ABC: Green China is Building Lots of Backup Coal Plants Because they Need Reliable Energy

“… The government’s response [to energy shortages] was to signal that it wanted more coal plants …”

Climate Change Weekly # 569—Climate Change Front and Center at Heartland’s World Prosperity Forum

Rather than describe this event from afar, I am privileged to take advantage of the fact that we had people on our team who participated in and experienced the WPF…

Honeywell CEO Vimal Kapur: Powering Data Centers with Renewables is “Against Physics”

“Even after 3 or 5 years more innovation?” “It’s against physics”.

Offshore wind lawsuit confusion abounds

The basic point is that we now have standard Judicial review of a major Administrative order. There is no winner or loser at this point. It is the American balance…

STEVE MILLOY: Trump EPA Gets Fraud Out Of Air Pollution Rules

The Trump Environmental Protection Agency just decided to no longer inflate the monetized benefits of EPA air quality regulations with imaginary deaths prevented. This has put the greens into orbit.

Weather Reanalysis Models

By Andy May My new paper (May, 2025) emphasizes that while many of the underlying observations used to build weather reanalysis datasets, such as ERA5 (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather…

R Programming tips to process IGRA2 Radiosonde data

The pipe (%>%) has revolutionized R programming

R Programming tips to read and plot IGRA2 Radiosonde data

By Andy May R is an extremely powerful programming language for processing, analyzing and displaying data from large datasets. As discussed in the first post of this series on analyzing…

Climate Change Weekly # 567—A Meaningless Number Drives Climate Policy

The recently concluded 30th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 30) spectacularly failed to address any of the issues it was called to…

CLAIM: Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere developed

The CO2 captured by the compound can be released by heating the compound at 70 °C in 30 minutes. Clean CO2 is recovered and can be recycled.

Good News Everyone! We hit ‘Peak Climate’ – Media Articles are in Decline

Whether this short down trend will hold depends on us. We have to keep fighting climate alarmism, calling out nonsense, be it scientific or political, when we see it.

It’s BACK! The 16th International Conference on Climate Change

The only climate conference dedicated to the examination of data rather than the propagation of dogma is back! Yours truly (Anthony) will be there as a Keynote Speaker, plus, given…

The Year of the Octopus

A wildlife charity has declared 2025 “the Year of the Blooming Octopus” after record numbers were spotted off the south-west coast of England.

Climate Change Weekly # 566— Big Banks No Longer Bound by Federal Climate Accounting Rules

Whether Kennedy [lead author of the study] is right (or Lindzen and Happer or Clauser) is by the way. Alternative hypotheses are in the skeptical scientific tradition of searching for…

A Spherical Cow Climate Model That Actually Works

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@weschenbach on X, personal blog at Skating Under The Ice) Here’s a science joke about the dangers of oversimplified models. A dairy farmer with low…

Climate Change Weekly # 565— Foreign Elites, China Fund American Climate Alarm

IN THIS ISSUE: Foreign Elites, China Fund American Climate Alarm Wyoming Wind Development Blocked New U.S National Security Strategy Touts Importance of Energy Dominance

The Problem with the “Primary Energy Fallacy”

Because wind and solar don’t show their upstream energy requirements in national statistics, they appear cleaner, simpler, and cheaper than they truly are. Policy discussions often rely on LCOE (levelized…

BHP Exec to Australia: “time to reconsider net zero” if Australia wants Mining Investment

A senior executive of Australia’s largest mining company has delivered an ultimatum to our green leaders.

Study: 2010 Russian Heat Wave NOT caused by ‘climate change’

According to this study, the surface warming over western Russia in 2010 can be primarily attributed to the effects of surface dynamics…

Peer-Reviewing Peer Review

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@weschenbach on X, blog at Skating Under The Ice) We’re told, endlessly, that science is a self-correcting machine. A pristine engine of truth where bad…