The Doughnut Delusion: A Case Study in How to Turn Data into Ideology

After nearly two decades of “Doughnut” development, the grand insight remains: we must stop growing, stop consuming, and start obeying the moral geometry of academics who draw circles in PowerPoint.…

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California needs Biomass Energy to Meet its Wildfire goals. Its Policies Keep Burning them Down

The lesson is not confined to biomass. It applies to California’s broader governing philosophy: a preference for symbolic goals over practical trade-offs, for slogans over engineering, for regulation over results.…

Flood Myths on Thin Ice: What Greenland Just Told the Modelers

So Greenland has spoken, and its message is simple: the models were wrong. Meltwater refreezes. Runoff is less than claimed. Sea-level rise is not accelerating in the way the prophets…

Governor Healey’s Energy Crisis: Outrage Theater for the Freeze-and-Pay Crowd

So now we head into winter with a state full of furious voters, a governor trying desperately to memory-hole her pipeline-killing past, and utility bills that could double as ransom…

New York Times Reaches Acceptance Stage

In short, the movement has reached the fifth stage of grief. Acceptance. Not acceptance that the planet is doomed, but acceptance that climate politics as conceived in Paris is finished.…

This Week’s VIP Meetup Rescheduled

Willis Eschenbach, long time contributor to WUWT will be joining Thursday’s VIP meetup as a guest.

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Pielke Jr. –A Takeover of the IPCC

There’s an old saying in science: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The new IPCC, sadly, seems content to settle for extraordinary press releases. The public deserves better. It’s time to…

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From Green Dreams to Grief Counseling: The Climate Lobby in Five Stages

But deep down, they know. They know that Trump’s reversal of Biden’s subsidies was not some random accident. It was democracy in action. Voters had seen enough of higher costs,…

Cancelled Climate Dissenter Professor Norman Fenton Speaks Out

In this special episode of the Sceptic, Laurie speaks to fearless, peerless climate sceptic Professor Norman Fenton, about his life and times and the professional consequences he has suffered for…

The Consensus Strikes Back: Climate Empire Launches Legal Assault on EPA

One thing’s for sure—this case will test not just the legal durability of the Endangerment Finding, but whether “consensus” has officially replaced “evidence” as the highest standard in American science.…

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The Lunacy of Green Finance | James Graham

Pension funds are supposed to invest your money wisely so they can provide a return when you retire. So why are so many of them obsessed with controversial political causes…

Live at 1pm ET: Trump Team Crushing Media Mid-wits – The Climate Realism Show #168

Never before have both public policy and public messaging been this coordinated and effective at pushing back against the alarmist narrative. We’ll break it all down.

The Carbon Footprint of Your Heart Surgery: When Climate Zealotry Invades the Operating Room

The underlying absurdity is captured in the study’s relentless attention to detail: “biological waste, post-operative length of stay, and inhaled anaesthetic gases” are fingered as carbon culprits. The logical next…

Asian Forests Victims of Intolerable ‘Green’ Lie

In the modern climate debate, emotion and partisan allegiance replace critical thinking to smear carbon dioxide (CO2) as a dangerous pollutant. Well-crafted green advocacies steal the spotlight, while reason languishes…

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When the Wind Stops Blowing: Trump Administration Restores Sanity to Offshore Energy Policy

And if the wind doesn’t blow quite so favorably for offshore wind’s rent-seekers in the future, well, maybe that’s just the way the wind ought to blow.