Norway’s Minister of Energy Terje Aasland told Reuters that his country will keep developing oil and gas in the Barents Sea irrespective of a European Union (EU) ban on Arctic drilling. [some emphasis, links added]

With steady regularity, news items appear in mainstream publications discussing male sterilisation or, in the conveniently obscure medical jargon, vasectomies.

AI needs vast amounts of electricity, more than America can reliably deliver. That is becoming hard to miss as data centers spread across the country to feed the AI boom

Climatologist Judith Curry announced earlier this year she would no longer maintain her influential “Climate Etc.” blog. “Climate stupidity” had lost, and it was time to move on, Curry, who has a doctorate in geophysical sciences, wrote in a final entry

Months ago, I warned that diesel would hit $8 to $10 a gallon. Back then, many uninformed people dismissed me as an alarmist. But as I write this, San Francisco has already blown past the $8 mark, and the rest of California is not far behind ^[1]

Michigan will test counting drivers’ miles through vehicle GPS and smartphones — even though more than 30% of residents told the state they worry about privacy.

As I note in my upcoming Broadside/HarperCollins book Confidently Wrong, one defining feature of upper-middle-class life over the past 50–60 years has been scientists, activists, and public intellectuals making the most horrifying kind of doomsday predictions — which invariably fail to come true.

You’ll all probably know that an undercover sting operation by a newly-formed investigative group called Verbatim — which is backed by the US-linked climate journalism group Centre for Climate Reporting (CCR) — targeted senior officials of the UK political party Reform UK.

Deglaciation periods, such as the one occurring from about 14,000 to 6,000 years ago, are estimated to have had ocean heat uptake rates of 12,000-20,000 zettajoules (ZJ). [some emphasis, links added]

Rapid-onset autism cases are relatively rare. These are the cases showing the temporal proximity. But most pediatric practices will have too few cases for them to notice the pattern!

We are witnessing one of the most breathtaking acts of public deception in modern history, and it centers on the simple claim that artificial intelligence data centers don’t consume water

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) — a storied institution signed into law by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 through an act of Congress — finds itself at the center of a growing controversy over how it has mixed climate science and politics in violation of its Congressional mandate and the organization’s commitment to objectivity, independence, and excellence

This week I published a new report into Britain’s oil refining sector, Fuel, Refineries and the UK ETS: What Policymakers Need to Know. Its conclusions are alarming

After months of being told how unprecedented this summer has been, it turns out it was barely any hotter than 1976 in terms of daytime temperatures – just 0.3C warmer, to be precise, which is an insignificant amount, given the Met Office’s shoddy dataset

Although the coupled ocean-atmosphere processes associated with El Niño are well established, questions remain about what determines the onset, strength, and timing of individual events.

Common medications may reshape the gut microbiome long after the last dose is taken. In a study of more than 2,500 people, researchers found lasting microbial changes linked not only to antibiotics, but also to antidepressants, beta-blockers, acid-reducing drugs, and benzodiazepines.