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Author: Charles Rotter
Scrap Net Zero: Dramatic New Ice Core Evidence Shows Current Century Warming Common Throughout the Last 400,000 Years
Carbon dioxide levels in this dataset vary between 170 parts per million (ppm) and 280 ppm. If the level had fallen below 150 ppm, photosynthesis would have stopped and an…
California’s Looming Fuel Crisis: Refiners Are Trying to Warn the State
California is steadily dismantling the fuel infrastructure that keeps its economy running. At the same time, demand for that fuel remains enormous. That mismatch is now reaching a point where…
Ghostwriters for the Courts: The Climate Litigation Network Behind a Withdrawn Judicial Manual
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…
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
The moral of the story may be that Earth’s oceans are less volatile than our coordinate systems. While the water creeps upward at a stately pace measured in millimetres per…
The Sediments Don’t Support the 1.5°C Panic
In climate policy, confidence should track evidence. And here, the evidence points not to imminent tropical marine extinction at 1.5 °C, but to a system that has endured comparable warming…
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 7: Climate as Legal Imperative and the Judicialization of Policy
This installment addresses one of the most consequential shifts embedded in the report: the transformation of climate policy from a legislative choice into a legal obligation. Once climate stability is…
The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 Part 6: The Scientific Core — How Solid Are the Tipping Thresholds?
The strength of the case for rapid systemic transformation ultimately depends on the solidity of the tipping thresholds themselves. If those thresholds remain deeply uncertain in timing and probability, the…
The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 Part 5: Replacing GDP and Reengineering Economic Purpose
The proposal to replace GDP as the “primary measure” signals a philosophical and institutional shift. Economic output, as traditionally measured, would no longer be the central reference point. Instead, output…
The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 Part 4: Narrative Management, Public Opinion, and the Politics of “Misperception”
This installment turns to the political psychology embedded in the report. Beyond science and industry, the document lays out a strategy for shaping public perception, countering resistance, embedding citizen assemblies,…
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…
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.