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Instead of chastising these newspapers for not toeing the climate line, perhaps the authors should spend more time addressing the actual priorities of the communities they claim to care about...

Reading this treatise on the intersection of brine shrimp, queer theory, and "hydrosexuality" is like stepping into a postmodern fever dream—a world where actual problems like water scarcity play second fiddle to debating...

Get this through your head: Models do not produce actual data.

Facts are inconvenient for climate hucksters like CBS, which end up looking like fools trying to ignore reality in order to frighten readers in places like Chicago...

So we only have data since 2004, and the year to year variations are large. To pretend that such a short series is in any way significant is not only unscientific but fraudulent.

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach on eX-Twitter) The usual font of misinformation, the Guardian, has an article claiming the following: In 2023, the hottest year ever recorded, preliminary findings by...

We’re now in an age where a centuries-old system, grounded in practicality and proven effectiveness, is being labeled as problematic because it doesn’t fit into today’s ever-shifting, ever-demanding social justice landscape...

What makes this situation truly absurd isn’t just the waste of time and money on such a blindingly obvious conclusion. No, it's the fact that these "findings" will inevitably be spun into policy recommendations. Cue the...

"The use and abuse of the peer reviewed literature to produce tactical science which I define as: “Publications — often targeted for the peer reviewed literature — designed and constructed to serve extra-scientific...

These findings are in line with research showing that rises in ambient temperature (including heatwaves) and climate change are associated with increased stroke morbidity and mortality...

In sum, the real driver here is political and ideological alignment, not individual behaviors influencing policy support. The authors, caught in their academic bubble, overlook the obvious: people who buy into the climate...

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I do a lot of work with the CERES satellite dataset. An image of their data collection system is above. From their website: The CERES…

The elephant in the Met Office Room is that, needless to say, almost all of these heat readings occur at stations classed 4 and 5 that come with very large ‘uncertainties’ between 2-5°C.

A ridiculous L A Times editorial hypes imposing massive "Climate Recovery Act" cost penalties on fossil fuel suppliers that account for 70% of the energy that the state consumes to achieve its annual  GDP.

...we might as well blame climate change for our dog’s bad breath and the fact that the toast always lands butter-side down.