Idiots on parade: Portland water bureau's tenuous grasp of science

From ARStechnica and the stupid, it burns, department comes this ridiculous story of a bureaucrat gone off the rails. See the video that set off this pissing match below. The…

RealClimate Co-Founder Exposes His Inability to Grasp Complex Subjects

And most regulars will recall William Connolley. Connolley’s likely best known for his hijinks as a former editor at Wikipedia. (See the WattsUpWithThat posts here, here, here, here, here, here…

Reactions to 'the pause': Grasping at strawmen in hidey holes

It has been quite entertaining to watch the various explanations coming out to rationalize “the pause” in surface temperatures for the last 16 years. For example, as Jerome Ravetz points…

Finally: JPL intends to get a GRASP on accurate sea level and ice measurements

A climate science bombshell: New proposal from NASA JPL admits to “spurious” errors in current satellite based sea level and ice altimetry, calls for new space platform to fix the…

Grasping at Straws

If you try really really hard to ask questions a certain way, then you’ll get the answers you want. ~ charles the moderator Scientists misread data on global warming controversy…

Study: Art can Help People Visualise and Communicate Climate Action

Apparently visual art can bridge the communication gap between our distant UN overlords and the proletariat.

Behavioural Scientists Aren’t Just Wrong About How to Win Over Electorates to Crackpot Progressive Policies; Their Evident Contempt for the Masses Has Contributed to the Global Populist Revolt

…they’ve placed too much faith in what has turned out to be really bad science.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591

“My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles … That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #585

’The exception proves that the rule is wrong.’ That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation,…

Artificial Alarmism

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, I was notified by my long-standing “Google Alert” that my name had appeared in a paper on the web. It was in a study…

Passing 1.5C Global Warming is Now an “Opportunity”

You naughty proletariat, instead of spanking you for failing to reign in your emissions, we’re going to give you another chance to embrace green socialism.

Embracing your Inner Communist Can Help with Climate Grief?

“… I get them to envision a world that is fair; where everyone has enough resources to meet their needs. I ask them what they can do now to contribute…

Righteous Risks: Introduction

…when the public is persuaded to consider capitalism, innovation and entrepreneurship as moral deficiencies; then righteous risks become a threat to rational policies, democracies and the public.

Climate, CO2, and the Sun

By Andy May Christian Freuer has translated this post into German here. In my previous post on multiple regression of known solar cycles versus HadCRUT5, I simply threw the solar…

US Backing New Plan To Cripple Coal Industry At UN Climate Conference

The Biden administration is set to back a plan that would crush the coal industry at the upcoming United Nations (UN) climate summit, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

Analyzing Studies

For issues that are really important, you need to learn how to separate credible studies from unreliable ones.

Solar power has massive potential to benefit humanity – with a different focus

Solar power may prove to be an excellent solution to one of the world’s most considerable problems: a lack of potable water.

The Energy Transition is Social Vandalism

Dr. Euan Mearns emphasizes that every energy transition in history has been additive, motivated by the benefits of improved power, energy density, efficiency, and cost. However, he criticizes current shifts…

Green Revolution Fail: Congress to Refuse Funding for Ukraine?

Back in March, George Soros wrote that the Ukrainian defeat of Russia was vital for progressing the global green revolution. The Republican Congress may be about to refuse Biden’s request…

Geophysical Consequences of Celestial Mechanics

The core of their elegant physics explains well the careful observations gathered in the past 200 years.

Canada Forest Fires Trend Has Gone Down Since 2000, Data Defy Alarmist Claims

But the country’s official wildfire statistics do not show this suspected trend.

American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy Says Heavy Industry Should get Intermittent

Their solution to the intermittency of renewables is for heavy industry to learn to live with it.

CPAC Australia – Coal Overboard, Nuclear to Appease the Greens?

To say I’m disappointed with this year’s Australian CPAC would be an understatement.

Did DOE “flip the bird” to the DC Circuit?

DOE wasn’t then and still isn’t now playing by the rules  to expand their regulatory domain over appliance efficiency  (and/or they change the rules as they deem fit on the…