U.S. Withdraws from the IPCC—and Dismantles a Global Climate Bureaucracy
...the exit from IPCC-adjacent institutions is not an isolated gesture, but a blunt, in your face, message that the era of unquestioned deference to transnational climate bureaucracy is over.
Fossil Fuels Are Not Going Away: Why the Boulder Climate Case Is So Dangerous and SCOTUS Must Step In
Climate litigation like Boulder is the exact opposite of making progress and the ultimate shoot yourself in the foot energy-climate thinking that Americans rejected when all seven battleground states voted for President Trump for a second time in November 2024.
The Misinformation Inquisition: How Censorship Shields Approved Narratives from Scrutiny
Yet, there is cause for optimism in this twilight of technocratic hubris. President Trump’s re-election signals a pivot toward evidence-based policy, unshackling science from the misinformation inquisition. By defunding activist enclaves like NCAR and enforcing transparency via executive order, the administration paves the way for genuine inquiry. Imagine a world where debates on climate sensitivity, the role of solar cycles, or the costs of adaptation are conducted openly, without fear of cancellation.
Seizing the Moment for U.S. Nuclear Energy Dominance
As America’s electric grid faces an unprecedent strain, nuclear power has never been more promising nor more important. Nuclear energy provides clean, reliable power that is vital to our economy and national security. American companies are pioneering some of the most promising advanced reactor designs in the world, but they will not succeed without effective government support for nuclear energy.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/12/31/seizing-the-moment-for-u-s-nuclear-energy-dominance/
Shropshire Sinkhole? Blame It On Climate Change!
If you want more money from the government, what better excuse do you need than “climate change”!
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/12/29/shropshire-sinkhole-blame-it-on-climate-change/
Climate Change Perceptions
There is overwhelming evidence that the current warming cycle will eventually reverse. This does not mean that GHG emissions are not a factor but does mean they are a tweak not the primary driver. This combined with the fact that New York GHG emissions are so small relative to global emissions that we cannot meaningfully affect global emissions means that GHG emission reductions for the sake of the climate is a useless endeavor.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/12/28/climate-change-perceptions/
Why Molecular Biology Labs Are Almost Always Stocked With Salmon Sperm DNA
fun fact – DNA was originally isolated from salmon sperm. Swiss physician and biologist Friedrich Miescher accomplished the feat in 1869, dubbing his discovery "nuclein." Salmon sperm was at the center of an historic scientific discovery more than 150 years ago, so it's fitting that it's still used to make novel discoveries today.
Destroying countrysides to save Earth from a climate non-crisis
Climate-obsessed national governments often act to control local voices and choices in pursuit of “decarbonization” even without being bound by international treaties. However, nations frequently trample on both state and local needs and concerns by signing onto Kyoto and Paris climate agreements that impose “tyranny by treaty” and thereby let unelected, unaccountable international politicians and bureaucrats rule in contravention of national laws and even constitutions.
Climate Faithful Admit Need for Fossil Fuels
For years, sensible voices outside the climate establishment warned that a future free of fossil fuels was physically impossible. As energy sources and as feedstocks, oil, natural gas and coal are the foundation of modern civilization. Hardly any product – whether the fertilizer that makes possible food for billions or the plastics for medical devices, smartphones and thousands of other items – is not dependent on hydrocarbons in some fashion.
Permitting Reform Is the Key to Energy Affordability
Permitting reform will empower the economy and get the heavy hand of bureaucracy out of the way. With Congress, we can drive economic progress for this country, secure affordable energy for homeowners and businesses and win the race for a competitive economic advantage. If we streamline our outdated permitting processes, we can provide a brighter future for American families, safeguard our national security, lower costs for American households and build our economy of the future. Imagine that.
Time to build reactors fueled by nuclear waste
Had the NRC, the media, and the fear mongers realized in 1986 that recycling was not only possible but profitable, the U.S. might today have multitudes of fast reactors burning SUNF and providing electricity to American people and industries for pennies a kilowatt-hour. That’s why Curtis believes the NRC — and federal subsidies that lock companies into bureaucratically determined reactor designs — need to go.
America’s Energy Independence Threatened By “Dark Money” Lawfare
Beyond distorting our law and politics, this climate lawfare inflicts another harm on America: it suppresses production of reliable energy sources like natural gas in favor of weather-dependent windmills and solar panels.
Hydro produces clean Snake River energy; the Left wants to wreck it.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said of his visit to Ice Harbor: “Hydroelectric dams have provided affordable and reliable electricity to millions of American families and businesses for decades. Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, they will continue to do so!”
The Gulf of America Is Back
With the December 10th lease sale, and the 29 that follow, the Gulf of America is once again positioned to anchor America’s energy future, and our workforce has a reason to look forward with confidence.
COP30 (50,000 participants for what?)
When will the climate parishioners question the hand that feeds them? The Climate Industrial Complex … the cronies of political capitalism and the central planners (China).
COP30 Round-Up: Failure of a UN Climate Summit Is Great News for Humanity!
While the teeth knashing over the COP FLOP continues, we must never forget: Failure of a UN climate summit is great news for humanity!
Solar Bankruptcy: Pine Gate Renewables (boom to bust continues)
“What about the triple-digit number of creditors who banked on a loser? What about taxpayers who funded around 30 percent of the solar investment? … Ben Catt is just another rent-seeker, a political crony, like Sunnova’s John Berger, benefitting at the expense of just about everyone else.”
Ignoring EV Pollution for Fake Climate Crisis
The mass evangelism for EVs and wind turbines is not a noble crusade to save the planet. It is a cynical ploy to enrich a small cadre of green-tech investors and empower global bureaucrats.
“The Climategate Whitewash Continues” (scandal of a scandal)
“It’s impossible to find anything wrong if you really aren’t looking…. [Sir Muir Russell’s committee] only interviewed CRU people, not the people whom they had trashed.” (Patrick Michaels, below)
Thanksgiving Prices Fall Because the Green Agenda Lost
According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, the cost of a classic Thanksgiving dinner for ten people dropped about 5% this year, landing at $55.18. After years of grocery-store sticker shock, that’s welcome relief. And it stands in sharp contrast to 2022, when the same meal hit a record high of more than $64.05, the most expensive Thanksgiving in history.
Rep. Balderson’s New ARC Energy Security Act Is Smart Legislation
Green Promises, Red Bills — Time to Power America the Right Way
Rising Temperatures Threaten UK trees
Has anybody seen our forests “under stress”? I take my dog for walk round the local woods most days, and all the trees look as healthy as they ever have.
Trump to UN: ‘Climate change is the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world’ – Most awesome & important climate/energy speech of his presidency
“All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their country’s fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success. If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail, and I’m really good at predicting things, you know.
How CO2 both Warms and Cools our Atmosphere
Greenhouse warming in the lower atmosphere is balanced by CO2 cooling in the stratosphere. This explains why CO2 concentrations do not correlate with earth's temperatures over millions of years!
‘Orwellian’ firing at the American Journal of Economics and Sociology for publishing a climate skeptic paper
Journal editor fired for publishing the peer reviewed paper of a "climate denier."
New Study: A City’s Industry Center, Airport Up To 12°C Warmer Than Nearby Forests, Vegetation
“In contrast, cold spots characterized by dense vegetation showed a notable cooling effect, with LST differences reaching −3.7 °C. Similarly, proximity to water bodies contributed to temperature mitigation, as areas near significant water sources recorded lower daytime LST differences, averaging −4.09 °C.”
Mad Miliband: “The future of [nuclear] fusion energy starts now”
Apparently all you need to do to ensure "the creation of highly skilled jobs and driving growth into our industrial heartlands" is to create planning guidelines for nuclear fusion plants.
Decline of the Great North American Decarbonization Charade
The Net Zero facade has collapsed massively, undeniably, irreversibly – because no policy survives violations of the laws of physics and market demand. Despite trillions spent on “renewables,” their contribution to energy production has barely budged in two decades.
The Hill Pushes Discredited Ocean Acidity Scares
Coral cover is breaking records, real world data proves ocean life loves CO2, but none of this impedes a never ending drip feed of ocean acidification scares.
Recent Devastating Floods Failed to Convince Climate Skeptic Aussie Farmers
"... I believe the Australian climate has always been a land of droughts and floods ..."
Delusional Business Council of Australia Thinks AI can be Powered by Renewables
"... we must seize the opportunity ..."
When Lithium-Ion Batteries Set Sail: Another Warning to be Ignored by the Climate Technocrats
The global shipping industry is already grappling with draconian emissions targets and bureaucratic overreach. Now, it's being asked to risk floating battery farms across oceans, all to appease climate prophets in Geneva and Brussels.
Failure Was an Option: Sunnova’s Taxpayer-Funded Solar Flop
Across the country, tens of thousands of rooftop solar systems—once hailed as the clean energy revolution—are quietly decaying. Not because the technology failed, but because the industry did. We rushed to install. We cut corners. We promised 25 years of performance… and delivered systems that can’t make it past 10.
Schwarzenegger Urges Green Leaders to Waste Money on Useless Tokenism
"Stop whining and get to work"
Looming US Battery Company Shutdown Imperils Aussie Net Zero Push
"... If Powin LLC’s present business circumstances do not improve, it is currently anticipated that a layoff will occur on or before 28 July 2025 ..."
Showdown looms for Empire Wind
Two years ago I flagged NOAA Fisheries for cumulatively authorizing harassments of the North Atlantic Right Whale that exceeded 200% of the population here: https://www.cfact.org/2023/04/24/noaa-proposes-hammering-208-of-vanishing-right-whales/. That cumulative number is now much higher.
So this is the dramatic Empire Wind showdown. A small dolphin in court versus the world’s second-largest crane vessel at sea, dueling over giant pile driving.
Nonprofit Funded by Chinese Gov’t-Linked Entities Backs Blue State’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Climate Law
A nonprofit organization bankrolled by numerous Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked entities advocated for a New York law that authorizes the state to charge energy companies billions for their roles in climate change.
Gas Only Explains A Small Part Of Electricity Price Rise
To summarise, the retail value of electricity has increased from £56 billion to £83 billion. Of this £27 billion increase, only £4 billion is due to gas.
California Dems Decry Gas Crisis They Fueled with Harsh Energy Regulations
“I know what climate leadership does not look like, and that is $10 gas,” Democratic Assemblyman Cottie Petrie-Norris told regulators at the hearing.
Not All That Sensitive
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach For no particular reason, I got to thinking about the non-global nature of the incoming energy. And this led me to consider the sensitivity of…
Climate Clergy Livestreams the Sads
This livestream extravaganza is being promoted as a grassroots movement, but like all good astroturf campaigns, it’s deeply establishment. The message is clear: only by maintaining the current bureaucratic caste can Americans be kept safe from the wrath of Mother Nature.
Renewable Push Sends Aussie Electricity Prices Skyrocketing
Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen blames householders for not shopping around for the cheapest deal.
The “Big Beautiful Bill” — Climate And Energy Provisions
Somewhat to my surprise, the BBB as passed by the House appears to repeal and rescind essentially all of the green energy handouts from the IRA. The IRA had added a collection of new sections to the Clean Air Act to create various massive funds for handouts to “greenhouse gas reduction” efforts. Go to section 42101 et seq. of the BBB (you will need to scroll down a long, long way to get there), and you will find that one by one these handouts will be repealed. Excerpt:
BP Cancels “Sustainable Jet Fuel” Project
$5 Billion Green Energy investment slashed - "Weaker-than-anticipated growth in the market"
Claim: Climate Change Could Bring Mosquito Diseases to Britain
Malaria was the scourge of early 1600s Britain, during the Little Ice Age, but today's scientists think insect borne diseases need a warm climate.
Virginia: The Front Line between AI and Climate Action
Virginia, the data center capital of the world, could become the next Silicon Valley if they play their cards right. But local green activists are determined the rein in the Data Center "Behemoth".
Energy Should Never Be In Question
It is not hyperbole to suggest that access to affordable and reliable energy is nothing less than a matter of life and death for most Americans.