D’oh! Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe

SCIENCE®!!!! discovers what my dad (a civil engineer) taught me more than 50 years ago.

No More Beer!

Today’s silly climate scare from the BBC:

Traffic Lights and Roundabouts

in the style of {van gogh, picasso, chagall, norman rockwell, Edvard Munch, Duchamp, russian propaganda posters, 60’s psychedelic posters}

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…

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Hailstorm in Texas destroys thousands of acres of solar farms

Locals are very worried about water contamination.

Artificial intelligence and weather forecasting…a quiet revolution is taking place in numerical weather prediction

One of the most notable AI advances in recent years has come with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts which is generating experimental AI forecasts that are made available…

Telegraph Compares Solar Capacity with Nuclear!

The clueless reporter evidently does not understand the difference between CAPACITY and GENERATION.

Green Macaroni to the Rescue

“Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Monday that her agency would partially fund 33 different projects in 20 states to test methods for curbing emissions from a wide variety of factories…

‘The River Is Essentially Dead’: How Enviros’ Push To Save Salmon Ended Up Killing ‘Hundreds Of Thousands’ Of Them

It is unfortunately typical that when government actions harm the environment, agencies spend more time deflecting blame than addressing the problem or being held accountable.”

Behavioural Scientists Aren’t Just Wrong About How to Win Over Electorates to Crackpot Progressive Policies; Their Evident Contempt for the Masses Has Contributed to the Global Populist Revolt

…they’ve placed too much faith in what has turned out to be really bad science.

The extraordinary climate events of 2022-24

Using the 2023-24 temperature as a reference point, we could even see some cooling in the coming years. These are indeed interesting times in terms of climate dynamics.

Starting To Notice That The Energy Transition Is Not Happening

We should abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and gas and instead invest in them adequately reflecting realistic demand assumptions,” he said. . . . “All this strengthens the…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #592

“A coincidence of interests is always more powerful than a conspiracy.”

California’s Electricity Disaster In Seven Charts

Residential electricity prices jumped nearly 12% in 2023 and they are going higher. But the carbon intensity of power generation isn’t falling and low-income ratepayers are subsidizing the rich.

Climate Policy vs. Social Justice (‘Bloomberg Green’ decries rollbacks)

Apologies are in order from Bloomberg Green. In terms of social justice, why hurt the average person as consumer, ratepayer, and taxpayer?

Unusual Cold Plagues Both Northern, Southern Hemispheres….Arctic Sea Ice Strengthens

Bolstered by the increasing snowfall in recent years (and despite the “devastating effects of climate change”), Saudi Arabia is working to improve its mountain tourism with its own ski resort…

The AP’s Coverage of UN’s ‘Climate Red Alert’ Is Nothing More Than a Red Herring

This is just another shameful episode of the media regurgitating irresponsible climate alarm claims without bothering to check the facts.

ECB / Potsdam: Global Warming will Drive Up Food Inflation, Unless Farmers Adapt

“… in a low emission-scenario most impacts could be removed by adjustment once global temperatures stabilise …”

Open Thread

Climate Change Weekly #500: Looking Back on 500 Issues, Celebrating a Milestone

Climate Change Weekly (CCW) has reached a milestone, its 500th edition. Joe Bast, the founder and first president of The Heartland Institute, charged James Taylor, then managing editor of Heartland’s…

Time: More Chinese Communism can Save Us from Climate Change

China is apparently doing such a good job at transitioning to renewables, we should all ditch democracy and copy their example.

Counting:  Exactly What and Exactly How

If we want any number to be considered scientific, the rules for this specification [“describing or identifying something precisely”] become stronger and stronger – we should consider this requirement paramount. 

L A Times Falsely Hypes a “Wild” 2023/2024 Rainy Season while Concealing NOAA Climate Science Data Establishing this Season as Completely Normal

The Times claims of “supercharged” and “wild” rainfall between December 2023 through February 2024 in California are pathetic and a clear demonstration of the climate science incompetence represented by climate…