Natural atmospheric circulation patterns (like the Western Tibetan Vortex, or WTV) drive total cloud cover (TCC) change, which, in turn modulate the the amount of downward solar radiation reaching the…
UAE’s OPEC Exit: Pragmatic Oil Policy, Not ‘Stranded Assets’ Panic
The UAE’s departure, the largest and most consequential since the cartel’s founding, weakens OPEC+ materially and reputationally, but it does so because of internal rifts, US supply abundance and regional…
Apparently, Getting Old Causes Climate Change
Charles Rotter There was a time when the climate conversation had villains you could point to without needing a spreadsheet. Smokestacks. Jet engines. Maybe a coal plant belching away like…
What Fuel Crisis? New Aussie Call to Tax Fossil Fuel Giants for Climate Damage
Locals ignored the advice of experts in beach sand erosion management. Now the council is blaming fossil fuel companies for the mess.
Amicus Brief of Naomi Oreskes … er, “Expert Report” Redux 5: the Conservation Law Foundation v Shell version
The legacy new media reporters never once questioned the collective accusation sources behind the “crooked skeptic climate scientists” accusation. This rock-bottom journalism malfeasance problem is unsustainable. The crash of the…
Select Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #689
Quote of the Week: “If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.” — Benjamin Franklin
The Politics of Tumble Dryers
Ed Miliband has decreed that tumble dryers are so dreadful that traditional ones are to be banned, to be replaced with ‘green’ ones which are more expensive and take longer…
MIT scientists say fusion overcoming energy challenges
Once fusion energy achieves commercial success, Mumgaard envisions a high demand, especially in countries like Japan, South Korea, and Singapore that are attracted to an energy source that uses so…
The Is No Drought Emergency in Washington State
The Washington State Department of Ecology is undermining its credibility with these inflammatory and unscientific drought emergencies.
How the Free Market Cancelled BP’s Renewable Energy Push
Adam Smith’s invisible hand vs the Renewable Energy Movement.
UK to include aviation and shipping in future carbon budgets
As we have no control over international and shipping, all this means that we will have to cut emissions even further domestically.
Climate Change Weekly # 578— Countries and Industries Are Abandoning or Reducing Net-Zero Commitments
Since the swearing-in of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States, climate alarmism and the political machinations in the public and private sector it spawned have experienced…
Wind Energy Churns up Grassroots blowback in Eastern Oklahoma
In Episode 22 of @cfact‘s Conservation Country video series, host @GabriellaHoffman travels to Eastern Oklahoma to learn about the region’s fight against wind industrialization. Tune in to learn more!
Another PTC/ITC Extension for Wind/Solar? Just Say NO
“The continued reliance on ‘clean’ energy tax credits is a political crutch…. Those who have introduced this legislation … should be working to phase out these subsidies more quickly, not…
Appalachia Lithium Cache Could Power U.S. for Centuries
America is sitting on a lithium bonanza, from Arkansas brines to Appalachian pegmatites, but those world‑class reserves will mean little if Washington, D.C., and eco-activist bureaucrats keep strangling responsible mining…
Net Zero Lunatics Set to Empty Your Medicine Cabinet
History shows that this type of commanding collectivisation often ends in tears – witness the gulags and starvation of Stalin’s Soviet Union, the deliberate famines in Mao’s China, and not…
Sorry, Los Angeles Times, Climate Change Isn’t Driving Georgia’s Wildfires
The LAT writes that “wildfires are becoming more intense, frequent and damaging in the East, such as last week’s blaze that destroyed dozens of homes in Georgia, fire scientists said.”
What about Earth’s Threatened and Endangered PEOPLE?
These global zealots want power over poor countries – not power for the countries’ destitute and desperate people. Their morally depraved policies and practices bring death to millions every year.…