The Climate Resistance

India cracks down on critics of coal
By Gerry Shih, Karishma Mehrotra and Anant Gupta

 

German Princess Gloria On Green New Deal: “Going To Be Worse Than Communist East Germany”!
By P Gosselin on 18. June 2023

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“Climate change is a huge swindle” and green policies will make it “worse than Communist East Germany”, Princess Gloria warns.
Normally I don’t put much stock in European royalty and what they have to say. But when it comes to Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis of Germany, she has the unique ability to say what millions of people are thinking.



Germans rising up, turning out in masses to protest government’s outrageous energy proposals and polices. Image cropped from Achtung Reichelt here. . . . .

 

The Resistance does well in open court.

Held v Montana Climate Lawsuit
Posted on June 21, 2023 by curryja | 63 comments
by Judith Curry

My reflections on the Held v Montana Climate Lawsuit – the inside story, my written expert report and why I didn’t testify at the trial. Don’t believe the PR about this case from Our Children’s Trust, which the mainstream media has accepted uncritically.

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Real life continues.
India’s Record Aircraft Orders Ignore Climate Goals
Guest Blogger
Developing countries will continue to defy international climate goals as they become more intentional about addressing economic concerns. . . .

 

YouTube suppressed this pushback video on heat wave alarmism – let’s give it a second life
Anthony Watts
Please tweet and share. From Jim Lakely at the Heartland Institute: A viral heat wave video was just nuked by YouTube. It’s not just no longer being promoted by YouTube’s…

 

nice vid.

 

States Reconsider: The Folly of Fear-Driven Climate Policies
Charles Rotter
Governors Glenn Youngkin of Virginia and Joe Lombardo of Nevada are prioritizing the well-being of their citizens and the unique needs of their states over ill-founded climate alarmism. . . .

 

Resistance down under:
Claim: Windfarms will Destroy the Australian First Nations Connection to Country
Eric Worrall
“…so many of our people are lost because they don’t have that connection to country…they don’t have a sense of belonging” – Jirrbal woman Georgina Wieden slamming the Chalumbin Wind Farm…

 

We Stopped Just Stop Oil
Charles Rotter
Entertaining, even if the pranksters are true believers.

 

Climate Shock: An anti ULEZ Candidate Just Won a London Election
Eric Worrall
More proof ordinary people push back when green policies start to bite, regardless of what they say on climate surveys. . . .

 

Stop the Fearmongering on Covid and Climate Change
Lomborg & Peterson, NY Post

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Alberta Suspends Approvals for Green Energy Projects, such as Wind or Solar Power
Charles Rotter
Rural municipalities cover roughly 85 percent of Alberta’s land and their voices must be included in the approval process for all renewable energy projects. . . .

 

Great Reset U-Turn: British Mainstream Political Parties are Road Testing Anti-Green Policies
Eric Worrall
In the wake of the shock Uxbridge by-election result, mainstream British political parties are questioning whether an unequivocal commitment to green policies is a guaranteed vote winner. . . .

 

Bob Loblaw gets taken to the woodshed.
Dr. Patrick Frank’s Refutation Of A SkS Critique Attempt: Loblaw’s 24 ‘Mistakes’ Exposed
By Kenneth Richard on 24. August 2023

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“Aggregating all the [mistakes]…one estimates Mr. Loblaw [SkepticalScience blog author] to have made about 24 direct analytical mistakes and several arguments from misdirection in this one disquisition. That may be some sort of record.” – Dr. Patrick Frank
On 27 June, 2023, Dr. Patrick Frank had his 46-page paper with 284 references published in the journal Sensors. It exhaustively detailed the magnitude of uncertainty and error in calculating global-scale temperature measurements.



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A blogosphere introduction to the paper appeared a few days later. It generated over 1,200 responses on the WUWT site, where debate is welcomed by those who agree or disagree, including direct discussion with the author himself in comments. (We highlighted Frank’s paper here a few weeks later, but without knowledge of the attention it had generated elsewhere.)

Contrast this open debate format with what occurs at climate blogs like RealClimate or SkepticalScience. Comments challenging the “consensus” position on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) are deleted and/or fail to emerge from moderation. Debate is effectively banned, as this leaves the impression that “consensus” AGW positions are irrefutably correct.

“I’ve deleted a number of his …comments, but I feel no obligation to explain to him why they disappear.” -SkepticalScience moderator

In light of the attention the Frank’s paper was propagating in the skeptical blogosphere, SkepticalScience contributing author, Bob Loblaw, decided it was time to take matters into his own hands earlier this month. His article, “A Frank Discussion About the Propagation of Measurement Uncertainty,” appeared on 7 August, 2023.



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In the vein of actual scientific debate (that is not allowed at SkepticalScience), Dr. Frank has provided a detailed 29-point response to Bob Loblaw’s critique attempt.

Frank accuses Loblaw of presenting a careless, mistake-filled manifesto that “violates the ethics of scientific review.”

In the first five pages of Frank’s response he identifies over 20 mistakes Loblaw made in his analysis. . . . .

 

I've read several pieces at SkS (only when posters at various forums pointed to them as refuting realistic views), and they were all dishonest nonscience, without exception.

 

Turning against the narrative.

“Degrowth”: The Future of Green Growth?
Charles Rotter
The quest for a sustainable future shouldn’t necessitate the forfeiture of human advancement.

". . . . Surprisingly, the voices of skepticism aren’t emerging from outside the esteemed “Church of Climate,” but rather from its very heart. A revealing survey in Nature Sustainability displayed an unexpected twist:

“A growing body of research within the scientific community is challenging the idea that green growth is fundamentally possible or even desirable”. The survey’s authors conclude that “despite the strong promotion of green growth by policymakers and international institutions, there is mounting criticism concerning the compatibility of continued economic growth with sustainability goals.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tilakdoshi/2023/08/25/is-degrowth-now-the-new-green-growth/ . . . . "

 

New paper submission: Urban heat island effects in U.S. summer temperatures, 1880-2015
October 19th, 2023
After years of dabbling in this issue, John Christy and I have finally submitted a paper to Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology entitled, “Urban Heat Island Effects in U.S. Summer Surface Temperature Data, 1880-2015“.

I feel pretty good about what we’ve done using the GHCN data. We demonstrate that, not only do the homogenized (“adjusted”) dataset not correct for the effect of the urban heat island (UHI) on temperature trends, the adjusted data appear to have even stronger UHI signatures than in the raw (unadjusted) data. This is true of both trends at stations (where there are nearby rural and non-rural stations… you can’t blindly average all of the stations in the U.S.), and it’s true of the spatial differences between closely-space stations in the same months and years.

The bottom line is that an estimated 22% of the U.S. warming trend, 1895 to 2023, is due to localized UHI effects.

And the effect is much larger in urban locations. Out of 4 categories of urbanization based upon population density (0.1 to 10, 10-100, 100-1,000, and >1,000 persons per sq. km), the top 2 categories show the UHI temperature trend to be 57% of the reported homogenized GHCN temperature trend. So, as one might expect, a large part of urban (and even suburban) warming since 1895 is due to UHI effects. This impacts how we should be discussing recent “record hot” temperatures at cities. Some of those would likely not be records if UHI effects were taken into account.

Yet, those are the temperatures a majority of the population experiences. My point is, such increasing warmth cannot be wholly blamed on climate change.

One of the things I struggled with was how to deal with stations having sporadic records. I’ve always wondered if one could use year-over-year changes instead of the usual annual-cycle-an-anomaly calculations, and it turns out you can, and with extremely high accuracy. (John Christy says he did it many years ago for a sparse African temperature dataset). This greatly simplifies data processing, and you can use all stations that have at least 2 years of data.

Now to see if the peer review process deep-sixes the paper. I’m optimistic.

 

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Cool. I was just thinking about re-reading "Unsettled".

 

“The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” (Marc Andreessen in the energy debate)
Charles Rotter
We believe markets are generative, not exploitative; positive sum, not zero sum. . . .

 

The Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council Has Petitioned The Supreme Court For Certiorari
October 21, 2023/ Francis Menton

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  It’s the question that I know has been on the tips of the tongues of all Manhattan Contrarian readers: Will the Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council, after getting booted ignominiously out of the D.C. Circuit on grounds of standing, now continue its fight to overturn EPA’s CO2 Endangerment Finding by petitioning the Supreme Court for Certiorari?
  
  
• The answer is YES. Our Petition for a Writ of Certiorari was filed on Wednesday, October 18, and is now available on the Supreme Court’s website.
  
  
• Not that other strategies did not occur to us.
  

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The Germans regret their choices.
Germany’s “Green Craze” Is “Expensive, Destructive, Useless”… A “Total Failure”
By P Gosselin on 31. October 2023

Germans are already completely fed up and frustrated with the costly transition to green energies, and the target remains very far off.

Even Bloomberg calls it a “total failure”



Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck, Green Party, has been called by many the most incompetent in modern German history. Public domain image.

Germany’s conservative Report 24 here looks at the country’s transition to renewable energies (die Energiewende), which despite earlier high hopes has since turned into an economic debacle under the leadership of Economics Minister Robert Habeck (photo above).

“Total failure”

“The entire energy transition is a complete total failure. Even with the redistribution of hundreds of billions of euros, more economic damage has been done than any benefit achieved. And still we are extremely far away from the so-called ‘climate goals’ in terms of decarbonization,” so starts Report 24’s analysis.

Even Bloomberg confirms the same.

Not only has the German Energiewende been exorbitantly expensive, but it has also brought very little in terms of actual decarbonization. Moreover, it has fueled inflation and demolished living standards for working Germans.

It’s been one giant wealth destruction machine.

Germans already frustrated, fed up

“Even the financial news portal Bloomberg states this total failure of politics, because the population simply does not want to carry these whole measures any more. A recent article by the portal discusses how the Green Minister of Economics, Robert Habeck, has a strict focus on the ‘climate targets,’ but is still rigorously failing to achieve them,” Report 24 continues. “At the same time, the economy is stumbling and frustration among citizens is growing steadily.”

The switch to predominantly unstable wind and sun as the primary source of electricity has also greatly magnified the risk of blackouts.

“Doomed to failure”

“Germany is thus impressively showing the world that the green craze is doomed to failure,” writes Report 24. “The people of Germany do not want to sacrifice their quality of life and their jobs to some utopian goals that are in any case based only on ideological assumptions and incomplete data sets.”

 

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A court victory for the Resistance.
Court Blocks Pennsylvania from Joining RGGI
Guest Blogger
…we reaffirm our determination in this regard, and now hold that the Rulemaking constitutes a tax that has been imposed by (Department of Environmental Protection) and (Environmental Quality Board) in…

 

The alarmist governor backed out.
Wyoming Governor Backs Out of Climate Debate
Guest Blogger
Gordon Was Standing Tall In The Saddle Until He Backed Down. . . .