Are Climate Models “Just Physics”?

…any policy can only benefit from a better understanding of how climate models are constructed, their physical basis, how they can be tested, and how to assess their outputs.

The ‘Dr Willie Soon got $1.2 million from Exxon’ Accusation … is still more dicey, Part 2

There are no such words to that effect anywhere in the 131-page Smithsonian FOIA docs. The only thing that resembles a direct communication between Dr Soon and any Exxon official…

Are ‘heat spikes’ becoming more common?

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/clyp513ynv3o Chris Morrison’s excellent piece in the Daily Sceptic today, which I trailed earlier, deals with the corruption of…

Serious Doubts Arise About Kew Temperature ‘Records’ as Recent UK Heatwave is Weaponised to Drive Net Zero

The observed changes in temperature over the past 30 years therefore owe more to flaws in measurement… rather than any wider anthropogenic effect. The uncritical adoption of the PRT technology,…

Can US and India Forge a ‘Big, Beautiful’ Energy Deal?

A U.S.-India alliance would strike at the heart of the corrupt climate lobby. By trading massive quantities of fossil fuels, it would break a stranglehold on energy policy that climate…

Would You Rather Live Near A Battery Energy Storage System or a Nuclear Plant

“From a public safety standpoint, if you’ve decommissioned three nuclear reactors, why would you want to install a BESS facility in populated areas that is far less safe?”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #692

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits..” — Albert Einstein

Germany’s Ecological Holocaust… Once Fairy Tale Forests Getting Cleared for Wind Turbines

Germany is chronically stuck in “green” insanity. Prognosis: very poor. 

The Real Story of the D-Day Weather Forecast

Weather prediction was a primitive, subjective affair at that time.  There were no numerical weather prediction models, little understanding of jet streams and upper-level weather features, and an acute lack…

A Grand Solar Minimum Has Arrived…Global Cooling Of At Least 1°C Is Expected by The 2030s, 2040s

Using pattern analysis, it may be assumed that the onset of the next GSM has arrived, and global cooling will be realized over the next few decades.

POLITICO: ‘Climate hushing’ – ‘The sound of (climate) silence’ – ‘As Trump unravels U.S. climate policy, Dems & enviro groups have grown strangely quiet’ – Dems ‘may not aggressively pursue climate action if they win back power’

But experts worry the shift in Democrats’ rhetoric means they may not aggressively pursue climate action if they win back power in Washington. The road is already uphill: the Trump…

Climate And Energy Provisions In New York’s FY 2027 Budget: Making The Coming Crash Worse

Here is some related advice from the State of New York: if you should ever find yourself in a car hurtling toward a brick wall at 100 mph, your best…

Wrong, BBC, No ‘Climate Driven Millisecond Earth Rotation Crisis’ Exists

Framing a millisecond-scale variation as “unprecedented” planetary destabilization represents a a textbook example of taking a measurable but trivial geophysical adjustment and inflating it into a symbolic crisis. It is…

Cost of Renewables To Hit £40bn in 2030

That is equivalent to about £750 for every household in the country, of which about a third will feed through onto our energy bills.

Climate Change Weekly # 581— It’s Hurricane Season, and Nothing Is New

It’s hurricane season again, and a few things about it are as certain as death and taxes. First, some named storms, tropical storms, hurricanes, and cyclones will form somewhere, sometime,…

Pressure Causes Temperature? It’s Time to Climb Down from “Mount Stupid”

There was a recent weeks-long exchange of emails between many climate people — professional and amateur — regarding the idea that air pressure (in combination with absorbed solar energy) is…

The ‘Dr Willie Soon got $1.2 million from Exxon’ Accusation … just got an increment more dicey

See the way nothing lines up right here? On top of all of that, the accusation itself has no merit. Dr Soon can readily explain how the Smithsonian was in…

If This Lawsuit Succeeds, Global Business Changes Overnight

The U.S. benefits enormously from an open global economy and from the rule of law. Both depend on predictability. If courts blur the distinction between parent corporations and foreign subsidiaries,…

The 1947 Heatwave, Which The Met Office Keeps Quiet About

This week’s heatwave is an exceptionally rare event for this time of year, but it is not unprecedented, even during the few brief years our temperature records date back.

Ocean “Acidification” — Another Fake Scare That Won’t Go Away

If anyone is aware of research establishing that pH variation in the ranges indicated are some kind of grave threat to ocean life, I would be eager to be made…