NPR Wrongly Blames Climate Change for Suffering Caused by Civil War, Corruption, and Weather

Taking pictures of people in distress after severe weather events, then attributing their suffering to man-made climate change is uninformed at best, and cruel exploitation at worst.

Chaos to Control: Scientists Use a ‘Butterfly Attractor’ to Control and Change the Weather

“We have successfully built a new theory and methodology to study the controllability of weather,”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #497

“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.”— Richard P. Feynman.

Are Climate Skeptics the Next to be Declared Terrorists?

According to a DHS Bulletin, anyone, especially foreigners, who promote Covid or 2020 narratives the Biden administration thinks are false are promoting sedition, which could lead to mass casualty attacks.

Claim: “Organized Labor”, “Moderate Democrats” Impeding Californian Climate Efforts

Are cracks appearing in California’s climate zealotry? LA Times laments that “so-called moderate democrats” in the legislature and “organized labor” do not share Governor Newsom’s radical climate ambition.

Three Years Till The Guardian’s Global Climate Catastrophe

No wonder the Guardian is in such dire straits. Apparently, I am one of their top readers globally, having read 64 articles this year!

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #483

“It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.” – John Tyndall, 1877.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #481

Quote of the Week: “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” – Albert Einstein

Claim: Climate Changed Abruptly at Tipping Points in Past

Abrupt changes in ice core samples and other records indicate dramatic changes in climate occurred at certain points in the past.

COP26 Chaos: G20 Failure, Wild Weather, Tornado Strikes Pro-COP26 Church

Not an auspicious start to the event which Prince Charles informs us is our last chance to save the world from global warming.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #477

“With a true view all the data harmonize, but with a false one the facts soon clash.” Aristotle:  Ethics, Book I, Section 8, 10 [H/t Paul MacRae]

Top UN Climate Official: World Conflict and Refugee Chaos if you Disobey

According to the UN’s top climate official Patricia Espinosa, if nations fail to follow the UN’s direction on climate change, they will face food shortages, conflict and a flood of…

Climate tipping might be predicted using algebraic topology

Do we risk the same today from anthropogenic climate change? Frankly, climate models cannot answer that question yet.

The Conversation: Why are People so Climate Nonchalant?

The Conversation asks why ordinary people are so hostile towards Extinction Rebellion, when the world is on the brink of a sixth major extinction?

Weekly Energy and Climate News Roundup #474

Quote of the Week: “Nullius in verba” – The Royal Society [UK]

Guardian: UK Industry Facing Climate Policy Winter Shutdown

People who lived through the blackouts and economic chaos of the 1970s must be experiencing a strong sense of deja-vu, with Boris Johnson starring as the spiritual successor of the…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #473

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. – by George Orwell

Guardian: Frost Damaged Brazilian Coffee is Evidence of Climate Chaos

40 years go, Brazilian coffee growers in Paraná (latitude 24° south) relocated to Minas Gerais (latitude 19° south), after a hard frost devastated their coffee plantations. They thought they were…

China Suffers Widespread Power Blackout Chaos as Strict Climate Targets Bite

Xi Jinping’s attempt to force China to hit unrealistic emissions cuts, ahead of the COP26 climate conference, has caused power blackout chaos throughout China, as cities switch off their coal…

Weekly Climate And Energy News Roundup #471

“skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin” – Thomas Huxley [H/t Jim Steele]

Bloomberg: Nowhere is Safe from the Climate Apocalypse

The recent resurrection of the “Day After Tomorrow” warming causes cooling scenario has panicked climate alarmists, who until recently thought they could ride out the apocalypse by moving somewhere cold.

“Insulate Britain” Climate Activists Blamed for Motorway Crash

“Insulate Britain” apparently think mainstream Extinction Rebellion is not doing enough to dictate home renovations to ordinary people.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #470

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end with doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.” – Francis Bacon

Lithium: How the Taliban will fight climate change?

Guest “America last… again” by David Middleton Biden’s Clean Energy Program Loses Out on Afghan LithiumBY IER AUGUST 24, 2021 Afghanistan is the “the Saudi Arabia of lithium” –a metal…