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

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

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]

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you are a member of the British public and you want to complain about something a pharmaceutical company has done, said or written, you effectively have one option.

The U.S. Senate has opened an inquiry into Flock Safety, a major manufacturer of automated license-plate readers, over its data collection and search practices

Is Tamiflu a scam? Over 20 years after it entered routine practice, researchers have finally done the randomized trial that should have been done before the drug was widely prescribed for critically ill influenza patients. The trial found that not only did Tamiflu provide no benefit — but more patients died with Tamiflu than without it

Multiple reports over the past week, citing anonymous sources, have suggested that the Chinese Communist Party is considering a bid to host COP33, the United Nations’ premier climate-alarmist summit scheduled for 2028

Top medical journals published images of ordinary human cellular structures labeled as “coronavirus,” according to a 2021 review authored by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientists and collaborators titled “Difficulties in Differentiating Coronaviruses from Subcellular Structures in Human Tissues by Electron Microscopy.”