“… We had bigger things to worry about, like whether drag queens should have been allowed to read books to children …”
Claim: Social Science can Solve the Climate Crisis
Making do with less: “… We can repair and recreate our relationships with the Earth and the consumption that has gotten us to this point. …”
The challenges of trying to reconstruct changes in Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) since 1700: A response to Chatzistergos (2024)’s remake of Hoyt & Schatten (1993)
He seems to have created it as a parody of a TSI reconstruction. Instead, he argues that the scientific community should stick to using the SATIRE reconstructions of the MPS…
ONE MILLION DOLLARS, (or maybe not) Steyn Files Appeal
I’ll have to spend another five million to prove that I don’t have to pay the lousy one mil.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591
“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge…
Sobering Up? EU May Scrap Its Plans To Ban Internal Combustion Engines By 2035
The EU plans to reassess the phase-out of combustion engines, based on the latest data and developments.
Hudson Bay polar bears now considered most likely to survive future sea ice loss
Over the last 10 years, Hudson Bay polar bears have morphed from being the “most at risk” across the Arctic to the “least at risk.” Who would have thought?
How CO2 starvation Caused the Greatest Extinction Event
And again, if history teaches us anything, we must ensure that attempts to reduce CO2 concentrations do not result in devastating CO2 starvation ever again.
New York And California Getting Totally Lost With Energy Storage
It seems that in both New York and California, the really tiny amounts of grid-scale battery storage built to date have been plagued by repeated major fires. From New York:
CFACT blasts offshore wind multiple-site assessment as ridiculous
A number of important adverse impacts are not even considered, especially the lifetime operational impacts that go on for decades.
Failed State? America’s Leaders Have Taken Us To A Place Where We Could Literally Run Out of Electricity
“I think we’re heading for potentially very dire consequences, potentially catastrophic consequences in the United States in terms of the reliability of our grid, and I think that the basic…
‘Alternative Facts’: Ted Nordhaus explains how extreme events came to represent climate change contrary to an overwhelming scientific consensus
…environmental advocates would pursue all of these strategies.
Germany Begins Felling 120,000 Trees From ‘Fairy Tale’ Forest to Make Way for Wind Turbines
Work has started on the clearing of up to 120,000 trees in the forest, the setting for many of the Brothers Grimm mythical stories, to provide access for an initial…
Curtin University: Climate Activism can Help Mitigate Anxiety
According to Curtin University academic Dr Diana Bogueva, “it is not too late for Gen Z to make a difference fighting for a sustainable future.” – but they mostly aren’t…
Climate Model Bias 5: Storminess
By Andy May In part 4 the impact of convection and atmospheric circulation on climate was discussed. When circulation patterns change, they change the speed and efficiency of the transport…
Climate Change Weekly #499: Is the Bell Tolling for EV Mania?
The question really is not whether the bell will toll to call an end of the government’s promotion of EVs, but how soon will it happen.
Burn, Hollywood, Burn
“Burn, Hollywood, burn” calls out the blatant indoctrination and propaganda associated with Hollywood today.
Arctic Sea Icecapades
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I see that the usual gloomy hype about arctic sea ice continues unabated. This has been going on for a while. Here’s the dean of…
ClimateTV – Live at 1PM ET – ELECTRIC Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Climate Change Roundtable is now The Climate Realism Show. The same great climate news and analysis from The Heartland Institute’s world-class climate and energy experts, but a snazzy new name…
Red States Slap Biden SEC’s Latest Climate Rule With Legal Challenge Within Hours of It Going Live
The final rule mandates medium-sized and large companies to report emissions attributable to the electricity they use to power their business operations starting in fiscal years 2026 and 2028, respectively.…
Minding the Sciences—Wicked Science and Understanding Climate Change: Uncertainty, Risk, and Pragmatics
There is no magic wand, no scientific alchemy, that can easily upend cognitive catastrophizing about weather events.