CNN’s Climate Con Exposed: Real Estate, Not Storms, Fuels Skyrocketing Insurance Costs
Wrongly scapegoating non-existent “climate risk” allows adjusters, insurers, and lenders justify higher premiums, interest rates, and stricter credit standards while diverting attention from the actual causes of rising mortgage costs and insurance rates and claims. And, by failing to scrutinize FirstStreet’s “Climate the Sixth C of Credit” report, Freedman and CNN are acting more like press agents for the climate-industrial complex than journalists discovering and presenting the truth. Ill-defined “climate risks, are not the real risks in this story. Rather the real threat is the financialization of fear and the desire to virtue signal while profiting handsomely on climate change, using speculative climate models to justify predatory lending and insurance practices.
Are Scientists who Contest the Climate Emergency “Publicity-seeking Contrarians?”
Ecologist author Tom Hardy has pulled out all the stops, from John Cook's 97% study to accusing the GWPF of having friends like Ian Plimer.
No Banana Apocalypse: Why The Guardian’s Climate Scare Over Bananas Falls Flat
No data supports this claim, rather it is based on speculation about future climate conditions 55 years in the future. Production and yield trends show that bananas are doing fine, and no reason other than a single study’s speculation to assume they will do otherwise in the future.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #642
“As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy [now called science], the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions, but such as are taken from Experiments, or other certain Truths. For Hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental Philosophy.”— Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
Dutch Wind Woes: Offshore Auction Scrapped as Bidders Bail Without Subsidies
The government said it was still looking into ways to reintroduce subsidies in its tenders for offshore wind farms, as prospective bidders are backing out of the current "zero subsidy" model.
Claim: Proving Climate Change is Damaging the Economy is a Challenge
Perhaps because there is no damage?
Science or Politics? Why We Can’t Tell Anymore
I wrote some time ago about how figures like Anthony Fauci, Michael Mann, Susan Michie, also Boris Johnson, Chris Whitty etc. etc., from 2020 onwards played cups-and-ball with science and politics. Ah, you thought it was politics under this cup, but it was in fact science! If not ‘The Science’.
UN’s New Global Carbon Tax: Will the USA Get Stuck with the Bill?
The UN has just announced an agreement to impose a global carbon tax on shipping.
Energy Department Could Ax Costly Renewable Energy Offices
The potential cuts, worth millions of dollars, would impact offices within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, including Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies, Solar Energy Technologies, Wind Energy Technologies and Renewable Energy Grid Integration, according to a document reviewed by Politico’s E&E News. This is the latest reported slashing of government funds for climate and renewable energy initiatives that were championed during former President Joe Biden’s administration, though Congress will ultimately have to sign off on the decision. (RELATED: ‘Got To Go’: DOE To Cut Off Billions Of Dollars’ Worth Of Biden-Era Green Energy Projects)
Live at 1 p.m. Eastern: SHOCK CLIMATE REPORT! Urban Heat Islands Responsible for 65% of Global Warming
A new study from the University of Alabama in Huntsville addresses the question of how much the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect is responsible for the higher temperatures at weather stations across the world. Dr. Roy Spencer and Dr. John Christy have spent several years developing a novel method that quantifies, for the first time, the average UHI warming effects related to population density. Their finding: no less than 65% of “runaway global warming” is not caused by our emissions of carbon dioxide, but by the urbanization of the world.
The Dumbest Genius Librarian
Guest Post by Willis EschenbachI have been using the AI “perplexity.ai” extensively lately both for scientific and general research. I think of it as the world’s dumbest, most unruly genius…
As The Federal Government Abandons The Climate Fantasy, New York Doubles Down
So we move forward with our officials in a state of bluff and bluster and denial, and no plan of any kind to meet the impossible mandates of the Climate Act. We all know that this is doomed to failure, but it will likely be a couple of years before we see the failure unfold.
Bill Gates Urges Rich Nations to Fulfil Climate Change Pledges
Micrsosoft's recently admitted their carbon footprint has risen 30% since 2020.
The Met Office is Unable to Name the Sites Providing ‘Estimated’ Temperature Data For its 103 Non-Existent Stations
The data identified individual stations and single location coordinates, but when 103 were found not to exist the Met Office hastily rewrote the title of the database to suggest that the figures arose from a wider local area.
National suicide – a rejection or just a reprieve for the USA?
Here’s the inescapable reality. Wind, solar and grid-scale battery power are not clean, green, renewable or sustainable. These installations and transmission lines blanket scenic, cropland and habitats. They slaughter raptors and kill off whales and other wildlife. The batteries catch fire with dangerous regularity.
Without energy abundance, America loses the AI race
The soaring demand projections we’re seeing aren’t just statistics – they’re a clarion call that America’s energy future must be built on pragmatism, not ideological preferences that take options off the table. Our families, farmers, small businesses, and national security depend on getting this right.
Microsoft: We Need AI Save the World with Nuclear Fusion
Big tech pushing back on accusations of being AI obsessed climate wreckers.
STEVE MILLOY: What Exactly Have NIH Grants Got Us?
But the critical questions are: “What does NIH-funded research actually accomplish?” and “Are the accomplishments worth the money?” The answers, at least according to NIH itself, seem to be shockingly little for the vast sums spent.
Net Zero Fades As the Deluded Cling to Its Fantasy
Perhaps the fundamental failure of Net Zero was political. Permission was never sought from taxpayers and consumers who would pay the costs and suffer the consequences of an always ill-fated enterprise. Climate goals were set behind closed doors. Policies were imposed from above. Higher utility bills, job losses and diminished economic opportunity became the burdens of ordinary families. All while elites flew private jets to international summits and lectured about the need to sacrifice.
EXCLUSIVE: Britain Forced to Spend £1.5 Billion to Mitigate Wind Turbine Corruptions to Vital Air Defence Radar
Britain’s offshore wind farms are a clear and present danger to vital air defences, with the Labour Government forced to spend an astonishing £1.5 billion in the next two years to try to guarantee the integrity of the country’s early warning radar network. Wind turbines cause havoc with radar since the rotating blades create Doppler shifts that hinder detection of enemy aircraft, drones and missiles. The problem has been known about for some time but it is getting worse as turbine blades get larger. There is no guarantee that the enormous sums recently allocated will fix the problems despite amounting to 2.5% of the entire annual UK defence budget of around £60 billion.
Wrong, Phys.org, Climate Change Isn’t Causing a Rise in Lost School Days
This article is a textbook example of shoddy research dressed up as urgent policy insight. By stretching an already weak climate claim—about worsening cyclones—into an even more tenuous social consequence—missed school days—it commits the cardinal sin of science: drawing sweeping conclusions from flimsy, cherry-picked evidence. There is no measurable increase in hurricane strength or frequency. Therefore, there is no climate change driven crisis of school disruption. The authors of this editorial should get an “F” in climate literacy— for failing the scientific smell test. Readers deserve better than this kind of unsupported alarmism.
Orsted Cancels Hornsea 4 Wind Farm – and Kills Miliband’s ‘Clean Power 2030’ Agenda Dead
If we cannot rely upon either the capacity being delivered nor the price being honoured then the whole Allocation Round process has become a farce. It is time for Miliband to declare that his Clean Power 2030 plan is dead. It is no more, it has ceased to be, it’s expired and gone to meet its maker.
Guardian: Former PM Tony Blair is a “serious threat to climate action”
From green hero to zero. The Guardian even threw in a big oil smear against their former climate hero.
Sea Level: NASA Versus NOAA
I see that the NASA folks are busily putting the hype back into hyperventilate. Over at The Cool Down, the news is headlined: NASA issues warning after sudden change in…
High Resolution Earth Orbital Precession relative to Climate & Weather
The daily variation in Earth’s geometric relationship with the sun correlates well with observed temperature trends and also gives some indication of weather extremes from-year-to-year.
The coming changes in Earth’s climate due to precession of the orbit will be far beyond human experience in recorded history. The NH will experience season-to-season difference of 50W/m2 at 60N with increased solar EMR during the NH Heating season and dramatically lower solar EMR during the NH Cooling season. The season-to-season swing in the SH is even greater than the NH but to milder extremes than present as shown in Chart 11; less solar EMR during SH Heating but more during SH Cooling.
Narrative Based Evidence Making`
It is far easier for journalists, print or radio or television, to use a pre-determined storyline than to do real original journalism, easier when told by one’s editor to “write a story about the flooding in Arkansas showing how it is an example of the Climate Crisis”.
Putting The Alarmist Spin On The Earth’s Rotation
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach So I ran across this headline and subhead out on the interwebz: “China Disrupts Earth’s Rotation”: NASA Confirms Massive Project Is Slowing the Planet With…
The Hidden Cost Of Net Zero
The REF’s new report on green energy subsidies noted that renewables subsidies are now costing £25.8 bn per year – or over £900 per household annually – about one third of which, £280, will hit the average domestic electricity bill directly.
Climate Change Weekly # 542 — More Ways Coal Improves the Economy and the Environment
Since misanthropic environmentalists and their Western-world-hating fellow travelers in academia and in the political realm discovered climate alarm as a fashionable and effective way to hamper economic growth and constrain consumerism, coal—long the foundation of industrial development and the modern power grid—became the ugliest of stepchildren in energy policy discussions.
Brink Of Extinction – More And More Companies Rejecting Costly Hydrogen Technology
Once considered a key technology in the green energy transition, companies are waking up and finding out that hydrogen isn’t the answer to the challenges posed by renewable energies such as wind and sun.
More Climate Litigation Silliness From Academia
Ultimately, this article is simply an advocacy piece for specious lawsuits against oil companies with deep financial pockets. Nature should be ashamed of itself for publishing it.
Climate Anxiety–or Climate Realism?
The futile, wasteful climate crusade has created collateral damage for the cause of the Progressive Left. Their political weapon against ordinary living in a free society has run afoul of ordinary folk, consumer and taxpayer all. And with the government lucre running low or out, and the political forces aligned against them, there is fear, even panic, that their cause is hopeless and unconvincing. “Open for work,” hundreds of climate activists have circled around their names on the business site, LinkedIn.
When You Thought The Met Office Could Not Get Any More Dishonest!
Purely by coincidence, of course, this thermometer surrounded by wind breaks and heat emitting diesel generators just happened to post the highest temperature in the country on Sunday!
Former British PM Tony Blair Slams Net Zero as “Irrational”
Hangon, didn't Blair help make Net Zero happen?
Psychoanalysis on Climate ‘Denial’? (stranger and stranger)
Climate alarmists live in a self-righteous bubble where humankind is the scoundrel. Nature is optimal and fragile; anthropogenic change cannot be good, even toward greening, warming, and moistening. Think about that nonpolluting trace gas, carbon dioxide (CO2).
German Droughts Were Much More Common Back In The Old Days, Before 1980!
Four of the 5 driest years on record in Germany occurred before 1960. Eight of the top 9 occurred before man-made climate change was ever an issue (before 1980).
The Climate Empire Strikes Back – The Climate Realism Show #154
While the climate realism movement might feel it has the wind at its back these days, the global climate empire is not going away quietly, or quickly. A new report by the Media Research Center and Bongino Report details just how far and deep the reach of the radical Soros-backed network reaches. The report finds that no fewer than 345 well-funded eco-activist groups push radical environmentalism worldwide. George Soros and his more-radical son Alex have spent more than $600 billion (with a “b”) to exploit fears about climate change to push for more government control over the lives of ordinary people. We will go over this important report.