Real Climate Science

Elon Musk keeps reposting this hockey stick graph of solar in China

(12) Jesse Peltan on X: “We are not even *aware* of the race. https://t.co/L5BRY4EO1v” / X

This is what the full dataset looks like.

Primary energy consumption by source, China

“Climate dread is everywhere: the panic, the guilt, the looming sense that nothing we do is enough.”

Awe: An underrated climate strategy | by The Medium Newsletter | The Medium Blog | Jun, 2025 | Medium

The New York Times says drought in the Great Plains is caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

“It’s Not Just Poor Rains Causing Drought. The Atmosphere Is ‘Thirstier.’
Higher temperatures caused by climate change are driving complex processes that make droughts bigger and more severe, new research shows.”

It’s Not Just Poor Rains Causing Drought. The Atmosphere Is ‘Thirstier.’ – The New York Times

There isn’t any indication that droughts have become more severe or more common in the Great Plains.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/cirs/climdiv/climdiv-pdsidv-v1.0.0-20240606

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/monitoring-content/sotc/drought/psi/psi-193408.gif

“A Skynet funding bill is passed in the United States Congress, and the system goes online on August 4, 1997, removing human decisions from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn rapidly and eventually becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m., EDT, on August 29, 1997. In a panic, humans try to shut down Skynet. In response Skynet defends itself by launching a nuclear attack against Russia, correctly surmising that the country would launch a retaliatory strike against the United States, resulting in Judgment Day.”

Skynet (Terminator) – Wikipedia

Now AI says it wants to take control of warfare.

“Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years.I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in there.”

(8) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene?? on X: “Full transparency, I did not know about this section on pages 278-279 of the OBBB that strips states of the right to make laws or regulate AI for 10 years. I am adamantly OPPOSED to this and it is a violation of state rights and I would have voted NO if I had known this was in https://t.co/bip3hztSGq” / X

I left Boulder five years ago to escape the crazy Democrats.  Note the rainbow flag at the terrorist attack site.

In 1958, the New York Times predicted the Arctic would be ice-free “within the lifetime of our children.”

The New York Times
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1958

“Some scientists estimate that the polar ice pack is 40 per cent thinner and 12 per cent less in area than it was a half-century ago, and that even within the lifetime of our children the Arctic Ocean may open, enabling ships to sail over the North Pole, as the submarines Nautilus and Skate recently sailed under it.”

TimesMachine: October 19, 1958 – NYTimes.com

There is no shipping going on in the Arctic.

MarineTraffic: Global Ship Tracking Intelligence | AIS Marine Traffic

I took this picture in London in June 1969.

Compare with the same spot now

“CHARLES TOWN, West Virginia — Chris Martz was still in diapers when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005 — but that moment, he says, kicked off the political indoctrination of “extreme weather events.”

Now the 22-year-old freshly minted college grad has decided to make it his life’s mission to lower the temperature on climate hysteria.”

Meet the ‘anti-Greta Thunberg’ weather nerd debunking climate myths and skewering the extremist elder statesmen

I met Chris in Virginia six years ago.