2025 was the 2nd warmest year (a distant 2nd behind 2024) in the 47-year satellite record The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for December, 2025 was +0.30 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, down from the November, 2025 value of +0.43 deg. C. (In the following plot note that the […]
UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for December, 2025: +0.30 deg. C Learn More »
Popular culture is full of gritty dramas about Norsemen shivering in fur pelts, launching raids on British monasteries, and navigating the icy fringes of the North Atlantic. Yet, while the Vikings were struggling to eke out a subsistence living on the thawing margins of Greenland, a far more sophisticated, wealthy, and powerful maritime colossus arose
Global Warming Sustained a Naval Power That Dwarfed Vikings Learn More »
South Africa’s once dominant ferrochrome industry is on the brink of collapse and requires a government bailout. That decline is not because the world no longer needs ferrochrome. It is because South Africa’s leaders tied their industrial policy to a “green” agenda that undermines reliable, affordable energy and sacrifices economic strength. What is happening in
Dismantlement of South Africa’s Ferrochrome Industry Learn More »
In a last-gasp flurry of activity, the 119th House of Representatives in December moved forward a bevy of bills aimed at shortening the time frame and the costs required for federal permits for infrastructure projects, many of which are deemed vital to national security. That’s the good news. The bad news is that these bills
Will the US Senate Stall Much-Needed Permitting Reforms? Learn More »
At COP30, the United Nations Climate Conference, Governor Gavin Newsom praised California’s use of renewable energy and attacked the energy policies of the Trump administration. But from high prices to failing renewable systems, California has an energy affordability crisis. In fact, it is and affordability disaster. Last week at COP30 in Brazil, California Governor Gavin
Affordability Crisis: Gavin Newsom and The California Energy Disaster Learn More »
History will likely remember 2025 as the year energy corporatists finally stopped pretending there is a climate crisis. For a decade, a bizarre theater of the absurd played out as titans of the oil and gas industry apologized for their core business while pledging allegiance to a “green transition” that existed mostly in the imaginations
Energy Transition Meltdown Could Mean Global Bifurcation Learn More »
Australia’s green energy experiment has left millions of its citizens with a shaky power grid, serving as a case study on how blind allegiance to climate dogma leads to economic and social turmoil. The once sacred “net zero” pledge has been exposed as a curse producing public anger, stark warnings from industry and a rethinking
As the Warming Scare Dissipates, Rationality Returns to Australia Learn More »
Environmental groups seek to halt data center construction in the United States. They warn that data centers consume enormous quantities of electricity and water and contribute to climate change. But environmentalists now oppose the artificial intelligence revolution (AI), the irresistible force that is transforming the US economy. On December 8, more than 230 environmental organizations
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Europe stands as the self-proclaimed cathedral of the “green” transition. Bureaucrats in Brussels and politicians in Berlin have spent decades lecturing the world on the moral necessity to abandon hydrocarbons. They have constructed a narrative of the European Union as a shining city powered by the breeze and sun, modeling a net-zero utopia. Yet, when
Europe’s ‘Green’ Emperor Is Naked and Cold Learn More »
In a companion explainer, “Understanding ‘the Grid’ that Powers Delaware,” I describe how the electric grid operates as a real-time, just-in-time system in which electricity must be produced and consumed almost instantaneously. That structure frames the challenges now confronting Delaware as electricity demand rises and state generation capacity continues to decline. PJM Interconnection, the regional
Delaware’s Energy Crossroads: Rising Demand, Shrinking Reliability Learn More »
