South Fork Wind Malinformation

Claims that South Fork Wind is a reliable source of electricity are based on fact but the information is used out of context to manipulate readers into believing that offshore…

Recognizing Failure, Some Liberals Are Reshaping Their Climate Messaging

The left has been enslaved to their climate change dogma for decades. As such, they’re not ready to give it up entirely. But they are trying to craft a new…

New Research Reaffirms Clouds, Aerosols, And Surface Solar Radiation Are ‘Driving The Climate System’

A 4 W/m² per decade increase in SSR easily explains recent warming. It especially explains warming far better than the alleged 20-times smaller clear-sky-only CO2 impact (0.2 W/m² per decade)…

Clearing up some misconceptions about the DoE report

I’m very proud of the report our team produced. I hope we get to publish a final edition and if we do, people will see how open and constructive debate…

The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 Part 6: The Scientific Core — How Solid Are the Tipping Thresholds?

Charles Rotter This is Part VI of a multipart, systematic refutation of the University of Exeter’s Global Tipping Points Report 2025. Part I examined the catastrophe framing and the tension…

Claim: The “Open Fridge Effect” Baltic Sea Level Drop is Proof of Global Warming

The last time these extreme weather conditions were recorded was shortly after the Little Ice Age.

The Camel’s Nose (sorta) Under the Kentucky Tent

When the fossil fuel industry folks with influence grow a spine and explore much deeper – or when somebody ends up doing their work for them – every one of…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #680

Quote of the Week: “[Scientists] have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it however it may jar against their…

Changing Sunlight – Sun Movement and Spin

The motion of the Sun is uniquely different to the movement of the planets.  The Sun tracks an erratic path while experiencing a two to one range in its orbital…

The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 Part 5: Replacing GDP and Reengineering Economic Purpose

This is Part V of a multipart, systematic refutation of the University of Exeter’s Global Tipping Points Report 2025. Part I examined catastrophe framing and the tension between rhetorical certainty…

Sabine Hossenfelder: Climate Action is Like Preventative Cancer Surgery

Sabine Hossenfelder is a high profile science influencer. I’m a fan – except for her misconceptions about climate change.

Meet the Bengali Widows who Lost their Husbands to Tigers Because of Climate Change

If large predators keep eating people in your village, the solution is to build wind turbines and install solar panels?

Heat Pumps: Efficient on paper, complicated in reality

Heat pumps are efficient machines, sure, but whether they actually contribute to an efficient, secure, and sustainable energy system depends on too many elements around them. One thing is for…

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New Study: Canada’s New Brunswick Was 1°C Warmer Than Today During the Medieval Warm Period

This new research also identifies a higher frequency of natural forest fires during the LIA cooling period than the warmer MCA.

India Builds a Fossil Future One Coal Plant at a Time

The “Fossil Future” is being built by India one coal plant at a time, along with myriad contracts for oil and natural gas development.

Aussie Senator: US Social Media Reluctance to Censor Climate Skeptics – “This is the Problem”

Apparently free speech is OK, as long as the Australian Government thinks what you are saying is true.

Post Brexit Britain Still isn’t Dredging Canals to Stop the Floods

Joined up thinking doesn’t appear to be a feature of post Brexit waterway management.

Climate Change is Not Going to Cost Colorado Billions, Colorado Sun

A recent Colorado Sun article claims that climate change could cost the state up to $37 billion due to high temperature extremes and drought. This is false, built almost entirely on speculative…

“The Customer Has Spoken”: Car Industry Faces Up to Catastrophic EV Collapse

“I think the customer has spoken. That’s the punchline,” said Jim Farley, the Chief Executive of Ford, as he unveiled a $5 billion annual loss – joining the wider car…