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Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Thanks, and the Future

Anthony Watts — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I want to thank everyone for their participation and the commentary at WUWT this past year, for without you, this would just be a distant and unknown corner of the Internet.

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U.S. Climate 2023 Year in Review – In one word: NORMAL

Anthony Watts — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 22:00:00 +0000

The year is not quite in the books, but it is late enough that we can have a look-back at this year’s weather and climate extremes.

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Open Thread

Charles Rotter — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Climate Change Weekly #490: Fighting for Truth in Climate Science Is Important

Guest Blogger — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 10:00:00 +0000

The fight for sound science, per se, but climate science, specifically, is a fight for truth and all the progress science can provide.

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Canadian Climate Policy: Reasonableness Needed

Guest Blogger — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 06:00:00 +0000

They exhibit an almost ritualistic narcissism defending their crowning achievement, the Carbon Tax, and treat opposition to its efficacy as malignant, unintelligent treachery while demonstrating hypocrisy in practice.

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Open Thread

Charles Rotter — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Open Thread

Charles Rotter — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Energy and Environmental Review

Guest Blogger — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000

This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnighly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.

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Open Thread

Charles Rotter — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Green Energy Buys Itself a Legislature

Guest Blogger — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 22:00:00 +0000

Dominion and Clean Virginia both understand return on investment.

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Climate Fact Check: October 2023 Edition

Guest Blogger — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 06:00:00 +0000

10 bogus climate claims from October 2023 debunked

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‘Demographic Warming’: Humans Increasingly Choose to Live Where It’s Warmer

Guest Blogger — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 02:00:00 +0000

... it shows humans choose to live under warmer conditions just by living in densely populated areas — and increasingly so.

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Americans’ Beliefs on Climate Change Causes Shift: Survey Insights

Charles Rotter — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 14:00:00 +0000

For independents, the decline was even steeper: from 61% in 2018 to 42% in 2023.

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Light Shaking Water

Willis Eschenbach — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 17:00:00 +0000

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [See update at end] From the Ministry of Settled Climate Science, I came across a most fascinating press report entitled Surprise Discovery Reveals a Whole…

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Climate Change Weekly #487: Study Suggests Causes of Climate Change Beyond CO2

Guest Blogger — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 01:00:00 +0000

by H. Sterling Burnett IN THIS ISSUE: Research recently published in the journal Atmosphere concludes that carbon dioxide is only one possible forcing factor driving recent climate changes, and probably not the…

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Colorado River Flow Data Disproves “Climate Change Warming” Computer Model Flow Reduction Claims

Guest Blogger — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 21:00:00 +0000

The claim that “the Colorado River flows have dropped by 20% since 1900 primarily due to warming” is driven by a “computer model simulation.”

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What Causes Earth’s Strongest Lightning Known as ‘Superbolts’?

Anthony Watts — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 17:00:00 +0000

When a storm's charging zone sits close to the earth's surface, the resulting “superbolts” can be 1,000 times stronger than regular lightning.

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Open peer review – Green energy and economic fabulism

Anthony Watts — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 21:00:00 +0000

Green energy and economic fabulism: The mirage of subsidy-propelled economic growth and employment.

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Reconciling with Nature – God and Qantas (Part 1, Arriving London)

Guest Blogger — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:00:00 +0000

Guest essay by Dr. Jennifer Marohasy There is a tendency, that must be resisted, for 21st century Western scientists to claim every discovery of mass death as a catastrophe and…

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Wrong, Amnesty International, “Climate Change in Mexico” is Not Displacing People

Anthony Watts — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 05:00:00 +0000

The incompetence of the media and NGOs, like Amnesty International News, in doing even the most basic investigation is disturbing and misleading.

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