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Trump Admin Moves to Kill New York City’s Climate Toll Scheme

The Trump administration moved Wednesday to terminate New York City’s new climate toll system, commonly known as congestion pricing.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/19/trump-admin-moves-to-kill-new-york-citys-climate-toll-scheme/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trump-admin-moves-to-kill-new-york-citys-climate-toll-scheme

Texas takes giant steps toward nuclear energy dominance

Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp last week announced that his university has surpassed even the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology and now has the nation’s largest nuclear engineering research department.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/18/texas-takes-giant-steps-toward-nuclear-energy-dominance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=texas-takes-giant-steps-toward-nuclear-energy-dominance

Conflicts of Interest in Climate Science: A Systemic Blind Spot

Moreover, the research found that funding from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) was a significant predictor of studies reporting a positive association between climate change and hurricane behavior​.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/18/conflicts-of-interest-in-climate-science-a-systemic-blind-spot/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=conflicts-of-interest-in-climate-science-a-systemic-blind-spot

The Great Antarctic Sea Ice Flipflop

In 2014 NOAA blamed record high sea ice on global warming. Now NSIDC blames record low sea ice on global warming.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/16/the-great-antarctic-sea-ice-flipflop/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-great-antarctic-sea-ice-flipflop

CFACT Comments on the California Offshore Wind Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS)

In summary the so-called California Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement is nothing of the kind. The full Offshore Wind Program needs to be assessed for the entire West Coast before any project is approved for construction. This required assessment is Missing in Action.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/15/cfact-comments-on-the-california-offshore-wind-draft-programmatic-environmental-impact-statement-peis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cfact-comments-on-the-california-offshore-wind-draft-programmatic-environmental-impact-statement-peis

Was 1.5C a Climate Propaganda Whoopsie?

Professor Mike Hulme: "... There’s going to be a lot of work done to reconstruct a narrative ..."

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/15/was-1-5c-a-climate-propaganda-whoopsie/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=was-1-5c-a-climate-propaganda-whoopsie

Claim: Chinese Coal Plant Construction is “Undermining” their Renewable Transition

"...In 2024, coal power construction activity surged to 94.5 GW, its highest level since 2015, reinforcing coal’s entrenched role in the power system. ..."

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/14/claim-chinese-coal-plant-construction-is-undermining-their-renewable-transition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=claim-chinese-coal-plant-construction-is-undermining-their-renewable-transition

The EPA’s Titanic Blunder: A $20 Billion Betrayal of Public Trust

In a staggering revelation, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin has uncovered a clandestine maneuver by the previous Biden administration, involving the allocation of approximately $20 billion in taxpayer funds to an external financial institution. This move appears to have been a deliberate attempt to circumvent potential budgetary constraints anticipated from the succeeding administration. The funds, earmarked for environmental projects under the Inflation Reduction Act, were distributed among eight entities, notably including the Climate United Fund.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/13/the-epas-titanic-blunder-a-20-billion-betrayal-of-public-trust/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-epas-titanic-blunder-a-20-billion-betrayal-of-public-trust

Underestimating Clouds: A Climate Mistake We Cannot Afford

The time has come to reassess our approach to both climate science and energy policy. The stakes are too high to continue down a path of destructive policies based on erroneous analyses. We must prioritize reliable, affordable energy sources and grid stability over useless reductions in emissions of a harmless gas.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/12/underestimating-clouds-a-climate-mistake-we-cannot-afford/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=underestimating-clouds-a-climate-mistake-we-cannot-afford

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The Academy of Public Health

The Academy of Public Health is an international association of public health scholars, researchers and practicing professionals in the field of public health and its many specialties. Members are united in their commitment to open discourse, intellectual rigor and broad, equitable access to scientific discovery.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/11/the-vibe-comes-for-academic-publishing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-vibe-comes-for-academic-publishing

Wind Blowing Somewhere Does Not Solve the Intermittency Problem

Green energy advocates who minimize the challenge of transitioning the electric grid to wind and solar rely on the claim that the “wind is always blowing somewhere”.   The 2024 wind energy data suggest otherwise.  I have no doubt that a proper electric reliability resource planning analysis would verify that my intermittency concerns are real and that revolving the issues would be prohibitively expensive.  Coupled with the grid support issues, the green dream of a wind and solar electric generating system is a fantasy that will never be viable.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/09/wind-blowing-somewhere-does-not-solve-the-intermittency-problem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wind-blowing-somewhere-does-not-solve-the-intermittency-problem

Massive Antarctic Iceberg Calving Not Caused by Climate Change

“We use 47 years of iceberg size from satellite observations. Our analysis reveals no upward trend in the surface area of the largest annual iceberg over this time frame. This finding suggests that extreme calving events such as the recent 2017 Larsen C iceberg, A68, are statistically unexceptional and that extreme calving events are not necessarily a consequence of climate change.”

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/08/massive-antarctic-iceberg-calving-not-caused-by-climate-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=massive-antarctic-iceberg-calving-not-caused-by-climate-change

Where Will Miliband Get His Offshore Wind Farms From?

But more to the point, are we honestly going to find anyone prepared to build another 23 GW in the next five years?

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/02/07/where-will-miliband-get-his-offshore-wind-farms-from/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=where-will-miliband-get-his-offshore-wind-farms-from