Friday Funny: The Hot Air is Running Out

The Hot Air is Running Out

Live at 1 pm ET: Worst COP Ever? — The Climate Realism Show #182

Is COP30 shaping up to be the worst UN climate conference ever? The 30th Conference of the Parties is underway in the Brazilian jungle — some of which was cleared…

Who Needs the Constitution When We’ve Got a Planet to Save?

Oh, the Founding Fathers and their little parchment hobby! How quaint. Sure, they gave us “freedom,” “federalism,” and that fussy “separation of powers,” but have they ever installed a single…

“A Chaotic Start!” | Keir Starmer Vows To ‘Double Down’ On Net Zero at Cop30

Speaking with Reporter Jessica Woodlock and Environment Editor Chris Morrison, Talk’s Ian Collins says: “You can’t make this up!”

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The Church of Climate Loses Its Pulpit at CBS

In that sense, the elimination of the “climate desk” may be the healthiest newsroom reform we’ve seen in years. For too long, climate journalism has been less about discovery and…

The Church of Climate Semiotics: When Graphs Become Heresy

The irony is almost poetic: a study accusing others of aesthetic manipulation while itself performing the very act it condemns — turning dissent into pathology through rhetorical theater.

Europe’s Last-Minute Climate Scramble: Brussels Waters Down Its 2040 Target Just in Time for COP30

Europe’s climate ambitions are fraying at the edges, caught between utopian promises and economic realities.

Michael Mann: “I’m Not Owned! I’m Not Owned!!” – As He Shrinks into a Corn Cob

“im not owned! im not owned!!”, i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob.”

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Gloom, Despair, and Agony on Me

If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all.

Bill Gates Walks It Back: Disaster Isn’t Imminent

Disaster isn’t imminent. It never was, at least not in the all-caps sense that justified the last round of grand designs. The world’s a messy, resilient place. The historical record…

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Zillow, First Street, and the Price of Panic: Can Climate Data Be Sued?

The Uerkwitz lawsuit could be the first of many. If courts begin recognizing that climate risk data can inflict tangible economic harm, the entire architecture of climate fearmongering—from ESG scoring…

The Space Mirror Mirage: Physics, Economics, and the Glow of Investor Illusion

Reflect Orbital’s plan to light up the night sky might succeed — just not in the way it intends. It will illuminate the widening gap between technological imagination and physical…

Ted Nordhaus’s Epiphany

For that, Ted Nordhaus deserves genuine respect. He may not yet be a full skeptic, but he has done something rare in the climate priesthood: he has confessed that the…

Richard Lindzen & William Happer on The Joe Rogan Experience

This is winning and this is getting the word out to a large audience. Richard Lindzen, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute…

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Open Thread

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CLIMATE CRITICS POUNCE! How the Media Turned “Questioning a UN Bureaucrat” Into a Hate Crime Against Science

In the end, E&E News accidentally produced a masterpiece of unintentional self-parody — a story not about science but about the media’s own reflexive obedience.