Joe Kaeser said strict zero-emission targets had crippled manufacturing and heavy industry in Germany and beyond. He called on the German Government to work on a more “economically feasible plan”…
Author: Charles Rotter
Data centers are the physical internet
Building new data centers has become highly controversial. This massive public debate suffers from a major confusion in that what data centers do is seldom mentioned, except that they do…
The Brain Microplastics Claim and the Collapse of Scientific Restraint
…the episode will stand as another example of how easily scientific restraint is abandoned when a frightening story is available for the telling.
Mighty Mickey Has Struck Out-Again
And oh, the sound of gavel wood was sharp against the hall— They ruled the play was foul, not fair, bad faith and that was all.
Screw Your Comfort: How Nature Became a Nagging Preacher
The tragedy is not that Nature publishes climate papers. It is that it no longer seems capable of publishing skepticism — not denial, but skepticism in its proper sense: disciplined…
U.S. Withdraws from the IPCC—and Dismantles a Global Climate Bureaucracy
…the exit from IPCC-adjacent institutions is not an isolated gesture, but a blunt, in your face, message that the era of unquestioned deference to transnational climate bureaucracy is over.
Studying Skeptics Through a Keyhole: Why Climate Communication Research Can’t See What It Refuses to Understand
They may quote skeptics endlessly. They may code them meticulously. They may analyze their “affective economies” until the funding runs out. They will still have no idea why climate skepticism…
Science Without Skepticism Is Just Politics in a Lab Coat
A society that values both knowledge and liberty must resist this convergence of expertise and power. Scientists play a vital role in informing public debate. They do not acquire special…
Milloy talks energy with David Asman and Lydia Hu on FOX Business
From the December 22, 2025 edition of The Bottom Line.
When Everything Is a Heat Wave and Every Change Is Climate
In the end, the paper offers a compelling story, but not a disciplined causal argument. A loosely defined marine heat wave is paired with a loosely defined ecological baseline, and…
Hiding the Pea, Revisited: Remove the Scenario, Keep the Result
At this point, a reminder is useful: the issue is not what the authors claim, but what the results depend on.
How a PNAS Study Confuses Institutional Authority with Truth
What the paper actually demonstrates—despite its intentions—is that institutional authority no longer guarantees attention. Users are selective. They are skeptical. They are increasingly uninterested in being told what is true…
How the Grinch Stole Greenie Christmas
Every Greenie down in Green-ville liked green funding a lot, But the Grinch, up in D.C., most certainly did not.
Measuring Climate Change Without a Ruler
From a strict epistemological standpoint, we do not know—at high confidence—whether the total energy of the Earth’s climate system is increasing, decreasing, or remaining approximately constant.