INVESTMENT COMPANIES FORCED TO ABANDON ACTIVIST INTERVENTION

Many of you will be aware that large investment companies such as Vanguard have been using their power to force companies to introduce policies which align with the views of their bosses in areas such as climate change. This has now resulted in these companies being taken to court by Republican lead authorities and stopped this oppressive practice.  The settlement draws a bright red line between passive investing and activist corporate governance, effectively removing proxy power from a small group of asset manager stewardship offices and returning it to actual investors.

 Vanguard’s Texas settlement matters far beyond coal – CFACT

YET MORE RESEARCH TO CONFOUND CLIMATE SCIENCE

 New Research: South Australia’s Mid-Holocene Sea Surface Temperatures Were 4°C Warmer Than Today

NEW ANCIENT ICE CORE EVIDENCE CONFOUNDS CLIMATE RESEARCHERS

 BIG NEWS: 3 million year old ice cores flummox researchers — CO2 is irrelevant « JoNova

US RESTORES OIL OPERATIONS OFF CALIFORNIA

The Trump Administration remains committed to putting all Americans and their energy security first,” Wright said in a statement. “Unfortunately, some state leaders have not adhered to those same principles, with potentially disastrous consequences not just for their residents, but also our national security. Today’s order will strengthen America’s oil supply and restore a pipeline system vital to our national security and defense.

 U.S. Energy secretary directs Texas oil company to restore operations off California – Climate Depot

UK DEFENCE WEAKENED BY WIND FARMS

Britain is a 'sitting duck' in the face of drone attacks because Ed Miliband's wind farms interfere with radar-based defensive domes, senior defence sources have claimed.

Ministers have been warned the UK lacks any equivalent to Israel's famous 'Iron Dome', which gives it the capability to intercept ballistic missiles at high altitude from 40 miles away. 

Ed Miliband's wind farms could cripple UK 'Iron Dome' anti-missile systems and leave Britain a 'sitting duck', defence experts warn | Daily Mail Online

BATTERY STORAGE - THE FACTS SHOW IT IS A PIPE-DREAM

To achieve just 10 hours of buffer, a capacity of 600 GWh would be required – 24 times the current inventory and representing a material weight of approx. 3 million tonnes. 

Storing Green Energy To Last Germany 10 Days Would Require A 60-Million Tonne Battery

THE ENERGY CRISIS EXPLAINED

Kathryn Porter explains how the electricity system relies on keeping the grid stable and how this is  achieved in practice. It is much more difficult with renewables and the chance of having a blackout is greatly increased compared with traditional power stations using coal or gas. It is a long explanation, but worth reading as Kathryn is very clear with her explanation. 

 Scotland’s energy crisis

OCEAN HEAT CONTENT ESTIMATES MEANINGLESS, SAYS NEW RESEARCH

The paper, published in Science of Climate Change, demonstrates that ocean heat content (OHC) estimates, which underpin the IPCC climate assessments, are based on physically meaningless calculations that violate basic 150-year-old principles of thermodynamics and fail to meet the standards of the scientific method. 

Their findings reveal that the widely cited figure in IPCC AR6 showing Earth accumulating energy at a rate of 0.7 ± 0.2 watts per square meter has an actual uncertainty roughly ten times larger than what the IPCC claims, making the central value “statistically indistinguishable from zero.”

 IPCC Primary Global Warming Metric Is “Scientifically Invalid”

UK GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE SAYS "NET ZERO WILL SAVE MONEY"

The UK climate Change Committee, a government quango set up to advise the government on how to reach net zero has issued a new report.

Net Zero Will Save Money, Says CCC | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

This is pure 1984 Double Speak propaganda which Paul Homewood easily shows is nonsense in the article above on his website. How long can they get away with this fantasy, when bills go on rising?

EU CARBON CREDITS NOW FLOWING TO NUCLEAR POWER

It is a sign that the end is near for the renewables fantasy — it never made any sense that nuclear power couldn’t earn credits for low emission electricity, unless of course, it accidentally ‘solved’ the climate crisis.

In a sign of the EU’s increasing acceptance of the technology, European Commission chief von der Leyen said the executive Commission would offer a 200-million-euro guarantee for private investments in innovative nuclear technologies.

She said the money would come from the EU’s carbon market. 

It’s a crisis (for renewables): The EU finally start throwing carbon credits at nuclear power « JoNova

USING CAUSTIC SODA TO TRY TO COMBAT GLOBAL WARMING

The geoengineering method known as Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) aims to speed up this natural process by resetting the ocean's pH.

Over four days, scientists added vast quantities of sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) – an alkaline chemical tagged with a red dye – to the waters off the coast of Boston. 

 Controversial geoengineering project sees scientists pump 65,000 litres of chemicals into the ocean to stop global warming | Daily Mail Online

AFRICA HELD BACK BY HYPOCRITICAL WESTERN NET ZERO ZEALOTS

 The political leadership in Africa knows what is required. Leaders across the continent have shown a willingness to tap domestic gas reserves, develop coal resources, and attract investment in refining and petrochemicals. Western‑based organizations and public development banks have spent years rewriting their lending rules to restrict support for coal projects and, increasingly, for oil and gas infrastructure. Large European and American financial institutions have adopted policies that discourage financing of fossil fuel projects in Africa. 

Poverty in Africa: without fossil fuels growth is impossible

MODERN WARMING "UNREMARKABLE" SAYS NEW ICE CORE STUDY

A new statistical probability analysis (Hatton, 2026) using Vostok temperature data indicates the reported 1.1°C global warming over the last century (since the 1920s) is “not even unusual” within the context of the last 20,000 years, as “16% of the centuries since the end of the last Ice Age show a rise at least as big [1.1°C] as the current century.”

 New Study: Ice Core Data Shows Modern Warming Is Statistically Unremarkable - Climate Change Dispatch

TEN COMMON ARGUMENTS AGAINST CLIMATE SCEPTIC VIEWS DEBATED

A Swiss TV programme was aired to refute 10 common arguments put forward by climate sceptics. The link below goes through them and gives a commentary on the arguments put forward. 

SRF Meteo and Climate Sceptics: A Fact-Check That Falls Apart

WOMEN WHO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE CLIMATE AGENDA

The article linked below lists a number of women including some well known, such as Judith Curry and Jo Nova, but also some that are less well known like  Linnea Lueken, a young woman in her late twenties, who gradually became skeptical during her studies, has been working at The Heartland Institute for several years, and Lucy Biggers who was deeply involved in the climate movement. She even hung out with Greta Thunberg and worked with the pro climate Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (better known as AOC). Also Danielle Carl, a woman who until recently worked in Netflix’s sustainability department, recently spoke at an online event organized by Heartland in Zurich. Finall British banker Desiree Fixler. She worked for years on Environmental Social Governance (ESG).

 Women against climate agenda: from Judith Curry to Lucy Biggers

WHY WE PRETEND CHINA ARE CLIMATE GOOD GUYS

  China’s new five year plans are out, and no matter what they are, the media has to pretend China is a good little carbon player like everyone else.  No one can admit the truth, that China’s emissions are so big everyone else is irrelevant. That China breaks all the rules while cornering the market selling junk wind-and-solar-generators to an audience that doesn’t need them. 

China: the worlds biggest “polluter” misses target, aims lower, wants to govern everyone, and the crowd cheers? « JoNova

UK WINTER NOWHERE NEAR A RECORD BREAKER, SAYS BBC

Provisional statistics from the Met Office show that is not the case, with rainfall so far this season just 9% above average for the UK as a whole - wet, but far from the wettest.

However those national figures mask huge regional variations. Some counties in southern England are on course for their second-wettest winter on record, while much of north-west Scotland has been significantly drier than normal.

 UK winter nowhere near a record breaker despite relentless rain and storms - BBC Weather

NATURE IS DRIVING THE CLIMATE SAYS NEW RESEARCH

Warming across Germany in the last 3 decades can be explained by declining cloud and aerosol albedo and consequent rising solar radiation. Not CO2.

 New Research Reaffirms Clouds, Aerosols, And Surface Solar Radiation Are ‘Driving The Climate System’

FREEDOM OF CHOICE SPELLS DISASTER FOR GERMAN GREENS

Germany  still relies on oil and gas for 80% of its heating needs. The mandate to force people to switch to at least 65% renewables for heating came into place in 2023.

People disliked heat pumps so much they just stopped building new homes. 

“It’s a disaster”: Germans allowed to use oil and gas to heat their homes again « JoNova

TRUMP RE-OPENS RICH FISHING GROUNDS

One of the nation’s richest fishing grounds — put off-limits to commercial use by the Obama and Biden administrations — is once again open for business, courtesy of a proclamation issued by the Trump White House.

 Trump reopens vast swath of waters off northeastern coast to commercial fishing – CFACT

"STOP SUPPORTING NET ZERO GOALS, OR WE QUIT FUNDING YOU"

PARIS: US Energy Secretary Chris Wright gave the International Energy Agency on Thursday a one-year deadline to scrap its support of goals to reduce energy emissions to net zero or risk losing the United States as a member.

 US to West’s energy watchdog: scrap net zero focus or we’ll quit - Markets - Business Recorder