Annotated Bibliography for Climate: The Movie

By Andy May Many viewers of Climate: The Movie have asked for more information on the topics discussed. In response, I selected the following 70 key statements from the movie…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591

“My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles … That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need…

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?

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #590

If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”

IPCC’s New “Hockey Stick” Temperature Graph

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published their latest assessment report (AR6) in 2021. In 2023, the Clintel Foundation published a report which criticizes AR6.

PETM Caused by Passing Star?

Could a passing rogue star have caused the PETM? Could other astrophysical phenomena been primary drivers of paleoclimate change?

Major American Financial Institutions Withdraw From Global Climate Investment Org In Blow To Green Agenda

Several of the largest asset managers in the U.S. are withdrawing from a major coalition of companies focused on advancing green investment strategies and climate-sensitive corporate management.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #587

Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” — Benjamin Franklin (1722)

Sorry, the Little Ice Age Does Exist

By Andy May Renee Hannon (@hannon_renee) pointed out that Raphael Neukom, et al. (2019) compares the modern instrumental temperature record to the Pages2K proxy temperature record and declares that: “……

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #586

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” – Archimedes

Some Notes On The Trial Of Mann v. Steyn

Michael Mann has never been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Climate Scientists More Generally, & Boris Kelly-Gerreyn More Specifically

It is the case that in climate science: black is white, and hot is cold and the Conservative side of politics seems, for the most part, to just go along…

Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #584

“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” – Will Durant  

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #582

“No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.” –Robert A. Heinlein

‘Misleading’: Red State AG Slaps BlackRock with Lawsuit for Allegedly Harming Consumers

BlackRock has agreed to use all of the assets in their portfolio to push the net-zero agenda

The Deadly Geo-engineering Idea which Refuses to Die

Greens seem to have an obsession with dimming the sun, otherwise known as starving plants of sunlight and stripping away our disease resistance.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #578

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” – Bertrand Russell

After 25 years, Mann’s Other Nature Trick Unraveled

Mann made it impossible for anyone to carry out routine statistical tests on his famous reconstruction.

Modeling HadCRUT5 with CO2 and without CO2

By Andy May I hate statistics, as many of you know. Some people think statistics and/or statistical models that meet standard statistical criteria are facts. The IPCC can be like…

NewsGuard: Surrogate the Feds Pay to Keep Watch on the Internet and Be a Judge of the Truth

“NewsGuard is clearly in the business of censoring the truth,” noted Dr. Joseph Mercola, a gadfly voice whose website was ranked as misinformation by NewsGuard after it published reports about…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #576

Doubt is clearly a value in the sciences. Whether it is in other fields is an open question and an uncertain matter.” “…it is very important to doubt and that…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #574

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.” — Thomas Huxley

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #571

It is found that even ·an increase by a factor of 8 in the amount of CO2 , which is highly unlikely in the next several thousand years, will produce…

Reply to erroneous claims by RealClimate.org on our research into the Sun’s role in climate change

Dr. Schmidt and the RealClimate team apparently do not want you to read our papers. They seem to be afraid that if you did, their claims on climate change would…