-80°C: Antarctic Vostok Station Records “Extreme Winter Cold”…Not Even Winter Yet!

“On April 29, almost minus 80 degrees were measured at the Russian Vostok research station. Such extreme cold is rarely reached this early in the year,” reported wetteronline.de.

The (Anti) Social Cost of Carbon

Contrary to the economic fantasies peddled by green energy advocates, policies to eliminate fossil fuels based on the supposed benefits captured by the SCC will cripple the U.S. economy.

Asia Embraces Coal as the U.S. Rejects It

Vietnam and other Asian countries are on a coal spree! Given the dynamics of energy use in the rapidly developing industrial sector there, it is no surprise that these nations…

The World’s Largest Floating Solar Farm Wrecked by a Storm Just Before Launch

Who could have predicted acres of fragile floating structures would be vulnerable to bad weather?

A Dip in Climate Change Concerns Among Young Adults

I would suggest that a growing distrust of ideologically compromised media, government, and institutions is propelled by an unending series of pronouncements that are clearly false to anyone with a…

The Cost of EPA’s Senseless CO2 Capture

Finally, besides being expensive and futile, keep in mind: Plants need CO2, along with sunlight, water, and nutrients from the soil to produce oxygen and food, both of which are…

Wall Street Journal: Companies are Balking at the High Cost of Running Electric Trucks.

The Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the high costs associated with electric trucks in the logistics sector brings critical scrutiny to the practical and economic viability of this transition.

EVs: The Reckoning Begins

They wanted combustion engine cars out but forgot that these cars bring in billions in tax income. They wanted a fully electrified transport but forgot it wouldn’t bring in money…

Claim: San Diego Should be a “Sponge City” to Soak up Climate Crisis Floodwater

Professor Franco Montalto of Drexel University wants to slow runoff and allow parts of the city to flood, to mitigate damage from extreme rainfall and reduce runoff pollution.

The Economic Impact of Proposed Wind Turbines on Long Beach Island, NJ’s Tourism

The comprehensive analysis provided by Tourism Economics underscores the need for an approach that considers the economic realities of such significant infrastructural developments.

What The Media Won’t Tell You About The Energy Transition

…hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is fueled mostly by wishful thinking and a misunderstanding of recent history.

GREGORY WRIGHTSTONE: Scientific Report Pours Cold Water On Major Talking Point Of Climate Activists

The purveyors of climate doom will not tolerate the good news of our planet thriving because of modest warming and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. However, a recent scientific paper concludes that an…

Sea Surface Temperatures: West Versus East Coast

El Nino is dead.  Long live La Nina, its frigid cousin!

Evaluating Claims of Increasing Floods Due to Climate Change

While there is a knee-jerk tendency to link flood events directly to global warming, a serious approach that considers multiple factors—natural, human, and technological—is necessary for a comprehensive understanding and…

NZ agriculture has already reached “net zero”: leading climate scientist contends in climate bombshell

Trenberth is not alone in thinking that methane’s effects have been overstated. According to climate researcher David Frame, the effect would be negligible if there was a drastic reduction in…

Panama Canal Drought:  Not Caused by Climate Change

World Weather Attribution, a purpose created organization intended to manufacture attention getting news stories in support of the Climate Crisis meme that  “All Extreme and Bad Weather is caused by…

Tipping Point?

Are we at a Hothouse tipping point now? The simple answer is “no”. A Hothouse period is simply not possible in our current climate state.

So much for going green! Fuel for SNP’s ‘eco-ferries’ has to be transported 8000 miles

It is feared that will lead to emissions far in excess of savings generated by the supposedly environmentally friendly engines.

Newly Discovered 90,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Reveal How Much Higher Sea Levels Used To Be

Evidence along the coasts of North Africa (Morocco) suggests sea levels were “20 m above the present level” about 95,000 years ago (MIS 5c).

“Powerless in the storm” Climate Industry Misdirection

I have to assume that this is an example of the Climate Industry’ Misdirection Campaign described recently by Kip Hansen. 

Australian “Local Manufacturing” Solar Subsidies to Go to China?

“I think you definitely need collaboration [with China]”.

Study: Venomous snakes likely to migrate en masse amid global heating

Sell your automobile or the snakes will get you?

Biden White House starts end run around Supreme Court WOTUS ruling

All these moves will face stiff legal challenges in any event, so why not push the envelope on putting wetlands back under EPA’s control?

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #597

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