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Real Climate Science

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" - Richard Feynman

I just released a new video which delves into a detailed analysis of the water situation in the west. This is a must watch for anyone who wants to understand the most serious imminent threat to the US economy.
Author: Tony Heller
Posted: February 20, 2026, 1:21 am
The 1924 Winter Olympics were nearly cancelled due to a lack of cold, snow and ice – but “The Conversation” wants people to believe the exact opposite. Climate change threatens the Winter Olympics’ future – and even snowmaking has limits … Continue reading
Author: Tony Heller
Posted: February 6, 2026, 5:22 am
Mamdani is promoting the collective to replace individualism. Tony Heller on X: ““Why do you resist? We only wish to improve quality of life for all species.” https://t.co/qatj7snms5” / X
Author: Tony Heller
Posted: January 7, 2026, 1:30 am
Climate scientists are writing a model to blame weather events on corporations. The secret weapon that could finally force climate action | New Scientist This motivated me to write my own weather attribution model, which blames weather events on specific … Continue reading
Author: Tony Heller
Posted: January 7, 2026, 1:12 am
Fact checking NASA climate predictions from 1986 using app.visitech.ai
Author: Tony Heller
Posted: December 14, 2025, 4:46 am
Traditional AI like Grok relies on propaganda it finds on the Internet. At Visitech we use actual data. app.visitech.ai
Author: Tony Heller
Posted: December 14, 2025, 4:42 am
The New York Times has a website claiming to show an increase in 90 degree days in US cities. In this short video I fact check their claims using app.visitech.ai How Much Hotter Is Your Hometown Than When You Were … Continue reading
Author: Tony Heller
Posted: December 6, 2025, 9:54 pm
We are reworking the visitech.ai user interface and have added new chart types. This video shows what to expect and how to use the new features. The rework will continue for a few more days US Treasury data from this … Continue reading
Author: Tony Heller
Posted: November 17, 2025, 4:18 am
In 2007 and 2009, Al Gore predicted an ice-free Arctic in summer by 2014. Gore predicts ice-free Arctic sea Instead of ice-free, the Arctic minimum this year was up 36% since 2012. https://noaadata.apps.nsidc.org/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/images/2012/09_Sep/N_20120916_extn_v4.0.png https://noaadata.apps.nsidc.org/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/images/2012/09_Sep/N_20120916_extn_v4.0.png
Author: Tony Heller
Posted: October 23, 2025, 1:12 am
In 2016 Donald Trump predicted a debt-free US treasury by 2024. Transcript: Donald Trump interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa – The Washington Post Instead of going from $19 trillion to zero, the National Debt has doubled to $38 … Continue reading
Author: Tony Heller
Posted: October 23, 2025, 1:01 am

Climate Depot

A project of CFACT

It's been a 40-year trail of failed forecasts. If the Climate Crisis were a commercial product, it would have been recalled for false advertising decades ago. This emerging economic disaster relies on a Code Red emergency that simply hasn't arrived. Surely, the most important… pic.twitter.com/AK1vRREX2x — Peter Clack (@PeterDClack) March 5, 2026
Author: Admin
Posted: March 6, 2026, 9:11 pm
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/iran-war-climate-change/ By Shae Cornette Excerpt: War makes climate change worse in many ways, and vice versa. The human costs of the US-Israel attack on Iran—the hundreds of people who have died, including a reported 175 young girls and teachers killed at the Shajareh Tayyibeh primary school—are a tragedy. The mounting economic risks—disrupted supply chains, rising […]
Author: Admin
Posted: March 6, 2026, 5:37 pm
For decades, climate alarmists have used fear to convince and coerce people into submission regarding business operations and lifestyle choices. Years ago, we were bombarded with messages on global freezing and fear propaganda filled the media – until data showed otherwise. Then messaging switched to proclaim the threat of global warming. Repeated threats of worldwide […]
Author: Marc Morano
Posted: March 6, 2026, 12:47 am
  Broadcast Mar 5, 2026 🔊 | @ClimateDepot gave @JrzyJoePiscopo details on Trump’s energy pledge and oil prices Full Interview: https://t.co/eZkDTgnXcW pic.twitter.com/mRpcSzLc6G — The Joe Piscopo Show (@JoePiscopoShow) March 5, 2026
Author: Marc Morano
Posted: March 6, 2026, 12:43 am
“We’re here this afternoon for a historic signing that will help keep down your utility bills… Big Tech companies are committing to FULLY cover the cost of increased electricity production required for AI data centers.” – @POTUS 🇺🇸 https://t.co/Fs0PY2i15m — The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 4, 2026 President Donald J. Trump Advances Energy Affordability with […]
Author: Marc Morano
Posted: March 5, 2026, 7:33 pm
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/03/04/climate-expert-says-us-can-handle-energy-needs-amid-iran-conflict-n4950266 By CATHERINE SALGADO Some critics of the joint U.S.-Israeli Operation Epic Fury against Iran’s terrorist regime are screaming that the risk to the global energy supply chain is too great. But one climate and energy expert is convinced that never since the Islamic regime first took power in Iran has America been more capable […]
Author: Admin
Posted: March 5, 2026, 7:30 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/04/trump-climate-change-democrats Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on the environment. Where’s the pushback? Climate deniers expected more resistance to the fossil fuel blitz. But Democrats, billionaires and activists have gone silent By Rei Takver Excerpt: As Donald Trump assaults the legal foundation of America’s ability to regulate global warming emissions, climate deniers have been privately celebrating […]
Author: Admin
Posted: March 5, 2026, 7:10 pm
Media Matters: In 2025, CBS aired 54 minutes of climate coverage in January, making it the network’s peak month. This year, the network aired only one climate segment in January — a headline report on the evening news lasting approximately 20 seconds on the surprising health of polar bears, despite the loss of sea ice, in the Norwegian Arctic. ... The new study was also shared on climate denier Marc Morano’s site. With a seeming nod to the climate skeptic community, Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil concluded: “Experts say the bears are still in trouble long term, but hey, the experts have been wrong before.”
Author: Admin
Posted: March 4, 2026, 9:58 pm
Via American Energy Alliance: https://www.americanenergyalliance.org/2026/02/300-actions-the-trump-administration-and-congressional-republicans-have-taken-to-unleash-americas-energy-potential/ Thomas J. Pyle is the President of the American Energy Alliance (AEA) –  President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans ran on a plan for American energy: make it easier to produce and more affordable to purchase. On the eve of President Trump’s State of The Union Address, his administration and […]
Author: Admin
Posted: March 4, 2026, 9:40 pm
https://www.climateskeptic.org/p/the-uns-carbon-trading-resurrection By TILAK DOSHI On Thursday, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Article 6.4 Supervisory Body approved the first batch of carbon credits under the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism. The project? A South Korean-backed clean-cooking initiative in Myanmar, issuing some 60,000 tonnes of CO₂-equivalent emission reductions from efficient cookstoves. Some in the climate commentariat celebrated […]
Author: Admin
Posted: March 4, 2026, 9:36 pm
  Fox Business Network – The Evening Edit Broadcast March 3, 2026 Morano Excerpt: “The U.S. under President Trump is producing more oil than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. And we’re producing more natural gas than China, Iran, and Russia combined. There have been over 300 actions President Trump has taken to expand domestic energy, […]
Author: Marc Morano
Posted: March 4, 2026, 5:47 pm
Thank God For “Drill Baby Drill” Via Committee to Unleash Prosperity: The oil price has risen to $72 a barrel in the wake of the military assault on Iran. That 8% spike in oil prices was far less than the $80 to $100 a barrel predictions by many analysts. Why were so many experts so […]
Author: Admin
Posted: March 4, 2026, 12:58 am
Via CEI: The U.S. has formally notified the UN that it is withdrawing from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). According to the UN, the U.S. will officially be out of the UNFCCC on February 27, 2027.  A withdrawal takes effect one year after the UN’s receipt of the notification of withdrawal (which […]
Author: Marc Morano
Posted: March 3, 2026, 5:04 pm
By Ben Spencer – Science Editor – The Sunday Times Excerpt: …As American and Israeli bombs rain down on Iran, and Iran hits back at American allies across the Middle East. No matter the way the conflict develops over the coming days and weeks, it is likely to have long-lasting impacts on energy prices and environmental policy. […]
Author: Admin
Posted: March 3, 2026, 5:00 pm
https://url4027.email.politico.com/ss/c/u001.6g0Zd3AyneOViJYBXgbV65ZWHEH5gWGSDKLrcKzwr39-GpqLLEhl3yUWlhdOSFu773hKIvNDsmULcTWXVsBXqIOhVHSt7k3Mkwzz2CSpZ4458beOzAhkpc1G5AcSFtmr1aYvU3hj7AdHEF80RIW6qsuHRqKhYJLEWrBxqLUnM1k/4ol/F0wvm0gtSB2srbyPY2FMuA/h1/h001.DxY5ekx3cuyv16tx7DR5tD2xhIk2OEENaKeA_R7gneA BY ARIANNA SKIBELL The United States and Israel show no signs of slowing the military campaign against Iran. And that’s triggering an oil price spike that’s offering Democrats a new opening to sway voters on energy affordability. … That risks further inflaming the global oil supply, write Ben Lefebvre and James Bikales. Retaliatory attacks […]
Author: Admin
Posted: March 3, 2026, 1:36 am
https://www.barrons.com/articles/crude-oil-price-today-iran-8b57d89d By Laura Sanicola & Reshma Kapadia Excerpt: The U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran—and Tehran’s retaliation—is likely to cause oil and other energy prices to spike and stock markets to react sharply when trading starts on Sunday evening. Iran has reportedly closed the critical Strait of Hormuz, saying ships are “not allowed” to pass, […]
Author: Admin
Posted: March 2, 2026, 6:54 pm
Cuba Becomes the First Country To Reach Net Zero, New York Times, Shouldn’t We Be Celebrating? By Francis Menton of the THE MANHATTAN CONTRARIAN There it was on the front page of Saturday’s New York Times: with a small assist from the United States, the island nation of Cuba has almost entirely ended the use of fossil fuels. […]
Author: Admin
Posted: March 2, 2026, 6:50 pm
How to save Trump EPA’s ‘biggest deregulatory move in history’ By Steve Milloy President Donald Trump on Feb. 12 announced the “biggest deregulatory move in history” — the Environmental Protection Agency rescission of the 2009 Obama administration EPA endangerment finding for greenhouse gases with respect to vehicles. It is a great move to end the climate hoax, to spur American energy dominance, […]
Author: Admin
Posted: March 2, 2026, 6:48 pm
https://energysecurityfreedom.substack.com/p/the-trump-team-should-double-down?utm_medium=email&action=share By Kevin Mooney via CFact. Science is on the side of the Trump administration’s efforts to unwind the U.S. from costly climate regulations—much to the consternation of major media platforms that peddle unfounded, politically motivated assertions. That’s why fresh research and updated findings into the impact of carbon dioxide emissions should figure more prominently […]
Author: Admin
Posted: March 2, 2026, 6:47 pm
https://irrationalfear.substack.com/p/natural-variability-is-larger-than DR. MATTHEW WIELICKI Over the past month, I have done something increasingly rare in public climate discourse. I stepped away from headlines, institutional summaries, and model visualizations and went back to the primary literature itself… ice cores, speleothems, marine sediments, isotope datasets, proxy methodology papers, and modern synthesis studies spanning multiple regions of the […]
Author: Admin
Posted: March 2, 2026, 6:44 pm
🧊 The Little Ice Age: The Climate Change Event They Forgot Many believe climate change is a uniquely modern crisis. But history tells a far more complex story. In this Freedom Research original documentary, we explore the dramatic climate shifts of the past 1,000 years, from… pic.twitter.com/sYynFUt6Dt — Freedom Research (@freedom_rsrch) February 25, 2026
Author: Marc Morano
Posted: March 2, 2026, 6:10 pm
Emeritus Professor of Physics at Princeton University, William Happer: "More CO2 is good for the world… It's absurd to be trying to reduce CO2" pic.twitter.com/EmJFgiFdWc — matrixbot (@thematrixb0t) March 2, 2026
Author: Marc Morano
Posted: March 2, 2026, 6:09 pm
AOC’s Former climate activist reflects on the moment she realised climate activism was bullsh*t “I was very anti-plastic. Then all of a sudden, all the PPE came; you had the masks, the plastic barriers between everything — I was like, wait a minute, I’ve been sweating about… pic.twitter.com/S2Llvc09ZZ — American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) March 2, […]
Author: Christina Norman
Posted: March 2, 2026, 6:07 pm
https://www.newsmax.com/larrybell/epa-obama-zeldin/2026/02/26/id/1247520/ By Larry Bell On Feb. 12 the Trump administration repealed the Obama EPA’s politically contrived, scientifically vacuous, economically destructive 2009 “Endangerment Finding” that six greenhouse gases with leafy plant-nourishing CO2 serving as de facto public enemy number one by “polluting the climate.” This claim served as a political premise for imposing regulatory restrictions on internal combustion […]
Author: Admin
Posted: March 2, 2026, 6:07 pm
https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2026/feb/26/can-degrowth-save-the-climate-podcast Presented and produced by Madeleine Finlay, sound design by Ross Burns; the executive producer was Ellie Bury Since the 1960s, global GDP has been rapidly rising and living standards have reached record highs. But something else has been rocketing up too – carbon emissions. For years, scientists and economists have been asking: is it […]
Author: Marc Morano
Posted: March 1, 2026, 8:25 pm

Watts Up With That?

The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change

“Take the Rocky Mountains, for example: There’s plenty of rocks right there,” Colorado resident Kyle Peters said. “It’s our right as Americans to use as many rocks as we need for whatever purposes we decide, and no scientist is going to scare me into thinking otherwise.”
Author: Guest Blogger
Posted: March 7, 2026, 2:00 am
It never occurs to the far-left (formerly mainstream) media that its demise might be attributable to more than economic factors or the rise of the internet. Just as important is the clear bias and agenda- driven politics that resulted in a loss of trust by millions of Americans who are not part of the far-left bubble that the media increasingly served.
Author: Guest Blogger
Posted: March 6, 2026, 10:00 pm
The deeper issue is that climate science, climate policy, and climate litigation have become part of the same institutional machinery. And once those gears start turning together, separating scientific analysis from legal strategy becomes nearly impossible.
Author: Charles Rotter
Posted: March 6, 2026, 7:00 pm
The Climate Panic Industrial Complex has had complete control over the media narrative and public policy for more than two decades. Then Donald Trump returned to the White House and quickly set about canceling the entire agenda—and he’s still not done. And the climate alarmists are confused. Where is the pushback?
Author: Charles Rotter
Posted: March 6, 2026, 5:30 pm
"... climate deniers have been privately celebrating what they claim is the “silent” acquiescence of billionaires, Democrats, climate activists and even reporters ..."
Author: Eric Worrall
Posted: March 6, 2026, 2:00 pm
Their ploy is to mislead the public into believing that the pricing system stops people from benefitting from “cheap renewables”. The problem is the diametric opposite.
Author: Guest Blogger
Posted: March 6, 2026, 10:00 am
Ofcom’s attempt to extend this regime to American soil raises the stakes further. It asserts, in effect, that British regulators may determine what Americans are permitted to say on the American internet and that American law has no recourse. That is not a tenable position under the First Amendment, under any established principles of international jurisdiction or under any defensible conception of democratic self-governance. The GRANITE Act is the beginning of the American legal system’s answer.
Author: Guest Blogger
Posted: March 6, 2026, 6:00 am
The IEA has done much excellent work in the past half century. With demand for all forms of energy certain to grow into the foreseeable future the IEA should have a key role to play in informing global society what is actually happening today and what is realistically likely to happen in the future. The days when aspirational, unrealistic, scenarios were hugely influential in guiding energy investment decisions are over. If the IEA listens to its critics, this will mean that that the U.S. and other governments continue to support it. I hope this is the case.
Author: Guest Blogger
Posted: March 6, 2026, 2:00 am
The moral of the story may be that Earth’s oceans are less volatile than our coordinate systems. While the water creeps upward at a stately pace measured in millimetres per year, the reference frames used to describe it can shift by centimetres or metres depending on the choice of model.
Author: Charles Rotter
Posted: March 5, 2026, 10:00 pm
“Illegal disposal of wind hurts our land and will never be permitted under my watch,” AG Paxton said in a statement. “Just because the radical left calls something a ‘green industry’ does not give any company a free pass to harm the Texas countryside, break our laws, and leave Texans to deal with the negative impacts.”
Author: Guest Blogger
Posted: March 5, 2026, 6:00 pm
Declaring each avalanche is evidence of “climate collapse,” despite avalanches being common or at least not unusual, throughout history, even when temperatures were cooler and atmospheric greenhouse gas levels were lower, is not serious climate journalism. It is agenda-driven storytelling dressed up as science. The media are doing what the media all too often do, creating scary and engaging headlines that have no basis in fact. Perhaps this is why polls show trust in the media has fallen to new lows in recent months.
Author: Anthony Watts
Posted: March 5, 2026, 2:00 pm
Their only concern is that a war might put a bit more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere! They would no doubt be much happier with a nuclear winter! At least it will lower global warming.
Author: Guest Blogger
Posted: March 5, 2026, 10:00 am
On January 26, the U.S. Department of Energy released the Fact Sheet, “The Energy Department Is Delivering on Accelerating the Deployment of Nuclear Power, subtitled “President Trump is Unleashing America’s Next Nuclear Renaissance.” Nuclear Renaissance? Like that of Joe Biden? George W. Bush? Here is a summary of federal subsidies/initiatives for commercial nuclear power from the US Department of Energy (to date).
Author: Guest Blogger
Posted: March 5, 2026, 6:00 am
Radical climate organizations' dangerous activism was on display again in February, when a coalition of environmentalist groups sued the federal government over its repeal of an unscientific, politically-motivated 2009 endangerment finding. 
Author: Guest Blogger
Posted: March 5, 2026, 2:00 am
"... by the end of the century, there may not be enough suitable areas for cows, sheep, and goats to graze ..."
Author: Eric Worrall
Posted: March 4, 2026, 10:00 pm
"... an intervention was conducted with 25 salons using eco-tips on mirrors to prompt sustainable hair care conversations (Mirror Talkers) ..."
Author: Eric Worrall
Posted: March 4, 2026, 6:00 pm
“Nuclear fission is the most complicated, fraught, expensive way to boil water to produce steam to drive electrical turbines.”
Author: Guest Blogger
Posted: March 4, 2026, 2:00 pm
In contrast to the dramatic climate shifts tied to volcanism and “unforced natural climate variability,” modern Greenland has not warmed (net) in the last 100 years despite the foreboding “anthropogenic forcing” that we have been warned about since the 1980s.
Author: Guest Blogger
Posted: March 4, 2026, 10:00 am
Bowen suggested Aussies should replace fossil fuel use with electricity, if they are worried about the impact of the Iran conflict on gasoline prices.
Author: Eric Worrall
Posted: March 4, 2026, 6:00 am
This violates tenets of the hundreds-year-old Scientific Method that require data obtained through experimentation or observation of the physical world as the means of supporting scientific conclusions.
Author: Guest Blogger
Posted: March 4, 2026, 2:00 am

Climate Etc.

by Ross McKitrick Last year I had the privilege of working with a small team (me, Judy Curry, John Christy, Steve Koonin and Roy Spencer) on a draft report for U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on the topic of climate … Continue reading

The post Clearing up some misconceptions about the DoE report appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: February 21, 2026, 5:29 pm

by Chris Morris People have queried what is happening in Australia with their push for a decarbonised all renewables/ Net Zero grid since the last update in 2023. The answer is not much progress but massive amounts of money spent. … Continue reading

The post Update on Australian NetZero efforts appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: January 11, 2026, 5:51 pm

by Joe Nalven Towards improving AI architecture with a new paradigm Several years ago, I asked Bard (Google’s predecessor to Gemini) to craft an algorithm that would shift its climate change responses from catastrophism toward realism. Bard obliged. It generated … Continue reading

The post AI models and their “knowledge” of climate change appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: January 5, 2026, 1:55 pm

by Javier Vinos We have been fortunate to witness the largest climate event to occur on the planet since the advent of global satellite records, and possibly the largest event since the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815. It is … Continue reading

The post The 2023 climate event revealed the greatest failure of climate science appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: December 30, 2025, 12:47 am

by Mila Zinkova Reassessing The Coldest March by Susan Solomon On Thursday, 29 March 1912, Captain Scott (1914) made the final entry in his Journal. He wrote:  Since the 21st we have had a continuous gale from W.S.W. and S.W. … Continue reading

The post Captain Scott’s 1912 Antarctic tragedy appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: November 21, 2025, 7:59 pm

by John Ridgway In an earlier essay [1] I explained how positive feedbacks can lead to potentially problematic scientific mono-cultures. I also acknowledged that poor research design and data analysis had become commonplace within the behavioural sciences, largely as a … Continue reading

The post Natural Selection of Bad Science. Part II appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: September 23, 2025, 6:50 pm

by John Ridgway Any politician faced with the challenge of protecting the public from a natural threat, such as a pandemic or climate change, will be keen to stress how much they are ‘following the science’ — by which they … Continue reading

The post The Matthew Effect, Mono-cultures, and the Natural Selection of Bad Science appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: September 8, 2025, 11:22 pm

by Judith Curry A month has passed since the DOE climate assessment report was published.  It’s time to reflect on what we might learn from the responses to this Report.  Of particular relevance is the report that was issued earlier … Continue reading

The post DOE Climate Assessment Report: Feedback appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: September 2, 2025, 5:00 pm

by Nic Lewis The determination of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS)—the long-term warming response to doubled atmospheric CO2 concentrations—remains one of the most crucial yet challenging problems in climate science. Recent exchanges in the literature have highlighted both the complexity of … Continue reading

The post Addressing misconceptions about Climate Sensitivity research: a Response to recent Criticisms appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: niclewis
Posted: August 13, 2025, 1:23 pm

by Art Rangno How we fooled ourselves about the effectiveness of cloud seeding. The Colorado River Basin Pilot Project (CRBPP, 1970-75) is still the most ambitious, expensive randomized orographic cloud seeding project in US history. It featured an unprecedented amount … Continue reading

The post Cloud Seeding History: Looking Back at the Colorado River Basin Pilot Project appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: August 8, 2025, 10:37 pm

by Judith Curry Climate science is baaaack  Energy Secretary Chris Wright has commissioned a new climate assessment report: A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate  From the Secretary’s Foreword: What I’ve found is that … Continue reading

The post New Climate Assessment Report from US DOE appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: July 29, 2025, 7:36 pm

By Joachim Dengler Are the natural carbon sinks failing? For a long time, the discussion about the relation between temperature and CO2 concentration has been focused on the greenhouse effect and its possible feedback mechanisms, captured by the concept of sensitivity. … Continue reading

The post Temperature – a driver of the carbon cycle appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: July 16, 2025, 5:24 pm

by Planning Engineer (Russ Schussler) Part 3 of this series examines power markets, promoted by policymakers (FERC) and industry advocates to lower costs through competitive bidding and merit-order dispatch. While markets can optimize resource allocation in many sectors, they struggle … Continue reading

The post Why “cheaper” wind and solar raise costs. Part III: The problem with power markets appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: May 28, 2025, 6:53 pm

by Planning Engineer (Russ Schussler) In Part 1, we showed how wind and solar’s low costs over 80% of the time are overwhelmed by expenses at peak times such that they offer no cost advantages to the generation mix. Residential … Continue reading

The post Why “cheaper” solar raises costs. Part II: The hidden costs of residential solar appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: May 22, 2025, 3:13 pm

by Planning Engineer (Russ Schussler) Wind and solar power are often touted as the cheapest sources of electricity in many regions, capable of delivering low-cost energy for the vast majority of the time. At first glance, this might suggest that … Continue reading

The post Why “cheaper” wind and solar raise costs. Part I: The fat tail problem appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: May 13, 2025, 10:19 am

by Judith Curry and Harry DeAngelo  We have a new paper published in the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, entitled “A Critique of the Apocalyptic Climate Narrative.” The paper reflects the JACF’s ongoing interest in publishing articles that analyze important … Continue reading

The post A Critique of the Apocalyptic Climate Narrative appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: May 7, 2025, 1:29 pm

by Russ Schussler (Planning Engineer) On April  28th Spain, Portugal and parts of France suffered a major grid outage. A  formal evaluation will likely be released at a later date cataloging many of the contributing factors and system deficiencies. Unfortunately, … Continue reading

The post Casting blame for the blackout in Spain, Portugal, and parts of France appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: May 5, 2025, 2:14 pm

by Douglas Sheil Last week an article in Science, by Seo and colleagues, provided compelling evidence that the world’s land surface is getting drier. This global drying averaged a loss across all land surfaces of over two centimeters of water … Continue reading

The post Reversing soil desiccation: cooler, moister, greener appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: April 16, 2025, 10:25 pm

by Chris Morris Geothermal power stations are mature technology with proven performance, reliable operation and ideal for baseload generation. The units are synchronous, so they support the grid.  The production from them is considered by most to be renewable. They … Continue reading

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Author: curryja
Posted: April 11, 2025, 3:54 pm

by Ross McKitrick I have a new paper out in the journal Nature Scientific Reports in which I re-examine some empirical work regarding agricultural yield changes under CO2-induced climate warming. An influential 2017 study had argued that warming would cause … Continue reading

The post Debunking the 2023 hike in the Social Cost of Carbon appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: February 21, 2025, 1:49 pm

by Planning Engineer (Russ Schussler) The purpose of this article is to summarize and debunk many of the issues in the narrative surrounding  the proposed green energy transition as applies to the electric grid.  The issues are so numerous that … Continue reading

The post Unraveling the Narrative Supporting a Green Energy Transition      appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: February 19, 2025, 11:57 am

by Russ Schussler (Planning Engineer) Prequel to “Unravelling the narrative supporting a green energy transition.” There is a powerful but misleading narrative supporting a green energy transition. A follow up piece will look more broadly at the general narrative supporting … Continue reading

The post How the Green Energy Narrative confuses things appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: January 30, 2025, 7:50 pm

by John Ridgway How an emergent scientific consensus results from social engineering enabled by prosocial censorship. A recent research paper published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences argued that both self-censorship and the prosocial censorship of colleagues … Continue reading

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Author: curryja
Posted: January 22, 2025, 9:37 pm

by Planning Engineer (Russ Schussler) In October of 2024, the isolated small city of  Broken Hill in New South Wales, Australia with a 36 MW load (including the large nearby mines) could not be reliably served by 200 MW of … Continue reading

The post Wind and Solar Can’t Support the Grid appeared first on Climate Etc..

Author: curryja
Posted: December 5, 2024, 5:25 pm

by Lucas Bergkamp On the 12th of November, the Hague Court of Appeal ruled in the “climate case of the century” that Milieudefensie (“FoE”) filed against Shell in 2019. FoE demands that Shell reduce emissions throughout the entire chain by … Continue reading

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Author: curryja
Posted: November 13, 2024, 5:20 pm