Climate Change has Decimated Societies Around the World

Anyone arguing CO2 is driving all the climate changes and all the extreme weather events are either very ignorant of these weather dynamics, or dishonest grifters trying to manipulate your…

Get Out the Popcorn – NYS Heat Wave Might Affect the Grid

The risks of blackouts are increasing so watch what happens during the first stress test of the year.

Energy notes from the edge: Coal trains vs. high speed rail – guess which is faster (into service); Here’s how big oil can sleep at night

The messaging should be that humanity requires oil and gas and will for decades, and that role of industry is to do this as cleanly and efficiently as possible.

Open Thread

Blue State Dems Throw Wrench in Plan to Extend Life of Zero Emission Power Plant 

The Democratic-controlled California Senate and Assembly opposed a loan that would extend the lifespan of the state’s last remaining nuclear power plant, Newsweek reported Friday.

A Preview on Some of The New York Energy Impossibility

…the entire plan post-2030 relies on something that has not yet been invented or deployed at scale.

Climate Change Weekly #509: Surveys Show Vast Bulk of Antarctica Is Stable or Growing

Overall, there was no declining trend in fixed ice on land, and perhaps even net growth across East Antarctica, where “[ice] losses have primarily occurred in some of the marine-based…

No, ScienceNews, Your “Ocean’s Record-Breaking Hot Streak” Claims Are False

In other words, we had one warm year in the oceans during 2023, but 2021 and 2022 weren’t abnormally warm at all. 2023 was, but it was driven by a…

GCMs Cannot Predict Climate

Well, now that there is a paper that states explicitly that GCMs can’t predict climate, and explains why, will it make any difference?

Fossil Fuels Remain The Future. VW To Invest 60 Billion Euros In Combustion Engines!

…customers are tired of being told what to buy and what rules to follow.

BBC Hails Green Election Letter From “408 Climate Scientists” Signed by Psychologists, Accountants and Landscape Designers

Jeremy Grantham has a long track record of preaching about the coming apocalypse, asking a 2019 meeting in Copenhagen, “what should I do, you say?” He met his rhetorical question…

Teachers Union Issues List Of Climate Demands As Students Struggle To Read At Grade Level

The CTU will push the city to include initiatives like electric school buses, green jobs training programs for students and reducing emissions from buildings with solar panels and other retrofits, among other initiatives,

Four Corners: Wind Farms are Devastating Community Cohesion in Rural Australia

Claimed threats of violence, abusive phone calls, former friends not speaking anymore, allegations of greed – welcome to the Aussie green energy revolution.

The Shakedown That Is Vermont’s New Climate Superfund Law

Vermont’s new law ought to be viewed for what it is: a shakedown to benefit the state’s favored constituents at the expense of the public. 

ClimateTV – Live at 1PM ET – Heatwave Alarm Season is Here – Same Old Climate Claims, Different Year

Yes, it’s that time again kids, panic the American people over heat waves by blaming them on climate change. This past week several news outlets talked about the “Western Heat Wave”…

What Postmodernists Got Right About Science

It was inevitable, perhaps, that after science became ubiquitous and powerful, and very rich, that it would devolve into politics. Which is what the postmodernists (in part) argued all along.

New Hudson Bay sea ice modelling paper is more utterly useless fearmongering about polar bears

From Polar Bear Science Susan Crockford A new collaboration by sea ice and polar bear specialists that predicts a catastrophic future for polar bears in Hudson Bay (Stroeve et al.…

German Hydrogen Rollout Fails To Take Off

Without massive subsidies, hydrogen is a non-starter in Germany.

A Socialist tract on fast decarbonization from the National Academies

My concern is that the three National Academies have abandoned their mission and, therefore, lost their integrity. Tools of left-wing foundations are not worthy of the name National Academy.

How we know the sun changes the climate. III: Theories

The Sun has a lot to say about future climate, but we are not listening. Long-term changes in solar activity are cyclical, and what adds to warming now will subtract…