According to this study, the surface warming over western Russia in 2010 can be primarily attributed to the effects of surface dynamics…
Author: Anthony Watts
Rebuttal: When “Coastal Climate Retreat” is just a Narrative – Why Nightlights Don’t Tell the Whole Coastal Story
The study itself if paywalled at Nature Communications, and I’m not going to throw good money at bad science. Fortunately, the press release itself provides enough clues to see the…
Thought Experiment: Could NCAR’s “Derecho” Climate Supercomputer Earn Its Keep as a Bitcoin Miner?
I started a little thought experiment to find out whether the facility could earn some cash if it were converted to Bitcoin mining.
Thankfulness for Climate and Energy Reality
What We Should Be Grateful For in Climate, Energy, Living Standards, and Human Prosperity.
Friday Funny: COPs 1-30 – A perfect record of failure
These COP conferences and the toothless agreements that flow from them are the supposed vehicles for planetary salvation. Based on the data, thus far, they have a perfect record of…
New satellite study reveals a widespread transition zone in the sky, challenging climate models
From the “one more thing climate models don’t do well” department… A new study published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences has shed light on a previously overlooked but common atmospheric phenomenon: the…
Modeling Manufactured Vulnerability: Why the Maldives Refuse To Sink Despite the Headlines
The narrative is predictable: a single unusual event is simulated, extrapolated, and then turned into a headline-worthy forecast of future doom.
A Scientist’s Stand Against Ideological Capture – Review of “Why I Cut Ties with Science’s Top Publisher”
In an age when far too many scientists keep their heads down and their concerns to themselves, scientist Anna Krylov has done something refreshing: she has spoken plainly, publicly, and…
Another “Model-Based” Methane Scare Story: Why It Doesn’t Hold Up to Scrutiny
The core of the new study isn’t field observation but modeling. The authors openly describe their work as a “computational simulation” based on IPCC climate scenarios.
The Independent is Laughably Wrong – There’s NO Climate Threat to Coffee, Chocolate, or Wine
The problem is that the Independent’s reporter, Emily Beament, presents these simulations as if they reflect reality. They do not. Real-world crop data tell a very different story.
LIVE at 1PM EST: Climate, Energy, and the Election— The Climate Realism Show #181
Crazy Climate News of the Week, including giving up your pets to save the climate, whether we should be concerned about the “fastest glacier retreat in Antarctica in modern history,”
LIVE at 1PM EDT: NEVERMIND: Bill Gates Recants Climate Doomerism — The Climate Realism Show #180
This marks a stunning shift for one of the world’s most prominent climate influencers and could signal a long-overdue return to honest, fact-based climate discussion.
CLAIM: Deep emission cuts will pushback sea level rise
Futility quantified, now with NEW and IMPROVED modeling!
CLAIM: Increasing heat is super-charging Arctic climate and weather extremes
The annual mean warming rate of the Arctic is more than three times the global average…
Buzzed Logic: Media Spins Three Icelandic Mosquitoes Into a Climate Story
Each story followed the same template: a small event, inflated into a global narrative. But a closer look at the facts — and the research on Arctic mosquito ecology —…
LIVE at 1PM EDT: Joe Rogan, Climate Realist — The Climate Realism Show #179
What may be the most important climate discussion of the year!
Oh, the HORROR! Climate Change to Make More Rain in the Sahara Desert
The Sahara is projected to almost double its historical precipitation levels, which is surprising for such a climatologically dry region.
LIVE at 1PM EDT: The Global Climate Tax NARROWLY Avoided — The Climate Realism Show #178
The unelected United Nations ruling over the entire globe with the power to levy direct taxes as it sees fit.
The Independent’s “Record CO₂ Surge” Story: Hype Without Context
Natural processes — not industrial emissions — were the dominant factor behind the temporary CO2 bump.
Al Jazeera Supports Climate Grift – Tuvalu’s Islands Are Growing, Not Disappearing
The claim that Tuvalu is “barely one meter above sea level” and faces imminent destruction is a talking point that has been circulating for more than 30 years.
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