industry
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Nov 5, 2026
China’s energy cost advantage is an entirely plausible explanation for what is happening in the global chemical market. Synthesis of high value chemicals is energy intensive. China has cheap energy.
[SEPP Comment: Reliable, low-cost power from coal-fired power plants.]
They’ll always have China
By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, Nov 4, 2026
https://climatediscussionnexus.com/2026/11/04/theyll-always-have-china/
But it’s going great in China, at least in their minds, with high investment, futuristic power and none of that silly democracy. Heatmap gets all giddy that “The West Invented the Electrolyzer. China Is Building the Industry. ‘When China wants to do something, boy, they move fast.’” As they did in the Great Leap Forward when they made everyone turn on a dime and start farming according to Mao’s imagination not millennia of experience, resulting in a massive famine, Heatmap doesn’t add.
Poster Child for Green Energy Becomes Buyer of Emergency Power
By Vijay Jayaraj, CO2 Coalition, Oct 30, 2026
Energy Issues — US
Destroying the $138.5 Billion Blackout Machine
A sneak peek at our modeling of the EPA Supplemental Rules in MISO
By Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling, Energy Bad Boys, Oct 31, 2026
Link to: The Levelized Cost of Electricity in Indiana
By Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling, Always On Energy Research, April 2026
Our report highlights two very important realities.
First, that a world without the EPA’s ability to promulgate future emissions standards on power plants in the country would be better for everyone, and saves consumers $138.5 billion through 2045. It does this by relying on affordable coal and natural gas facilities, unhampered by the need to retrofit with costly CCS equipment. In a time when energy costs are skyrocketing, it’s important not to enact policies that would artificially raise costs even further.
Second, that grid-planning needs to rely on metrics that actually reflect the ability of resources to meet demand. Overly generous accreditation metrics for energy resources and wind, solar and battery storage, especially, result in a system with insufficient capacity and understates the cost of compliance when modeling for future rules—especially when it doesn’t model for reliability shortfalls, as the Biden EPA failed to do.
Long on words, short on power
By John Robson, Climate Discussion Nexus, Nov 4, 2026
Especially if some fool has loaded the dice. That 2024 post notes that:
“According to EPA’s own modeling of the MISO grid under the final rule, wind and solar are given generous capacity accreditations that may leave the region short of electricity when the weather doesn’t cooperate.”
Reconductoring and Pipeline Integrity: Planning for the Shared Transmission Corridor
By Tim Gonzalez, Power Mag, Nov 3, 2026
Building transmission lines in new corridors can take 10 to 15 years, largely because of permitting tied to land acquisition and environmental review. To increase capacity within existing right-of-way (ROW), utilities are replacing legacy conductors in HVAC systems with advanced ones that can carry far more power on the same towers. This reconductoring and energizing process typically raises a line’s capacity by 50% to 110% in 18 to 36 months.
A buried steel pipeline running near an HVAC transmission line can experience alternating current (AC)-induced voltage and current. As reconductoring increases the line’s current-carrying and operating capacity, AC interference on a nearby pipeline will also increase, depending on the configuration of the power line and pipeline and the mitigation already in place.
AC interference presents two concerns: personnel safety and pipeline corrosion. The first is safety. Induced voltage can create shock hazards for crews working on or near the pipeline. Industry practice under the NACE SP0177 standard uses 15 V AC as the steady-state touch-voltage threshold, and IEEE Standard 80 sets criteria for assessing touch and step voltages during fault conditions. The second is corrosion. Pipelines rely on protective coatings and cathodic protection (CP) to keep buried steel from corroding.
RGGI and the Broken Virginia Energy Affordability Promise
By Roger Caiazza, WUWT, Nov 1, 2026
The Governor promised to negotiate “the best ratepayer deal.” As far as I can tell, there was no negotiation and there is no deal. Virginians are left with a higher bill and a credit that can’t cover it.
AI Issues
The Democrat Midterm Victory has Created Data Center Opportunities for Other Countries
By Eric Worrall, WUWT, Nov 6, 2026
Washington’s Control of Energy
The Green New Caucus Goes to Washington
By Larry Behrens, Real Clear Energy, Nov 5, 2026
North Carolina’s Roy Cooper signed an executive order demanding net-zero emissions by 2050 and 1.25 million zero-emission vehicles on state roads by 2030.
Alternative, Green (“Clean”) Solar and Wind
Corruption? Don’t Forget Solyndra
By Robert Bradley Jr., Master Resource, Nov 7, 2026
https://www.masterresource.org/uncategorized/corruption-dont-forget-solyndra/
Revolution Wind Offshore Wind Project Enters Commercial Operation
By Darrell Proctor, Power Mag, Nov 5, 2026
Trump administration officials in delaying offshore wind projects have said the installations could interfere with military radar. Federal judges in multiple cases have dismissed those claims and blocked the administration’s efforts to scuttle the projects.
Gone With the Wind. German Power Goes From €13 to €315 a Megawatt-Hour in Four Days
By Charles Rotter, WUWT, Nov 2, 2026
Wind Speed Trends at Tiree
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Nov 6, 2026
While I was playing with the Bingley data, I discovered that there were 14 days last winter when there were less than 6 kts daily mean wind speeds. This has implications, of course, for wind power.
[SEPP Comment: Generally, turbines need wind speeds of 6 knots per second (kts) to generate electricity.]
Alternative, Green (“Clean”) Energy — Other
Aviation Biofuel Net Zero Climbdown
By Sallust, The Daily Sceptic, Nov 6, 2026
Some airlines have already added fare surcharges to cover the additional cost of SAF, which is two to five times more expensive than standard jet fuel.
Alternative, Green (“Clean”) Vehicles
Spy Under The Bonnet
By Paul Homewood, Not a Lot of People Know That, Nov 6, 2026
There is disturbing news from the Daily Mail, concerning Government plans to digitally track EVs, in order to record mileage for their pay-per-mile tax:
BELOW THE BOTTOM LINE
Many Happy Returns. The Stern Review Turns 20 and Weather Losses Come in $2.8 Trillion Under Its Forecast
By Charles Rotter, WUWT, Oct 31, 2026
According to Roger Pielke Jr.: Over 2006 to 2025, the Stern Review’s projection implied $7.0 trillion in weather losses based on Munich Re’s data, in 2026 dollars. Actual losses were $4.3 trillion, $2.8 trillion less. Using Aon’s data, the shortfall is $1.5 trillion.
The Jevons Paradox: I just Proved a New Economic Law
By William Murray, Real Clear Energy, Nov 5, 2026
What follows is a short conversation in which Murray, using the Socratic method, gets the machine partially owned and controlled by Larry Page and Sergey Brin – known as Gemini 3 Deep Think – to admit it was wrong and to properly upgrade Jevons’ Paradox to Javons’ Law of Energy Expansion.
[SEPP Comment: Playing games with AI.]
LSE Climate Course Recommends Book Promoting Eco-Terrorism
A climate course on the compulsory list for first years at LSE recommends a book promoting eco-terrorism edited by an author who calls bombing oil pipelines an “act of love”, says Chris Morrison.
By Chris Morrison, The Daily Sceptic, Nov 4, 2026 [H/t Bernie Kepshire]
First year students at the London School of Economics (LSE) are required to pick a compulsory course from three subjects of which the most popular is likely to be a waffle fest around transforming climate futures. The reading list for our weather-bothering future leaders looks rather exciting with a book edited by Jessie Kindig. This features essays on direct climate action including sabotage and eco-terrorism.
Leipzig Psychologists Measure How Jovial Climate Change Makes 1,313 German Workers, to Two Decimal Places
By Charles Rotter, WUWT, Nov 2, 2026
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