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Adding more and more wind and solar does not solve the problem of Britain’s looming ‘firm generation capacity crisis’, says Francis Menton. How about doing the unthinkable — bring back coal!
Whether in the Mediterranean or the American West, the narrative around wildfires 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.
Many commentators have suggested that recent political changes represent some sort of permanent turning point in the climate debate. That would be a mistake, says Anthony Watts. The Climate.us project for instance, demonstrates that there remains a substantial network committed to maintaining the climate narrative.
In his recent ICSF/Clintel Lecture, Roger Pielke Jr. acknowledges that the scientific community is now correcting a long-standing problem regarding extreme climate scenarios like RCP8.5. But he warns that the consequences of past reliance on these scenarios will continue for many years.
According to prominent climate realist Judith Curry, the climate issue has lost its political relevance. It’s the main reason she is closing her successful blog Climate Etc.
Indonesia is engineering a spectacular revival, rejecting the economic suicide of Western climate mandates to reclaim its energy sovereignty and resurrect its historical blueprint for prosperity, says Vijay Jayaraj.
The El Niño will arrive, the thermometers will spike, and the AMOC-on-the-brink stories will spike along with them, says Charles Rotter. But even Science recently concluded that “the Atlantic’s vital circulation may withstand climate warming better than feared”.
Many organizations now acknowledge that generating electricity is not the same as building an affordable and reliable electricity system. Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling explain that this is an admission that wind and solar were never the cheapest electricity sources — the hidden costs were simply being ignored by using the LCOE metric.
Demetris Koutsoyiannis presents a preview of the new Chapter 7, "Radiation in the atmosphere", of his book “Stochastics as Physics”.
The attempt to transform the World Cup into a climate morality tale ignores context, comparative scale and common sense, says Anthony Watts. It’s a perfect example of modern climate journalism’s tendency to shoehorn climate change into virtually every subject imaginable.
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