The rainfall data behind it shows no drying trend. The geology behind it has been stable since before the Romans. And the number the press ran was the one from…
Author: Charles Rotter
About That Climate Emotions Study
The 966 Germans were asked how they felt. They told them. The feelings went into the model, the model made numbers, the numbers went into the journal, and everyone got…
Here Comes the Super Mega Ultimate Hyper Giga Godzilla El Niño
Super. Mega. Monster. Godzilla. Code Red. Looming. Historic. Record-breaking. Unprecedented. Rapid-fire. Catastrophic. Dangerous. Cataclysmic. Apocalyptic. Devastating. Dramatic. Atmospheric. Coming. Imminent. Building. Brewing. Threatening.
A Statistical Evaluation of the Whining of Climate Scientists as Political Activists
The paper does not consider whether being scared shitless is a sound foundation for professional conduct.
The Rice Catastrophe Paper and the RCP 8.5 Rug-Pull
Rice has fed civilizations through the Holocene Climatic Optimum, the mid-Holocene warm spike, the Medieval Warm Period, and the Little Ice Age. The paper’s own author concedes that aggregate production…
About That Arctic Tipping Point
Tipping point. Irreversible. Ecosystems collapsing. Fisheries at risk. Carbon sink weakening. It’s worse than we thought. People will die. Damn deniers!
RCP 8.5: When the Spherical Cows Escape the Barn
The spherical cow has its place. The trouble begins when the spherical cow is wheeled out of the lab and presented to the public as if it were a real…
About That “Super El Niño”
In the meantime, “could become historically strong” is what the forecast actually allows. “Is coming” is what the headline says.
New York’s Climate Rule Reaches into Iowa. Iowa Reaches Back.
This is the test case the post-endangerment-finding era has been waiting for. The federal climate regulatory architecture is paused. The state architecture is escalating. The question of whether the latter…
Live at 1 pm ET: British Voters Dumps the Greens – The Climate Realism Show #202
Voters in this month’s elections in Great Britain delivered a shocking win for Reform UK, and was a clear rebuke of the “green” Net Zero agenda of the political elites.
Disaster? NYT Op-Ed on Demoting the Climate Pitch
This essay is capitulation to catastrophe…. Don’t talk about it, then the public won’t know about it, then you can’t run for office on it and the country won’t act…
Microsoft Pauses Its Carbon Indulgence Spending. The Usual Suspects Are Upset.
Microsoft, by every available accounting, was the carbon removal market. As of April 13, per CDR.fyi via ESG Dive, Microsoft accounted for 78.5% of all disclosed durable carbon removal contracts,…
“Masculine Behavior Bad for the Planet,” Says Phys.org. We Read the Paper.
It converts substantive disagreement with the consensus framing into a personality defect, a gender pathology, specifically.
Three Months In: EPA’s Endangerment Finding Repeal Has Quietly Become a Legal Fight, not a Scientific One
Charles Rotter On February 12, the Trump EPA the rescission of the 2009 endangerment finding, the administrative determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare under the Clean Air…
Antarctic “Triple Whammy” Paper Lands Just As the Ice Rebounds
…by the time the “triple whammy” paper went to press, Antarctic sea ice had already done the thing the paper now says is unlikely. It bounced — sharply, in a…