Climate Change Weekly #427: With New Energy Technologies, Beware of Spontaneous Combustion

A real-world example of spontaneous combustion, instances of which are becoming far more common, is devices with lithium-ion batteries erupting into flames without any apparent outside cause. This endangers lives…

Bald Eagle ‘Takings’: Biden’s Interior Department Protects Big Wind

With biased research and imaginary population estimates, Big Wind wants to increase its bald eagle “take” in America.

After The Ukraine Invasion: Energy Realism Emerges In Germany While The US Doubles Down

Economy Minister Robert Halbeck said that “there were no taboos in deliberations” concerning options to extend the operations of the country’s coal and nuclear power stations or in importing liquified natural gas…

The Pause Lengthens Again: No Global Warming for 7 Years 5 Months

The drop from 0.03 K to 0.00 K from January to February 2022 in the UAH satellite monthly global mean lower-troposphere dataset has proven enough to lengthen the New Pause…

Misinformation about Sea Level Rise

There are few environmental issues with more unsupported claims than the effects of global warming on sea-level rise.  

Australia’s Broken Temperature Record, Part 3

In short, we have a 2021 Annual Climate Statement that does not include the new 2021 value in its calculations.

No Energy Realism In Bidenland

There are plenty of people in positions of power and/or influence in and over our government who are so taken with the religious fervor of “green” energy and “net zero”…

Solar Geoengineering and Deep Ecology: ‘Just Say No’ (climate alarmists running out of options)

Those wedded to climate alarmism/forced energy transformation are in a desperate hour. The Kyoto Protocol of 1997 was ignored and died. The Paris Accord of 2015 (“a fraud … a fake” stated James…

UAH Global Temperature Update for February, 2022: 0.00 deg. C

The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for February, 2022 was 0.00 deg. C, down a little from the January, 2022 value of +0.03 deg. C.

Pielke Jr. on IPCC AR6 WG2 Release

The first observation is that the report is more heavily weighted to implausible scenarios than any previous IPCC assessment report

Ukraine And Energy Realism

And of course the U.S. can’t supply these European energy needs because the Biden Administration is intentionally suppressing natural gas production here.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #493

“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science.”— Richard P. Feynman.

Britain’s Steel Industry Hammered by Climate Change Taxes

Crippling climate change levies are forcing Britain’s steelmakers to cut production after a doubling in the cost of carbon emissions in just nine months.

Brisbane Flooding, Again

Flooding rains have soaked south-east Queensland, again.  My heart goes out to everyone affected by flood waters.

Messing With The Environment “To Fight Climate Change”… Wind Farms Are Altering The North Sea

Wind turbines pose obstacles to water and air. The effects are of great importance with regard to the planning of future offshore wind farms.

Climate Change, an Emergency, or Not?

The Impact of CO2, H2O and Other “Greenhouse Gases” on Equilibrium Earth Temperatures

One New Coral Reef Study Wipes Out Four Climate Alarm Narratives In One Fell Swoop

From the NoTricksZone By Kenneth Richard on 24. February 2022 Corals thrive in multiple-degrees-warmer-than-today waters and their growth is stunted in cooler environments. The warnings peddled by climate alarmists often characterize Earth’s 500 billion…

Lies My Wind Developer Told Me

The wind zoning regulations demanded by Apex Clean Energy company (APEX) in Montcalm County are demonstrably irresponsible and should be resisted.

350.org Outted As White Supremacists?

350.org is perhaps most famous for its role in organizing protests and demonstrations that ultimately blocked the Keystone XL pipeline.

Mid-winter polar bear sea ice habitat is abundant & within range of long-term average

This is a tough time for polar bears, many of which will be finding it hard to find seals to eat, as newborn seals won’t be an available food resource…

Supreme Court Must Curtail the EPA’s Regulatory Overreach Immediately

If proponents of this dubious hypothesis want to limit CO2 emissions, actions must be justified through new laws that have been proposed, debated, amended, and passed through our democratic process.

John Kerry fears Russia-Ukraine war will distract from climate change

You couldn’t make it up!

“Green” Media Misrepresents World’s Energy Reality

The reality that fossil fuels will dominate the global energy sector for many decades renders meaningless the sacrifices people in the West are being asked to make — high energy…

The “World’s Dumbest Energy Policy” Just Got Dumber…The Frightening Race To Reset By World War

From the NoTricksZone By P Gosselin Just when we thought leaders couldn’t possibly screw things up more…now Europe faces a massively crippling energy shock and the German Chancellor closes pipeline…NATO’s frightening…