The Challenge of Opening Closed Minds The media and many politicians worldwide continue to push a narrative of impending climate catastrophe. Whether or not you are a climate change pessimist, we live on a gradually warming planet and will need to adapt to this. As global temperature rise continues, alarmists will continue to ascribe much…
JOHN RAINE: DRIVE CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY WITH EVIDENCE NOT ALARMISM
JOHN RAINE: DRIVE CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY WITH EVIDENCE NOT ALARMISM
14 Dec 2025 1 Comment
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How the Kooky Climate Crisis Crumbles
23 Nov 2025 Leave a comment
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Historian Victor Davis Hanson explains the collapse of climate hysteria in his Daily Signal video AI is Challenging Climate Orthodoxy: For those who prefer reading, below is a lightly edited transcript from the closed captions in italics with my bolds and added images. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the daily signal. For most […]
How the Kooky Climate Crisis Crumbles
The Last Gasp of the Climate Thought Police
17 Nov 2025 Leave a comment
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Climate cancelling had a good run — but my Cornell lecture showed its finally over
The Last Gasp of the Climate Thought Police
BBC to review bias in climate change coverage
09 Nov 2025 Leave a comment
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By Paul Homewood The BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and Standards Committee will investigate the BBC’s reporting of climate change, following the latest scandal of their fraudulent doctoring of Trump’s speech: From the Telegraph: A catalogue of corrections: The BBC’s climate change reporting Corporation will conduct ‘thematic review’ of coverage after internal dossier reveals claims […]
BBC to review bias in climate change coverage
Bill Gates Returns to Energy Pragmatism
03 Nov 2025 Leave a comment
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Alex Epstein reports regarding Bill Gates latest statement downplaying climate doomsterism, and reminds us that he hasn’t changed his mind so much as he is now able to speak freely. For example, watch this short video of Bill Gates in 2019. Alex Epstein posted his conversation with Fox News Will Cain: Why Bill Gates is […]
Bill Gates Returns to Energy Pragmatism
World Bank Reduces Emissions, Not Poverty
12 Oct 2025 Leave a comment
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The World Bank and other Western institutions retreat from fossil fuel finance has created a significant geopolitical opportunity for China. China is willing to finance fossil fuel projects in Africa and the developing world and reap the strategic benefit of control of energy infrastructure in many countries.
World Bank Reduces Emissions, Not Poverty
UN, EU, ICJ, Climate Cabal want to keep world’s poor impoverished
07 Oct 2025 1 Comment
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Poor and developing nations need to band together, finance their own energy infrastructure, development, health and prosperity – and tell the carbon colonialists to take a hike.
UN, EU, ICJ, Climate Cabal want to keep world’s poor impoverished
Advance Briefing for COP30 Belém 2025
30 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
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Overview from E Co. A summit at the crossroads When the world gathers in Belém, Brazil, in November 2025 for COP30, it won’t be just another climate conference. It will be the first major summit after the Paris Agreement’s initial Global Stocktake at COP28, and the moment where climate ambition must decisively shift from words […]
Advance Briefing for COP30 Belém 2025
Climate Alarmism: Not Science, But Superstition
24 Sep 2025 1 Comment
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Brian C. Joondeph writes at American Thinker, CO2 Alarmism: Science or Superstition? Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. When Americans hear about carbon dioxide (CO2), it’s often shown as a harmful pollutant that threatens the planet. Politicians, activists, and media outlets warn that if we don’t reduce emissions right away, disaster will […]
Climate Alarmism: Not Science, But Superstition
Alarmists Fail to Refute Realistic Climate Report
17 Sep 2025 Leave a comment
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They shoot, they miss, we score. David Wojick reports on the laughable failure of alarmists in his CFACT article Attack on DOE Climate Report is a comedy of criticism. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. The DOE science report saying the impact of CO2 on climate is exaggerated was quickly followed by […]
Alarmists Fail to Refute Realistic Climate Report
UN Abandons Science
27 Aug 2025 1 Comment
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By Paul Homewood A damning piece by Roger Pielke Jr in the NY Post about the surrender of IPCC science to weather attribution zealots: https://nypost.com/2025/08/22/opinion/un-abandons-science-and-hires-climate-change-zealots-who-damn-the-facts/ Pielke cuts to the quick: “Because the IPCC has consistently failed to establish strong connections between greenhouse gas emissions and most types of extreme weather, a cottage […]
UN Abandons Science
Right on
23 Aug 2025 Leave a comment
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Some New York Dems Starting To Realize Climate Targets Are Too Extreme
19 Aug 2025 1 Comment
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Some New York Democrats are sounding the alarm over the state’s climate goals, arguing that New York should delay implementing some of its stringent green energy mandates.
Some New York Dems Starting To Realize Climate Targets Are Too Extreme
Why Climate Doomsters Can’t Recant
16 Aug 2025 1 Comment
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Ted Nordhaus writes at The EcoModernist Why I Stopped Being a Climate Catastrophist, And why so many climate pragmatists can’t quit catastrophism. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. In the book Break Through, Michael Shellenberger and I argued that if the world kept burning fossil fuels at current rates, catastrophe was virtually […]
Why Climate Doomsters Can’t Recant
The Climate Beat Goes On
13 Aug 2025 Leave a comment
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My response to 10 questions from the Associated Press on the DOE CWG report
The Climate Beat Goes On

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