UK Pulls Plug on £24 Billion Desert Power Fantasy

Charles Rotter It comes as little surprise that yet another grandiose techno-utopian vision has ended not with a triumphant march toward Net Zero, but with a flick of the off-switch.…

Reality Check for Gen Z: ‘Green’ Energy Requires Wealth

Privileged Westerners who have never known anything approaching a struggle to survive should be cautious to abandon the vehicle of our prosperity. Eventually, we will need cleaner energy. Nobody is…

Climate Change Weekly # 547 — Polar Ice Is Not Following the Climate Crisis Narrative

In late April and early May, mainstream media outlets ran dozens of stories discussing the findings of a recent study that showed Antarctica’s ice mass was growing. The outlets called…

The LA Riots Aren’t Gavin Newsom’s Biggest Defeat—That’d Be the EV Mandate

“We are saying all states need to be treated equally but Newsom is asking for preferential treatment with the waiver. He may be opening a can of worms for himself,…

Yet Another Darter-fish Invented to Stop Development

Opinion by Kip Hansen Way down in Bessemer, Alabama, the development of a huge data center is being fought with a time-tried and proven tactic :  invent a new species…

My Hypothesis Re-Emerges

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been on a most curious quest this last week. I wanted to download all of my WUWT posts so I could make them into…

GROAN! [expletive deleted]

For the gazillionth time: WEATHER IS NOT CLIMATE.

Climate Change Weekly # 545 — GAO Questions Biden’s Offshore Wind Effort, Vindicates Critics

If the findings of these studies are confirmed, it would mean that assumptions of ambient carbon dioxide other than through human contributions are flawed, as are climate model assumptions about…

BP May Cancel Teesside Hydrogen Project

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby The Telegraph is reporting that BP may pull out of its hydrogen project on Teesside: A…

Climate Change Weekly # 544 —Regulations May Be REINed in Soon

Whether it is to improve ecosystem conditions, enhance wildlife habitat, reduce catastrophic wildfire risk, increase timber production and revenues, or provide more-secure water conditions, active forest management, including logging as…

ICE AGE SOLAR STORM SHOCK: Trees Hold 14K-Year-Old Secret That Could CRASH Tech Today!

Via SpaceWeather.com More than 14 thousand years ago, there was a solar storm so big, trees still remember it. Dwarfing modern solar storms, the event would devastate technology if it…

Claim: Proving Climate Change is Damaging the Economy is a Challenge

Perhaps because there is no damage?

Friday Funny: Where Have All the Protests Gone?

For the past decade, the Left treated climate change not merely as an environmental concern, but as the looming catastrophe around which all politics, morality, and policy had to revolve.…

Dr. Roy Spencer: Our Urban Heat Island Paper Has Been Published

To quickly summarize, we used the average temperature differences between nearby GHCN stations and related those to population density (PD) differences between stations. Why population density? Well, PD datasets are…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #642

Quote of the Week: “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”— Albert Einstein

Climate Change Weekly # 543 —Current Climate Conditions Aren’t Historically Extreme or Unusual, New Research Shows

Recently, a number of new studies and analyses have been published indicating what readers of CCW have long known: recent climate conditions are not historically unusual. An examination of long-term…

Climate Change Weekly # 542 — More Ways Coal Improves the Economy and the Environment

Since misanthropic environmentalists and their Western-world-hating fellow travelers in academia and in the political realm discovered climate alarm as a fashionable and effective way to hamper economic growth and constrain…

The AGU and AMS try a desperate ploy to save their climate relevance

This effort aims to sustain the momentum of the sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA), the authors and staff of which were dismissed earlier this week by the Trump Administration, almost…

Climate Activists Look to China to Give Them “Leadership”

Don’t forget the money…

Climate Change Weekly # 541 — Earth Is Greening: Thank Climate Change

Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. Defense Department (DOD) and the branches of the military it manages are shutting down their costly, inane climate change efforts, which tended to undermine…