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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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“Environmental Justice” $ub$umes Everything

Guest Blogger — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 22:00:00 +0000

This document just released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency takes the cake.

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Mandatory Indoctrination: UC San Diego’s Climate Change Education Requirement

Charles Rotter — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 18:00:00 +0000

This requirement, approved by the Academic Senate, is a clear example of the university's shift from fostering critical thinking to promoting a singular ideological agenda.

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Britain’s Net Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam

Guest Blogger — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 14:00:00 +0000

... foundations of sand – naïve optimism reinforced by enthusiastic lobbying divorced from engineering reality.

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Christmas Weekend Open Thread

Charles Rotter — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Junk Science Alert: Met Office Set to Ditch Actual Temperature Data in Favour of Model Predictions

Guest Blogger — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 06:00:00 +0000

...using this highly politicised method would indicate that reality is rapidly departing from the Met Office station.

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Biden Admin’s Latest Subsidy Proposal May Undercut Its Own Green Energy Agenda

Guest Blogger — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 02:00:00 +0000

From The Daily Caller NICK POPECONTRIBUTOR The Biden administration proposed eligibility rules for hydrogen industry subsidies Friday, but some conditions may ultimately stymie innovation and production of the technology, Bloomberg…

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Federal Judge Sides with Osage Nation, Orders Removal Of 84 Wind Turbines

Guest Blogger — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 22:00:00 +0000

The tribe’s fight against Rome-based Enel began in 2011 and is the longest-running legal battle over wind energy in American history.

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Is Consumer Rejection of EVs behind the Lithium Crash?

Eric Worrall — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 18:00:00 +0000

Lithium prices are down lately, and EV manufacturers, the major users of Lithium, have recently announced substantial cuts to production. So why are Lithium miners so optimistic?

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Christmas Gifts: The Newest Target of Climate Activists

Guest Blogger — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Now we have another joy of life that progressives are targeting in the name of combating global warming: Christmas gifts.

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The Cult of Darkness

Guest Blogger — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 10:00:00 +0000

From MasterResource By Edward Hudgins — December 22, 2023 “Energy is not for conserving; it is for unleashing to serve us, to make our lives better, to allow us to…

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Old King Coal at COP28: Uninvited Guest or Star of the Show?

Guest Blogger — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 06:00:00 +0000

By Tilak DoshiPeter A. Coclanis December 19, 2023 Last Friday, just two days after the Dubai COP28 meeting ended, a report published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) stated that global…

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Antarctic Sea Ice Volume Greater Than The Early 1980s

Guest Blogger — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 02:00:00 +0000

From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood There was much scaremongering from the alarmist community when Antarctic sea ice extent fell earlier in the year. As…

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VOX: Winter Has Disappeared Thanks to Climate Change

Eric Worrall — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 22:00:00 +0000

Record breaking cold in China, Russia and Europe doesn't count, because "sleddable" deep snow hasn't fallen in New York's Central Park for 650 days.

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Friday Funny

Charles Rotter — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 18:00:00 +0000

Dilbert (Scott Adams) captures the moment.

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SCOTUS Will Hear Challenge to One of EPA’s Most Stringent Proposed Climate Regs

Guest Blogger — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:00:00 +0000

If the Supreme Court takes up the case, its decision could ultimately end up being the second major ruling pertaining to the extent of EPA’s authority in the last several years.

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Authorities Raid Berlin-Based Radical Leftist Group “Zora”… Leader Tied To “Fridays For Future”

Guest Blogger — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 10:00:00 +0000

On its website, the Zora group describes itself as an “independent, anti-capitalist organization for young women.”

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A Three-University Conspiracy? (Or eight billion supporting fossil fuels)

Guest Blogger — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 06:00:00 +0000

From MasterResource By Robert Bradley Jr. — December 21, 2023 “This conspiracy theorist needs to check his simplistic, authoritarian, emotional views. Eight billion consumers desiring the most affordable, reliable, plentiful…

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Oregon’s Climate Program Overruled

Charles Rotter — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The statute requires actual compliance.

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Whatever happened to the Siberian permafrost “tipping point” from 2005?

Anthony Watts — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 22:00:00 +0000

It seems like yet another climate doomsday prediction has failed to materialize. The goalposts have been moved into the future, again.

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