Oil price will rise, numerous pundits will boast of their successful predictions, say OPEC is back in charge, heap scorn on oil price bears. Financial analysts declare that 90% of U.S. shale production is uneconomic. Greenpeace announces that wheat and corn were genetically modified by ancient farmers, should be banned. Rebels attack Nigerian oil pipelines […]

Eco-miserabilism suffered some welcome setbacks this year. Nothing vexed greens across the world in 2017 more than Donald Trump’s inauguration. Before Trump, climate change seemed to have been cemented into American and global political life. It was central to President Obama’s global outlook. But at the same time, it had become a symbol of decadence […]

You’ve heard of BitCoin, which few fully understand. Still, the buzz is huge, which means smart operators are hyping all manner of fresh offerings. Given the relationship between catastropharianism and other people’s money, the climateers were bound to get in on the act Forget Bitcoin and Dutch tulips. Ignore the hundreds of other cryptocurrencies out […]

If the U.S. had shut down fracking over concerns about climate change it would have been dependent on OPEC and Russia like Europe and the UK are now. Maybe Donald Trump is just not your type of guy, and certainly not the guy you would want to be President; but keep in mind who was the […]

An electric bus that racks up 30,000 kilometers is eligible for up to $75,000 in government funds. A transport operator in northern China has been accused of running a fleet of empty electric buses to meet requirements for government subsidies, new media outlet Beijing Time reported Tuesday. Over a hundred passengerless coaches have taken to the streets […]

“There’s too many polar bears now.” This observation, which runs counter to the global-warming dogma that rising temperatures are decimating bear populations, was made by Eskimos — people who actually live among the bears. In fairness, this story has not been reported accurately: Many sources have emphasized how Canadian Eskimos have said there are more […]

This was one polar bear dying a gruesome death as happens in the wild all the time. If sea ice loss due to man-made global warming had been the culprit, this bear would not have been the only one starving: the landscape would have been littered with carcasses. Yet other bears around him did not starve and […]

A recent paper falsely labelled a number of blogs as AGW ‘deniers’. New FOI emails reveal that the other side of the picture, of a happy family of scientists all in agreement, is also a lie.   The story of the Harvey et al smear paper (previous posts here and here and here) continues to grow rapidly. It’s hard to keep […]