What is the Global Average SST?
By Andy May The global average SST (Sea Surface Temperature) is a very important component of the global average surface temperature for the simple reason that the global ocean covers…
Professor David King: We Must Consider Extreme Climate Solutions
"... Ideas such as thickening sea ice to prevent collapse ... may once have seemed extreme. ..."
Climate Change Weekly # 539 — Is the End Nigh for Carbon Cons?
A story broke earlier this week concerning the bankruptcy filing of one of the largest carbon offset/credit trading start-ups in existence, Aspiration Partners, Inc.
UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for March, 2025: +0.58 deg. C
The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for March, 2025 was +0.58 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, up from the February, 2025 anomaly of +0.50 deg. C.
Wake up call for UK energy planners
Magical thinking about energy may not hold up much longer in the UK. Disagreements between European nations may scuttle plans for an integrated energy policy and with it the UK fantasy of attaining net zero. Central to the thinking of energy planners in the UK is the hope that an affordable solution to energy storage will magically appear. Batteries, green hydrogen storage and pumped hydropower storage are all hopelessly impractical and uneconomical. As a result, planners have eyed the vast hydropower potential of Norway. Its hydropower installed capacity is 32 gigawatts (GW). Hydropower accounts for 97% of Norway's electricity generation. Its hydropower reservoirs have a storage capacity of approximately 85 terawatt-hours (TWh).
False, Barron’s and Deutsche Welle, Climate Change Isn’t Endangering Mongolian Herding
Media outlets like Barron’s and DW should check the data and the historical context before asserting without proof that climate change is threatening Mongolian herders and the lifestyles and culture they have developed over the centuries, based on a few scientists unverified claims. Herding, like crop production, has always had to contend with the vagaries of weather. Mongolia’s herders have seen many periods of climate change and have been undeterred in their herding pursuit, thriving despite sometimes dangerous weather events, which can decimate herds in the short-term.b
Rolling Stone: President Trump Falsely Claims Global Warming is Good
But, but, devastating storms...
Green Hydrogen to Increase Gas Bills
We already have the highest electricity prices in the developed world and UK and European gas prices are many times higher than those in the US and Canada. We simply cannot afford any more whacky projects that push up energy costs even more. In fact we should be going in the opposite direction and declaring an energy emergency to bring energy costs down.
35 years ago today, NASA space scientist Dr. Roy Spencer had climate exactly correct
"If someone is sure there's greenhouse warming occurring, that's more emotional than scientific because the evidence has been questionable."
Beach Town Poised to Use Green Left’s Favorite Legal Strategy Against Massive Offshore Wind Project
Environmental groups have used “sue and settle” tactics — wherein plaintiffs sue an aligned administration to kill a disfavored project, which the aligned administration effectively does via settlement — for decades to impede infrastructure projects they oppose. Now, Nantucket is suing the Trump administration and alleging that key procedural laws were not followed in Biden-era approvals for the massive SouthCoast wind farm off the island’s coast, teeing up a potential “sue and settle” situation that could derail a major project supported by the green left.
Plate Tectonics and Climate during the Cenozoic
By Andy May In this post I examine the proxies used to compare CO2 to temperature from 66 million years ago (Ma) until today and comment on the quality of…
Recycling Power: Rethinking Nuclear Waste
The United States should establish a recycling policy so that the 90,000 metric tons of UNF in the country can be recycled and fabricated into mixed oxide fuel (“MOX fuel”). The resulting MOX fuel can be used in nuclear reactors to create reliable and clean energy.
Net Zero Will Make Air Travel the Preserve of the Privileged, Airline Boss Admits
Air travel will soon be the preserve of the privileged, an airline boss has admitted, as Net Zero makes low-cost air travel a thing of the past. The truth the Net Zero is making us poorer is slowly leaking out, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt.
OOPS —UPFs are Not Addictive
The narrative that ultra-processed foods high in fat and sugar can be as addictive as drugs of abuse based on their potential to elicit an outsized dopamine response in brain reward regions was not supported by our data.”
Science Magazine Unfairly Attacks the Journal of the Academy of Public Health
Only two days after the Journal of the Academy of Public Health's official launch, Science Magazine criticised it in a news item. A scientist I had recommended as a member of our Academy wrote to me that the fact that Science feared our new journal suggested that we were on the right track.
Alaska’s Proposed Climate Change Commission: Did Harris/Waltz Win?
“Politicians and ENGOs gaslight the public into believing Alaska has a magic thermostat that can stop erosion, reverse damage to fisheries, and fix every other contestable issue—as long as they scream ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’!”
The Indefensible Republican Defense of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act
The sausage-making aspect of making law is never a pretty sight, especially when unprincipled Republicans try to use green pork to clog up the machinery works.
Nuclear Subsidies: Did DOE’s Wright Get the Message?
The DOE loan authorities have come under fire since the 2011 collapse of the advanced solar photovoltaic firm Solyndra, leaving the Obama administration holding a bag containing a $527 million default.
German Industry Fleeing High Energy Prices, Costs And Bureaucracy In Record Numbers
Soaring energy prices… regulations…35% of German companies say country is too hostile to business.
Evidence Found that Cosmic Rays Spark Lightning
Via SpaceWeather.com Every second, almost 50 bolts of lightning zig-zag across the skies of Earth. Despite centuries of study, however, researchers still aren’t sure how the bolts get started. Electric…