In that sense, the document reads less like an open scientific inquiry and more like a legal brief. Evidence is marshaled, counterarguments anticipated, uncertainties catalogued, and a verdict delivered early,…
Author: Charles Rotter
Save Okefenokee Swamp from UNESCO Control
In Episode 21 of Conservation Country, host @GabriellaHoffman investigates a Biden-era policy to designate Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage…
Deconstructing the Myth: “More Energy in the System Means More Extreme Weather”
The climate system is not an oscillator. It has oscillatory components, but the whole system is a gradient-driven heat engine. It moves energy from where there is a lot of…
GREGORY WRIGHTSTONE: Refrigerants Are No Global Warming Threat
(T)he selection of the refrigerants for air conditioning systems should be based on both the safety and the needs of the consumers, rather than on a purported environmental benefit.”
When a Single Rain Gauge Speaks for the Planet: How a Narrow Dataset Becomes a Global Climate Headline
If there is one robust trend visible here, it is not in rainfall but in rhetoric: the persistent escalation from modest signal to grand conclusion. Until that trend reverses, the…
Live at 1 pm ET: Good News: Climate Cult In Decline — The Climate Realism Show #184
The signs are all around us. The climate cult is losing its grip on our politics and culture. The UN’s climate conference, COP30 in Brazil, was a flop that even…
The Severe Ecological Ramifications of Offshore Windfarms in the Atlantic
They presume that a system as complex as the Atlantic continental shelf will behave according to their intentions rather than according to its physics.
When Models Masquerade as Oceans: The Latest Adventure in Simulated Stirring
Every few weeks, a new paper emerges from the climate-science machinery that reads as if someone strapped a GoPro to a climate model and sent it snorkeling through a computer-generated…
When Climate Communication Studies Start Sounding Like Self-Help Manuals for Technocrats
Every so often, Nature Climate Change publishes something that reads less like a scientific analysis and more like a frustrated internal memo from technocrats who can’t believe the general population…
Whistling Past the Graveyard: COP30’s Mutirão of Make-Believe
If COP30 was the “COP of truth,” as its hosts claimed, then truth has developed a sense of humor.
Foolish Fossil Fuel Phase-Out — The Climate Realism Show #183 (Guests: Tony Heller and Craig Rucker)
The latest annual UN climate conference, COP 30, is coming to a close. Already a failure, the delegates of doom who gathered in Brazil decided that they needed a serious…
Freedom Melts Faster Than Glaciers: COP30’s Declaration on ‘Information Integrity
Of course, every tyrant claims to be acting in defense of “truth.” The Inquisition burned heretics for the purity of the faith. The Soviet Union jailed scientists for questioning Lysenkoism…
Doctors dance at COP30 to demand a fossil fuel phase-out
A group of Canadian doctors danced to hip-hop at the U.N. climate talks in Brazil, calling for a global phase-out of fossil fuels. They say clean energy isn’t just a…
What Climate Science Actually Says About Extreme Weather
2025 Climate Speaker – Roger Pielke, Jr. (The Honest Broker)
When Climate Modeling Becomes Climate Mythmaking: “Sea-Level Rise Causes More Cold Snaps”
The modern climate discourse is full of surprises, but every so often a publication appears that manages to outdo even the most ambitious attempts at connecting loosely related climate variables.
Public Support Net Zer0–But Don’t Want To Pay For It!
There are large majorities against banning gas boilers, banning petrol cars, new taxes on meat and taxing gas bills. All these are either already government policy or are being actively…
A Thanksgiving Tribute to Global Warming and CO2
So, Thanksgiving revelers, remember the simple truth: Much is owed to the warmth of the sun, the invisible work of carbon dioxide and the fossil fuels that power the dinner…