*** Added judithcurry.com feed 11/10/23
Below are the latest blog posts from realclimatescience.com, climatedepot.com, wattsupwiththat.com, and judithcurry.com exposing the “climate change con”. If anyone you know is caught up in the “climate change” hysteria refer them to this blog post, it may wake them up to the fact they are being manipulated to embrace a globalist agenda for world government which is what this is really all about.
Real Climate Science
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" - Richard Feynman
Climate Depot
A project of CFACT
Watts Up With That?
The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change
By reporting the sensational claims of UNICEF, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano joins in the fearmongering of climate alarmists whose credibility suffers from a lack of scientific facts.
The post Vatican Newspaper Taints ‘Encounter of Faith and Reason’ With Climate Falsehood appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
Removing this regulation will restore a balanced, scientific evidence-based approach to rulemaking that will boost economic growth, maintain existing environmental protections for surrounding communities, and safeguard our country’s medical supply chains.
The post Don’t Regulate Away America’s Medical Device Sterilization Industry appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
China’s pattern of treating low Earth orbit like a dumping ground at the same time it is expanding potential military space capabilities should raise serious concerns for anyone relying on satellite infrastructure — which, at this point, is pretty much everyone.
The post China’s Spent Rockets Are Turning Low Earth Orbit Into a Debris Minefield appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
“This state-based agency... is imposing de facto national energy policy.”
The post California’s Hidden Climate Tax on Everything You Buy appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
At the time of year when the ice cap melt in Greenland should be in full flow, the opposite has been happening. As a result the ice cap has carried on growing.
The post Late Start To Greenland’s Summer Melt appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” — Mark Twain [H/t Don Healy]
The post Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #696 appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
In other words, the only effect of the wind/solar generation obsession has been to drive up the cost of electricity to consumers and businesses to ridiculous levels. And, next time around, when the next wind/sun drought comes along on a hot evening, the imported power may not be available at all, and widespread blackouts could follow.
The post Britain: Time To Go Back to Coal appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
The ultimate question is whether they can provide the level of reliability modern societies require without creating escalating economic, environmental and system costs... they clearly cannot!
The post Solar and Wind + Batteries? appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
We apparently can’t expect Al Gore to show the class of Albert Einstein and admit he was wrong. But it’s entirely realistic to expect our government to protect us from ever again implementing energy policies based on his mistakes. Doing so has already cost us far too much.
The post Even Einstein Admitted He Was Wrong. We Apparently Can’t Expect as Much From Al Gore. appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
"... forward-thinking universities won’t be measuring excellence using status rankings and H-factors. Instead, they will show their value through community-based metrics ..."
The post Royal Roads University: Canadian Universities Should Focus on Climate Action Rather than Academic Excellence appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
What we are witnessing is the last-ditch defence of a politico-scientific paradigm that has no empirical grounding but retains its institutional grip.
The post The EU’s Green War on Farmers Never Ends appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
A place for discussion
The post Open Thread appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
The parallels are startling, and they reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of what actually causes these catastrophes. Whether in the Mediterranean or the American West, the narrative has become a convenient shield for policymakers: blame "climate change," ignore the structural rot, and then demand more taxpayer money to sustain a broken status quo.
The post Fire Fighting in European Union: Don’t Forget The Decade of Policy Failures in California appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
Legal scholars are becoming increasingly skeptical of the legal merits of climate lawfare: lawsuits filed by cities, states, and individuals to change climate policy through the back door of the courts rather than the legitimate democratic method. These suits use the courts to punish fossil fuel companies for supposedly causing climate harms that legislatures have decided not to regulate.
The post Climate Change Weekly # 583—Climate Lawfare Is Flawed, Legal Panel Finds appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
"... We were all on board, thinking it was going to attract some really interesting small-scale industries like electric cars, photovoltaics … things like that. ..."
The post NSW Eco-Activists Horrified That Their New Industrial Park Needs a Power Plant appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
Unsurprisingly, many of the issues first raised here on WUWT eventually get confirmed when science catches up.
The post WUWT Wins Again appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
In response to the Western Europe summer heat wave, France bans drinking alcohol in public.
The post It’s Summer Again, So Media Tees-Up Another Round of ‘Heat Dome’ Mania appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
You guessed it! Coal and gas!
It’s wonderful, all of this “renewable” electricity!
The post No Wind? No Sun? What Could Possibly Go Wrong? appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
Homeowners are being forced to tear out air conditioning from their properties under Net Zero laws that prioritise “passive cooling” and only permit “active cooling” as a “last resort”. The Telegraph has the story.
The post Air Conditioning Torn From Homes Under Net Zero Clampdown appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
This increase in food production has occurred even as the number of people and the amount of land devoted to growing crops has declined. Fewer people, farming less land, producing higher yields reflects increasing rather than declining productivity.
The post Wrong, Bloomberg, Climate Change Has Boosted Food Production and Lowered Prices, Not the Opposite appeared first on Watts Up With That?.
Climate Etc.
by Judith Curry It’s time to declare victory against climate stupidity and move on. Well, the definition of victory here is about as fuzzy as that for the Iran war. Here is a summary of why Climate Etc. is being euthanized: State of the Climate Wars There have been some decisive battles in the past […]
The post RIP Climate Etc. appeared first on Climate Etc..
by Nicola Scafetta My new book is now published: The Frontier of Climate Science: Solar Variability, Natural Cycles and Model Uncertainty For more than twenty years, my research has explored the interplay between climate dynamics, solar variability, and complex systems. During this time, I have watched the climate debate become increasingly polarized, often reduced to […]
The post Rethinking climate change appeared first on 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 change impacts on the United States. After its release two environmental groups sued the Department […]
The post Clearing up some misconceptions about the DoE report appeared first on Climate Etc..
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. Renewable power has gone up to 9% of energy consumption, but energy productivity and intensity […]
The post Update on Australian NetZero efforts appeared first on Climate Etc..
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 my Non-Catastrophic Climate Change Model (NCCCM) with impressive sophistication. Then it forgot the algorithm on […]
The post AI models and their “knowledge” of climate change appeared first on Climate Etc..
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 clearly a naturally occurring, externally forced climate event. However, mainstream climate scientists are not treating […]
The post The 2023 climate event revealed the greatest failure of climate science appeared first on Climate Etc..
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. We had fuel to make two cups of tea apiece and bare food for two […]
The post Captain Scott’s 1912 Antarctic tragedy appeared first on Climate Etc..
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 result of a ‘natural selection’, driven by the career enhancement that comes with publication. However, […]
The post Natural Selection of Bad Science. Part II appeared first on Climate Etc..
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 mean they are guided by the dominant scientific narrative of the day. We would want […]
The post The Matthew Effect, Mono-cultures, and the Natural Selection of Bad Science appeared first on Climate Etc..
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 today, led by Andrew Dessler. Public comments The public comment portal for the DOE Report […]
The post DOE Climate Assessment Report: Feedback appeared first on Climate Etc..
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 this endeavor and the importance of maintaining rigorous methodological standards in the pursuit of reliable […]
The post Addressing misconceptions about Climate Sensitivity research: a Response to recent Criticisms appeared first on Climate Etc..
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 of instrumentation, including up to 87 recording gauges, telemetered high-altitude weather stations, some above the […]
The post Cloud Seeding History: Looking Back at the Colorado River Basin Pilot Project appeared first on Climate Etc..
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 media coverage often distorts the science. Many people—even well-meaning ones—walk away with a view of […]
The post New Climate Assessment Report from US DOE appeared first on Climate Etc..
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. Here, I would like to shift the focus to the other side of the story: […]
The post Temperature – a driver of the carbon cycle appeared first on Climate Etc..
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 to deliver affordability and reliability in electricity systems dominated by intermittent renewables. This post first […]
The post Why “cheaper” wind and solar raise costs. Part III: The problem with power markets appeared first on Climate Etc..
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 solar follows a similar pattern: it seems affordable for homeowners, but raises system costs through […]
The post Why “cheaper” solar raises costs. Part II: The hidden costs of residential solar appeared first on Climate Etc..
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 an energy mix heavily weighted toward renewables would be the most economical choice. However, this […]
The post Why “cheaper” wind and solar raise costs. Part I: The fat tail problem appeared first on Climate Etc..
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 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues in ways that are useful for investors, money managers, […]
The post A Critique of the Apocalyptic Climate Narrative appeared first on Climate Etc..
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, such reports often provide more confusion than clarity, as they tend to prioritize the triggers […]
The post Casting blame for the blackout in Spain, Portugal, and parts of France appeared first on Climate Etc..
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 in two decades. The trends suggest these losses continue. The authors highlighted the role of […]
The post Reversing soil desiccation: cooler, moister, greener appeared first on Climate Etc..
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 do not use fossil fuels to provide the heat. It is not “carbon free”, but […]
The post Geothermal electricity generation appeared first on Climate Etc..
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 large losses in agricultural outputs on a global scale, and this played a large role […]
The post Debunking the 2023 hike in the Social Cost of Carbon appeared first on Climate Etc..
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 this piece is at once both too long and too short. A full unraveling deserves […]
The post Unraveling the Narrative Supporting a Green Energy Transition appeared first on Climate Etc..
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 a transition to net zero. This prequel will provide some detail on a few components […]
The post How the Green Energy Narrative confuses things appeared first on Climate Etc..
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 are commonplace within the sciences — and the problem is only getting worse. Some of […]
The post The scourge of prosocial censorship appeared first on Climate Etc..
Thanks! Share it with your friends!
Tweet
Share
Pin It
LinkedIn
Google+
Reddit
Tumblr