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NBC News Falsely Attributes Minnesota’s Sluggish Ice-Fishing Season To Climate Change

ice fishing nbc newsA broadcast by NBC News titled “Ice fishing threatened by climate change” claims that warmer winters, particularly the 2023/2024 winter, are affecting the ice-fishing season due to supposed influences from climate change. This is false.

Climate change does not have such localized effects in a short time, and it is well established that the warmer weather pattern this winter is a result of El Niño patterns in the Pacific Ocean. [emphasis, links added]

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Google Gemini AI: ‘Significant Limitations To Our Certainty About Global Mean Temperatures’

earth sun crestingGoogle’s AI admits that global historical weather data was sparse … with “significant limitations to our certainty about global mean temperatures.”

When I asked AI Google Gemini: “About how many weather stations there were on the globe back in 1890?”, this is the answer it provided: [emphasis, links added]

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A DC Jury Found A Climate Skeptic Liable For Defamation—He Could Win On Appeal

mark steynA right-of-center pundit is appealing a February ruling that found him liable for defaming a prominent climate scientist, and legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that he may have a good chance at a successful appeal.

A Washington, D.C., jury concluded that Mark Steyn [pictured above] — a right-of-center political pundit who referenced a separate blog post comparing climate scientist Michael Mann to serial pedophile Jerry Sandusky for the former’s purported data manipulation in his signature 1998 “hockey stick” climate model — liable for defaming Mann. [emphasis, links added]

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To The Surprise Of No One, Electric Vehicle ‘Euphoria Is Dead’

ev charging station“Automakers from Ford Motor and General Motors to Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Jaguar Land Rover and Aston Martin are scaling back or delaying their electric vehicle plans,” reports CNBC.

The headline says it all: “EV euphoria is dead. Automakers are scaling back or delaying their electric vehicle plans.”

Yeah, there’s a shock. [emphasis, links added]

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New Study Shows Impact Of Mars’ Gravitational Influence On Earth’s Climate

mars sunA study published Tuesday described how Mars has such a strong gravitational pull on Earth that it might be influencing our climate.

Researchers looked at geological data going back more than 65 million years from hundreds of locations across the globe, all of which suggest that deep-ocean currents go through periods of strength and weakness, according to the study published in the journal Nature.

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Skeptics’ Climate Arguments Are Inconvenient Facts That Can’t Be Refuted

earth sun horizonThe science of climate change is very complex and there are many different points of view. This post summarizes some of the strongest arguments of climate skeptics.

1. Natural climate variability

The Earth’s climate has always changed in the past, often dramatically, even without human influence. The current warming is therefore likely just part of a natural cycle and one that is capable of reversing on its own. [emphasis, links added]

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The Costs Of New York’s Crazy Climate Law Keep Soaring

new york city nightState lawmakers voted for major cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and massive buildouts of wind turbines, solar panels, power lines, and batteries by 2030 without knowing how it would work, let alone what it would cost.

The 2019 bill, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, essentially wrote Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive branch a blank check, allowing every state agency to weigh climate concerns in every major decision and giving regulators the power to effectively eliminate emissions in nearly every corner of the economy. [emphasis, links added]

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Scientists Shouldn’t Be Silenced If Their Findings Don’t Fit The Climate Narrative

climate the movie clipOn the latest Planet Normal podcast, which you can listen to using the audio player [below], columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson speak to producer and director of The Climate Movie (The Cold Truth), Martin Durkin, about the evidence he found that the science doesn’t always add up when it comes to climate change pressures. [emphasis, links added]

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Biden’s ‘Climate Crisis’ Rhetoric Isn’t Supported By Real-World Data

bidenIn his State of the Union address last week, President Joe Biden ditched the term “climate change.”

Apparently, the phrase isn’t scary enough. Instead, as the New York Times noted, Biden employed a different alliterative phrase: climate crisis.

That the Earth’s climate is changing and human activity influences these changes to some degree or another is something that few today deny. But the claim that these changes represent a crisis to humanity deserves scrutiny. [emphasis, links added]

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DOE Poised To Zap Nation’s Critical Power Transformers In Net Zero Crusade

grid transformersProfessor Jacobson recently reviewed the alarming state of the nation’s electric grid.

Large portions of this country are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country.

The situation is not helped by eco-activists throughout the country shuttering energy-efficient nuclear power plants and destroying hydroelectric dams to save fish species. [emphasis, links added]

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