Three new tree ring reconstructions (spanning 1320-2021, 1720-2014, and 1657-2020 CE) document the dominance of natural variability in the paleoclimate record.
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Trump Administration Gets Strategic With Offshore Wind
…if these deals are structured as settlements of claims, they are likely to be much more insulated from judicial interference than mere administrative orders…
Right, Washington Post, Banning Hamburger Ads Won’t Stop Climate Change
They want to push what farmers remain to go all-organic, which ironically means they will need more land to produce anywhere near the same output because yields will fall, resulting…
Volkswagen Face $1.7 Billion Fine For Missing Emissions Targets
In Europe, electric vehicles made up about 20% of new car sales in early 2026. That’s significant, but still not enough for companies like VW to comfortably hit their targets.…
Select Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #690
Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.” — Albert Einstein
90% Subsidized… Bielefeld Germany’s €7 Million Hydrogen Garbage Truck Fleet Sits Idle
The case of Bielefeld’s idle garbage truck fleet is an example of bureaucracy’s rank inability to operate a society, serving as a reminder that “green” technology is a costly folly.
RGGI Status Update
…it is past time for the states to ask whether this experiment is worth the cost. If politicians really want to lower electricity costs, the easiest step is to drop…
Keystone XL Rebranded as “Keystone Light” in Trump’s Push for North American Energy Security
This project is a leaner, faster, and more litigation-resistant project that reuses idle pipe, threads existing corridors, avoids reservation land, and is racing the clock to lock in steel-in-the-ground before…
The Case Against Industrial-Scale Solar in the UK
Britain needs an honest national conversation about what its energy future actually requires — one grounded not in what is fashionable or financially convenient, but in the austere realities of…
Nation’s Largest Grid Operator Warns Drastic Measures Required As Data Centers Come Online
“Constrained supply” is at the heart of PJM’s complaints. This shortage largely stems from the many regulatory reviews required to break ground on energy developments, according to the Consumer Energy Alliance.
Green Machine Targets Plastics at Consumer Expense
The war on plastics amounts to nothing more than a war on modern conveniences made possible by the innovations inherent in the free market.
Endangered Species Act regulatory overkill
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s Endangered Species Act regulations seriously distort Congressional intent. They make it almost impossible for anyone except the rich to develop land within the extensive habitat…
Ding Dong, RCP8.5 Is Dead!
For years, we have been fed a never-ending diet of apocalyptic climate scares – killer heatwaves, biblical floods, deadly droughts, devastating hurricanes, to name just a few.
Catfish Farmers, Undertakers, Miners Helped Bring About Major EPA Deregulation
EPA Deputy Administrator David Fotouhi issued a memo on April 27 ending the 1985 Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) method of classifying hazardous chemicals. Numerous stakeholders have criticized IRIS for dramatically overestimating…
Copenhagen’s City Govt. Limits Elderly to Tiny Servings of Delicious, Nutritious Meat
…they have weaponized the green agenda against the elderly residents who built the civilization these eco-warriors now seek to dismantle, one beef patty at a time.
Zap Energy: The first fission-fusion company
Responding to the ETH Zurich study, Johal says she hopes all the fusion designs become commercially successful – but believes that Zap’s design will produce economies of scale thanks to…
U.S. Fossil Fuel Environmentalism: EPA Air Quality Statistics
From 1970 to 2023, U.S. emissions of six criteria air pollutants declined 78% while GDP grew 321% and energy consumption rose 42%—consistent with the Environmental Kuznets Curve and driven by…
Alarmist Fussing at NYT Climate Reporting
Credit Trump with a sea change in the whole climate/energy issue. The Progressive Left is playing defense. And nerves are fraying in the face of pragmatism and the mere appearance…
Super Power To Spare: How Battery Tech Illuminates Competition Between U.S. & China
Turner said that for too long, climate has “served as a shield,” in which imputed good intentions can mask backscratching and failure.
Two Bets On The Future Of Wind Energy: Who Is Right?
My bet is that within about a decade, China will be taking multi hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions of dollars, of write-offs on its wind energy investments.