The deeper issue is that climate science, climate policy, and climate litigation have become part of the same institutional machinery. And once those gears start turning together, separating scientific analysis…
Author: Charles Rotter
Live at 1 pm ET: Climate Paper Tigers – The Climate Realism Show #193
The Climate Panic Industrial Complex has had complete control over the media narrative and public policy for more than two decades. Then Donald Trump returned to the White House and…
Pushing back on Recent ‘Sea Level is Worse Now’ Claims: The Coordinate System That Ate the Coastline
Charles Rotter In the annals of modern scientific discovery, a few moments stand out as turning points for human understanding. Galileo pointing a telescope at Jupiter. Newton contemplating a falling…
The Sediments Don’t Support the 1.5°C Panic
Charles Rotter A new paper has just appeared in Geology with a title that sounds almost understated: “Resilient tropical marine ecosystems during early Eocene global warming events” . Understated titles…
If 1°C Destroys 20% of GDP, Why Did Nobody Notice?
…if a Great Depression has already occurred without anyone noticing, the burden of proof rests squarely with those claiming it.
Miliband must publish his secret China energy deal
Anyone concerned with Britain’s hard power capabilities – and the independence of our democratic institutions – in the face of revisionist powers such as China and Russia should be concerned…
Live at 1pm Eastern: SCOTUS TO KILL CLIMATE LAWSUITS? – The Climate Realism Show #192
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could end the practice of cities suing energy companies, claiming their businesses harm the public by increasing greenhouse gas emissions…
The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 Part 8: Financialization of Climate Risk and Systemic Consequences
Complex systems demand humility. Restructuring global finance on the basis of uncertain nonlinear thresholds may prove to be its own form of tipping experiment.
The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 Part 7: Climate as Legal Imperative and the Judicialization of Policy
Charles Rotter This is Part VII of a multipart, systematic refutation of the University of Exeter’s Global Tipping Points Report 2025. Part I examined the catastrophe framing and the tension…
The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 Part 6: The Scientific Core — How Solid Are the Tipping Thresholds?
Charles Rotter This is Part VI of a multipart, systematic refutation of the University of Exeter’s Global Tipping Points Report 2025. Part I examined the catastrophe framing and the tension…
The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 Part 5: Replacing GDP and Reengineering Economic Purpose
Charles Rotter This is Part V of a multipart, systematic refutation of the University of Exeter’s Global Tipping Points Report 2025. Part I examined catastrophe framing and the tension between…
The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 Part 4: Narrative Management, Public Opinion, and the Politics of “Misperception”
Charles Rotter This is Part IV of a multipart, systematic refutation of the University of Exeter’s Global Tipping Points Report 2025. Part I examined the catastrophe framing and the gap…
Germany’s “Energy Transition” Hits the Ice: LNG Crisis Exposes the Costs of Shunning Nuclear and Baseload Power
Baseload power sources — whether nuclear or coal — were dismissed prematurely with pie-in-the-sky magical-thinking that a renewables-centric system could replace them quickly. But the reality of an industrialized society…
Astroturf Alert: $2 Billion in Foreign Cash Behind America’s “Grassroots” Climate Movement?
If a comparable sum had flowed from domestic oil companies into policy think tanks questioning renewable mandates, it would dominate headlines for months. Congressional hearings would be scheduled before the…
The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 Part 3: Positive Tipping Points and Industrial Policy Engineering
Charles Rotter This is Part III of a multipart, systematic refutation of the University of Exeter’s Global Tipping Points Report 2025. Part I examined the catastrophe framing and the tension…
The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 Part 2: Governance Architecture and Technocratic Expansion
Charles Rotter This is Part II of a multipart, systematic refutation of the University of Exeter’s Global Tipping Points Report 2025. In Part I, the focus was the report’s rhetorical…
Renewables Catastrophically Expensive
Which is why no company using lots of power, certainly not any of Elon’s, actually tries to do it.
The Global Tipping Points Report 2025, Part 1: Catastrophe, Certainty, and the Architecture of Urgency
Charles Rotter This begins a multipart, systematic refutation of the University of Exeter’s Global Tipping Points Report 2025. The report spans 379 pages, involves 160 researchers across 87 institutions, and…