Science Without Skepticism Is Just Politics in a Lab Coat

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The following is. a guest article by Charles Rotter. The perspective paper “Scientists as Policymakers: Greenlighting Restoration and Climate Action” is presented as a sober reflection on how scientists might better “engage” with public decision-making. What it actually offers is something far more radical and far more dangerous: a blueprint for erasing the institutional boundary […]

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UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for December, 2025: +0.30 deg. C

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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

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Dismantlement of South Africa’s Ferrochrome Industry

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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

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Affordability Crisis: Gavin Newsom and The California Energy Disaster

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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

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Energy Transition Meltdown Could Mean Global Bifurcation 

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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

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As the Warming Scare Dissipates, Rationality Returns to Australia

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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

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Two Retractions Raise the Question: Is Climate Science Really Settled?

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Sometimes papers are published that overturn the conventional wisdom. Other times papers are retracted since what they purported to be true turned out to be false. Such is also the case in the climate change literature. In the last quarter of 2025, we have seen two important papers in each of these categories change the

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Soil, Souls, and Salvation: A Christmas Reflection on What Matters

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Time itself bowed two millennia ago. History pivots at the birth of Jesus Christ. Seven centuries before, the Prophet Isaiah pierced the veil of time to describe a Messiah who would conquer not with a sword, but with sacrifice. “Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows,” Isaiah wrote, foreseeing the substitutionary work

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Time to Build Reactors Fueled By Nuclear Waste

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According to noted stock trader Ross Givens, many investors are pouring money into nuclear energy stocks that may never deliver. Innovative generation IV and V reactor designs remain unapproved by a slow-moving federal government. Yet investors remain hopeful that this bottleneck will soon be removed.   In the early years of America’s nuclear power industry,

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