Green energy opposition becoming formidable force in Germany As Germany’s established CDU and SPD “mainstream” parties find themselves imploding, the smaller parties who oppose Germany’s out-of-control Energiewende (transition to green energies) are rapidly becoming a formidable force and making their presence felt in Germany’s national parliament like never before. For example Germany’s FDP Free Democrats, who refused to forge a coalition government together […]

If you want to see what will next go wrong in society, just read this climate ‘science’ paper in Nature. The environmental movement wants to make the rich West much poorer so that the destitute can become richer. Rather than improve the plight of the developing world through such crucial projects as constructing an Africa-wide […]

Scientists are surprised that the ozone is thinning out in the lower stratosphere because their models do not show this trend and CFCs continue to decline.   A team led by researchers from ETH Zurich and the Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos in Switzerland have found that despite the ban on CFCs, the concentration of ozone in […]

Renewable energy investment has stagnated, buried by rising energy prices and unaffordable subsidies. The world is being forced to return to sensible energy policies based on cost, performance, and real environmental benefit. Earlier this month, the Trump Administration announced a decision to apply a 30 percent tariff on imported solar cells and panels. The Solar […]

Thick sea ice rather than climate change may be the reason why five (out of nine) polar bears lost weight   The really significant content of a new paper being heavily-hyped by the media1 is what wasn’t said rather than what the authors discovered about metabolic rates and weight maintenance of a small sample of nine […]

The wood-pellet biomass industry has long maintained that it is only burning wood residues — the bits of trees left over from other uses. Wood that otherwise would have left on the forest floor and decomposed anyway. Environmental campaigners in the US have uncovered much evidence to indicate that this is not true, and that […]

Tesla Model 3 is nowhere close to the implied 1,000 per week run rate. Model 3 manufacturing continues to be problematic and we are skeptical of 5K ramp in 2018. We also believe that the Company is seeing very poor reservation conversion trends. Q1 is also looking very weak. We share the data and rationale. […]

David Whitehouse & Benny Peiser discuss the controversies surrounding the 2017 global temperature, the BBC’s misleading coverage and James Hansen’s warning that ocean cycles and solar activity may cause a new global warming hiatus.