Could Prove Disastrous … But Might Be Required

Ivor Williams The bad news first: there is more to worry about than climate, covid variants and your electricity supply this winter. Regardless of whether there is a global warming…

Climate Change Weekly #418

The alarmed climate elites’ hypocritical “do as I say, not as I do; hair shirts and gruel for thee, but not for me” attitudes were on full display at the U.N.…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #482

“So, it is a one percent effect—it is actually a little less than that because that is with no clouds. Clouds make everything even less threatening.” – William Happer on…

Fossil Fuel Restriction Dam Starting To Break

Predicting the date when the Europeans will wake up to their ridiculous energy folly is a lot like predicting the date of the demise of the regimes in North Korea…

Who funds Extinction Rebellion? American & UK millionaires – ‘Some of America’s most famous families, including the Kennedys & the Gettys’

“From the outside, Extinction Rebellion looks like a freewheeling movement fond of elaborate costumes and outlandish stunts. There is actually a deeply thought-out method beneath its madness, even as some…

Interview: Climate Change – A Different Perspective with Judith Curry: Part II

If I’m right about natural variability having sort of a cooling effect in the coming decades, this will be the one piece of evidence that people will have to pay…

Japan Is Backing Oil and Gas Even After COP26 Climate Talks

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT DECEMBER 3, 2021 By Paul Homewood Another wheel falls off the COP26 Bandwagon! It’s been less than a month since world leaders…

Benny Peiser: “We are Entering a New Phase in the Climate Debate”

Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, gave a talk for the Irish Climate Science Forum and CLINTEL. His online presentation was titled: After COP26, with a looming energy crisis, is…

India’s Net Zero Pledge: What Does It Really Mean?

“It is how much carbon you are going to put in the atmosphere before reaching net-zero that is more important,”

Great Barrier Reef Warming, Coral Bleaching Driven By Cloud Radiative Forcing, Not Humans

From the NoTricksZone By Kenneth Richard on 2. December 2021 For decades Great Barrier Reef (GBR) warming and coral bleaching have often been assumed to be driven by human greenhouse gas emissions and/or…

The New Pause lengthens by a hefty three months

On the UAH data, there has been no global warming at all for very nearly seven years since January 2015 of 2015. The New Pause has lengthened by three months,…

UAH Global Temperature Update for November, 2021: +0.08 deg. C.

The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for November, 2021 was +0.08 deg. C, down substantially from the October, 2021 value of +0.37 deg. C.

BEIS Respond To Net Zero Petition

There has been demand building for a referendum on Net Zero. A petition was organised a few weeks ago, but because of virtually no publicity, it has only collected 19000…

Deep freeze in Arctic Europe sends power prices soaring

It’s so cold, even Norwegians refuse to ski!

CBC Understands the Difference Between Weather and Climate, Other Canadian News Outlets Don’t

What we have across the region is a modest 100 year rise in average temperatures, with no measurable long-term increase in extreme weather events, or above or below average precipitation.…

Why so torqued up about Suzuki’s comments? Did you sleep through the first two acts?

The phrase climate emergency crept into the global lexicon because extremists ran wild, unchecked. We now have horror-inducing descriptions of every weather event. A heat wave is a heat dome.…

Business Insider: ‘Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us — We Need to Get Rid of Cars Completely’

Reposted from Climate Depot Paris Marx writing in Business Insider: “Making transit available within a 10-minute walk of people’s homes would not only encourage its use and create tens of…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #481

Quote of the Week: “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” – Albert Einstein

“Slow Disaster Playing Out” As Germany Moves To Shut Down 8.5 GW Of Baseload Nuclear Capacity

In just over a month, Germany will close 3 of its newest and best nuclear power plants and more than 4050 MW of electricity will disappear from northern Europe’s power…

Complete Madness In The Biden Administration: Energy Policy

With Obama, at least he appeared to have some understanding that the whole idea of his policies of fossil fuel suppression was to force consumption down through the mechanism of…

The Profound Junk Science of Climate

Climate change and wind and solar electricity are a snipe hunts, diverting the country from serious problems in favor of imaginary problems with imaginary solutions that enrich the promoters and…

Small Modular Reactors are needed in African countries

However a huge advantage of an HTMR-100 is that the reactor can be placed anywhere. Furthermore, a single reactor can have it own electricity grid, not necessarily connected to the…

Weather Lulls: Germany Forced To Burn 20% More Coal, The Very Energy Source That’s To Be Phased Out

The energy source that Germany moves to shut down, rescued the country from widespread blackouts in 2021.

Column: Enthusiastic Idiocy vs. Infrastructure Optimization – Two Strategies for an Energy Transition

The COP26 model, the one built around a future temperature, is going nowhere, as was proven these past few weeks. Neither enthusiasm nor perceived need will, in fact, move mountains.…